Mr. Yangui

Chapter 124 Chapter [-]
"Why are you looking at me like that? I've said it all. I'm just expressing some of my own opinions. If what I say is wrong, you can ignore it." Li Wuxian spread his hands innocently as everyone looked at him.

Shen Tongguang sighed, and said: "The method of impermanence is very convincing, but it will be very difficult to implement."

This is true.

First, there was not much grain left in Anle County, and Shen Tongguang had to rush back immediately. One million taels of silver was not a small amount, and it was very difficult to collect it within a few days.

Second, Li Wuchang mentioned the so-called one-vote big, which is more difficult. Since the war with Khitan in October last year, although he has fought many tough battles, most of them have lost more. Killing the enemy's mind is easier said than done.

Li Wu could see that everyone was frowning, and said: "I only know that if you don't take any measures, His Majesty will definitely give up the northern part of Jizhou. At that time, General Zhou will definitely die. If you do it, there is still a chance of life...Don't you guys?" Looking at me like this, the reason why I said such a big deal just now is entirely for the sake of the old lady, because from the moment I treat her, she is my patient, and I will naturally try to help if I can. "

Shen Tongguang gritted his teeth and said, "Impermanence is right. If you don't do anything, General Zhou will definitely die."

Then he looked at Li Lingwu and begged, "Master Commander, you and General Zhou have known each other since childhood, so you must help General Zhou at this time."

Li Lingwu exhaled, and said: "Just follow the method Wuchang said, let's collect the money first, I will temporarily support 20 taels, and use the bank notes directly."

Shen Tongguang was extremely grateful. Although Li's family has a great career, 20 taels does not seem to be much, but this should be the limit. If there is more, it may cause your majesty to misunderstand.

20 taels, no more, no less, just to support old friends, people from all walks of life are speechless.

Zhou Chengwang said: "The Zhou family's wealth is not rich, how much money there is can be calculated, and the money that can be used is probably around 20 taels."

Zhou Sheng is an upright person, and he is not someone who is willing to search. Although he is very powerful, there are many women, children, old and young, who spend a lot of money on weekdays, and no one in the Zhou family does business. Savings are pretty good.

Shen Tongguang said again: "Zheng Tai, the younger brother of Minister Zheng Heng of the Ministry of Rites, and General Zhou are life-and-death friends. I will ask Zheng Shilang for help, and I should be able to get some silver taels."

Li Hu shook his head and said: "The Zheng family is full of loyalty and loyalty. Zheng Shilang's three younger brothers all died on the battlefield. Several hundred members of the family depend on him to support him alone. It is estimated that he will not be able to spend much money."

Shen Tongguang nodded and said, "Then don't ask Zheng Shilang. I have a little friendship with Boss Guo Hongyi. If I ask him for help, I should get some money."

Li Wuchang said: "It's best not to have too much hope. Although Boss Guo is enthusiastic, he is extremely smooth. Normally, he would definitely help. At this critical moment, it is General Zhou who is helping. He should be afraid of offending others. Maybe for the sake of General Shen, I will take out some silver taels, but it should not exceed 10 taels, because he donated 10 taels last time, I think he can support 5 taels should be the limit gone."

Last time, Guo Hongyi was very supportive of Taifu Lin's policy of donating money and accepting millet. He took out 10 taels for a viscount title, which was very popular.

If this time he took out more than 10 taels of silver to support General Zhou and let people know, how would others feel?

Well, Guo Hongyi, you only donated 10 taels for the policy set by His Majesty himself, but this time you supported General Zhou with more than 10 taels. Do you think General Zhou is more important than Your Majesty?

Surely someone would say that.

Guo Hongyi is a traitor and a traitor, he will definitely not do such a thing.

Li Wuchang snapped his fingers, and said: "The Li family is 20, the Zhou family is 20, Boss Guo counts [-], and the Zheng family should also go there. If there are too many, it shouldn't be a problem to get [-]. Let's make it together." Halfway."

The others are difficult.

At this time, except for Zhou Sheng's hard-core members, many people hid in the corner and secretly laughed. How could they support Zhou Sheng? There is no loss, maybe when Zhou Sheng dies and his influence is dispersed, everyone can still share a share.

Where to raise the remaining 50 taels?

Shen Tongguang said: "Can you just take the 50 taels and talk to those wealthy households first?"

