Chapter 181 Apocalypse's personal conquest, a great cause can be achieved!

  At this time, Wang Yongguang stood up and said something emotionally.

   Tian Qi said coldly: "Then you resign!"

  Seeing this, Zhu Guozuo hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty! Otsuka Zai is the pillar of the country, and the good minister of the country! I beg your majesty to keep him!"

Tian Qi said: "I allowed him to resign, it is a grace of heaven, you are good, you want me to keep him, and say he is a good minister, are you blind, or have a bad heart? You should also resign! You really don't deserve it." For the cabinet!"

  Zhu Guozuo froze for a moment: "Yes!"

  Wang Yongguang also smiled wryly at this time: "What your majesty said is true! However, I dare to ask your majesty again, is it true that you really have to wait for the rebels to arrive in the capital, and wait until most of the people with lofty ideals in the world have betrayed your majesty before your majesty is willing to wake up?!"

   Tian Qi said coldly: "Then wait until the rebels reach the capital!"

  Wang Yongguang said after hearing this: "Since this is the case, I can only sacrifice myself for His Majesty at that time!"

   Tianqi laughed, noncommittal.

  …

   "Zaizhen Otsuka intends to die for His Majesty if King Lu is unable to succeed in serving Tianjing in the future?"

   Guozijian Jijiu Zhang Zhifa and Yushi Mao Yujian came to meet Wang Yongguang outside the city in plain clothes after Wang Yongguang resigned, and asked him.

  Wang Yongguang said: "I have changed my mind. It is of no benefit to the world to die for today's son! Why do you need to be such a corrupt official!"

   As he spoke, Wang Yongguang whispered, "I decided to go to Weihui."

  Zhang Zhifa and Mao Yujian looked at each other in shock.

  Mao Yujian asked: "Master Otsuka wants to join the rebels?"

  Wang Yongguang snorted softly: "The rebels now will be the king's master in the future! You two should speak carefully!"

  Wang Yongguang persuaded the two to speak carefully.

But Zhang Zhifa didn't feel that Wang Yongguang's words were wrong, so he nodded and said, "Many ministers who have become officials have indeed gone to Weihui, such as Han Fengzhi, the minister of Guanglu Temple, and Liu Mao, etc. in the case. Raising Weihui's momentum will make the scholars of the world know whether they are in favor or not!"

   Mao Yujian said: "Looking at the current situation, today's people will definitely be unpopular, and sooner or later it will be the same as the ancestors. I also hope that Otsuka will go with me!"

   "So good!"

  Wang Yongguang nodded.

  After Wang Yongguang resigned, Xiong Tingbi was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

  Yuan Keli was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War.

  After Yuan Keli was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War, he began to prepare for Tianqi's personal conquest. In the end, it was agreed that Zhang Gui, Marquis of Suizhou, and Lu Xiangsheng, the left servant of the Ministry of War, would still lead the 50,000 troops to the south.

  At this time, Wang Yongguang had already contacted Lu Wang Zhu Changhao through his informant in the rebel army, and joined Lu Wang's camp.

  Knowing that Wang Yongguang came to vote, Lu Wang was overjoyed, and immediately worshiped him as a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Prince Taibao.

  Wang Yongguang, as the head of the six ministries of the court, is naturally very important. For the rebels, resigning from office to join the rebels is indeed something worth boasting about.

   As far as the imperial court is concerned, it did have a very bad influence.

  When the news that Wang Yongguang had voted for the rebels reached the court, the Manchu court was in an uproar.

  Many court officials also began to resign from office, preparing to defect to the rebels.

   Tianqi himself was also very depressed, and said: "This Wang Yongguang, didn't he say that if the rebels really captured my capital, he would die for me? I haven't lost yet, so he is eager to eat my words?"

   "Your Majesty doesn't have to be angry about this, he will know how stupid his current choice is in the future."

   Zhang Gui said something persuasive at this time.

   "Forget it, don't mention him! Where are the rebels now?"

   Tianqi asked a question while speaking.

   "The rebels have captured Quzhou and Shahe, and they all fell without a fight."

  The accompanying Lu Xiangsheng returned.

  …

   Wei Hui.

   "This time our army went down to two cities in a row, all of you loves deserve great credit!"

  Zhu Changhao was also very happy when he learned that his army had gone south to Quzhou and Shahe, and he talked to Wang Yongguang, Ding Qirui and other important ministers gathered around him.

  Ding Qirui flattered: "This is all because of His Highness's sageness! After taking down the Zhending Mansion, His Highness can temporarily be called Jian Guo, so as to inspire the hearts of the world!"

  Wang Yongguang also followed up and said: "That's right, the world has long been suffering from the tyranny of the emperor. When the time comes, after His Highness supervises the country, more talents will follow. And when the time comes, great things can be accomplished!"

Hearing the flattery of the courtiers, Zhu Changhao also began to ignite the ambition to prosecute the country and become the emperor in his heart, and imagined that he might really be the lord of the world in the future, so he laughed and said: "What Zhu Qing said is very true. , as long as it is for the world, I am willing to shoulder my great Ming community."

   "Your Highness, Wu Xianwei, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites of Nanjing, and Liu Mao in the matter!"

