Gao Shixin knew what kind of virtues these civil servants are, and of course Gao Shixin knew. In the original time and space, Li Zicheng was at the city, and everyone knew about Chongzhen begging civil servants to raise funds. They were all pretending to be poor and crying. As a result, as soon as Li Zicheng entered the city, he picked up a stick and collected 70 million taels of silver.

The next day, Long Yuqi informed the salt merchants in Lianghuai, and set up a banquet in the flower hall of Longfu, pretending to invite big salt merchants such as Hui merchant Jiang Guomao and Shanxi Yanjia.

Except for some of the salt merchants in Lianghuai who were local salt households and stoves, the other salt merchants were either Hui merchants or Shanxi merchants. The large salt merchants who had more than 30,000 nests of salt were all from Huizhou and Shanxi.

As soon as the Jinyiwei walked to the gate of Long Mansion, he saw a group of people coming to meet next to the gate of Long Mansion. He knelt down in front of Gao Shixin and shouted in unison: "Caomin, please kowtow to Governor Gao."

Gao Shixin looked at him lazily and found that the group of people had different colors, not like the servants of the Dragon Mansion, so he asked in confusion: "Who are you? What's the matter with me?"

"Governor Gao, the servants of the Yangzhou salt merchant, Jiang Guomaojiang, was the servants of the house of Yangzhou salt merchant," a middle-aged man kowtowed, took out a big red envelope from his arms, held it over his head with both hands, and said respectfully, "My master was very happy when he heard that Governor Gao was coming to Yangzhou to raise funds to support Liaodong soldiers. He originally planned to come and greet Governor Gao in person, but he never thought that today the salt farm was flooded and the stove households suffered heavy losses. He had no choice but to rush to the salt farm with other salt merchants in Yangzhou to check the disaster situation, and could not come to welcome Governor Gao. So my master sent villains to accuse Governor Gao first, and at the same time sent my master's donations to disaster relief, and asked Gao to accept it with a smile. There were also other salt merchants in Yangzhou who could not come. They also sent servants to accuse him and met the donations."

As he said that, the middle-aged man put up the big red envelope with Jiang Guomao written on it.

Gao Shixin did not go to answer the envelope, but gave Xu Xianchun a wink.

Xu Xianchun understood and went up to take the envelope and opened it, taking out the tickets and counting it. But after only one glance, Xu Xianchun sneered: "One hundred taels? Jiang Guomao, the largest salt merchant in Yangzhou, actually donated one hundred taels?"

The middle-aged man lowered his head and did not dare to answer.

Gao Shixin remained silent and waved Xu Xianchun to collect the tickets. He smiled at the middle-aged man: "Very good, let me tell you Jiang Guomao when I go back and tell you that he is anxious to donate money in Liaodong. I am very grateful and asked him to handle the matter in the salt field first. When he asked quickly, I will ask him to drink and thank him."

"Yes, Caomin must bring Governor Gao's words to him." The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief and kowtowed and thanked him.

The servants sent by other salt merchants also stepped forward and handed over the disaster relief donations from their masters to Xu Xianchun. However, except for the Yan family in Shanxi, the other salt merchants donated 100 taels of silver. Compared with their millions of dollars, the amount was indeed pitifully small.

Seeing this, most of the Yangzhou officials present took the cold breath, thinking that these salt merchants had taken the wrong medicine? They dared to hit the commander of the Jinyiwei so publicly? Only Gao Shixin remained silent, but smiled and thanked them unanimously. At the end, Gao Shixin said loudly: "You all go back and tell your master back to tell you that I would like to thank them for their initiative of donation. After a few days, I will invite them to drink and thank them in person."

"If you want to bring the Caomin, please don't worry, please don't worry, the twenty-seven servants sent by the salt merchants kowtowed together, got up and slipped away quickly.

Xu Xianchun was furious, but when he saw Gao Shixin calmly, he still came to his ear and lowered his voice: "Sir, these salt mice are the largest wealthy families in Yangzhou City. They only donated one or two hundred taels of silver. How can the others in Yangzhou City donate? Why don't we arrest them all and confiscate their homes!"

