prosperous age

Chapter 196 Chapter 195

Under the expectant eyes of King Yu Zhu Zaiyi, Gao Gong, and Chen Yiqin, even though he felt that the current occasion was inappropriate, Yin Shizhen slowly expressed Wei Guangde's suggestion.

"Send money to Yan Shifan?"

After listening to Yin Shifan's words, King Yu couldn't believe his ears, and asked Gao Gong in a low voice, "What does he mean to ask this king to send money to Yan Shifan, so that he can solve the matter?"

Before Gao Gong could answer, Chen Yiqin, who was beside him, had already stared at Yin Shizhen and was about to burst into flames, "You are so courageous, Yin Shizhen, should you say such a bad idea? Don't forget, you are still in the palace of Prince Yu." horse."

After Chen Yiqin said this, King Yu's face didn't look good either.

Asking his majestic prince to bribe the notorious Yan Deqiu in the capital, King Yu couldn't believe his ears, and he couldn't believe that his subjects would come up with such a way for him.

Just as he was getting angry, a high-pitched voice sounded beside him.

"Just now you said that someone else gave you the method, who said it?"

"Master Gao, you"

King Yu suppressed his unhappiness at this time, and looked at Gao Gong to ask, but Gao Gong waved his hand to stop him. He continued to stare at Yin Shizhen and asked, "Who gave you the solution?"

Yin Shizhen was a little bit paralyzed at the moment, and was locked on by three eyes in the room at the same time, and he didn't know how to put his hands and feet.

To be honest, Yin Shizhen at this time was a bit regretful, and should not have brought up this bad idea given by Wei Guangde.

However, Yin Shizhen still has his own principles. Looking at the unkind eyes, Yin Shizhen still suppressed his uneasiness and said: "Others are just kind, not malicious."

"I didn't ask that, I just wanted to know who came up with the idea?"

Gao Gong frowned, but still said, but his tone was much better than before.

Yin Shizhen glanced at King Yu over there, then at Gao Gong and Chen Yiqin, and then whispered: "You also know it, it is the method suggested by Wei Guangde, a scholar of the Imperial Academy."

"Wei Guangde? Bastard An dare to do that."

Hearing that it was Wei Guangde's suggestion, Chen Yiqin on the side couldn't bear it. It was because he looked down on King Yu to say such a way.

"Wei Guangde, is the biography of Jinke?"

King Yu frowned slightly after hearing Yin Shizhen's words, and his tone was very unkind, obviously he had a bad opinion of Wei Guangde.

"It's him."

Only Gao Gong didn't have any emotional changes, but bowed his head and meditated.

Seeing Gao Gong's appearance, King Yu hurriedly said, "Master Gao, you"

Speaking of this, he was interrupted again by Gao Gong waving his hand, obviously not wanting to be interrupted when he was thinking.

Maybe it was because of the obsession with the person involved, or in his heart, he never planned to bow his head to the Yan family and King Jing's family, so Gao Gong never considered this possibility, that is, to the person who was too courageous to do anything. Yan Shifan, Yan Donglou, sent money and asked him to deal with the people in the household department.

After all, although Yan Donglou is only the servant of the Ministry of Industry, the power from his father Yan Song can indeed crush those people in the Ministry of Household Affairs. Those villains are all based on the face of Yan's father and son.

It's just that I also approached Mr. Yan Song Yange, but he declined directly.

What Yan Song didn't agree to, would Yan Shifan agree?
Yan Shifan's credit is indeed a well-known honest and trustworthy young man in the capital, as long as he accepts the money, he will do anything.

Thinking of Yinzi, Gao Gong came back to his senses.

If you have money, you might as well give Yan Shifan a try.

Although he has never made a deal with Yan Shifan, Gao Gong has heard that Yan Shifan dare not accept the request, and will return the original. Do nothing.

What's more, sending this money can also confirm something from the side, that is, who is calling from the Ministry of Accounts.

If it was really the decision of the one they were all afraid of, Yan Shifan would never dare to take money for doing things, and if he dared to take money and do this, then the instigator would be very clear.

Relatively speaking, the key to doing this now is whether Yan Shifan dares to accept the money.

However, the most important thing before him is to collect money first.

Yes, in his heart, Gao Gong has already accepted Wei Guangde's idea. Although it is very embarrassing, it may indeed be the only good way to solve the problem.

However, after a very simple balance, Gao Gong still felt that as long as this problem could be solved, it would be fine even if he lost some face, but how to operate it would minimize the loss for Prince Yu's Mansion.

