Chapter 1068: Charity Dinner
When Chang Yu returned to the Yamen of the Waidongchang, it was already dusk and sunset, and all the relatives and servants finally came back, making tea and chatting in the courtyard, and heard that there was still a wine field at night It was excited and gritted his teeth.
All the people on duty at night are not allowed to drink, Chang Yu rolled his eyes and walked into the lobby and immediately sat down on the Taishi chair, busy for two days and one night without sleep, and finally tired, he leaned on the chair for a while and got up and grinded and wrote a letter, attracting a fan: "Wearing brocade clothes and guards to the Datong Dynasty Palace" Then he went to the room to rest, and asked Fang San to wake him up an hour later.
Xianju Building, also known as Drunken Xianju, is located in Chaoyangmen Inner Street is the first building in the East City, is also very famous in the capital, and its behind-the-scenes boss is Fang Ba in the 12 Taibao of the underworld in Beijing.
Chang Yu chose to set up a banquet here to celebrate the generals, firstly, there were too many people, and secondly, to take care of the brothers' business.
Fang Ba is not in the capital, to be precise, except for Song Siyang in the south of the city, everyone else has left Beijing, either preparing grain and grass, or on the way to prepare grain and grass, or operating a branch elsewhere, very busy.
The owner is not there, and there is the shopkeeper, the business of Xianjulou has always been good, and today at noon came a few words and left, and then the shopkeeper announced, it will not be open tonight!
It's not closed, it's chartered.
Someone inquired, who is so curious, and has chartered the entire Xianju Building, how many people have come, and how much silver has to be said!
The shopkeeper said two words, East Factory.
At the beginning of the night, there were invited guests to come to the door one after another, the soldiers who were rewarded for their merits in each department, there were the Beijing battalion, the pro-guard battalion, the four battalions under the command of Dongchang, and the generals of Li Yan and Huang Degong, in addition to the military department, the civil and military officials of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the invited identities were very awesome, such as Shi Kefa, the secretary of the military department, Wang Jiayan, the governor of the Beijing camp, Wu Weiying, the commander of the Shenji battalion, and the newly recruited Hui Anbo, Xuancheng Bo, Xinle Hou, etc., and what is even more surprising is that there are two grandfathers and Jinyi Wei commanders, It's just that there are very few people who know the whereabouts of the three of them, so they went directly to the private room on the third floor.
When Chang Yu was woken up by Fang San, it was already completely dark, and the attendants in the courtyard were also ready, because Song Luoyu and Jiang Fa were injured, and Qiao Sanxiu, who was on vacation, automatically came to fill the vacancy, and Li Muxian, Chen Wangting, Song Luoshu, and Wu Zhong formed the Five King Kongs to be responsible for security.
"Where's Chunxiang?" Chang Yu washed his face with cold water, walked into the courtyard, glanced at it and asked.
"Father-in-law Chun has gone to the Xianju Building to entertain guests," Fang San said softly: "Father-in-law, can the little one go there today to open his eyes?" ”
"Yes" Chang Yu readily agreed: "Just to be able to get together with Lao Hu at a table" Fang Sanxi thanked him again and again.
The old Hu Zhangche, Qiao Sanxiu's five master cavalry followed left and right, and there were more than ten people with knives to follow, slowly moving towards Dongcheng, and pedestrians along the way avoided and pointed.
Xianju Building as the first floor of the East City is magnificent, the upper and lower three floors can accommodate more than 100 people, Chang Yu arrived in the building is already boiling with people, the soldiers greet each other, according to the rank and level of the seat.
Guerrillas, 100 households and below are on the first floor, and the general guards the intermediate military generals on the second floor.
As for the position of the big guy on the third floor, in addition to a few private rooms, there are three large tables in the middle of the hall, which are also full, except for the civil and military officials of the military department and the governor of the five armies and a few nobles, Li Yan, Zhou Yuji, Huang Degong, Tang Tong, Ma Ke, Wu Sangui, Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, and the generals of the four battalions under the command of Dongchang are all in the column, and they are touting each other and are very lively.
