Late at night, the banquet was scattered.

In the palace guest room, Chang Yu soaked in the hot water bucket, held his breath for a long time before slowly poking his head out, and exhaled a long breath of turbidity, with a strong smell of wine.

Now that there is money, food and soldiers, and the high walls of Taiyuan City are thick, if you can't resist the footsteps of the thieves, it can only mean that either the will of heaven is difficult to disobey, or you and others are extremely useless.

Thinking of pit Zhu Xianxuan with so much money, Chang Yu didn't feel much guilt, these vassal kings who have enjoyed the grace of the emperor for many years, don't contribute money or effort when the country is in trouble, but when the disaster strikes your own doorstep, you can't say that you don't pay for food.

Moreover, at this time in the situation of the Ming Dynasty, the treasury is empty, there is no money and no food, how to get through the difficulties without such extraordinary means, blackmail the nobles, and blackmail the rich Chongzhen It's not that he hasn't thought about it, but he can't do it, but Chang Yu is different, he is destined to carry this black cauldron, and he can only carry it if he is willing.

And he doesn't think there's any shame in carrying this black cauldron, there is a precedent for this kind of thing, and there are people who come later, the most famous is Zeng Guofan.

When Zeng Guofan established the Hunan army, the highest salary was four taels a month, ten taels for killing one enemy, thirty taels for capturing an enemy alive, plus compensation for casualties, etc., the salary expenditure was much higher than that of the government army, but where did the high military salary come from, the imperial court was penniless.

In the areas controlled by the Hunan army, this Zeng lord found a way out by himself, and in the areas controlled by the Hunan army, he organized donations, donations, sold officials, extorted and apportioned from wealthy households, collected taxes from wealthy merchants, withheld tariffs, etc., and raised nearly 30 million taels of military salaries in the 12 years since the founding of the army (according to later scholars' statistics, it actually exceeded 40 million taels)

More recently, the Saudi king recently put hundreds of princes and rich people under house arrest and demanded that they pay a ransom in the name of corruption, up to 100 billion!

Since there were sages in the past, and then they followed suit, they were just fueling the flames in the middle, so why be afraid of black powder, Chang Yu sneered, and then sighed secretly, but it is a pity that King Zheng's big property is cheaper Liu Fangliang.

At the same time that King Zheng broke into the Fenzhou Mansion on the second day of the second month of February, Liu Fangliang on the East Road broke the Huaiqing Mansion and raided King Zheng's house.

There is also Wei Hui's King Lu, Chang Yu frowned, Wei Hui was broken by Liu Fangliang at the end of February, almost more than 20 days from now, but at this time, it was naturally difficult for him to go to the rescue when the Taiyuan thief army was in the city, but it was a pity that the family business.

went to the rescue, thousands of miles away, and the heart was powerless, but whether the Wanguan family property could be brought over, Chang Yu fell into deep thought.

Also in his contemplation is Chunxiang, who is Chang Yu's closest person in this world, a teacher and a friend, and occasionally a servant.

Fang San is not there, Chang Yu's residence is taken care of by him, for example, he is also doing the work of taking a bath and rubbing his back with water now.

However, he was shocked in his heart, Chang Yu's arrow wound in Datong had only been a few days, and he had already healed and couldn't even see the traces clearly, which was enough to surprise him, but there were even more shocking things for him, Chang Gonggong was even more shocking, and even more than ordinary people!

Getting up early in the morning, Chang Yu hurriedly ate breakfast, smelled the hangover of King Jin and did not wake up, so he said goodbye without saying goodbye, and wanted to go out of the palace from the south gate to the city tower.

There is still a lot of traffic in the palace, and nearly 600,000 stone of grain can not be moved so easily, and it is only half of the busy work in the middle of the night.

Chang Yu took his attendants out of the house and saw several people standing at the middle gate watching the carrying army, one of them was the county lord Zhu Zhi'e, and the other year-old woman saw him coming from afar, left quickly, and asked, it turned out to be the concubine.

Such an avoidance is obviously a suspicion for Chang Yu, this Chang Yu is still self-aware, after all, he has made half of the family's property, and the king of Jin is very likely to be very unhappy at this time, so he excuses himself to be hangover and not wake up.

Sure enough, Zhu Zhi'e, who had a rippling spring heart and chatted with him last night, is now also cold, and sees Chang Yu say coldly: "Lord Factory Governor, this is to empty the Jin Palace."

"Where does the county lord say this, this little money and grain is just a drop in the bucket for the palace, not to mention the king's mansion for the king's mansion!" Chang Yu smiled.

What he said is not true at all, the prince of the Ming Dynasty is so rich that he is rich, in addition to his own family's big business and various industries to make money, people still take a fortune, from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the general prince is 50,000 stone every year, and then it is getting higher and higher, for example, in the Jiajing period, the Jin Wangfu is 870,000 stone a year, and the Zhou Wangfu is 690,000 stone in Henan...... Coupled with the land taxes of their respective fiefdoms, it is definitely the truth, not a metaphor, to say that the rich are rivaling the country.

It can be seen from the performance of the imperial history Lin Run at that time that the annual revenue of the fiscal was more than 4 million, but the expenditure exceeded 8.5 million stones, which shows that the vassal king's fortune was actually one of the main reasons for the collapse of the Ming Dynasty's finances.

"I'm not talking about money, I'm talking about food!" Zhu Zhi'e snorted coldly: "The Jin Wangfu doesn't want to rebel, why do you save so much food."

