Chapter 234: Organizing Lanterns (2)
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"Lord Yang, don't worry, the concubine knows how to do it!"
Ke Yinyue smiled charmingly, slowly walked in front of Yang Xiaoyu, lowered her head and said: "The concubine can return to the palace, everything depends on Lord Yang's mediation, the concubine is grateful, what will Lord Yang do in the future, the concubine should be a cow and a horse for Lord Yang!" ”
Yang Xiaoyu smiled, he didn't think that this woman's words were true, now that the courtiers excluded her, she put down her body to compliment herself, once one day her forces covered the palace, how could she be in awe of herself.
Therefore, for this woman, Yang Xiaoyu half co-opted and half suppressed, neither let her be too arrogant nor too soft.
"Squat!"
Yang Xiaoyu sat on the chair, with the posture of an uncle, squinting his eyes and smiling.
Ke Yinyue is the person who came over, as soon as she saw Yang Xiaoyu's expression, she knew what she wanted her to do, so she squatted down lightly and slowly untied Yang Xiaoyu's clothes, and when she saw the heirloom that she hadn't seen for a few days, her heart was shocked.
Yang Xiaoyu stretched out his hand and pressed the white tendons of the guest Yin Yue, making her prostrate under his crotch, and then a whimper sounded out.
After a long time.
Yang Xiaoyu put on her clothes, looked at Ke Yinyue with red and swollen fresh lips and said with a smile: "The official still has something to do, so don't delay much, if there is anything wrong with the madam, you can send someone to Beizhen Fusi to inform the official." ”
"Lord Yang go slowly, the concubine will send you!" Ke Yinyue smiled shyly and said softly.
Yang Xiaoyu waved his hand, strode out of the palace, and went outside the palace.
When he came to the palace gate, Yang Xiaoyu ordered Zhou Heguang to send Fang Weiyi home. Immediately, he took the guards and rode his horse to the North Town Fusi.
Today, four thousand households and two deputy envoys are in the yamen of the Zhenfu Division, Yang Xiaoyu summoned all these people to the council hall and said: "In two days, it will be the Shangyuan Festival, and the emperor handed over the preparation of the Lantern Festival to this official!" ”
"My lord, isn't it the business of the Ministry of Rites to organize lanterns? Why is it our turn to Beizhen Fusi? Ding Chenghu, the deputy envoy, shouted.
"The ministers of the DPRK and China did not agree with the emperor to see the lanterns, so the emperor asked the official to organize the lantern festival. Tell me, what should I do? Yang Xiaoyu asked with a gloomy face.
"My lord, the holy order cannot be violated, but I don't know that the emperor gave the adults more silver taels to organize the lantern festival?" Huang Zhongwei asked.
"Not a tael of silver!" Yang Xiaoyu shook his head and said.
The two deputy town envoys and the four thousand households were stunned, there was no silver tael, how to organize the Lantern Festival?
"My lord, there are less than 30,000 taels of silver on the books of the Zhenfu Division, and these silver are the fortunes of the horsemen of this year, once this silver is used. How do the riders make up for it? Besides, 30,000 taels of silver to organize the Lantern Festival is also a drop in the bucket! Huang Zhongwei shook his head and sighed.
Everyone else has a dignified face, the silver of the Zhenfu Division is their public silver half-bad, once the public silver is used, they will go out on errands in the future, what to eat and drink, is it difficult for them to pay their own silver?
Yang Xiaoyu swept everyone's expressions. smiled: "The official already has an idea about this matter, just wait for you to go and invite someone!" ”
"Your Excellency has an idea. Then the officials are much more relieved! ”
Ding Chenghu has a straightforward temperament, and when he heard Yang Xiaoyu's words, he laughed and said, "I just don't know who the adults asked the lower officials to invite?" ”
"You are the cadres of the Fusi of Beizhen, when you know that the rich merchants in the capital are like clouds, they have some silver in their pockets. The emperor can celebrate with the people, and the officials can also make deals, and you don't have to worry about the public bank being used! Yang Xiaoyu said with a pointful smile.
"Do you want the merchants to donate money for the lantern festival?" Huang Zhongwei asked in surprise.
Yang Xiaoyu nodded and instructed everyone: "With the consent of the emperor, you can do it boldly with confidence." Lord Huang and Lord Ding are responsible for writing a list of wealthy merchants, and the four are responsible for sending worship and sticking to the mansion, so they said that the official invited them to come to Beizhen Fusi for a gathering! ”
When everyone below heard that the emperor agreed to this matter, they had no look of fear at the moment, and they hurriedly got up to receive the order, and went down to prepare.
There are too many wealthy businessmen in the capital, and some businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang have gathered in the capital for a long time.
Beizhen Fusi has many ears and eyes, and after sending people to the street to inquire a little, he will be well-known to spread the names of wealthy merchants in the streets and alleys.
Huang Zhongwei and Ding Chenghu wrote the invitation, and asked the wealthy businessmen to come to Beizhen Fusi for a banquet in the evening.
Each thousand households ordered their subordinates to hold the invitation and go to the door to meet them.
At noon, Beizhen Fusi sent out more than 100 invitations, most of which were well-known local wealthy businessmen.
In the afternoon, Huang Zhongwei and others wrote down the names of wealthy businessmen from other places, and ordered Xiaoqi to be sent with Tiqi.
Yang Xiaoyu stayed in the yamen very leisurely, commanding a group of officials to carry tables and chairs, and asked the horsemen to go to the street to buy meat and vegetables.
