Empress, she doesn't want to fight

Chapter 38 300 million taels of silver
The next day, the money sent by the various palaces was brought by the chief eunuch of the Compassionate Ning Palace to Qianning Palace, totaling 7000 taels.At the same time, a detailed statement was also sent to Qianning Palace, which directly indicated the amount of money sent by the masters of each palace.

The Empress Dowager Zhou herself also contributed 5000 taels of silver, ranking first, followed by Concubine Jiang, and third..., Beauty Jiang from Yufuyuan ranked seventh, only 200 taels less than Song Yuyi and the others. Compared with Guo Chongyi and others, it was 800 taels more.

It wouldn’t be too surprising if Hu Meiren and Jiang Cairen spent so much money to come to Emperor Yong’an, because they are favored, and I often give extra rewards besides the New Year’s Day, and they don’t have to do it because they want to eat because they are favored. What to live with and what to do additionally with those who work in the palace.

But Emperor Yong'an was a little surprised that Jiang Meiren took out so much silver at once. She wouldn't sell the things she rewarded, and give them away in exchange for silver?

"Zhao Quanfu." Emperor Yong'an shouted.

"Yes, Your Majesty?"

"Go and have someone check to see if anyone in the palace has sold anything in the past two days." Emperor Yong'an ordered.

Zhao Quanfu was startled for a moment, then just as he was about to answer, he heard Emperor Yong'an say: "Forget it, there is no need to investigate."

If it's sold, let's sell it, and then I can make it up for her when I have a chance later.

After making up his mind, Emperor Yong'an asked someone to recruit Song Zhi, Minister of the Household Department, into the palace. Tomorrow, he would bring up the matter of donating money from the concubines in the harem in the morning, and use it to beat those ministers, so that the ministers offered to donate money. You have to communicate with Song Zhi in advance, and you will need the cooperation of several courtiers at that time.

Emperor Yong'an waited in Qianning Palace for more than an hour before he got his household secretary. After entering the imperial study, Song Zhi first knelt down and pleaded guilty to Emperor Yong'an, "Please forgive me, the emperor, I am late for something."

Emperor Yong'an said lightly, "But there is some business delay."

Song Zhi knelt on the ground and raised his head, and said beamingly: "Your Majesty, what a happy event, someone sent 300 million taels of silver to the household department, saying it was donated to Yuning Prefecture for disaster relief. With these 300 million taels of silver, Yuning can be relieved." The government's urgent need."

Emperor Yong'an didn't care about blaming Song Zhi for making him wait for a long time. With the 300 million taels of silver, he was willing to make him wait a little longer.

"Zhao Quanfu, move a chair for Mr. Song." After speaking, Emperor Yong'an smiled and said to Song Zhi: "Song Aiqing sat down and asked, which family came from this money, and what exactly happened, can I ask for something?"

"Yes, Your Majesty." Song Zhi got up calmly, he knew that with the 300 million taels of silver, the Emperor would not blame him for being late.

In fact, he didn't mean to be late on purpose, but when he was just about to enter the palace, someone brought a few carts of silver to the door of the household department, saying that it was donated to the people of Yuning Mansion, so he had to deal with it first.

"The donator is the wife of a merchant family named Yan. She said that she heard that the people in Yuning Mansion are not fed enough to wear clothes, and they don't even have a place to shelter from the wind and rain. Eating delicacies from mountains and seas made me feel uneasy, so I decided to donate part of my family wealth to rebuild the homes of the people in Yuning Prefecture."

After a pause, Song Zhi showed a confused expression on his face, and continued: "The minister also asked Mrs. Yan if she could ask for anything? But Mrs. Yan said that she only wanted to relieve the emperor's worries and do everything for the people of Yuning Mansion." A little refreshment."

Emperor Yong'an pondered for a while when he heard the words, and asked Song Zhi, "The one who donated the silver is the eldest wife of the Yan family, the eldest daughter of Jiang Wenyao's family, a member of the Ministry of Industry?"

Song Zhi was stunned for a moment, and replied, "The wife of the Yan family did claim her surname Jiang, but she didn't mention anything about her father." And how did the emperor know.

Emperor Yong'an smiled, "This lady from the Yan family is Jiang Meiren's older sister."

The two sisters had an agreement, right?The younger sister mentioned the donation to the queen mother in the palace, and the older sister directly pulled 300 million taels of silver to the door of the household department outside the palace.

What is the purpose of the two doing this?Could it be for the second prince?But no matter what the two are for, they have indeed done a good thing that benefits the country and the people, and he can also satisfy the two's goals to a certain extent, not to mention that if the two are really for the second prince, then Cong He said that what they did was in line with what he thought.

And Song Zhi, who heard Emperor Yong'an's words, thought the same way. When he heard that the eldest wife of the Yan family was Jiang Meiren's sister, his first reaction was that Mrs. Yan's family would increase the chips for the future of the second prince. She donated 300 million The timing of the two silver coins was really well chosen.

Thinking of his daughter who was pregnant in the palace, Song Zhi felt more jealous of the eldest wife of the Yan family.

In the past, Jiang Meiren was not favored in the palace. They didn't even know that there was such a person in the emperor's harem. If Jiang Meiren hadn't suddenly become pregnant and successfully gave birth to the second prince, they might not have treated Jiang Meiren so far. The beauty has a concern, even after Jiang Meisheng gave birth to the second prince, they paid more attention to Jiang Meiren, but they didn't pay much attention to her, but today he knew that he underestimated Jiang Meiren too much.

If his daughter gets a boy this time, will the second prince have the financial support of the eldest wife of the Yan family, will it become the biggest obstacle for his grandson to rise to the throne?

However, it's still early to think about it now, let's wait for her daughter to give birth safely, and the emperor is still in his prime, and it will take a long time for the princes to grow up.

With the 300 million taels of silver donated by Mrs. Yan, coupled with the previous donations from the concubines in the palace and the cooperation of Song Zhi, Emperor Yong'an mentioned in the court the next day that the matter of making the donations of ministers and merchants smoother .

Of course, asking the merchants to donate silver can’t go to the court to ask the merchants. This is the same as directly robbing the merchants, and it is easy to cause dissatisfaction among the merchants. After a long time of quarreling in the court, they finally decided on a few orders for the merchants to donate silver. method.

The first one was to donate silver to the Yan family who had set an example and sent a plaque from the imperial court, with the four characters "House of Accumulation of Goodness" written on it, and the imperial seal of the emperor was stamped in the lower right corner.

The plaque was sent to Yan's house by the household department with great fanfare.

At this time, the Yan family had just separated.

Ever since Jiang Fu learned that Jiang Fu had donated 300 million taels of silver to the household department yesterday, the people from the second, third and fourth rooms of Yan's family clamored to check the accounts.

"You said you earned it from your own shop. Is it your dowry or your dowry? That's 300 million silver, not 30 taels, not even 3 taels. Where did your Jiang family get so much money? Let’s take a step forward, even if the Jiang family really has that much money, and it’s not that your Jiang family doesn’t have a son to carry on the family line, will the Jiang family give you so much money as a dowry?”

(End of this chapter)