Li Wuchang shook his head and said: "Most of those wealthy households are businessmen, so they act according to the way of businessmen. The so-called borrowing and repaying, it is not difficult to borrow again. General Zhou has written so many bad checks before, this time we must Pay it off all at once, without any discount, so that those wealthy households can see General Zhou's determination and sincerity, and then they will take out the food."

Everyone nodded silently.

Even if those wealthy households are worried about the country, they will have a limit.

If you compare your heart with your heart, you will feel that those wealthy households are actually pretty good.

"Master, the old lady of the Zhou family is awake, and she is clamoring to see you." Butler Ye hurried over.

Li Lingwu said to Steward Ye: "Housekeeper, let's go over now. You go to dismiss the servants first. There is no need to wait in the room. We are fine. You will guard the door later and no one else is allowed to come in. We have a confidential message to discuss with you." said the old lady."

After that, everyone got up and went to the guest room.

The others were dismissed by Steward Ye, and then went to wait outside the door in person.

Li Wuchang looked at the old lady, a little worried, based on his experience, after he finished the acupuncture just now, the old lady would sleep for at least an hour, and woke up in less than half an hour, obviously very worried about himself Son, restless.

She took Li Lingwu's hand, and said that she must find a way to save Zhou Sheng and ask Li Lingwu to help.

Li Lingwu had no choice but to explain the method Li Wuchang said in detail again.

The old lady was very patient and listened very carefully, for fear of missing something. After listening, her complexion improved a little, and she said: "So, if you put together a sum of money, you will buy a certain amount of time, Zhou Sheng Take advantage of this opportunity to fight one or two good battles, so His Majesty may change his mind?"

Li Lingwu nodded and said: "I will find an opportunity to meet with His Majesty alone tomorrow, and let him wait and see for a while before making a decision. However, we still have to solve the problem of food and grass by ourselves. The Ministry of Finance really has no money."

In fact, 100 million taels is not a huge amount. If you want to raise it, you can raise it in less than a day.

Most of the big families in Chang'an City are rich in wealth and have a strong foundation. They found a dozen big families with 10 taels, and they randomly pooled them together.

It's just that people's hearts are selfish, and anyone who spends more than a hundred thousand for no reason will feel distressed. After all, there is a big difference between public and private.

Secondly, the royal family and these big families have a tacit understanding. The big families support the royal family, and the royal family can't force them too much. They directly attack the big families, so when they raised donations last time, they were all businessmen.

Another point is that according to the rules of the imperial court, the court officials are not allowed to have close contacts with the generals in charge of the frontier. If someone wants to support Zhou Sheng in private, he must be careful not to arouse His Majesty's suspicion.

The emperor is like this, the most unsightly thing is that the people in power below have too close contacts, no matter whether such contacts are good or bad for the court, anyway, as long as he is not under control, he will feel uncomfortable all over.

This is also the reason why Li Lingwu can only take out 20 taels at most. Li Lingwu has to secretly report this matter to His Majesty, even though most of the things cannot be hidden from His Majesty.

There is still a shortfall of 50 taels, but I don't know where to find it.

After the old lady knew the difficulty, she said: "The big deal is that I will put aside my old face and go to the big families to ask for silver taels. Your Majesty will not suspect me, an old woman, will you?"

Li Lingwu said: "Madam, why are you bothering...don't worry, I will think of a way."

The old lady waved her hand and said: "Ling Wu, you can come up with this idea and give out 20 taels to support Zhou Sheng. The old lady is very grateful. I really dare not expect you to embarrass me. The old lady understands that you are taking a risk by doing this." It's a big risk, after all, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger."

The old lady has made up her mind, she is going to leave the Li Mansion, she is very stubborn, saying that she is going to raise money for her son.

Li Lingwu had no choice but to order Li Wuchang to follow the whole process to prevent the old lady from having another accident.

……

From the afternoon of that day, the old lady was dressed anew, the energetic Dong family entered and the West family left, accompanied by Li Wuchang and Zhou Chengwang.

Desire is beautiful, reality is cruel.

Every family showed great enthusiasm for the visit of Mrs. Zhou's old lady, but when it came to money matters, they all practiced Tai Chi and agreed, but they just had to wait for some time and did not give a specific date.

The old lady said all the good things and lost all her smiles, and she was almost kneeling, but she couldn't get a single word.

Li Wuchang sighed, it seems that most of these people will not make a move.

The Zheng family has a large population, and in order to support Zhou Sheng, Zheng Heng took out 8 taels, which is considered to be the best of benevolence.

