Wang Yinchang waited in the gatehouse for a long time before someone led him into the palace. A eunuch took him into the Fu'an Palace, and then said to him, "Your Excellency, just wait here, the prince is changing his clothes, and he will come out in a while." ”

Wang Yinchang originally thought that he was going to have a closed door again, but he was unexpectedly received. He couldn't help but think of what he heard from others, the Fu Wangfu Fu Ping, lowered the Jun of the Pond, and gave a verdict of Du Mu's "Golden Valley Garden". I thought to myself, "Maybe it was the judgment of the gods that touched King Fu, he should be willing to take out the money this time, right?" ”

Thinking like this, he waited for another quarter of an hour, and then saw several eunuchs come out of the Fu'an Palace, and said to him, "King Fu, please come in." ”

Wang Yinchang entered the hall and bowed.

The blessed king gave him a seat, gave him tea, and then asked, "What is the matter that the gentleman has come to see the widow?" ”

Wang Yinchang bowed and said: "At present, the thieves under Huang Zide have conquered Yichuan, and the army has gathered outside Yiyang and Yongning, and the city has been broken overnight. The thieves claimed that after breaking these two county seats, they would come to attack Luoyang. There are many hungry people in Luoyang City, and the soldiers and people have no fixed will, and the complaints are boiling, and they think about the thieves. The gentry were helpless and sat back and waited for the same end. The prince was sealed here, and the original period was established for 10,000 years, and the descendants were passed on. If you don't try to defend the city, you will lose the country, and you will regret it! How to defend the city and protect the country, the time is urgent, I hope His Royal Highness will make a decision quickly! ”

King Fu said: "This is a local civil and military matter, what does it have to do with the widow?" ”

Wang Yinchang hurriedly said: "Your Highness, if Luoyang City is broken, will Your Highness also go and tell Huang Zide that this matter has nothing to do with Your Highness?" Now Bao Luoyang is the country of His Royal Highness. In fact, His Highness and His Highness are in the same boat through thick and thin, and they are working together. How can His Highness say that it has nothing to do with him? ”

King Fu sneered: "Could it be that you still have to be widowed to go to the city?" ”

"Of course not." Wang Yinchang said, "But now the army has no fighting spirit, mainly because of the lack of salary." If His Highness can come up with tens of thousands of taels of silver, he will reward the three armies. If the morale of the three armed forces can be greatly boosted, and the morale of the three armed forces will be greatly boosted, then Luoyang will definitely be able to put Luoyang in the safety of the rock. In this way, His Highness's inheritance can be passed on to future generations. Isn't that the best of both worlds? ”

When King Fu heard the words "tens of thousands of taels", he immediately became angry:

"In recent years, there have been continuous floods and droughts, thieves are like hair, and the income of this domain has decreased greatly, but the expenses in the palace are still the same, and people can't make ends meet. One of your mouths is tens of thousands of taels, where can a widow have tens of thousands of taels?! Yes, it was also given to the widow by the first emperor, not for you to take advantage of it! ”

The meaning of these words was very heavy, Wang Yinchang hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "The minister has no such intention, the minister is just thinking about the court and His Royal Highness." ”

King Fu listened and snorted. According to his temper, he really wanted to go straight away. It's just that Kajichi-kun's sentence still pressed him like a mountain, making him breathless. So he can only continue to stay here and discuss with Wang Yinchang. Therefore, he suppressed his anger and said:

"There is some truth to what you said just now. You say that this widow and you are in the same boat through thick and thin, and they are working together. If Luoyang is lost, the clan will die, and their group of officials who eat royal money will not survive. Even if any of you can escape the hands of thieves, it will not escape the law of the land. In this case, how can only the domain pay when the money is paid? This domain will pay 1,000 taels, and each of you will also pay 1,000 taels, so that this domain, you, Sun Zhifu and Wang Zongbing, and other big households, each of them will also pay 1,000 taels, so that there will always be six or seven thousand taels together, which will be used to reward the three armies and boost morale, isn't it okay? ”

Wang Yinchang knelt down and said, "Your Highness, one thousand taels is still a little less." Please add some more. ”

King Fu listened and said, "Not enough? That's good, add another two thousand taels to this domain, a total of three thousand taels, you also pay three thousand taels, Sun Zhifu, Wang Zongbing, and those big households, all three thousand taels, so together, there are twenty or thirty thousand taels, absolutely enough! ”

Wang Yinchang hurriedly said: "Your Highness, how dare the ministers compare with Your Highness." Three thousand taels is easy for His Highness, but the ministers really can't take it out. Or Your Highness will add a little more, just 20,000 taels. As long as His Royal Highness comes up with 20,000 taels, Weichen dares to use his head to guarantee that this Luoyang City is impregnable. ”

When King Fu heard this, he couldn't hold back any longer, stood up, and said, "Send off!" ”

After saying that, he turned around and brushed his sleeves away.

