Mingshi

Chapter 630
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"Everyone, stop arguing!" An old man stood up, pressed his hands down, everyone was silent, and looked at the old man, and the old man looked at Zhang Zhigu, cupped his hands and said:

"Brother, you have to make up your mind!"

"Yes!" Everyone bowed their hands to Zhang Zhigu neatly and said, "You have to make up your mind!"

Zhang Zhigu frowned slightly, clapped his hands and said, "This matter won't be decided in a short while, and it's getting late, let's discuss while eating."

Then he arranged for his servants to start preparing meals.This side began to discuss this matter, and it didn't take long before delicacies from mountains and seas were brought up. Everyone was really hungry after waiting for so long, but seeing that the table was full of delicacies, Lian Yiming picked up a piece of duck tongue Chewing slowly:

"Everyone, it's actually not difficult, as long as we spread the word among the people, and then send people behind to fuel the flames. For example, the people in the Northland can't even eat, and they don't even have a single tile to stand on. Your Majesty But don’t think about the hardships of the people, repairing the Longevity Palace, the scholars of the Imperial College will definitely go to His Majesty to die, and this will cause an uproar, and this matter will definitely not be resolved.”

Zhang Zhigu slowly shook his head and said: "Your Majesty is not a foolish person, and Luo Xin is even more wise. He would not have imagined that this matter is behind our backs. The Son of Heaven is against the Son of Heaven, so I don't need to say the result. Maybe Your Majesty will take back his intention to repair the Longevity Palace, but he will definitely settle accounts with us in the future."

"Then... shall we just pay this money? After paying this time, there will be a next time. Could it be that we don't have to donate if the court can't pay the salary in the future? Even if we have tens of thousands of family wealth, it's not enough for the court to exploit. , this head cannot be opened!"

"Wait a little longer!" Zhang Zhigu said lightly.

"Wait for what?"

"wait for news!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw another middle-aged man walk into the hall, looking at Zhang Zhigu hesitant to speak.Zhang Zhigu said lightly:
"Speak!"

Everyone was silent, they all stood up and passed by, their eyes fixed on the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man said in a concentrated voice:
"My lord, the villain has found out clearly. This matter started when Mr. Xu Ge forced Luo Hou to go to the Ministry of Households to ask for the money for the repair of the Longevity Palace for His Majesty. Naturally, the Ministry of Households did not have any money, but Mr. Xu Ge gave Luo Hou another He issued a death order for a month, and seeing that on the last day, Luohou did not ask for a penny from the household department. But at this time, Gao Ge gave His Majesty an idea, asking His Majesty to repair the Longevity Palace. Hand it over to Luohou, no matter what method Luohou uses, as long as the Longevity Palace can be repaired. Then Luohou went to the Ministry of Households and asked for the list of the masters."

Everyone couldn't help being stunned when they heard this: "Xu Jie and Luo Xin have a grudge, and we all know how to suppress Luo Xin, but Gao Gong and Luo Hou don't have a grudge! Why did you give His Majesty such an idea?"

"Could it be that Gao Gong, seeing that he couldn't win over Luo Xin, simply asked Xu Jie to join forces against Luo Xin?"

For businessmen at their level, it is their homework to pay attention to the important affairs of the court, and they are all familiar with Luo Xin being suppressed by Xu Jie and being wooed by Gao Gong.

Zhang Zhigu narrowed his eyes slightly and shrank, thinking to himself: "It's probably true! In this way, this is Xu Jie and Gao Gong joining forces!"

As a big businessman, Zhang Zhigu knew more about the affairs of the court than the people sitting here. He knew very well that the reason why Xu Jie dared to suppress Luo Xin in this way was because of Emperor Jiajing, who was afraid of Luo Xin. , support Xu Jie, Xu Jie will suppress Luo Xin in this way.Could it be that now Gao Gong also sees the meaning of Emperor Jiajing and decides to follow the meaning of Emperor Jiajing?
He thought about these days that Emperor Jiajing had uncharacteristically started to support Gao Gong, so could this matter have something to do with Luo Xin?Could it be that Gao Gong agreed to join hands with Xu Jie to suppress Luo Xin in exchange for Emperor Jiajing's support?

In this way, it was not that Emperor Jiajing wanted to repair the Longevity Palace, but that he wanted to use this to rectify Luo Xin.So……

If we add fuel to the flames of this matter and put all the shit on Luo Xin's head, wouldn't we follow the wishes of Emperor Jiajing, Xu Jie and Gao Gong?Don't have to worry about settling accounts after autumn?

