The people's enthusiasm for donations was high, and the endless donations continued until the sunset and then gradually stopped.

Zhu Ping'an did not expect that the people's enthusiasm for donation would be so high.

Remember, Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was at the end of his life in Daming. Li Zicheng rushed all the way. When he was about to reach the capital, he raised funds from the ministers of the Ming Dynasty. As a result, it was almost a month ago. What did these loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty do? Wei Zaode, the chief minister of the cabinet at that time, said that he had no money in his family and took the lead in opposing Chongzhen's fundraising funds from the ministers. Other ministers were even better. The eight immortals crossed the sea and pretended to be poor. Some even pretended to write "This house was urgently sold" on the gate, and some pretended to go to the street to sell antiques.

Even Chongzhen's father-in-law and the empress's biological father did not cooperate. In order to get him to donate money, Emperor Jiajing first promoted him to marquis and then asked him to donate 100,000 taels. As a result, when the father-in-law heard that he wanted to donate so much, he cried and said that he did not have so much money. He also said that his family was poor and could only eat moldy rice, and he could only donate 10,000 taels to death. Under Chongzhen's repeated forced efforts, 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 the queen for help. The queen took out the five thousand taels that he had saved for many years to his father, so that he could understand the righteousness and give him another 5,000 taels and raise 10,000 taels before donating it, setting an example for the ministers and rescuing the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, Emperor Chongzhen's father-in-law deducted two thousand taels of 5,000 taels given to him by the queen, and only donated three thousand taels.

Seeing that few ministers responded to donating silver, Emperor Chongzhen settled on the second best and asked everyone to donate physical goods, such as food, grass, cloth, etc., and thought it was easy to implement, but few people responded.

In the end, Emperor Chongzhen only raised 200,000 taels of donations, but he had no choice but to end up hanging himself at the crooked tree of Coal Mountain.

However, when Li Zicheng entered the capital, he recovered the stolen goods from the Ming Dynasty officials.

Can you tell me how much wealth did Emperor Chongzhen’s father-in-law contribute to Li Zicheng?! A full 520,000 taels of silver, and other treasures are equivalent to 20,000 taels of silver.

The chief minister of the cabinet who had no money wanted to serve Li Zicheng, but Li Zicheng looked down on him and arrested him in prison. Under severe punishment, the chief minister of the cabinet who had no money also offered tens of thousands of taels of silver. After being punished and died, Li Zicheng was confiscated and destroyed his family, and tens of thousands of taels of money were confiscated.

There is also the King of the Admiral of the East Factory during the reign of Emperor Chongzhen, who also presented Li Zicheng with 150,000 taels of silver 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 civil and military officials and the people of the Ming Dynasty through recovering the stolen goods.

70 million taels are in sharp contrast with the 200,000 taels of silver raised by Emperor Chongzhen.

With such a period of history, Zhu Ping'an thought that donations today might be limited, but he did not expect that the people would have such great enthusiasm for donating.

Perhaps, at this time, the Ming Dynasty was still a middle-aged empire, with strong control over society, overall peace and stability, the people had confidence in the empire, and were facing the real threat of Japanese pirates, so the enthusiasm of the people to donate would be so high.

Perhaps, there is also the positive influence of Zhu Ping'an and the Zhejiang Army. Zhu Ping'an's reputation in Jiangnan is not as high as the peak, but it is also widely known, especially after the Battle of Suzhou, Zhu Ping'an's reputation spread explosively.

The story of Zhu Ping'an leading the Zhejiang Army to defeat the Japanese pirates has been widely circulated and has also given the enthusiasm and confidence of the people to donate.

If there are hot searches in this era, Zhu Ping'an must be among the top ten hot searches.

In short, when the sun sets, people still rushed over from afar to donate money and goods

According to preliminary statistics, in most days today, more than 30,000 taels of silver have been received, and several donors have more than 1,000 taels of silver.

As for the actual items, it is difficult to count. There are 278 mules and horses, and more than 300 animals such as sheep, pigs, etc.

As for food, cloth, etc., it is even harder to count. Zhu Ping'an 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 made arrangements in the future. The 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 "Glory List".

In contrast, Emperor Chongzhen raised funds for the past month, but only raised 200,000 taels of silver. Most of the time Zhu Ping'an raised one-third of the donations he raised for a day.

This is just a spontaneous donation among the people.

Seeing so many donations, Zhu Ping'an was surprised and felt the responsibility. The enthusiasm and trust of the people made Zhu Ping'an feel deeply responsible.

Originally, this battle to southern Zhejiang was just to complete the task assigned by Zhang Jing, which confused Xu Hai and the Japanese pirates. Now Zhu Ping'an really wants to make some achievements in southern Zhejiang for the trust of the people.

We cannot let down the trust of the people.

It was already setting sun, so we couldn't take the Zhejiang army to southern Zhejiang overnight, so we could keep our energy and rest our strength for one night, leave the city tomorrow morning, and the troops were sent to southern Zhejiang.

Zhu Ping'an waved from afar to the teahouse where Li Shu was, then turned over and brought hundreds of Zhejiang troops back to the Zhejiang army camp.

Not long after Zhu Ping'an 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 both in a state of dust and their lips were chapped.

"Young Master/Sir, live up to your mission. We brought Wang Zhi's mother and wife and children from the Jinhua prison." Liu Mu and Ruofeng entered Zhu Ping'an's handsome tent and reported panting.

Both of them had a little hoarse voice.

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"You have worked hard all the way, sit down and have a tea."

When Zhu Ping'an saw the two of them looking haggard, he hurriedly called them to sit down and brought a teapot to each of them with a cup of tea.

"Thank you, Master, sir." Liu Mu and Ruofeng quickly took the teacup with both hands and thanked Zhu Ping'an repeatedly.

Both of them were thirsty and rushed all the way, their throats were dry. Regardless of their image, they held the teacup and poured it into their stomachs.

"The road went smoothly. Did Wang Zhi's mother, wife and children not cooperate?" Zhu Ping'an asked after drinking tea.

"Go back to the young master, the journey went smoothly. Wang Zhi's mother, wife and children were not only afraid, but also cooperated with each other."

Liu Mu replied.

"Don't worry, sir, they have a lot of hair and are all good. We will follow your instructions and treat them as their own mothers, and provide them with delicious food and drinks as their own sons." Ruofeng added from the side.

"Very good, they are the key to this war in southern Zhejiang." Zhu Ping'an nodded with satisfaction.
Chapter completed!