Chapter 110: It's Dark
How many people are in an army? 100,000, 200,000, or more. One person has two sets of cotton clothes, and if one set of cotton clothes is calculated according to five taels, one person has two sets of ten taels, and 100,000 people will get one million taels. If you want these rich families in Jasper City to get together a million taels, yes, the problem is that this is digging their meat! That's not a small amount!
The person who answered just now rolled his eyes and simply fainted. The others also suddenly felt thorns growing on their chairs, and they couldn't sit down.
Feng Jiuwan's eyes darkened, he stabilized himself, and reluctantly pulled out a smile and said: "The virtuous nephew is joking, this kind of thing, how can the imperial court let us ordinary people do it, the Dayu Dynasty is rich and strong, and the treasury is full......"
Before he finished speaking, Jin Xiaohan had already interrupted him: "This is a bad word. Last year, there was a drought in the north, and the imperial court allocated a large amount of disaster relief funds, and at the beginning of the year, a sum of money was allocated to build a river embankment in the south of the border. As a citizen of Dayu, isn't it natural to share the burden for the country? Moreover, half of the general's visit to Jiangnan is also for official business, it is reported that Jiangnan is a skilled craftsman, and the general's conquest of the southern army also needs talents from all aspects, so first come to inspect and investigate, after a period of time will be conscripted in Jiangnan, the cotton clothes donated by the people may be used on their own children and grandchildren, are you willing to let the relatives and friends of your children and grandchildren suffer from the cold? β
Who can refute that?
Jin Xiaohan paused and continued: "The emperor said that the southern army will be an army of honor, and the emperor has given me a heavy task to form the golden army of the Dayu Dynasty and join my southern army. All of them are good men, the general will lead the southern army to make meritorious contributions, want to be the country's talents, do not only pass the imperial examination, to the southern army to make military merits can also have a bright future, the donation of good people, depending on the amount of donation, can get the corresponding military quota. β
"Is this true?" Someone couldn't help but ask.
"General Ben never cheats."
Meritorious service, bright future, who doesn't want to! Jin Xiaohan's words behind this are temptation. But it did hit the hearts of many people.
The children of rich families are very gentle. There are a lot of losers, and they can't study, it is really impossible to get a bright future through the imperial examination, and the average person who joins the army feels a little harder. It's also not noble. It's hard to get through. The children of rich families must not want to go, and they are not the Praetorian Guards or city guards in Kyoto. The Southern Army is different. This is an army that the emperor is preparing to build, haven't you heard? Emperor Chrysostom said that the Southern Army will be an army of honor, and this has not yet begun, but it bears a golden name, and entering the Southern Army already symbolizes a kind of honor. Moreover, the emperor values Jin Xiaohan, and he has a better chance of breaking out of the world with him. Besides, they donated a lot of silver, Jin Xiaohan always has to take care of their son's relatives and friends or something, right?
Isn't that better than being a loser?
Such a large sum of silver naturally hurts, but the benefits are also quite tempting! There are men of school age in the family who are beginning to ponder.
They were attracted by the candy released by Jin Xiaohan.
Feng Jiuwan's heart ached like a pinprick.
weishenmeοΌ He has no sons and no brothers, and he's ready to be a soldier! But this is the one he himself called a virtuous nephew, if he really wants to donate, can he still run? Maybe he'll donate the biggest share!
Feng Jiuwan almost couldn't hold back the smile on his face. The butler whispered a few words to him before he tried to control it.
"Master, since you must donate this money, it is better for you to take the lead in doing it, so that the general will definitely feel that you have helped a lot, how much do you remember this feeling, can you still take care of the Feng Mansion in the future?"
That's true.
"Virtuous nephew......" As soon as he spoke, Master Liu stood up, raised his hand and said loudly: "General, General, Liu is willing to take the lead in donating silver!" β
Master Liu naturally felt sorry for the silver, but he felt that this was also an opportunity, and he had already asked today, this general of Zhengnan had not yet married in Kyoto!
And I didn't expect General Zhengnan to be so magnificent, and Ming Ruxiang would be extremely happy.
Another point, if there is a general's son-in-law, the future of Liufu, especially the future of Mingqing Mingji, will also have hope!
He felt that the donation was worth it!
Jin Xiaohan looked at Master Liu and said with a smile: "How do you call this one?" β
Feng Jiuwan was extremely unhappy, but he had to speak: "This is the richest man in Jasper City, Lord Liu Jinsheng. β
"Oh? Master Liu. Jin Xiaohan's heart moved, and he remembered the girl who was cautious and bad-tempered, he investigated Miss Liu San, and naturally knew what kind of person Liu Jinsheng was, so he immediately said: "Master Liu is very kind." β
Old Man Liu said with a waist: "The general has won the award, the award." It is Liu's honor to share worries for the general and the court! β
"In this way, I will allow Master Liu, and the fundraising will be handled by Master Liu. In two days, General Ben will send someone to discuss specific matters with Master Liu, and everything will be troublesome to Master Liu. β
Master Liu hurriedly asked for an opportunity: "Yes, it should be, general, Liu sincerely invites the general to the cold house as a guest, and Liu can also ask about the relevant situation." β
Jin Xiaohan's eyes flashed and said, "Okay." β
Master Liu was overjoyed in his heart.
