"According to the order of His Royal Highness, on the occasion of this national crisis, all the brave and brave soldiers in Beijing must serve in the army, and there will be a reward of fifty taels of silver; And those who are skilled in martial arts, good at riding and archery, or proficient in manipulating firearms, will be awarded the post of Jinyi Weishi, and those who have official bodies will be immediately added to the rank of official......"

It's not just Wang Dou who is shouting, many people are shouting at this temporary vacated barracks location, and boxes of silver are also being pushed over; The official entered the knight to reward the silver, and the benefits that should be given were all enough, and with the white flowers of silver being lifted out one by one, the lid was opened, and the silver light was dazzling!

Seeing the silver, Li Guozhen was a little dumbfounded at this time, where did the silver come from? One brave dared to give fifty taels, and the more than 3,000 people he brought back immediately gave out 150,000 taels! Where did the household get the money?

They are all in the line of Jingshi nobles, and those who are directly in charge of the army have almost all become hereditary positions, whether Daming has money or not, at this point, they are very clear about them, and they don't care!

"Uncle Xiangcheng!" Wang Dou roared, "Give your people an order!" Don't you want to disobey His Highness's orders? Benjue has given Shang Fang the sword here! ”

Li Guozhen gasped, he even threatened him directly, looking at the murderous aura in the eyes of this unknown "champion Hou", Li Guozhen knew that he was probably not joking, but he also guessed that something might be wrong in the capital now!

I can't help but secretly hate Zhu Chunchen and the others, why didn't they give him any news, otherwise with these thousands of people, they wouldn't have fallen to this step!

However, he was not prepared at the beginning, and now he wants to resist, then it is a chaos, and he naturally knows very well what the consequences are, so he did not dare to resist the order, and hurriedly handed over his family to Wang Dou, and then was taken to see the "His Royal Highness", who else is in the Ming royal family?

Li Guozhen can't figure it out, isn't it the prince?

When passing by the imperial city, Li Guozhen saw a large number of brave Beijing divisions queuing up, the queue was very long and spectacular, and many soldiers were still going back and forth to maintain order.

What's going on? There are still people who come to serve as soldiers at this time! Could it be that the people of Beijing suddenly remembered the blessings of the Ming Dynasty in the past two hundred years?

With a stomach full of questions, Li Guozhen quickly rushed to the gate of the palace, but he didn't see the main owner immediately, but saw Zhu Chunchen, who was wearing armor at this time, but he was panting when he walked. The weight of dozens of catties is really not light, but you still have to wear it, because compared to the hard work of the moment, life is the most precious.

Although he was lucky not to be sent out to steal the camp the night before, he was not let go, and at this time, Yang Yi asked him to put on armor, take weapons, and patrol back and forth on a section of the city wall!

There is only an inspection, this is Yang Yi's order, not only Zhu Chunchen, but also some other nobles have now been arranged to fight, and there is no other right, only the right to die with the city.

Although the city walls have their own distribution, according to their ranks, they are far inferior to these nobles, but these people will not listen to them, because at this time, each section of the city wall has eunuchs and eunuchs from the imperial horse supervisor.

While these people were inspecting, they also had to loudly announce the good news that the Ming Dynasty, since the emperor, the crown prince, the nobles, etc., were all in battle to raise the army and issue heavy rewards!

If any of the nobles dared to escape, they would be dealt with in public according to the crime of escaping from the battle, and the nobles would be killed, not to mention the Ming army at the bottom.

Of course, now there are a lot of young and strong, and now there is no big war, the training occasions are changed to the city wall, everyone is in rotation, and there are many nobles in the Ming Dynasty, especially in Beijing, it is no problem for everyone to take shifts.

But Rao is like this, standing down for two hours, a person who has not trained for a long time has cramps in his legs and stomach, Zhu Chunchen just wandered to the front of the palace gate, there is no way, he wants to rest, Yang Yi does not give him time to rest at all, at this time, he happened to see Li Guozhen coming, Zhu Chunchen cried.

"Uncle Xiangcheng, it's good that you're here! Also wearing armor...... Great, substitute ...... I'm here for my brother. ”

As he spoke, Zhu Chunchen stopped at this time, gasping for breath, he was really tired, and now the harsh thing is that Yang Yi has collected the cattle in the city and used them uniformly, and the young and strong have to serve in the army to serve the country, so he has neither a carriage nor a sedan chairman.

