Dressed like a loser and went to raise a baby

Chapter 333: The wild scholar regards money as dirt
As soon as they took office, the civil and military officials left the palace, stopped riding, and headed directly to Jingzhao Yamen in small groups chatting.

During the fund-raising performance yesterday, they were all at work and could not come.This fund-raising was organized by the imperial court. Yesterday Concubine Leng and the young prince came to participate in the benefit performance and called on everyone to donate to the people of Xizhou. As officials, they should naturally take the lead in responding to the call.

Instead of taking a car and walking, people can see that they have come to donate.

The amount donated by the ministers was very even, 100 taels or 200 taels, neither too much nor too little.

If you don’t donate enough, it will look bad on your face, and you will be called stingy.

It's not good to donate too much. A third-grade official's annual salary is only one thousand, two hundred taels of silver. If you want to be top-notch and donate a thousand or eight hundred taels of silver, the people should suspect that you are accepting bribes and plundering people's wealth.

When the merchants in Kyoto saw that the officials had donated, they also went to donate. If the merchants had money, they would naturally donate more than the officials.

The King of Chang'an wanted to be the top person and wanted the people to see his kindness, so he asked his steward to donate 5000 taels of silver.

However, the focus of the people is why King Chang'an is so rich?
"The in-law family of King Chang'an is well-known as a wealthy royal merchant, even richer than the Zhou family. When King Chang'an married the princess, they had a lot of money, and there were more than [-] shops for the dowry. King Chang'an was rich. normal."

"Do you think this money really just comes from Princess Chang'an's dowry?" A middle-aged man asked, looking at everyone, with the word "innocent" written clearly on his face.

"Does Brother know something?"

The middle-aged man took a sip of tea and asked everyone: "Last year, why was Jiangzhou flooded?"

"Because the prefect of Jiangzhou embezzled money for the river embankment and cut corners when repairing the embankment, the embankment was left vulnerable, thus causing floods."

Everyone in Kyoto knows this. Soon, the prefect of Jiangzhou will behead him, and they plan to throw rotten vegetable leaves while parading in the streets!
The middle-aged man shook his head and chuckled, "The ancestral home of King Chang'an is Jiangzhou, and he also served as an official in Jiangzhou. The prefect of Jiangzhou was the person under King Chang'an when he was an official in Jiangzhou. At that time, Jiangzhou could be said to be the world of King Chang'an. Even now After leaving Jiangzhou, the remaining power is still there. If a prefect has no one in charge, how dare he directly embezzle 10 taels of river embankment money?"

"Brother, what do you mean?"

The middle-aged man said: "King Chang'an also has a share in the river embankment money. Otherwise, why do you think the emperor would send Prince Chang'an to Jiangzhou to investigate the river embankment? It's because only by investigating the river embankment can King Chang'an recover all the river embankment money." If other imperial envoys go to Jiangzhou to investigate, I'm afraid they won't be able to leave Jiangzhou alive."

"Since the Emperor knew that there was something wrong with Prince Chang'an, why didn't he investigate and deal with Prince Chang'an?" A scholar said indignantly.

Could it be that just because King Chang'an was the emperor's uncle, the emperor chose to turn a blind eye and let the big moth King Chang'an eat away at the foundation of Tianyuan?

The middle-aged man looked at the scholar and said quietly: "Young man, you are still too young to understand the affairs of the court. Many things must be done slowly. They cannot be accomplished overnight."

"..." The scholar didn't quite understand.

Because she was busy fundraising for charity performances, Leng Luoyue didn't write a book, but she asked Li Cheng to help deliver a letter and asked Mengyou Bookstore to donate all her royalties to the victims of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Anyway, it was impossible for her to collect the royalties. Instead of taking advantage of Mengyou Bookstore, it would be better to donate them to the victims.

Of course, she didn't know how much her royalties from Mengyou Bookstore were.

After receiving the letter, shopkeeper Mi from Mengyou Bookstore went to ask his boss Yu Wei, who asked for a donation, even with great fanfare.

If the world knew that Wild Scholar had donated so much royalties, Wild Scholar's name would be even louder and his books would sell better.

So shopkeeper Mi found someone, took 3000 taels of cash, and went to Jingzhao Yamen, boasting about it.

This is enough fanfare!

