After temporarily resolving this matter, the situation in the northwest still needs to be resolved. Several vassal states in the northwest were killed, and they all coveted the fertile land and rich products of the Great Wei Dynasty.
If it wasn't so, even if Emperor Bei Rong gave orders secretly, they could still obey and obey, after all, the sky is high and the emperor is far away.
The current situation is that those vassal states have accumulated the most elite forces in the country and plan to attack and test Wei.
Fortunately, Lin Fufu had already prepared and notified Feng Lan to prepare for the war in Beirong. Old General Feng and Feng Lan and his wife had already made preparations, but food, fodder and military pay were a big problem.
Huangfu Jin also knew about the embarrassing situation at Old General Feng's side, and had already made plans to ask Old Wei to take part of the dividends that Lin Fufu had left with him over the years and send them to Old General Feng in the name of Lin Fufu himself. And asked General Feng to issue an IOU to Lin Fufu on behalf of the Wei court.
But the plan couldn't keep up with the changes. Several vassal states in the northwest acted quickly and jointly dispatched troops to suppress the border. General Feng and the generals guarding the border in the northwest were hard to defend. They suffered several major defeats in a row.
Old General Feng and the generals guarding the frontier quickly reported the situation of the war to the Great Wei court. On the second day, all the officials in the Great Wei court knew that the vassal state of Beirong, like the Great Wei, had started a war.
The courtiers of the Great Wei were arguing, and they were all denouncing Bei Rong for being unethical, but the Great Wei had just sent a team of imperial doctors to help them eliminate the plague!
His Majesty the Emperor of Wei also had an angry face, and Princess Ruoshui had a cold face, she really did not expect the vassal states of Bei Rong to start a war against Wei.
As a seasoned politician, Princess Ruoshui naturally understood that without the nod of Emperor Beirong, those vassal states would not have dared to go to war against Wei.
When Lin Fufu came back from Beirong earlier, he had already told her about the plot of the old emperor of Beirong against Wei. Princess Ruoshui also thought that the old emperor of Beirong had a wicked heart but no guts. It can be seen that the old man is indeed a double-faced and ruthless character. , To use the vassal state to confront the Great Wei head-on!
There was a lot of noise in the Great Wei Dynasty Hall all morning, but no one came out. The Ministry of War was determined to send troops to give Bei Rong a few vassal states a powerful blow, but the Minister of the Household Department said that there was no money, and the people in the Ministry of War were crushed to death.
There is no silver in the treasury, and it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.
After retiring from the court, His Majesty the Emperor didn't even have the energy to discuss with Princess Ruoshui, so Princess Ruoshui had no choice but to return to the Palace of the Princess.
Lin Fufu didn't dare to tell Princess Ruoshui that Huangfu Ling had actually brought an army of 200,000 troops to kill her, and was stopped by the plague and Huangfu Jin.
Princess Ruoshui came to Lin Fufu, and asked Lin Fufu what good idea he could have.
Lin Fufu thought for a while, and wrote her to Feng Lan. Now General Feng has told Princess Ruoshui about the fact that General Feng has rushed to the north with his men.
Princess Ruoshui cheered up when she heard the words, and praised Lin Fufu repeatedly that it was a stroke of genius, but Lin Fufu was worried that if the court found out that she had written to Feng Lan privately to ask General Feng to dispatch troops, he would punish General Feng and his party people.
Princess Ruoshui snorted coldly, "Who dares to hold on to this kind of thing at this time? Whoever dares to do this, I will kill him!"
Princess Ruoshui kept calling for God's blessing in her heart. There were many famous generals in Wei, but in terms of loyalty to the country, she only believed in General Feng. With him to support the northern frontier, she believed that Wei would be safe and sound.
However, Lin Fufu still brought up the issue of food, grass and military pay. Not only the military salary of old general Feng, but also the transfer of soldiers from other places to the northern frontier for support would require a huge amount of food and grass and at least several million taels of military salary. .
Lin Fufu knew that Wei's treasury could not afford the food and soldiers' money.
But what should be reminded still needs to be reminded.
Princess Ruoshui also knows that food, grass and military pay are the most important things, but the current situation is that she is also a clever woman who can't cook without rice.