Although Jin Xiaohan looked quite peaceful, he had an admirable momentum, which made many people feel indigestible.
Halfway through the banquet, Jin Xiaohan withdrew under the pretext that he was too strong to drink, and walked slowly along the stone path in the Fengfu Garden.
Qingchuan held back for a long time and couldn't help asking: "Master, the Southern Army approved by the emperor is an army of honor, do you really want to give those gentlemen a quota?" β
Jin Xiaohan glanced at him and said lightly, "Stupid." They can enter the Southern Army, but General Ben didn't say that they can be treated specially, and if they don't pass the training, they will all be eliminated. Do you think they will be able to survive the training of General Ben? β
Qingchuan suddenly realized, "If they don't pass the test and are eliminated at that time, it won't be the master's business!" β
"Hmm."
Qingchuan secretly snickered, the attractive conditions that the master just released are not in vain, and others who don't donate silver are treated like this! It's so dark! It's really a shame that the master was able to say without changing his face that he never cheated.
"Okay, go, Feige sent a letter to Qingling, and asked him to come to Jade City to be responsible for the donation."
Qingchuan hurriedly replied: "Yes! β
General Zhengnan's words in Fengfu caused a huge repercussion in Jade City and the recent Jincheng, and with the news of General Zhengnan's appearance and the upcoming big fundraiser, it finally overshadowed the previous Moon Slope flower thief incident. After breathing a sigh of relief, the ladies and ladies of the various provinces began to talk about the imposing general Jin Xiaohan in the south with great interest.
This one is covered with golden light, and he can compare the nobles in the two cities.
In Feng's Mansion, Rao Xuekong received a letter quietly handed over by a maid who came with Mo Zhihua. The letter was written by Li Chengfeng, there was something going on in the Li Mansion in the capital, Li Chengfeng and Mrs. Li were in a hurry, and they didn't have time to say goodbye to her. However, Rao Xuekong could see between the lines that Li Chengfeng left Jasper City in a hurry because of Jin Xiaohan.
It is said that General Zhengnan is quite young and has always acted steadily, Li Chengfeng is guessing what he will do when he comes to Jade City, if he is here, I am afraid that it will be inconvenient.
Rao Xuekong didn't know the reason for this, but she didn't care, it wasn't her business anyway. Mo Zhijing didn't go to Feng Mansion yesterday, and even Master Mo didn't go, I don't know if there is any reason for this.
However, Liufu is going to invite this general to conquer the south today, and Rao Xuekong knows it. Hearing that the general of Zhengnan ordered the cotton clothes of 200,000 soldiers at the banquet in a few words, Rao Xuekong admired it very much, that person was really black. And what Master Liu is thinking, she can probably guess. It's just that he can't help but think too well.
Yesterday when she returned to Ximo Courtyard, Lancao was so frightened that she fainted when she saw the wound on her face, and asked her to wear a veil no matter what.
Mrs. Liu heard Liu Mingru talk about what happened in Feng Mansion, and made a special trip to Ximo Courtyard to scold Rao Xuekong for offending Xu Min'er, and by the way, she was "disfigured" to express her schadenfreude.
Rao Xuekong has always felt painless about these words, and he didn't even take them to heart.
Later, the third aunt came over and cried for a while, and even pretended to faint once, Qingliu shouted to invite the master to come to see the third aunt, Rao Xuekong only said that the aunt's clothes were too good-looking, and the third aunt immediately woke up again and hurried back to the floating willow courtyard to change her clothes and faint again.
It's cool and autumnal.
It was raining on this day, the autumn wind and autumn rain, and the cold was swishing.
Rao Xuekong was still leaning against the window and smiled at Lancao: "Will Master Liu be disappointed?" The general didn't want to go out. In the past, she hated training in this kind of weather the most, but now that she has traveled to ancient times, no one is staring at her every day devil training, but she is very conscious, and she has not missed weight training today.
Lancao didn't know anything about these things, but subconsciously agreed: "In this kind of weather, the slave and maid will not want to go out." β
"Lancao, you don't have to wait here, go back to the house and rest, I'll practice calligraphy by myself."
Because the big kitchen had to carefully prepare the banquet for the distinguished guests today, they divided the ingredients and let each courtyard cook their own rice, and their master and servant had already eaten it.
Lancao was accustomed to Rao Xuekong's preferences, and knew that she really didn't like people waiting by her side, and she also needed to be very quiet when practicing calligraphy, so she withdrew.
Rao Xuekong walked to the table, spread out the rice paper, sharpened the ink, thought about it and dropped the pen on the paper.
A few large characters are swiped.
Women can hold up half the sky.
The window that was closed by the blue grass just now was knocked on the ground, Rao Xuekong put down the brush and looked over, the window was pushed open from the outside, and a man jumped in, and his hair was wet on his shoulder.
Rao Xuekong's face turned cold: "It's windy and rainy, you're really interested!" Is window jumping fun? β
"I knocked on the window to say hello."
"But I haven't allowed you to come in yet." (To be continued......)