The story of the wild scholar's crazy donation of 3000 taels of manuscript fee spread to Kyoto, and the literati were greatly shocked. They praised the wild scholar for his kindness and righteousness, treating money like dirt, and even donated all the manuscript fee to the victims of the Xizhou disaster.

Literary students were also encouraged to show their love one after another and promoted various slogans for everyone to show love together.

However, in just five days, the total amount of donations has exceeded 20 taels.No one expected that so much money would be raised.

Feng Chenghan asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to give the money and make a special account book. If he didn't spend any money, he would make it public to the people.

The first batch of purchased grain and medicinal materials were also shipped to Xizhou at great speed.

At this time, the victims of the disaster in Xizhou were running to Chenzhou and Yunzhou, which were relatively close to Xizhou and relatively wealthy.

Although the northern border is closer to Xizhou and there is no shortage of water, it is poor. If you try to get there, you might end up starving to death.

When there was no more water to be found in Xizhou, Chen Yu, her father, mother and sister embarked on the road to escape together.

My grandparents chose to stay in Xizhou. They said that they could not leave home and would die at home.

In fact, both he and his parents knew that his grandparents just said that they did not want to be a burden to them on the road.

When his parents agreed to stay with his grandparents, he felt that they were unfilial, but when he embarked on this road to escape, he felt that his grandparents were right not to go with them.

There was lack of water and food along the way, and there were bandits robberies. In order to protect the remaining food, my father was killed by the bandits. My mother couldn't accept this reality, so she followed.

He took his sister all the way to Chenzhou. On the way, he dug grass roots and ate tree bark. He tried his best to knock down two hungry ghosts who wanted to catch his sister and eat him. Today he finally saw the gate tower of Luoshui County, which belongs to Chenzhou. .

Chen Yu supported his sister who could no longer open her eyes and was moving slowly by instinct like a zombie.

His eyes were astringent and he said: "Yu'er, hold on, we will arrive in Luoshui County soon, and there will be food and medicine soon. Brother still has money, he can buy you medicine, and he can buy you a lot of money. steamed stuffed bun."

On this road to escape from famine, there was a lack of water at first, but after slowly leaving the boundary of Xizhou, there was no shortage of water, but also food and medicine.

His sister Yu'er started to have a fever five days ago. Although he didn't have a fever, he was about to be defeated by hunger.

"Hey..." The middle-aged man who was walking in the front let out a long sigh and said, "There are so many of us, and many of them are sick. I don't know if the Luoshui County Magistrate will let us." Enter the city.”

How much food do so many people need to eat?These people who were fleeing from famine ate everything along the way, and they might have contracted the epidemic. Who dared to let them enter the city?

"No, won't they let us enter the city?" someone asked.

The middle-aged man said weakly: "My parents also escaped from a famine when they were young. They finally escaped to Yunyang County in Yunzhou, but the Yunyang County magistrate did not open the city gate to let them in. There was no food for them either. They stayed outside the city for five days before someone threw food down from the tower."

No one distributed the food in an orderly manner, they just threw it away. Many people started fighting over the food, which was a tragedy.Half of the people died of illness and starvation after arriving in Yunyang County, but his parents survived.

After half of the people died of starvation and illness, the court officials came to build a shed and distribute food. The food was just a bowl of clear porridge with a clear bottom.After it started to rain in Xizhou, they returned to Xizhou with a bag of grain distributed by the court.

Someone said optimistically: "We should be able to survive for five days just by eating bark and grass roots."

Chen Yu was almost desperate. He thought that he and his sister would be able to survive in Luoshui County, but he did not expect that they would not be able to enter the city.

He can wait for five days, but his sister can't wait!He only has his sister. If his sister dies, then he doesn't want to live anymore.

The belief that had been supporting him collapsed instantly, all the energy in his body was sucked away, and he and his sister fell directly to the ground.

He blinked at the pure sky. He couldn't stand up anymore. His eyelids felt heavy and he was very tired.

He was tired and desperate, that was it!Just sleep like this!
When he was unconscious, he seemed to see an official wearing a hat running towards him. After checking his breath, he shouted to the people behind him: "Come on, there are two fallen people here, and If you're angry, hurry up and get him into the car and take him to the resettlement site."

(End of this chapter)