"Bang ......"

The 800-mile iron cavalry that rushed to the ground fell to the ground, and all the way was already sleepy and lacking horses, and it was already on the verge of the limit.

When he arrived at the destination, he suddenly relaxed, and the man fainted directly, and the horses also fell to the ground foaming at the mouth, which showed the urgency of the military situation.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

The eunuch in the palace hurriedly took out the letter from the soldier's arms, climbed up the long steps and handed it to Zhu Ming.

"The Northern Expedition was robbed of grain and grass?"

Zhu Ming had just torn open the letter sealed by the fire paint, and when he saw the first line of words on it, he was stunned on the spot.

"The Yanren Iron Cavalry broke the city brazenly?"

"Heh~"

"What a daredevil!"

"Are you all fools?"

Zhu Ming looked at the military information on the letter and only felt extremely ridiculous, the Yanren iron cavalry is brave, this is a well-known thing in the world, but the iron cavalry to break the city is simply a fantasy!

In my life, I have never heard of the saying that the cavalry broke the city, you must know that the city of Yuyang County is high and the grain is sufficient, and he Yan people are cavalry deep into my territory, to fight to nourish the war, there is no heavy equipment to attack the city, how can the city be broken?

"Yes, yes!"

"A good one was surrounded on three sides, risked his life to send troops for help, and was taken advantage of by the Yan people to break the door!"

"What a Yan man, he has insight into the baggage team, and robbed me of my grain and grass and military salary!"

Zhu Ming only felt that his scalp was numb after reading the letter, even if he had never fought, he had also read some military books, the siege battle, he didn't care about it, he surrounded it ten times, and slowly drew it.

And there are 30,000 guards in Yuyang County, even if he Yan people pour out of the nest, they can resist, plus there is enough food and grass, why do you need to risk death and kill out of that gap for help?

As for the grain route, it is even more important, that is, the places along the way are also military secrets, how can they be easily discovered by the Yan people?

What's more, there are many cities along the way, and the guards in the city, are these soldiers all turning a blind eye to them, and they are still driven straight into by the Yan people's iron cavalry?

"Courtiers deceive?"

"Wait a minute?"

"There really isn't a single person in the world,"

"Can you be sincere with me?"

Zhu Ming put down the letter in his hand and was silent in his heart, he was not a fool, how could he not see that it was deliberately done by those people in Northern Xinjiang.

"Is this my country?"

Zhu Ming sat on the high platform for a long time, and at some point, it rained heavily in the sky, and countless dark clouds gathered in the gloomy sky.

In the wind and rain, Zhu Ming looked down at the lights of thousands of homes in Shangjing, looked at the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and felt in a trance that something was not real, everything was like a flower in the moon and water in the mirror, and there was a possibility of being overturned by this storm at any time.

"Come on, spread Cao Zhengchun into the palace!"

Sitting alone in the rainy night for a long time, no one dared to persuade or stop him, until he was soaked, Zhu Ming got up and walked to the imperial study, and before leaving, he commanded the eunuch behind him.

In the Imperial Study,

"Your Majesty!"

When Cao Zhengchun hurriedly arrived, Zhu Ming was standing in front of the map of Northern Xinjiang, drinking ginger soup while staring at the landmarks of Yuyang County.

"Well, you're here."

Zhu Ming put down the ginger soup in his hand and said, "How is the matter of Guozijian done?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, according to your wishes, the old slave has accelerated the process, and is now appeasing the surviving students to ensure that there will be no other trouble, and Mo You will be able to deal with it in two or three days."

"At that time, Lord Luo can also be released."

Cao Zhengchun knelt down in the tunnel.

"Let him out after retiring tomorrow......"

Zhu Ming thought for a moment and then spoke.

"Your Majesty, this ...... The old slave hasn't dealt with it yet, and I'm afraid that he will be criticized......"

Cao Zhengchun wanted to speak and stopped.

"You can take a look too, and you will understand it by looking at it."

Zhu Ming let out a long sigh when he heard this, and casually handed the letter back from Northern Xinjiang to Cao Zhengchun, who was not an outsider to himself.

