Chongzhen really went to raid the minister's home, and he couldn't copy the money, but he would let himself fall into an isolated and passive situation. In this regard, we only need to look at the fact that after the Chongzhen Emperor eliminated Wei Zhongxian, he sent someone to raid Wei Zhongxian's home, and the result was that the silver reported in the end was only a few thousand taels. In this regard, don't say that we don't believe it, even the Chongzhen Emperor himself, who will not believe that Wei Zhongxian only has this little family property. Because, as the saying goes, three years of Qing prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, Wei Zhongxian has controlled the government for so many years, and he is also a legendary corrupt official and a traitor, if his entire family property is only a few thousand taels of silver, then Wei Zhongxian is simply more clean than the legendary Qing official.
Chongzhen was very self-absorbed, thinking that he was very clever, but in fact he would not be an emperor. Take yuan chonghuan as an example, as the only general in the Ming Dynasty who could compete with the main force of the Qing army at that time (at that time, only Yuan Chonghuan could win the battle against the main force of the Qing army), he could kill Yuan Chonghuan without anyone replacing him. Although Yuan Chonghuan promised to go down to Liaodong for five years, although Yuan Chonghuan did not defend the Guanning defense line and let Huang Taiji fight to Beijing, Yuan Chonghuan also repelled Huang Taiji's attack, and all the Ming generals at that time, whether Hong Chengyu or Lu Xiangsheng and others, could not win when they encountered the main force of the Qing army, and only Yuan Chonghuan could win the main force of the Qing army at that time, that is to say, Yuan Chonghuan was irreplaceable. But Chongzhen killed him.
Chongzhen's big picture view is collapsed, and his wrist is too delicate. How to say it? For example, his murder of Wei Zhongxian at first glance seems to have solved a major problem in the chaotic government of the castration party at that time. However, Chongzhen did not see good and received, but instead took all the castrated parties into a nest and came to cut the grass and remove the roots. Is this to say that Chongzhen is naïve or a new official taking office with three fires? How many people in the castration party could be loyal to Wei Zhongxian? The eunuch party could not pass on the heirs, and all it asked was to cling to the imperial power and get by. Chongzhen hugged them, but he lifted a stone and dropped it on his own feet, digging his own grave, and ruining the doctor.
Looking at history from now on, if Chongzhen can kill decisively, he may really not dare to raid the homes of corrupt officials without directly killing them, so he can only retreat to the second place and borrow money from the relatives of the ministers. As early as the ninth year of Chongzhen, he asked the Marquis Li of Wuqing, the three horses of Emperor Shenzong, and two eunuchs to lend money to the soldiers and workers. But in the late Ming Dynasty, because of the "commercial thinking", the traditional Confucianism has been replaced by money. The spirit of the scholar has long since died, and the entire scholar class has no concept of "loyalty". By February of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, because the money and grain sent from various places had been cut off (Zhao Shijin's "Chronicle of Jiashen quoted Ni Yuanlu"), Chongzhen also demanded universal donations from Xunqi, eunuchs, and officials. According to Yang Shicong, only 200,000 taels of silver were raised. In the end, Daming fell. Instead of that, it is better to raid the house regardless of three seven twenty-one.