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Chapter 827: Worrying about money

There was a brief silence in the meeting hall for a moment, and then there was a burst of earth-shattering cheers, Yan Nanfei looked up to the sky and smiled, Luo Daoming even threw out a large stack of copywriting in his hand, and snow-white papers flew all over the sky, Li Muzhi's lips trembled, and he couldn't speak in a trembling voice, but his eyes were full of tears. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Qingfeng slowly sat down on the chair, exhaled a long breath, and looked relieved.

Among the several senior members, only Lu Yiming remained calm.

"Everyone, everyone!" He banged on the table and shouted, "Silence, silence." ”

Li Qing is not in Dingzhou, and the political facts in Dingzhou are mainly based on Lu Yiming, and there is originally a clear breeze, but compared with before, Qingfeng rarely interferes in government affairs, even if she is asked, she just said lightly that the adults are in charge. As soon as Lu Yiming spoke, the chamber finally quieted down, but the joy on his face couldn't be suppressed.

The hall knows the importance of this war too well, although it has always been thought that this is a battle to be won, but the war is always ever-changing, no one dares to be ten percent sure, and now the good news finally came, for several months, a big stone that pressed on everyone's hearts finally fell to the ground, how not to like it. The defeat of the 200,000 elites of the southern army means that the last strength of King Ning has also been defeated by Dingzhou, and it is almost a foregone conclusion that the south will fall into the hands of Dingzhou.

"Everyone, Weizhou victory, I know everyone is anxious to celebrate, but we still have a lot of things to do, please calm down, after these things, I have a treat tonight." Lu Yiming said loudly.

The crowd burst into laughter.

"Everyone, Weizhou is a great victory, but we must also see that the Hu Tian Group will take advantage of the situation to pursue and annihilate the elite of the Southern Army, and will surely go deep into Quanzhou, Liaozhou, and Shenzhou, and the army will leap thousands of miles, and we must supply the heavy materials needed, and we must send these things to the army in an endless stream, otherwise, once the army cannot be helped, it will inevitably stop the pursuit, and the fleeing Southern Army will pour more into Quancheng and Yingcheng, which will bring unnecessary danger to the lord. If the dog is in a hurry and wants to jump off the wall, these southern troops will inevitably attack the lord frantically, and everyone should not forget that the lord only has 20,000 horses. ”

Lu Yiming's words calmed down the ecstatic crowd, yes, the southern army was defeated, but the southern army has not been completely eliminated, and the lord of Quancheng and Yingcheng will inevitably face a crazy attack by the enemy.

"Lord Lu is right!" Two abnormal blushes appeared on Qingfeng's pale face, "The Supervision Yuan sent back the news a few days ago, the Tuojiang River thawed, and a large amount of ice was flowing down the river, because although we conquered Anshun Port and the Nanjun Water Village on the Tuojiang River, the warships still could not enter the Tuojiang River, and the Marine Corps of the Navy Division could only assault from the shore, and could not use the waterway, so the supplies and reinforcements supporting the general would not be able to reach Quancheng and Yingcheng in time, so if the two armies of Lu Tian could destroy one more enemy in the process of pursuit, the pressure on the general in Quancheng would be less." ”

Li Muzhi asked: "Qingfeng, when will Tuojiang start to be used?" ”

Qingfeng said: "It will take at least half a month for the warship to enter the Tuojiang River, and it will be after one month to reach Quancheng." ”

Li Muzhi nodded, if the southern army ran all the way, it would take less than a month to reach Quancheng and Yingcheng.

"Fu Zhengqing!" Lu Yi shouted.

"Shousuke-sama!" Fu Zhengqing, the head of the household, stood up.

"How much more money can the household come up with?"

"Lord Shoufu, the household department returned a total of five million taels of debts from the previous year, and allocated one million taels of silver for spring ploughing to buy seeds, ploughing cattle, farm tools, etc. to cope with the upcoming spring ploughing, and allocated 500,000 taels of disaster relief expenses to the whole state and other underground, Weizhou started fighting, and the war in Minzhou was also imminent, and the silver was spent like flowing water, and the household ministry and committee really had no money, and last year's New Year, the subordinate officials in Dingzhou did not pay rewards, and this year, I have already owed all the officials two months' salaries."

Fu Zhengqing's words are like a scoop of cold water poured on everyone's heads, there is no silver, what can I do?

Fu Zhengqing looked at everyone's ugly faces, and the people who were originally ecstatic were poured with a scoop of cold water by themselves, and the awkwardness in their hearts can be imagined. I couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in my heart.

Lu Yiming was silent for a moment, "I know that it is difficult for the household, but no matter what, we must not drag the front line back because of money, Master Fu, what can you do?" ”

Fu Zhengqing gritted his teeth and said: "The salaries of the officials can be owed first, presumably the officials under the jurisdiction of the state will not have any thoughts about this, second, the soldiers' military affairs?" ”

"This won't work!" Qingfeng, Li Muzhi, Luo Daoming, Yan Nanfei and others shook their heads together. "You can owe anything, but at this time, you must not owe Jun Chen. Master Fu, there are still some properties under my Supervision Yuan, and I can give you one million taels of silver if I make up for it. ”

"I can take out 100,000!" Lu Yiming also said.