"This ......"

"This ......"

"Yuyang County is broken?"

Cao Zhengchun looked at the text on it and was stunned for a long time, but he didn't expect that he had talked about the Northern Expedition with Luo Congee yesterday, and there was a mess today.

At this time, looking at Zhu Mingruo's anxious appearance in the imperial study, he also knew that the matter was urgent to various points.

"Hmm!"

Zhu Ming said, walked back to the map, pointed to the direction of Yuyang County, and said: "The Northern Expedition army will arrive in the northern Xinjiang to fight in ten days, and now there is no grain and grass, and the latest batch of them will be sent from Shangjing is still far away." ”

"The Northern Expedition is tight, and I don't know when the situation will be stable, but I'm afraid that after this incident, the court will become more and more unstable, and I can't do without ......him at this time."

Zhu Ming said with a long sigh.

"In addition, you should send someone to Li Zhijie, Lord Li's mansion, and let him go to the court tomorrow......"

Zhu Ming recalled today's early dynasty,

The devil sent the god to speak.

"But, Li Cheng is sick in bed......"

"Huh, sick in bed?"

"Counting that he has been on leave for a few days, if he is still sick in bed tomorrow, I will let him go back to his hometown to recuperate, and he will not have to come back in the future!"

Zhu Ming said coldly, he was inexplicably upset when he thought of this matter, but he stayed out of the matter, ignored it, and said that he was a minister who took care of his life, but he was left alone to face the hundreds of officials in the court.

If he is in the court today, according to his influence, even if he is silent, he only needs to stand there and show an attitude that will not make him alone.

"Old slave, understood."

"Go!"

Zhu Ming waved his sleeves.

"Old slave, retire!"

"Someone is coming, the book of the Ministry of Household and the book of the Ministry of War."

After Cao Zhengchun left, Zhu Ming did not rest, but sat in front of the case and looked through the folds handed by the household department and the military department recently, and when he saw the last frown, he shouted at the door.

I know that now is not the time to pursue responsibility, but to solve the dilemma as soon as possible, if I thoroughly investigate the northern Xinjiang at this time, I am afraid that the gang will not know what to do.

"Old minister, I've seen Your Majesty!"

Not long after,

The gray-haired Hubu Shangshu Zhou Xuebin and the newly appointed military secretary Li Daoming hurried to the imperial study, obviously knowing about the Northern Expedition.

"I want to come to the two adults, and I also know what I summoned you and others to come to, let's talk about it, and how to deal with the current situation......

Zhu Ming's gaze fell on the newly appointed secretary of the military department, Li Daoping, and stayed for a long time before he spoke.

"Bang ......"

"Your Majesty, old minister, I really have no right to interfere in the war in Northern Xinjiang, and it was also the letter from Northern Xinjiang that came back earlier, so I know it, and I hope Your Majesty will investigate ...... clearly."

Li Daoping, the secretary of the military department, felt Zhu Ming's scrutinizing gaze, and his back was already wet with cold sweat, and he kowtowed.

"Yes, I do."

Zhu Ming looked at the kowtow-like military department Shangshu inexplicably a little bored, and said in a cold tone: "What I ask is, how to deal with it, not to be held accountable!" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, now that the county town of Yuyang has been destroyed, the second batch of grain and grass sent to the north has also been robbed, but fortunately, the third batch of grain and grass that Xie Shilang has been preparing has been sent recently."

"If the people are transferred from all over the way, it can barely be delivered within seven days after the arrival of the army, although the front line is tighter, it is conceivable that it can be continued before the army runs out of food."

Li Daoping breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and then he reported in detail, obviously after the military information on the front line was delivered, he also did some homework.

"Oh?"

"But, wait until you know, this is just a solution to the urgent need, where will the gap in the food and grass salaries of the army that was robbed before come from?"

"If the treasury pays for it, will there be enough money in it?"

Zhu Ming skipped Li Daoping and looked at Hubu Shangshu and asked in a deep voice.

