Now there is a lot of silver on hand, and there is more than enough to repair the river, and there will be a lot left.

But this Lu County is such a big territory, if you want to do things in the future, it is indispensable to take silver, this time the opportunity is just right, of course, you have to take more silver from those people's hands, and grab it in your own hands, then it will be safe.

This time they took out the money very happily, and it is not necessary to ask them to take the money in the future, this truth is still known.

Chen Qiuchi can't be here all the time, and he will go back to Hengling in a few days, and when he leaves, can those people still have this face?

And he has already thought of it, but he is afraid that as soon as Chen Qiuchi leaves, someone will deal with him, take out the silver, although it is not painful, but he is used to picking the door, taking so much at once, he is still forced to take it, can he feel comfortable?

He can't take care of the rest, he wants to do practical things for the people, he can't do it without money, relying on him and Siqi, he can't raise so much silver, so he can only take this trick.

If someone reports to the above that he is corrupt and bribery, then he has to explain it well, in fact, it is very risky, and he has no one to protect him, in case he is imprisoned because of this? There's nowhere to make sense.

As soon as the eighth day of the first lunar month passed, Tiankuo asked everyone in the yamen to come back, and immediately arranged for fundraising.

All the rich people at this scene have come to the house, of course, they know that they will raise donations after the year, and when they leave, they also said that they will prepare the silver when they go back, and they will definitely support it when the time comes.

Chen Qiuchi brought his brothers to help, who would dare not give face?

Chen Qiuchi delivered a message to his hometown a few days ago, asking all the brothers under him to come here, there are twenty or thirty people, all of them have big shoulders and round waists, and they look weird, and they can't scare people?

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Tiankuo asked people to move two large boxes at the gate of the county government, and people soon came.

Of course, Master Lin took the lead, he knew that other wealthy families in the county had also gone to the Gu family, and he was a little angry in his heart, but he still didn't say anything, if he didn't let him grab the jackpot on this day, he wouldn't let those people go.

Master Lin acquiesced in his heart, the three thousand taels of silver were privately given to Zhixian, and he accepted it himself, and today he took out another five thousand taels to donate, which made an appearance in front of the people, and let Gu Zhixian see his sincerity, he must not be looking for trouble in the future, and the grievances with Chen Qiuchi are estimated to be settled.

But he asked people to bring the money to the county office, and the people of the yamen were already waiting outside, and they were reading something at this time.

He hurriedly got down from the sedan chair, wanted to listen carefully, and only after hearing did he know that this Gu Zhixian actually asked people to read out all the silver they sent that day, who sent how much he had in his heart, according to this number, this little Zhixian did not leave any of his own, and took out all the silver.

Master Lin couldn't help but sigh in his heart, is this person really stupid or pretending to be?

Tiankuo said, "With everyone's help, our river can be repaired, this is a major event for the benefit of the people, the yamen has raised money, and it is not a problem to repair the river, but there is not so much labor, each village has its own people, to the village head of their own village to register, and the yamen will make unified arrangements, let's wait for the soil to thaw, and immediately start construction, and strive to repair the river as soon as possible, everyone said okay?" ”

There are many farmers who came here today to see the excitement, and when they heard this, they cheered vigorously, "Okay, it's really good." ”

Everyone said happily, "If there is a river, you don't have to go so far to carry water, the crops in the field can grow better, this year will definitely be a good harvest, Lord Gu is really good!" With Master Gu here, our days are about to get by. ”

Some people gave the surrounding people a look, and asked them to quickly praise the rich families in the county, if they didn't pay, this river would have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse.

Originally, those people were reluctant to pay any more when they saw that Tiankuo took out all the silver as donations, but now they were surrounded by these ordinary people, complimenting them vigorously, and the silver had already been brought, and it was in the box next to it, and it seemed unreasonable not to take it out.

They were set up here, so Master Lin took the lead in donating all the silver and silver tickets, a total of 5,000 taels, Tiankuo was not stingy with praise, and kept standing at the door of the yamen, as long as someone donated, he said a lot of words to praise them, so that those people were embarrassed to come out with some money.

The two big wooden boxes at the door were not enough to fit at all, and in order to show themselves, these people only had some silver tickets, and the rest were replaced with white silver, so that they were magnificent enough.

The last two wooden boxes were full, and there were many small boxes on the side, and even a small wooden box was placed on the silver ticket.

The sum of these silvers is enough to take a while, Tiankuo is very happy in his heart, and what he and Siqi want to do next is much simpler.

At the end of the fundraising on the ninth day of the first month, the silver was carried back to the yamen, and everyone counted it together, which took more than an hour to understand.

Adding the ones collected during the New Year, a total of 89,000 taels of silver, and nearly 2,000 taels of donations raised before, adding together is more than 90,000 taels.

Wang Tianxiang and Wang Tianlai were stunned, they had been officials here for so many years, and they had never seen so much silver in the yamen!

That's too much, isn't it?

Wang Tian said, "Those people are actually reluctant to donate money today, and maybe they will retaliate later, or we will sell their personal favors and send some money back in private, how do you think this happens?" ”

Tiankuo shook his head, "Then how can it be done, it was not easy for them to spit out the silver, how can there be any reason to return it, just collect it, and all of it will go into the account of the yamen, and we will not be poor yamen in the future, we will have money." ”

Wang Tianlai said, "Before, the lord and the lady took a lot of silver out to pay in advance, and now that the yamen has money, it is time to return the silver to the two of you." ”

Tiankuo smiled and said, "I have discussed this with his sister, and the silver is not what we took out for nothing, opened a workshop, bought a shop, how much capital did we make, and we will also get back the money generated by those capital in the future, it is nothing, this is also our own business, the silver is like a stone at home, what is the use of keeping it all the time?" You don't have to persuade you anymore. ”

Wang Tianxiang and Wang Tianlai arched their hands towards him together, "We thank you Lord and Mrs. on behalf of the people of Lu County, if you two are not here, the people here don't know when they will be able to live a good life." ”