"Give so much money? Where did the court get the money? Aren't the treasury and the treasury empty? ”

Li Guozhen's eyes were wide and round again, and there was a surprised expression on the face of a brick knife that had been tanned by the sun.

Zhu Chunchen pointed upward, gasped and said, "Go up, you will know when you go up to the city tower......"

"The prince is on the castle tower?" Only then did Li Guozhen remember that he had come to Fuchengmen to see Prince Fujun.

"Yes!" Zhu Chunchen nodded, "If he is not here, can the little brother run up and down in these dozens of catties of iron?" Am I well fed? ”

"That's right, I have to go see the crown prince Chitose."

"I can't see the ......" Zhu Chunchen shook his head, "Now that I see that the prince has to line up, you still let the entourage line up first, and you can patrol the city for me." ”

"Queue? Do many people want to see the prince? ”

"Many! Hundreds! Zhu Chunchen looked up at the sky and said with a wry smile, "It is estimated that not many people went to the early dynasty, and they all came to line up to see the prince." ”

"Early Dynasty?" Li Guozhen was stunned, "The Holy Master is still in Beijing?" ”

"Of course."

"Then why did the prince raise the army?"

Zhu Chunchen sighed, "Isn't it because the prince has a way?" ”

What's the solution? Li Guozhen wondered in his heart, could it be that the prince has set up the emperor and is going to seize power?

Thinking of this, he didn't have time to talk nonsense with Zhu Chunchen, so he turned his head and walked towards the road to the city, and only halfway up the road, he saw officials and nobles wearing various colors of python robes queuing, and there were still a few "bearded clean soldiers" present to maintain order. Seeing Li Guozhen walking up, a gray-bearded "pure army" immediately stepped forward to stop him.

"Chitose Lord has an order, the officials who come to donate military salaries will all line up in turn, and no one is allowed to cut in line!"

Li Guozhen suspected that he had heard it wrong, and asked the "Uncle Jingjun" in front of him, "What did you say?" The officials lining up here are all here...... Donating money? ”

"yes!"

How is this possible!? When Li Guozhen was stunned, he suddenly heard someone shouting his name, and when he looked up, he saw Li Guorui, the Marquis of Wuqing, trotting down from the city tower with joy, followed by a eunuch and an East Palace guard.

Seeing Li Guozhen, Li Guorui smiled and saluted, "Uncle Xiangcheng, why are you here!" It's late......"

"Why are you late?" Li Guozhen was confused.

"If it's too late, I won't have the opportunity to donate military salaries and serve the country and be loyal!" Li Guorui smiled and took out a copy of the decree, "The younger brother has already obtained the decree of the Chitose Lord...... This is going to Dagukou to inspect the defense, and there will be a period later! ”

As he spoke, he arched his hand at Li Guozhen and ran towards the city as if flying.

What's going on? Li Guozhen was confused, does this donation of military salaries have anything to do with going to Dagukou to inspect defense?

And isn't it too late to hide from such a thing as donating military salaries? Why do you have to queue up? It's only been a few days since you left Beijing? Why don't these officials in the city love silver but only Daming?

Besides...... What kind of defense did you inspect at Dagukou? The thieves are not pirates, they are from the northwest and southwest, and there are no thieves off the coast of Tianjinwei.

couldn't figure out the key, Li Guozhen didn't think about it, so he said to the old man of the Jingjun who was blocking him: "This official is Li Guozhen, the chief of the Beijing camp, who has just returned from outside the city, and has urgent military affairs to report to His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

As soon as he heard that there was an urgent military matter, Uncle Jingjun didn't dare to stop Li Guozhen anymore, but the officials in line on the side were not happy.

"Can't let him pass!"

"Stop him......"

"Can't let him delay Chitose's time......"

"Yes, we still have to donate to serve the country!"

Li Guozhen only felt that his brain was not enough, what was going on? How could everyone be so brave in donating military salaries? Could it be that the people lining up here are all loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty? No, when the emperor asked everyone to donate a while ago, didn't everyone have any money?

Thinking of this, Li Guozhen found a 30-year-old civil official named Zhou Zerui among the officials waiting for donations.

"Keio, why are you here? Are you here to donate your salary? ”

This Zhou Langzhong is white and chubby, and he knows that he has not been an official in Beijing for too long. I don't know if it's because the fat man is afraid of the heat, or if he can't wait and wait, he can't donate money and is in a hurry, and he is wiping his sweat at this time.

