Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen had a tendency to run rampant, everyone in the hall lowered their heads, meekly like sheep, trying to reduce their own existence, how dare they oppose it! Otherwise, it is likely that the emperor will think that he wants to blackmail the generals in front, and once the factory guards are investigated, they will be in trouble!

Emperor Chongzhen saw that none of the courtiers below spoke up, so he lost his temper a little, and said in a soothing tone: "It has been more than four months since Jianyu was raging, how many people have been ruined and their wives have been separated? There is also King De, now life and death are unknown! However, I ordered King Qin, how many troops have rushed to King Qin? How many of the king's armies were able to fight to the death? Tell me, how many armies can I rely on? ”

The hall was silent, so quiet that some people didn't dare to fart secretly!

Seeing that the courtiers below all lowered their heads, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly took the letter and raised it, and then said loudly: "Now, the Qin soldiers have stood up, they live up to their expectations and dare to fight to the death with Jianyu!" In the days when thousands of horses were together, I was given such good news to the Ming Dynasty, to the Ming people, and to let me and my people see that Jianyu was not invincible, and our Ming army was capable of defeating them. At this time, can you pour cold water on those soldiers who sacrifice their lives and forget their deaths, and chill their hearts? “

"Also, you should have heard that the Qin soldiers suffered more than 5,000 casualties in this battle, although they won two battles, but the price was not big? They paid such a big price, threw their heads, spilled their blood, forgot their lives, won the war for the Ming Dynasty, and taught Jianyu a hard lesson. Is it necessary to reward such a loyal army rather than to discourage them, and to let those ruffians laugh at and ridicule them for their loyalty to the country? Come, who among you will tell me what the court should do? “

In the battle of cold weapons, the so-called killing of 1,000 enemies and self-loss of 800 is not a casual talk. The battle loss ratio of each battle like the Qi family's army is very, very rare. In this battle, the main casualties of the Qin soldiers were in Sun Chuanting's blocking battle. Of course, when besieging and killing the 5,000 Tartar infantry troops, the other party was still trapped, which also caused a lot of casualties to the Qin soldiers.

It is also for this reason that at the end of this report, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting played that the army must rest and recuperate, and it will be difficult to attack in a short time. If at this time, the imperial court no longer trusts them, the blow to the morale of the army can be imagined.

After Emperor Chongzhen finished asking, he saw that none of them spoke, the corners of his mouth twitched, revealing a silent sneer, and then he said by name: "Yang Qing, you are an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, and you are famous for knowing soldiers, you come to answer me, what is the most correct thing for the imperial court?" ”

When Yang Sichang heard this, he was very helpless in his heart, you have already said so clearly when you are the emperor, what else can I say?

In fact, if personal emotions are put aside, Yang Sichang also agrees with Emperor Chongzhen's statement. At this time, Daming needs to have an example too much. Therefore, even if Qin Bing's record is a bit exaggerated, the imperial court will admit it. Not only must we admit it, but also exaggerate it for the Qin soldiers, so as to increase the morale of the Ming Dynasty and encourage more troops to fight against Jianyu, instead of not working and not contributing.

"The minister seconded the proposal!" Yang Sichang didn't dare to delay, and immediately replied in a respectful voice: "The imperial court should commend and reward this great victory!" ”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he turned his head to look at the other person, and asked in a cold voice, "Zhong Qing, what do you all say?" ”

When Zhong Wei heard this, his heart was as speechless as Yang Sichang, your emperor has said it so clearly, and even the Yang Pavilion Department agreed, can you say that you are wrong? If not, how do you get the reason? There's no reason for that!

After thinking about it for a while, he didn't dare to slack off, and followed back: "Your Majesty, the minister also seconded the proposal, Qin Bing is loyal to the monarch to serve the country, this great victory should indeed be rewarded, and it should be widely publicized to increase my morale!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen listened, ignored him, and then turned his head to look at the next one. Anyway, the important yamen chiefs in the palace, he asked them one by one, and the result was not unexpected, under his strength, they reached a consensus: It is rare to have such a big victory, and it must be rewarded!

In this way, the problem arises.

I saw Emperor Chongzhen looking at a person: "The court wants to reward heavily, does Li Qing have a charter?" ”

Li Qing is Li to be asked, the book of the Ming Household Department. He knew that Emperor Chongzhen would ask him, so he sighed in his heart and bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, according to the great victory played in the report of victory, there are more than 5,000 first-class silver rewards, as well as more than 5,000 casualties and compensation for the casualties of more than 5,000 soldiers, as well as rewards for meritorious soldiers. ”

Regarding the rewards of Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, and Lu Xiangsheng, and the rewards of the generals who led the troops, these are not something that can be decided by the secretary of his household. What he should be right here is about silver.

After Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he didn't ask him about the specific algorithm, but just nodded and said: "Since this is the case, Qing will handle it accordingly, and there must be no delay, so as not to chill the hearts of the soldiers ahead!" ”

"......" Li waited to ask and couldn't help but be dumbfounded, is the emperor pretending to be stupid or pretending to be stupid!

He had no choice but to play again: "Your Majesty, there is no silver in the treasury, I don't know where this reward will come from?" ”

"Oh......" Emperor Chongzhen listened, as if he had just remembered, and dragged a long note, and then looked at him and asked: "The treasury has no silver, and the secretary is the head of the household, why don't you want to think of a way?" Now that you have no money, how can this be good? ”

"......" Li Zhi asked if this was really speechless, the treasury has no silver, and the common people in the world don't know? Yin eats grain, but I don't know how many years later. This is not counting, the Liao salary and the expulsion salary have already been levied, and there is no way to increase it at present. The official of the Ming Dynasty, if you want to say that it is difficult to do, it should belong to your own household book!

He couldn't answer the emperor's words for a while, but fortunately, the emperor didn't continue to embarrass him, and asked Yang Sichang instead: "Is there a way for Yang Qing?" ”

Yang Sichang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, his eyes rolled slightly, and he glanced at Xue Guoguan who was standing in front of him, thinking in his heart, why didn't the emperor ask him to ask himself? I'm not the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty!

However, the emperor had already asked him by name, so he had to answer: "Your Majesty, the only way to do this now is to levy more, and the Liao salary and the expulsion salary have already been levied too much, so it is not appropriate to increase it again, it is better to set up another training salary, which is the silver for training the army to resist the captives." In this way, the treasury will be able to use more silver! ”

He had already mentioned this plan to Emperor Chongzhen before, and the emperor did not deny it at that time, and when he was asked at this time, he casually proposed it to deal with it.

Emperor Chongzhen did not nod or shake his head at this, but immediately replied to him: "I now want to reward the Qin soldiers with silver, and it is difficult to quench the thirst of the near water!" You can't owe it, can you? ”

When Yang Sichang heard this, he suddenly remembered that that day, it seemed that this Xue Manzi also proposed a plan to the emperor. His method seems to be able to get money immediately and solve the current matter. Could it be, he ran out to stir again at this time, right?

Sure enough, as soon as he thought of this, he saw Xue Guoguan stepping out sideways and playing: "Your Majesty, the minister has a plan to solve the current emergency!" ”

As soon as he heard this, Yang Sichang really wanted to burst into foul language, you Xue Man, you really dare! Don't you know, in that case, all civil and military officials, royal relatives and nobles will be offended to death?

Just now, he was actually still jealous that Xue Guoguan had promoted him to the position of first assistant before him. But at this time, he thought that Xue Guoguan was as far away as possible!

Even if he is from a family of eunuchs, he is favored by the emperor, at least he has always been, he doesn't have the courage to offend all civil and military generals, royal relatives and nobles!

"Oh?" Emperor Chongzhen seemed to be a little surprised when he saw Xue Guoguan coming out, in fact, this was what they had discussed last night, "Xue Qing can have a way, hurry up and share my worries!" ”

Hubu Shangshu stared at Xue Guoguan, very curious in his heart, I don't know what good way the new first assistant has, can he quickly come to the silver to solve the current urgent needs?

In fact, it was not only him, everyone in the hall, except for Cao Huachun, who was silently standing in the team of eunuchs of the master of ceremonies and bingbi, everyone else was very curious, and they all stared at Xue Guoguan, wanting to hear what he had in mind?

So, under everyone's attention, I listened to Xue Guoguan say to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, Li Guochen, the brother of the Marquis of Wuqing, once said to the minister that his father has a family fortune of 400,000 taels, and his brothers share it equally, and he has 200,000 taels, and he is willing to donate it to the imperial court as military funds. In this way, it is just enough to solve the urgent needs of the moment! ”

"Oh, and that?" Emperor Chongzhen seemed to be very surprised, and then said with great joy, "Since there are such virtuous people, what about people, where are people?" ”

They sang and harmonized, but everyone else was shocked.