"Back to Your Majesty, counting it, the treasury has not had much balance in recent years, and now there are only more than one million taels of silver in the treasury, even if you count the batch of silver obtained from the treasury of Xie Mansion in Qinghe County, there is still a difference of more than six million taels of silver."

Zhou Xuebin stepped forward and said,

"If I remember correctly, the tax payment in recent years has been about 15 million to 20 million taels of silver every year......

"Why is the treasury still so scarce?"

Zhu Ming frowned and said, in the past, the household department was firmly controlled by that woman, and he had just taken power and had not had time to investigate it carefully, but he still knew the general taxes.

A while ago, I was busy with the Northern Expedition, and I was crying poor in the household, and I didn't want to care, and I also wanted to save more money from the treasury for other purposes, so I raised money from the family.

I didn't expect the treasury to be really fucking poor!

"Back to Your Majesty, you don't know anything."

"In recent years, the war in northern Xinjiang has been endless, and the imperial court has not stopped sending silver over there for a year, plus the Ministry of Industry has paved bridges and roads over the years, repaired the city, and it is also a huge expense at the juncture, and the Zongren Mansion has to allocate a large amount of silver every year, and there are many princes and princes who need to be supported by the imperial court......"

"Now that the army is on the march, 300,000 troops plus 200,000 logistics people, every day people chew horses and eat is an astronomical amount, and they have long emptied the previous family funds, and the minister is not afraid of being ashamed, and the balance of the silver in the treasury is still the thief who robbed the house and sent it......"

Zhou Xuebin was a little embarrassed.

"The imperial court is already impoverished to such a field?"

Zhu Ming frowned.

"Your Majesty, take a look for yourself, this is also a matter of no way, the court's money bag is not easy to grasp, and it can achieve a balance between revenue and expenditure, but the non-fiscal deficit is already there, and the minister is already careful in his calculations."

Zhou Xuebin said that, and handed over the account books of various large expenditures of the household department in recent years.

"Is there any other way?"

Zhu Ming checked the accounts,

After making sure that it was correct, he asked.

"If taxes are increased for this year's autumn harvest,"

"I think it can be solved."

Zhou Xuebin gritted his teeth and said.

"Do you want to increase taxes?"

Zhu Ming frowned when he heard this: "This matter is categorically impossible, the transportation of grain and herbs requires the transfer of people's husbands and the increase of forced labor, if you rashly add taxes, I am afraid that the people will be resentful!" ”

"I really don't want to work for the people and hurt the money!"

"And if you really want to talk about it, six million taels of silver is not too big a vacancy, and now it is the ...... of the Great Dynasty Meeting."

Zhu Ming abruptly remembered the silver that was sent to the inner treasury and the national treasury when Luo Congee raided his house a few days ago, and these ministers were far richer than he imagined.

"Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

"Let those officials ......"

Zhou Xuebin, the head of the household, listened to Zhu Ming's muttering, and suddenly sighed in his heart, and asked tentatively.

"Counting thousands of Beijing officials still in the city, they are all officials in the rich and prosperous places of Gyeonggi, and they have also made a lot of oil and water on weekdays, and now it is time for them to spit out some."

"What's more, there are still many royal relatives in the capital, and the dynasty has raised them for more than 200 years, so they are resting with the country, and they can also donate generously at this time......

"Let's call them all tomorrow morning and try it,"

"It shouldn't be difficult to do......

Zhu Ming thought to himself.

……

That night,

East Factory,

Zhaojiao,

"Lord Luo, you are really like a god!"

Cao Zhengchun sighed as soon as he walked into the basement.

"Oh?"

"What's wrong?"

"Lord Luo, the grain and grass of the Northern Expedition have been robbed!"

Cao Zhengchun explained.

"They can't wait before the Northern Expedition arrives?"

Luo Congee was also stunned when he heard the sound, he originally thought that those feudal officials would have to wait for some time, and then secretly stumble when they saw the opportunity, but they didn't expect to be so impatient.

"Your Excellency, you mean, they are collaborating with the enemy?"

"Or else?"

"It can slow down the progress of the Northern Expedition,"

"Why not make a lot of money?"