There is a spacious lobby behind the Zhenfu Division, which can accommodate more than 300 people!
Yang Xiaoyu asked a group of handymen to clean up, ordered people to move the tables and chairs in, and transferred the guards to the two hundred households in the edict prison, and let them stand on both sides of the hall with knives, densely packed, looking at the past, which made people frightened.
At night!
Some wealthy businessmen who received the invitation came to Fusi in Beizhen in groups, and Zhou Heguang, who greeted the merchants at the door, sent someone to show them the way, and asked them all to go to the lobby for the banquet.
The merchants were frightened and frowned, for fear that Beizhen Fusi would set them up.
The merchants in the capital know that Beizhen Fusi is a hell, and the captives in it are full of evil ghosts and murderers, and they received an invitation from the evil ghosts, and if they don't come to the banquet, their heads will have to be moved, yes, they know that this is a gathering place for evil ghosts, but they still forcibly calm down and come to the banquet of the fierce ghosts with the invitations/.
At the beginning of the lanterns, the night wind roars!
The fire of Beizhen Fusi is bright, the door of the house is wide open, and there is an endless stream of people coming and going.
At the calm and cold entrance of the yamen, there were many sedan chairs gathered at this time.
A wealthy merchant dressed in silk and silk poured into the North Town Fuji like flowing water.
The merchants came to the door of the lobby and saw that there were already people sitting inside, so they put their hearts down and walked in, who knew that as soon as they entered, they saw the dense brocade guards standing against the wall on both sides, and the heart that had just been relieved couldn't help but tense again.
When the lobby was filled with more than 200 people. The servants of the Pacification Division came up with delicacies and offered wine and tea to the wealthy merchants.
After a while, Yang Xiaoyu, who was dressed in a flying fish suit, led the officials of the Zhenfu Division to walk in slowly.
As soon as the merchants saw the arrival of the officials of the Fusi Division of Beizhen, they hurriedly stood up and bowed.
Yang Xiaoyu looked kind, and bowed to the merchants on both sides as he walked. When he sat down on the throne, he waved his hand to the people to take their seats.
The merchants didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of Fusi in Beizhen, so they frowned one by one and forced them to sit down.
"Rich businessmen in the capital, this official invited you to come, there is something I want you to help me with!" Yang Xiaoyu sat on the main seat, glanced at the merchants below, and said loudly.
When the businessmen heard Yang Xiaoyu's words, their faces turned bloodless with fright, and the Zhenfu Division asked them for help. You don't want their lives, do you?
In an instant, the lobby was silent, so quiet and terrifying that even the sound of breathing could be heard.
Yang Xiaoyu smiled, stood up and said: "In two days, it will be the Shangyuan Festival, and this official will organize the Lantern Festival at the behest of the emperor. can't hold a grand lantern festival for the emperor, and the official is sad day and night. Today, I occasionally have a wonderful feeling, thinking that you are all rich businessmen in the capital, and you can help this official, so the official is busy inviting you to the banquet, fortunately, you can still give the official face. Most of the people came, but only a few didn't know each other! At this point, Yang Xiaoyu's face was full of cold and cold, and the frightened bodies of the wealthy businessmen trembled and trembled.
There was a moment of silence in the lobby!
Yang Xiaoyu smiled again: "This time to organize the Lantern Festival. Whoever gives the most silver, the emperor will reward whoever has a treasure, and this treasure is made by the emperor himself. ”
At this time, the news that the carpenter emperor was doing carpenter work all day had not yet spread, and the rich merchants did not know what the emperor was doing all day.
However, when they all heard that there was a lot of silver, they could receive a reward from the emperor, and each merchant could not help but think about it in their hearts.
The merchants had no power in this era, the officials oppressed them, the gangs extorted them, the mountain bandits robbed them, and the dignitaries hated them.
If you can be rewarded by the emperor personally, it will not only be an honor, but also a kind of show-off, and those ruffians will not dare to blackmail them anymore in the future.
Slowly, the rich businessmen began to chatter, and the hall buzzed like bugs.
A wealthy businessman in his seventies stood up and asked, "My lord, I don't know how many taels of silver to donate to get the emperor's reward?" ”
Yang Xiaoyu smiled, he was worried that no one asked, and said: "The emperor has rewarded twelve treasures, each treasure has the same material, but the appearance is different, if twelve merchants donate 600,000 taels of silver, each person can get a treasure, of course, if someone can donate three million taels of silver, then these twelve treasures are all his!" ”
The merchants in the hall suddenly exploded, and some merchants who were pregnant with the emperor's treasure began to unite their allies, trying to find eleven people, and each of them paid 50,000 taels of silver to get a holy treasure.
How can the merchants, who are profitable, but also famous, not fight for such good things that fall on their heads?
The lobby was filled with chaos, like a vegetable market.
After half an hour, Yang Xiaoyu sat on the main seat and waved his hand.
Knock knock!
The cowhide drums erected at the two corners of the lobby suddenly sounded, and the dust on the beams of the shaking room fell like raindrops.
The merchants' legs trembled at the sudden sound of the drums, and their faces were frightened, and their hands covered their buzzing ears.
As soon as the drums stopped, the lobby was as quiet as ever.
Yang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Everyone, now you can tell the amount of silver donated, of course, the rich businessmen who can't get the emperor's reward, as long as each person donates 20,000 taels of silver, his name can be hung on the list of benevolent merchants and posted on the city wall of Wumen for the world to admire." ”
"My lord, what does the Ren Shang Bang mean?" A sixty-year-old businessman asked inexplicably. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)