"My ministers, tell me what you want? Is this method of crowdfunding and donating money? Is it feasible?"

Emperor Liu Hong stood up. Due to the bold words left by Emperor Wu of Han, even though he scolded Lu Zhi a hundred times in his heart, he could not refuse first, so he simply pushed this problem to all the officials.

But as soon as he said this, the honest Lu Zhi obviously understood it wrongly, and he thought there was a chance...

I saw him turn around and bow to Cao Song first. "Cao Grande Yuan, I heard in Yanmen that the Cao family is the richest man in Luoyang City. Now, it is related to border matters. I hope you will generously donate to set an example for the ministers!"

Now, everyone's eyes were focused on Cao Song's body...

Cao Jie frowned slightly, thinking in his heart that this was going to offend the emperor. No matter how rich he was, he could not donate all the money, and he could not start this in front of all officials, which would embarrass the emperor!

Cao Song had just entered the hall and had not realized this. He bowed and bowed back, and then said: "Emperor Wu said, 'Those who offend me and strong Han will be punished even if they are far away'. As a minister of the Han Dynasty, I, Cao Song, should make a contribution to the Han Dynasty's border defense..."

He originally wanted to say "make a contribution", and then he made a statement and donate some. For the Cao family now, it's just a sprinkling of water!

But when Cao Song raised his eyes, he saw two pairs of infiltrating pupils shooting directly at him, like a knife!

One of them was Cao Jie. His eyes seemed to be persuading him to think clearly before speaking, and disaster came from his mouth...

The other pair of eyes became even more invisible. It was Emperor Liu Hong, whose bone-like frozen eyes were filled with a sentence - Do you dare to donate? I will cut you down!

Swhoo, Cao Song trembled all over. Oh, he seemed to be thinking about owing Zhou Xiang, and his throat suddenly became sobbing and stopped talking.

"Cao Dasiren? Are you going to continue talking?" After hearing the first half of the sentence, Lu Zhi was ready to applaud. He never thought that Cao Song was silent. What does this mean? Don't say half of it?

"Oh..." Cao Song smiled bitterly, and then patted his forehead with his hand. "Lu Zhonglangjun, I suddenly thought that the money in the Cao family is not what I earned, so naturally I can't spend it at will. We are all scholars, so there are still rules. Whoever earns it should be the one who should... Do you think so?"

There was obvious excuse, and even this sentence was full of loopholes.

Cao Song immediately shook his head, looking quite embarrassed. "So, I have the heart but I don't have enough strength to help with this money donation. I'm so sorry... I'm so sorry!"

Speaking of this, Cao Song deliberately looked extremely ashamed, but who except Lu Zhi didn't know that the money from your Cao family? Who made it? Isn't it your six-year-old grandson Cao Shu?

It turns out that you really want him to control the money... This is the rumored 30 million? Where does he, a child, have the concept of this number? Cao Song, your move is just a shirk!

Many ministers secretly glanced at the emperor... At this time, the attitude of Emperor Liu Hong was crucial.

"Yes, yes." Emperor Liu Hong spoke. "Donating money is voluntary. Whoever earns money can control it. This has been unchanged since ancient times, and I can't make things difficult for you! Cao Dasiyuan, I understand your difficulties! You retreat first!"

Emperor Liu Hongyi expressed his opinion that now, all the ministers refused to donate for various reasons...

The emperor Liu Hong is the happier hesitant. Lu Zhi, Lu Zhi, fight with us, you are still far from being able to do it!

We are all scholars, present facts and reason, and do not do to others what we do not want others to do to you. The ministers are unwilling to donate, so you can't make things difficult for me, the emperor, right? Wanjintang has not made any investments for several years! Is it easy to make money?

The implication is - Lu Zhi, where are you cool, stay there? Don’t always worry about my private money! Unless this gold and this Wuzhu coins can’t be filled by Wanjintang? Otherwise, donate it to the border guards? Don’t even think about it!

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The court meeting in Deyang Palace is considered to be over.

The separation was awkward, at least for Lu Zhi, this is true.

"Oh"... With a long sigh, Lu Zhi's steps were very heavy... His legs were like a fillet of lead.

Such a good opportunity! Through Cao Jie's strategy of retreating, he created such a once-in-a-lifetime fighter. He only needed a team of well-equipped ten thousand soldiers to completely wipe out the Xianbei in one go. But, none of the entire court, Your Majesty, and all the ministers have such a determination. Is this short-sighted?