Luo Congee sat up straight and smiled.

"Such a blatant collaborator?"

Cao Zhengchun's heart was shocked.

"Humph!"

"In the battle of Hanlu Pavilion, they can still take out eight hundred armor as a match to besiege and kill the official under the nose of His Majesty."

"When you go to the north of the world, the emperor is far away, what is it to sell grain and grass to the Yan people?"

Luo Congee sneered.

"Now that the grain and grass have been robbed, I think Your Majesty will also worry about the matter of silver, just hand over the silver given by Xie Shilang's fortune boy to Your Majesty, after this time I send charcoal in the snow, I think Your Majesty's trust in the East Factory can also reach a new level."

After thinking for a moment, Luo Congee looked at Cao Zhengchun, who looked puzzled, and continued: "This official needs that the war in Northern Xinjiang is very chaotic, but he doesn't want General Xu to be defeated, after all, dragging it out is the best result for us." ”

"What's more, this amount of money can only solve Your Majesty's urgent needs, but it can't solve the chronic diseases in Northern Xinjiang......"

"I was worried before, after General Xu went, the Yan people would retreat if they couldn't attack for a long time, but now it seems that there is no such possibility, there is a group of people who pull their hind legs, let him be as stable as an old dog, and he can't avoid the knife stabbed in the back!"

Luo porridge is quiet.

"Let's continue to fight with General Xu......"

"It's better if people on both sides knock out their brains......"

"Wait until this official is released from prison tomorrow and finish all the affairs of the court as soon as possible, and I have to go to the northern Xinjiang and clean them up together......

The flickering candlelight fell into Luo Congee's eyes,

Inexplicably, it's a little scary.

……

Following

Li Fu,

Before dawn, Li Zhijie got up early and changed into the official uniform of the previous dynasty.

"Master, do you really want to go today?"

The housekeeper on the side wanted to speak and stopped, now the situation in the court has long been extremely turbid, and he naturally doesn't want his master to go to muddy the water.

"Last night, the fan of Dongchang sent a letter, it seems that His Majesty is really angry this time."

"If the old man doesn't enter the court, I'm afraid he will never have the opportunity to go to court again in this life......"

Li Zhijie smiled bitterly.

"That's right,"

"You should show the old man the accounts of the house."

Li Zhijie continued after straightening out the official uniform.

"What do you mean, sir?"

"Yesterday, after the fan of the East Factory left, the old man's protégé in the household department also sent a letter, the Northern Expedition grain and grass were robbed, His Majesty is short of silver, the old man as a minister, although he does not want to offend other colleagues and ministers, but he also has to show something."

Li Zhijie sighed and said.

"Your Excellency, please take a look."

Not long after,

The butler took the account of the house and handed it over.

"Do you have a balance of more than thirty-six thousand taels of silver?"

After reading the account book, Li Zhijie muttered, there are not many people in the imperial court, and there are dozens of people in the house who spend a lot of money every year, so it is a little surprising that there is really much silver left.

Of course, this silver is not obtained by corruption and bribery, or by using power for personal gain, it is all the land property of the squire in his hometown hanging in his own name, and if he wants to use his name not to pay taxes, he naturally has to have some profits.

After all, there are still 100,000 snowflakes of silver in Qingzhi County in three years, and the imperial court has given less, but there are a lot of ways for them to make money, and as an official of the second grade in the provincial servant, if Qinggui is still above the six books, according to his grade, it can be regarded as a real incorruptibility.

Of course, like Hai Rui, I don't think it will last long to be an official in that dynasty.

"The remaining six thousand taels, the other thirty thousand taels of silver are all sorted out and donated to the imperial court......

Li Zhijie closed the ledger.

"Small, let's do it."

"By the way, sir, now the people in Shangjing still don't know about the failure of the Northern Expedition, do you want to use the remaining silver to stock up on some food in advance."

"After the news of the failure of the Northern Expedition spreads, the price of grain will inevitably rise, and when the time comes, it will be sold at another time, and it will be more than a few times more than that, and it will also cover the deficit this time."