"From this point of view, I can only count on Old General Feng to die. Even if I allocate the soldiers' salary and food, it will take time." Princess Ruoshui looked at Lin Fufu with dull eyes, this At that time, she actually had the idea of relying on this fifteen or sixteen-year-old child.
However, Lin Fufu did not disappoint her. She had already thought of a way to deal with it while her mind was spinning rapidly.
"Auntie, don't worry. Although the treasury is out of money at this time, the houses of the powerful officials and nobles all have it. And the warehouses of the houses of the big businessmen are full. We can pay them in the name of the imperial household department. Borrow silver!"
"Borrow money from them in the name of the court?" Princess Ruoshui repeated Lin Fufu's words in a murmur. To be honest, it has never happened before that the court borrowed money from those people. Can't do it.
Lin Fufu nodded heavily, and said confidently: "This matter will definitely work, but you need to feel wronged, Auntie, and personally bring the Secretary of the Household Department and others to borrow from them, and bring the seal of the Household Department. "
Princess Ruoshui looked at Lin Fufu and asked in disbelief: "In this way, can I really borrow it?"
"I can! Auntie, you can tell them that it is the moment of life and death for the Great Wei. If the Great Wei can't resist in the northwest, the million cavalry of the Northern Rong will definitely march south. When the time comes, the mountains and rivers will be broken, and the country will not survive." , no one can escape. No matter how much money those people have, isn’t it robbed by Bei Rong?”
In fact, if things really develop as Lin Fufu said, those people will not only be robbed of their money, but their family members will also be robbed, and the lives of these men may be lost.
Princess Ruoshui closed her eyes hard, she was thinking more cruelly than what Lin Fufu said, "I'll do it!"
If Princess Ruo Shuichang didn't eat lunch that day, she took the senior officials of the household department, such as the minister of the household department and the servants of the left and right, to the high-ranking officials' homes to borrow money with the seal of the household department.
To Princess Ruoshuichang's surprise, every house she visited happily lent silver to the court, but the amount was not large, a few thousand taels of silver was the norm, and rarely more than ten thousand taels of silver.
In fact, this was only borrowed for the sake of Princess Ruoshui.
Princess Ruoshui was tired for a long time, but in the end she only borrowed more than 300,000 taels of silver for the court, which is just a drop in the bucket compared to the military salary and food and grass silver.
Princess Ruoshui's face was very ugly when she returned to the Princess's mansion, and Lin Fufu was also very angry when he saw this.
"Oh! Those moths of the Great Wei, they are not willing to lend money to the court..." Princess Ruoshui sat down dejectedly, and said this with grief and indignation.
Lin Fufu was also angry.
Those people are afraid that they won't cry if they don't see the coffin!
"Auntie, hurry up and enter the palace again, and ask for the imperial edict from the emperor's uncle to let those officials with wealthy families and their wives and children enter the palace tomorrow!" Lin Fufu said with his eyes blazing, and gritted his teeth.
Princess Ruoshui was stunned, she hurriedly got up and looked at Lin Fufu and asked, "Girl, what are you doing?"
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Lin Fufu curled his lips coldly, raised his eyebrows and said, "Tomorrow, I will teach them a big lesson, and then ask them to donate their money obediently. This time we will not borrow it!"
Princess Ruoshui was taken aback by Lin Fufu's ruthlessness, and she hurriedly said, "Our Great Wei is passed down from generation to generation, and those bad things cannot be done."
Princess Ruoshui still cares about the face of the Wei court.
Lin Fufu knew that those moths of the Great Wei Dynasty were relying on the court to save face and would not force them to take money, so they took a few thousand taels of silver to deal with it.
Lin Fufu shook his head, looked at Princess Ruoshui and said, "For ordinary people, dozens of taels of silver is a huge fortune, and we will not go to ordinary people to borrow money. But for those people He said, tens of thousands of taels of silver are not taken seriously. Do you see that they have a gathering for tea and dinner on weekdays, and which one of them does not spend hundreds of thousands of taels of silver? Are they so embarrassing to borrow a mere few thousand taels of silver? Where did all the money come from? Didn’t it come from taking advantage of the loopholes in Wei’s laws? There are even huge amounts of wealth directly obtained by breaking the law!”
Princess Ruoshui nodded repeatedly. She knew that what Lin Fufu said was the truth, and she was full of expectations for Lin Fufu. She hoped that she would take the lead and solve this problem for the court.
