"Why are you looking at me like this, I have said everything, just to express some of my own superficial opinions, if you say that it is wrong, you can ignore it. Li Wuxian saw that everyone looked at him and spread his hands innocently.

Shen Tongguang sighed and said, "This method of impermanence is very convincing, but it will be very difficult to implement. ”

Indeed it is.

First, there is not much grain in Anle County, Shen Tongguang must rush back immediately, one million taels of silver is not a small amount, it is very difficult to get it together in a few days.

Since the war with the Khitan in October last year, although there have been many tough battles, most of them are very few and many are defeated, and it is not easy to kill countless enemies or kill the enemy's minds.

Li Wuchang was sad for everyone, and said: "I only know that if you don't take any measures, Your Majesty will definitely give up the northern part of Jizhou, and General Zhou will definitely die at that time...... Don't look at me like that, the reason why I just said so much is completely for the sake of the old lady's face, because from the moment I treated her, she was my patient, and I would naturally try my best to help if I could. ”

Shen Tongguang gritted his teeth and said, "Impermanence makes sense, if you don't do anything, General Zhou will definitely die." ”

Then he looked at Li Lingwu and pleaded: "Lord Commander, you and General Zhou have been friends since childhood, and you must help General Zhou at this time." ”

Li Lingwu exhaled and said, "Just follow the method that Impermanence said, let's make up the silver first, I will temporarily support 200,000 taels, and use the silver ticket directly." ”

Shen Tongguang was extremely grateful, although the Li family has a big business, 200,000 taels does not seem to be much, but this should be the limit, and if it is more, it may cause His Majesty to misunderstand.

200,000 taels, no more, no less, it is regarded as supporting old friends, and people from all walks of life are speechless.

Zhou Chengwang said: "The Zhou family is not rich, how much money can be calculated, and the money that can be used is about 200,000 taels." ”

Zhou Sheng is a square person, not a person who is willing to loot, although he is extremely powerful, but there are many women and children, he spends a lot on weekdays, and no one in the Zhou family does business, so he lives on a few Zhuangzi, and it is good to have a deposit of 200,000 taels.

Shen Tongguang said again: "Zheng Tai, the younger brother of Zheng Heng Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, and General Zhou are friends of life and death, I will go to Zheng Shilang for help, and I should be able to get some silver taels." ”

Li Hu shook his head and said: "The Zheng family is full of loyalty, Zheng Shilang's three younger brothers all died on the battlefield, and hundreds of families rely on him to feed alone, and it is estimated that they can't get much money." ”

Shen Tongguang nodded and said, "Then don't look for Zheng Shilang, I have a little friendship with Guo Hongyi's boss, and if I ask him for help, I should get some money." ”

Li Wuchang said: "It's best not to get too hopeful, although Boss Guo is enthusiastic, but he is extremely tactful, if it is usual, he will definitely help, at this critical moment, it is General Zhou who is helping, he should be afraid of offending people, maybe he will look at General Shen's face, take out some silver taels, but it should not exceed 100,000 taels, because he donated 100,000 taels last time, I think he can support 50,000 taels should be the limit." ”

Last time, Guo Hongyi was very supportive of Mrs. Lin's proposed policy of donating money, and took out 100,000 taels in exchange for the title of viscount, which was very popular.

If he took out more than 100,000 taels of silver to support General Zhou this time, let people know, how would others feel?

Okay, you Guo Hongyi, the policy set by His Majesty himself, you only donated 100,000 taels, but this time you supported General Zhou more than 100,000 taels, do you think General Zhou is more important than Your Majesty?

Surely someone would say that.

Guo Hongyi is a thief and a thief, and he will definitely not do such a thing.

Li Wuchang snapped his fingers and said: "The Li family is 200,000, the Zhou family is 200,000, Boss Guo is 50,000, and the Zheng family will also go for a trip. ”

The others are difficult.

At this time, in addition to a few of Zhou Sheng's irons, many people are hiding in the corner and laughing secretly, how can they support Zhou Sheng, in the minds of most people, the north of Jizhou will give up when they say they will give up, there is no loss for them, maybe when Zhou Sheng dies, his power is dispersed, and everyone can still get a piece of the pie.

Where do you go to raise the remaining 500,000 taels?

Shen Tongguang said: "Can you just take the 500,000 taels and talk to those rich people first?"

