Chapter 85. Disaster Relief (2)
Zhu Youxiao on the dragon chair frowned, looking at Liu Yijing, who was bowing his head and contemplating, and felt helpless in his heart. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info millions of silver taels, so that the inner library is empty, where can he find it.
Zhu Youxiao suddenly missed Fang Congzhe, who was sick at home. Regardless of his character, he will at least come up with a solution when he encounters something.
Looking at the more noisy and fierce ministers in front of him, Principal Zhu You sighed, stood up, and said:
"Let's get here today, and after the Zhongqing family goes back, we will think about a solution."
Seeing Zhu Youxiao get up and prepare to leave, the noisy civil and military officials below slowly quieted down.
Zhu Youxiao walked out of the imperial case, looked at Liu Yijing, who was still pondering below, and said again:
"Lord Liu, the disaster must be saved, but it can't chill the hearts of the border soldiers because of this. At the next court meeting, the cabinet must come up with a solution. ”
"The ministers obey." Seeing Zhu Youxiao's unhappy face, Liu Yijing and the cabinet ministers knelt down one after another to receive Zhu Youxiao's instructions.
After Wang An's duck gong shouted to retreat, Principal Zhu You sighed and turned to leave.
After Zhu Youxiao left, Huang Jiashan looked at the Donglin people gathered in a group, frowned, and turned to chase after the group of military generals and nobles who had left.
"This Huang Jiashan is the first rat at both ends!" Zhao Lanxing looked at the departing Huang Jiashan and frowned.
"The treasury is empty, where can I get a million taels of silver? Doesn't this Huang Jiashan understand the priorities of things? Han Kuang, who was standing next to Liu Yijing, said angrily.
Liu Yijing looked at the back of Huang Jiashan leaving, listened to the complaining voices of the people in Donglin, frowned, did not speak, and took the lead towards the outside of the palace.
Outside the Taihe Palace, on the steps made of white marble, Liu Yijing saw that there was no one around, looked back at Han Kuang, Zhao Lanxing and others behind him, and said with a long sigh:
"Ladies and gentlemen, although I Donglin now occupy the court, I still need to be cautious, and sometimes I don't need to be aggressive......
Huang Jiashan's public face turned a face, which touched Liu Yijing a lot.
After Fang Congzhe's resignation, Huang Jiashan personally came to the door and expressed the meaning that everything was based on Donglin. The two of them reached an agreement. said that they would assist the emperor together and govern the Ming Dynasty well.
Why did Huang Jiashan turn his face just now, he didn't understand that the whole drought was the further north it went, the more serious the disaster became. Those military households in Liaodong can imagine that they are also waiting to be fed now.
Huang Jiashan, as the secretary of the military department, stood up at this time and fought for the soldiers below for money, which is also human nature. Don't say whether you want the silver or not, at least Liaodong will really lose in the future, and there will be words of shirk.
But Han Kuang and Zhao Lanxing went up to reprimand Huang Jiashan one after another, didn't this directly make Huang Jiashan have no way out?
Especially the bunch of reasons that this group of sub-officials pulled out, now that I think about it, it is not the naked old face of the Shangshu of the Ministry of War.
"Lord Liu, traitors like these two ends of the head and rat should not exist in the court! The lower officials suggested that he should be expelled from the court as soon as possible. Liu Yijing's voice fell, and Zhao Lanxing, who was beside him, opened his mouth to take over the topic.
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After the court meeting was dispersed, Zhu Youxiao took Wang An and Hou Guoxing straight to the Qianqing Palace.
Soon, there was a crackling sound in the Qianqing Palace.
Zhu Youxiao scolded while throwing the lunch he had just prepared:
"This group of sour Confucians, this group of sour Confucians, apart from the party and the differences, what else can they do."
"The emperor is angry, the emperor is angry!" Wang An knelt on the ground and kowtowed vigorously. has taken care of Zhu Youxiao for many years, and has never seen Zhu Youxiao so out of shape.
"Hou Qianhu, you can persuade the emperor, if you hurt the dragon's body, it will be terrible!" Wang An, who was ineffective in dissuading, complained about Hou Guoxing, who stood aside and was indifferent.
