"Mother, didn't you say that Your Majesty made a lot of money by raiding your house some time ago, maybe, maybe this time you won't let us raise donations again, after all, Your Majesty just made a fortune, and in less than half a month, the summer tax and silver collected in various places should also be paid.

Besides, we feel so embarrassed to pretend to be poor, every time we only raise three or two thousand taels of silver, our family is not unable to pay, why bother to pretend to be poor so hard, not to mention that our family can't pretend to be poor, the specific situation when the family is separated has already been spread, at that time you also gave my sixteen cousins each a thousand taels of silver, how long has it been, it said that if you want to raise donations, you can't even take out three or two thousand taels of silver, who believes this! ”

There are such things as fundraising, from the family to repair the archway ancestral hall, to the lack of money in the treasury, and what major things should be done quickly. However, generally speaking, many people are willing to pay for the things that involve the family face in the form, but everyone is not happy about the latter.

The reason is very simple, those donations involving the face of the family are all money spent on their own families, and they have more money, and they also have face in the family, and even their ancestral tablets can be placed in a good position, but if the treasury is short of money to donate, it is really no good, unless it is said that it can donate hundreds of thousands of taels at once, and it enters the eyes of the emperor, but no one is so stupid, how good it is to keep such a large amount of money for their own family, this donation is really a meat bun beating a dog, and there is no return.

Therefore, when most officials and nobles meet the emperor to raise donations, they will go with the flow, not seeking brilliance, but asking for no fault, the fifth grade official will donate five hundred taels, then I will donate four hundred taels and four hundred and fifty taels for the sixth grade, anyway, it is less than Shangguan.

Their marquis mansion is the highest level of title under the prince and duke, if it is converted to the official position, it can be regarded as a super product, so the amount to be donated each time is naturally a lot, but this is really not so painful, so it is a little distressing, but it can indeed be obtained.

"You don't care if others believe it or not.

Every time when fundraising, those officials and nobles don't cry poor, Yin Guogong and his ancestors were the first to enter the treasury of the former dynasty, almost half of the treasury of the former dynasty was taken away by his family, and then their family is still small, the last time they raised donations, they also cried and cried that their family was poor, and they couldn't afford to eat, and then they sold a lot of things, and they only scraped together three thousand taels, you are good, don't say anything, just so readily handed over two thousand five hundred taels of silver.

This is a lot of offense.

Listen to me, this year you will just cry poor with the crowd, if you have the ability, your mother and I can also make up more than 100,000 taels of silver for you to send to you, and give you a blue eye in front of the emperor, but you don't know anything, it's a waste to do more, just make do with it. ”

The original body wants to be an official or anything, just to make money, so Qiao Mu naturally won't have nothing to worry about other things, I just hope that her son can be in front of the empty lord with peace of mind, don't take the lead in anything, just live comfortably with the flow, and the sea trade can be carried out slowly in private, not in a hurry.

"Okay, I'll do it."

Wen Qilian replied with some frustration, he didn't know those people were acting, he knew, this was something that everyone knew, but he couldn't pull off that face, so he didn't follow the crowd to learn from other ministers and nobles.

This can't be blamed on him, the original body, including the original husband, is a person who wants face, if the original body is shameless, how can there be basically no money left after the child's wedding. The nobles of this year, but all those who are cheeky to death, the family is basically not rich, and only the really shameless can save money. There is a certain truth in the saying that people are shameless and invincible in the world, and the original body is really to the last resort to realize this.

After Wen Qilian returned from Qiaomu, he began to pack up some useless and dilapidated things at home, and piled them all up in a warehouse, waiting for the above news, if it said that he wanted to raise donations, then he would pawn those things out quickly and cheaply, and if there was no news, then throw them in the warehouse.

Originally, Wen Qilian thought that the emperor had just received so much silver some time ago, so he would not need to raise donations for disaster relief, but who would have thought that the day after his pile of things were ready, the news of the rebellion of Nanyang New South and the invasion of Lingnan and other places spread to the capital, so the money in the treasury was naturally not enough, after all, disaster relief and rebellion were all things that had to be carried out quickly, and they could not be delayed until the summer tax and silver were collected.

Therefore, the order to raise donations was naturally issued quickly, and Wen Qilian had no choice but to follow his mother's instructions and start pawning the pile of broken things that were cleaned up. and used extremely poor acting skills to perform crying poorly.

I have to say that although his acting skills are very clumsy, because there are more poor officials and nobles, it does not seem particularly abrupt, but there is a sense of harmony that is clear to everyone, which is also what Qiao Mu wants to see, and following the crowd is the best way to hide and be low-key.

Because crying poor is already a regular practice, and it is indeed necessary to hurry up with the silver for disaster relief and rebellion, so everyone did not waste too much time, and after crying for a while, they all took out some silver very happily, and put together a piecemeal of 1.8 million taels of silver, which plus the more than 5 million taels that Emperor Ming Ling copied some time ago, is more than enough to deal with the two things needed at present.

With money, many things are easy to do, and even though the disaster relief funds were still stripped of several layers of skin when they were distributed, nearly half of them were sent to the disaster area, so the disaster situation was quickly calmed down, at least it did not cause any major crisis, let alone cause a peasant uprising.

However, the rebellion of the new south has not been calmed down, and even more and more trouble, originally only on the border side, but then somehow, each other used more and more troops, to the end of the year, the new south has already captured eighteen cities, provoked the capital even to the end of the year, the overall atmosphere is also very grim, no matter inside and outside the palace, everyone dare not laugh, Emperor Ming Ling often roared in the court, reprimanded those generals for being useless, reprimanded the civil officials for not being able to provide food and grass in time, and so on.

Fortunately, Qiao Mu and their Xuanhe Hou Mansion have basically left the military attache circle, and they have not taken up a real position in the court, so they have perfectly avoided this limelight, and the days are still as usual.