As soon as the soldiers heard that they were going to evacuate Ning Yuanwei, they all talked about it and said, "The imperial court let us enter the king of Jingqin, so what about the Ning Yuanwei area?" This is a fair renunciation of territory! ”

Seeing that the soldiers were a little reluctant, the general soldier of the Ming Ning Yuanwei also made a small decision, he said, "Since Ben Shuai is eating the imperial court, he has to do things for the imperial court, and the soldiers who can go, including men, women, and children, must all be withdrawn, and the old, weak, sick and disabled and those who are unwilling to leave can stay and continue to defend the city, but they must be Ning Yuanwei." ”

This trick really worked, and the soldiers asked to stay, but after a screening, only more than 300 people met the conditions, and the rest of the soldiers were all arranged to have a mission, and there was no mistake in setting off at the time of today's application.

On March 10th, when Ming Yizong, who was in the Forbidden City, heard the news of the Ming Si Rite Supervisor Bingbi Eunuch's report, he was very disappointed, and instantly felt that in such a short period of time, it was almost impossible to get too much silver.

In the mind of Ming Yizong unintentionally pondered, a person's shadow suddenly appeared? He immediately beckoned and shouted, "Someone! Quickly spread my will, and I wanted to borrow some silver taels from the abbot for the time being, saying that I urgently needed it. ”

In this way, the eunuch of the Ming Division: Gao Ding, he went to the national abbot Ming Jiading Bo: Zhou Kui, who borrowed two taels of silver from the mansion with the emperor's son-in-law, thought that with the identity of the emperor's son-in-law, he could successfully borrow a large amount of silver?

Who knew that when the holy decree appeared in front of Ming Jia Dingbo, he was rejected by Ming Jia Dingbo, he took the holy decree and knelt down and cried, "Gao Gonggong doesn't know anything!" Although I am the ruler of the country, I am not stained with meat and fish! Fuzhong eats clear soup and little water every day, and the treasury does not have any extra money to lend out! ”

The abbot who wiped his tears and cried while talking acted as if it was real, but the eunuch of the Ming Division: Gao Ding, seeing the mansion is a different scene? With its three-tiered glazed tile roof, richly decorated annexes, carpeted walkways throughout the house, gold-inlaid rosewood tables and chairs, and extravagant accessories, even the clothes worn by Ming Jiadingbo were made of fine silk, which had nothing to do with the poverty he described.

But seeing the crying of the national abbot still pretending to be a gesture, it made the eunuch of the Ming Si Rite feel that this national abbot was a little stingy, and in desperation, the high father-in-law had to salute and said, "Since this is the case, then our family will say goodbye!" Guozhang is resting! After speaking, he walked out of the mansion and went back to reply to His Majesty the Emperor.

The frightened Ming Jiadingbo was afraid that the emperor's son-in-law would really come to track down the Guozhang Mansion? In order to show that he was very poor, he deliberately asked his subordinates to turn over all the roofs in the house, and put away valuable objects, and only took out worthless dilapidated objects and placed them.

At this moment, Ming Yizong, who was in the Jiaotai Hall of the inner court harem, just walked to the direction of the attic, and a eunuch ran over in a hurry, but he was immediately stopped by the four guards and horses of Tengxiang Left Guard, Teng Xiang Right Guard, Wu Xiang Left Guard, and Wu Xiang Right Guard, and the anxious eunuch hurriedly explained, "Ouch! Our family was sent by His Majesty to deliver the decree, and the four guard battalions quickly got out of the way. ”

Teng Xiang Siwei then got out of the way and let him pass, and Gao Gonggong ran over in small steps and said, "Your Majesty, something is wrong!" The country's father-in-law, he refused to lend the silver taels, but still cried in front of the little slave and pretended to be poor! ”

These words were like five thunderbolts, which made Ming Yizong suddenly have a little headache, he covered his head and was silent for a while, and said: "On weekdays, I have rewarded him with so much gold, silver and jewelry, but now when he is in urgent need of silver, he is pretending to be poor with me?" Guozhang: This is deliberate! ”

But after all, he was the national abbot, so His Majesty the Emperor still gave him some face, and he walked straight towards Kunning Palace.