  At this time, Mao Yujian, who had become the censor of the Zuoqian capital of the rebel army, came to report.

  Zhu Changhao was very happy after hearing this, and hurriedly said: "Quickly declare!"

   Not long after, Zhu Changhao met Wu Xianwei and Liu Mao, and said very happily: "Gu is very happy to see that Zhuqing can come to join him in charity. When the peace is difficult to succeed in the future, Gu will not let you down."

   "As long as your Highness persists in practicing benevolent government, be close to virtuous ministers, and stay away from treacherous sycophants, then you are willing to be loyal to Your Highness.

   Wu Xianwei spoke first.

Liu Mao also said: "I have heard for a long time that your highness is benevolent and treats scholars and bureaucrats with courtesy, so I came here in admiration. I hope that your highness will be the king of Yao and Shun. Although you have died nine times, you will not regret it! I only hope that your highness will accept good words and cultivate benevolence and morality." , become a sage king early!"

   "What the two of you said is very true! Pass the Gu decree, Wu Qing grants the Minister of Rites, Liu Qing grants Taichang Temple Chancellor, and listens to it before the king!"

  Zhu Changhao nodded at this time and said.

  Wu Xianwei and Liu Mao hurriedly thanked each other.

   Then, Zhu Changhao said again: "At present, because of the difficulty of serving Tianjing, the recruitment is very huge, and the money is not enough to support the military salary and the salaries of hundreds of officials. What's your opinion?"

  Establishing and maintaining a regime costs money.

  Zhu Changhao also needs money after he raised his army now, because he not only needs to raise soldiers but also starts to raise officials, instead of not needing to raise too much like before, and he can still be supported by the court's salary.

But now, he has to support a lot of officers and soldiers, and the key point is not the salary of the imperial court. In addition, he has to provide the salary and granary food of many vassal kings in the area he occupied, so he also met the apocalypse ascending the throne The problem at the beginning was that the fiscal revenue was not enough to support the expenditure of the entire regime.

  Even with the increasing number of civil servants, the expenses are still increasing sharply.

  After all, people "abandon the dark and turn to the bright" to join you, and you play the banner of a corporal of courtesy and virtue, so you have to be an official for them, and you have to pay them a salary.

   But because of this, although the rebels seem to be advancing militarily, they are increasingly stretched economically.

  So, Zhu Changhao also asked the literati and bureaucrats who had taken refuge in him.

  University scholar Wang Yongguang originally took refuge in King Lu because he did not support the new policy of competing for profits with the gentry. Naturally, he would not easily propose open source. He only said:

   "The only thing we can do now is to save money. First of all, His Royal Highness's own palace and inner court must set an example and show the virtue of frugality. If this is the case, the world will surely prosper!"

Mao Yujian also followed up and said: "Your Highness, I seconded the proposal! In my humble opinion, the only way to do it is to practice frugality and streamline the organization. For example, the post station can be abolished, which can save a lot of expenses, and there is absolutely no way to set up a factory." defend these, and increase expenditure."

  Zhu Changhao nodded after hearing this: "In order to succeed in Jingnan, Gu decided to cut the royal family's expenses by half! All the children of the clan's clan will cut their salaries by half, so let's work **** your own family first."

   "Your Highness is wise, like Emperor Wen of Han and Emperor Renzong of Song!"

  Wang Yongguang and other Confucian officials sincerely praised him.

Zhu Changhao also had a wry smile helplessly, and said: "But saving is not enough, Zhu Qing still thinks about ways to increase revenue, so the new policies of 'government and gentry pay food together' and 'split gentry into the mu' are really not feasible? "

   "Your Highness, it is absolutely impossible! These are tyrannical policies! It will only make His Highness lose the hearts of the world. All successful kings in the past have shown their kindness to gentlemen. How can anyone compete with him and succeed?"

  Wang Yongguang hurriedly stopped him.

  Other civil servants also expressed their opposition: "Yes! Don't lose your mind!"

  Zhu Changhao also had to give up this idea, and only said: "Forget it, isn't there any way to open source?"

Wang Yongguang thought about being a cabinet minister and being so highly valued by Zhu Changhao, he really had to come up with some practical solutions, and said: "In this case, Your Highness, you can only suffer the people first, and the people in places where it is difficult to succeed. Tax one per cent more!"

  Zhu Changhao said after hearing this: "How good is this, can the people agree, and will they rise up because of it?"

"The people are all kind, and they will understand His Highness. Besides, it's not too much, and the people can survive if they eat less dry food. Besides, we only raise taxes and food. If the people don't have enough food at that time, You can go down the river to fish and go up the mountain to hunt, and eat meat to satisfy your hunger. In addition, as long as His Highness ascends the throne, the tax increase area will be reduced. That will not be considered as a detriment to holiness, and people in the world will understand .”

  Wang Yongguang replied.

   "Yes! The common people will understand Your Highness."

  The other officials also agreed.

  Zhu Changhao only grew up in the palace of the king. How could he know that the regular tax was increased by one percent, and the actual increase would become one yuan or even one tael when he reached the bottom, so he nodded and said, "That's right, let's make the king's order like this."

  (end of this chapter)