Poor Family - v2 Chapter 1040

  Chapter 1040 List disturbance

   Zhizheng Hall was filled with dozens of senior officials. When Li Yanqing entered the hall, the ministers stood up to welcome the Regent.

  Li Yanqing smiled and waved his hands and sat down, “Everyone, please sit down.”

  The ministers sat down, and Li Yanqing walked to the presentation platform, which was specially set up for the convenience of local officials to report to the Zhizheng Hall, and it was somewhat similar to the podium of later generations.

Li Yanqing stood in front of the stage very naturally, and said with a smile to everyone: “Just now, Mr. Gao asked me to tell you about the battle situation and future plans. When I was in Jiaxing Mansion, I read a “Morning Post”, which published the Hebei Campaign. The detailed process is roughly the same, but there are slight discrepancies in some details. For example, the newspaper said that the Hebei Jinbing was in my careful calculation and could not escape my palm. Jun, it was too late when I got the news, and it was thanks to General Wu Jie who lured them into Hejian City with a trick to implement the plan of fire, and the military report of the Privy Council will come out later, everyone can take a look.”

   “Then can I ask His Royal Highness the Prince Regent to talk about the follow-up war?” Fan Zhixu asked.

This is what the officials are concerned about, and it is also the real reason why they are sitting here. As the imperial court, they need to know the next move of the army. Li Yanqing has already made a comprehensive explanation of the previous Northern Expedition, and they are very clear about it. , What about after the end of the Northern Expedition?

Li Yanqing understood everyone’s thoughts, and he said in a calm manner: “In fact, the Northern Expedition is not over yet. The Song army is now besieging Yanshan Mansion. Don’t forget, everyone, Yanshan Mansion was once incorporated into the Song Dynasty, and was later captured by Jin soldiers. Take away, only by taking Yanshan Mansion, our Northern Expedition mission will be considered a successful conclusion. As for whether we will continue to fight the Jinbing, on the one hand, it depends on whether the Jinbing will counterattack, on the other hand, it also depends on our own national strength. But one thing is certain, we must carry out the most severe trade blockade, and we cannot allow the Kingdom of Jin to obtain any strategic materials from Song Dynasty.”

   “Does His Royal Highness have any specific plans?”

  Li Yanqing shook his head, “The specific plan hasn’t come out yet, and there is only one idea now, but I can tell everyone clearly that my goal is to completely destroy the Jin Kingdom and eradicate this cancer and hidden danger growing on our backs.”

After a pause, Li Yanqing said again: “Everyone, don’t think of the Kingdom of Jin so scary. Let me tell you that after so many years of war, the national power of the Kingdom of Jin has been exhausted. It is now just a tribe of more than one million people. The national strength is even inferior to Xixia, how can we compete with the tens of millions of people in the Song Dynasty? Once the beam of the Jin Kingdom is broken, the entire Jin Kingdom will collapse as quickly as a rotten house, leaving everyone dumbfounded.”

On the second day after Li Yanqing came back, Zhizhengtang passed a resolution to solicit military expenses from the people all over the world. The call for donations was placed on the front page of the Morning Post. Not only will it be awarded to honored officials, but land or cattle and sheep will also be compensated in the future, and the minimum compensation standard has been specified. Those who donate money consistently will be rewarded with one sheep, and those who donate money five times will be rewarded with one mu of land.

At the same time, the imperial court ordered the establishment of donation centers in every prefecture and county. The call for donations first hit Lin’an Mansion, and there were long queues in front of the 23 donation points in Lin’an City. And some wealthy businessmen also donated generously. Li Daqi, the proprietor of Baoyanzhai, donated 500,000 taels of silver, which caused a sensation in the whole city.

Even the officials donated money one after another. Li Yanqing took the lead and donated 10,000 guan; Less than a thousand guan, hundreds of guan, dozens of guan.

  In just ten days, the city of Lin’an alone donated more than 10 million yuan. “Zaobao” specially published a special fundraising issue, publishing the top 500 donors.

  At night, Li Yanqing sat in his study and slowly flipped through the special issue of “Morning Post”. There are actually a lot of useful information in it, it just depends on how you dig it out.

  At this time, his wife Cao Yun came in with a bowl of tea, and Li Yanqing raised his eyebrows and asked, “How are Qing’er and her mother?”

  Cao Yun nodded, “After all, they are mother and daughter, connected by blood. Qing’er has already talked to her. I guess after giving birth, the two will be completely reconciled.”

   “Since that’s the case, let her mother move into the house. It’s pitiful to live outside alone.”

   “Husband, don’t worry! I will make arrangements.”

  Cao Yun put the tea on the table. Seeing her husband watching the fundraising report, she couldn’t help laughing and said, “Everyone is talking about fundraising these days, and my ears are getting calloused.”

