King Xiang of the Red Chamber

Chapter 99 Apportionment
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Yingtian, Xinggong.

Zhu Jinghong knelt at the foot of the imperial steps. On the left and right were Jin Yiwei from the capital, and on the top was the eunuch standing solemnly.

"Parents who suffer from body, hair and skin, if you still have half a conscience, you shouldn't put yourself in danger, causing your mother to worry too much..."

"If you suffer even the slightest bit of injury, wouldn't your mother be in pain..."

Listening to the eunuch conveying the oral order, Zhu Jinghong was really worried, who knows if he will be punished again.

"I hope you can do it for yourself, so that your parents don't worry about it!"

After reading this, the oral instruction was over, and the eunuch hurriedly walked down the steps, and helped Zhu Jinghong up with a smile.

"Master Thirteen, the ground is hard...don't kneel down, get up quickly!"

The eunuch who came to deliver the eunuch this time was the supervisor of ceremonies known as the "Neihanlin". He looked refined and refined, and if he added a beard, he would look even more elegant.

Standing up from the ground, Zhu Jinghong immediately complained: "Eunuch Chen, what does my father mean by this? You will be scolded even if you finish the errand?"

"Is there still the law of the Ming Dynasty? Is there still justice?"

Zhu Jinghong made these "violent remarks", and everyone at the scene just pretended not to hear them. After all, this is not once or twice.

Chen Yu had no choice but to explain: "Master Thirteen, the lord and the queen empress, it is because they love you that the edict will be issued..."

"You don't have to persuade me... I know the truth, as a courtier, we have to swallow bitterness!"

Chen Yu laughed awkwardly, it was really hard for him to answer those words.

Zhu Jinghong dispersed at 11 yuan, and then asked: "Eunuch Chen, how did you send me to pass the edict this time?"

The eunuchs accompanying the supervisor of ceremonies will basically not be sent on foreign missions. Their main task is to read the votes and draft, and then submit the palm print or pen for judgment.

"Back to the Thirteenth Master... The servant is here this time, mainly to supervise the purchase of military rations!"

"Supervise the purchase of military rations? Is there not enough military rations?" Zhu Jinghong was a little surprised.

Chen Yu replied: "Because of something happening in the northwest, the military rations that were originally transferred to Jiangbei were transferred to the northwest by the Ministry of Households..."

This also shows that the importance of the situation in the northwest is greater than that of Jinling, where Japanese pirates are troubled.

"His Majesty asked Jinling to raise money and food by himself, and specially sent servants to oversee it!"

Walking into the corridor, Zhu Jinghong was a little surprised, and asked, "How to raise money and food by yourself?"

Chen Yu replied: "Of course, let the local gentry donate!"

"This... I'm afraid it will be difficult, who wants to take out their own money!"

"This slave can't take care of it anymore, anyway, the task has been assigned!"

"Apportionment?" Zhu Jinghong grasped the key word.

Then I heard him ask: "What is the apportionment method?"

"The Jinling gentry will allocate [-] yuan, and the Jinling salt merchants will allocate [-] yuan!"

There is a shortage of 5 shi of grain, and according to the market price, it costs about 6 taels of silver. Considering the increase in prices caused by large-scale purchases, [-] taels is enough.

However, the result now is that Zhu Xianming not only wants to prostitute for free, but also wants to earn more money.

"This... the old man really knows how to play!" Zhu Jinghong laughed.

"Then you are busy!"

"The slaves are not too busy. The chief secretary collects the money from the gentry, and the salt merchants collect it from the salt censor. The slaves are just supervisors!"

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It took Chen Yu five days to arrive in Jinling, and the urgent delivery from the Supervisor of Rituals arrived two days ago.

The Xue family, which was the first to receive the urgent delivery, was now arguing about it again.

Just because what the Supervisor of Rituals meant was that the Xue family would donate 1 taels of silver as a demonstration of the Jinling gentry's reward.

Of course, the 1 taels are the emperor's money, so they won't be included in the [-] taels of silver.

