Chapter 2101: Enthusiasm Is High
The people's enthusiasm for donating was high, and the steady stream of donations continued until the sun went down, and then gradually stopped.
Zhu Ping'an did not expect that people's enthusiasm for donating would be so high.
I remember that when Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng rushed all the way. When he was about to reach the capital, he asked for donations from the ministers of the Ming Dynasty. It was almost a month later. What did these loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty do? The chief minister of the cabinet at that time Wei Zaode took the lead in expressing Showing that his family had no money, he took the lead in opposing Chongzhen's solicitation of donations from ministers. Other ministers did the same thing. One by one, the Eight Immortals crossed the sea and competed to pretend to be poor. Some even pretended to write "This house is for sale urgently" on the door. Pretending to go to the street to sell antiques
Even Chongzhen's father-in-law, the biological father of the queen, did not cooperate. In order to get him to donate, Emperor Jiajing first promoted him to a marquis, and then asked him to donate 100,000 taels. As a result, the old father-in-law cried when he heard that he wanted to donate so much. Then he said how could he have so much money? He also said that the poor people in his family could only eat moldy rice. If he died, he could only donate 10,000 taels. After being forced many times by Chongzhen, he reluctantly donated 10,000 taels.
Chongzhen thought it was too little, so he asked him to donate another 10,000 taels, at least 20,000 taels. As a result, his father-in-law went to the palace to ask for help from the queen. The queen gave her 5,000 taels of private money that she had saved for many years to her biological father, so that he could understand the righteousness. , take another five thousand taels, collect ten thousand taels, and then donate them to set an example for the ministers and save the Ming Dynasty.
As a result, Emperor Chongzhen's old father-in-law withheld two thousand taels of the five thousand taels the queen gave him, and only donated three thousand taels.
Seeing that few of his ministers responded by donating money, Emperor Chongzhen retreated to the next best thing and asked everyone to donate in kind, such as grain, grass, cloth, etc., thinking it would be easy to implement, but in the end, few people responded.
In the end, Emperor Chongzhen only raised 200,000 taels of donations, but he had no choice but to hang himself from the Crooked Neck Tree in Meishan Mountain.
However, when Li Zicheng broke into the capital, he pursued the stolen goods from the Ming Dynasty officials.
Do you know how much family wealth the old father-in-law of Emperor Chongzhen gave to Li Zicheng? ! A total of 520,000 taels of silver, and other treasures equivalent to 20,000 taels of silver.
The chief minister of the cabinet, who had no money to spare, wanted to serve Li Zicheng, but Li Zicheng looked down on him and put him in prison. Under severe punishment, the chief minister of the cabinet, who had no money to spare, also donated tens of thousands of taels of silver. After being tortured and died, Li Zicheng confiscated his family and exterminated his family, and confiscated tens of thousands of property from both families.
Wang Zhixin, the admiral of Dongchang during the reign of Emperor Chongzhen, also presented Li Zicheng with 150,000 taels of cash and treasures worth 150,000 taels.
As for the people, there are more.
In the end, Li Zicheng obtained a full 70 million taels of silver from the Ming Dynasty's civil and military officials and people through the pursuit of stolen goods.
70 million taels, which is in sharp contrast to the 200,000 taels of silver donated by Emperor Chongzhen.
With such a period of history, Zhu Ping'an thought that today's donations might be limited, but he did not expect that ordinary people would be so enthusiastic about donating.
Perhaps, at this time, the Ming Dynasty was still a middle-aged empire with strong control over society. The society was generally peaceful and stable. The people had confidence in the empire, and faced the real threat of Japanese pirates, so the people's enthusiasm for donating was so high.
Perhaps, there is also the positive influence of Zhu Pingan and the Zhejiang Army. Zhu Pingan's reputation in Jiangnan is not as high as the sky, but it is still widely known. Especially after the defense of Suzhou, Zhu Pingan's reputation exploded.
The story of Zhu Ping'an leading the Zhejiang army to defeat the Japanese pirates was widely circulated and gave the people enthusiasm and confidence to donate.
If there are hot searches in this era, Zhu Pingan must be in the top ten of the hot search list.
In short, as the sun sets, people still come from afar to donate money and materials.
According to preliminary statistics, in more than half a day today, donations of more than 30,000 taels of silver have been received, with several donors exceeding a thousand taels.
As for the physical objects, it is difficult to estimate, but there are 278 mules and horses, and more than 300 sheep, pigs and other livestock.
As for grain, grass, cloth, etc., it is even harder to count. Zhu Pingan took a preliminary look and found that these physical items were only much more than silver.
This is still one day, and Zhu Ping'an has also made arrangements later. People can donate to the governor's office, and there will be special officials to receive them, and their names will also be listed on the "Honorable List."
In comparison, Emperor Chongzhen raised only 200,000 taels of silver after a month of fundraising. Zhu Pingan raised one-third of his money in most of the day.
This is just private donation.
Seeing so many donations, Zhu Pingan was surprised but also felt responsible. The enthusiasm and trust of the people made Zhu Pingan deeply feel the weight of responsibility.
Originally, this expedition to southern Zhejiang was just to complete the task assigned by Zhang Jing and confuse Xu Hai and the Japanese pirates. Now Zhu Pingan really wants to win the trust of the people and make some achievements in southern Zhejiang.
We cannot betray the trust of the people.
It was already sunset at this time, so we couldn't lead the Zhejiang army to rush to southern Zhejiang overnight. We should recharge our batteries overnight and leave the city tomorrow morning to send troops to southern Zhejiang.
Zhu Ping'an waved his hand from a distance in the direction of the teahouse where Li Shu was, then got on his horse and led hundreds of Zhejiang troops back to the Zhejiang army camp.
Not long after Zhu Pingan returned to the camp, Liu Mu and Ruofeng rushed to the camp with Wang Zhi's mother, wife and children.
Liu Mu and Ruofeng were so tired that their lips were chapped.
"Sir/Sir, we have fulfilled our mission and brought Wang Zhi's mother, wife and children from Jinhua Prison." Liu Mu and Ruofeng entered Zhu Ping'an's handsome tent and panted and reported with clasped fists.
Both of their voices were hoarse.
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"You have worked hard all the way, sit down and have a sip of tea."
Seeing the haggard looks on their faces, Zhu Ping'an hurriedly asked them to sit down and poured a cup of tea for each of them with a teapot.
"Thank you, sir." Liu Mu and Ruofeng quickly took the tea cups with both hands and thanked Zhu Pingan repeatedly.
Both of them were thirsty. Their throats were dry from the long journey. They didn't care about their appearance, so they drank the tea in one gulp.
"The journey went smoothly. Are Wang Zhi's mother, wife and children uncooperative?" Zhu Ping'an asked after waiting for them to drink tea.
"The journey back to Young Master was smooth. Wang Zhi's mother, wife and children, apart from being afraid, were quite cooperative along the way."
Liu Mu replied.
"Don't worry, sir. They haven't lost a single hair on their head. They are all fine. We will also follow your instructions and feed them food and drink as if they were our own mothers and sons." Ruofeng added at the side.
"Very good, they are the key to this war in southern Zhejiang." Zhu Pingan nodded with satisfaction.
With them, Zhu Ping'an had the confidence to face Wang Zhi's nearly 100,000 Japanese pirates, and the war was relatively controllable. (End of chapter)