The butler had just taken a few steps and then paused.

"Smack......

The butler's voice has not yet fallen,

Li Zhijie slapped him in the face.

"Old man, I really don't want to live anymore!"

"Your Majesty's surname is Zhu, and the old man's surname is Li, at this time, you are still thinking about hoarding grain to make a fortune in the country, people with foreign surnames, thinking about getting silver from his Zhu family's pot all day long, how many heads do you have enough to cut off?"

Li Zhijie shouted.

"Master, the little one is wrong."

"The small one is also thinking that it is a normal business to store grain, and if we don't do it, others will do it, not to mention that thousands of taels of silver are thrown into the market, and they can't afford to splash a few drops ......of water, so they are confused."

Seeing Li Zhijie's angry face, the man hurriedly knelt on the ground and explained.

"Hmph, what others do is someone else's business, and the old man can't care about it, but the people in my Li Mansion can't do it!"

"If the old man hears such words, he will expel you from the house and beat you to death!"

"In addition, you can hear it clearly, pass on the old man's words, these days, even after the news spreads, no one in the house is allowed to stock up on grain, even if there is firewood and rice and salt, it will be enough for a few months......"

"Master, don't worry, I'll keep an eye on it myself."

"Well, the old man has gone to court."

After Li Zhijie received an affirmative answer, he waved his sleeves and got on the sedan chair and drove in the direction of Suzaku Street.

……

Imperial

basilica

Looking at it carefully, the number of people in the court today is far better than yesterday, and after the postponement of the court meeting yesterday, those low-grade Beijing officials did not leave, and they were still waiting outside the palace.

Compared with yesterday, the hall is obviously much more crowded, in addition to those high-grade civil and military officials, there are also a few more princes wearing four-clawed python robes, as well as wearing bullfighting suits, unicorn suits, the hall is full.

"If there is something to play, there is no capital to retreat!"

According to the charter, the eunuchs sang and the early dynasty officially began, but the atmosphere at this time was unusually dull, and the haze of the hundred officials forcing the palace yesterday was still dissipated, and now it has added the shadow of the failure of the Northern Expedition.

The voice fell for a long time, and no one answered.

Zhu Ming's gaze fell directly on Li Daoping, the secretary of the military department, and his eyes were facing each other, and the latter trembled and had to walk out.

"The minister has his own music!"

"Your Majesty, just yesterday, the Ministry of War received a report from the northern Xinjiang about the military situation, Yuyang County was broken, and the grain and grass were robbed......

Li Daoping knelt down in the tunnel.

"Hiss......"

The voice fell,

Those officials who were closed to the news all gasped when they heard this, and as for those who were in high positions and well-informed, they were all silent, and everyone knew what it meant that the grain and grass were robbed.

Only among the relatives of the emperor on the left, the prince with a mellow state heard the word "grain and grass", raised his eyebrows, and lowered his head to secretly think about something.

"Hubu Shangshu, Lord Zhou, please take a charter out......"

Zhu Ming asked according to the regulations set in the imperial study yesterday, as an emperor, there are naturally some things that he can't say directly.

"Your Majesty, there is still a vacancy of six million taels of silver, and the old minister has done his best to do his best, and it is really unsustainable, and I hope that your lordships can contribute generously......"

Zhou Xuebin gritted his teeth when he heard the voice.

"Well, as Zhou Shangshu said."

"Now that the national crisis is at hand, I think you will not be stingy with this bit of silver, counting that there are a total of 1,632 officials in the court today, if you get together, Mo Yo can also get through this difficulty."

Zhu Ming said and looked at the ministers and swept over,

Everyone bowed their heads and remained silent.

"Minister......

In the front position on the left, Li Zhijie opened his mouth when he heard the sound, but as soon as he spit out a word, all the eyes on the hall fell, and he finally closed his mouth.

"Hoo ......"

"It's abrupt."

Zhu Ming looked at the silent ministers, and there was a nameless anger in his heart, but in the end, he thought simply, so he simply said directly:

"Let's take the lead first, there are two million taels of silver left in the inner treasury, and I will allocate two million taels of silver from it, and the rest of the silver will be for you!"