"Brother Pan, how did you become a family? Last time you let the big guy take the money, why are you here again?"

"Every family has saved money in recent years, but it's all earned by everyone. We can help the big house if it's in trouble, but you can't keep asking us to help!"

"Yeah... this year is not peaceful, it's just that the business is not good, and even the harvest in the farm is not very good, I really can't afford the money!"

"Brother Pan, it's not that we as elders don't help you, we also have difficulties!"

Everyone said what I said, and it summed up the same meaning. There is no need for money.

The inner money has 12 silver in the Xue family. The last purchase of food and military supplies cost [-]. In theory, the Xue family still owes the inner money [-].

This time I want to donate 1 taels of silver.

According to Baochai, at some point, the remaining 1 taels will be needed by the royal family, so it is better to collect them together this time.

So this time Xue Pan gathered his clansmen together, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he wanted to apportion 2 taels of silver.

As a big house, Xue Pan can be regarded as an honest person. He recognized 5000 taels of silver, and the remaining [-] taels will be shared.

"You say so much, but you don't want to give... right?" Xue Pan was extremely impatient.

Of course everyone has this in mind, the money has been turned into land and houses by them, and now they don't want to spit it out again.

Last time, in order to collect money, this group of people sold a lot of land for shops, which was already considered a "severe injury".

If you are taking money out now, you really have to empty out your family, and you don't want to put it on anyone.

"That's good... Anyway, the father-in-law of the Supervisor of Ceremonies is still in Yingtian, so I only need to pay 5000 taels of silver, and I will report the rest truthfully!"

"Anyway, I have been rewarded by the crown prince, and I recently saved the life of the thirteenth master. Even if the emperor punishes me... I can still save my life!"

"As for you... just keep your money and use it to buy a coffin!"

Having said that, Xue Pan got up straight, and walked out with a dirty look.

This fellow smashed and smashed, which really frightened everyone in the hall. Before he walked out of the gate of the courtyard, someone in the hall chased him out.

"Brother Pan, discussing matters is discussing matters, you have to discuss to get results..."

"That's right, you're an old man, how can you be so impatient!"

The person who didn't speak just now came out to be a good person, and dragged Xue Pan back.

After returning to the hall and sitting down, Xue Pan didn't speak anymore, just waiting for everyone to express their views.

Today's method is Baochai's idea, Xue Pan is just a tool to carry it out.

To be honest, asking each house to take another one or two thousand silver really makes them extremely uncomfortable. Whoever wants to sell houses, shops and fields are things that can be passed down from family to family.

"Second Uncle, you can also say something... It's useless to waste!"

"The deadline will be in two days. If you go to raise money by then, it will be too late!"

Xue Yucheng sighed, and replied: "Brother Pan, what you said makes sense, we should pool our money!"

Now that Xue Pan is on good terms with those two masters, he is naturally tough in speaking in the clan, Xue Yucheng can clearly see the general situation, and his thoughts of trying to seize the big house have dissipated.

If you don't consider Zhu Jinghong's attitude, no matter how good Baochai's method is, it won't be of much use if you get it in court... This is called the situation is stronger than others.

"The second room is 3000 taels, please tell me...is this fair?"

To be honest, Erfang paid 3000 taels of silver, which was more than what they should have paid. In addition, Xue Yucheng was an elder, so no one in the room dared to comment.

With Xue Yucheng taking the lead, the rest of the houses started to speak out one after another, and after a lot of wrangling, the 2 taels of silver was finally apportioned.

Xue Pan entered the inner house to announce the good news, but Aunt Xue was not happy.

"Now the emptiness of money is finally filled, but our family is almost empty, and we will have to live a hard life in the future!"

Aunt Xue's so-called hard life is of course different from what ordinary people think, it's just that the Xue family has less money in their books.

When it's time to use the money, the good land shops will be sold together, and it's okay to exchange tens of thousands of taels of silver.

I saw Aunt Xue said earnestly: "Pan'er, we have to do it as soon as possible..."

Xue Pan said casually: "Mother, this time it's over, let's go to Beijing!"

(End of this chapter)