Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 393 A dead pig is not afraid of boiling water, Prince Jin's son

"Your Highness, the fiefdom of the Jin Dynasty is in Taiyuan, if Taiyuan is captured by the Zhao bandits, does your Highness think you can protect yourself?

Bandit Zhao is different from other bandits. Although Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were aggressive at the beginning, they are nothing but bandits.

But Zhao thief is different. Zhao thief has his own base, his own source of tax revenue, his own soldiers and horses, and a place to manufacture and process weapons.

Once the Zhao thief is allowed to attack Taiyuan, the entire land of Shanxi will definitely be taken into the pocket of the Zhao thief. By then, the Great Ming Dynasty may be in danger. "

Wu Xuan's beard and hair were full, impassioned, and he kept explaining the pros and cons to Zhu Shenxun and Chen.

But Zhu Shenxuan still sat on the throne carelessly, unmoved at all.

"You are the governor of Shanxi, but this prince is not. It is your duty to guard the Taiyuan mansion, and it has nothing to do with this prince. If you can't guard Taiyuan mansion, His Majesty will question you. What does it have to do with this prince?" Zhu Shenxuan pointed at Wu Tong, looking like a dead pig not afraid of boiling water.

Anyway, this is your Shanxi governor's business, and it has nothing to do with me.This is what Zhu Shenxuan thought.

Wu Xuan looked at Zhu Shenxuan, the heir of the Jin Dynasty who was not allowed to eat oil and salt, and his heart burst into flames.

If Zhu Shenxuan wasn't the heir of King Jin, Wu Xuan would definitely roll up his sleeves and beat him up severely.

"His Royal Highness, the safety of the Taiyuan Mansion is related to the safety of the King Jin's lineage. If the defenders can't resist and the city wall is breached by the Zhao thieves, it's all the same, and the King Jin lineage will definitely not be safe.

If Prince Jin's Mansion doesn't give me money today, and I don't have military pay to pay those soldiers, I can't guarantee whether I can keep this Taiyuan Mansion. "

Wu Zhen's expression changed, and he became completely gloomy.

He looked at Zhu Shenxuan with an aggressive look on his brows, without flinching.

When Zhu Shenxuan heard this, his chest heaved and heaved in anger, panting heavily.

"Are you threatening my son? What do you mean by these words?" Zhu Shenxuan was furious, his eyes were half-opened, and there was a murderous aura surging inside.

Obviously, Wu Xuan's words were persecuting Zhu Shenxuan.

The implication is that if you don't give me money, I can't hold on to this Taiyuan Mansion, and then we'll finish playing together.

"Hehe!" Wu Xuan sneered, "The meaning of what I said is very obvious, that is, if I don't have enough money to pay these soldiers for their arrears, maybe this Taiyuan Mansion will be taken down by Zhao thief in an instant. .

I am the official of the imperial court, guarding the shepherd's side, if Taiyuan City really can't keep it, I will die to thank the world.But what about Your Highness? "

"Okay, okay, what a good governor, what a good governor. Now it's actually threatening my son's head.

If you dare to threaten this son, this son will not take the money today.This son's money is not brought by the strong wind, this son has no money. "

Zhu Shenxuan patted the table in front of him and roared at Wu Xuan again and again.

"I dare not threaten His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness is the descendant of the dragon, the direct blood of Emperor Taizu Gao. I am just a small governor. In the eyes of His Royal Highness, I am nothing at all. How can I Dare to threaten His Royal Highness?"

Although Wu Tong's words seemed to be subdued, his tone was full of hardness, without the slightest hint of subduing.

"You shameless person, the person in front of you is His Royal Highness, the Prince of Jin in the future. What you said today means that you have no respect for the imperial court. Where do you put the royal face?"

Standing next to Zhu Shenxuan, the eunuch in charge of the royal residence pointed at Wu Xuan and sternly cursed.

"Hehe! You said that I have no majesty in the court, so you arrest me, why don't you arrest me now?

Do you think I am willing to guard this Taiyuan City?Let me tell you, if it is not helpless, I am not willing to guard this Taiyuan City at all. "Wu Xuan's face was full of coldness, he looked at the chief eunuch without giving in.

"Okay, okay, you are also a traitor. After this incident, I must read a copy of it with His Majesty in the future, saying that you insulted the clan." The chief eunuch pointed at Wu Zhen and kept roaring angrily.

Wu Xuan stood up and shrugged, "If you want, you can join me yourself. It seems that the Jin Palace is not willing to pay this money today, and then wait for the rebel army to enter the city the day after tomorrow."

"Chen Zongbing, let's go." Wu Tong said and walked outside.

