Gao Qiu echoed," That's right, Your Majesty. Why don't we let Lord He and the others atone for their sins? The Imperial Court is in a mess now. We can't leave them out."”
Liyun deliberately showed a trace of hesitation. He looked at He Shen and the others and said unhappily,""Hmph, if it wasn't for Lord Jiang and Lord Gao pleading for you, you would have been waiting for your butts to explode!”
When He Shen and the others heard this, their eyes revealed the joy of surviving a calamity.
"Thank you, Your Majesty. Thank you for your mercy!”
The dozen or so people knelt down in unison, deeply grateful, and completely forgot about the incident of Imperial Concubine Yang disrupting the government.
The next second, Liyun continued," We can avoid the responsibility, but we still need to see the sincerity of the dozen of you. We need to see if you are truly repentant!”
Sincerity?
Everyone was suspicious.
Following Li Yun's line of sight, everyone saw the title deed and banknotes scattered on the ground.
Jiang Biehe and the others were the first to react. So the Emperor had gone around in such a big circle just for money!
Jiang Bie He and Gao Qiu exchanged a glance with a complicated expression. Where did that ignorant and incompetent Emperor go? Now, he had learned to beat around the bush and use both kindness and intimidation.
He Shen was not a fool to have done this as an official. He immediately understood what Li Yun meant.
"Your Majesty, this subject is willing to pay two hundred taels of silver for disaster relief!”
The corner of Liyun's mouth twitched. Two hundred taels of silver? Do you think I'm a beggar?
He Shen saw that something was wrong with Li Yun's expression and quickly changed his words,""Your Majesty, this subject is willing to pay a thousand taels of silver!”
However, how could Liyun not know that these guys were extremely fat? They wouldn't be short of this bit of money. It was just that they were afraid of arousing suspicion, so they didn't dare to say too much.
After everyone finished bidding, they looked at Li Yun.
Liyun, on the other hand, was unmoved. He said lightly,""It's too little."
Liyun raised his eyebrows and swept his gaze across the crowd.
"Lord Jiang, Lord Gao, and all the beloved ministers, what do you think? Wasn't it too little? A famine couldn't be solved with a little money and food.”
Liyun's meaning was very obvious. All of you are just watching. Aren't you going to fork out some money?
The ministers looked at each other.
He looked pained.
Yang Zongbao's ancestors were businessmen. He was the first to stand up and take the lead."Your Majesty, in the name of the Yang family, I will offer 100,000 silver and 100 stones of grain to aid the famine!”
Hearing this number, He Shen and the others 'faces darkened. They thought to themselves, Aren't you f * cking raising the price?
Your standards are so high. What is our one thousand taels or one hundred taels? A joke?
Jiang Bie He looked at Li Yun and Yang Zongbao with a deep gaze. A monarch and a minister, a white face and a red face. They were obviously trying to blackmail them.
Money was a small matter. He didn't care about it. What he cared about was Liyun's change.
The emperor was afraid of powerful ministers, but how could powerful ministers not be afraid of smart emperors?
"Your Majesty, I'm willing to sell three properties and various land deeds worth about tens of thousands of taels of silver. In addition to a hundred stones of grain, I'm willing to help the disaster area.”
Jiang Bie He squeezed out a smile and then gave He Shen and the others a look.
He Shen and the others felt pain in their hearts, but there was nothing they could do. His Majesty did not want to be blamed, so they had to pay the money honestly.
"Your Majesty, I'm also willing to sell my residence to raise thousands of taels of silver and twenty stones of grain.”
"I am also willing to sell my estate and title deed to help the disaster area.”
“……”
Liyun nodded in satisfaction. The money for disaster relief was basically settled.
The most important thing was that Li Yun was happy to see Jiang Bie Heyi and the others suffer.
He had wanted to use Yang Yuhuan's political chaos to disgust Liyun and the Yang siblings, but he had shot himself in the foot.
Zuo Zongtang was the happiest.
Zuo Zongtang knew that there was enough money for the disaster relief when he heard the others count.
Yang Zongbao was also holding back his laughter. If it wasn't for the fact that he was in the imperial court, he would have laughed out loud.
In contrast, Jiang Bie He and the others all had dark expressions, as if they had eaten a dead fly.
His expression was extremely ugly.
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