"This! Sir, you have also heard that His Majesty wants us to enter the palace immediately. If we don't go, our heads will be chopped off!"
Li Guozhen said hurriedly.
He still has a bright future, but he doesn't want to be beheaded for something like this.
Moreover, if he continues to be locked up here, he doesn't know whether he can lose his head, but he will definitely starve to death.
"Do you really want to go out?"
Sun Buer looked at them and asked.
"I want to go out! I really want to go out!"
Li Guozhen said.
"Okay! If each of you gives me one million taels of silver, I will let you out. One million taels will buy the heads around your necks. Isn't it a good deal?"
Sun Buer said.
His pair of dim yellow eyes were flashing with a thief's light at this moment. Seventeen people were imprisoned here, each with one million taels of silver, that is, seventeen million taels.
I'm going to make a lot of money.
"Ah! We don't have so much money!"
Several people said hurriedly.
Fortunately for Li Guozhen, as the crown prince and grand master, he has earned several million taels of silver over the years, and one million taels of silver is enough to buy his life.
However, the ministers of the Ministry of War have not made much money over the years. If all of it was given to Sun Buer, they would have nothing.
"There's none?
Then you can continue to stay here, I happen to have nothing to do, so you can chat with me."
Sun Buer said.
wipe!
After hearing what Sun Bu'er said, Li Guozhen and others cursed in their hearts, this guy is just like Lin Fan, he doesn't take soft and hard tactics!
"Uncle, we gave you this money, please let us go now!"
Li Guozhen gritted his teeth and agreed to Sun Buer's request.
Anyway, Sun Buer's request is very unreasonable. After they go out, they can refuse to admit it and see what this person can do to them.
"Hey! Just promise. I'll write you an IOU now, and you'll all sign and pledge it."
Sun Buer chuckled.
He walked to a secret room, took out a pen and paper, scribbled a few dots on it, wrote an IOU, and then asked Li Guozhen and others to sign and pledge it.
After doing all this, Sun Buer untied their chains and let them go.
Several people were tied up for three days and were finally freed. The moment they saw the sun, tears welled up in their eyes, and unspeakable sadness surged into their hearts.
"Woo! We're finally out!"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! In these three days, we haven't drank a sip of water. Go and find me some water. I want some water!"
"Don't drink water yet, it's important to see His Majesty!"
Several people cried loudly and said that the people in the Ministry of War and Beizhen Fusi were dumbfounded. What had these adults gone through inside to torture them like this.
However, the most important thing now is to take them to see His Majesty. Several soldiers from the Ministry of War, resisting hunger, helped them to the palace.
Beizhen Fusi and the rest of the military department left to find food. For a moment, a special scene appeared on the streets of the capital.
The Jin Yiwei and the soldiers of the Ministry of War were like hungry wolves, eating whatever they saw, so scared that the vendors did not dare to come forward.
The officials of the Ministry of War and Li Guozhen were supported by others, their faces were sallow, and they looked like they were about to die, as they walked towards the palace.
The people thought that something big had happened, so they hid in their homes and did not dare to go out. Above the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Emperor Chongzhen waited until almost noon before Li Guozhen and others arrived.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Wow, I have been treated inhumanely these days. Lin Fan has no respect for the king and has imprisoned me!"
"Your Majesty, in the past few days, I haven't had a morsel of rice or a sip of water. I'm so hungry that my eyes are filled with stars. Fortunately, Your Majesty summoned us and we were able to get out of trouble!"
"The subordinates of Lin Fan are so disgusting. When I went to get the silver, he not only refused to give it to me, but also said that we were stealing the silver and tied us up with chains! The most disgusting thing is that the chains were made of pure silver!
"
"Arrogant and domineering! Absolutely abominable! No law! Bullying officials! Your Majesty! Decree that Lin Fan be put to death!"
The officials of the Ministry of War and Li Guozhen were gnashing their teeth in hatred.
Emperor Chongzhen was shocked when he heard what they said. How many backup plans did his son have?
Leaving the capital can still cause these officials to suffer such a big loss.
"My dear friends, this is unlikely. The total number of people in Baihu Si Yamen is only about 2,000. You have gone to so many people and you haven't even gotten a tael of silver?"
Emperor Chongzhen asked.
"Woo! Your Majesty, it's absolutely true! In the underground secret room of Baihu Division, there are mountains of silver, too much, but there are people watching!"
"That man is so skilled in martial arts that even the thousands of households in Fusi in Beizhen are no match for him. I can't get any money. I am ashamed of your majesty!"
The officials cried loudly.
Chongzhen immediately said angrily: "Trash! A bunch of trash, I have given orders, but you can't even handle this. If this spreads out, will I still want my face?"
What prestige does the imperial court have?"
Chongzhen was angry on the surface, but felt relieved in his heart.
snort!
By making you arrogant, aren't you forcing me to agree to go to Baihu Division to get money?
I agreed, so you should go and get it! If you can't get the money, I will never forgive you lightly.
"This... Your Majesty, I am incompetent, but Lin Fan's men are too overbearing!"
Li Guozhen said in a deep voice.
"Hmph! Even if you can't solve it for just one person, how can I trust you to manage this country and the country?
Are all the officials in our Ming Dynasty useless?"
"I don't care. You have said that I have ordered you to go to the White Tiger Division to get money. You can assemble an army of 300,000 for me. I don't care what method you use. No one in the army of 300,000 can be left behind. You must bring them all.
Come to me!"
Emperor Chongzhen said angrily.
ah!
Li Guozhen and others were shocked. After getting 10 million taels of silver, it would be no problem to organize an army of 300,000 people. But now that there is no money, how can we gather so many troops?
"Your Majesty! We have no money now!"
Officials from the Ministry of War complained bitterly.
Emperor Chongzhen said coldly: "What?
Doesn’t Baihusi have money?
I said at the beginning that the money could not be taken, but you insisted that you could, and now I have agreed, but you say you can't get it!"
"Are you kidding me?"
"I want to see every one of the 300,000 troops. I'll give you a month. If you can't do it, I'll kill them without mercy!"
After Emperor Chongzhen said this, he flicked his sleeves and left directly, leaving Li Guozhen and others standing there dumbly.
Li Jiantai coughed twice and said: "The military camps in various places that the Ministry of War can control now are less than 50,000 people. I can help you mobilize them now, but you can figure out a way for the remaining 250,000 people on your own."
After saying that, Li Jiantai turned around and walked out of the Hall of Supreme Harmony.