   “Did the lady donate?”

   “Go! We won’t donate. Where did your 10,000 yuan come from? Isn’t it just a patchwork of us? Even A Lian donated her own 50,000 yuan.”

   “En! This child is sensible, has Pu’er donated it?”

   “Of course he also donated. He donated all ten pennies. He is very sensible!”

  Li Yanqing smiled and patted her buttocks lightly, “I’m afraid that my son won’t be praised!”

“Of course!”

  Cao Yun squeezed and sat next to her husband like a baby, and read the newspaper with him, “I see that you have read the list several times. Is this list interesting?”

   “It’s quite interesting. Look at the second place in donations, Quanzhou ship king Zheng Rongtai, who donated 100,000 taels of silver. I haven’t heard from him for many years. It turns out that he is in Quanzhou.”

   “Husband knows him?”

   “Of course I know him. He was sitting next to me when I took the exam. I saw him cheating with my own eyes. Later, he became my friend.”

   “I remembered too.”

  Cao Yun hurriedly said: “When we got married back then, you said there was a fat man Zheng who gave a gift of 10,000 guan, was it him?”

“it’s him!”

   “Then when will you invite him to come over to sit at home, he supports you so much.”

   “I want to treat him to a meal, in a few days!”

   “Then what else is interesting?” Cao Yun asked again.

   “There is another interesting thing. Among the top 500, I can’t find a single Zhao family. They seem to be resisting collectively.”

   “Fu Jin donated a thousand guan, and Jin Nu also donated 500 guan.”

“They don’t count. Fu Jin’s donation is my share, Zhao Jinnu’s donation is Cao Sheng’s share, and nothing else. The 500th donated 300 guan, don’t they even have 300 guan? Are you reluctant to donate? It is still Zhao Song Jiangshan!”

  Cao Yun thought for a while and said, “I don’t think they don’t want to donate, but they are afraid of you.”

“why would you say so?”

Cao Yun pointed to the person in front of him and said: “This Xing Qiliang donated 20,000 guan. He is the elder brother of Empress Xing. As far as I know, Empress Xing and Queen Mother Zheng also donated 5,000 guan. But their names are not on it. , it means that Empress Xing gave the money to his elder brother and asked him to donate on his behalf, so why doesn’t Empress Xing donate in the name of the crown prince, who is not willing to donate money as a matter of course, isn’t this just because she is afraid of you?”

   “It may not be because I’m afraid of me, maybe the Zhao royal family is boycotting collectively.”

  Cao Yun shook his head, “The royal family has already collapsed in the last event of cutting the nobility. Where is there any collective resistance?”

“what happened?”

   “I don’t know too well, but I just heard from my uncle that there were several princes who didn’t want to give up their titles at first, but others gave up later. They had no choice but to give up, but they hated the royal family who had voluntarily given up their titles before.”

   “It’s interesting, but no matter what the reason is, there is no royal family in this list. In the hearts of the people in the world, they have seriously broken their trust.”

   “Isn’t this what your husband wants?”

  Cao Yun stood up and walked out with a smile, Li Yanqing was stunned. Is his ambition so obvious?

Li Yanqing stood silently in front of the window. He was still considering whether to use this donation incident to attack the royal family of the Zhao family. He couldn’t understand why the royal family would be absent at such a critical time. None of them appeared on the list, what do people in the world think?

   Once public opinion breaks out, it will have a fatal impact on the Zhao royal family. They don’t even care about their own dynasty, and expect others to care about them?

  Perhaps the wife is right, these royal families are afraid to donate money just because they are afraid of themselves, but it can also be seen from this that the Zhao royal family has become a dou that cannot be supported.

   No one dared to stand up and donate money, declaring loudly that the royal family has not disappeared, and they still care about the Song Dynasty. Unfortunately, there is no such person, and everyone has learned to be wise and protect themselves.

  Li Yanqing sneered, they said they gave in low-key, did they think they could escape their whip?

   Li Yanqing immediately wrote a letter and asked the soldiers to run to his father.

In the next two days, the crusade of public opinion triggered by the list began to erupt. The “Morning Post” severely criticized the royal family for being indifferent and selfish on the front page. Only one person donated a mere 100 yuan. Are they worthy of the soldiers who fought **** battles on the battlefield, and the soldiers who died for the country?

  The severe criticism of “Zaobao” became the fuse of detonating public opinion. For a while, people all over the world, including Lin’an Mansion, were indignant and condemned the royal family’s selfishness and indifference.

  The crusade against the royal family lasted for nearly two months before public opinion slowly subsided.

  Although the royal family remained silent throughout this incident and did not make excuses, after the public opinion ended, people’s hearts have changed.

  (end of this chapter)