"I never thought that I would really be wearing the yellow robe!"
"It seems that the fortune-teller when I was a child was right! I really became the emperor!"
"But why is it February 1644?"
Zhu Jian, wearing a dragon robe and sitting on the dragon throne, looked at the exquisite carvings in the hall.
Zhu Jian, a young man from the new world, was sitting in front of the computer playing games just a moment ago. When he closed his eyes and opened them again, he had traveled through time and space and became an emperor wearing a dragon robe.
Originally, Zhu Jian should be happy after traveling through time and space and becoming the emperor.
But now he just couldn't be happy.
Because, based on the information in his mind, Zhu Jian knew that he had traveled through time and space and became Zhu Youjian, Chongzhen of the late Ming Dynasty.
Could it be that just because his name is very similar to Zhu Youjian's, he traveled through time and space and became Zhu Youjian!?
If I had known this, I would have changed my name.
At the same time, Zhu Jian also knew from his memory that the time point he traveled through was the 17th year of Chongzhen, which was February 1644 AD.
In this year, Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor in Xi'an, changed the era name to Yongchang, and established the Dashun regime. In the same month, Zhang Xianzhong invaded Sichuan.
In early February, Li Zicheng led his army across the Yellow River and successively captured important towns such as Fenzhou and Huaiqing. Then Li Zicheng led the main force to arrive outside the city of Taiyuan.
In March, they attacked Datong and General Jiang Xiang opened the city and surrendered.
Immediately afterwards, Li Zicheng led his generals, crossed Juyongguan and headed towards Beijing.
It is now mid-February. If Zhu Jian's history is correct, March 19th was the day when Beijing was captured, Chongzhen hanged himself on Coal Hill, and the Ming Dynasty perished.
"Why am I so unlucky!"
"I finally traveled through time and space to become an emperor, but I haven't even experienced the three thousand beauties in my harem yet, and now I'm screwed right away!"
"Does it mean I will die right after crossing over?!"
Prosecutor Zhu thought in despair.
It's not that Zhu Jian didn't want to save the Ming Dynasty.
However, there is only one month left before the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
Even if you are a time traveler, you have knowledge in your mind that far exceeds this era.
But what can you do in one month? It's not even enough time to give birth to a child. It's like a dream to save the Ming Dynasty from collapse.
Unless the Trisolarans come.
Just when Zhu Jian was in despair, a voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
"Ding, the store system is open!"
The sudden sound made Prosecutor Zhu stunned, and then he was ecstatic.
"What is this!? System! Golden Finger!?"
Sure enough, the golden finger can only be late but never absent.
As a time traveler, how could I not have a golden finger?
But, a store system!? What is this?
Inspector Zhu couldn't wait and immediately began to study the new system he had opened.
Soon, information about the system appeared in Prosecutor Zhu's mind.
The store system, as the name suggests, is a system where you can buy things.
In general, the store system has two capabilities.
First: Send money, you can get one tael of silver every second.
Second: Buy various things. As long as you have silver, you can buy everything in the store system.
Whether it is items, food, weapons, or even soldiers and various technologies... they can all be purchased.
"Send money and buy everything with silver!?..."
After figuring out the capabilities of the system, Inspector Zhu was immediately delighted.
Giving money is, without a doubt, an extremely powerful ability.
One tael of silver per second is 60 taels per minute, 3,600 taels per hour, 86,400 taels per day, and more than 31 million taels per year.
Now that you have money, of course you need to go to the store and buy things.
As Prosecutor Zhu thought about it, a store interface appeared in front of him.
"Rice: one tael of silver for 100 jin"
"Apples: one tael of silver for 100 jin"
"Salt: one tael of silver for 100 jin"
"Beef: one tael of silver for 100 jin!"
"Embroidered Spring Knife: 1 tael of silver"
"Crossbow: 1 tael of silver per crossbow"
"Fire gun: 5 taels of silver each"
"Brown Bess musket: 20 taels of silver each"
"Red Cannon: 100 taels of silver per cannon"
"Ordinary soldier: 10 taels of silver per person"
"Junior commander: 100 taels of silver per person"
"Mid-level commander: 1,000 taels of silver per person"
"Senior Commander: 10,000 taels of silver per person"
"Doctor: 100 taels of silver per person"
"Maid: 5 taels of silver per person"
"Eunuch: 15 taels of silver per person"
"Researchers: 1,000 taels of silver per person"
"Steam engine technology: 1,000,000 taels, a steam engine room as a gift"
"Steam locomotive technology: 10 million taels, a steam locomotive workshop as a gift"
"Basic steamship technology: 100 million taels, and a steamship yard as a gift!"
It can be said that there should be uniqueness in the system.
There is nothing you can't buy, as long as you can imagine it.
As long as you have money, you can buy everything from the system.
As long as you have money, you can easily build a powerful army.
However, Prosecutor Zhu's surprise was not over yet.
"Ding, the current store system is a primary store! You can only buy supplies from the Ming and Qing dynasties!"
"Spend 1 billion silvers to upgrade to a mid-level store! Buy World War I supplies! You can get 100 taels of silver per second."
"Spend 10 billion silvers, and the system will be upgraded to a high-end store! You can buy supplies for the Second World War! You can earn 1,000 taels of silver per second."
"This...the system can still be upgraded!"
"Purchase supplies for World War I and World War II!?"
"If we can get equipment from World War I and World War II, wouldn't that be a big success?!"
Prosecutor Zhu was very excited when he saw the introduction of the system.
There is no doubt that the store system is an extremely powerful system.
Not only can you send money, you can also buy various supplies.
It can be said that as long as Zhu Jian is given time, he will become very rich, and as long as he has money, he can buy everything.
However, after the excitement, Prosecutor Zhu quickly calmed down.
The store system is indeed very powerful, but what Zhu Jian lacks most now is money and time.
It won't be long before Li Zicheng's army captures Beijing.
Secondly, in recent years, natural disasters have occurred frequently in the Ming Dynasty, wars have continued, and the population has continued to decline.
Coupled with the collusion between officials and businessmen and secret corruption, the tax revenue of the entire Ming Dynasty continued to decrease every year.
This year's tax revenue is only a few hundred thousand taels.
That's right, it's only a few hundred thousand taels.
It is hard for anyone to believe that the great Ming Dynasty only collected a few hundred thousand taels of tax revenue.
But, this kind of thing happened.
Hundreds of thousands of taels of tax revenue were simply not enough to cover anything.
In order to pay the military salaries, Chongzhen even put aside his status as an emperor and borrowed money from his ministers.
However, these ministers all said that they were honest officials with limited salaries, and they donated a few dozen taels at least, or a few hundred taels at most.
He only received a few tens of thousands of taels of silver in scattered pieces.
This amount of money is just a drop in the bucket for the Ming Dynasty today.
But, do they really have no money!?
Obviously not possible.
If Zhu Jian remembered correctly, after Li Zicheng captured Beijing, he confiscated a total of 100 million taels of silver.
These officials played an indispensable role in the Ming Dynasty's decline.
"These damn corrupt officials actually dared to take my money!"
"In that case, I won't be polite!"
A cold light flashed in Zhu Jian's eyes