Thinking of this, Gao Gong looked at Yin Shizhen again and asked: "What Wei Guangde said at the time, please remember carefully and tell me in detail."

Although Yin Shizhen didn't understand Gao Gong's consideration, but when he heard that he wanted to know the details, he had no choice but to recall it before speaking out slowly.

After listening to Yin Shizhen's words, Gao Gong nodded, "As Wei Guangde said, if this matter is completed, the palace will definitely lose face and be ridiculed by others, but won't it be shameful to let the Ministry of Household Affairs continue to idle like this? "

After Gao Gong said this, he looked at King Yu and continued: "Instead of continuing to be a laughing stock, it is better to give it a try, at least it can solve the dilemma of insufficient expenditure faced by the palace."

Then he looked at Chen Yiqin, and then at Yin Shizhen: "We still have to do this matter, who should we send to test it?"

"Master Gao, it's wrong to do this."

Before Chen Yiqin and the others could reply, Yu Wang interrupted in dissatisfaction.

Although Yin Shizhen repeated Wei Guangde's method and Gao Gong's words before, it seemed that this matter had nothing to do with him, but in the end it was he who lost the people of Prince Yu's Mansion, and it was his face that was lost.

"Your Highness, as I said earlier, it's shameful to continue like this. It's better to be ashamed to solve this matter once. Let's consider this matter, and how much money can the palace give out now?"

Gao Gong has been staying in Prince Yu's mansion for a long time, so he naturally knows that King Yu's temper is relatively weak, if he wants him to agree to something he doesn't want, he must be a little stronger.

And King Yu is a very sensible person, even if he was dissatisfied at the time, but later he thought it was for his own good, so he wouldn't mind these rude things.

In addition, King Yu still cares about face, which can be seen from the fact that he did not report to the household department after suffering such a big grievance.

It is precisely because Gao Gong knew that King Yu would not agree to this matter, so he did not seek King Yu's opinion, but suppressed King Yu with a stronger tone, and then skipped King Yu to discuss the matter with the other two. The thing is, I don't want Yu Wang to express his ideas that he doesn't want to do.

Well, let's not mention who to send to contact Yan Shifan for the time being, let's talk about Yinzi first.

One is to determine how much money is left, and the other is how much money should be sent to Yan Shifan.

Hearing Gao Gong asked how much money was left in the palace, King Yu's face turned sour, he hesitated for a long time but didn't say anything.

"Your Highness, you must know how much money is left in the palace."

When Gao Gong saw King Yu's expression, he knew in his heart that he was going to suffer, and that the palace was really in a situation where it couldn't be opened.

"There should be a few hundred taels, which is enough for the palace's expenses this month. The household department owes Gu tens of thousands of taels of silver, and now I really can't afford the money."

Hearing Gao Gong's continued questioning, King Yu had no choice but to speak honestly.

"A few hundred taels?"

Hearing King Yu's answer, Gao Gong, Chen Yiqin, and Yin Shizhen all gasped.

A few hundred taels of silver is a huge sum of money to put outside, but for the huge palace, it is indeed at the end of its rope.

As a prince, he still needs to be decent in his daily life, so he can't be like ordinary people, spend more if he has money, and spend less if he doesn't have money.

Some money, whether you use it or not, must be spent.

"This amount of money is definitely not enough. For Yan Shifan, it will definitely not work without 1000 taels."

Gao Gong shook his head and said.

As far as he knows, even if Yan Shifan finds a low-level official like the county magistrate, he still needs to collect several hundred taels of silver from him. If he is a county magistrate, it will cost 800 taels and nearly a thousand taels of silver.

Of course, if it is a county magistrate in a superior county, the silver must be more than a thousand taels.

This is the price for selling an official. It is said that there is a price list for those who are recruited and Jinshi to choose freely, which makes it very marketable.

But this time, it is obviously more difficult than a certain county magistrate, and the price list is impossible, so I have to go and talk to them.

"Is it okay to make a note? After receiving the reissued money from the household department, I will make it up for him immediately?"

King Yu spoke at this time.

After being disturbed by the matter of Yinzi, King Yu temporarily forgot about the matter of face, but was led to pay attention to the issue of Yinzi.

In any case, it was not easy in front of such a big family. He had to think about the hundreds of mouths in the palace, or he had to get money to tide over the difficulties first.

Gao Gong, Chen Yiqin and others shook their heads at King Yu's words.

Yan Shifan always takes money to do things, and if he doesn't take money, it means he doesn't do things.

King Yu can figure out how to make a note.

"The palace still has several hundred taels of silver?"

Gao Gong turned to look at King Yu and asked.