As for the private rooms, the doors are closed, and there are two brocade guards standing at the door of the largest private room, and the generals know that there are people in them who are also curious, but no one dares to ask, and the little thumb can guess that it is definitely a big person, and it is not the prince or the emperor.
Chang Yu's arrival made Xianju Building blow up, from the first floor to the second floor to ask the soldiers to say hello at the top of their throats, Chang Yu also hugged his fists and looked around: "Eat and drink well, let's go up first and stay and come down to toast......"
The general on the third floor moved to the staircase to greet him, and when he saw Chang Yu coming up to greet him, Chang Yu hugged his fists and shook his fists: "No outsiders, you don't need to be so polite, you should be so comfortable in the army."
"That's it" Huang Degong laughed: "There are too many rules in Beijing, and I can be suffocated these days, how can we be at ease when we fight, we can do whatever we want......" Everyone laughed, and Chang Yu said: "You can do whatever you want today, as long as you don't jump on the table to pee."
Everyone laughed again, and then they sat down, and Chunxiang was over there with the shopkeeper serving wine and food.
"Tonight's wine tube is enough to eat and drink, you just have fun, don't save money for our family" Chang Yu sat down and said first, the generals applauded, Zhou Yuji said: "There are so many of us, don't empty the factory."
"The emperor rewarded our family with a thousand taels of silver, and now you can eat it with a stomach, and you will make it according to a thousand taels of silver!" Chang Yu waved his big hand and was full of arrogance, and the generals were surprised, the emperor rewarded the little eunuch with a thousand taels of silver? That's too hard, isn't it?
Heroes like Li Yan, Zhou Yuji, and Huang Degong are not only ranked among the Zhuguo knights, but also have silver rewards of 10,000 taels of silver, and the little eunuchs with the most military achievements only have 1,000 taels of silver.
"We are a little embarrassed to put down the chopsticks, the factory supervisor will not wait for us to finish eating, let us donate silver" Huang Degong and Chang Yu have a close relationship, and they speak very casually, and everyone laughs.
"That's not it, no matter how poor our family is, we can still open the pot" Chang Yu laughed, and changed his words: "But if you want to donate some military funds and military rations, the governor really appreciates you."
"Hey, look at what I owe" Huang Degong gave himself a mouthful directly, he knew that the words just now were caught by the little eunuch, tonight's celebration banquet is about to turn into a charity dinner, it seems that anyone who doesn't donate something can't hang their faces and is embarrassed to move chopsticks.
Chang Yu will be calculating, and he can't sleep without squeezing a little while the generals are just being rewarded, of course, he is not so stingy, but in fact, he is preparing for the military hospital for the red lady to raise funds.
"Since the factory supervisor has spoken, and we can't be the iron prince ** when we are recruiting military funds, each of them will say" Surprisingly, Wu Sangui took the lead in speaking, and the generals agreed.
Chang Yu thanked him, and said that the preparation of the military hospital was a major event for the benefit of the country and the army, and in the future, all active or retired soldiers can enjoy free treatment regardless of whether they are injured or sick, that is, the full medical insurance of future generations.
But the generals are rich, Zhou Yuji is two thousand taels in one mouth, and the rest of the generals have pledged no less than one thousand taels, Chang Yu and Li Yan are grateful, and thank them one by one.
"This is a big plan, the more the merrier, I hope that after you return to the camp, you will launch a whole army to raise donations, how much is not limited, and rest assured that the silver is taken from the military for the military......" Chang Yu patted his chest and promised, and finally proposed that if it was excess, it would be a bonus to reward the soldiers with military merits, and the generals would echo it.
The matter of the red lady's frowning for several months was easily solved by Chang Yu, and the wave of people on the third floor alone donated tens of thousands of taels of silver, plus more than enough to raise donations for the whole army.