After Li Guodong left, Emperor Chongzhen sat alone in the Western Warehouse, thinking about the words he had just said when he was chatting with the emperor and his ministers.

"Parent Wang!" Chongzhen suddenly shouted.

"What are the emperor's instructions?" Wang Chengen stepped forward and saluted.

Chongzhen sneered: "I just want to know how those traitors have modified my Ming Dynasty's ancestor system step by step! Go and find all the previous laws, edicts and memorials! I will read them carefully!"

"Your Majesty, I have been in the Ming Dynasty for two hundred and seventy-two years. How long does it take to read one by one?"

"You have to check it out for how many hours you spend! You can start with the edicts and memorials of Emperor Shenzong." In the memory of Emperor Chongzhen, his brother, was already exempted from taxes during the reign of Emperor Tianqi. At that time, he was still young, but he already knew about these things. During the reign of the reign of Emperor Shenli, the later tax exemptions in the reign of Emperor Shenli were only known about the previous matters.

"Yes!" Wang Chengen retreated.

After a while, Wang Chengen brought back several small eunuchs and brought back several large stacks of thick documents, placed them on Chongzhen's dragon table, and piled up into a hill.

Emperor Chongzhen asked him to light the lamp. He sat under the lamp and read it carefully, comparing the files of different incidents until his eyes turned red and found many problems. Looking further, he found that the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty was getting smaller and smaller every year, but the government was controlled by civil servants. Although there were problems, he could not see the problem. He was a little impatient and simply asked Wang Chengen to get the early laws and archives, and found that the gentry did not exist.

Emperor Chongzhen's face turned dark: "I never thought that I, the Ming Dynasty, had raised such a group of wolves and dogs for more than two hundred years! All the civil servants were eaten by dogs?"

"Stop the anger!" Wang Chengen quickly dissuaded, "General Li said something reasonable, but the emperor, now their foundation has been established, and we can't move them at all. If they act rashly, they may not be able to tolerate us."

After Li Guodong's wake up and searching through the archives, Emperor Chongzhen felt the terror of the civil service group at this time. He felt that he was powerless to fight. Where should the Ming Dynasty go? Chongzhen, who was not capable enough, could not think of any solution at all.

"The emperor, Jiannu has invaded and robbed, and the Northern Zhili has been severely damaged. The people are living in poverty. Tomorrow, I will continue to inform the officials and nobles in the capital to raise funds." Wang Chengen said.

"Okay, Wang Fan, you will announce tomorrow, and the morning court will be held next day. Since you are going to mobilize officials and nobles to raise funds, I should set an example. Didn't Li Aiqing get in a Thai bicycle again? Then donate it and sell it, but you get a lot of money, all of them donated." Chongzhen said.

"Prince, the fourth prince loves that self-driving car very much. The car does not require manpower. Just boil a pot of water and the car can move around. Such a magical thing will be sold?" Wang Chengen asked in surprise.

The self-driving car that Li Guodong gave to the fourth prince Zhu Cizhao was actually a steam toy car from Nan Huairen. A charcoal stove was installed on the car, and a sealed kettle was placed on it. The red charcoal was placed in the charcoal stove. After a while, the water boiled. The sealed kettle spewed out steam and rushed to the blades. The blades rotated quickly and could drive the self-driving chew.

Of course, this is the simplest steam turbine self-driving vehicle. It has a turbine engine without multi-stage blades and a steam recovery device. It simply blows the sprayed steam onto the single-stage blades to push the flywheel to rotate. In order to protect the people on the side from being injured by high-temperature and high-pressure steam, an outer shell is installed outside the flywheel to prevent the Fourth Prince from being scalded while playing.

This toy car is loved by the fourth prince. Even the prince Zhu Cilang, the third prince Zhu Cijiong and the princess Zhu Mai, all like this car very much. This car has become the favorite toy for princess and palace maids and eunuchs in the harem. Although the car can run a distance, because there is no steam recovery device, a pot of water can only be burned for a quarter of an hour before burning it out, a small car that can run without manpower is naturally loved by everyone.

"Sold!" Emperor Chongzhen said without hesitation.

When the car was sent into the palace, some people said that it was a skillful trick, but Li Guodong told Wang Chengen that the guns, clocks, and mirrors of the Thais were not a skillful trick? But how useful are those things? That is called technology, including iron and silver, which are all technology. Without technology, we don’t even want to eat food. What is the skillful trick?

"Father! My son loves this car very much. I hope my son will keep this car. My son is willing to offer it to exchange it with a glass oil lamp." Hearing that Emperor Chongzhen was going to donate his favorite steam bicycle, Zhu Cizhao hugged the car tightly and refused to let go.

Glass oil lamps were also items presented by Li Guodong to Chongzhen's family. In fact, they were lamps made of imitations of Western glass lamps. However, Li Guodong's glass fired technology was not up to standard and could not remove impurities. All they burned out was translucent glass, not real transparent glass. But even so, these red, light yellow and blue glasses were very popular in the Ming Dynasty. After all, Li Guodong's method was to burn glass in later generations, which could make very thin glass sheets, which could be installed on windows, and also made lampshades, which were popular in Beijing and Jiangnan.

Zhu Cizhao would rather give out the glass lamp than give up this self-driving bicycle.

"Zhao'er, you listen to your father's words. The glass lamp is not valuable and you can't donate a lot of money even if you sell it. So, take out the cart." Chongzhen persuaded him hard.

Although the principle of this car is very simple, it is not that easy to make. The shape of the blades, the size of the kettle, and the thickness of the kettle wall are all carefully calculated. After Chongzhen got the car, he also had to imitate the eunuchs and craftsmen in the palace, but he could not make it. Xu Guangqi's son Xu Ji was very curious when he heard about this. He had once entered the palace to see this magical car, but he could not imitate it.

So Zhu Cizhao was really reluctant to put down this unique bicycle. Even the prince Zhu Cilang and the princess Zhu Mai helped him talk: "Father, since the fourth brother likes it, then stay it, and give the glass lamp."

"Nonsense!" Emperor Chongzhen shouted, "This is a plaything! Do you don't know that playing with things is losing your ambition? The glass lamp can be read at night with a lamp, which is beneficial to you! The glass lamp cannot be sold! This thing is useless, so it is better to sell it!"

In the end, the sons and daughters of the Zhu family were unable to keep the bicycle and were taken away by the eunuch sent by Chongzhen.

Seeing that the fourth prince was crying so shockingly, the prince and the princess burst into tears. Wang Chengen couldn't bear it, so he ordered Wang Dehua to go out of the palace to find Li Guodong at the barracks outside Yongding Gate, hoping that Li Guodong could give him some ideas.

"What? Your Majesty is going to sell things again?" Li Guodong was shocked when he heard Wang Dehua who came to inform him.

"There is no way! The emperor really lacks money, so he has to sell all his beloved things and raise money by himself, so that officials and nobles can also donate money." Wang Dehua said with a wry smile.
Chapter completed!