Here, in Kunning Palace, Queen Ming Zhou was talking about marriage with Princess Ming Kunxing, and she persuaded her, "Jiao'er, you are also 14 years old!" Your father has just introduced you to a family affair, you see... ”

Before the queen mother finished speaking, she was retorted by Princess Mingkunxing, "Oh, queen mother!" Erchen doesn't need it, Erchen to...? ”

Seeing that her second daughter was a little shy, Queen Ming Zhou guessed that she must have a favorite person? He took her hand and asked, "Jiao'er, is there a dream person?" Let's talk about it and let the queen mother see which son's son it is? Otherwise! The queen mother can't help you, so you can only arrange your husband's family according to the law of Daming! For example, your sister and sister-in-law are already married, and now you are also married. ”

At this time, there was a burst of applause from the palace gate, and the palace maids knelt down one after another and said, "See Your Majesty, may Your Majesty live long live." ”

The queen mother and Her Royal Highness Princess Kunxing also came over and saluted, "Concubines and sons, please visit, Your Majesty/Father." ”

Ming Yizong strode over and helped the two of them up, and said, "Jiao'er, the queen doesn't need to be polite!" Hurry up, come to Zitong, I have something to tell you. Who knew that before the words fell, Princess Ming Kunxing grabbed Ming Yizong's sleeve and said, "Father, I heard from the queen mother that you are going to marry your son, but is there such a thing?" Sons.... ”

I saw Ming Yizong turn around and cough twice at the queen, and Queen Ming Zhou, who reacted, whispered, "Your Majesty, don't worry, the concubine didn't reveal Jiao'er's life experience!" ”

Ming Yizong only then beat the sulking Princess Ming Kunxing and left Kunning Palace.

Then Ming Yizong asked the eunuch to tell the queen the purpose of his trip, when she learned that her father was so stingy and stingy with money, she knelt down in shame and sighed to His Majesty the Emperor beside him, "The father of the concubine is deeply favored and trusted by the Ming Empire on weekdays, but he didn't expect that now the national disaster is at hand, and his father is still so short-sighted, he knows that once the city is broken, how much can the Zhou family's wealth be saved?" ”

Listening to the queen's sigh, Ming Yizong couldn't bear to help her get up and sit, and the embarrassed Empress Ming Zhou immediately summoned the palace maid and shouted, "Shulan, go to the Zhou Mansion and call the prince to the palace!" Just go. ”

In this way, Ming Jia Dingbo was summoned into the palace to meet the queen mother on the phoenix drive outside the Qianqing Gate, wearing red regular clothes, knowing that things were not good, Ming Jia Dingbo, as soon as he saw his daughter, he knelt down and saluted: "Old minister, meet the queen mother, may the mother be a thousand years old." ”

Queen Ming Zhou, who held back her anger, waved her hand to let the eunuchs and palace maids retreat outside the palace gate, and she opened the bead curtain and walked down to look at her father who saluted her, not bowing with both hands but half-kneeling and guessing that she must know that she was wrong, but the queen still planned to punish him, so she said, "Daddy, do you know the purpose of my daughter calling you here today?" ”

Looking at the queen mother wearing a (brown hat) and wearing a "bijia", she asked herself seriously, which made Ming Jia Dingbo a little nervous! But he still asked in a pretentious manner: "The old minister doesn't know what the queen mother is referring to?" ”

These words directly made Queen Ming Zhou furious on the spot and said, "This palace called you today, not for anything else, just to hear why Lord Guozhang is so crying and pretending to be poor?" Our family has dozens of acres of fertile land and tens of thousands of silver rewards, how can we not donate silver? ”

In this way, the prince was severely reprimanded by the queen's mother, and then Ming Jiadingbo, who calmed down, said tremblingly, "Since the queen has spoken, the old minister does not dare to disobey, and the old minister is willing to donate 5,000 taels of silver to your majesty's help." ”

Queen Ming Zhou saw that her father Ming Jia Dingbo still regarded wealth as a dime a dime, and wanted to punish him as the queen, but after all, she was helpless to be her own father! After much thought, the queen finally decided to secretly sell her gold and silver jewelry from the palace in her own name.