"Three 400 taels, if you can survive this month, it will definitely not be enough next month."

King Yu lowered his head in embarrassment at this moment, if not for the few people sitting here were all old people in the palace, he would never have told the truth.

"Ugh"

There was a moment of silence in the hall before Gao Gong let out a long sigh with a look of despair on his face.

Gao Gong knew very well that whether it was him, Chen Yiqin, or Yin Shizhen, there would not be too much money in hand at this time.

For officials like them, the monthly salary is only enough for them to live in the capital, and it is impossible to save much money.

Officials of the royal family like them have another income besides salary, that is the rewards from the royal family, but at King Yu's place, he has not seen rewards for two years, so naturally there will be no money to reward them.

After more than two years, it is obvious that the previous accumulation of the palace has been exhausted, and it is really impossible to survive.

Gao Gong can only regret deeply at this moment, why he didn't think of this solution sooner, and tried to follow Yan Shifan's path, with his character of regarding money as his life and "honesty and credit", perhaps the matter would have been resolved long ago.

Gao Gong has spent most of his energy in the palace these years. Because of Yu Wang's weak character, he must try his best to provide shelter for Yu Wang and prevent him from being harmed. Now he really doesn't know how to raise money to fill this place. Thousands of holes.

In Gao Gong's view, to impress Yan Shifan, he had to prepare at least a thousand taels of silver, maybe even more, but for the first time, he had to prepare at least 1000 taels of silver to test Yan Shifan's limit.

I'm not afraid that he will take money, and I'm not afraid that he thinks it's too little, but I'm afraid that he won't take money.

As long as he dared to accept it, as long as he dared to propose how much money he wanted, he had to collect all the money and send it over. The most important thing was to solve the financial crisis of the palace first.

"Can you find a way to borrow money from someone with a strict mouth?"

Gao Gong searched all over his mind, but couldn't find who to borrow money from at this time, so he had no choice but to ask Chen Yiqin and Yin Shizhen.

King Yu cannot be involved in this matter from the beginning to the end, including the matter of borrowing money, which can only be done in private.

Both Chen Yiqin and Yin Shizhen shook their heads, they had already thought about it just now, colleagues and friends were not allowed.

The key to this matter is actually that it is best to only find someone with a strict mouth to borrow money, and minimize the scope of knowledge.

"How much silver do you need?"

Chen Yiqin asked Gao Gong at this time.

"I estimate at least 1000 taels, maybe more, but at least two 3000 taels of silver can be borrowed from that person to be safe."

Gao Gong looked at Chen Yiqin and said: "If you don't do it, you must prepare enough money if you want to do it. I'm not afraid that Yan Shifan will speak up. As long as he dares to report the number, we will satisfy him." '

"Two 300 taels can still be made up, thousands of taels, even my fellow merchants in the capital may not be able to spend so much money for a while."

Chen Yiqin shook his head and said.

Yin Shizhen also said similar things, but in fact, he didn't say anything deeper, that is, they are now in Prince Yu's Mansion, if they are working in King Jing's Mansion, maybe they can do it.

When the three of them were at a loss, King Yu said dejectedly: "If you forget it, I will enter the palace in a few days and beg my father to let me go out." '

"No."

Gao Gong, Chen Yiqin and the other three said in unison.

"Your Highness must never think about it again. We will find a way to deal with the money."

Looking at King Yu, Gao Gong said: "Actually, it's not that I can't get the money together, the main reason is that I don't want to ask too many people to borrow money, so as not to spread the matter."

"Hey, by the way, the person who gave you the advice was Wei Guangde. I remember the last time when I had a drink with colleagues from the Imperial Academy, Jin Da said that Wei Guangde might be the richest person among Jinshi in the present department. If you don’t have enough, ask him to borrow it, and let him not charge too much interest.”

Chen Yiqin suddenly remembered that when he went back to the Hanlin Academy to do business, he had dinner with his colleagues in a restaurant outside at noon, and Wei Guangde was there at that time, and they all said that Wei Guangde was rich.

"Wei Guangde? Is he rich?"

When Gao Gong heard Chen Yiqin say that Wei Guangde might be rich, he immediately lifted his spirits.

Indeed, if he could borrow money from Wei Guangde, it would be the best thing. After all, the idea was his, so naturally it would not be leaked. As for Yan Shifan, there is no way to control it, and the mouth is on others.

"Jinda said so, but I can't say whether he can come up with so much money."

Chen Yiqin said.

"Maybe try to find him, even if there is no one, ask him to help raise money outside, and then send it over?"

Yin Shizhen suddenly suggested.

(End of this chapter)