The Village Doctress Chapter 586: Huangfu Jin makes a move
Lin Fufu curled his lips coldly, raised his eyebrows and said, "Tomorrow, I will teach them a big lesson, and then ask them to donate their money obediently. This time we will not borrow it!"
The ruthlessness of Lin Fufu startled Princess Ruoshui, and hurriedly said: "Our Great Wei is a rite handed down from generation to generation, and those bad things can't be done."
Princess Ruoshui still cares about the face of the Wei court.
Lin Fufu knew that those moths of the Great Wei Dynasty were relying on the court to save face and would not force them to take money, so they took a few thousand taels of silver to deal with it.
Lin Fufu shook his head, looked at Princess Ruoshui and said, "For ordinary people, dozens of taels of silver is a huge fortune, and we will not go to ordinary people to borrow money. But for ordinary people To those people, tens of thousands of taels are not a big deal. Look at their daily gatherings for tea and dinner, and which occasion did they not spend hundreds of thousands of taels? They borrowed a mere few thousand taels. ? Where did all the money on them come from? Didn’t they earn it by taking advantage of the loopholes in Wei’s laws? Some even obtained huge wealth directly by breaking the law!”
Princess Ruoshui nodded again and again. She knew that what Lin Fufu said was the truth, and she was full of expectations for Lin Fufu, hoping that she would take the lead and solve this problem for the court.
Princess Ruoshui rushed to the palace overnight, had a heart-to-heart discussion with His Majesty the Emperor, and received His Majesty's imperial decree, which went to all the families that had lent money to the imperial court overnight.
Smart people think this edict is very unusual, and vaguely feel that it may have something to do with Princess Ruoshui bringing senior officials from the household department to borrow money today.
Those overconfident people thought they had lent money to the imperial court, and His Majesty the Emperor would reward them tomorrow.
Only those officials who are clean but have borrowed a lot can sleep soundly.
On the second day in the imperial garden of the palace, Princess Ruoshui personally received the female relatives of various families. It was the first time for the official ladies to come to the palace, so these people were very excited to see the legendary palace garden.
Lin Fufu stood dignifiedly beside Princess Ruoshui. On the other side of the imperial garden were the ministers and some big businessmen accompanied by His Majesty the Emperor himself.
After Princess Ruoshui's opening remarks, she began to tell these female relatives what Wei was encountering now.
Those female family members who are knowledgeable feel that the matter is not simple, but those who are not knowledgeable think that this is a matter of the imperial court. When outsiders break in, the imperial court sends troops to fight back.
There were endless noises below, but Lin Fufu stood on top with a calm expression.
Princess Ruoshui looks very ugly when she sees that most of the unknown female relatives are below.
Seeing that Princess Ruoshui couldn't hold on any longer, Lin Fufu took the initiative to take over Princess Ruoshui's words. As a princess, she can also restrain those foreign wives and female relatives.
Lin Fufu glanced at the foreign wives and their relatives with a smile, and then said with a smile: "Just now, Your Royal Highness said that the northwestern frontier of the Great Wei was provoked by several vassal states of the Beirong Kingdom. It's not your business, it's the court's business, right?"
A few bold female relatives answered yes.
Lin Fufu was not annoyed, and still smiled and said: "You are right, this other country invades the border of the Great Wei, and the imperial court will naturally send troops to resist the suppression, but you know that if you send troops out, those soldiers will throw their heads Those who sprinkle their blood to defend you need soldiers and food, and they are also made of flesh and blood, so they can't resist the enemy without eating or drinking to protect you?"
There are female family members who are not convinced. They say that the court has always been responsible for the food and soldiers' pay. Some people even questioned Lin Fufu why he would talk about this with women like them.
Lin Fufu went on to say: "Over the years, although the Wei Dynasty has been stable, natural disasters and man-made disasters have occurred frequently in various places. Part of the money collected by the imperial court is used for disaster relief, roads and bridges, and roads and bridges. It is used to pay soldiers, and food and grass are prepared during small-scale wars, and the rest is used to distribute the salaries of officials and the daily expenses of the court, etc. Now the treasury is out of money.”
The female relatives all opened their eyes wide and couldn't believe that this huge country has no money in the treasury?
It's no wonder they don't believe it. They always only care about the three-acre land in their backyard. How do they know how much money a country needs to run?
But there was no sound on the other side of the imperial garden, and even His Majesty the Emperor looked solemn.
"So, yesterday, Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess personally took the Minister of the Household Department and others to each family to borrow money for the court. Presumably the mistresses of each family know about this." Lin Fufu smiled, and then his voice changed. Li, sweeping around all the women's family members, "Some people have a lot of money, I am afraid that the money in the private treasury of the family is several times more than the national treasury, and the men in your family are even reluctant to lend it to the court?"
Many female family members blushed and lowered their heads, but they were very unconvinced in their hearts. Why should their family lend money to the court?