Princess Ruoshui rushed to the palace overnight, had a heart-to-heart discussion with His Majesty the Emperor, and received His Majesty's imperial decree, which went to all the families that had lent money to the imperial court overnight.
Smart people felt that this edict was very unusual, and vaguely felt that it might have something to do with Princess Ruoshui bringing senior officials from the household department to borrow money today.
Those overconfident people thought that they had lent silver to the imperial court, and His Majesty the Emperor would reward them tomorrow.
Only those officials who are clean but have borrowed a lot can sleep soundly.
On the second day in the imperial garden of the palace, Princess Ruoshui personally received the female relatives of various families. It was the first time for them to come to the imperial palace, so these people were very excited to see the legendary imperial garden of the imperial palace.
Lin Fufu stood dignifiedly beside Princess Ruoshui. On the other side of the imperial garden were the officials accompanied by His Majesty the Emperor and some big businessmen.
After Princess Ruoshui's opening remarks, she began to tell these female relatives what Wei was encountering now.
Those female family members who are knowledgeable feel that the matter is not simple, but those who are uninformed think that this is a matter of the imperial court. People from outside beat in, and the imperial court sends troops to fight back.
There was a lot of noise below, but Lin Fufu stood on top with a calm expression.
Princess Ruoshui looked very ugly when she saw that most of the unknown female relatives were below.
Seeing that Princess Ruoshui couldn't hold on any longer, Lin Fufu took the initiative to take over Princess Ruoshui's words. As a princess, she can also restrain those foreign wives and female relatives.
Lin Fufu glanced at the foreign wives and female relatives with a smile, and then said with a smile: "Just now, Your Royal Highness said that the northwestern border of the Wei Dynasty was provoked by several vassal states of the Beirong Kingdom. Everyone thinks it is not yours. The matter is the matter of the court, right?"
A few bold female relatives answered yes.
Lin Fufu was not annoyed, and still smiled and said: "You are right, this other country invades the border of the Great Wei, and the imperial court will naturally send troops to resist the suppression, but you know that when you send troops out, those soldiers throw their heads and blood. Defending you requires soldiers and food, and they are also made of flesh and blood, so they can't resist the enemy without eating or drinking to protect you, right?"
Some female family members were not convinced. They said that the court was always responsible for food and soldiers' pay. Some people even asked Lin Fufu why he would talk about this with women like them.
Lin Fufu went on to say: "Over the years, although the Wei Dynasty has been stable, natural disasters and man-made disasters have occurred frequently in various places. Part of the money collected by the imperial court is used for disaster relief, roads and bridges for roads and bridges, and part of it is used for development. For military pay, food and fodder must be prepared during small-scale wars, and the rest is used to distribute the salaries of officials and the daily expenses of the court, etc. Now the treasury is out of money.”
The female relatives all opened their eyes wide and couldn't believe that this huge country has no money in the treasury
It's no wonder they don't believe it. They have always only cared about the three-acre land in their backyard. How do they know how much money a country needs to run
But there was complete silence on the other side of the imperial garden, even His Majesty the Emperor looked dignified.
"So, yesterday, Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess personally took the Minister of the Household Department and others to borrow money for the imperial court. Presumably the mistresses of each family know about this." Lin Fufu smiled, then sternly swept A circle of female relatives gathered around, "Some people have a lot of money, maybe the money in the private treasury of the family is several times more than the national treasury, and the men in your family are reluctant to lend it to the court, right?"
Many female family members blushed and lowered their heads, but they were very unconvinced in their hearts. Why should their family's money be lent to the court
There are female family members who boldly satirized Lin Fufu, "Princess Jiahe, to say something outrageous, the family lent thousands of taels of silver to the court and never thought that the court would return it. Thousands of taels of silver are also silver. Princess Jiahe is disgusted." less?"
Lin Fufu laughed loudly when he heard the words, and then changed the topic, his face became very serious, "I tell you, the Beirong vassal states dare to fight against the Great Wei, it is the Beirong who let them play the vanguard, once we are in the northwest of the Great Wei If the frontiers are not guaranteed, millions of Beirong cavalry will march south immediately, and you people will be the big fat sheep in the eyes of the Beirong people! All the men will be killed, and the women will be bullied wantonly when they go back, and you will regret that time Didn't help each other with the imperial court!"