Seeing Zhang Zhigu sitting there silently, squinting his eyes and thinking, everyone's voices gradually stopped. They all knew Zhang Zhigu's demeanor very well. , in the direction of the solution.

About two quarters of an hour passed, Zhang Zhigu opened his squinted eyes, everyone was refreshed, and Lian Yiming asked urgently:
"Brother, do you want to understand the reason?"

"There is a speculation!" Zhang Zhigu said softly:
"I'm all ears!"

Zhang Zhigu nodded lightly and said, "My guess is..."

When Zhang Zhigu finished speaking, everyone was stunned.A stern light flashed in Zhang Zhigu's eyes and said:

"If this is the case, we can contribute to this matter behind the scenes, and we don't have to worry about your Majesty and Ge Laomen settling accounts."

"But..." Lin Pinghai could not bear it and said, "If this happens, I'm afraid Luo Hou will be punished by His Majesty."

"Chi..." A man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks sneered and said: "Brother Lin is righteous, why don't you give Brother Lin the family property first to solve Luo Hou's urgent needs."

Lin Pinghai blushed and said: "Brother Luan, I didn't mean that, I just lamented that Luo Hou made great achievements for the Ming Dynasty, and we were also the ones who benefited from it. If there was no Luo Hou, Huang Taiji broke through the capital back then. He is already dead, how can he still sit here? Now that Luohou is being persecuted like this, is there any hope for this Ming Dynasty? And what we do is undoubtedly pushing Luohou further into the abyss, is this appropriate?"

Everyone fell silent when they heard the words, and the sharp-mouthed monkey-cheeked man said: "It's no wonder we, Luo Xin can completely refuse His Majesty, and tell His Majesty that he can't do it, so even if His Majesty punishes him, it's just dismissal, he can still go Be his idle Marquis. Now he transfers the pressure from His Majesty to us businessmen, trying to exploit us to achieve his goal of escape. This is because he is not benevolent first, so he can't blame us for being unrighteous. "

Lin Pinghai sighed, lowered his head and stopped talking.Lian Yi turned to Zhang Zhigu and said, "Brother, you have to make up your mind, what should we do?"

Zhang Zhigu said in a condensed voice: "We can't open this head, no matter how much wronged Luo Hou has suffered, we can't treat us as lambs to be slaughtered."

"What does brother mean?"

"Let's push back!"

"But..." Lin Pinghai raised his head abruptly and said, "The consequence of this is that Luo Hou is not dismissed from office, and it is as simple as being an idle Marquis."

Zhang Zhigu was silent for a moment, sighed and said: "I know, once we start to push this matter from behind, the matter may get out of hand. If Luo Xin refuses this matter when His Majesty makes an order Things may just be dismissed from office, and he can still be his idle master. However, once we start to make arrangements for this matter, many unpredictable things will happen. We are here to plan and promote. But once things are promoted , Maybe there will be more forces involved and fueling the flames. For example Xu Jie, such as Gao Gong. At that time, the public will be raging. If a certain scholar is killed in front of the gate of the palace, come to remonstrate. What's more, once Under someone's guidance, causing riots in the capital, at worst Luo Xin would be deprived of the title of Marquis and demoted to the people. If it was serious, His Majesty might take this opportunity to kill Luo Xin.

However, everything happens for a reason.If Luo Xin didn't bully us, he wouldn't have this fruit.They fight with gods, why should we common people suffer?He Luo Xin did it to protect himself, and so did we.If you swallow your anger and donate money this time, various donation projects will continue to come in the future.That's when we lose our fortunes and even our lives.

So, we're not doing too much.If Luo Xin wants to blame, he can only blame himself, and should not treat us as lambs who can be exploited at will. "

Speaking of this, Zhang Zhigu sneered and said, "I'm afraid Luohou, who is so high above him, has never put us businessmen in his eyes."

"Then...we won't donate?"

"Donate!" Zhang Zhigu said indifferently: "Luo Hou said, how can we not give face? And if we don't donate, what happens next will clearly point to us. So we want to donate, but what happened next It has nothing to do with us. After all, Luo Xin has made countless enemies in the court. With a big enemy like Xu Jie, it is normal to harm Luo Hou behind the scenes. Therefore, we must keep the things we promote behind the scenes, be careful, and don't let If others find out, let Luo Hou bear grudges against Xu Jie."

