Chapter 12 (11) Father-in-law likes Snowflake Silver

After Wu Xiang left, Emperor Chongzhen presided over a meeting of eunuchs in the palace. At the meeting, Emperor Chongzhen hoped that the eunuchs would not ask how big a piece of flesh the Ming Dynasty cut off from you, but what you did for the country... When the country is in crisis, it is time to serve the country. Donate money. It's called a special donation, not too much, and the lower limit must not fall below three hundred taels of silver, and the higher the upper limit, the better... While talking happily, Chong Zhen fell silent. The eunuchs all drooped their heads, and none of them expressed their willingness to donate money.

No wonder the eunuchs refused to pay the money. These people were originally good, but they were caught in the palace, cut off the objects passed on from generation to generation, and the beauties who guarded the group every day had no mantras to chant. It's too inhumane to ask them to pay for money again at some point, right? If the eunuch refuses to pay, forget it. How about letting the ministers pay for it? Chong Zhen shook his head, shook his head, and shook his head again. No one knows the ministers in the court better than Chongzhen. Those guys, after all, are just high-level wage earners. When Li Zicheng didn't call himself Zhen, there was only an economic entity like Daming in the world. Even if the ministers wanted to If you have two minds, you have no place to use them.But now that Li Zicheng has already regarded himself as a lord, it may not be easy to ask these wage earners to be loyal at this time.

It seems that the only ones who are willing to spend money to solve the crisis of Ming Dynasty are the royal relatives. The relatives of the emperor, they should be regarded as the board of directors of the Ming Dynasty, belonging to the rentier class, they are the only people in the world who don’t need to work and get money for free, the rest, even the emperor himself, need to work hard to manage the state affairs, Only the relatives of the royal family don't need to do anything. If this big family is finished tomorrow, where will they get the money? Moreover, the richest person in the world should be Queen Zhou's father, Jiading Bo Zhou Kui. It is reasonable to ask the father-in-law to give a few tokens of money to set an example, right?

This is definitely a good idea, as long as Jia Ding Bo takes the lead, others will not be able to back down, and when the time comes to collect three to five million taels of silver, it should be no longer a problem. As soon as he thought of it, he immediately sent the eunuch to find the old man. The eunuch Xu Gao led the decree out of the palace and went to Jiadingbo's residence.When he entered, Bo Jiading was counting the number of silver ingots in the storeroom. Zhou Kui had no other hobbies in his life, but he liked large pieces of gold and silver. His family kept 20 storehouses of gold ingots and 40 storehouses of silver ingots. , but recently Jiadingbo has built dozens of new warehouses, and he can’t get so much gold and silver to fill the warehouses for a while. Looking at the empty warehouses, Jiadingbo feels unspeakable sadness in his heart, and often has a kind of despair emotions come to mind.

Life is cruel! World ah, difficult! Gold and silver are really hard to earn. Jiadingbo's heart was as empty as that empty warehouse. When he was feeling sad, he suddenly heard the news that someone from the palace had come, and Jiading Bo was overjoyed: Could it be that the son-in-law, the emperor, understands that it is not easy for the old man to make money, and it is not possible to have a reward? He came out without touching the ground, and heard the bad news that made Jia Dingbo unbearable: There is a decree in the holy order to let Jiading Bo take the lead in donating money to help pay and eliminate thieves.

donate?Jia Dingbo was startled and almost fell down: Is there any mistake, don't those ministers and eunuchs have paid enough? The little eunuch Xu Gao sneered: Uncle Jiading, you are the head of the country, and you haven't paid for it yet. Who else would dare to snatch it in front of you? But... this... Uncle Jia Ding was sweating profusely: I don't have any money in my family. In this capital, who doesn't know that I have nothing to do and I'm poor... If Jiadingbo were poor, there would be no rich people in Beijing.The little eunuch Xu Gao smiled sinisterly: The emperor said, you have to donate at least 120,000 taels of silver, the amount is too small, I'm afraid it won't set an example.

One hundred and twenty thousand taels of silver?This is fatal!Zhou Kui gritted his teeth: Tell the truth to my father-in-law, there is not a single steel collapse in the house, you can figure it out. Zhou Kui went all out and didn't even recognize the emperor's son-in-law, so the little eunuch Xu Gao had no choice but to beg: "Then Jiading Bo, you have to express it anyway, otherwise our family will go back to the palace, and it will be bad for the emperor." Tell me. Zhou Kui gritted his teeth and gritted his teeth again: You go back and tell the emperor, after I sell all the furniture, see if I can make up the 10,000 taels, if it is really not enough, then I have nothing to do.