There is no need to wait until the second day to go to the court, the content of Lin Jiang's excerpt on the same day was spread, and everyone was shocked, I don't know how many officials sprayed tea and dropped bowls, and it is said that there are two old men who did not stand and fell down, and now they are asking for leave to go home to recuperate.

Everyone was shocked once, after all, Lin Jiang's donation from selling the industry was too big, and they were already mentally prepared, but they didn't expect his money to be so big, this is to take out all the family funds?

This amount of money was too big, and the emperor was naturally cautious, so after whispering to Gonggong Liu, he called Lu Zhen, the commander of the six Shangshu and the forbidden army, and Lu Zhen, who was still visiting relatives in the capital.

Although there are not many bandits in Daliang now, it is necessary to take precautions, which is more than 6.2 million taels, what if someone robs it?

As for greed, there is a specific amount here, and it was transported back to the capital to his hands, and the emperor believes that no one has the courage to snatch food from him.

Therefore, the main defense is against foreign enemies.

In this way, Lu Zhen, who has rich experience in fighting foreign enemies, has entered the eyes of the emperor, and more importantly, Lu Zhen and Lin Jiang are classmates.

Lu Zhen only brought a few personal guards back to Beijing, so the emperor planned to transfer a group of people from the forbidden army to him and escort more than 6.2 million taels, and he didn't know whether Lin Jiang prepared silver, gold or copper plates.

So the emperor decided to send him 2,000 men, which was not enough to send another part of the garrison from Yangzhou.

The household department should also be prepared for the handover, and if there are not enough people, it will be deployed from the remaining five departments.

The six Shangshu were all excited, they had already seen countless amounts of money flying towards them, and they began to plan how to spend the money.

The military department Shangshu thought that the pension that had not been issued had been settled, and the soldiers should have new clothes to wear this year, well, the armament could also be replaced.

The Ministry of Industry Shangshu thought, the most important thing at the moment is to allocate money to dredge the Fenshui, this year Taiyuan to Jinzhou area has a lot of rain, Fenshui has not been dredged for many years, before he also planned to fold the emperor to force labor, but now it seems that there is no need.

Why do you want to harm the people if you have money?

The head of the household department thought that the arrears of officials could finally be handed down.

The officials of the Ministry of Officials thought that the two examinations in the next year could increase their income, and the officials in various places were a little less, and in some places even one person was the two envoys, and there was no money to pay money before, but now that we have money, we can recruit more people, and we will be easier.

The Ministry of Rites thought about it and felt that His Majesty's imperial mausoleum could be built better, and the things to accompany him could be more abundant.

The emperor didn't know that the six people under him had already helped him calculate where to go for the money, and he was still happily telling Lu Zhen to let him hurry up and rush to Yangzhou, and he didn't have to rush back to see if Lin Jiang needed help and help him solve the matter.

Then he said that he had another will for Lin Jiang, and he would send two officials of the Ministry of Rites and a few guards to follow him.

The emperor said that he was not in a hurry, and neither was the treasury, as long as he could return to the capital at the beginning of next month.

This month has reached the twelfth, and Lu Zhen silently looked up at the emperor.

Even if the 2,000 forbidden troops were all equipped with horses, it would take them four days to march to Yangzhou in a hurry, and they would bring so much money on the way back, eight or nine days as fast as possible, and half a month as slow. In this way, if he returns to the capital at the beginning of next month, how many days can he stay in Yangzhou?

You are in a hurry, why do you say you are not in a hurry?

But Lu Zhen lowered his eyes and thought about it, and felt that the first day of the new year was the beginning of the month, and the tenth day of the first month was also the beginning of the month, as long as he came back before the tenth day of the new year, it would not be considered against the holy will and let the emperor down.

So Lu Zhen happily decided that he would stay in Yangzhou for half a month before setting off.

The emperor handed over the holy decree he had written earlier to the Ministry of Rites, and asked him to send a young and upright official of the Ministry of Rites to Yangzhou, and then waved them down.

At this time, the Lin family released another bombshell news, in order to pray for Lin Jiang and the Lin family, Lin Qingwan decided to donate all the grain stored by the Lin family, which is available in all states in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, if you do not have a household registration but your family is really poor, you must sign by Li Zheng and two local elders to receive food.

The level of household registration is determined according to the amount of tax paid, and the more taxes paid, the more assets the family has.

The lower households were tenant farmers who could only lease landlords or peasants who had only a small amount of land. This year, Jiangnan increased the military tax, these two households were the most seriously injured, and now the summer grain has not been harvested, and the good ones still have some rice bran to eat, and the bad ones are afraid that they can only eat leaves and bark.

Lin Qingwan didn't know about these, but Lin Jiang had been a parent official in Jiangnan for more than ten years, so he couldn't know much about them.

He also asked him to donate food.

Because of his military tax, the people in the Jiangnan area are not very good at him now. This life is better, because he has asked for some donations from many rich people, and the military tax that is evenly distributed to the people is a little less.

