Li Guodong scared Zhou Kui for a moment. When he left the Zhu Mansion, he felt very good. This Zhou father-in-law was as rich as the country, and he was so stingy. Emperor Chongzhen was his son-in-law. He was so stingy that he deserved to be ruined by Li Zicheng.

In fact, Li Guodong didn't want to buy Zhou Kui's mansion at all, he just scared him. As for how to deal with Zhou Guohou in the future, he had already had an idea.

Then Li Guodong took his men around the capital and found that all of these famous officials could win the Academy Awards. One was more skilled than the other. Every household was selling their own houses on the streets. The various yamen were filled with officials wearing tattered official robes. People who didn't know thought that the officials of the Ming Dynasty were so honest and honest, so poor that they had no good clothes. A robe could be used for the new ten years, the old ten years, and the sewing and repairing for another ten years.

Yes, it was ten years, not three years. Judging from the appearance of those official robes, they were washed out and faded, and the fabric was almost rotten. There were patches of large and small sizes on it, which was almost the same as beggar's clothes, but it was cleaner than beggar's clothes.

Li Guodong and his men wandered around the capital, then returned to the inn to change their clothes, packed up, and prepared to enter the palace to meet Emperor Chongzhen.

The matter of entering the palace was already agreed with Wang Chengen a few days ago. In the past few days, Li Guodong has been to Yang's mansion and met Yang Sichang.

Although because of Li Guodong and Lu Xiangsheng not only did not die, but made great contributions, because Lu Xiangsheng was still observing the mourning period, this was a weakness of mankind. So Yang Sichang secretly instigated Emperor Chongzhen to give him the grace of going home to mourn, and took the opportunity to remove Lu Xiangsheng from his position. As for Li Guodong, his great contributions were enough to allow Chen Xinjia to enter the cabinet in the future, so the "crime" of his helping Lu Xiangsheng seemed less important. Yang Sichang also hoped that Li Guodong could help him eliminate the thieves.

Li Guodong agreed with his mouth that he was willing to follow Yang Sichang to send troops to suppress the thieves, but he was planning to secretly let Li Zicheng and the others go. The Ming Dynasty was completely ruined. To solve the problem of those vassal kings in captivity, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong needed to take action, and also a heavy blow to the gentry class.

Since the feudal era entered the feudal era, China's dynasties have been in a cycle for no more than three hundred years. Every time the dynasty changes, although it has severely hit the big landlord class and solved the problem of some land annexation, which is conducive to the improvement of the living standards of farmers, the cost of each dynasty is too high. The lost population and the damaged economy are all immeasurable losses. How to get out of this vicious circle? That is overseas colonization and capital. Europe has already embarked on the germination of capitalism with the wealth imported from the colonies, but it still triggered fierce internal struggles in China due to land annexation.

In fact, the threat from the Qing Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty was not the reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty itself was ruined. If it were in the early Ming Dynasty, the Eight Banners Army was really not enough to attack Zhu Di.

If you want to get out of the vicious circle of three hundred years of reincarnation, you can only change the gentry class, from focusing on the land, changing it to carrying out capital operations, turning the landlord class into a bourgeoisie, and exporting the increased population overseas, thus solving the problem of land annexation.

When the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, the peasant uprising army killed a group of gentry before entering the pass. After the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, it killed another group of gentry. This also solved the problem of land annexation. In addition, the popularization of high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes stabilized the Qing Dynasty's rule. However, a barbaric slave country interrupted the Ming Dynasty, which was about to enter capitalism, which was a historical regression. In the end, the Qing Dynasty established a most centralized semi-feudal and semi-slavery country, which has to be said to be the tragedy of the Han people.

Moreover, when the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, it suppressed the maritime business groups and massacred a large number of people, which made China miss the era of sailing, the era of capitalism, and eventually lag behind the West.

What Li Guodong wanted was not only to solve the Qing Dynasty, but more importantly to solve the problems within China. At his current development speed, it was not a problem to defeat the Qing Dynasty first, then replace the Ming Dynasty, then conquered Mongolia, and establish a new empire. But what happened? To establish his own empire, he would inevitably gain the support of the gentry class. But what he wanted was not such an empire, and he would fall into the vicious circle of reincarnation. To crack this vicious circle, he still needed to borrow the swords of Li Zicheng and the Qing Dynasty.

That's all the matter later. Li Guodong is going to enter the palace now to help Emperor Chongzhen properly. In the future, he will deal with the gentry in Jiangnan and need to use the Chongzhen sign, so the relationship between the monarch and the minister must be well established.

Li Guodong came to the gate of the Forbidden City and informed the guards at the door. Not long after, Wang Chengen went out to greet him.

"General Li has been waiting for a long time, come in with our family." Wang Chengen bowed to Li Guodong with a smile.

Emperor Chongzhen was waiting in the Western Warehouse. Wang Chengen took Li Guodong to the door. He asked Li Guodong to wait outside and report it himself. After a while, Emperor Chongzhen's voice came from the room: "Li Aiqing, come in quickly."

Li Guodong walked into the house and saluted Emperor Chongzhen: "I bow to your Majesty!"

"Li Aiqing is calm!" Emperor Chongzhen said, then turned his head and said, "Come here, give Li Aiqing a seat!"

An eunuch brought a stool. After Li Guodong thanked him, he sat down on the stool.

"Li Aiqing, I heard from my partner Wang that my loyal ministers are very poor! I asked them to donate some money, and every household is selling their own houses, and some people are going to sell their houses! I heard that my father-in-law is going to sell his mansion, and Li Aiqing has also come to my house and wants to buy the father-in-law's house, but it has not been concluded." Chongzhen smiled helplessly and bitterly.

Although Chongzhen had weakened the power of the factory guards, Wang Chengen was still a nominal factory guard. It was not a problem for Chongzhen to understand what happened in the capital these days. After learning this news, Chongzhen was very angry. He did not expect that those upright gentlemen and loyal people were all such a group of shameless villains, and they were so shameless! In order not to pay for the court to solve the problems, he actually came up with all kinds of tricks.

Li Guodong sighed: "Your Majesty, who is not rich enough to compete with the country? But they are just a stingy! Every time your Majesty wants to charge commercial tax, those censors say that Your Majesty cannot compete with the people for profit. What is the people? In the eyes of those civil servants, the people they say are themselves! The people who are about to starve to death without food are not the people in their eyes. Your Majesty, I dare to say that most of the military pay for me is solved by the ministers themselves, and most of the money I have to earn from business. The income from business is far more than farming, but the commercial tax of the court is too low to believe."

Emperor Chongzhen smiled bitterly and shook his head: "But I really can't collect taxes from them. If I increase the commercial tax, the memorials of the ministers in the court will overwhelm me."
Chapter completed!