When Lin Fufu said the last sentence, whether it was her side or the neighbor's side, the voices of air-conditioning kept coming and going.
Many young people on the side of the women's family were almost crying in fright, and some were even sobbing in fright.
Lin Fufu sneered, and sneered, "Didn't some of the ladies speak very impassionedly just now? Why are you keeping your mouth shut now? Go on, then Jiahe still admires you as heroes in the crowd."
"Princess Jiahe... What you said is too scary, how did the matter get to this point?" There was always that persistent question.
Lin Fufu likes someone to be the leader. She glanced at the forty-something woman who questioned her, and said coldly: "If you don't believe me, the imperial court won't send soldiers. Anyway, there is no salary and food for the soldiers. These people just wait for the moment when the country is ruined and the family is destroyed. See if the women in your family have been captured to bully and insult wantonly, and whether the men in your family have been killed without leaving any..."
"Princess Jiahe, stop talking, stop talking!" A tall, thin and beautiful woman suddenly shouted, and everyone looked at her.
She cried: "I believe what Princess Jiahe said. My master has been an official in the Northwest for more than ten years. The soldiers of Beirong are very cruel. They really caught the woman of Da Wei when they saw the woman. Men... Even if they are only seven or eight years old, they will be killed in a war, they are not human!"
The woman's cries made the timid female relatives scream in fright.
Lin Fufu signaled the maids to come to the stage one by one. These ladies came to the stage in twos, and the two of them opened a picture scroll in their hands. All the pictures on it were the scenes of Bei Rong soldiers burning, killing and looting.
Some people couldn't take it anymore, and couldn't help covering their mouths and retching after seeing these bloody scenes.
Lin Fufu didn't let them go, and let the maids pull the scroll down, forcing everyone to take a close look.
The female relatives first began to sob softly, and then substituted into the scene in the painting, many of them began to cry loudly.
Lin Fufu asked the maids to take the scroll to the next door.
After a while, the sound of breathing in and out came from the next door.
I don't know who took the lead. There are people on both sides who want to donate money to the court, hoping that the court will quickly organize an army to resist the war provoked by the Beirong vassal state.
In the end, under the operation of Lin Fufu, a total of tens of millions of taels of donations were received this time. Although the money for food and soldiers' salaries could not be completely resolved, it was finally able to breathe.
But this time the money was not borrowed from them by the imperial court, which made His Majesty the Emperor very happy. For this reason, he specially summoned Lin Fufu, gave her an imperial meal, and repeatedly praised her as Wei's lucky star.
Lin Fufu did not take credit for it, and was very humble and low-key, which His Majesty the Emperor appreciated very much.
Although most of the food, grass and soldiers' salaries have been settled, the war in the northwest frontier is not optimistic. Although Old General Feng has received several million taels of silver from Huangfu Jin, the war is becoming more and more unfavorable to Wei.
Not only did it fail to conquer the lost dozens of important towns, it almost lost a whole county.
Huangfu Jin sent people to investigate and found that the old emperor of Beirong had sent elite troops to lurk in several vassal states. After the battle started, the main force was actually from Beirong.
Huangfu Jin knew that in the face of this situation, even the old General Feng of Beirong was probably powerless.
But his little girl had a good personal relationship with General Feng's eldest daughter. If Feng Lan and his wife died here, Yin'er would be sad.
In the end, Huangfu Jin decided to send his elite team who had been trained in the Great Wei training method to detour and sneak to General Feng's barracks to help General Feng and General Feng Lan fight against the elite troops of Beirong.
Huangfu Jin is very confident in his elite team because he not only understands the tactics of the Wei Dynasty, but also understands the tactics of the Beirong.
But he did his best for Great Wei, and this credit cannot be ignored. He wrote to His Majesty the Emperor of Great Wei and Princess Ruoshui, telling him about his secret assistance to Great Wei.
In the letter, Huangfujin repeatedly emphasized that it was for the sake of Lin Fufu's face that he came to help.
His Majesty the Great Wei Emperor is fine. Princess Ruoshuichang felt very complicated after receiving Huangfu Jin's letter. She never thought that Huangfu Jin, the Prince of Bei Rong, would be needed to help Wei fight against Bei Rong.
But the matter is not yet settled, she has always been hostile to Huangfu Jin.