As Li Wuchang expected, Guo Hongyi took out 5 taels, and mysteriously asked the old lady not to tell others.

The other big families didn't raise much money at all, and occasionally there were a few kind-hearted people, only a few thousand taels, just like that, the old lady was still very moved.

That afternoon plus half a day of the next day, the old lady ran around, exhausted, and finally passed out in the afternoon of the second day.

It was useless for Li Wuchang to administer needles to the old lady. As soon as she woke up, she said that she was going to raise money to save her son. Her body couldn't hold it anymore, her legs were weakening, but she was walking tenaciously with a cane. .

"Poor parents in the world!" Li Wuchang felt very uncomfortable when he saw the white-haired old man like a human being, and he sighed heavily when he thought of his mother whom he had never seen before.

Then I thought of my nanny, who had been taking care of me conscientiously for so many years, for fear that I would be wronged.

The few times when Li Wuchang was injured, the nanny cried so badly every time that she almost passed out. When Li Wuchang was sad, she always said all kinds of words of encouragement and all kinds of old-fashioned jokes to tease him.

Thinking of this, Li Wuchang burst into tears, thinking to himself when did he become so sentimental, it was really a strange feeling.

But at this moment, he had no time to think about it, he gritted his teeth, pushed the old lady on the chair, and said with a smile: "Old lady, take a rest, wait for me for a while, I will give you a surprise."

Then he said to Zhou Chengwang: "Chengwang, take care of your grandmother, I will come as soon as I go, soon."

After finishing speaking, he left the Zhou Mansion and rushed to the secret base in Xuanpingfang with all his strength.

When Li Wuchang came back, Zhou Chengwang and Shen Tongguang were trying their best to dissuade the old lady, let her have a good rest, the old lady would go out no matter what.

"Chengwang, you go out first and guard the door, I want to keep quiet." Li Wuchang said.

Shen Tongguang and Zhou Cheng saw that Li Wuchang was injured and was holding a wooden box, thinking that Li Wuchang was going to treat the old lady again, so they got up and prepared to leave.

"General Shen stay here, I need your help later, Cheng Wang go out." Li Wuchang said again.

Although Zhou Chengwang was very strange, he didn't ask any more questions, and went out directly. By the way, he closed the door and stood at the door to watch the wind.

Li Wuchang invited the old lady and Shen Tongguang into the inner hall, told them to sit down, and said: "Wait, no matter what happens, don't ask me."

Then open the wooden box.

Stacks of brand new large-denomination bank notes appeared in front of the two of them.

"50 taels, General Shen, take it away." Li Wuchang sighed, and kept the money he had scraped from the Hanshui Gang, so he might as well take it out to save General Zhou.

In fact, I was moved by the old lady, or that sentence, pity the hearts of parents in the world.

Seeing so many banknotes, the old lady burst into tears of joy, held Li Wuchang's hand, and was speechless.

Although Shen Tongguang didn't know where Li Wuchang got so many banknotes, he remembered Li Wuchang's order and didn't ask any questions. He just bowed to Li Wuchang and couldn't say a word of thanks.

This kindness is really too great.

I can only find an opportunity to repay it later.

Zhou Sheng saved Shen Tongguang's life before, and kept him by his side, cultivating him with all his heart, and he never had the chance to repay him. This time Li Wuchang helped Zhou Sheng, it was tantamount to helping him.

Li Wuchang said to Shen Tongguang: "General Shen, you can tell General Zhou about this matter, but no one else, including my father, don't ask where the money came from. Don't worry. , it’s not my family’s, it’s my personal savings.”

Shen Tongguang nodded immediately and said, "Don't worry, I know the seriousness."

As he spoke, he bowed again to express his gratitude: "Impermanence's great kindness, we will definitely repay you in the future."

Li Wuchang waved his hand, and said to the old lady: "Old lady, don't worry now... Also, don't spread this matter, or I might get into trouble. Don't worry, this money is not from Li Wuchang. What belongs to my family belongs to me.”

The old lady wiped her tears and just nodded.

Li Wuchang said solemnly: "General Zhou was able to defend Anle County for such a long time for the people of Jizhou. It is admirable. Madam, you should also take good care of your health. You must not distract General Zhou. It is not a joke. So you should always eat, drink, and sleep."

After a pause, he said with a smile: "It's almost time for dinner, I want to have a meal in the Zhou Mansion, I don't know if it's okay?"

(End of this chapter)