After a full calculation, he only got 5,000 taels of silver, and privately sent someone to hand it over to Ming Jia Dingbo, and asked Ming Jia Dingbo to donate two taels of silver in his own name, so that other ministers must laugh at it and lose the face of the country's father-in-law.

The money-greedy Ming Jiading Bo showed a selfless appearance when he received 5,000 taels of silver from his daughter Empress Ming Zhou, but when he really wanted to hand over this silver, he was a little heartbroken! After thinking about it and struggling, he deducted 2,000 taels of silver privately, and then reluctantly handed over the remaining 3,000 taels of silver and his own 5,000 taels of silver, a total of 8,000 taels of silver, into the treasury.

For a time, the princes, ministers, civil and military officials of the court also followed the example of the ruler, went back to make the bricks and tiles on their mansions crooked and messy, and hid all the valuable things in the house privately, and posted notices at the door of their mansions that the houses were sold at low prices.

Some officials deliberately pulled the worthless prices in the house to Zhengyang Gate to evaluate them in the name of their official positions, so as to conduct high-priced auctions in exchange for silver taels, but all these practices are undoubtedly saying to Ming Yizong that we just don't have money and can't donate silver taels! See what the court will do with them?

Later, in order to show their loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, the princes and ministers of the Manchu Dynasty and the civil and military officials deliberately lined up to raise donations, but they were all small donations! The amount of silver ranged from 2,000 taels to 50,000 taels, and the officials who donated the most money were only officials from Nanzhili, Zhejiang Chengxuan, Fujian, and Jiangxi.

However, it was still far from the 1 million taels of silver stipulated by Ming Yizong, and he thought that the ministers of the court and the central government could donate 100,000 taels of silver? As a result, all the ministers donated no more than 50,000 taels of silver, and some even dozens of taels of silver were also very popular! Looking at the list of ministers who donated silver, Ming Yizong couldn't help but weep bitterly and said: "It's a pity that my three-hundred-year-old foundation of the Ming Dynasty was actually destroyed in this way at the hands of these civil and military officials!" The princes, nobles, high-ranking officials, and ministers in the dignified court have countless thousands of taels of silver? ”

In fact, all the ministers thought that His Majesty the Emperor was the co-lord of the world, and the whole world was not the king's land, and the shore of the land was not the king's ministers, and they felt that the emperor was deliberately pretending to be poor! Some ministers who know the inside story such as; Officials of the Ministry of Households, Ministry of Industry, etc., even though they knew that the treasury of the DPRK and China was empty, still refused to take out the silver taels to help, and being a courtier to do this step is basically nothing to do with traitors! It's just a matter of surrendering.

In order to truly reflect the point of poverty, many officials even deliberately wore the most worn patch court clothes under the leadership of Guozhang Ming Jiadingbo in the early days of the Yin Dynasty, and also abolished the sedan chair they used to ride and went to the court on foot, and the rest of the officials imitated their actions.

Originally, His Majesty the Emperor also wanted the Emperor Ming Jiadingbo to be a good example in front of the ministers and donate more silver taels to make a statement, but who knew that he was also cheated by the Guozhang and had a bad start!

For this reason, Ming Yizong was very disappointed! He himself was wearing patched crown clothes, but he didn't expect that according to the eunuchs, the ministers outside the royal gate were also wearing patched court clothes, so Ming Yizong didn't want to say anything more in the early dynasty! I had to swallow my anger and wave my hand and say, "All the Aiqing have a good start, and they have nothing to do!" ”

The embarrassed ministers all bowed their heads and said nothing, for fear that the emperor would ask about fundraising as soon as they opened their mouths? Therefore, everyone pretended to be crazy and stupid, and after waiting for His Majesty the Emperor to get up and leave, they each withdrew from the court under the shouting of the Ming Si Rite Supervisor and the Eunuch Bingbi.