But that's just a little bit.

There are still many families who sell their children because of this.

The Lin family has made great contributions to Jiangnan, and now many people in Jiangnan are afraid that their families are still enshrined in his grandfather's immortal tablet or portrait, and he has been an official in Jiangnan for more than ten years, responsible and honest, and has also won a lot of prestige.

But these good things will be completely denied after only one bad thing, and now I don't know how many people hate him.

Especially those whose families are ruined because of military taxes.

Lin Jiang didn't blame those people, and he couldn't blame them, because it was indeed because of the military tax that their families that could barely survive were broken.

But he couldn't afford not to collect this military tax.

Now what he can do is to scatter the food stored at home, so that those who are sad because of the military tax will be a little better, and it will be one life to be saved.

The Lin family has so many farms and such large farms, and the annual grain output is very considerable.

In addition to the consumption of their own grain stores, most of the rest of the grain is supplied to the state treasury at a discount, and some is stored in the local treasury.

It was emergency food, and there were two times when Jiangnan was hit by a disaster, and the treasury could not get the food, so it was borrowed from the Lin family's treasury for disaster relief first, and it was returned the next year.

Therefore, there is a lot of grain in Lin's warehouse, and every year old grain is replaced with new grain.

This time, except for a grain depot secretly placed in Suzhou, the rest of the grain depots were all opened to store grain.

If a few days ago it was a feast for the emperor and officials in the court, then this time it was a feast for the people of the whole south of the Yangtze River.

Everyone took the household registration book and the certificate that he was bringing to the point set up by the Lin family in each state, and carried back bags of grain.

Those who couldn't survive and planned to sell their children and daughters didn't sell them, and those who had already sold took the silver they were still holding to snatch their children back......

The resentment against the court and the Lin family slowly disappeared, and everyone began to think of the Lin family's goodness again.

I heard that Lord Lin was critically ill and was about to die, so he sold his property and donated the money to the state treasury, but distributed the grain to his parents and villagers in Jiangnan.

I heard that the people of Suzhou get the most food, just because it is the hometown of Lord Lin.

Everyone envied the people of Suzhou, and thought that Lord Lin was not from their state?

However, they are also better than the people in other places, but they are from Jiangnan, and the people outside Jiangnan do not have free food.

The Lin family was busy, Lin Qingwan's hand with an abacus almost flew, she picked up a pen and wrote the total amount on the paper, frowned and said: "Tell them that our Lin family does not accept grain now, only silk cloth, if there is no silk cloth, then use other things to arrive, and the rest of the gold, silver, jewelry and ornaments can be." ”

Chief Steward Zhong also frowned, "I'm afraid they won't agree." ”

Lin Qingwan sneered: "It was agreed before the auction that the grain exchange should not exceed the completion, and the silk cloth exchange should not exceed 30%. ”

"Your Majesty can transport money and silk cloth back to the capital, and the loss will not be very large, but if it is exchanged for grain, it is good to be able to go back to a bag of grain in a cart."

Chief Steward Zhong coughed lightly and whispered: "What's the matter, I heard that it was Lu Duhu who came to escort this time." ”

Lin Qingwan's face softened slightly, but she still insisted: "The price of grain fluctuates too much, and we lose too much after harvesting grain. Either pay the money or use silk cloth to pay. If the final payment is not paid within the specified time, it shall be executed in accordance with the contract. ”

Lin Qingwan has a tough attitude, those who buy the property are dissatisfied and dare not resist, what if she misses the deadline and she really executes it according to the contract?

The validity of contracts in this era is very strong.

So even though they muttered in their hearts, they still paid the balance with money.

There was a merchant who hated it so much that he directly pulled a cart of copper plates, and other people's families paid for them with gold and silver, and he paid for the copper plates, and just counting the strings of money would make people collapse, not to mention the weight of the cart of money.

Seeing this, the others secretly followed suit, but they were not so ruthless, they all gave copper plates, but gave some gold and silver, but the proportion of copper plates was very large, and Lin Qingwan asked and said that there was not enough gold and silver at home.

It's that the three major families all asked people to pull a cart of money.

Fortunately, at this time, the industry has not been handed over, and the descendants of the Lin family have not been released, so Lin Qingwan can transfer a lot of money.

There is also a faithful servant overseer, who is busy, but still in an orderly manner.

Lin Yong watched the cartloads of money being transported in Wutong Garden, but he couldn't even get in within a hundred steps, and his eyes were red for a while.

So much money, so much money should have been his son's, but it turned out that Lin Jiang and Lin Qingwan were all defeated.

Lin Yong felt a sharp pain in his heart, and he fainted suddenly.

It was still a passing subordinate who found it and carried the person back, but the person was in the sun for a long time and almost couldn't be saved.

Of course, Lin Qingwan was working overtime to calculate the money, and Steward Lin didn't tell her about these things, but hired a doctor himself, and only went to the main courtyard to report to the master after confirming that the person was alive.

Lin Jiang's face condensed, "He has a big fate." ”