In the crowd, Zhou Yanru, a scholar, felt that it would be useless to continue to be so noisy and insulting, so he coughed a few times, walked up to Ji Qingwen, and said coldly: "Lord Ji, since you didn't set up a banquet here, it seems that this so-called 'talking and drinking' naturally doesn't exist." It's a trivial matter for you to delay our events, but if we delay the major military affairs, it will be a big deal, you wait for Zhou to impeach you! ”

The scholar Zhou Yanru also had some prestige in the imperial court, and he expressed his position, and other officials also echoed it:

"Yes, I've written half of the notes to impeach you, and when I transcribe it overnight, I'll hand it in early tomorrow morning."

"Master Ji, you can do it yourself!"

"Humph! I don't know what happened to the old superintendent Sun Chengzong, who actually listened to the slander of this surnamed Ji and brought us here......"

Ji Qingwen now has money in his hand, he is not panicked at all, and said loudly: "Don't interrupt, everyone!" I didn't just ask you how the donated silver taels were prepared, but you have not answered me yet! ”

Ji Qingwen's words immediately aroused the anger of the crowd again, and he heard someone say: "Why did this official answer your question?" Do you think that you will become the Jade Emperor in this Taoist temple? ”

The backyard of Baiyunguan suddenly became noisy again.

At this time, he saw another university scholar Wen Tiren slowly step forward, arched his hand to Ji Qingwen quite politely, and said, "It is the duty of people and ministers to share worries for the emperor. Wen has received the emperor's favor, and he has also saved 4,000 taels of silver in the past few years, and he is ready to donate it all this time......"

After that, Wen Tiren saluted Han Kuang, the first assistant minister of the cabinet, and said: "Lord Han, everyone is here today, I might as well just count the amount of money that officials are going to donate, and our cabinet has a bottom, how about it?" ”

Zhou Yanru, a university scholar, had some overt or covert competition with Wen Tiren, and when he heard Wen Tiren say this, he didn't wait for Shoufu Han Kuang to express his position, so he hurriedly said: "Yes, Master Wen is saying what is in the heart of the official. That, the official is also ready to donate 4,000 taels ......"

Since the two scholars have already stated that others naturally cannot be left behind, they have said the amount of silver they intend to donate.

While listening to this, Ji Qingwen silently calculated in his heart - the silver taels that these nearly 100 officials can donate can total more than 200,000 taels, and there are more than 200,000 soldiers and horses inside and outside the city, and there are only one tael of silver for each soldier, and these two taels of silver are not only to buy grain and grass, but also to reward soldiers, and set aside a part to reward war exploits, which is really a drop in the bucket.

So Ji Qingwen laughed and said: "There is a saying, it is called 'three years of Qing prefect', 100,000 snowflakes of silver', the officials of the adults are much bigger than the prefect, I didn't expect to be so poor, everyone can only take out a few thousand taels of silver to reward the three armies." ”

Ji Qingwen said this too politely, and an official asked on the spot: "Lord Ji, you said that we donated a small amount of money, so how much silver are you going to donate?" ”

Ji Qingwen smiled and said: "I am not a Beijing official, and the wealth of the industry is in Suzhou, and the 100,000 taels of military salaries brought are also trapped in Jizhou City, how can there be any silver donations?" ”

The official laughed and said, "I only heard that there are 50 steps and 100 steps of laughter, but I didn't expect that there are 100 steps and 50 steps of laughter." Lord Ji refused to give out a tael of silver, and he dared to come and laugh at us. Lord Ji is a little too ignorant, right? ”

"I don't know the severity, I don't know the severity. But I have already told the emperor about the situation early this morning, and I think the emperor will understand. However, if you only donate such a small amount of money and food, whether you can pass the customs on the Holy Lord's side, the lower officials don't know......"

As soon as Ji Qingwen said this, all the officials couldn't help but tremble in fright - Emperor Chongzhen's character is notoriously mean and impatient, maybe he really thinks that the officials donate too little silver, and he is furious and dismisses all these officials.