Hearing Li Guozhen's words, he opened his mouth and said: "General Rong, Xia Guan is the successor of Donglin, and he has always taken the rise and fall of the world as his own responsibility. ”

Li Guozhen said blankly: "Honorable husband, aren't you a Qing official?" A few days ago, when the Holy Lord asked hundreds of officials and nobles to donate, you still want to sell me the treasured ancient books? How do you have money today? ”

"yes? Zhou Jingfu, why are you rich? Immediately, there was a eunuch official on the side who was about to deal with the Donglin Party members, and he interjected without being yin or yang.

"Why can't I have money?" Zhou Zerui glared, "The official sold the treasured ancient books for five thousand taels of silver, and today all of them were donated to the state for payment!" ”

"Ancient books? In the current chaos, who still buys ancient books? ”

Zhou Zerui said: "The official sold the ancient books to Gong Xiaosheng. ”

"Won't it?" At this time, a eunuch in front of the queue suddenly interjected in a strange way, "Our family is only lined up with Gong Xiaosheng, he said that he is also a Qing official and has no money to donate, but for the sake of loyalty and patriotism, he had to change Mrs. Hengbo for money......"

What the? Gong Dingyu sold Gu Hengbo!?

Li Guozhen was so surprised that he could put his fist in it with his mouth open!

Gu Hengbo! One of Qin Huai's eight yans! She and Gong Dingxiao, one of Jiang Zuo's three talents, Gong Xiaosheng, are a good story in the world. Why was it sold in a blink of an eye? Moreover, Gong Dingyu sold Gu Hengbo for money for loyalty and patriotism...... This, this thing doesn't sound real!

What happened in this Jingshi City? What the hell happened to these officials? Why are you so patriotic and loyal?

I haven't seen each other for a few days, they don't want money, they don't want beautiful women, so they want to be loyal ministers......

Of course Gong Dingyu will not sell Gu Hengbo, how can he be willing? There is true love between him and Gu Hengbo. And he was not so poor that he couldn't get two thousand taels of gold. Don't talk about him with this amount of money, Gu Hengbo's own private house is more than that.

But if he didn't say that, how could he explain that a gentleman of Donglin, who had clean sleeves and a noble character, would be so rich that he could take out two thousand taels of gold to donate filial piety. So when queuing up on the horse road, Gong Dingyu casually made up a story. As a result, Zhu Cihong's foreman guard Zhu Chunjie heard it and went to report to Zhu Cihong.

After Zhu Cihong learned of this, he immediately asked his teacher Lin Zengzhi to invite Gong Dingyu into the city tower.

"Gong Caizi is really a rare loyal minister of my Ming Dynasty!" Zhu Cihong said with a touched face, "This palace has also heard the good story between you and Mrs. Hengbo, but you can't let lovers be separated...... In this way, the palace will give you an edict, you take it and ask Mrs. Hengbo back, and then go to Tianjin to pass on the decree of the palace. After passing the order, wait for the palace and the saint at the mouth of Dagu.

The palace admires Mr. very much, and hopes that he can serve as the lecturer of the palace...... Mr. will be the teacher of the main palace from now on! ”

This is really a jackpot, 2000 taels of gold not only bought the order to leave the city of Beijing, you can leave from Chaoyangmen in a grand manner, but also can bring your family and soft belongings. and has become the teacher of the powerful prince...... That's a real earning!

took the order handed by Zhu Cihong, and then wrote on a list of "Minister Gong Dingyu respectfully receives the order of His Royal Highness the Prince", and then left with an internal official and a guard - the internal official and the guard went with him to get the money, and after getting the donated gold, they would escort Gong Dingyu out of the city from Chaoyang Gate.

Watching Gong Dingyu sign the roster, Zhu Cihong was so happy, great, he found another loyal minister!

Who said that there were no loyal ministers in Beijing at the end of the year? It is clear that Emperor Chongzhen will not find loyal ministers! When I got here, I saw that so many loyal ministers lined up to donate money...... Just now, there were loyal ministers who cut into the queue to fight in order to donate money to the country as soon as possible!

If Li Zicheng knew the current situation in Beijing, he would probably go home immediately, right?