Before Yinxiang had time to speak, Yinzhen, who had been forcing himself to be calm, suddenly threw an account book on the ground with force. Many pieces of paper sandwiched in the account book flew everywhere like snow flakes, and said in a hateful voice: "Because all the money is all gone."
It was borrowed!"
His sudden anger startled Ling Ruo, and Mo Yu, like a frightened little rabbit, carefully moved a few steps behind Yin Xiang, fearing that she would be implicated, and she was both respectful and afraid of Lord Belle.
Unlike Yinxiang who is a little more comfortable in front of him.
In my impression, Yinzhen has always been a very calm and self-possessed person. He rarely gets angry. Even in the Qingyin Pavilion, he had never been so angry.
Ling Ruo knelt down and carefully picked up the pieces of paper scattered on the floor. The more she picked them up, the more she became frightened. They were all IOUs, five hundred taels, one thousand taels, five thousand taels, etc., each signed by a different person.
But without exception, they are all officials of the DPRK and Central Government. Many of their names, Ling Ruo, are derived from Ling Zhu.
I have heard it from my mouth and calculated at will, but these IOUs add up to more than 800,000 taels, and these are just IOUs sandwiched in one account book. There are many identical account books on the desk. This loan must be
Millions of people, no wonder Yinzhen was so popular.
"Can't we get this money back?" Ling Ruo carefully placed the completed account book and IOU on the desk.
Yinzhen said coldly: "How to pursue it? The civil and military officials of the entire dynasty have borrowed it, which one is better to pursue? Besides, there is no time at this time. How can the people who were affected by the disaster wait for so long?"
Ling Ruo remembered that Yinzhen had said before that only part of this year's military pay had been paid, and the rest of the Ministry of Household Affairs had been holding back. At that time, the Ministry of Household Affairs said that the national treasury had no silver, and thought it was an excuse. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be true, "
Haven't these things been discovered before?"
Yinxiang smiled bitterly and answered on his behalf: "The person in charge of the household department is the prince. How can he recover money from others when he has borrowed money from the treasury? Besides, it is difficult to recover money. How can the prince be willing to risk offending his ministers?"
Ask for this money. Last night, the fourth brother and the adults from the household department
After calculating all night, there is now less than one million taels of silver available in the treasury. Relying on this silver to provide disaster relief will undoubtedly be a drop in the bucket. Besides, if it is all taken out, if something happens again, the court will not be able to come up with the silver. This makes
Where does the imperial court’s face exist? Where does the state’s body exist?”
"To be precise, it should be 890,000 taels." Yinzhen said with a tired look on his face, his eyes red from staying up all night.
Less than one million taels? Ling Ruo took a breath. There was only so much money in the treasury of the great Qing Dynasty. No one would believe it. Has the officialdom been corrupted to this extent?
Yinxiang lost his appetite for a moment, put the thousand-layer steamed cake in his hand on the plate and said: "You can chase the money slowly. As long as these people are here, they can always get it back. At most, they are just offending people. The most important thing right now is
The key is how to pass this level. Emperor Ama is still waiting for our reply. Fourth brother, have you thought of a way?"
Kangxi didn't know until last night that the treasury had been emptied. Long Yan was furious because the prince was late again. He was so angry that he scolded the prince and all the ministers who came to the palace for discussion and ordered them to
We must find a way, otherwise we will not be lenient."
Yinzhen shook his head helplessly. He had been working hard to find a solution, but it was difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Without money, everything was empty talk. As long as he thought that there were countless victims in Henan who were waiting for money to provide food relief, every extra moment he waited would make him nervous.
The more people died, the more he would feel restless.
"What should we do? Damn it! There must be a way, but where is the way! Where is it? Do you really want to watch so many people die!" Yinzhen slapped his palm on the table with hatred,
He was angry at the ministers who had borrowed money from the treasury, and also angry at his own inability. From last night to now, he racked his brains and thought hard, but he couldn't think of a feasible solution.
"Fourth Master, don't worry, there is always a way. Maybe there will be a solution soon." Ling Ruo stared at the IOUs and a bold idea suddenly came to his mind. "I have a suggestion, I don't know whether I should say it or not.
?”
"Please tell me and listen." Although Yinzhen didn't think that Ling Ruo could think of any good solution at this moment, everyone was at a loss at this moment, so it would be better to listen.
Yinxiang also echoed from the side: "Yes, sister-in-law, there are only a few of us in this room, what should we say or not?"
Ling Ruozhan stretched out his sleeves, carefully considered his words and said: "There is no money in the national treasury because all the money flows into personal purses. In this case, why don't we borrow money from those wealthy households in the name of the court, as long as we can overcome the current difficulties?"
, the court will naturally return the money to them."
This was such a bold idea that both Yinzhen and Yinzhen were stunned for a moment when they heard it, but they soon came to their senses. Yes, since ministers can borrow money from the treasury, why can't the court borrow money from wealthy households?
In fact, this method is not necessarily very clever, but Yinzhen and the others are used to allocating money from the treasury, and are restricted by their original thinking, but Ling Ruo is not restricted by it if he is not in the court, and can think in the opposite direction.
"Yes, this is a way!" Yinzhen's eyes lit up, and his eyebrows that had been frowning all night relaxed. Although this method is likely to be criticized by others, at this juncture, he no longer cares about so much.
