Chapter 236: Organizing Lanterns (4)
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Back to Fuchu.
He wanted to sleep with Shen Mengxin, but he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to control it!
In the end, Yang Xiaoyu tiptoed back and forth to Mingyue's small courtyard.
The last time I came, because I was too indulgent, and because of the bright moon. The groan was so loud that Ling Lu heard the clues!
Fortunately, Mingyue was strong in martial arts, with smart ears and eyes, and when she heard someone in front of the door, she hurriedly asked him to stop, and after Ling Lu left, the two of them continued.
At this time, except for the guards, everyone else in the house had already slept.
Yang Xiaoyu came to the small courtyard, gently pushed open the door, and came to Mingyue's bed in the dark. At the moment, he impatiently took off his clothes and got into Mingyue's quilt.
Not a little time, huh. The groans sounded slowly, mixed with cries of pain.
Early in the morning of the second day.
Yang Xiaoyu hurriedly dressed and left the house.
The day after tomorrow is the Shangyuan Festival, Yang Xiaoyu did not dare to delay, and went to Beizhen Fusi early in the morning to deal with official business.
Early in the morning, some merchants brought silver tickets and cash to Beizhen Fusi to hand them in.
A cadre of scribes was busy registering and making books, counting silver tickets and cash.
By noon, more than 3 million taels of silver tickets had been collected, and more than 50,000 cash tickets had been collected!
Of course, one of the Yangzhou salt merchants alone took out three million taels of silver tickets.
Yang Xiaoyu was true to his word, and took out the twelve wooden figures made by the carpenter emperor and rewarded him.
The salt merchant surnamed Huang spent three million taels of silver to buy twelve wooden figures, but there was no displeasure on his face, he was used to seeing gold, silver, jewelry, and Xi Shizhen, at this time, the wooden man made by the carpenter emperor himself, in his eyes, it was like the most beautiful collection of treasures.
Yang Xiaoyu sighed in his heart. Rich people collect the wooden figures made by the emperor in his spare time as treasures, and those who have no money take the wooden figures made by the emperor and throw them away casually, this is the vision.
A man who can see decades or even centuries, he will not discard wooden people, because these wooden people are to him. Aside for a hundred or two years, he was worth far more than three million taels of silver.
Yang Xiaoyu sat in the hall, looking at the silver that the riders brought up from time to time, and his eyes were glazed when he saw it.
In the afternoon, Yang Xiaoyu decided not to look at these yellow and white things anymore, summoned Huang Zhongwei, asked him to get a large piece of cloth, and wrote the three words of the benevolent merchant list on the top, and wrote the name of the merchant who donated 20,000 taels of silver below.
Get it done. He came to the Lantern Market with his guards.
There are about more than three miles of road in the lamp market, which is the lantern place opened up when the Ming Dynasty opened up the country.
Every Shangyuan Festival, there will be a large number of people in the capital gathered here, and they will crowd together to watch juggling, lanterns, and make a lot of fun.
This year, the Ministry of Rites did not plan to open the lantern market, but Yang Xiaoyu was ordered by the Holy Lord to organize the lantern festival, and they still sent someone to open the lantern market.
When Yang Xiaoyu came, he happened to meet someone from the Ministry of Rites arguing with Zhou Heguang.
The necks of the two sides are thick and red. Zhou Heguang almost drew his sword to meet each other.
Yang Xiaoyu came down and asked the reason. I couldn't smile bitterly, it turned out that the people of the Ministry of Rites thought that the people of the Beizhen Fusi were too domineering, everything in the Lamp Market was originally owned by them, and now they were all taken over by the people of the Beizhen Fusi, how did they give an account to the Ministry of Rites?
This question involves the Ministry of Rites, and Yang Xiaoyu did not answer it clearly. Only let Zhou Heguang continue to take people to inspect the equipment of the lantern market, and let the officials of the lantern market report back to the Ministry of Rites, so that they could quickly send someone to prepare the lanterns.
When the imperial court puts lanterns, it is natural for the people from the Ministry of Rites to come forward, which is this. Yang Xiaoyu is not easy to take care of.
Fortunately, the people in the Ministry of Rites were quite reasonable, knowing that it was the emperor's intention, and they didn't need the Ministry of Rites to pay two pieces of silver, so they happily sent more than 400 etiquette officials over.
Yang Xiaoyu asked these officials to quickly purchase things and arrange the lamp market according to the arrangement of previous years, and the silver taels needed were all allocated by the Fusi of Beizhen.
After arranging some trivial matters, Yang Xiaoyu took advantage of the fact that the sky was not dark and the palace gate was not closed, and hurriedly strode towards the palace.
For him, he dangles in front of the little carpenter emperor every day, and over time, the carpenter emperor will remember his goodness.
After all, the carpenter emperor attaches great importance to feelings, and as time goes by, he will slowly be unable to leave himself.
At that time, he will be able to rely on the trust of the carpenter emperor to do some great things!
