Lu Si hurriedly took the letter from Wang Zezhi to him and returned to Beijing.

Wang Zezhi returned to his tent and took out a box.

This is where all the powerful black materials in the entire Datong Mansion are, the ones he gave to Lu Si were originally intended to be played to Chongzhen, since he sent Lu Si to supervise the army, then it was just for Lu Si to take it back.

It will take time for Lu Si to return to Beijing and come to Datong Mansion again, and taking advantage of this gap, Wang Zezhi happened to do some things.

After doing these things, even if Chongzhen sent the prison army again, he would not be afraid.

"Yu Zhong, little sixth son."

"The subordinates are here."

"It's planned to be executed tomorrow."

"Obey."

Yu Zhong and Xiao Liuzi retreated and arranged according to the plan set by Wang Zezhi.

......

"Lord Commander, all of you here have all the names and stickers of filial piety outside, I hope your Excellency will accept it with a smile."

At night, a feast was arranged in the area from Kui Xing Lou to the General Town Office.

All the powerful people in Datong Mansion were invited over.

Fortunately, they all have a house in the house, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to call over for a while.

"Thank you squires for your faces, then the garrison Datong has to rely on your help." Wang Zezhi stood up and raised his glass.

"It's nature, it's nature." The squires stood up and raised their glasses.

"The chief soldier is polite, sharing worries for the country is really within my responsibility." The squire surnamed Fan, who had the most abundant financial resources, often went in and out of the customs and provided military supplies and intelligence for the Tatars and Houjin, and this person was the person who spoke to this group of people.

Wang Zezhi toasted to him and thanked him, and said: "Everyone, I can't hide it, Datong Mansion and Tatar suffered heavy losses in a battle, and now the mansion is in ruins, and silver is needed everywhere.

The sergeants under my command, as well as the sergeants in the various fire piers and forts, also need to be paid.

But the treasury was empty, and the emperor could not afford to allocate it.

Today, the general army summoned everyone to come, it is really a matter of fundraising, and I hope you will help one or two. ”

After Wang Zezhi finished speaking, he raised a glass of wine and drank it all.

The gentry who came to the banquet were collectively quiet, and the squire surnamed Fan coughed.

"The country is in trouble, and it should be helped, but I don't know how many taels of silver are needed for the general army?"

"The fire road piers and fort cities in Datong Mansion need to be repaired, and the Great Wall of the border passes also needs to be repaired, and the soldiers everywhere have not been paid food and salary for several months, and in the current situation, at least one million taels of silver are needed."

Wang Zezhi didn't even think about it, and directly opened his mouth with a lion.

"A million taels?"

"How much?"

"It's... It's a robbery..."

"It's going to cost us our lives..."

"That's a lot..."

The squire surnamed Fan coughed, and everyone in the chaos fell silent.

"Lord Commander, it's not that we don't want to, these years have been in chaos, and they have been plundered by the Tartars again.

We have some family business, but there are many people who eat under our hands.

Moreover, the filial piety we give to all the adults in the court is indispensable for one tael of silver, and this million taels is really a bit more. ”

The words of the squire surnamed Fan were not only an explanation, but also a pressure, he was telling Wang Zezhi that these people were inextricably linked with the ministers of the court, and if Wang Zezhi dared to touch them, the ministers of the court would definitely not let him go.

"If Datong is not guaranteed, the family business in your hands, gold, silver, rice and grain, wives and children will not be able to keep it, right?

By then, not all of them will be cheaper, and the outer Tartars will be plugged out. "Reading Temple

Wang Zezhi doesn't eat him, and he doesn't pay attention to those hypocrites in the court.

Wang Zezhi was not only reasoning, but also threatening them.

If this group of people don't donate a penny at this time, the next time the Tartars come, Wang Zezhi will ignore them.

"What the chief soldier said is very true, come here, this is the two hundred taels of gold that the old man carried with him, it is not a tribute, please smile."

The squire surnamed Fan had long expected that Wang Zezhi would ask for money, so he prepared two hundred taels of gold in advance.

Honoring the newly appointed officials is an unspoken rule, and they are all prepared, it's just a matter of more than a few.

"One hundred taels of gold." The person next to the squire surnamed Fan also asked his entourage to take out the gold he had prepared a long time ago.

"Eighty taels of gold."

"Sixty taels of gold."

"Twenty taels of gold."

"One hundred taels of silver." The table of the squire surnamed Fan, plus Wang Zezhi, is six people, these people are all gold, and they all start to use silver when they come out of this table.

"Eighty taels of silver."

"Fifty taels of silver."

"Twenty taels of silver."

......

The richest group of people in Datong Mansion donated less than 10,000 taels of silver, and no one believed them.

"Ahem... We also know some high-ranking ministers in the court, let's jointly sign an excerpt, and then the emperor will allocate some food and salary to the chief soldier. ”

Maybe the squire surnamed Fan also felt that the donated silver was too small, and some of them couldn't be justified, so he thought of a rhetoric, so as not to make Wang Zezhi unhappy.

Wang Zezhi was not only unhappy, but angry.

There is no harm if there is no comparison, and after the Yuxian thieves were leveled, the local gentry and merchants raised 50,000 stone kilns to store rice grain.

Datong Mansion was in the midst of war, and these people were still holding the little silver in their hands one by one, unwilling to take it out.

Wang Zezhi kicked over the box containing the silver taels they had donated, and came to the filial piety they gave to Wang Zezhi.

A handful tore open the red cloth covered with silver taels.

"I know, if Datong Mansion can't hold it, you will run to Taiyuan Mansion, Taiyuan Mansion can't hold it, you will run to Pingyang Mansion, Pingyang Mansion can't hold it, you will all run to Nanzhili.

You see, the silver you have given me is more than 50,000 taels, and the silver you have donated is less than 10,000 taels.

I have to ask you, if the Ming Dynasty dies, where will you go?

If the Ming Dynasty dies, what is the use of holding the little silver in your hands? ”

"The surname Wang, don't deceive people too much, I salute you as a general soldier, that's for the sake of the face of the court, do you really think you are something?" The person next to the squire surnamed Fan couldn't help it, stood up and shouted loudly.

"Hmph, ask us for silver, don't you want to get something delicious, look, are these pickles eaten by people?" At the other table stood up a squire, pointing to a few plates of unpalatable pickles on the table, and a few coarse grain nests, and shouting loudly.

"Fuck you, you are a general soldier, you really think you are a character, we already look up to you for filial piety, you fucking kick your nose in the face."

"It's like, can't you fucking want to rob all the money in our house?"

"What's the matter, he doesn't dare to give him ten dares, our people in the court, those are all important ministers of the country, can he afford a small general soldier?"

The squires no longer pretended to be polite, they all showed their true colors, and shouted at Wang Zezhi one by one.

"It's not to scare you, you can't even think about the energy of our people, if we jointly hand over a fold and sue you, your head will fall off. Hum! “

The squire surnamed Fan stopped pretending, stood up and looked at Wang Zezhi viciously.

"Mr. Fan, what do you have to say about entering and exiting inside and outside the customs, providing military supplies and intelligence for Tatar and Houjin, treason against the country, and betraying the enemy?"

Wang Zeyi stretched out his hand, and Ah Niu handed over a document, which was evidence that the squire surnamed Fan collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country.

The squire surnamed Fan was frightened and sat down.