The next day, above the court, the emperor as always asked Gonggong Gui to read out the recitals of various places, and when he finished reading the recitals of Tianyuan Zhixian County, the emperor asked Li Liucai, the secretary of the household department: "Li Shangshu, how many silver taels are still in the treasury that can be embezzled?" ”

"Your Majesty, there are only 18,000 taels of silver that can be embezzled."

"How is it so little? Where has all the money gone? ”

Li Shangshu said resignedly: "Your Majesty, didn't you just buy a batch of grain and grass a few days ago, and in order to reward the soldiers, didn't you also order Weichen to buy some fine wine and send someone to the border gate?" And the officials' salaries, don't you just distribute them? ”

"Well, this is true, but this is only a mere eighteen thousand taels of silver, how to solve the famine in the Tianyuan region?" The emperor said worriedly.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are willing to donate some silver taels to do their best for the people of Tianyuan."

The emperor saw that it was Chen Yushi, who had just been promoted, who said this, and asked with a smile: "Chen Yushi, what is your annual salary?" ”

Chen Yushi blinked, knowing that the emperor thought that he was deliberately making trouble, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the minister used to be the prefect, and the annual service was one hundred taels of silver, and now it is three hundred taels of silver. ”

The emperor smiled: "Lord Yushi, I don't want to donate your meager money!" Otherwise, the whole family will have to drink the northwest wind. ”

Suddenly, above the hall, hundreds of civil and military officials were laughing.

"Your Majesty, what the minister wants to donate is not his own money, but" Chen Yushi regretted a little, and didn't want to say anything about his celebration banquet.

"And what? Say it quickly. When the emperor heard Chen Qing say that he would not donate money, he wondered in his heart, what did this newly appointed imperial historian want to donate, whether it was jade or antiques.

When Chen Qing saw the emperor asking, he had to bite the bullet and say: "Your Majesty, what Weichen wants to donate is the silver taels for the banquet." ”

The emperor blinked: "Celebration banquet, what celebration banquet?" ”

"That is, it is the banquet for the promotion of Weichen to the imperial history of Kyoto." Chen Yushi said in a hurry.

The corner of the emperor's mouth twitched: "Ah! You set up a banquet, why didn't you give me an invitation? ”

When Chen Bo heard this, the emperor said so. plopped down and knelt down: "Please ask the emperor to atone for his sins, Weichen doesn't dare anymore, it's really the family's idea, she said, others congratulated the gift, we sent something over, if you don't hold a celebration banquet, it's really a loss." ”

When the emperor saw Chen Yushi kneeling in the hall, he smiled again and said, "What your family said is very reasonable, can you tell me how many silver taels you plan to donate to the people of Tianyuan?" ”

"Weichen scraped together a thousand taels of silver, and planned to donate them all to the people of Tianyuan." After Chen Yushi finished speaking, he took out a silver ticket of one thousand taels from his arms, and raised it above his head tremblingly.

"Father-in-law Gui, why don't you go and take the silver ticket in the hands of Lord Yushi." The emperor said to his father-in-law beside him.

"Yes" I saw Gonggong Gui walking down, taking the silver ticket in Chen Qing's hand and handing it to the emperor.

The emperor took the silver ticket and looked at it: "Well, yes, Chen Aiqing, although your 1,000 taels of silver ticket is not much, it can also save a lot of victims." I thank you for the people of Tianyuan, Chen Aiqing has always been honest, fair, and not corrupt. There is no doubt about that. Zhong Aiqing, you must learn from Chen Aiqing, don't tell me, you didn't have a celebration banquet for your promotion. ”

Originally, the ministers were stunned by Chen Qing's act of donating silver, and heard him say that it was the silver taels collected during the banquet, and they complained in their hearts, Chen Qing, Chen Qing, you are so confused, our officials are originally low, and there is no other income. It is very difficult to feed the old and young in the house, and it is difficult to find a reason to collect some silver taels. You also took the lead in donating it.

Seeing that there was no movement from the ministers, the emperor asked again: "Zhong Aiqing, Chen Aiqing donated a thousand taels of silver tickets, what about you, how much do you plan to donate?" ”

"Wechen donated three thousand taels of silver. However, Weichen did not bring silver taels at this time, and Rongchen handed it over to the emperor next time. At this time, I saw Li Shangshu come out.

"Okay, retire to the dynasty, Gonggong Gui, you stay, and write down the amount of silver that Aiqing wants to donate, and the font size of Aiqing." After the emperor finished speaking, he left the Jinluan Palace, and said goodbye and expected himself to thank them, if it weren't for Chen Qing's donation of silver, he would have forgotten that these ministers took advantage of promotions one by one, and held a big banquet in the name of weddings and funerals, and collected a lot of silver. Although it is not a bribe, but the nature is not much different, if they are not allowed to donate some silver taels to help the victims, how can they be worthy of those affected by the disaster.

Chen Qing originally wanted to donate the silver collected from the banquet to the disaster area, but in order to have peace of mind, he didn't think about it, the emperor borrowed him to donate silver, and forced the ministers to donate silver, so that the ministers looked at him with resentment, and above the court, he was not easy to explain, so he had to leave stupidly.

As soon as Chen Yushi left the court, he was stopped by Li Shangshu, "Brother Chen, please stay." ”

Seeing that it was Li Liucai, the head of the household, Chen Qing hurriedly stopped, and when Li Shangshu walked up to him, Chen Qing said embarrassedly: "Li Shangshu, I'm really embarrassed." ”

Li Shangshu gave a thumbs up in front of Chen Qing, "Brother Chen, you are doing the right thing, the emperor likes you like this, the icing on the cake, it is not as good as you to solve problems for the emperor." ”

The corners of Chen Qing's mouth twitched, "Brother Liucai, you are serious, I don't want to compliment the emperor for my brother, I just want to do my best for the people of Tianyuan." ”

"Brother Chen is concerned about the disaster area, and he is really a loyal minister and good general of the emperor!" Li Liucai praised Chen Qing again.

Chen Qing grinned, always feeling that there was something in his words, as if he did not hesitate to sacrifice his colleagues in order to befriend the emperor.

At this time, several ministers passed by them, and some of them said, "Chen Yushi, you just go home and wait for your promotion!" Then you won't have to think about us. ”

"People only have the emperor in their eyes, and they will recognize who you are."

One of them said fiercely: "I hate this kind of snobs the most, in order to curry favor with the emperor, regardless of colleagues, this kind of person will never have friends." ”

"Hey, don't say it, Master Chen is in front, be careful of being heard by him." The official on the side reminded.

"Hear, what can he do with me, it's clear that he is the first to be strong."

"Brother Qian is right, if he hadn't taken the initiative to donate silver, where would the emperor have thought of letting us donate silver. My donation is 2,000 taels, and the old and young in the house should be frugal again. ”

"Whoever asked you to donate two thousand taels, won't you donate less? It's you who you want to be strong, who else can blame. ”

"Do I dare to donate less? He donated a thousand taels of silver tickets to a small imperial history. Master Qian took a breath of distress.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Ignore them, they can't eat grapes, they hate grape sourness. Li Shangshu hurriedly comforted Chen Qing:

"Li Shangshu, I really didn't mean to befriend the emperor, I really just cared about the people affected by the disaster. He who donated silver,"

"Brother Chen, there is no need to explain, the younger brother knows, the emperor knows, just do it." After speaking, Li Liucai deliberately patted Chen Qing's shoulder to comfort him-

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