Zhu Ming waved his sleeves and said, he can be regarded as having made a bloody investment, you must know that the silver in the inner treasury is his own private money, and now he has taken out more than half of it at once.

"In addition, please also come forward and say a word, and set an example for the ministers."

Zhu Ming took a deep breath and got up from the dragon chair and bowed his hand to the elders who were also surnamed Zhu, his attitude was extremely low, and his father did not have many heirs left.

Most of the remaining princes above the court are the brothers of the former emperor, who stayed in Shangjing City and did not go to the fiefdom for many reasons, so they can be regarded as real relatives of the emperor.

This time there is no cold scene,

"Your Majesty, the dynasty is in danger......"

"It is incumbent upon the royal family to wait for the ministers!"

As soon as the words fell, a mellow prince walked out and responded loudly, this person is Prince Shuo, the second brother of his father.

"Huh, then there will be Uncle Lao."

Zhu Ming breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, as long as someone answered the words, it would be much easier to do, and the tone of his voice was involuntarily much closer, looking at the mellow Prince Shuo, it was also inexplicably pleasing to the eye.

According to the rules of the Great Departure Dynasty, the princes are the kings of one word, and the annual income is 10,000 stones, while the county king is the king of two characters, and the annual income is about 2,000 stones.

Just the food is not valuable, but there are various famous rewards in the palace every year, plus they also have their own business in the capital, and the annual income is also a lot, no matter how much more than 100,000 taels of silver can still be taken.

"Your Majesty, don't worry!"

"Even if the minister smashes the pot and sells iron, he has to ......"

Prince Shuo stood in the middle of the court and said righteously.

"Then let's ask Uncle Wang to set the tone!"

Zhu Ming was also a lot more relieved after listening to him, as far as the royal family is concerned, this tone is naturally set as high as possible, so that the ministers behind him will be ashamed, and maybe they can come up with more silver.

"Well, how about your majesty look at five thousand taels?"

Prince Shuo asked tentatively.

"Huh?"

Zhu Ming was stunned when he heard this, and he was a little suspicious of his ears.

"Well, or,"

"Six thousand taels?"

"Seven thousand taels?"

"That's it, that's it, the minister is also out of the way!"

Prince Shuo gritted his teeth when he saw that Zhu Ming's face was wrong.

"Minister, I am willing to donate eight thousand taels of silver!"

Prince Shuo said at the end, straightened his back and said loudly, and shouted out the momentum of 800,000 taels of silver out of 800,000 taels of silver.

The voice fell,

The ministers looked at each other,

Even those who are also relatives of the emperor behind him are also silent.

"You, you, you ......"

"You let me tell you what is good!"

"That's how you set the tone?"

Zhu Ming pointed at the unstoppable undulation of Prince Shuo's chest.

"Your Majesty, the minister's family is poor, and there are still dozens of mouths waiting to eat and drink in the prince's mansion, you calculate, the minister's unsuccessful heirs, there are thirty-two people, one by one, idle all day long, eating the king's house, drinking the ...... in the palace"

"The minister has no way, and he is also thinking about having a few more, and he estimates that there will always be a few successful instruments, no, a few days ago, he just accepted a few concubines, and it is a large amount of expenses, and the eight thousand taels of silver are still the minister's careful calculations, and he saved them by cutting down on food and clothing......

Speaking of which,

Prince Nashuo also shrunk his stomach.

"You ......"

"That's it, that's it......"

Zhu Ming looked at the wronged Prince Babashuo and waved his hand secretly, and he also had a new understanding of this person's unscrupulous temperament.

In the early years, he did a lot of bullshit, but he lived well, not to mention the mercy everywhere, and he could still keep the seeds, the Zhu family has been handed down for more than 200 years, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who have been related to the deceased.

It's just that in recent generations, the direct bloodline has become thinner and thinner, but this person has also given full play to his own strengths and contributed to the Zhu family.

