Emperor Chongzhen didn't even know how much money he made in business. After all, he was not the emperor's candidate since he was a child. When Wanli was there, he had already decided that Zhu Youxiao (Tianqi) was the crown prince. Zhu Youjian has always been trained as a vassal king. He had never learned the art of emperors. King Xin, who grew up in the palace since he was a child, was not yet at the age of going to fiefdom, nor had he been exposed to outside affairs. To be honest, he didn't understand all kinds of things in the world at all. Instead, he was fooled by the Donglin Party and the civil servant group since he was a child.

As for Chongzhen's elimination of Wei Zhongxian, this was not a big deal at all. Chongzhen, who had no experience in political struggle, could easily get rid of Wei Zhongxian because in the Ming Dynasty, in fact, eunuchs had the power to abolish the emperor like the Tang Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, no matter how arrogant a eunuch was, his power was given by the emperor. As long as the emperor wanted to let him die, no matter whether he was nine thousand years old or nine thousand years old, it would be an imperial edict.

Later, Li Guodong told Chongzhen that he could support an army when doing business. At this time, Chongzhen remembered that every time he was preparing to collect business tax, there was always a censor who reported: Your Majesty should not compete with the people for profit. Thinking of this, Chongzhen was extremely angry, but he could no longer control this court.

Although Emperor Chongzhen could change the prime minister like a revolving lantern, after all, the people who came up were from the civil servants' interest groups. The only one, Wen Tiren, had worked in the prime minister for a long time and indeed suppressed the Donglin Party. However, Wen Tiren himself had a poor ability to govern the country and was only good at internal strife, which could not solve the problem. In the end, Wen Tiren stepped down.

Li Guodong certainly knew how to solve the problem, such as adding commercial taxes, assuming jobs and paying food together, remeasurement of land, strengthening factories and guards, reducing land for royal families and vassals, and reducing expenses for royal families and vassals. These methods can definitely save the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty had at least 400 million to 500 million taels of silver among the people, which was underestimated. After the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, it relied on bloody slaughtering Jiangnan, confiscating its homes, and obtained a large amount of silver as military pay, so that it could purge the Southern Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, after so many years of wars, it would collapse early in the morning. The Ming Dynasty was actually not poor and very rich, but the court had no money.

To solve this problem, you can only reshuffle it.

If Li Guodong offered these strategies to Chongzhen, not to mention whether Emperor Chongzhen could continue to implement them, he might be his own heads to be revealed by Chongzhen to calm the anger of the civil service group and royal family vassal kings. Therefore, it is impossible for him to offer his plans. He is not so foolish and loyal that he has taken his life to save the Ming Dynasty.

Is there no talent in the Ming Dynasty? There are actually many talents in the late Ming Dynasty. Hong Chengchou, Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Wu Sangui, the Zheng family group in the south, and Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Dingguo who were forced to rebel were not capable ministers and generals? However, Chongzhen could not use people, and talented people could not use them, but instead used a group of ministers who destroyed the country. Before his death, Emperor Chongzhen said: I am not a king of the country, but all the ministers who destroyed the country were all ministers. This sentence is actually not true. All capable ministers were deceived by Chongzhen himself, either rebel or became traitors, and the rest were ministers who destroyed the country.

Li Guodong can only help this foolish monarch take one step at this time, so he said: "Your Majesty, letting all ministers go back to raise funds can only count as much as the amount of money you can raise. I guess it is impossible for me to have too much money. The gentry in the ministers' families are not as stingy as the ministers? There is no need to have too much hope for this matter."

Chongzhen sighed: "I also know that there will be no great hope for this matter. But does Li Aiqing have any good plans to help me get closer to the problem of emptiness of the treasury?"

"There is a solution, but it still needs to be approved."

"Li Aiqing, come and listen quickly. If the internal treasury can increase its revenue, no matter what it is, I will agree to you!"

Emperor Chongzhen could only listen to the words, and he could not take them seriously. Naturally, Li Guodong could not say all his ultimate moves. It would be a loss of his head. So he replied: "Your Majesty, Jiannu raged Beizhili and Shandong. A large number of gentry were killed, and a large number of people were plundered out of seclusion. Beizhili and Shandong had many more unbordered lands. I hope that Your Majesty would give the unbordered land to the refugees captured when I was suppressing the thieves. I could pay the food, salary and taxes to the court, so I would pay the taxes of the court."

"How many refugees are there on Li Aiqing's hand?"

"There are more than 500,000, but they are all with their families. The real Dingkou is more than 100,000 people. But it doesn't matter. Those peasant women are no less powerful than men. Poor children are early on becoming a family, and those half-aged children are also good at doing farm work. As long as the ministers can get the land without a home, they can pay taxes to the court."

"Okay, I will follow you!" Emperor Chongzhen nodded.

"Thank you Your Majesty!" Li Guodong quickly knelt on the ground and saluted, "I thank Your Majesty for your great kindness and virtue, and I am willing to be loyal to Your Majesty with death! But Your Majesty also needs to give me an edict, otherwise it will be unreasonable. If someone comes to rob the land, if there is no edict, it will be difficult for me to deal with it."

"I can give you an edict!" Chongzhen agreed generously. Anyway, those are already homeless lands, so it is better to sell personal favors to Li Guodong. Since Li Guodong took those fields to plant and could still pay taxes to the court, it was no different from official fields, and it was not the tax-free count fief for Li Guodong himself.

The reason why Li Guodong informed Emperor Chongzhen was to avoid starting to do this without saying that he had silently said that he would offend some gentry who came to rob the land, and it would be difficult to deal with it if he was impeached. As long as Emperor Chongzhen's permission, he could snatch the uninhabited lands that Li Hong had captured. Of course, there were many of the lands with land deeds, and those land deeds were currently in the hands of Li Guodong. As long as the land deeds were handed over to a few personal guard agents, they would recruit tenants to farm in various names.

Another thing is that now the fields of Yan Shenggong have become a homeless land. After Li Guodong greeted Emperor Chongzhen, Yan Shenggong's fields could be eaten, and the court would have nothing to say at that time.

Li Guodong, who had benefited from Emperor Chongzhen, is now trying to make money for Chongzhen, so he said again: "I heard that Your Majesty is going to sell the things in the palace?"

Chongzhen smiled bitterly: "Yes, I really have no money now, so I have to come up with this bad plan."

Li Guodong said: "If Your Majesty trusts me, the matter of selling the court property can be handed over to me. I will definitely sell it at the highest price!"

"Oh, Li Aiqing, what good ideas do you have? Come and hear it for me quickly?" Chongzhen was overjoyed and asked hurriedly.

"Actually, it's very simple. We are renting a store, placing the goods out and bidding, and letting the buyer bid on his own. Whoever bids the highest will buy it."
Chapter completed!