"Wang An, shut up for me, you have been persuading me to reuse this group of righteous gentlemen in Donglin, but look at it, what are these so-called gentlemen doing when my people are waiting to be fed, and when my country is in turmoil?
After Zhu Youxiao, who was exhausted, finished scolding Wang An, he sat on the chair and exhaled a long breath, and after a while, he spoke again:
"What's the use of me asking for this group of loyal ministers? If they hadn't said that they couldn't compete with the people for profit, and forced the first emperor to stop the mining tax, why would they be like this now......"
Wang Anrang knelt on the ground and kowtowed. A handful of snot and tears shouted the emperor's anger, slaves and maids are ignorant and the like.
In his heart, he was also angry with this group of sour Confucians in Donglin, and he thought that this group of Donglin ministers was famous and famous, and there was a lot of cooperation between the two sides. I hope to work together to assist the emperor to become a Ming monarch.
How do you know that this group of angry youths has just improved a little, so they are arrogant and domineering, cleaning up political enemies all over the world. That's it, now that there has just been a drought, these sour Confucians are at a loss, and their first reaction is to hit the emperor's inner library.
"I have a way!" A group of Hou Guoxing, who had been silent for a long time, spoke.
"Big brother!" Zhu Youxiao, who was originally angry, turned around excitedly when he heard Hou Guoxing's words.
Hou Guoxing nodded to Zhu Youxiao, walked over slowly, helped Wang An, who was kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, and said:
"Princess, do you remember what I asked you to do a month ago."
Wang An, who had a red and swollen forehead, got up and wiped his nose, looked at Hou Guoxing and said suspiciously:
"A month ago?"
After a while, Wang An grabbed Hou Guoxing and shouted:
"Grain, grain, you bought 300,000 stone of grain."
It turned out that a month ago, Zhu Youxiao gave Hou Guoxing 400,000 taels of silver. Hou Guoxing was going to use it to pay the deposit for the coal mine.
Later, Wang An paid the deposit directly through the eunuchs in various places below, which can be regarded as the remaining money for Hou Guoxing.
Later, Wang An and Luo Sigong each sent 100,000 taels of silver as the start-up capital for the three of them to start the coal mine.
Hou Guoxing, who had nowhere to use 400,000 taels of silver, encountered Zheng Yiguan's weather forecast, and according to his inference, this drought may cause a large-scale harvest in the north.
Out of trust in Zheng Yiguan's professional quality, in line with the principle that if silver does not flow in his hands, it is not silver, Hou Guoxing simply purchased 300,000 stone of grain in the Huguang area within one month through Wang An's relationship.
At that time, Wang An also ridiculed Hou Guoxing for having no ambitions and not being able to keep the money in his hand, so he actually did the work of a grain merchant.
"Big brother! You can be a prophet! Zhu Youxiao ran over and grabbed Hou Guoxing excitedly, and stars of worship appeared in his eyes.
There is no way, in Zhu Youxiao's eyes, Hou Guoxing basically has nothing to do. Several times in a desperate situation, he turned danger into safety, and his thoughts and thoughts were miraculous. This time, he bought 300,000 stone grain in advance, and in his eyes, this was definitely a trick like a god.
Hou Guoxing broke free of Wang An's hands on the right that had just finished wiping his nose, turned around and slowly pushed away Zhu Youxiao's grease hands that had just finished smashing the plate, and took two steps back, so as not to attack him here.
"It's not okay to predict it, but it's okay to watch the clouds and see the fog." Hou Guoxing shamelessly plagiarized Zheng Yiguan's skills, and wiped the grease on his left arm and the snot on his right arm on the wall while talking, and his heart was full of nausea.
Zhu Youxiao and Wang An saw Hou Guoxing's demeanor like this, and the two were embarrassed for a while.
Zhu Youxiao hurriedly found a ribbon and lowered his head to wipe the grease in his hands. The dignified son of heaven has actually lost his temper to this point.
Especially Wang An, who blushed and smirked, his heart was full of embarrassment. You can only bow on the side and bow your hand in apology. Then a pair of hands rubbed vigorously on the clothes.
"I still have 150,000 taels of silver here, you can take it out first to save the emergency!" Hou Guoxing was too lazy to bother with these two dirty goods, and spoke again.
