Kong Yinzhi cried!

The gentry of Shandong cried!

They were completely frightened by Prince De. He could visit the Kong family today and visit them tomorrow. Who knows if he would have a seizure and visit everyone one by one.

Now they finally fully understand that there is something wrong with the prince's mind. He is basically a mad dog that bites anyone who catches him. It cannot be explained by common sense. If they offend this mad dog, he will probably bite anyone he sees.

Yes, hurry up and buy food to buy peace!

When the news that the Crown Prince was coming to visit reached Prince Lu's Mansion in Yanzhou Prefecture, everyone in Zhu Yipai was dumbfounded.

"The general said that he would come to Yanzhou in three to five days at the latest. The general also said that he was very rude when he passed through Yanzhou in a hurry and failed to visit the king last time..."

Standing in front of King Lu, Li Xin loudly announced the "good news" that the Crown Prince had come to visit!

What good news is there!

Zhu Yipai secretly thought to himself, this is obviously because I think that the food I paid is not enough, and I want to come over to ask for food. If he dares not to give me food, he may kill him with the Taizu Sword!

Just thinking about it made cold sweat break out on Zhu Yipai's back.

"It doesn't matter. According to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, the vassal kings will not meet each other. I also ask Li to join the army and report to the general after he returns. Although the two vassals of Lu and De are close friends, they cannot violate the ancestral system. As for donating food for charity, this is

The king cannot but ask, and asks Li to join the army and report to the general that Lu Fan is willing to donate another five thousand stones."

"Oh, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please send a messenger to tell the General about this matter. I'll just wait for the General's arrival at the inn in Yanzhou City!"

Li Xin's words made Zhu Yipai immediately dumbfounded. I have already paid ten thousand dan of food, so why don't you pay me back?

"Brother, is Li Canjun gone?"

Seeing his sixth brother Zhu Yihai coming, Zhu Yipai immediately cried.

"Sixth brother, it's good that you're here! Tell me, what should we do now... He was not satisfied with five thousand shi, so I donated another five thousand shi, which adds up to 10,000 shi.

, he still wants to come to our place, is it possible that he really wants to force us to death?"

As he spoke, Zhu Yipai sat down on the ground, his face full of tears.

In fact, among the clans of the Ming Dynasty, Lu Fan has always had a good reputation. It usually did not bully the people very much. It also occupied people's fields. Of course, it also accepted donations, but not that many. Historically, in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen's reign, the Qing troops invaded

The fortress captured Yanzhou Prefecture. When the city was broken, Zhu Yipai hanged himself and died. His eldest son and younger brothers Zhu Yiyi and Zhu Yijiang were also martyred. Two years later, his younger brother Zhu Yihai succeeded to the throne. Although the chaos of the Tang-Lu war later broke out, Zhu Yihai was also strong-willed.

Zhengzheng, would rather die than surrender. In fact, many vassal princes and clans in the late Ming Dynasty had some shortcomings in personal ethics, but they were still justified in terms of national justice.

"This, this, this...what's going on?"

Zhu Yiyi, who came after hearing the news, looked at his elder brother in surprise.

"Forcing us to death? Isn't Prince De just coming to visit us?"

"What are you praying for?"

Zhu Yipai wiped his tears and said,

"Prince Tate said he was paying a visit, but he didn't kill anyone he saw. He almost killed all the honorable ministers in Nanjing, and he also killed dozens of officials from the Sixth Ministry. That guy is so cruel!"

"Yes, yes, people outside say that boy has a temperament similar to that of Taizu!"

"It's all our fault for our misery. Why are Fengguo and Defan both in Shandong, and Defan has such a person... What do you think we will do if he comes? What if he finds an excuse to kill me? That's when the time comes.

, but I really don’t know how I can die..."

Of course Zhu Yipai was afraid!

How could he not be afraid? Anyone would be afraid of someone like "Zhu Ciying" who doesn't follow rules, doesn't play cards according to reason, and kills people at every turn!

He had almost ruined all the rules in the world.

"He, he still dares to raid our Prince Lu's Mansion!"

As soon as Zhu Yijiang finished speaking, Zhu Yihai sighed.

"He dares to kill the ministers and ministers of the six departments. What else does he not dare to do?"