As he said that, Xu Xianchun was about to pull out his knife and order the Jinyiwei to search the salt merchants' homes.

"Brother Xu, no!" Gao Shixin quickly stopped Xu Xianchun, "We cannot forcefully stipulate the amount of their donations. If you arrest people like this, I am afraid that all the salt households in Lianghuai and all the salt merchants in the Ming Dynasty will cause trouble! Most of the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty is salt tax. If the salt merchants are paralyzed, we will have to lose our heads!"

Xu Cuicui could only suppress her anger and put away her knife.

"Let's go, let's go in." Gao Shixin said with a smile.

When she walked into the Long Mansion Hall, she saw a group of Yangzhou officials waiting inside. None of them were wearing red, blue and green official robes. Everyone was wearing Confucian clothes. Miss Yang Wan was also sitting in the flower hall. Today she changed into a lake green dress. Compared with the pink robe yesterday, it looked different. If the outfit yesterday looked charming, but today she looked like a well-behaved and innocent little girl next door.

Long Yuqi walked to Gao Shixin: "Governor Gao, if you like Miss Yang, the official will help you pay for her."

A treacherous person like Gao Shixin must have refused. He smiled and said, "Then thank you Long Xundao! I bought Miss Yang and sent it to our Jinyiwei boat."

Long Yuqi bowed with a smile on his face: "The officials will do it!" He smiled on his face, but he felt a pain in his heart: It will cost four or five thousand taels of silver to buy Miss Yang! Alas, he has to give up this delicate beauty...

Xu Xianchun lowered his voice and said, "Governor, the salt rats in Lianghuai and the officials of Yangzhou colluded. It seems that it would be impossible for the Lianghuai salt industry to be remediated! We will report to Your Majesty this time, and let Your Majesty change a new person to take charge of Lianghuai salt industry."

"I already have the candidate, Cui Chengxiu, let him take charge of the two Huaihe Rivers." Gao Shixin said softly. He didn't dare to speak too loudly. This was too unauthentic. He just accepted the beauty sent by Long Yuqi, and when he turned around, he lost his fat.

After the guest of honor sat down, Gao Shixin asked, "Long Xundao, didn't you say you would invite a salt merchant today? Why didn't anyone come, but sent a group of servants?"

Long Yuqi quickly explained: "There is no choice. The salt field was suddenly stormed and the seawater poured back into the salt field. The salt households suffered heavy losses. The salt merchants could not receive the salt, so they were naturally anxious."

Gao Shixin knew that Long Yuqi's words were not true, but did not expose him. Instead, he nodded with a smile: "If the salt farm is damaged by water, I will naturally understand them. But these salt merchants all have a fortune of one million yuan, but only donated a hundred taels of silver. How can I prepare food and money for the Liaodong soldiers?"

It is the emperor's business to prepare food and money for Liaodong! You, the grandson of the Eagle Claw, reached out to me! Are you too busy with your care? Long Yuqi roared in his heart, but he said, "Governor Gao loves the people as much as his son, understands the salt merchants, and admires the officials!"

At the beginning of the banquet, Yang Wan played and sang to cheer up the fun. Today's atmosphere was obviously not as happy as yesterday. None of the scholars came except Shi Kefa. It seemed that they were slapped in the face yesterday.

Halfway through the banquet, Yang Wan went to the back to change her clothes.

"Miss Yang," Long Yuqi followed in quietly, "I have negotiated the price with the madam, and I will send you to the Jinyiwei boat tonight."

"Since it is Long Xundao to save the people of Yangzhou, the little girl has no choice but to obey her orders." Yang Wan said sadly.

"Miss Yang sacrificed his life to save the people of Yangzhou. I thanked Miss Yang!" Long Yuqi actually put down his official arrogance and bent down to bow deeply to Yang Wan.

What is saving the people of Yangzhou is of course lies, but they are actually all to save their own black hats. The money they bought by Yang Wan was allocated in proportion to a group of local officials present, and the money they fell on everyone's heads was not much.
Chapter completed!