"Delusional?" Xu Hongji asked, "How is he wicked?" ”

"He claims to be the reincarnation of Emperor Taizu Gao!" Xu Yongji took over his cousin's question, "Huang Yushi almost forgot about it if he didn't say it...... The new army stationed in Yangzhou is an evil army, and the top and bottom are superstitious that the prince is the reincarnation of Emperor Taizu Gao, and he also exercises two or three times a day, and he is like going crazy when he trains a soldier, and from time to time he shouts something 'Emperor Taizu Gao is reincarnated - invincible'! ”

"Hehe," Xu Hongji sneered, "what's the use of shouting?" ”

Zhao Zhilong also chimed in: "If it is useful, it will not be left in the wilderness and come to Yangzhou!" ”

He paused, and exchanged glances with Zhu Guobi and Huang Shu.

Zhu Guobi snorted: "I think we still have to let the Holy Lord come out and take power!" ”

"That's right! The saint is obviously still there, and he is not sick or sick, how can he let the prince take power? Huang Shu said, "Since ancient times, there has been no such precedent......

In fact, there are still precedents for this! It's just that Huang Shu is reluctant to mention that the person who holds power as the crown prince is called Li Shimin! He served as the crown prince for more than two months after the change of the fourth month of the sixth month of the ninth year of Wude, and was promoted to become the emperor.

"What Huang Yushi said is extremely true!" Zhao Zhilong clapped his hands and said, "We are all holy courtiers, not the prince's courtiers!" ”

He looked at Xu Hongji, "Wei Guogong, how are you old?" ”

"Old man......"

"Uh-huh, uh-huh, hmm-cough......"

The sound of coughing interrupted Xu Hongji's words, but this time it was not him, the leprosy ghost, who was coughing, but his son Xu Yunjue coughing.

The old man looked at his son's red face, and he didn't look like he was sick!

Xu Yunjue leaned into his father's ear and whispered, "My lord, it costs money to raise troops and serve the king!" ”

That's right! It costs money to raise troops!

The money in Nanjing's household department has been taken to Shandong by Shi Kefa and Gao Hongtu, and now it is empty enough to run mice. Now that the salaries of the Jingying soldiers in Nanjing and the Caojiang Water Division are in arrears, do you still want them to fight a tough battle with the new army that is as crazy as the new army?

In order to make this group of battalion soldiers from various guards in the southeast obey the order, the money must not be spent.

And where will the money come from?

Can the rich Wei Mansion not pull out a dime?

As soon as he thought of having to pay for it himself, Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, was reluctant. That's not a lot of money!

Now there are 40,000 people in Nanjing's Jingying and Sailors on the books! One person gives one tael of silver is forty thousand taels!

In addition, there will be no less than 60,000 or 70,000 guards and family members who will gather in Nanjing.

And these 60,000 or 70,000 people are not all soldiers, and there are many officials. If you don't feed them, they will follow the king? The prince has a few million taels of silver on hand, so he can't spend money to buy it? And to feed the Nanjing army, millions of taels may not be enough!

In addition, the battalions and sailors in Nanjing did not have any good equipment. You have to spend money to buy it! If you want to equip sixty or seventy thousand people, how can you get a million taels, right?

Besides, no one knows how long this battle of King Qin will last? In case it has been a year and a half, how much savings does the old Xu family have? Can you fill this bottomless pit?

"Huang Yushi, Zhao Garrison, Admiral Zhu," Xu Hongji stroked his white beard, "If you want to raise troops to serve the king, how much will it cost?" And how to raise it? ”

This old thing is dying, and he is still thinking about money......

When Huang Shu, Zhao Zhilong, and Zhu Guobi heard this, they couldn't help but curse in their hearts.

"It's estimated that it will cost 3 million taels of soldiers!" Zhao Zhilong said, "Nanjing's battalions and sailors will spend at least 2 million taels to rectify. In addition, Huang Degong of Fengyang and Zuo Liangyu of Wuchang have to spend money to win over, and the family will give at least 500,000 taels of silver. ”

"Where are you going to get these 3 million taels?" Xu Yunjue asked.

Don't you have one at home?

Ten of the sixteen gardens in Nanjing are surnamed Xu! Will your family have 3 million!?

Zhu Guobi's face turned pale: "Each noble family will make up a little, and then collect some taxes from the merchant ships in the past, and also ask the merchants in Nanjing for money, and 3 million taels will be able to make up the ......."

"My family took the lead in giving 100,000 taels!" Xu Hongji's face was painful, and he trembled and stretched out two slaps.

Hemorrhage!

100,000 taels!