200,000 taels, donate 200,000 taels for military funds, are you crazy?

If it is converted into RMB in later generations, the gross estimate will be converted, which will be 100 million! Even in the era of the outbreak of materials in later generations, when there were a lot of wealth, few people could have the heart to donate so much money at once.

What's more, according to Xue Guoguan, Li Guochen is tantamount to a naked donation!

So, the ministers in the palace ignored the etiquette in front of the palace, and immediately discussed with their colleagues around them in a low voice.

Xue Guoguan ignored them, followed the script, and immediately replied to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, people are waiting outside the palace." ”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he hurriedly ordered: "Quick, Xuan Li Guochen will meet you!" ”

So, the attendant sensed the holy will and immediately hurried out of the temple.

Among the ministers in the palace, Yang Sichang did not participate in the whispering, and he had a gloomy face and looked down at his feet.

This Xue Manzi finally came out to stir up. After the emperor approved, did the next step be to propose donations to all the imperial relatives and nobles, and then the cabinet should be responsible for donating to the civil and military officials? Crazy?

Yang Sichang thought so in his heart, and looked up at Xue Guoguan's back, which was quite unkind in his eyes. was ruthless in his heart, no matter what, he must stop this Xue Guoguan from continuing to stir up, otherwise, he will definitely be implicated by him.

Thinking so, he thought urgently.

It didn't take long for the chamberlain to lead Li Guochen into the palace.

Seeing him kneel on the ground to salute, many officials have already discussed the same, and they realized that something was wrong. Even those who know the Marquis of Wuqing know a little bit about their brothers, and they are even more worried about something.

After Emperor Chongzhen waited for Li Guochen to finish the ceremony, he asked him with a kind face: "Listening to what Xue Qing said, are you willing to donate 200,000 taels of silver as military funds?" ”

"Although the grass people are not from a scholar's background, they know that the imperial court is in urgent need of money, and they are willing to donate 200,000 yuan of their father's inheritance as military funds!" Li Guochen had confidence in his heart, and immediately echoed loudly.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly said to the ministers below: "Look, look, this is the conscience of the Ming Dynasty!" I have read the books of the sages and sages, and I guess I can't do such righteous deeds. If I have more righteous people like him, why worry about the injustice of the thieves and the immortality of the captives! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly saw Yang Sichang cough and said, "Your Majesty, there may be something strange about this matter!" ”

As soon as he said this, it was like a shock, which surprised everyone and turned their heads to look at him.

"What do you mean by that?" When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he also lowered his face coldly, and asked a little unhappily.

Yang Sichang was already determined to stop Xue Guoguan's at this time, so although the emperor was unhappy, he still had to say. I heard him echo the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, as far as the minister knows, whether the previous Marquis of Wuqing's family wealth is 400,000 and don't say it, just say that this person was born to a little maid, and the inheritance left by the Marquis of Wuqing was all for the current Marquis of Wuqing, and this person couldn't get the silver at all, so he was resentful and turned to say such a big thing!" ”

As soon as they heard this, these officials in the hall suddenly realized that this was the case, and they really thought that there were such generous people!

"Your Majesty, as far as the minister knows, this person has many contradictions with the Marquis of Wuqing, and this move is set to take revenge on the Marquis of Wuqing!"

"Your Majesty, this person was born to a little maid, how could the old Marquis Wu Qinghou do something about dividing the family property equally, it must be his deliberate intention to take revenge on the current Marquis Wu Qing!"

“……”

All of a sudden, many civil officials came out one after another and began to accuse Li Guochen.

Some of them are trying to stop it for their own purposes.

You must know that once this Li Guochen really donated 200,000 taels to the imperial court, how could they be embarrassed by those who were born to read sage books? This thing is simply a slap in the face! If you can stop this, of course you have to stop it!

There are also people who got inspiration from Yang Sichang's words, this person was just born to a little maid, why should he divide the family property equally, 200,000 taels, which is not a small amount. This matter, if it is really going to be done, I will have a lot of sons in my house when I go back, and I will fight for the inheritance if I don't look back. The distinction between the descendants and the concubines should not be chaotic!

Therefore, although Li Guochen's donation of his own money was not directly related to these civil officials, these civil officials all opposed the attack on Li Guochen for their own purposes. Looking at the fierce crusade against Li Guochen, Yang Sichang, who had already retreated into the queue, couldn't help but smile in his heart, can this matter continue?