Li Wuchang shook his head and said: "Most of those rich people are businessmen, so they act according to the businessman's set, the so-called borrowing and repayment, it is not difficult to borrow again, General Zhou has made so many empty checks before, this time it must be paid off all at once, and it cannot be discounted, so that those rich people can see General Zhou's determination and sincerity, so that they will take out the grain." ”

Everyone nodded silently.

Even if those rich people are worried about the country, they will have a degree.

If you compare your heart to your heart, you will feel that those rich people are actually quite good.

"Master, the old lady of the Zhou family is awake and clamoring to see you. Steward Ye hurried over.

Li Lingwu said to Steward Ye: "Butler, let's go over, you go and dismiss the people first, there is no need to wait in the room, just have us, you will stay at the door later, no one is allowed to come in, we have confidential words to tell the old lady." ”

With that, everyone got up and went to the guest room.

The others were all dismissed by Steward Ye, and then went to wait outside the door in person.

Li Wuchang looked at the old lady, a little worried, with his experience, after he finished the injection just now, the old lady would sleep for at least an hour, and it was only half an hour before she woke up, obviously very worried about her son, uneasy.

She took Li Lingwu's hand and said that she wanted to find a way to save Zhou Sheng and asked Li Lingwu to help.

Li Lingwu had no choice but to explain the method described by Li Wuchang in detail.

The old lady was very patient and listened very carefully, for fear of missing something, after listening, her face became a little better, and said: "In this way, if you put together a sum of money, you will gain a certain amount of time, Zhou Sheng took this opportunity to fight one or two beautiful battles, then Your Majesty may change his mind?"

Li Lingwu nodded and said, "I'll find a chance to see Your Majesty alone tomorrow, and let him wait and see for a while before making a decision, but we still have to solve the problem of grain and grass by ourselves, and the household department really has no money." ”

In fact, one million taels is not a huge amount, and if you want to raise it, you can raise it in less than a day.

Most of the big families in Chang'an City are rich in family assets and have a strong heritage, and they can find more than a dozen big families with 100,000 taels of a family, and they can make it up casually.

It's just that people's hearts are selfish, and if they take out 100,000 yuan for no reason, anyone will feel distressed, after all, there is a big difference between public and private.

Second, the royal family and these big families have a tacit understanding, the big family supports the royal family, and the royal family is not easy to persecute too much, and directly attacks the big family, so when the last time I raised donations, the targets were all businessmen.

Another point is that the rules of the imperial court, the court members are not allowed to have too close contacts with the generals in charge of the border gates, if someone wants to support Zhou Sheng privately, then they must grasp a degree and not arouse the suspicion of His Majesty.

The emperor is like this, the most unseen thing is that the people in power below have too close contacts, no matter whether this kind of interaction is good or bad for the court, anyway, as long as he is not in control, he will be uncomfortable.

This is also the reason why Li Lingwu can only take out 200,000 taels at most, and Li Lingwu has to secretly report this matter to His Majesty, although most of the matter cannot be hidden from His Majesty.

Now there are still 500,000 taels left, but I don't know where to find it.

After the old lady knew the difficulty, she said: "It's a big deal that I let go of this old face and go to the major families to ask for silver taels, Your Majesty will never suspect me as an old woman, right?"

Li Lingwu said: "Old lady, why are you bothered...... Don't worry, I'll figure it out again. ”

The old lady waved her hand and said, "Ling Wu, you can come up with this idea, and you can come up with 200,000 taels to support Zhou Sheng, the old woman is grateful, I really don't dare to expect you to be embarrassed, the old woman understands that you are also taking a big risk by doing this, after all, a companion is like a tiger." ”

The old lady had made up her mind that she was going to leave the Li Mansion, and she was very stubborn, saying that she was going to raise silver taels for her son.

Li Lingwu had no choice but to order Li Wuchang to follow the whole process to prevent the old lady from having another accident.

......

Since the afternoon of the same day, the old lady has been dressed in a new way, and the energetic east family enters and the west family goes out, accompanied by Li Wuchang and Zhou Chengwang.

The wish is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

Every family showed great enthusiasm for the visit of the old lady of the Zhou family, but when it came to money, they all played Tai Chi and promised with their mouths, but they had to wait for some time and did not give a specific date.

The old lady said all the good things and lost all the smiling faces, so she sent people to kneel, but she couldn't get a word of accuracy.

Li Wuchang sighed, it seems that most of these people will not make a move.

The Zheng family has a large population, and Zheng Heng took out 80,000 taels in order to support Zhou Sheng, which can be regarded as benevolent and righteous.