"This, this, this...... What's going on? Li Guozhen looked at Zhu Chunchen in surprise and asked, "Why is Cheng Guogong dressed like this?" Do you want to go up to the city and kill the thieves? ”

"What kind of thief did you kill?" Zhu Chunchen wiped his tears, "It's all my brother's hard life, I was caught by His Royal Highness, what else can my brother do?" Don't you know, brother, I almost died......"

After explaining, Zhu Chunchen felt as if he had changed the day, the day before yesterday he was still gloating about those civil officials, but when he tasted it, he knew that it was too late to regret, in this city, there was no one who spoke for them, allowing Yang Yi to continue to squeeze these noble assets!

I don't want to hear about your suffering, Li Guozhen hurriedly changed the topic and asked: "When I entered the city just now, I saw this brave man queuing up all over the street, by the way, the Jingying and Jiading I brought back were also detained by that "champion Hou" with the order, what's going on?" ”

"Well, what else could be the matter?" Zhu Chunchen said with a sad face, "Under the heavy reward, there will be a brave man!" Give a reward of fifty taels of silver for nothing, and give those who can fight for what hereditary positions, and those who can fight or not, from today onwards, one or two silver will be given for one day of battle, and beheading will be counted separately, such a heavy reward is that there is no need to pull, and many people who ask for money and don't want to die, not to mention that it is now "fully mobilized". ”

"Give so much money? Where did the court get the money? Aren't the treasury and the treasury empty? ”

Li Guozhen once again stared at his eyes big and round, what Wang Dou said just now, he didn't believe it, but Zhu Chunchen also said so, he also believed it, but he couldn't think of where the money came from.

Zhu Chunchen looked at Li Guozhen, who knew nothing, a strange look flashed, pointed inward, gasped and said, "Go in, you'll know when you enter......

"Who is in charge now? Could it be the crown prince? Li Guozhen suddenly remembered a crucial question, when the Great Song Dynasty, the second emperor of Huiqin was a clear sign, Song Huizong Zhao Ji did not want to bear the name of destroying the country and losing the land, so he passed the throne to his son, this is a good way, Li Guozhen thought that this was the case now, after all, Zhu Youzhen seemed to be also a person who cared about reputation very much.

Zhu Chunchen didn't say it clearly at this time, "Well, you'll know when you go in." Because the gatekeeper next to him was looking at them, Zhu Chunchen was afraid that if he said it, he would provoke Li Guozhen to say something, and it would be bad for him.

"Oh, well, I have to go see Your Highness." Li Guozhen felt that he had noticed the truth, this must be the same as in the former Song Dynasty, thinking that there would be more than a hundred years after the Southern Crossing of the Great Song Dynasty, Li Guozhen was also relieved, but he also had to let his family go a few more, although there were family businesses outside and Nanjing, but most of his children were in the capital.

Thinking of this, he didn't have time to talk nonsense with Zhu Chunchen, turned his head and walked towards the road to the city, only halfway up the road, he saw officials and nobles wearing various colors of python robes queuing, and there were several eunuchs present to maintain order, and when he saw Li Guozhen coming up, a eunuch immediately stepped forward to stop him.

"His Royal Highness has ordered that the officials who come to donate military salaries will all line up in turn, and no one is allowed to cut in line!"

Li Guozhen almost suspected that he had heard it wrong, and asked the eunuch in front of him, "What did you say?" The officials lining up here are all here...... Donating money? ”

The eunuch looked at him arrogantly and nodded impatiently.

How is this possible!? When Li Guozhen was stunned, he suddenly heard someone shouting his name, and when he looked up, he saw Li Guorui, the Marquis of Wuqing, trotting down from the city tower with joy, followed by a eunuch.

Seeing Li Guozhen, Li Guorui smiled and saluted, "Uncle Xiangcheng, why are you here!" It's late......"

"Why are you late?" Li Guozhen was confused.

"If it's too late, I won't have the opportunity to donate military salaries and serve the country and be loyal!" Li Guorui smiled and took out a copy of the decree, "My brother has already obtained the decree of His Royal Highness, so we can arrange for the family to raise King Qin, and there will be a period later!" ”

As he spoke, he arched his hand at Li Guozhen and ran towards the city as if flying.

What's going on? Li Guozhen was confused, does this donation of military salaries have anything to do with King Qin?