"What a pity!" Lu Zhi shook his head... and closed his eyes, but after just one breath, his eyes suddenly widened. This stubborn old man, an old man who does not understand the rules of the officialdom, an old man who does not understand flattery, but he had an ambition of "those who violated the strong man will be punished even if they are far away"!

He could not surrender and came from thousands of miles away, not to sigh. He wanted to continue to mediate the matter, and would not give up without troops, armor, and weapons!

Lu Zhi paused, and he passed the entire process of the court meeting again in his mind. It seemed that the turning point was that Cao Song... As the richest man in Luoyang, he was worried about it and shirking excuses. What did he say? He could not make decisions.

Humph, Lu Zhi raised his eyebrows, "I want to see, you, Cao Song, can't be the leader of the Cao family! Who can make the decision?" With a silence, and with a long sleeve, Lu Zhi planned to go to Jinwu Lane. He was going to visit Cao Song, the chief farmer!

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Imperial Palace, West Garden.

"This Confucian scholar is full of bad water!" Emperor Liu Hong was so angry that he was put on a slight trait by Lu Zhi. If Cao Song had not known the current affairs and helped him to rescue him, he would have almost failed to come to Taiwan.

"Yes, how could they know Your Majesty's painstaking efforts?" Cao Jie echoed.

These days, Zhang Rang, who was accompanying him, was beaten to death and wanted to recover from his injuries. Emperor Liu Hong was the only one left by Cao Jie. "The so-called "smart wife cannot cook without rice. Lu Zhi only wants to make a fortune, but he doesn't want to think about whether our big man can take out this gold! It's ridiculous and stupid!"

"Cao Dachangqiu is right!" Emperor Liu Hong nodded heavily. "Don't I know that all the sour scholars in the court are all thinking about my Wanjin Hall."

Speaking of this, Emperor Liu Hong frowned, revealing a hint of sadness. "How could they know that my Wanjin Hall has not made any investments for two years, and the official positions in the West Palace are almost sold... Where can I have money? Lu Zhi? If I can dismiss me like Cao Cao, I can also dismiss 100 or 80 officials, it can be considered as making some contributions to my business of selling official positions. It would be fine if I distributed him some! But now, I am only thinking about my Wanjin Hall, which is extremely hateful!"

Although Emperor Liu Hong said this, he hated Lu Zhi very much, but he couldn't punish him... First, his identity was special, which was related to the Confucian scholars in Kanto and the generals of Kanto; second, he was indispensable to the governor's defense against the Xianbei invasion!

Emperor Liu Hong could only lose his temper, scold him for a few words, and vent his anger...

Of course, when it comes to money, Emperor Liu Hong thought of another trouble.

"Cao Dachangqiu, I'll get the news today." Liu Hong paced left and right, frowning tighter. "Those big clans united, and the price of horses was priced at five million. I was thinking, I can't afford hundreds of horses in a Wanjin Hall. You're ridiculous!"

That’s right, in just one month on the market, the price of horses has increased a hundred times.

The reason is that those big clans followed Cao Shu’s imitation of hoards. They united and almost hoarded all the horses of the Han Dynasty and monopolized the entire market.

What's more, horses are hard currency! A war requires horses, driving requires horses, and nobles will definitely not walk when traveling, and they also need horses... These reasons make the price of horses almost break through the sky.

"Your Majesty, I am ashamed. I don't understand business and cannot share your worries." Cao Jie said ashamedly.

His words reminded Liu Hong...

You don’t understand business, but someone knows business, where is that little guy Cao Shu?

These clans just imitated him to hoard Hu weapons, Juqi sold them, and changed Hu weapons to horses, and fry them out of the sky-high price. Since Cao Shu came up with this method... Emperor Liu Hong wanted to hear Cao Shu's opinion on this matter! Can't he have any solutions?

"Cao Dachangqiu, Xuan Cao Shuo, I want to go to Qianqiu Wansui Hall to listen to his business."

Ah... Cao Jie was slightly stunned. He naturally didn't know what a brilliant mind circuit the emperor had experienced. Why did he get around Cao Shu?

"Here...here..." After a hurried agreement, Cao Jie ordered the little yellow gate to prepare a sedan chair to welcome the little guy Cao Shu!

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Chapter completed!