"But will those wealthy households be willing to do it?" Yinxiang also agrees with this method, but I'm afraid it won't be that easy to implement. The richer people are, the more they care about money. If you want them to take the initiative to borrow money and donate money, it's simply impossible.
It's just a dream, and most of these people are closely related to the royal family and nobles, and their influence can affect the whole body.
"When the country is in trouble, everyone is responsible. They can't help but disagree!" Yinzhen didn't know the stakes. He snorted and said decisively: "If we want to do it, then let's make a big one." He glanced at the puzzled person.
Yinxiang said: "Let me ask you, what business is the most profitable in this world now?"
"Silk? Wine? Food?" Yinxiang touched his chin with green stubble and said several answers in succession, but Yinzhen shook his head. He really couldn't think of anything, so he didn't bother to think about it anymore, so he asked the man standing by with a smile.
Ling Ruo, "Sister-in-law, have you already guessed it?"
Ling Ruo rolled her eyes, poured a cup of tea for each of them and said, "No, Thirteenth Master has forgotten that making money is of course an industry monopolized by the imperial court, such as salt!"
These words woke up the dreamer. Yinxiang suddenly realized and said, "Yes, why did I forget about them? Is the fourth brother going to attack the salt merchants?"
There was a dark look in Yinzhen's eyes, and he said with a ferocious smile: "Yes, these people have shaved off a lot of people's fat and oil, overtly and covertly. Now it's time for them to spit it out. I don't want to ask them to borrow it, I want them to pledge it themselves!" The last sentence
He almost said the words through gritted teeth.
"Without further delay, you and I will go to the palace immediately to meet the Emperor. As long as the Emperor agrees, I will immediately leave for Jiangxi to find those salt merchants to donate money. As for disaster relief..." He thought about it and said: "Treasury
There are still more than 800,000 taels of silver in it. As long as I can raise the money, I should be able to catch it."
"It's not you but us who are going to Jiangxi together!" Yinxiang's eyes were clear. "You will never leave your brothers when you go into battle. How can you not take me with you wherever your fourth brother goes? Besides, those salt merchants are not good birds. They can't tell you.
When the time comes, we will unite and use dirty tricks against Fourth Brother. I have led soldiers with murderous intent, so I can at least suppress them."
Having been brothers for twenty years, how could Yinzhen not know that he was worried about him? He nodded heavily and said: "Okay! Together, we brothers will fight our way through even the dragon's pool and the tiger's den!" After finally thinking of a solution, Yinzhen didn't even think about it for a moment.
If I don't want to delay any longer, I call Gou'er and Zhou Yong in to collect the account books on the table and prepare to enter the palace.
"If Huang Ama agrees to enter the palace this time, I may have to leave for a long time. During this period, you should be careful. If there is anything wrong, you can go to Lian Yi. I will watch her and
You are quite close to each other, and there is also Dr. Xu. As for Su Yan...she has never suffered any grievances since she was a child, and she is inevitably a little arrogant. Don't argue with her." Yinzhen held Ling Ruo's shoulders and felt uneasy.
The ground warned.
Ling Ruo straightened his clothes and said softly: "I know that I will take good care of myself. Fourth Master, just feel free to go. I am waiting for Fourth Master to return after his success!"
"Definitely!" After spitting out these two words, Yinzhen and Yinxiang strode away. At this moment, the lives and deaths of millions of people were at stake, and there was no room for personal love between children.
He turned around, so he didn't see Ling Ruo's affectionate eyes following him. At this moment, Yinzhen truly walked into her heart, leaving an indelible shadow.
Yinzhen, will you miss me? I will miss you every day...every day...
Seeing that Yinzhen had disappeared and Lingruo was still standing there without saying a word, Mo Yu said strangely: "Master, what are you looking at?"
"It's nothing." Ling Ruo came back to his senses and stroked the bat pattern on his clothes. A strange light flickered in his eyes, "It's just... I can finally confirm that Lord Beile is the one who truly cares about the world. If he can
It should be a blessing for the people of the world to succeed to the throne a hundred years after Long Live Lord."
Mo Yu lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head and said with certainty: "Although I think Lord Beile is scary because he keeps a straight face all day long, he treats his master very well, and he also cares about the people affected by the flood, so I
I think Lord Baylor is a good person."
"It's a pity that not everyone knows about it." Ling Ruo sighed slightly. It was the eighth elder brother Yinzhen who was famous all over the world. Yinzhen only got the four words "cold-faced elder brother", alas...
She was also a little curious about the eighth prince, who could make everyone praise his virtuous name. He was by no means a simple person, not to mention that he also had Fujin, whom Yinzhen longed for. This man... seemed to have all of them.
The world is so good, she really wants to see this eighth prince with her own eyes, and wants to meet Aixinjueluo? Is Yinzhen really better than Aixinjueluo? Yinzhen.
Ling Ruo walked out of the study and looked up at the horizon where the morning sun was rising. The morning glow there was as bright as Shu brocade, so gorgeous that it was almost impossible to look at it. A slight smile bloomed on her lips, which was particularly dazzling against the morning glow.
But... no matter how outstanding the eighth prince is, in her eyes, he is always not as good as Yinzhen. To her, Yinzhen is the best one, and that will never change!