In fact, the reason why the gentry in Shandong was willing to donate grain was because they heard that Prince De had confiscated the Wei family in Laizhou. Even those families of noble officials were so frightened that they did not dare to say a word and just took out the grain obediently. In fact,

, as long as you check carefully, no one's house is clean, you don't need to get dirty, you can get their hands on it, and Prince Lu's house is also unclean.

"Brother, actually, I think the so-called visit is just rhetoric. I guess he is waiting for us to generously donate tens of thousands of stones of food! This may be his original intention."

Zhu Yihai guessed correctly. Zhu Guoqiang was indeed waiting for them to donate generously, and the initiative was the same. But each of them was a hard-earned man, so it would be strange not to pay them a visit!

But you can’t visit them all one by one!

If you kill someone and still don't know the current affairs, then you should pay another visit to the Kong family and King Lu.

But Zhu Guoqiang has time to visit in person.

"Wait a minute, how much do you want to donate?"

Zhu Yipai asked hurriedly,

"My little brother heard that the Ding family in Zhucheng donated a thousand shi of food. The Ding family's family property is only 20,000 to 30,000 taels of silver. In total, they donated at least 20% of the family property, and then they were rewarded by that kid."

"What, 20%, 20% of the family fortune, we, we have so much food that we can donate?"

Zhu Yipai said with a mournful face.

"Our Zonglu has been in arrears for almost 30 years! We finally paid it out once every twelve years, and the ones we got were actually precious notes. No one wanted those things, so all of us in Lu Fan just pointed to the rent collected from the farmland to support us.

Look, now Zhu Ciying wants tens of thousands of shi of food with just one mouthful, are we going to starve to death?... The lives of the people are important, but our clan’s lives are at stake!"

Zhu Yipai couldn't help complaining that the imperial court was no longer collecting taxes every year or two. It was like collecting taxes at various local customs, and taking turns returning them to the household department or the inner treasury every other year. As long as it was returned to the inner treasury, it would definitely be

Collecting treasure banknotes, why does the royal family use treasure banknotes to distribute favors to the clan? That thing is useless!

As for Zonglu, the permanent salary was set during the Wanli period. Since then, Zonglu has not increased by one stone, and it has also been directly given a 50% discount. It’s just a 50% discount, but you can pay it. But the local government

There are always excuses to default on the debt, such as severe droughts or floods, or the common people defaulting on the land tax, and the common people defaulting on the land tax owed to the court, then the court will have to default on the clan's ancestral salary.

Fortunately, there is still some farmland, otherwise I wouldn't have starved to death.

But now I never thought that I would meet such a shameless person and directly attack them.

When he opened his mouth, he saw tens of thousands of stones of grain. Well, he didn't say much. This is the most irritating thing.

"The common people's land is dry and they have no food to eat, but Lu Fan's land has water. Donate food. Why doesn't he come and grab it?"

Zhu Yipai couldn't help complaining loudly.

"Brother, he, isn't he coming?"

In an instant, Zhu Yipai became mute, and after a while he gritted his teeth and spoke.

"Donate, donate, tell him that Lu Fan donated 35,000 shi of food to help the people! We have so many loyal ministers and righteous people in the Ming Dynasty. I want to see how he asks others to donate!"

How to donate?

Naturally, the group started to perform. Some acted like they were generous and spent money to donate food, and some simply shouted that they would donate food to help the poor even if they were frugal. Anyway, there were all kinds of extra dramas, and everyone was acting like a movie star. Each one of them.

They all wanted to kneel there and beg themselves to take the food.

"These people are really rare and loyal ministers of our Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Guoqiang said with an moved face,

"In the past, I only heard about the benevolence and righteousness of the country gentry. In this year of great calamity, they can do such a benevolent and righteous act of saving money and justice. They are indeed the sages of our Ming Dynasty!"

At this time, Zhu Guoqiang was so happy in his heart. It was great that there were so many loyal ministers and righteous men in the Ming Dynasty, and they were all so willing to use justice and wealth.

It is not easy to discover so many "loyal ministers and righteous men"!

Who could explain that at the end of the day, those squires were all penniless, but on their side, they were all rushing to donate food, and one donation amounted to several million dan of food!

This was grain worth tens of millions of taels. They took it out so generously.

Who says they don’t have the common people in their hearts? Who says they don’t have a dime? Who says they don’t have the Ming Dynasty in their hearts.

It is clear that Emperor Chongzhen did not know how to discover and mobilize everyone's enthusiasm!
Chapter completed!