When the officials were silent, Ji Qingwen smiled "haha" and said, "Your Excellency, don't worry. The officials don't understand the rules, and it is inevitable that they will be offended, so they invited the elder Sun Chengzong to come forward and make peace with all the adults in this Baiyun Temple. ”

As he spoke, Ji Qingwen raised his eyes and glanced at the nearly 100 top-notch officials standing in the backyard of Baiyun Temple, stretched out his hand and pointed to the neatly stacked gold bars around him, and said, "You have all seen it, right?" These gold bars are used to give them to your lordships and donate them to the emperor! ”

"Oh!"

"Ahh

"Whew!"

A group of officials let out all kinds of exclamations.

However, Ji Qingwen's reputation in the official circle is so bad that some officials questioned: "How can Lord Ji give us such a large amount of gold?" Ladies and gentlemen, Lord Ji did things unexpectedly, we can't be deceived by him, these gold bars may be fake! ”

Ji Qingwen sneered: "I don't know how many people I have deceived in my life, but this time I am sincere." If any adult has doubts, they may as well come forward to check the truth and see if the gold is real! ”

When the officials heard this, they looked at each other for a while, and finally elected an official in charge of treasury affairs from the Ministry of Household Affairs to come forward to inspect the authenticity of the gold.

The official, who was not young, was obviously very experienced in identifying gold and silver, and he took a bar in his hands and examined it himself—the purer the gold, the redder the color, and all of these bars were yellow and red, and they were the finest gold.

The official of the household department reluctantly put down the gold bars, picked up a few pieces and checked them up and down, looked at them for a long time before making a gesture to Ji Qingwen, and then turned around and arched his hand towards the minister of the full court, and said: "My lords, these gold bars are at least ninety-ninety percent red gold (that is, 99% content), and they are all true. ”

With that, the official retreated.

Ji Qingwen nodded with satisfaction and said, "Everyone, if you don't believe me, you should always believe this boss, right?" To tell you the truth, these gold bars totaled 270,000 taels, or 2,700,000 taels of silver, which was about a year's income from the imperial treasury, which could be donated to reward the army outside the city. In this way, for the sake of the society, I dare not be unique, so I want to distribute this gold to all the lords and then hand it over to the imperial court, so that the saint can remember the heart of your public loyalty to the country. ”

Ji Qingwen said while thinking to himself: If these officials really have the slightest "heart of public loyalty to the country", why would they make trouble to the point where the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria have entered the Beijing Division, and why did they force Emperor Chongzhen to say the cruel words that "all civil officials can be killed"?

However, these officials did not have such an awareness, and only thought that if they could get gold from Ji Qingwen, they would be able to make a deal in front of the emperor, and they would be able to keep their glory and wealth.

Therefore, they instantly changed their disapproving attitude towards Ji Qingwen, and thanked Ji Qingwen for his kindness - the speed at which they turned their faces was much faster than turning a book.

However, among the officials in the full court, it was still the university scholar Wen Tiren who had a long heart, and asked: "Lord Ji, Wen has one more mouth, I want to ask my lord, where did Lord Ji get so much gold?" It doesn't have to fall from the sky, does it? Gouged out of the ground, right? ”

Ji Qingwen smiled and said, "Scholar Wen is really smart, and this money is indeed dug out of the ground." To tell you the truth, this gold is Wei Zhongxian's inheritance, and he sent someone to bury it in the backyard of this Baiyun Temple before his bad deed, and I dug it up. These are all the people's fat and people's ointment that Wei Zhongxian looted during his lifetime, and now they are just used to fund the imperial court, which can be regarded as a good use. ”

Wen Tiren asked again: "Then my lord, Wei Zhongxian has been dead for almost two years, so why didn't others dig it up, and the adults were found by you only two days after entering Beijing?" Wen took the liberty of asking, isn't it really a eunuch for adults? ”

Although Wen Tiren asked this question very sharply, his tone was very gentle, not like he was making things difficult for Ji Qingwen.

Therefore, Ji Qingwen was also inconvenient to be angry, and said: "Am I a eunuch, when I was in Zuo Shunmen early this morning, didn't you adults already define me for sex?" I'm afraid that a few adults who are quick to write have already written a melody to impeach me, and they are waiting to send it to the emperor tomorrow, right? ”

Wen Tiren smiled when he heard this, and said, "Misunderstanding, this is all a misunderstanding." The eunuchs are all selfish villains, who have obtained so much gold for nothing, and have long been in their own pockets, how could they think of donating it to the imperial court? ”

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