This is also the confidence that he has always been cheeky in Shangjing, and in the past, he even did such a ridiculous thing as selling official salt in Shangjing, and his father only punished him to kneel in the temple for a night, and then gave up.

It's not surprising that he can say such shameless words today, he is already a greedy and lustful person, so he still thinks highly of him in the end.

"That's it, that's it, you might as well keep the eight thousand taels of silver......

Zhu Ming said helplessly.

"Minister, thank you for your understanding."

Prince Shuo didn't hold on when he heard the voice, but responded directly, looking at the happy appearance, and he was glad that he had saved a sum of money.

"Wait, let's talk about it too......"

Zhu Ming's gaze skipped Prince Shuo, looked at the group of imperial relatives and continued.

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to donate 16,000 taels of silver!"

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to donate 14,000 taels of silver!"

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to donate 10,000 taels of silver!"

……

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to donate seven thousand taels of silver!"

"Three thousand taels!"

"One thousand taels!"

……

Although the remaining princes are stingy, they are also people who want a little face in the end, and they are not less than 10,000.

Zhu Ming just listened quietly, and the donation of about 100,000 taels per person as he expected was a world away, and as for the other nobles in the back, even the shameless Prince Shuo was not as good, and they slammed the door tightly.

"You ......"

"I!"

The more Zhu Ming heard it, the more annoyed his chest became, and in the end, hundreds of taels of silver came out, and there were still bits and pieces.

"Zhou Shangshu, have you written it down?"

When all the royal relatives retreated,

Zhu Ming asked with a strong suppression of anger.

"Return to Your Majesty, gather together ......"

"Together...... Seventy-eight hundred and eighty-four thousand three hundred and sixty-two taels of silver, ......," the household department Shangshu was a little ashamed to say.

"Whew, whew, whew......"

Zhu Ming closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths before he came to his senses.

"Ministers, you ......"

"Your Majesty, the minister has the courage to make a suggestion."

Just when Zhu Ming no longer had much hope, Li Zhijie walked out and said, "Since it's a fundraiser, why don't you get a few big boxes." ”

"Your Excellency only needs to write down the amount of money you donated and your name, put it in the box, and afterwards, Your Majesty will send someone to your mansion to collect the cash."

Li Zhijie thought for a moment and said,

This method has two meanings, one is to avoid the number being too small, and His Majesty's face is too ugly.

On the other hand, there is a difference between respect and inferiority, and the previous tone was set too low, even if there are a small number of officials in the back, who are willing to donate more, there is no way, after all, they can't slap those royal relatives in the face in public.

It's like donating 30,000 taels of silver, which is not much, but once you take it out, the previous princes can be regarded as offended.

In addition, I don't know the specific number, and there is no comparison, but it makes them dare not be perfunctory easily, and the number may not be too high, but there is a bottom line.

"Well, that's right, just follow what Gong Li said."

"You can only donate silver, and I will not fake the amount ...... with a third person."

Zhu Ming also nodded when he heard this.

Not long after,

There were a few more wooden boxes above the court.

"In this way, the minister dared to donate silver first."

Li Zhijie walked to the wooden box and hesitated for a moment, then wrote down 36,000 taels ruthlessly, and then kneaded it into a ball and threw it in, and the rest of the ministers also did the same.

The fundraising went on for a long time, and by the time everyone had finished it, it was already getting dark.

"Have you counted them all?"

After the dispersal of the dynasty,

Zhu Ming looked at the Tobe Shangshu who was closing the accounts and asked.

"Your Majesty has counted it."

"The total amount donated by the officials is 1,820,000 taels, including the 2,000,000 taels you spent from the inner treasury and the 780,000 taels donated by those imperial relatives and relatives, making a total of 4,600,000 taels of silver."

"In other words, there is still a gap of 1.4 million taels ......"

Tobe Shangshu handed Zhu Ming the item with his name written on it.

"Hoo ......"

"Ridiculous, ridiculous......"

"I didn't expect that Li Gong, who was notoriously honest and honest in the dynasty, was the person who donated the most this time......

Zhu Ming laughed at himself.

"Stand down...... I sit alone......"