"I'll give 100,000 too." Luo Daoming said loudly.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am poor, and I have tried my best, but I can only get 20,000 taels of silver." Yan Nanfei smiled bitterly.

"I'll give 200,000 taels!" Li Mu's way.

Everyone in the hall was gossiping, and in a moment, they made up two million taels of silver.

Fu Zhengqing spread his hands, "My lords, don't talk about other places, the tens of thousands of troops in Weizhou alone consume more than 200,000 taels of silver every day, and these two million taels of silver can only last for ten days." And that's not even counting some of the other normal consumptions. ”

"Fundraising!" Lu Yiming said: "To raise donations from the people, you can raise as much as you can, second, immediately issue three years of Dingzhou bonds, Dingzhou businessmen have money, in addition to raising donations from them, but also to encourage them to buy Dingzhou bonds, we pay one percent of the interest." ”

"Ichisei?" Fu Zhengqing was dumbfounded, "This, this is too high, right?" In the past, Dingzhou bonds were only with an interest of three points, one percent, how can we afford to pay it in the future? ”

Qingfeng stood up, "You are confused, if it is not higher than the income of these merchants doing business, how can they be willing to buy a large amount of debts, as for if they can't afford it, those merchants must not be confused, the general will take the south, and it will sweep the Central Plains, the Son of Heaven is rich all over the world, will he not be able to pay back the money?" Even if it doesn't come out for a while, there will always be a day when it will be paid off, and we will first get through the current crisis and win the battle in the south. ”

"Yes!"

"Master Fu, I know you are embarrassed, but no matter what method you use, within ten days, you will have to raise 10 million taels of silver in advance. Even if the people in the household department don't eat or sleep, they have to accomplish this goal. ”

"Yes, Shousuke-sama!"

"Lord Ren!" Lu Yiming turned to Ren Ruqing, who was the secretary of the Ministry of Industry at the time.

"The subordinates are here!"

"During this period of time, you have to personally supervise the Dingzhou Military Factory and all kinds of material manufacturers, and the materials needed for the front line must be shipped on time, and the First Military Factory does not need to settle with the household department for the time being, and all the money for raw materials will be greeted by those merchants who supply them, and they will be owed first."

"My subordinates understand!"

"If you don't know anything, you can just say hello to the Supervision Yuan!" The breeze is eerie and authentic.

The people in the council hall didn't even bother to eat lunch, gathered together, and discussed all the ways to get money, as the so-called solution is that people come up with it, and there are many people who have great power, and after discussing for a few hours, a complete set of plans was taken out, and just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, an attendant walked in.

"Meet your lords!" The chamberlain saluted the crowd with a duck's voice.

Lu Yiming frowned, this chamberlain was King Zhou's personal eunuch. "Why are you here, is there something wrong with His Majesty the Emperor? Oh, I was about to enter the palace to congratulate His Majesty the Emperor, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has won a great victory in Weizhou. ”

The emperor in Dingzhou is just a pretense, the biggest use is to subdue the hearts of the world's scholars, suppress Qingliu's antipathy to Li Qing, with its orthodox name of resisting Great Chu, in other aspects, the ministers of Dingzhou have nothing to say about it, it is such a great good news to come back, and no one thought of reporting it to King Zhou for the first time.

"Your Majesty already knows!" The chamberlain did not have the slightest pride of the emperor's spokesperson, and said softly: "Princess Regent Princess Yanran has just entered the palace and told His Majesty the Emperor about it, His Majesty the Emperor is overjoyed, knowing that Dingzhou is short of money, His Majesty has decided to allocate two million taels of silver from the palace." ”

When I was sleepy, someone sent a pillow, everyone was overjoyed, King Zhou brought a lot of money from Taiwan Island, but everyone hindered Princess Yanran's face, it was not easy to beg, but King Zhou knew and was interested, two million taels of silver, and the front line could last for ten days!

Lu Yiming stood up and arched his hand: "Please go back and thank Your Majesty for me, and say that I will finish handling the official business at hand, and then enter the palace to congratulate His Majesty the Emperor." ”

"Yes, Shousuke-sama!" The chamberlain saluted the crowd and turned and walked out.

In the palace, Princess Yanran was accompanying King Zhou to dinner.

"Yanran, two million taels of silver, this is half of my belongings!" King Zhou was a little painful.

Yan Ran smiled and sandwiched a chopstick green vegetables for King Zhou, and on the dinner table, most of them were vegetarians, only three or two vegetables.

"Father, the treasury of Dingzhou is empty at the moment, and it is better to take this money to do something big than if you put it in the treasury to get moldy, besides, you made a great effort when Dingzhou was in difficulty, how could the regent not remember?" Yanran said.

King Zhou sighed, "It's really not a taste to be an emperor, Yanran, you have to fight for anger in your belly, Li Qing already has two sons and a daughter, you must give birth to a son-in-law as soon as possible, and your status will be as stable as Mount Tai!" ”

Yan Ran's face turned red for a while, "Father? ”

King Zhou waved his hand and said, "This is a major matter related to you, me and the Zhou Dynasty clan!" Yanran, the sooner the better, the sooner the better! ”

"I see, Father!"