And isn't it too late to hide from such a thing as donating military salaries? Why do you have to queue up? It's only been a few days since you left Beijing? Why don't these officials in the city love silver but only Daming?

couldn't understand the key, Li Guozhen didn't think about it, so he said to the eunuch who stopped him: "This official is the chief of the Beijing camp, Li Guozhen, the uncle of Xiangcheng, who has just returned from outside the city, and has urgent military affairs to report to His Highness." ”

As soon as he heard that there was urgent military affairs and the face of the red envelope, the eunuch no longer stopped Li Guozhen at this time, so he wanted to let him go, but the officials in line on the side were not happy.

"Can't let him pass!"

"Stop him......"

"Don't let him delay His Highness's time......"

"Yes, we still have to donate to serve the country!"

Li Guozhen only felt that his brain was not enough, what was going on? How could everyone be so brave in donating military salaries? Could it be that the people lining up here are all loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty? No, when the emperor asked everyone to donate a while ago, didn't everyone have any money?

Thinking of this, Li Guozhen found a civil official who was quite familiar with him among the officials waiting for donations, gave him a look, took a few steps back, and sure enough, the civil official also came over.

"Brother, why are you here? Are you here to donate your salary? ”

Just like in ancient times, there were 3,000 guests of Meng Weijun, and now Xungui is actually very communicative, this person has actually been mixed up under Li Guozhen, so he also owes a lot of favors, quite helplessly came over, heard Li Guozhen's words, he looked at it carefully, and then opened his mouth with righteous words: "General Rong, Xia Guan is the successor of Donglin, and has always taken the rise and fall of the world as his own responsibility. ”

Li Guozhen said blankly: "But brother, aren't you a Qing official?" When the Holy Lord asked hundreds of officials and nobles to donate money before, you still had to sell me the treasured ancient books? How do you have money today? ”

"yes? My lord, how come you are rich? Why don't you go back? There were people on the side who were immediately paying attention to them, and at this time they interjected.

"Why can't I have money?" The man glared at this time, "The official sold all the treasured ancient books for 5,000 taels of silver, and today they all donated to make up the salary!" ”

"Ancient books? In the current chaos, who still buys ancient books? ”

Zhou Zerui said: "The official sold the ancient books to Gong Xiaosheng. ”

"Won't it?" At this time, an official in front of the queue heard this, and suddenly interjected in a strange way, "This official is only in line with Gong Xiaosheng, he said that he is also a Qing official, and he has no money to donate, but for the sake of loyalty and patriotism, he had to change Mrs. Hengbo for money." ”

What the? Gong Dingyu sold Gu Hengbo!?

Li Guozhen was so surprised that he could put his fist in it with his mouth open!

Gu Hengbo, one of Qin Huai's Bayan, she and Gong Xiaosheng, one of Jiangzuo's three talents, are a good story of Qinglou, how could this be sold in a blink of an eye? Moreover, Gong Dingyu sold Gu Hengbo for money for loyalty and patriotism, this, this thing doesn't sound like it's true!

What happened in this Jingshi City? What the hell happened to these officials? Why are you so patriotic and loyal?

I haven't seen each other for a few days, why don't they want money or beautiful women, so they are determined to be loyal ministers?

Of course Gong Dingyu will not sell Gu Hengbo, how can he be willing? There is true love between him and Gu Hengbo, and he is not so poor that he can't take out two thousand taels of gold, and Gu Hengbo can also take out this money from his own private house.

But he didn't say that, how could he explain that he was a gentleman of Donglin with clean sleeves and noble character, and he was so rich that he could take out two thousand taels of gold to donate filial piety, so when he was queuing up on the horse road, Gong Dingyu casually made up a story, and as a result, the eunuch next to him heard it and went to report to Yang Yi.

And since Yang Yi learned about this, he immediately asked people to invite Gong Dingyu in.

"Gong Qing is really a rare loyal minister of my Ming Dynasty!" Yang Yi said with a touched face at this time, "This palace has also heard the good story between you and Gu Hengbo, but you can't let such a woman live in the Qinglou again, so let's do it, two thousand taels of gold, this palace is out, so I will send someone to redeem it, and now that the palace is free, let's live in the palace temporarily."

After losing the lady and folding the money, the two thousand taels of gold were originally their own, and they were returned to their own hands after changing hands, but the lady was gone.

However, he didn't dare to say it if he refused, saying it was a big crime of bullying the king, whoever asked Yang Yi just now if it was true, he said it was true!

"Gong Qing is so good?"

"Minister...... Obey the order! ”

His heart was dripping with blood, but he had to agree, at this time he was very angry with his pretense and high demeanor, and he couldn't get off the stage if he talked too much......

"Okay, now allow Gong Qing and his son to go to Jiangnan to invite King Qin's army to rescue the Ming crisis!"