"This more than one million taels of silver, I will think of it, first stop the palace for the summer in the coming year, I can save a lot of silver, and ...... the other."

After Zhu Ming finished explaining, he sat on the threshold of the main hall and waved his hand, thinking of Fang Cai's various things, his heart was inexplicably sad.

In the end, I had to deceive myself.

Maybe they really don't have any money......

……

"Your Majesty, the old slave has something important to tell."

"The old slave has also heard about the affairs of the court, and the things reported may be able to solve His Majesty's urgent needs......"

Just when Zhu Ming was looking at the accounts, Cao Zhengchun trotted all the way to the outside of the main hall, followed by two little eunuchs who were snorting and carrying a large box.

"Heh~"

"You dog minion, don't you want to take out all the money you stole from the house?"

"It's better to be free, the East Factory has just been built, and it's time for a shortage of silver......"

Zhu Ming waved his hand.

"Your Majesty, it's not so,"

"This silver was handed over to the old slave by the Tobe squire......"

Cao Zhengchun explained.

"His Xie family's treasury has been raided, and how much silver can he take out for a mere waiter, at most, it is only five or six ......."

Zhu Mingyi said excitedly.

"Your Majesty, you are really clever!"

"It is indeed five million six thousand taels of silver......

Speaking of which,

Cao Zhengchun lifted the wooden box.

Zhu Ming was dizzy when he saw the 10,000 taels of silver tickets.

"This is the proceeds from the sale of his property when he returned to Qinghe County."

Cao Zhengchun explained.

"A family of hundreds of years is ten million taels of silver......"

"Heh, it's actually the poorest in my Zhu family!"

Zhu Ming suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Your Majesty, you ......"

Seeing this, Cao Zhengchun hurriedly came over.

"No problem."

"Tell me!"

"Why did he give you this money?"

Zhu Ming held on to the door frame and asked solemnly.

"Buy Lord Luo's life......"

Cao Zhengchun said truthfully.

"Hoo ......"

"Is his head worth so much silver?"

"I personally raised donations, and thousands of people couldn't raise four million taels of silver in front of me, but I did take out more than five million taels of silver behind my back to buy a person's life!"

"Yes, yes!"

"How could I grant his wish......

"This silver, just buy his own life, you immediately send someone to jail Xie Wenxue, the head of the household department, tomorrow, until noon."

"Don't you really dare to kill someone?"

"I'll show them!"

Zhu Ming wiped the blood stains from the corners of his mouth, and said fiercely.

"Old slave, do it now."

"By the way, Your Majesty,"

"Do you think it's better to let Lord Luo out at that hour?"

"Instantly!"

"No!"

"Prepare the sedan chair, I will go to the East Factory in person!"

Zhu Ming paused, gritted his teeth, and said.

……

East Factory,

Zhaojiao,

Outside the door,

"Your Majesty, unknowingly, the minister has also been in this Zhao Prison for many days......"

Luo Congee walked out of the dungeon after bathing and changing clothes, looked up at the afterglow of the sunset and sighed.

"The previous things have passed, and these days have indeed wronged you......"

Zhu Ming stepped out of the carriage,

patted Luo Congee on the shoulder very closely.

"Your Majesty, you have misunderstood."

"What the minister means is that this embroidered spring knife has not seen blood for a long time, and I am a little wronged by it......"

Luo Congee patted the embroidered spring knife on his waist and said with a smile.

"Xie Shilang, who made the silver harm you, I have already issued an order, and I will be beheaded tomorrow, if you are not angry, you can do it yourself......"

Zhu Ming said with relief.

"Your Majesty, the knife has not seen blood for a long time, and I am a little hungry......"

"It's not enough to think of a human head."

The young man in the python robe looked at the young man in the dragon robe and said very seriously.

"Hmm!"

Zhu Ming rarely did not refute,

Instead, he nodded silently.

It was only at this time that I listened to the tone without the slightest emotion, and looked at the cold embroidered spring knife, without a trace of uneasiness, but inexplicably calmed down.

Desperately make up for yesterday's ...... Call......

(End of chapter)