Chen Dehai hurriedly followed behind Wu Tong, and walked out of Prince Jin's Mansion without looking back.

Seeing the back of Wu Zhen leaving, Zhu Shenxuan, the son of the Jin Dynasty, kicked the table in front of him to the ground, put his hands on his hips, and shouted angrily, "Wu Zhen, Wu Piff, what are you?" , You actually threatened my head, you are really impatient."

"Your Highness, Your Highness calm down, Your Highness calm down." The chief eunuch hurriedly knelt in front of Zhu Shenxuan, kowtowing to Zhu Shenxuan non-stop.

"Hmph, a small governor dares to be arrogant in front of me. Just wait, after the bandit Zhao retreats, I want you to make you look good." Zhu Shenxuan snorted coldly, and strode out, leaving only A messy side hall.

Walking out of Prince Jin's mansion, Chen Dehai looked at Wu Tong with a gloomy face, "Master Governor, the son of King Jin is so stubborn, what should we do next?"

Wu Xuan said sadly: "I really didn't expect the Prince Jin to be such a person. Taiyuan Mansion can't keep it, he is the first to bear the brunt. I really don't understand how the Prince Jin can't understand such a simple matter. "

"What's so difficult about it, I guess, Prince Jin's son thinks so.

In his opinion, regardless of whether he can pay the money, the governor must guard this Taiyuan mansion.Therefore, he thought that the governor would definitely defend the city wall, and if he did, his money would be wasted. "

"But what if you don't hold it? Bandit Zhao's strength is not comparable to that of Li Zicheng and other thieves and bandits." Wu Zhen sighed.

Chen Dehai said: "I guess the prince of Jin didn't think about it at all. During the nearly 300 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the lineage of the king of Jin has been safe and sound, and nothing has happened. Therefore, I guess the prince of Jin is living in peace. Too stupid."

"Oh, that's fine, that's fine. Since Prince Jin is not willing to pay the money, let's forget about it. The money we got from the gentry is enough now. If it's not enough later, we can find another way."

Wu Xuan let out a long sigh, then got into the carriage and headed towards the governor's yamen.

After a night of hard work, Li Tianhe finally collected all the money.

After counting, no more, no less, just 11 taels of silver.

Although the amount of silver was enough, Li Tianhe discovered some problems.

That is, the purity of these silver is not enough, the purity is very poor, almost all of them are scattered silver.

"My lord, these coins are the coins we collected last night, take a look."

Li Tianhe appeared in the front yard of the governor's yamen with a few soldiers carrying a box of silver.

As soon as Wu Zhen walked to the front yard, he met Li Tianhe.

"Is there any problem with the money?" Wu Sheng looked at Li Tianhe.

Li Tianhe had a gloomy face, "My lord, it's hard to say if there is any problem. The key is that the quality of these silver coins is very poor. Please come and take a look, my lord."

Li Tianhe opened the box containing the silver as he spoke.

Wu Zhen squatted beside the box, looking at the silver inside, his face gradually contorted.

"This group of hateful gentry actually used this kind of money to fool me. It's simply hateful, hateful."

Wu Zhen looked around and saw that the silver in the box was all the size of gravel, grayish blue in color, and scattered silver with a dull luster.

This is a box of silver with a lot of impurities. The impurities in this silver are very high, up to about [-]%.

Wu Zhen took out a piece of broken silver, put it in his hand and looked at it carefully for a moment.

"This is all silver used by poor families. The silver must have been collected from their tenants, and they have not had time to smelt the rent.

There are so many impurities in these silver coins that one tael of silver can be worth six to seven cents of normal silver in the market, which is not bad.

If converted into silver coins produced in Xuan Town, it is estimated that one tael of silver or even five cents of silver coins would be exchanged.These hateful gentry are really hateful.I just said why these people agreed to take the money so readily, I didn't expect such a thing to be held in their hearts. "

Wu Xuan slammed the silver in his hand into the box with resentment on his face.

"My lord, what should we do now? There are still a lot of silver like this, and this is just a part of it." Li Tianhe asked a little at a loss.

If such money is distributed, it is very likely that not only will it not have any effect, but it may even make those soldiers feel dissatisfied.

No matter who it is, if this kind of miscellaneous silver is used as military salary, it will feel like cheating.

In any case, what soldiers do is hard work, and they don't expect the purity of silver to be too high, but it can't be too low.

If this kind of silver with only half the purity is distributed, it will definitely backfire.

Soldiers fight for money, and using this kind of money as military pay, no matter how you look at it, it seems to be cheating.

"What else can I do? Find some silversmiths, melt all the silver, and smelt it into official silver. After the Taiyuan Mansion is guarded, I will definitely give these evil gentry a look." Wu Zhen stood up, pointing at this The box containing the silver said to Li Tianhe.