This time it was Chang Yu's turn to be embarrassed, thinking about it, as a vassal king, the land he was given to be sealed was often thousands of hectares, but in fact, not all of these lands were really given, most of them were converted into an acre of about one cent of silver to the palace, and of course, the taxes on these lands were also handed over to the palace.

Even so, there is still a lot of land in the palace, and the annual income is also amazing, but usually the palace only has enough rations for two or three years, and the rest is sold.

However, this year, natural disasters and man-made disasters have continued, the grain harvest has been seriously lost, and the income of the palace has decreased, but it has also sold less and left more, Zhu Zhi'e said that it is just distressing.

"Okay" Chang Yu stepped forward and reached out to grab Zhu Zhi'e's little hand: "It's all said that the king's mansion is used to use the king's mansion, let's drive the thief army away, keep Taiyuan, and also keep the Jin Wangfu, that land is still the land of the palace, the grain is still the grain of the palace, it should be ours or ours, it is just a little difficulty in front of us, and it will pass soon."

The sudden commotion made Zhu Zhi'e shiver coldly and almost twisted her waist, Nima, why is it so disgusting, and then shook off Chang Yu's hand: "Hurry up, don't let me see you"

Saying that, he turned around and left, and couldn't help but turn around three times, glaring at Chang Yu and snorting, clutching his pink fist Don't mess with me, I can beat your posture.

"Energetic" Chang Yu licked his lips, the county lord is too fond of him, well, he has to stay in Taiyuan for a while, and strive to win her.

After walking a short distance from the south gate of the palace, I gradually noticed that there were more and more refugees on the street, and there were soldiers on the side of the road shouting and guiding these refugees to the west or north of the city, which were relatively empty, and refugee camps were set up.

Beat the horse and walked a short distance to the vicinity of the south gate, and saw that the door was crowded with black pressure in the distance, and the political envoy Zhao Jianji and several officials were maintaining order with the officials.

Chang Yu looked at it from a distance for a while, then went up to the city tower, but found that the city was empty, standing in the empty hall, he couldn't help but smile, this is very good, everyone is busy, instead of sitting in the yamen and pointing fingers, talking on paper, so pragmatic, nothing can be done.

Walking out of the city tower, he stood against the wall, but saw that two porridge sheds had been set up on the left and right sides of the city gate, and the people who had fled from afar also quickened their pace......

A notice was posted on the city wall next to the porridge shed, and the prefect Sun Kangzhou was loudly explaining to the refugees that the refugee camp was located in the west and north of the city...... Now recruit migrant workers, eat and drink, have a daily salary, sign up as soon as possible......

"Where did Mr. Zhou go?" Chang Yu turned his head and asked the soldiers on duty nearby.

"Back to the governor, General Zhou is training in the west of the city, and Commander Wu has just gone over there......"

After hearing for a long time, Zhou Yuji was good at training, and at this time, the thief army was currently about to sharpen his gun, Chang Yu decided to take a look, so he turned over and rode straight from the city to the west.

Two or three miles west of Datong City is the Fen River, but at this time the river has long been frozen, not to mention pedestrians, even cars and horses can bear it.

60,000 horses, gathered on both sides of the Fen River, each formed a square team, neatly aligned, sometimes arrayed and sometimes killed, the number of people was overwhelming, and the momentum was magnificent.

Chang Yu is the first time to see such a big scene, more than 60,000 people, it can be described as a sea of people, and the heart is rippling when he watches.

"Chang Gonggong"

As soon as he arrived near the Fucheng Gate in the west of the city, he hurriedly pulled Wu Mengming over: "I just thought about going to the palace to find you" As he spoke, he walked up to Chang Yu and asked in a low voice: "I heard that you got hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from the Jin Palace, and the palace was almost emptied?" ”

Chang Yu turned over and dismounted, nodded slightly, hmm.

Awesome! Wu Mengming stretched out his thumb: "I didn't expect this King of Jin to be so generous, but he is much more stingy and bold than the acting king, he is really fucking rich."

Chang Yu pursed his mouth and looked at Wu Mengming, whose eyes were shining: "This really has nothing to do with being generous and stingy, it can only be said that who knows the pain of the sores on whose face they are, after all, there are very few strange people like King Fu who would rather ask for money than die."

"That's right" Wu Mengming nodded: "I also love money, but if the thief army hits my door, I'm afraid I will also use all my family property to save my life."

"Besides, our family doesn't believe you, you're a miser!" Chang Yu quipped.

Wu Mengming's face flushed: "It's not that Scrooge, the key is that it's hard to make money now" said with a long sigh, turned his head to look east, and looked at the greedy look on the face of the Jin Wangfu: "It's really rich!" ”

"It's not easy to make money, you can take it right now that our family has a job on hand" Chang Yu thought about it all night last night, and always felt that it was a pity to let King Lu's Wanguan family property be handed over, so he decided to make a little money, but this trip was more dangerous, I was afraid that Wu Mengming might not be willing to go, although he was greedy for money, he was more timid.

Wu Mengming's eyes immediately lit up when he heard this, and he was excited: "Father-in-law Chang said quickly, I earn, I must earn!" How much can be divided, which big family, is it far? ”

Asking so many questions in one sentence made Chang Yu couldn't help laughing, and stretched out his hand to pat him: "Master Wu, don't worry, listen to me slowly" said and whispered in his ear.

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