Zhu Youxiao, who was lowering his head to wipe the grease, suddenly stopped the movement in his hand, raised his head, stared at Jiang Xia with wide eyes, and said in surprise:
"Big brother, I gave you a total of 400,000 taels of silver, and you hoarded 300,000 stone of grain, why do you still have so much money?"
Wang An on the side also looked at Hou Guoxing with suspicion, wondering if Hou Guoxing had embezzled the start-up capital that he and Luo Sigong had taken.
"The emperor still remembers the plumbing." Hou Guoxing asked with a smile.
On the same day, after the success of the plumbing test, Hou Guoxing let his cousin Fugui open a shop in the prosperous area of Beijing in the name of Kebaba according to the model of later generations, and named it Winter Nuan Pavilion.
There is nothing in it, it is a luxuriously decorated pavilion, and there are more than a dozen plumbed rooms in it, designed to look like a women's boudoir. In the high price of a group of Jingshi invited a group of red cards, check-in experience.
Of course, this process of inviting the top cards of the Qinglou will not come one by one, anyway, it is the silver to open the way, and Xu Xianchun, a thousand households in Beizhen Fusi, went in person, and moved it with emotion and reason. The face of the prince and the prestige of the Holy Lady are all used.
The brothel owners had no choice but to promise Xu Xianchun's designated top brands to go to Dongnuan Pavilion to help deal with it for ten days, which could be regarded as giving Mrs. Fengsheng and Jinyiwei a face. Of course, the amount of silver that people should give is a lot of money.
Soon, the dignitaries who were looking for flowers and asked the willows found that their little liver was all gone, and they asked what kind of winter warm pavilion they went to experience life.
Soon, the dignitaries and dignitaries from all over the country found that all the top brands of the entire Jingshi had gone to Chunxiang Pavilion, and it was rumored for a while. They all speculated about what kind of fairyland this place was, which made a group of lovely people happy.
In the end, this group of old men who couldn't stand their hunger and thirst naturally went to the Winter Warm Pavilion to find out.
Entering the Winter Warm Pavilion, this group of old men felt that they were not enough to see in front of them, and the girls of Yishui were wearing uniform uniforms and lined up in two columns. A neat, softly whispered welcome.
This group of veterans in the flowers, although they were amazed at why the girls in this group of Qinglou had changed so much, they also quickly came to their senses, and they came to find those top brands. How can these ordinary flowers and grasses stumble?
After some struggle, the group of old men moved with difficulty, followed the little guy, and entered the room where the top card lived.
When this group of gentlemen entered the room, they felt that the four seasons were like spring, coupled with the design of the women's boudoir, and the imperial kitchen transferred from the palace.
The rest of the things will go naturally, the wine is good, the food is good, the sister is good, and the room is better.
Listening to Hou Guoxing's explanation, Zhu Youxiao swallowed his saliva and asked:
"This big brother, you're not going to open a brothel, are you?"
"Hell, I'm that kind of person! At most, Dong Nuan Pavilion can only drink a little wine and talk about life, and nothing else is allowed. Hou Guoxing was extremely dissatisfied with Zhu Youxiao's filthiness and opened his mouth to refute.
But deep down in my heart, I do have a little bit of a weak heart, and the winter warm pavilion is indeed only allowed to talk about life, but the problem is that the door is closed, although there is no overnight customer stay, but listen to the miscellaneous complaints, every time the room is cleaned, there will always be unknown objects on the sheets, and the smell is extremely strange.
Soon, the news that the Winter Warm Pavilion is like spring all year round spread among the major brothels, restaurants, and gentlemen looking for flowers and willows in Beijing.
Ten days later, Dong Nuan Pavilion sent back all the top brands of the major brothels.
Then, orders from major brothels for plumbing followed.
In the back, restaurants, and veterans of the flowers who know the news have also placed orders.
In just one month, Hou Guoxing had more than 100,000 silver deposits on hand.
After listening to Hou Guoxing, Wang An on the side was sure that Hou Guoxing was not embezzling his coffin book, and asked with a relaxed heart:
"That's nearly 600,000 taels of silver!"