When he came to the Qianqing Palace, the carpenter emperor was catching rice and hiding with the little eunuchs, and when he heard Yang Xiaoyu coming, he hurriedly announced him in and asked, "Yang Aiqing, how are the preparations for the Lantern Festival?" ”
"Back to the emperor, the minister has already ordered his subordinates to prepare, and it is estimated that it will be ready tomorrow night!" Yang Xiaoyu replied.
"Yang Aiqing, how many people will there be in the Lantern Festival?" The Carpenter Emperor asked suspiciously.
"Many, many, many, according to the minister's guess, there are probably tens of thousands of people!" Yang Xiaoyu smiled bitterly.
"Tens of thousands, so few!"
The carpenter emperor waved his hand dissatisfied and summoned the little eunuch, and ordered: "Spread the decree, the day after tomorrow, the Lantern Festival of the Shangyuan Festival, all the officials of the seven grades of the capital will come to enjoy the lanterns, and the officials of the third grade or above will bring their families, and all the people of the city will go to the lantern market, and I will have fun with the people and celebrate with the whole world!" ”
"The emperor can't, the place of the lamp market is small, once there are too many people coming, there will be assassins mixed in, and then there will be people who are not good for the emperor, please take the holy body as the priority!" Yang Xiaoyu was startled and hurriedly replied.
"You always say that someone wants to be bad for me, but isn't it good for me?" The Carpenter Emperor shouted dissatisfiedly.
"Your Majesty, what the minister said is true, anti-thieves in Shandong, Shanxi and other places are becoming more and more rampant, they always want to be unfavorable to you, the emperor must strengthen precautions, and must not let the anti-thieves have a chance to succeed!" Yang Xiaoyu looked loyal, knelt down and spoke.
The carpenter emperor just loves to play, so lively, at this moment he saw Yang Xiaoyu kneeling on the ground, busy helping him up, and said: "Yang Aiqing is loyal to me, I believe what Yang Aiqing said!" ”
"Chen Cheng is scared!" Yang Xiaoyu saluted.
The carpenter emperor shook his head and suddenly asked, "Yang Aiqing, can I take the queen and the nurse to enjoy the lanterns together?" ”
"The queen is the mother of a dynasty, and the Holy Lady has served you for many years, of course you can bring it!" Yang Xiaoyu thought to herself that she had never seen Zhang Yan's beauty. Color, such a good opportunity at this time, when the eyes are feasted.
The Carpenter Emperor listened to Yang Xiaoyu's words and laughed heartily, as if he was very happy to be able to bring Zhang Yan and Ke Yinyue.
It can be seen that it is true that the carpenter emperor attaches great importance to feelings.
"Your Majesty, the rich businessmen in the capital heard that you wanted to enjoy the lanterns, in order to make you smile, they donated a total of more than three million taels of silver, and now all of them are placed in the Fusi Yamen of Beizhen, and the cost of throwing away the lanterns is thrown, and the minister has roughly calculated that he can still save more than two million taels of silver!" Yang Xiaoyu arched his hand.
The carpenter emperor did not have much concept of silver, as far as he knew, silver was a household business, and the ministers were arguing all day long that there was no silver, that there was no military salary, that there was no way to reward the sergeants, and that there was no relief for the victims, and he only had a vague impression of these things, so he did not care much about silver.
"More than two million taels of silver, what does Yang Aiqing plan to do with it?" The Carpenter Emperor asked blandly.
"Your Majesty, these silvers are honored by the merchants, how can the ministers have the courage to deal with them privately!" Yang Xiaoyu said busily.
The carpenter emperor frowned slightly, and said: "The rest of the silver will be given to the household, they are arguing for silver all day long, and my ears hurt when they quarrel!" ”
Yang Xiaoyu was slightly surprised, last time he took more than 10,000 pieces of silver, the little emperor laughed heartily, why two million taels of silver today, the little emperor gave it to the household without blinking an eyelid, he should have reported less.
"Your Majesty, it's not early, the minister will retire first!" Yang Xiaoyu glanced at the sky outside, and when he saw the dusk descending on the earth, he hurriedly said loudly.
The carpenter little emperor knew that when the night fell, the palace gate would be closed, and the people outside would not be able to enter, and the people inside would not be able to get out without a hand, so he nodded and signaled that Yang Xiaoyu could go out.
Yang Xiaoyu didn't linger, bowed his hand slightly towards the carpenter emperor, and retreated out of the main hall of the Qianqing Palace.
On the way back, he kept looking at the buildings on the left and right, it was really worthy of the royal residence, the pavilions and pavilions were endless, and the mighty guards on both sides stood with guns, and the end was majestic.
Back in the house, Yang Xiaoyu sat quietly in the study, thinking about the matters that should be paid attention to during the Shangyuan Festival the day after tomorrow, the safety of the emperor has always been the responsibility of General Jinyiwei Dahan, and Jinyiwei has a servant who is responsible for the safety of driving and the emperor's travel.
He is not worried about this, but if someone disturbs the lanterns and disturbs the saints, the court will inevitably punish him for a crime of negligence, and he will be demoted to a lower official or dismissed from his post and investigated. (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......)