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drove away Wang Yinchang, and King Fu was so angry that he almost couldn't eat dinner. He hatefully said to Eunuch Liu: "These dog officials are bent on cheating the king of his money. Does this king look so much like a wronged leader? ”

Eunuch Liu didn't dare to follow. Just persuaded him not to be angry. At this time, another chamberlain came to report that Wang Yinchang came to see him again.

"Didn't you just go out? How did you come back again? This dog official is really shameless for money! Go and tell them, no! King Fu scolded.

The chamberlain did not leave immediately, but knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Lord Wang, Wang Xundao said that Huang Zide laid down the Yongning ......"

"So what? If you don't see it, you just don't see it! "King Fu hasn't understood yet.

"Lord Wang, the king of Wan'an County has fallen into the hands of thieves and has been killed by thieves!" The chamberlain continued.

"I don't care about ......him," he said halfway, King Fu suddenly understood, and hurriedly asked, "You dog slave, what happened to the king of Wan'an?" ”

"The slave and maid heard from the king that the king of Wan'an County had been killed by thieves." The chamberlain replied.

This news slashed like a thunderbolt on the top of King Fu's head, splitting him so much that he couldn't distinguish between southeast and northwest for a long time. For the first time, he really felt that death was so close to him. The identity of the prince and imperial uncle that he has always been proud of is so worthless in front of the knife of the "rogue".

"They dared to kill the king of the county, they dared to kill the king of the county, they dared to kill the king of the county!" Fu Wang Tie blushed and muttered to himself.

Suddenly, he turned his head, stared at Eunuch Liu with straight eyes, and said, "You say, do you dare to kill the widow?" ”

"The prince is auspicious, and the rogue will definitely not be able to hurt His Highness." Eunuch Liu hurriedly said.

When King Fu heard this, he let out a sigh of relief. Suddenly, he thought about the sentence and his own dream, so he stayed there and thought about it, and finally seemed to have made up his mind and said, "Please go to the Fu'an Palace." ”

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Under the threat of death, King Fu finally restrained his greed, made a huge determination, and took out 10,000 taels of silver. It's just that he was very worried that the money would be swallowed by Wang Yinchang and Wang Shaoyu, the chief soldier, as he dreamed in his dream. So he insisted that the money must be carried out of him in front of the officers and soldiers. This reasonable request was naturally agreed to by Wang Yinchang.

Early the next morning, Wang Yinchang came to Fuwangfu with hundreds of soldiers, and loaded the 20,000 taels of silver provided by Fuwangfu with great fanfare.

"If only Huang Zide came every day." Some soldiers even said this in private.

"Yes, yes. If it weren't for Huang Zide, we don't know how long it would be delayed. Another soldier replied.

"Whatever, he's rich! Let's calculate, how much money should everyone get? Another soldier said.

"I heard that there are 20,000 taels! There are 5,000 of us, so each of us should be able to get a few taels, right? "The soldiers have never studied mathematics and can't figure out the tens of thousands, but they still have a vague estimate of how much it can be.

So more soldiers got together and figured out how much money they would get.

"Don't dream, Lord Chief, and the other adults must share a little. I'm very satisfied to have a two. Someone else said so.

However, things are not as simple as they think. The silver was moved out of the Fu Wang's Mansion and first sent to the yamen of the sub-patrol road. According to the usual practice, such donations can never fall into the hands of donors intact, and there will always be various losses in the intermediate process. Even if there is no loss in the first step, there will be loss in the second and third steps. And this kind of loss is still very flexible, if there is no loss in the first step, then the second step will most likely make up for the loss in the first step. For example, according to the custom, if you get the silver, and the highest-ranking sub-patrol can take half of the silver, that is, 10,000 taels, and then go to the prefect and have the remaining half of it, that is, 5,000 taels, and then go to the general army, there will be 5,000 taels left. According to the rules, the general soldiers will also leave 2,500 taels of them, and the remaining 2,500 will be distributed to the garrisons below and so on, and so on, and finally it can reach the hands of the soldiers.

What would happen if Wang Xundao, who was the first step, suddenly focused on the overall situation and didn't take a tael of silver? Well, if Governor Sun didn't know the total amount of silver, he would have left 10,000 taels for himself, and if Governor Sun knew the total amount and knew that Wang Xundao didn't take it, then he might even take 15,000 taels directly. Moreover, from now on, Wang Xundao will be regarded as an alien and a threat by his colleagues in the entire officialdom. In many cases, it's not enough to just not get rich with others, because it means that you can pick yourself out at any time, and not being in the same way is a threat. In this world, many times, there is a word called "jealousy is like hatred".

Wang Xundao naturally couldn't break the rules casually, so he left 10,000 taels of silver very dutifully, and then transferred the silver to the prefect...... In the end, each of the 5,000 soldiers defending the city was given about three pieces of silver.

In fact, these three coins of silver did not play a role in "boosting morale", and even, because before this, this silver had not brought a lot of hope to the soldiers, and everyone was thinking about "four taels is not, there must be a three taels", and even thought about how to spend the silver when it arrived. Now the silver suddenly changed from three taels to three coins. It's even worse than not having it at all.