"Hahaha……"

Everyone laughed out loud when they heard the words, and their hearts relaxed.

"good!
As long as they were careful about this matter, Luo Xin would not doubt them, and Emperor Jiajing would not doubt them either. Let Xu Jie take the blame for this, and they don't have to worry about Emperor Jiajing settling accounts after autumn. "

"Then how much should we donate?" asked the monkey-cheeked man.

Zhang Zhigu said with a faint smile: "That depends on your own intentions and strength. To be honest, our Zhang family suffered a huge loss in this war in the Northland, so I can only donate 500 taels of silver."

"Since the older brother donates 500 taels and the younger brother's family is not as good as the older brother's, the younger brother will donate 300 taels."

"Little brother donated 200 taels!"

"Little brother donated 50 taels!"

"........."

"........."

"Brother, presumably Luo Xin's invitation will be sent to our respective homes soon, shall we go?"

"Brother, I've been overworked recently, and I'm going to go outside the city to recuperate for a while, and I'll let my younger brother go."

Luofu.

Luo Xin has already returned to the study, put the list on the table and said to Jinyang Bajie:
"Okay, the work is coming, let's divide the work and write invitations."

The nine people quickly finished writing the invitation, and Luo Xin called out:
"Daqing!"

"Master Hou!" Lu Daqing walked in from the outside.

"Let Lu Yuan come to see me."

"Yes!"

Lu Daqing responded and left in a hurry.After a while, Lu Yuan came in from the outside, saluted Luo Xin and said:
"I have seen Hou Ye!"

Then he saluted Zhou Yu and the others: "I have seen you, masters."

Luo Xin said to Lu Yuan: "Lu Yuan, you send someone to deliver these invitations according to the address, and they must be delivered today."

"Yes, Lord Hou!" Lu Yuan hurried away with the invitation.

Royal Palace.

Royal study.

Emperor Jiajing looked at Xu Jie and Gao Gong standing in front of him, his face sank like water, and he said coldly: "Winter is about to enter now, and the people in the north are displaced. You still can't think of a way, don't you want me? will his people freeze to death?"

Both Xu Jie and Gao Gong lowered their heads and remained silent.

"Bang!" Emperor Jiajing slapped the imperial book case angrily and shouted: "Speak up! I let you into the cabinet to share my worries. Let's see how you manage my country? What use do I need you for?"

Cold sweat oozed from Xu Jie and Gao Gong's foreheads. After scolding for a while, Emperor Jiajing calmed down slowly, and asked coldly:

"How much money do you need for disaster relief?"

"Return to Your Majesty!" Xu Jie said softly, "At least one million taels of silver are needed."

"How much is the difference now?"

Xu Jie secretly glanced at Emperor Jiajing, hesitant.

"Say!" Emperor Jiajing snorted coldly.

"The treasury...the treasury only has 30 taels of silver...this is still on the premise that half the salaries are paid to officials..."

Emperor Jiajing's face turned ashen, and he said with a heartbroken face for a while: "The internal treasury will take out 5 taels of silver, and you can figure out the rest. I don't care what method you use, you must find a way before winter .”

"According to the order!"

"Get out!"

"I retire!"

Day two.

evening.

The number of carriages in front of the Luofu gate gradually increased, and people who looked like merchants got off the carriages, and under the arrangement of the head of Luofu Lu Yuan, they came to the hall of Luofu one by one.

In the hall, they did not see Luo Xin.Not only Luo Xin, but even Zhou Yu and others were not here.There were only some maidservants shuttled through the hall, and they just served everyone a cup of tea. It was not as they imagined before Luo Xin would entertain them with a banquet.Sitting on chairs in the hall one by one, they made eye contact with each other.

Royal Palace.

Royal study.

Emperor Jiajing sat on the chair as if he had fallen asleep, Huang Jin stood in the shadow of the imperial study, secretly looking at Emperor Jiajing from time to time.Emperor Jiajing slightly opened his eyes, and asked in a concentrated voice:

"What's going on in front of Luofu Gate?"

"Return to Your Majesty!" Huang Jin came out from the shadows: "27 businessmen have sent their representatives, and they have entered Luo Mansion one after another."

Emperor Jiajing suddenly opened his eyes, and a trace of anger flashed across his eyes: "Is it just a representative?"

"Yes!"

Emperor Jiajing closed his eyes again, but his chest heaved violently.After a while, two words were squeezed out between the teeth:

"Should kill!"

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