The Sorrowmender

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Later—

The imperial family's donations totaled 19 million taels of silver, with the four dukes alone contributing 12 million.

The next day, new notices were posted throughout the capital, causing a tremendous uproar. The exaggerated figures made the common folk suspect that someone from the Ministry of Rites had gotten drunk and added an extra zero to the numbers on the list.

The turn of events was always so sudden and unexpected.

This time, the members of the imperial clan were like mutes who had eaten bitter herbs—they had to suffer in silence.

Fortunately, two pieces of good news offered some comfort to their broken hearts.

First, everyone had donated, so they weren't the only ones who'd been duped. A great comfort.

Second, their already-tarnished reputation had actually been somewhat restored in the eyes of the common people because of all this silver.

At least the people had gone from cursing them as if they weren't human to cursing them as if they were.

However, the matter of donations was not yet over.

At Xu Qingzhou's suggestion, the Minister of Revenue also organized an internal donation drive among the officials.

The ministers were not particularly surprised by this, nor did they show any resistance. Instead, they accepted it readily.

As if by prior agreement, every department and every minister donated an equal amount of gold and silver according to their official rank.

This avoided the internal strife that had plagued the imperial family.

There was much less hostility and no more pointed confrontations.

Xu Qingzhou was somewhat surprised by this.

But he was also gratified. Fortune and misfortune are intertwined; nothing is absolute.

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