"As ordered!"

Li Tianhe clasped his fist at Wu Zhen, and then led the soldiers to carry the money out.

Now that the matter has come to this point, Wu Tong has no choice but to have the silver melted again.

Although such silver is smelted with a lot of fire, it is a pity that there is no way.

Not long after Li Tianhe walked out, Wu Yan brought Chen Dehai, Wang Gubo and other officials from the Taiyuan Mansion, as well as a group of yamen servants, to the Taiyuan Mansion treasury.

Wu Xuan looked at the treasury with a big lock on the gate, and said to Wang Gubo behind him, "Open the treasury for me, take out all the money inside, and settle the arrears of military pay first."

As soon as the words fell, Wang Gubo walked up with the key and opened the big lock hanging on the gate.

"Squeak!"

The gate of the treasury came slowly, and the light shone in at once.

"Move out all the silver in it for me. After you move it out, Mr. Wang, you lead these yamen servants to Li Tianhe and Zongbing Li, and ask him to distribute all the silver to the soldiers."

There are a total of 5 taels of silver in the treasury, and a total of 5000 taels of silver in arrears of military pay. These 5 taels of silver are completely sufficient.

But it is only enough to pay the arrears of military pay. If you add Anjiayin, life-saving silver, reward silver, and silver for young and strong, the 5 taels of silver is not enough.That's why Wu Zhen eagerly melted the silver he got from the gentry.

After Wu Zhen arranged everything, he walked towards the governor's office to deal with other matters.

It didn't take long for all the silver to be moved out.

Wang Gubo led dozens of yamen servants, took the silver and the steelyard used to weigh the silver, and headed towards where Li Tianhe was.

Li Tianhe took the silver to the place where official silver was melted and cast, and after leaving some guards behind him, he went up to the city wall of Taiyuan Mansion.

Taiyuan Mansion is an important town in Shanxi, and the height of the city walls is about the same as that of Shanxi towns and cities.

The [-] soldiers and [-] young men recruited have all been arranged on the city wall.

Preparations for rolling wood and stones for defending the city have also begun, but because the military salary has not been distributed, the morale of these soldiers defending the city is not high, and they are slow to work.

Although Li Tianhe was angry about this, there was nothing he could do.

Li Tianhe stood on the gate tower of the north city gate, looking at the demoralized and defenseless soldiers on the city wall, he was very worried.

When Li Tianhe was upset, Wang Gubo led a group of yamen servants and carried dozens of sealed wooden boxes up the city wall.

Wang Gubo took the yamen servant carrying the silver and stacked the boxes containing the silver on the city wall outside the city gate tower.

"Mr. Li, this is the military pay that the Governor has just transferred from the treasury to the soldiers. There are a total of 5 taels of silver. Now the Governor asks you to distribute all the money."

Wang Gubo came to Li Tianhe, pointed to the silver box behind him, and said to Li Tianhe.

Li Tianhe's eyes lit up, and he began to get excited, "The money is just in time. With this money, the morale of the soldiers defending the city can be improved a lot."

"I've already put the money here. I still have something to do, so I'll leave first." Wang Gubo clenched his fist at Li Tianhe and retreated.

Li Tianhe returned a salute and watched Wang Gubo leave.

When Wang Gubo disappeared completely, Li Tianhe shouted to the servants behind him: "Find me all the hundred households in the general and tell them that I want to pay the army now."

With the money, Li Tianhe's back also hardened.

"Order!"

The servants behind him clasped their fists at Li Tianhe and ran along the city wall.

In a few quarters of an hour, all the hundreds of households came in front of Li Tianhe.

When these hundreds of households heard that military pay would be paid, all eyes lit up, and they looked at the stacked boxes with wide smiles.

Li Tianhe didn't talk too much, he directly asked someone to remove the seal on the box, took out the roster, and began to distribute the military salary according to the roster.

"Wang Qing, there are 70 soldiers under his command, with a total military salary of 310 five taels!"

As soon as Li Tianhe's voice fell, a simple and honest man stood up with an excited face.

He made a bow to Li Tianhe, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Commander-in-Chief, thank you, Commander-in-Chief."

"Don't be in a hurry to thank me, go and get the military pay." Li Tianhe pointed to a servant next to the box who was weighing the silver with a steelyard, and said to Wang Qing.

Wang Qing nodded heavily, and stood beside the servant who was weighing the silver, waiting quietly.

After weighing the silver, Wang Qing took off his coat, wrapped the silver in his coat, and ran to the section of the city wall he was in charge of holding the silver.

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