Then Emperor Wanli wrote a letter eloquently, in which he praised the three ministers Wu and told them that everything should be business as usual. If necessary, I will let them contribute to the operation, and I will not hesitate to reward you generously from senior officials!
After receiving the letter, Liu Haojia told Emperor Wanli that he would ask each of them to write a reply. With this letter in hand, he would not be afraid of them changing their minds in the future. Then he opened the account book and explained it in detail to Emperor Wanli. How much money did this house charge? What is the approximate flow rate on weekdays? This gave Emperor Wanli a clear understanding of this collection of money. At the same time, he also taught him some simple financial principles.
When he felt that Emperor Wanli was a little impatient, he said: "Long live Lord, do you want to report the good news to the Queen Mother about the receipt of such a large sum of money?"
Emperor Wanli nodded and said, "That is indeed the case! Let's go out of the palace to prepare the money, and I will go to the queen mother to report the good news."
After Liu Haojia retired, Emperor Wanli straightened his clothes and rushed directly to the Queen Mother's palace. Empress Dowager Li had known about Liu Haojia's entry into the palace for a long time. She guessed that Emperor Wanli was here to announce the good news to her, so she waited with a smile.
When Emperor Wanli entered the palace and saw Empress Dowager Li, he said loudly: "Mother, Liu Haojia has sent me some silver, nearly 200,000 taels!"
Queen Mother Li, who was holding a teacup, almost choked on a sip of tea when she heard this! She hurriedly spit the water back into the tea cup, cleared her throat carefully, and then said in surprise: "Long live Lord, how much did you say just now?"
Emperor Wanli happily reported the number and said: "The specific number should be smaller, because Liu Haojia has a lot of privately minted silver, and it will take a lot of fire to smelt it into official silver!"
Only then did Queen Mother Li remember to put down her teacup and said, "Why are there so many?"
Emperor Wanli recounted what he had just heard from Liu Haojia. When he was halfway through the story, he sent all the maids to retreat, and then recounted the second half of the conversation with Liu Haojia. Then he spread out the account book and explained it carefully.
When he finished speaking, Queen Mother Li said: "Long live Lord, what he said is right. There are some things that cannot be touched easily now!"
Emperor Wanli gritted his teeth and said, "When I think about how much money these people have stolen, I feel so angry that my heart aches! How much can be done with so much money? At least we can repair the Yellow River embankment carefully, and we can save fewer lives." How many people are there!”
At this time, Queen Mother Li had completely straightened out her thoughts. Although she was very happy to receive so much money, at least with this money, the harem's expenses would be much easier. But she was very unhappy with Liu Haojia's instigation of Emperor Wanli's future military training!
Because he felt that his son was not a hero like Taizu, Taizong, and if he did not do anything right, the world would be in turmoil! So she said softly: "Long live my Lord, don't think too much! In fact, even if you want to push the commercial tax in the north, you won't get much money! Because the north is not as prosperous as the south of the Yangtze River in terms of trade, and most of the north's trade is concentrated in Capital Master, if you pushed it elsewhere, you wouldn’t receive so much money!”
Emperor Wanli nodded and said: "Liu Haojia has also told me about this, and I understand it too! So I am not in a hurry now, I still have time to wait slowly."
After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li felt happy and held Emperor Wanli's hand and said countless words. Emperor Wanli was also filial. No matter what Empress Dowager Li said, whether he liked it or not, he agreed to it. This made Empress Dowager Li feel happy, and mother and son were happy for a while!
The next day, all the small teaching centers in the west of the city were suddenly closed, causing passers-by to speculate what Tan Mo was going to do? Just as Tan Mo was guessing, many palace guards and people dressed as eunuchs came with many vehicles and entered the school grounds directly.
After a long time, when Tan Mo finally appeared, it was filled with silver boxes. Those good people already know that this is sending money to the palace! Although they didn't know how much money they had, they knew it was an astronomical figure when they saw the long list of cars!
When he was trying to get money from the palace, all the civil and military officials in the court also started to pay attention. Because they all knew that it would be their turn after paying filial piety to the emperor, so each of them guessed how much money they could get.
In the evening of the third day, a large number of uniformed guards filed out of the school grounds. However, they did not carry any money on their backs, but instead held wooden boxes one after another in their hands. But it didn't look like there were a few taels of silver in it, which made the people who paid attention very strange.
When these Jin Yiwei rushed to the various yamen, they did not ask to see the people inside. Instead, they stood a little far away from the official offices. They waited until the officials everywhere had resigned, and then they moved through the crowd.
The officials who had been busy for a day now felt much more relaxed because they could go home and rest soon. But it won't be easy for them to leave. According to the rules of the officialdom, they had to wait until the superior officers left before they could disperse. So when the officers came out, they saluted separately and then walked out of the Yamen surrounded by the officers.
Tang Henian was the chief officer of Shanxi Qing Li Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. He is in his forties this year. He is in the prime of life and still has the ambition to make progress! So every time the value is lowered, it is always the last one to come out. So when he led a group of subordinates out of the yamen, other colleagues on the street could only look at their backs!
At this time, when he was about to wave his hand to signal everyone to disperse, a man dressed as a royal guard not far away walked up quickly and said loudly: "Master Tang, please stay!"
Tang Henian was a staunch civil servant who opposed all warriors, especially Jin Yiwei! So he was a little unhappy when he saw that he was being greeted by a royal guard, so he frowned and said, "Who are you? What's the reason for stopping me?"
Jinyiwei took a few steps forward, held a wooden box in both hands and handed it over and said, "Master Tang, I am a subordinate of Master Liu of Jinyiwei. I was ordered by Master Liu to deliver something to Master Tang."
Tang Henian thought that Liu Haojia had something to ask of him, so he immediately wanted to show his strength and scold this Jin Yiwei. But then he thought about the money collection incident that caused a commotion in the capital some time ago, and thought that maybe this was the arrival of money to share profits!
But when he looked carefully at the small wooden box in Jin Yiwei's hand, he couldn't even put some silver coins in it, and he felt a little nervous in his heart! I thought that if Liu Haojia only sent a dozen or twenty taels of silver, he would be impeached for bribery!
Thinking of this, he took the wooden box and opened it in front of several subordinates. He found that instead of silver, there was a pile of colorful papers in the wooden box! Then he realized that this should be the banker's ticket!
