Chapter 649: Scavenge Everything
It can only spread to a few surrounding cities.
For example, Taihe City, such as Fengguang City.
Although they are not as good as Chudu, they are also at the forefront of the entire Great Chu, of course, they are mainly close to Chu.
As for these people's reselling of gold and silver, does Lin Hong, as the Emperor of Chu, know about it?
Nature knows.
Although Lin Hong hated these big chaebols for harming the currency market of Da Chu, after it was disordered, he wished that the ten major families would quickly spit out the silver, at least to stabilize the current situation.
He just wished that the royal family had no money now, otherwise, he would also want to loot some of it.
And what about the royal family's money? Of course, he took the lead in losing out.
Of course, taking the lead is not how great they are, but that once the compensation is not enough, it will be their Great Chu royal family, especially Lin Hong himself, who will be miserable.
The emergence of the ten major families and some speculators has prevented Da Chu's currency market from completely collapsing.
But the fact that it did not collapse does not mean that the court can loot much silver.
Among the top ten families who have the most cash in their hands, there is no play here.
And the people who are the easiest to collect, even if they collect everything that can be collected, they can't collect much silver, so they can only use women to arrive.
Even so, there was still a huge gap from the amount demanded by the Wei State.
In this way, the imperial court can only continue to fight wits and courage with the families or merchants other than the ten major families.
If they can't get together the money, the first to suffer, in addition to their royal family, is this group of courtiers, who are powerful businessmen.
Because, the ten major families, the Wei people dare not move, and the people at the bottom of Dachu can't scrape much oil, can't they catch this group of people to scrape?
Therefore, they all wanted to meet the requirements of the Wei people as much as possible.
In order to gather this gold and silver, the courtiers of Great Chu were unprecedentedly united.
It can be milder in the early stage, but it will be strong directly in the later stage.
Emperor Chu directly issued an edict and forcibly demanded that the public and private, magnates, and wealthy families in the city hand over enough gold, silver, and silk according to the strength of each family, otherwise they would directly raid the house, and not a single child should be left.
Of course, in order to be as 'fair' as possible, it also includes the strongest families such as the Ten Great Families and the Zheng Family.
However, everyone knows that for the top ten families, it all means something, which is like the Zheng family, and directly peels off several layers of skin for them.
This is still for the sake of the imperial court still needing them to stabilize grain prices, otherwise, they can take the opportunity to uproot the Zheng family.
But even so, it was still not enough, so I simply let a few nearby cities do the same.
That's not enough, isn't that?
Each one scrapes another layer.
until this amount is completely satisfied.
Seeing that the appointed day of the Wei people was coming soon.
But the gap is still huge.
The courtiers of Great Chu also began their final madness.
Directly pull the soldiers stationed outside the city to confront the Wei army into these cities, and almost conduct a carpet search.
Even these Chu emperors and hundreds of officials who made decisions, in the end, they selflessly tossed themselves and other powerful people to the point that their only dignity was lost.
Emperor Chu not only emptied his own private treasury, but also emptied the gold and silver treasures of the entire palace.
The same is true of the courtiers and magnates, gold and silver treasures and women, who are constantly gathering out.
Whether it is a wife or a concubine, a mother or a daughter, they will all be given away.
Dare to commit suicide? Then let your young children and old mothers be buried together.
The powerful and the rich are like this, how can the emperor not take the lead?
Naturally, he leads by example.
In the palace, Emperor Chu finally decided to send out the concubines and princesses who had been redeemed at a high price, as well as some palace maids who served them.
Would they like to?
Who would want to!
They can only hide everywhere, even if they may run into those Wei people who will trample on them at any time, it is better than being sent away directly.
After all, there is still hope for the former to escape.
But how can these weak women be the opponents of the forbidden army with high martial arts?
How can they escape the eyes of the princes, grandsons and eunuchs who are watchdogs?
In the end, of course, one by one was found out.
Especially the nobles in the palace, a person has at least 20,000 or 50,000 taels of silver, at this time, these silver are even more valuable to Emperor Chu.
If you want to say, even if you want to be a eunuch, how can these princes and grandsons do things that are eyeliner? Those are their elders, sisters, wives and concubines, and children!
is because, if they can't get together this money, they will not only lose their status as nobles, but also become slaves of the country.
They have endured the humiliation, abandoned the dignity of men, and sent their women out to survive.
How can you women still think of running away so ignorant of our pain that you have to endure such a great humiliation as an iron-blooded man? It's just going to Wei to pay off a debt, is there a great pain for us?
In order to make up this gold and silver, we didn't even leave a palace maid to serve, only some rough eunuchs were left to serve, and they were restless about food and clothing all day long, and even many things were reduced to doing it themselves, what kind of grievance is this!
On this day, in the palace, which had been quiet for a long time, there were pieces of crying again.
It turned out that today was the last two days of the deadline given by Wei.
The women in the palace who are to be sent to pay off the debts have also been chosen.
said that it was a good choice, but in fact, only a few women who could be counted on one hand were left, and the rest were all out.
Outside the empty hall, a woman kneeling or sitting on the ground was crying.
Except for the group of men who were suffering from 'great humiliation' who came to see them off for the last time, it was the forbidden army that surrounded them to prevent them from escaping.
Listening to the cries and cries for help coming from the mouths of the women, the group of people standing to see them off were either moved and weeping, or their faces were full of grief or indifference.
There were their mothers, their wives, their wives, their daughters.
They were crying out to them.
Finally, someone couldn't help it, and turned his head and knelt down to the most noble man in Da Chu.
"Father, son..."
It's just that before he could say a few words, he saw a middle-aged man in a Ming Huang dragon robe looking at him expressionlessly, "Either stand up, or go to Wei with your mother." ”
There is no third option.
The young man looked at his mother, who was crying on the ground, and looked at his mother with the same expectation, but finally lowered his head and stood back in his place.
The group of people standing were men, except for a young woman and a middle-aged woman.
Seeing that the time for them to leave was approaching, and the group of people standing remained indifferent, the women grew to despair.
At this moment, a female voice with an extremely hoarse voice came from a distance.
If it hadn't been for a long time crying, the voice wouldn't have been hoarse like this.
That female voice gave this group of women a little more hope.
Of course, it's just a little bit.