Guo Hongyi did not expect Li Wuchang, took out 50,000 taels, and mysteriously asked the old lady not to tell others.

Other big families didn't raise much money at all, and occasionally a few kind-hearted ones were only a few thousand taels, just a few thousand taels, just like that, the old lady was still moved.

In the afternoon of that day and half of the next day, the old lady ran everywhere, exhausted her strength, and finally fainted in the afternoon of the next day.

Li Wuchang gave the old lady an injection to no avail, as soon as she woke up, she said that she was going to raise money to save her son, her body couldn't hold it at all, her legs were weak, but she was on crutches, walking tenaciously, and she was extremely stubborn.

"Pity the hearts of parents all over the world!" Li Wuchang saw the white-haired old man like a human, and his heart was very uncomfortable, thinking of his mother who he had never seen before, and sighed heavily.

After that, I thought of my nurse, who has been taking care of herself conscientiously for so many years, for fear that she would be wronged.

The few times Li Wuchang was injured, the nurse cried every time, and almost fainted, and when Li Wuchang was sad, he said all kinds of encouraging words every time, and all kinds of old-fashioned jokes to tease him.

Thinking like this, Li Wuchang's tears were about to flow out, and it was a strange feeling to secretly wonder when he had become so sentimental.

But at this time, he didn't have time to think about it, gritted his teeth, pressed the old lady on the chair, and said with a smile: "Old lady, you take a break, wait for me for a while, I'll give you a surprise." ”

Then he said to Zhou Chengwang: "Chengwang, take care of your grandmother, I will come when I go, soon." ”

After that, he left the Zhou Mansion and rushed to the secret base of Xuanpingfang with all his might.

When Li Wuchang came back, Zhou Chengwang and Shen Tongguang were trying their best to dissuade the old lady and let her take a good rest, and the old lady said that she would go out for nothing.

"Chengwang, you go out first, guard the door, I want to keep quiet. Li Wuchang said.

Shen Tongguang and Zhou Chengwang saw that Li Wuchang was injured and held a wooden box, thinking that Li Wuchang was going to treat the old lady again, so the two got up and prepared to leave.

"General Shen stays, I need your help later, let's go out. Li Wuchang said again.

Although Zhou Chengwang was very strange, he didn't ask much, he went out directly, took the door by the way, and stood at the door in person to control the wind.

Li Wuchang invited the old lady and Shen Tongguang into the inner hall, let them sit down, and then said, "Wait, no matter what happens, don't ask me." ”

Then open the wooden box.

Stacks of brand-new large silver tickets appeared in front of the two of them.

"500,000 taels, General Shen, take it. Li Wuchang sighed, the silver scraped from the Hanshui Gang was also put away, it was better to take it out and save General Zhou.

In fact, I was moved by the old lady, or that sentence, pity the hearts of parents all over the world.

When the old lady saw so many silver tickets, she immediately cried with joy, took Li Wuchang's hand, and was speechless.

Although Shen Tongguang didn't know where Li Wuchang got so many silver tickets, he remembered Li Wuchang's instructions and didn't ask, just shook Li Wuchang to the ground, and couldn't say words of thanks.

This kindness is too great.

I can only find a chance to repay it later.

Zhou Sheng had saved Shen Tongguang's life before, and he kept him by his side and cultivated with all his heart, he never had a chance to repay him, this time Li Wuchang helped Zhou Sheng, which was equivalent to helping him.

Li Wuchang said to Shen Tongguang: "General Shen, you can mention this matter to General Zhou, no one else can say it, including my father, don't ask where the money comes from, don't worry, it's not my family's, it's my personal savings." ”

Shen Tongguang immediately nodded and said, "Don't worry, I know the severity." ”

He bowed again and thanked him: "The great kindness of impermanence, we will definitely repay it one day." ”

Li Wuchang waved his hand and said to the old lady: "Old lady, you can rest assured now...... In addition, don't spread this matter, otherwise I may be in trouble, don't worry, this silver is not the Li family, it is my own. ”

The old lady wiped her tears and only nodded.

Li Wuchang said solemnly: "It is admirable that General Zhou was able to defend Anle County for so long for the people of Jizhou. Old lady, you should also take good care of your body, don't let General Zhou be distracted, that's not a joke, so you should always eat, drink, and sleep. ”

After a pause, he said with a smile: "It's almost dinner time, I want to have a meal in Zhou's mansion, I don't know if it's okay?"