On the third day of the fifth month of Longqing, Henan Weihui Mansion broke the biggest news in the province in recent years: the nephew of Gao Gong, the nephew of Zhang Siwei, the right attendant of the ministry, and the prince's companion Gao Pragmatic set up a banquet in the mansion to entertain the gentry and celebrities of the mansion, and proposed a large loan during the banquet, with a total loan amount of up to 300,000 taels!

A figure like 300,000 taels is a huge amount of money wherever it is placed, not to mention that this senior attendant who offered to borrow money is only about ten years old, even though his uncle and uncle are all top high-ranking officials in the dynasty, but the problem is, he himself is young, who dares to guarantee that he can represent the two behind him?

Of course, the gentry and celebrities of Weihui Mansion are not lonely and unheard-of, they not only know that the Gao family is only a Wenfan heirloom, which is not a rich family, but also knows that Zhang Siwei was born in Puzhou Zhang, which is a real wealth and power - the largest Changlu salt farm in the north has been almost monopolized by the Zhang family over the years, and it is said that the annual income is millions of dollars, and the wealth is rivaled by the country!

Although Gao Pragmatic is only the nephew of the Zhang family, if the amount of money he borrows is too large, it is difficult to determine whether the Zhang family will be willing to give him the bottom line, but the gentry and celebrities present privately totaled it, but they still donated generously, and each reported the amount they were willing to lend.

In the end, this huge amount of money as high as 300,000 taels was borrowed in place after only one meal!

Gao Shiyu praised the gentry and celebrities of Weihui Mansion on the spot, who were kind-hearted, warm-hearted, and anxious. Then he said that he would not take a penny of the huge sum of 300,000 taels, and directly proposed to everyone present to buy a large amount of grain, cloth and other daily necessities.

The gentry present helped people to the end and sent the Buddha to the west, and they also responded together.

Then Gao Shiyu finally announced: This money will be used to help the victims - whether it is the local disaster victims in Henan, or the victims from Shandong and northern Jiangsu, as long as they have arrived in Henan, they are within the scope of relief!

Hearing this, the people present, whether officials or gentry, were shocked and ashamed of Gao Pragmatic's actions.

It stands to reason that although Gao Shishi is in the same province as them, his hometown of Xinzheng has not been affected by the disaster, and the displaced people have not gone there, and he really has no obligation to be so generous to the displaced people in Weihui Mansion, and would rather borrow money than provide disaster relief - let alone such a huge amount.

So some people didn't want to go, saying that they didn't charge a penny of interest on the loan they had just borrowed.

In fact, Gao Shishi's loan just now was only borrowed for one year, and the interest was generally not much.

But after all, for Gao Pragmatic, although 300,000 taels is a large amount, he can still think of a turnover, but for these gentry of Weihui Mansion, the money they lent out was not a small amount for their family, and it was already a major sacrifice to be exempt from interest.

Gao Shicheng thanked them again for their generosity, but still politely rejected such a kind of kindness, saying that since it is a loan, it is unreasonable not to pay interest, and if everyone also feels that disaster relief is a good deed, they may as well help themselves in other ways.

Everyone hurriedly asked Gao Shiyu, saying that there was anything else that needed help, although everyone's ability was limited, but within the scope of their ability, they were willing to help as much as possible.

I have to say that there are two undoubted things about people in this year: they should face in front of people and pay attention to their hometowns.

Therefore, Gao Pragmatic and a "foreigner" are willing to help in this way, if they do not show their willingness to take the initiative to follow up, after returning to their hometown, they will really not be able to get over their faces.

Not only did the gentry say so, but even Jiang Menglong, the Zun of Weihui Mansion, immediately said that Van Gogh read the places where the government needed help for disaster relief, and although he opened his mouth, he took on it himself - of course, Jiang Fuzun still hinted slightly in his words: The financial situation of Weihui Mansion is not very good, and this "help" is better than taking money.

Jiang Fuzun is a Jinshi in Jiajing for forty-four years, and it stands to reason that Gao Gong is also his master, but his room master is someone else, so he is not a serious protégé of Gao Gong, but he has a little affection, which is also a reason why he is willing to jump into this matter.

He didn't know that Gao Pragmatic was waiting for him, and as soon as his statement came out, Gao Pragmatic immediately said that there were many people, and if he only paid for it, even if it was 300,000 taels, I am afraid it would be very insufficient, so it was also necessary for Fuzun to set aside some "not very good" places for the purpose of relocating them.

As soon as they heard that they wanted land, everyone quieted down - borrowing money is easy to say, even donating money can be discussed, but donating land is too ruthless, and this decision must not be agreed to as soon as the brain is hot.

Jiang Fuzun was also a little stunned, and then said in embarrassment that the fields are all privately owned by each family, even if he is Fuzun, he doesn't count what he said, he can't order to collect other people's fields and distribute them to the homeless, right? Isn't that a big mess in the world!

Gao Pragmatic laughed, saying that he didn't want the master of the mansion to divide the land to the displaced people, but he just needed the approval of the lord of the mansion to draw a few barren mountains and mountains to make a place for them to live.

Jiang Fuzun listened a little inexplicably, a few barren mountains and mountains are of course a trivial matter, China since the beginning of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, barren mountains and mountains are really barren mountains and mountains (no wind note: theoretically they are all emperor's, but Emperor Wen of Han issued an edict to allow the people to freely hunt and other livelihood activities in these barren mountains and mountains, and later formed a practice. In Europe, any mountain, forest, or lake is the private property of the lord, and theoretically the common people cannot even hunt and catch fish at will. )。

The ownerless barren mountains in these years are indeed useless, but they are all nominally from the imperial court.

However, the problem is that all Chinese dynasties have difficult rights and responsibilities in this kind of matter, and the local government will never report to the imperial court when dealing with these things unless it involves a huge scope, and they can decide for themselves, and the imperial court generally does not care.

Therefore, when Jiang Fuzun heard it, he just wanted some barren mountains and mountains to resettle the displaced people, although he couldn't figure out how those barren mountains and wild mountains could support these many homeless people, but as long as he didn't let the Weihui Mansion Yamen take the money, everything would be negotiable. So Jiang Fuzun immediately made a decision, and asked Gao Pragmatic to indicate which places it was, and let people record it on his side, and go back to check if there is no owner, as long as it is confirmed that there is no owner, it is just barren mountains and mountains, it is easy to do!

Gao pragmatic then asked people to take the map of Weihui Mansion, and with the map that was really not accurate, he drew a place to the west of Fuzhiji County and the north of Xinxiang County.

Jiang Fuzun has not been in office for a long time, and he still doesn't understand the location of that place very well, but the gentry present are relieved, and someone told Jiang Fuzun that the place is close to Yuntai Mountain, and it is indeed not a good land, and it is not too much to say that the barren mountains and mountains are not too much, even if there are a few small villages, there are not many people, it should not be a big problem - 300,000 taels are placed here, and some money can be settled.

So this matter was settled, whether it was Jiang Fuzun or the gentry present, they all praised the high attendants for their great benevolence and righteousness, and saved their hometown Zizi in danger.

Gao Shishi, who thanked them with a smile, said in his heart: You only see me as a wealth boy, but you don't know that I do all kinds of business, but I don't do loss-making business. Even if I lose money for a while, sooner or later I will have to earn it back, and we'll see.