When Emperor Chongzhen was about to be killed by Li Zicheng, Lao Xu was not pulling out a dime, and now he is willing to give 100,000 taels of King Qin, Emperor Chongzhen will definitely be very grateful, right?

Huang Shu shook his head again and again, "Guogong, what we are doing now, if we succeed, we are King Qin, and if we fail, we will rebel!" If the crown prince gets the city of Nanjing...... Your money, your garden, your land, and your shops will all belong to someone else. ”

"This, this ......" Xu Hongji gritted his teeth, "Then add another 100,000 taels!" 200,000 taels, no more! ”

It's only 200,000, which is still not enough!

"The lords in Nanjing City are not the Wei Mansion family!" Xu Yunjue was already heartbroken, he was afraid that Huang Shu and them would continue to ask for money, so he rushed to say, "If you want to pay, you have to let everyone pay together...... In addition, there are many rich families in Suzhou, Changzhou, Songjiang, Huzhou, Hangzhou, Huizhou and other places, and they have to pay for it! ”

Nanjing, Yangzhou, Huai'an, these places because they are important towns, have always been noble and powerful. In Suzhou, Changzhou, Songjiang, Huzhou, Hangzhou, Huizhou and other places, scholars are powerful, and Xu Yunjue kicked the fundraising ball to Huang Shu, the leader of Donglin.

Huang Shu's brows furrowed, not that he was reluctant to make money, but that he, the leader of Donglin, actually didn't have much strength.

The so-called Donglin Party was nothing more than a loose party of scholars and doctors, and it was not tightly organized. And Huang Shu is not the only leader, Qian Qianyi, who was co-opted by Zhu Cihong, is also the leader. Huang Shu had no way to get the group of Donglin Party members below who had no organizational discipline to raise funds.

In addition, now there is no longer the Nanjing Sixth Division. was disbanded by an order from Zhu Cihong! Moreover, the main officials of the six ministries also went their separate ways, and only one Zhang Shenyan and one Jiang Riguang remained in Nanjing.

Relying on the two of them, how could they command the Jiangnan provinces of Nanzhili?

If the provinces south of the Yangtze River could not be ordered, how could Nanjing raise military funds from Suzhou, Changzhou, Songjiang, Huzhou, Hangzhou, and other places?

However, Huang Shu can't refuse Xu Yunjue now, otherwise what if Xu Hongji and Xu Yunjue, the misers, don't do it?

"It's going to have to be paid everywhere!" Huang Shu nodded and said, "Xiaguan will send people to the Jiangnan provinces to collect donations from fellow Donglin Daoists." One or two million can always be raised, but it will take some time, and the silver from the various prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River will have to rely on the money of the lords before it reaches Nanjing. ”

His idea was to let the nobles of each family come forward first to support King Qin's career. If King Qin's mess up this matter, it will be a rebellion, and once it starts, there will be no way out. At that time, even if the successors of Donglin in the Jiangnan provinces do not follow, Nanjing Xungui will have to go bankrupt!

The estimated amount of cash silver deposited by each family in Nanjing is twenty or thirty million taels! In addition, there are many businessmen in Nanjing, and it is not a problem to hang another 20 or 30 million taels from them. The sum of the two is forty or fifty million taels, which is enough to compare money with Zhu Cihong, right?

Thinking of this, Huang Shu said again: "Huang Degong and Zuo Liangyu are in urgent need of money, so they must give each of them two or three hundred thousand taels of silver first, right?" Wei Guogong, you have to raise this money as soon as possible. ”

Xu Hongji nodded, "Okay, the old man is responsible for raising 1 million taels, and no matter how much he has, he really can't get it!" ”

"Is it Wei Guofu who gave 1 million?" Zhu Guobi didn't seem to understand Xu Hongji's words, so he asked again.

Old man Xu glared at him, "Wei Guofu will pay 200,000 taels, and other nobles and ministers in Nanjing will pay another 800,000 taels, a total of 1 million taels!" ”

It's only 1 million in total, which is a bit small!

Zhao Zhilong and Zhu Guobi exchanged glances with each other, and Zhu Guobi said, "So can the garrison department collect money from merchants?" Can the river master stop on the river to collect money? ”

There are many dark stocks in Nanjing City and on the Yangtze River, and without Xu Hongji's nod, Zhao Zhilong and Zhu Guobi would not dare to send people to collect money.

Xu Hongji was silent for a while, nodded and said, "In extraordinary times, it doesn't hurt to collect a little...... That's it, let's make such a big effort for the sake of the saint, and we can be regarded as worthy of the great favor of Emperor Taizu Gao. ”