If you have a female family member, you have the courage to satirize Lin Fufu, "Princess Jiahe, to say something outrageous, the family lent thousands of taels of silver to the court and never thought that the court would return it. Thousands of taels of silver are also silver. Princess Jiahe Is this too little?"
Lin Fufu laughed loudly when he heard the words, and then changed the topic, his face became very serious, "I tell you, Beirong's vassal states dare to go to war against Wei, it is Beirong who let them play the vanguard, once we The northwestern frontier of the Great Wei Dynasty is not guaranteed, and the millions of cavalry from the Beirong will immediately march south. At that time, you people will be the big fat sheep in the eyes of the Beirong people! All the men will be killed, and the women will be bullied wantonly when they go back. I will regret that I did not help the imperial court together!"
When Lin Fufu said the last sentence, whether it was her side or the next door, the voices of air-conditioning kept coming and going.
A lot of young people on the side of the women's family are almost crying in fright, and some are even sobbing in fright.
Lin Fufu sneered, and scoffed: "Didn't some ladies and ladies just say very impassioned? Why are you shutting up now? Go on, that Jiahe still admires you as heroes in the powder pile .”
"Princess Jiahe... What you said is too scary, how did things get to this point?" There was always that persistent question.
Lin Fufu likes someone to be the leader. She glanced at the forty-something woman who questioned her, and said coldly: "If you don't believe me, then the imperial court will not send soldiers. Anyway, there is no military pay and money." Liangcao, you people just wait for the moment when your country is ruined and your family is destroyed. See if the women in your family have been captured to bully and humiliate wantonly, and whether the men in your family have been killed without leaving any... "
"Princess Jiahe, stop talking, stop talking!" A tall, thin and beautiful woman suddenly shouted, and everyone looked at her.
She cried: "I believe what Princess Jiahe said. My master has been an official in the northwest for more than ten years. Those soldiers in Beirong are very cruel. , seeing men... Even if they are only seven or eight years old, they will be killed when they start a war, they are not human!"
The woman's cries made the timid female relatives scream in fright.
Lin Fufu signaled the maids to come to the stage one by one. These ladies came to the stage in twos, and the two of them opened a picture scroll in their hands. The paintings on it were all scenes of Bei Rong soldiers burning, killing and looting.
Some people couldn't take it anymore, and couldn't help covering their mouths and retching after seeing these **** scenes.
Lin Fufu didn't let them go, and let the maids pull the scroll down, forcing everyone to take a closer look.
The female family members began to sob softly, and then they were substituted into the scene in the painting, and many of them began to cry loudly.
Lin Fufu asked the maids to take the scroll to the next door.
After a while, the sound of breathing in and out came from the next door.
I don't know who took the lead. There are people on both sides wanting to donate money to the imperial court, hoping that the imperial court will quickly organize an army to resist the war provoked by the Beirong vassal state.
In the end, under the operation of Lin Fufu, a total of tens of millions of taels of donations were received this time. Although the money for food and soldiers' salaries could not be completely resolved, it was finally able to breathe.
But this time the money was not borrowed from them by the imperial court, which made His Majesty the Emperor very happy. For this reason, he specially summoned Lin Fufu, gave her an imperial meal, and repeatedly praised her as Wei's lucky star.
Lin Fufu did not take credit for it, and was very modest and low-key, which His Majesty the Emperor appreciated very much.
Although most of the food, grass and soldiers' pay have been settled, the war in the northwest frontier is not optimistic. Although Old General Feng has received several million taels of silver from Huangfu Jin, the war is becoming more and more against Wei. Not good.
Not only did it fail to conquer the lost dozens of important towns, it almost lost a whole county.
Huangfu Jin sent people to investigate and found that the old emperor of Beirong had sent elite troops to lurk in several vassal states. After the battle started, the main force was actually from Beirong.
Huangfu Jin knew that in the face of this situation, even the old General Feng of Beirong would be powerless.
But his little girl has a good personal relationship with old general Feng's eldest daughter. If Feng Lan and his wife died here, Yin'er would be sad.
In the end, Huangfu Jin decided to send his elite team who had been trained in the Wei training method to detour and sneak to General Feng's barracks, to help General Feng and General Feng Lan fight against the elite troops of Beirong.
Huangfu Jin is very confident in his elite team because he not only understands the tactics of the Wei Dynasty, but also understands the tactics of the Beirong.
But he did his best for Wei, and this credit must be shown. He wrote to His Majesty the Emperor of Wei and Princess Ruoshui, telling him about his secret assistance to Wei.
In the letter, Huangfu Jin repeatedly emphasized that it was because of Lin Fufu's face that he came to help.
His Majesty the Great Wei Emperor is alright. Princess Ruoshuichang felt very complicated after receiving Huangfu Jin's letter. She never thought that Huangfu Jin, the Prince of Bei Rong, would be needed to help Wei fight against Bei Rong.
But the matter is not yet settled, she has always been hostile to Huangfu Jin.