Chapter 2679 The Royal Driving Expedition

The emperor is a person with good face, especially this is not only his face, but also the face of the country.

Although the national treasury is not rich, it is not necessary to oppress the ministers and workers to donate money.

Of course, Emperor Mo did not reach out and ask the ministers to donate money, but directly raised his hand to let people copy the homes of the ministers and directly rob the money.

But no matter which one it is, this is a very shameful and disgraceful thing for the court.

This step has come out. Is the next step to be a vend official and sell the title?

This is the prime minister of subjugation. The emperor angrily returned to the harem and poured himself two cups of tea before asking the queen, "Yesterday, the crown princess and the others asked for money?"

The queen smiled and said, "It was the concubine and them who wanted it."

Emperor: "...Queen, don't take responsibility for them."

The queen shook her head and said, "It was really the concubine who spoke."

She sighed: "It's because the concubine didn't think carefully, and I know that this matter will damage the country's majesty, but the lives of the soldiers are also important. This year, there are disasters everywhere. Your Majesty is unwilling to increase taxes and reduces taxes in some areas. The national treasury is indeed not rich, and I heard that the Ministry of Household is only willing to allocate 5 million to the Imperial Physician's Office."

She said: "Not counting the expenses of the medicinal materials for Your Majesty and the ministers, it is all divided equally. Calculated by the number of soldiers sent by His Majesty, one person will be divided into forty cents of medicine money."

The queen said: "A bottle of gold sore medicine is more than this price, not to mention other medicinal materials for hemostasis and blood."

"What did Zhou Man tell you?" It was even 40 cents per person. If it wasn't for what Zhou Man said, he wouldn't believe the queen would know.

The queen did not deny it, sighed, and reached out to hold the emperor's hand, "Your Majesty, this matter is not a big deal. It is also because the officials and family members are kind-hearted and want to ask for merit, so it is not a shame for the court."

The emperor couldn't help but hummed: "What you think is too simplistic. Those ladies are short-sighted, but they believe your words, but the princes in the court are not stupid, they just turned a corner and sneered at me.

The queen was unhappy, and withdrew the hand on his paw, "Who said the ladies are short-sighted?"

She said, "That's just for the ladies to give us face. Your Majesty really thinks that they donate military funds to worship Zhou Man, right? But the accumulation of merit is true. two."

Even if the atmosphere was good last night and everyone believed it at the time, it was time to wake up after going back to sleep after a night out of the palace.

Don't dare to say all, at least most people can figure out that the Crown Princess and Zhou Man are doing this to raise money for medicine, but today they are still willing to send money to the palace, which shows their attitude.

Do you really think they are fools, do you really want to worship Zhou Man?

The emperor rubbed his forehead, "But where the princes..."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty," the Empress said quietly, "There is a concubine, they won't mention it again in the future."

The emperor thought for a while, the money had already been sent in, and returning it would not look like it, on the contrary, it would be even more embarrassing, so he said: "Okay, but this kind of thing can't be done again, it's useless to the country."

"The concubine knows that this time, the concubine did not think carefully, and it will not happen in the future."

The emperor sighed and rubbed his forehead.

When the queen saw it, she got up and rubbed him, and asked softly, "When will your majesty leave?"

"Qin Tianjian is counting the days. Today has been announced to the world. It should not be long before the soldiers are very expensive. The soldiers and horses drawn from various places have already set off, and they will reach Liaodong and Dengzhou in a few days."

The emperor remembered something, took her hand and asked curiously, "How much did they donate in total?"

The queen smiled and said, "There are still people at the palace gate giving away money, and I haven't counted them for a while. I'll let you know when I count them."

The emperor nodded.

The effect of fundraising was more than what the Empress thought. I thought it would be almost the same as one or two million dollars. Who knew that so many people would send it.

For some people, it was enough that the wife wanted to donate twenty taels. Who knows, the daughters-in-law don't know whether it is to please the mother-in-law, or to please the empress or the crown prince.

I don’t dare to surpass my wife, but if the big room donated 10 taels, I will donate 8 taels, and the third room will also donate 8 taels…

A family may donate fifty or sixty taels.

In addition to silver, some people directly took out an ingot of gold, and these gold and silver were directly converted into copper coins. In this calculation, the total amounted to more than six million coins.

It's almost the same as the two donations they received two days ago.

After Zhou Man came out of the household meeting, he was called into the palace. When he came out, he had an account book with a total of 13.28 million in it.

Man Bao turned around and went to the Imperial Physician's Office to find Xiao Yuanzheng and others. They held another meeting by themselves, avoiding the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household, and used the donation to buy a large amount of medicinal materials, linen, gauze, needles and thread.

At the same time, the Imperial Physician’s Office was closed, and all students participated in the preparation. Some of the purchased medicinal materials needed to be processed, and then they were stored.

The purchased linen and gauze should also be cut according to the standard, and then collected in batches and transported to various places;

There is also catgut. They need to make a lot of catgut, including blood transfusion devices, and they also made a few more sets.

These were all done by the imperial physicians of the imperial hospital with students from the imperial physician's office. Zhou Liru was also urgently recalled and lived directly in the imperial physician's office to work overtime.

Man Bao was so busy hitting the back of his head with his feet that he basically never stopped.

Bai Shan was also busy, and Supervisor Qin Tian had calculated the time. August 21st was a good day, and the emperor would go on a personal expedition on that day.

He finally got a place to join the conscription, so there are many things to deal with. He also has to check the official documents reported by the post stations in various places to make sure that the communication in various places is smooth, and the information from all parts of Liaodong to the capital can be smooth.

It can be said that everyone in Dajin is busy now.

The people in Honglu Temple were also busy. Some envoys from the vassal states had to leave after attending the palace banquet, so they prepared gifts to send them away, while some envoys needed to be retained as much as possible, and they would be served after a month or two. Gift away.

Such as the envoys of Tubo.

Liu Huan is also on the expedition list. He is the person who was put in by the Ministry of Industry. He is mainly responsible for the accounting and escort of armaments, and needs to cooperate with the Ministry of War.

Bai Erlang also followed, but he would be called up not because the Hanlin Academy also needed to accompany the army, but the emperor appointed him, and he asked him to accumulate some credits.

The emperor felt that with Bai Erlang's current state of messing around, it would be difficult to get promoted, so if you have the opportunity, let's take credit for it. After staying in the Hanlin Academy for a year or two, I will improve my grade a little, and then continue to stay in the Hanlin. Courtyard, just don't lose Mingda's face.

Everything was ready, and in the early morning of the 21st day of the 8th month, the emperor set off for the expedition.

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