Chapter 131: The Fox Squirrel Takes a Hole (2)
Ning Qingqing pursed his lips and said angrily, "How could it be!" Qingqing didn't dare. ”
"Hahaha, Qingqing big liar, Qingqing is very reluctant." Zhang Zongbei and Zhang Ze looked at Ning Qingqing's distorted expression and laughed.
"Ah, you're making fun of me again, see if I don't kill you!" Ning Qingqing jumped off Mu Shengbai with a strange scream and pounced on the two of them, and the three children made a mess in the room, and the sound of laughter came from far and wide.
Mu Shengbai didn't stop it, he watched quietly, and the smile in his eyes was thick and lingering.
"You said you were knocked unconscious by those little kids and woke up to find yourself in a ruined temple outside the city?" Du Chenliang's gloomy face made people feel a chill when they saw it, as if a yin wind was blowing up from hell, and the bodies of more than a dozen people kneeling on the ground trembled, "Even a few children can't beat it, Your Highness really doesn't know what is the use of keeping your group of waste materials." ”
"Your Highness, it's really those children who are too yin, they poisoned us."
Du Chenliang slapped the speaker in the face, making a huge noise, only to see that one of his teeth flew out like this, and the man only knew that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed wildly, and he didn't dare to say a word.
"You can still make excuses for me when you are yin by a few children, you are really amazing, it seems that my position as a prince is given to you, and you must be able to be better."
The man was so frightened by Du Chenliang's strange words that he almost fell down in a daze.
"If you faint here and dirty the main hall, the main hall will use you to feed the wolves."
When the man heard this, he was so frightened that he didn't even dare to faint, and he put his head on the ground and didn't dare to move.
The white-robed man beside Du Chenliang looked at the few people kneeling on the ground with disdain, "Your Highness, since those children were raised by Mu Shengbai, they must have some skills, but it's no wonder that they don't want to let them out first, I have something important to discuss with Your Highness." ”
"Since Mr. has said so, you waste materials get out of here for me, don't get in my way."
"Thank you, Your Highness, thank you, Mr. An." They were busy going out, and An Sheng looked at them with a smile, but there was no emotion in his eyes, as if those people were ants.
"The palace didn't catch Mu Shengbai's handle this time, if the good royal brother of the eyebrow dye ointment hall knew, he would definitely be proud in front of the hall for a while, those waste materials!"
Du Chenliang gritted his teeth, and suddenly became angry again, eager to whip to death those waste materials that ruined his good deeds, Fang Xie only hated in his heart.
"Sir, is there any way to make this hall kill the majesty of Mu Shengbai?"
"Your Highness, does you know that Lingcheng has been in a disaster and famine in the past few months?"
Du Chenliang's eyes lit up, there was no news about this matter in the court, which meant that it must be someone under the bottom who concealed it and did not report it, "Mr. said that he wanted me to mention this matter with my father, and then propose to open a warehouse for disaster relief?" ”
The more he thought about it, the more feasible it became, so that not only could his father impress him, but also establish prestige among the people.
An Sheng shook his head, "I didn't mean that, opening a warehouse for disaster relief is to be done, but it is not for Your Highness to go." ”
Du Chenliang was stunned for a moment, not understanding what he meant.
"Your Highness can let the crown prince go."
"What?" Du Chenliang was shocked and incomprehensible, and asked with a dark face: "Why do you want to give such a good thing to Du Weizhen." ”
An Sheng seemed to be smiling, polite, "Your Highness thinks this is a good thing?" ”
"What's not that a good thing about? If it is given to the crown prince, won't it make the father trust and value him more? His prestige among the people is even greater, and how can I give him such good deeds. ”
An Sheng smiled lightly, "Your Highness has only seen the surface, you must know that in recent years, Yidan and other countries have been recuperating, eyeing our country, most of the money in the treasury is used to improve the soldiers' weapons and silver, although the treasury is not scarce, but there is also a lack of silver for disaster relief, if the prince wants to raise enough money for disaster relief, the fundraising needed to encourage those wealthy businessmen and officials to donate, these are the most discrediting things, after all, no one wants to flow their money out like this." There may even be some who are reluctant to donate, won't the prince lose the trust of the emperor if he can't raise enough money? ”
The more Du Chenliang listened, the more he felt that it made sense, and he was triumphant, "That palace let people mention this matter, and with the prince perfectly handling the matter of the bandits, the father will definitely hand over this matter to the prince again, hahaha, His Royal Highness doesn't believe that the prince will not be planted in the hands of this palace this time." ”
Sure enough, after a certain minister mentioned this matter, Emperor Jingyuan immediately asked people to go to Lingcheng, and found that if this was the case, the disaster there was so serious that it was shocking, and there were only patches of dry grass left in the world, and the people were full of skinny people.
Emperor Jingyuan was furious, and asked people to deal with the officials in Lingcheng who concealed the disaster and did not report it, and then handed over the disaster relief to the prince as Du Chenliang expected.
As soon as he went back, he raised money, and the ministers did not hold much money, so the amount of donations was not large, which was also expected, even if some ministers relied on some dishonorable channels to earn a lifetime of money that they could not get, they would not show it, after all, there is no emperor who is not taboo against corrupt officials.
In this way, there was not much money raised at all, and Du Weizhen's abacus hit the rich merchants in the imperial city, if the treasury hid half of the wealth of the entire Kun country, then those rich merchants in the imperial city took the other half.
Du Weizhen asked the officers and soldiers to go door-to-door to encourage donations, and the people selected were all well-known and wealthy businessmen in the imperial city.
"Officials, business has not been good in the past few years, and the small ones have not earned much money, and they still have to support their families, so donating so much is already the limit."
Such words are being staged in every wealthy merchant who comes to the door, and those officers and soldiers have no choice, after all, the prince has specially instructed that force must not be used, otherwise it will definitely cause fear among ordinary people, and they will feel that the court is unreasonable.
They could only come out with that little silver tael, and after a few days, the amount of donations raised was less than 1,000 taels.
This bit of silver is really going to make people laugh when they go to disaster relief, Du Chenliang also heard about this matter, and he was extremely proud, and praised An Sheng as a reincarnation Zhuge God.
Du Weizhen was about to die, the fundraising movement was in an uproar in the imperial city, and Mu Shengbai heard a little news no matter how obsessed he was in the Wanshu Pavilion, and he soon had a solution.
He went to Du Weizhen, "Weizhen, in fact, I have a way to solve this matter." ”
Du Weizhen was about to worry about this matter, and when he heard that Mu Shengbai had a way, he was so excited that he was almost speechless, "Shengbai, you say, I will listen to you." ”