Chapter 16: A Manchu Minister Is Not as Good As A Prostitute?
"Are you really sure that the people of our Jinyi Guard donate more money than those civil officials", Luo Yang asked him with a face.
Luo Hui: "If I lose, the Ming Dynasty will be so angry, and even the people we should be most loyal to the emperor will not be loyal, so can the Ming Dynasty not die?" โ
"Shh Luo Yangxing stretched out his finger: "You stinky boy, don't talk nonsense!" โ
"Dad, I advise you to donate your family property too!"
Luo Yangxing almost jumped up: "What kind of are you kid, what kind of property does your father have?" โ
Luo Hui: "I know you have it, Dad, you should take it out, otherwise the Ming Dynasty is gone, what's the use of you keeping those silver taels!" โ
Luo Yangxing gritted his teeth: "Okay, my father promises to donate 10,000 taels, this is already all the property of our family!" โ
"Twenty thousand, Dad, I don't know you yet, there will be room for everything!"
Luo Yangxing: "You stinky boy, it's really not soft to pit your father!" โ
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After Luo Hui arranged the affairs of Jinyiwei, he returned to the manor.
Luo Hui's two cousins were learning calligraphy and painting from Dong Xiaowan, and the three maids were grinding and laying paper for them.
The two of them were very attentive, and they didn't even feel Luo Hui when he walked up to them.
"What are you drawing?" Luo Hui took a closer look and couldn't help but be handsome: "What kind of cat are you painting, so strange?" โ
Wang Xin: "Cousin, don't laugh at us, this painting is not a cat, it's a tiger!" โ
"Tiger?" Luo Hui: "You don't have the feeling of a tiger at all, but like a sick cat!" โ
Chen Luoyan looked unhappy: "Cousin, you hit us as soon as you came, we painted so hard, I don't know how to praise it!" โ
"Okay, I won't mess with you, I want to talk to Xiao Wan about something very important!"
"What's the matter?" The third girl looked at Luo Hui's solemn eyes and was quite interested.
"The day before yesterday, I suggested that the emperor call on the ministers to donate, but those ministers are all very rich, but most of them only donate a few hundred taels!"
"It's so shameless" the two cousins clenched their fists, filled with righteous indignation.
Dong Xiaowan Bingxue was smart and immediately understood Luo Hui's intentions: "Xiaohong, go and bring my dressing box!" โ
The maid Xiaohong took the order and left, and the two cousins also understood something: "Xiaolian and Xiaoju, bring our dressing box too!" โ
After a while, Xiaohong took out the dressing box. Dong Xiaowan took the dresser box and handed it to Luo Hui: "Luo Lang, here are 10,000 taels, I'll give it to you to donate!" โ
Luo Hui: "This is yours, naturally I want to donate it in your name!" โ
The two cousins also took the dressing box from the maid's hand.
Chen Luoyan picked off a piece of jade: "Cousin, this is my mother's ancestral heirloom, and now that the national disaster is at hand, donate it with my thousand taels of silver!" โ
Wang Xin also took off a pair of gold earrings: "Cousin, my family is not so rich, this pair of gold earrings was specially made for me by my mother, and there are five hundred taels of silver, you can donate them!" โ
Luo Hui looked at the three women and was very moved, but he didn't expect that when the national disaster was at hand, those men were not as good as these women.
"Don't worry, these things donated today will definitely be blessed in the future!"
Wang Xin smiled: "Cousin, we don't want any good fortune, as long as our family is well!" โ
"Our family will be fine!" Luo Hui swore secretly in his heart.
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Above the court, Luo Hui ordered someone to bring two boxes, one large and one small: "Your Majesty, these are donations up to today!" โ
"Why so little?" Emperor Chongzhen's face sank, and these silver were by no means as much as a million taels.
Luo Hui took out a ledger: "Your Majesty, the donation accounts of the ministers are all recorded in this bill, totaling 123,200 taels of silver!" โ
Chongzhen took the ledger, and his face became even heavier: "Ministers, why do you donate so little?" โ
"Your Majesty, Wechen has donated all of it!"
"Yes, Your Majesty, in order to donate this silver, Weichen is already preparing to eat vegetables for a month!"
"Your Majesty, please also use the concubine, the minister's donation alone cannot solve the military salary!"
There was immediately a cry of poverty in the court, which was what they were best at. Even Emperor Chongzhen was almost deceived, if it weren't for Luo Hui.
And the ministers moved out again to use the phrase "in-house". Chongzhen didn't know how many times he had to explain it to them before they could believe that his inner son was already an empty shelf.
"Your Majesty, this small wooden box is a donation from the ministers, a total of 123,200 taels, come on, split it with an axe!"
A brocade guard took an axe and slashed at the small wooden box, splitting the wooden box in three or five strokes. Showing white flowers. The silver is almost identical to the standard silver.
"Your Majesty, this small wooden box is the silver that the minister called on Brother Jinyiwei to donate, and the minister doesn't know how much silver is in it, but the minister bets with them that if the silver in it is less than the ministers' silver, Weichen will immediately take the blame and resign!"
Brother Jinyiwei's hand holding the axe trembled a little, and he slashed on the wooden box again and again.
Jumping and jumping, this sound is like a heartbeat.
With a snap, the wooden box finally cracked, revealing a field of silver. Big, small, clean, dirty, all sorted, scattered all over the place! Although it is impossible to count them for a while, this pile is obviously more than those officials!
Emperor Chongzhen looked at the silver, and was speechless for a while.
"Your Majesty, ministers" Luo Hui looked around: "How clean and atmospheric the silver is here, and how shapeless and dirty the silver here is, let me ask you, why is this like this?" โ
The ministers were speechless, and Luo Hui continued: "Because your money is spent from the account room, it is so new and so neat. And the money of my brothers in Jinyiwei is used for their own lives, which is why they are so shapeless and dirty! โ
After Chongzhen heard this, he sighed with emotion: "The ministers in the hall are not as good as Jinyiwei's yamen!" โ
Luo Hui absolutely said that the iron was hot: "In addition, there are some private donations, and I strongly persuaded my father to donate 20,000 taels, and the bills are recorded in another book." โ
"Okay, good, I finally have a loyal servant like you!"
Luo Hui presented the list: "Your Majesty, after you read the list, you won't feel that as long as Weichen is a loyal minister!" โ
Emperor Chongzhen took the list and looked at it carefully: "Ladies and gentlemen, who is this Dong Xiaowan?" โ
As soon as this remark came out, the whole house was shocked. Among these ministers, there are still a few people who have heard of Dong Xiaowan's fame.
Chongzhen froze: "Ladies and gentlemen, doesn't anyone know Dong Xiaowan?" โ
Zhou Yanru stood up: "This woman is a prostitute from the Qinglou!" โ
The "prostitute" Emperor Chongzhen was stunned, and the ministers looked at each other.
After the silence, Chongzhen's face began to become ugly, and finally he was angry, and he pushed the fold on the table, and fell to the ground with a clatter.
"The full hall of ministers is not as good as a Qinglou woman!"
The ministers hurriedly knelt down: "Your Majesty forgives your sins!" โ