But at this time, Fang Congzhe and Wang Yingjiao had already replied: "My emperor is wise!"
Fang Congzhe naturally followed the emperor's orders.
Wang Yingjiao wished that the emperor would not grant land to his relatives so as not to affect the court's tax and grain income, so they all called him Dao Shengming.
Seeing this, Sun Ruyou had no choice but to reply: "I obey the order!"
Then, Zhu Youxiao said: "This gift of silver does not need to be distributed to them all at once. It should be kept by the Ministry of Household Affairs first to prevent them from having so much money stolen. Tell them that when they need silver coins, they can come with the imperial edict." Use it until the 50,000 taels are taken out, but you must indicate the purpose."
There are no government-run banks in Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Youxiao can only temporarily let the Account Department act as part of the bank's functions.
Zhu Youxiao did not allow his relatives to take away the silver reward at once, in order to control these relatives and prevent them from using large sums of money to usury and annex fields.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao asked them to take as much reward silver as they used, and they had to indicate the use. If the use was wrong, Zhu Youxiao could find reasons to freeze his reward silver.
In Zhu Youxiao's view, even if his father-in-law is as stingy as Zhou Kui, the father-in-law of Chongzhen in history, when he really needs donations from his relatives, he does not need to look at his face and directly embezzles his silver reward first.
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"Give me fifty thousand taels of silver! But you can't use it all at once. Every time you use it, you must indicate the purpose. In other words, if you want to spend this money, the emperor must know how you spend it."
After Zhang Guoji received the reward decree, he told the other two kings, Wang Xue and Duan Huangyi, that he was the supervisor.
After hearing this, Wang Xue couldn't help but said "Ah", and then said in disappointment: "I thought I could get thousands of acres of land, but I didn't expect it to be money, but money is nothing. Anyway, I also want to buy land." Exchange money to buy a woman to warm the bed. You don’t know that the mother of a good concubine passed away early. Over the years, I was afraid that my good concubine would be wronged, so I didn’t marry another wife. Others also disliked me for having a daughter, but now my daughter has grown up. If I marry a noble concubine, I will be considered a prosperous person. I can marry a woman and enter the house. But who would have thought that if the emperor wants to do this, wouldn’t it mean that if I want to buy a woman to enter the house, then the emperor will know? As soon as the emperor knows, the good concubine will If she knows, then won’t she blame me as the father?”
"That's right, you can put the money wherever you put it. What I'm worried about now is whether the emperor will let us take it."
Duan Huangyi started talking.
"That's not true, Jun Wuxi. How can you tell lies in this imperial edict? However, we can try it now."
Zhang Guoji said with a smile.
"Didn't the father-in-law Wang say that he wanted to buy a woman? It's just right. Why don't you go get it and give it a try?"
Duan Huangyi aroused Wang Xuelai.
Wang Xueze shook his head: "Forget it, I won't go get it. I'm mainly afraid that Concubine Liang will find out and blame me."
Seeing this, Zhang Guoji said: "Then I'll go get it. I'll get ten taels of silver to buy some paper and pen."
So, Wang Xue and Duan Huangyi followed Zhang Guoji to the Hubu Yamen.
A member of the Ministry of Revenue, Wai Lang, met the three people, and after learning that Zhang Guoji wanted to take 10 taels of silver coins, he said: "Guozhang, please wait a moment."
So, the foreign minister took twelve taels of silver coins, asked Zhang Guoji to register the purpose, sign and fingerprint, then handed the silver coins to Zhang Guoji, and reminded: "I think the emperor also knows that the silver coins issued by the imperial court are now There are statues of Taizu, so they cannot be damaged or destroyed and recast, but they can be bought, sold and traded.”
"Thank you for reminding."
Zhang Guoji nodded, then took the silver, and asked Wang Xue and Duan Huangyi, "Do you two want to take the silver?"
Duan Huangyi said excitedly to Wang Xue at this time: "Can it really be taken out?"
Wang Xue also nodded and said: "Yes! It is indeed true."
Zhang Guoji had no choice but to ask again: "Do you two want to get some silver? Come to the Hubu Yamen and get some."
"No, no, you can't spend this money carelessly. It's better to keep it. It's safer to keep it here with the emperor than at home."
Duan Huangyi said something, waved his hand and left here.
Zhang Guoji then looked at Wang Xue: "Master Wang, what about you? Don't you want to buy a woman?"
"Are you kidding? I don't need to buy a woman. I'm used to living alone. Duan Guozhang is right. You can't spend this money carelessly."
Wang Xue was reluctant to take any more money.
So, the three of them returned to their respective official residences.
Zhang Guoji first returned to his imperial residence. Seeing that the handyman sent by the inner court to help him had almost done the cleaning, he said to Rui Feng, the young eunuch who was responsible for cleaning for him: "Eunuch Rui, it's hard work!"
"It's not hard! Master, do you think there is anything you need to buy? Could you please ask someone to buy it for you?"
Rui Feng asked with a smile.
"No, no, just a place to sleep."
Zhang Guoji said something.
Here, as soon as Wang Xue came back, his son Wang Kun, who had arrived home first, came over and said, "Dad, although this house is big, it doesn't have much furniture, and it's all very old. My son already knows that, and the emperor rewarded us with money." , just asking us to pick it up, you see, do you want to pick up some, buy some furniture or something."
Wang Xue said directly to his son: "Buy whatever you want! How can you spend money indiscriminately."
Wang Xue said and sat down on a chair. As a result, the chair collapsed and he fell to the ground.
Wang Kun hurriedly pulled Wang Xue up: "Let me tell you, dad, look at this chair, it is indeed unusable. This official residence has probably been idle for too long, and it is old and out of shape."
"Don't buy it! It can be repaired. Your father is a carpenter, so how can you buy it outside?"
Wang Xue, who was wearing the uniform of a fourth-grade civil servant, simply sat on the ground, turned over the collapsed chair, and said, "Go and get the tools I brought to Beijing."
Duan Huangyi here asked a young prisoner: "Eunuch Yu, can this house be sold or rented?"
With that said, Duan Huangyi said: "I think there is no point in living in the capital in the future. It is not cost-effective to have to buy everything and eat. Besides, there are still more than ten acres of land at home that have not been cleared away. It is also useless to put this official residence here." If you leave it alone, it is better to turn it into silver."
"This is a gift from the emperor, you can't sell it!"
Shaojian Yu replied.
"That's it!"
After hearing this, Duan Huangyi had to give up the idea and said: "Then we still have to go back, but this time we have to spend money again in Nanjing."
At this moment.
A small official came over and asked, "Excuse me, is this the residence of Mr. Duan, the head of the country?"
"That's it, what's wrong?"
Duan Huangyi asked.
"We were ordered by Grand Sima to take you three abbots to the Academy of Sciences. Didn't the emperor make you three abbots officers of the Academy of Sciences? He said that you can go there and choose a few things to do. You also You can choose to eat and live there, the carriage is waiting outside, I wonder if you would like to go, Mr. Guo Zhang."
The clerk replied.
"Food and accommodation? You mean, your academy of sciences provides meals?"
Duan Huangyi caught the key point in the other party's words, touched his growling stomach, and asked excitedly.
"My father-in-law, yes, our Academy of Sciences has a special place for meals for the officials in the academy."
The clerk replied.
"Go! I'll go right now! I'm hungry just now. You think you can live there, right? I'll live there in the future. We can do whatever the emperor asks us to do. Anyway, I'm free now."
During this period, Huang Yi came over in a hurry.
Soon, Duan Huangyi came to the Academy of Sciences and met Zhang Guoji and Wang Xue.
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