The news that the household department received four million cash silver overnight spread like a gust of wind in the capital division, and early the next morning, everyone who could eat the imperial court already knew the news, which shows how bad the secrecy work of the Qing Dynasty was.

Someone in the late Qing Dynasty once analyzed this phenomenon, and a big reason why the Manchu court could not keep it secret was related to the Eight Banners system.

The children of the Eight Banners are not producing, and they don't have to study hard in the cold window, they will have a piece of money and food in the next life, as long as you are not blind in a few words, and your limbs are sound and not crippled, how can you mix a bite of food in the army, and you can even get hardcore crops without working.

This kind of system will raise a large number of idlers, and idlers are many right and wrong, they get together every day to brag about the mountains, pinch two walnuts in their hands, shelf the caged birds, every day teahouse, play garden, tavern back and forth is a play.

In fact, many of the Eight Banners idlers who leaked secrets to the imperial court were not for money, and there were no hostile forces to buy them, they were idle, just to make themselves look very good on the occasion of chatting and bragging, and they knew everything and understood everything, which is the style of the gentlemen in the capital.

Later, this style spread more and more, and even the Hanchen officials followed the same example, and since then there have been no secrets in the court of the Qing Dynasty.

For example, in the past few days, the news of the increase of four million cash in the household department has spread as quickly as the trend, and all the people who have been owed money and salaries have come together to guess when the household department will be able to make up a little bit for the big guy, but unfortunately they have waited for three days and there is still no news.

The nine departments and the eight banners were all panicked, and they were connected in series one by one, inquiring about the news, and putting pressure on the imperial court, and four million taels of silver blew up the deep pond of Sijiu City at once.

"Colleagues, it's useless for you to surround me, in fact, the silver sent to Beijing this time is said to be four million...... Let me tell you the truth, in fact, the real silver coins are only 2 million taels, all of which are dragon silver coins minted in the Ryukyus...... Hey, don't say it, the craftsmanship is good, and what comes out is more beautiful than ours......"

This well-informed official of the Ministry of Rites is obviously a bit chattering, and he loves crooked buildings, and a word can change several topics, and finally the angry colleagues around him grabbed his collar and yelled, "Serious business...... Don't talk about that unnecessary thing, do you still want everyone to invite you?"

"Oh, don't worry, don't worry, I'll just say it...... In fact, only two million taels are real silver, and the remaining two million taels are those household bonds issued by Jiangnan, with denominations of ten, five, and one yuan, and I heard that there will be five jiao, two jiao, and one jiao in the future......"

"Two million cash silver, the imperial court will not move, that is, the treasury silver of the household department, what is really issued to us is actually those paper bonds......"

Before the words were finished, these officials of the Ministry of Rites fried the pot, don't look at the previous court owed money and didn't give it, they didn't dare to make trouble, but now the court actually wants to fool them with broken paper, which is intolerable.

"Shameless! shameless...... What does the imperial court do with us? Is it as easy to deceive a three-year-old child as possible? The household department sold the white strip of the local governor to Xiao Letian, and he Xiao Lotian went back to split the white strip into small bonds, and then sold it to our imperial court.

"Let Xiao Letian bully like this, he didn't even dare to ......let out a fart" At this time, I didn't know that the official had eaten too many boiled soybeans in salt water in the morning, and he had a bad stomach, and with a poof, a stinky fart was released.

The whole room was filled with a strong smell of semi-fermented soybeans, and the few officials who were full of righteous indignation were out of breath, and as a result, a big pant sucked away more than half of the stench.

"Vomit...... You, you, you...... We said the imperial court, what are you doing to cooperate......!

The official who carried out the biochemical attack blushed and retorted, "What can I do, I'm not afraid of your jokes, I have half a bunch of small money left in my house now, if I can't get the money within three days, I have to be my wife's hairpin......"

"Woooooooooo......oo Ten years of cold windows! I am a sinful worker, I have come out to be this broken official, I have no oil and water, I still owe us money, and I eat salted water and boiled soybeans every day, what is it like? Do you know what it feels like!"

At this time, an empathetic person next to him said faintly, "Hey...... Who hasn't eaten soybeans and pickles, I'll teach you a trick, after a while in autumn, you buy some snow red and chop it and pickle it, and then cook it with soybeans, it tastes really good......"

Before he could finish speaking, he heard a snap, and the grief-stricken fart official shouted, "What's wrong! We're all mixed up with this virtue, what else are you talking about...... Don't I know that the snow is red, I'm about to vomit......"

"I mean, you can't go on like this, the officials of the country have lost their faces...... We have to fight, we have to fight!"

"Yes, we are going to fight...... the surrounding officials were indignant one by one, but when they looked back, how did they fight?

At this moment, a handyman outside the gate of the Ministry of Rites, sweating profusely, rushed in, "My lord, my lords, good news...... Oh, the household department is going to pay a fortune, and you will make up half of the arrears for everyone at one time, and you must bring a small one when you have a treat!"

The handyman expected to be rewarded by the adults, but he saw a group of angry faces.

"Look, the time to test us has come, I want to see if the country is still embarrassed? Go, go to the household department together, if Lin Shangshu has the face to give us these pieces of broken paper, I will fall on his face!"

"Let's go, let's go!" a group of people stood up murderously and strode towards Tobe, and the handyman's frightened head shrank and quickly slipped away.

The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Household are not far from each other, and there is a military department yamen in the middle.

They were not the first officials to come, and now there was a steady stream of people inside and outside the door of the household department, and what was even more surprising was that there was actually a group of business men outside the door of the household department, and there was even a tavern running hall.

"Look at it, as soon as I heard that the arrears were paid, even the merchants in Beijing were shocked, their noses were quite smart, and they knew that the officials had money in their pockets, and they must have spent it, so they all came to take the initiative to solicit business......

"Pull it down, I don't think it's soliciting business, they're here to ask for debts, we haven't owed much money to these traders in the past two years, and I'm afraid we'll run away when I hear about it!"

This was really frustrating, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites shook their heads and sighed one by one.