Steward Tao led three hundred palace guards to wait outside Mengjiazhuang, thinking about what words to use for a while.

The thick door of Mengjiazhuang suddenly opened, and a cavalry roared out, led by a man in a black mink coat, majestic and extraordinary, and rushed straight to him a few steps before stopping, tilting his head, and looking at him with a smile in his eyes.

The cavalry split in two, sandwiching the three hundred royal palace guards in the middle from both sides.

The palace guards were panicked and drew their weapons one after another.

Steward Tao was even more shocked, and almost ran away.

The man wearing a mink smiled and said, "Contemptible Qin Chuan, dare to ask who is coming?" ”

Steward Tao reluctantly settled down, raised his chin, and deliberately replied loudly: "My surname is Tao, and I am Ninghua Wangfu Tianzhuang Zongyi, and I was ordered by the prince to come to pick up Sister Wen and return to the palace." ”

"In addition, the prince has an order to order all the households in Ninghua Wangfu Grange in Loufu Town to move into Jiaoqu Grange immediately, and work diligently in the spring and summer harvest of the next year, and ensure the harvest in drought and flood."

Hearing his words, Qin Chuan smiled and said lightly: "It turned out to be the Tao steward, disrespectful and disrespectful, may I ask the Tao steward, what is the relationship between the prince of Ninghua and Sister Wen?" Why do you want to welcome Sister Wen back to the palace? ”

Steward Tao frowned, and said coldly: "The matter of the royal palace, how can you wait for the grass people to ask?" ”

"Huh."

Qin Chuan shook his head and smiled, and sighed inexplicably.

The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were accustomed to being powerful and blessed in the local area, and even the steward of the palace was notoriously arrogant and domineering, he had seen others in the forum before, and it was common for the king of Hedong of the Jin Dynasty to beat and insult local officials.

There is also a record of a steward of the Ninghua Palace, "who failed to ask for Lu grain, surrounded the political secretary, and injured Liu Wangzhi, the political envoy of Zuobu", which is the 37th year of Jiajing, Zongyi of the Ninghua Palace, that is, the same steward as the Tao steward in front of him, went to the political secretary to ask for money and grain, but the political secretary did not give it, so he led people to besiege the political secretary and beat a political envoy named Liu Wangzhi.

A steward, no different from a civilian, actually beat a dignified second-class officer, and after the beating, there was no

It can be seen how awesome the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were.

This kind of behavior is beyond the scope of arrogance.

However, if he is arrogant in front of the Great Steward of Qin, he will be unlucky.

Qin Chuan didn't get angry, and he didn't discuss Sister Wen's matter with the other party, but said with a smile: "Steward Tao, if you go back and talk to the prince, you will annoy the Zhuang Tian in the valley, and from now on, Qin will take care of the prince for him, and Qin will find a farmer for him to cultivate, and after the harvest, sixty percent of the grain will be handed over to the palace, how about it?" ”

Steward Tao was stunned for a moment, then raised his head and laughed: "You...... Do you want to enter the palace to do things for the prince? ”

"Nope." Qin Chuan shook his head.

"What the Tao steward knows, bandits are rampant in this area, especially during the spring ploughing and autumn harvest, Qin has trained hundreds of villagers, so he is naturally not afraid of bandits, as long as the prince hands over the farmland to Qin to take care of, he can ensure that thousands of acres of land are harvested by drought and flood."

"Otherwise...... When Zhuang Min ploughed in the spring and harvested in the autumn, if he was robbed and killed by bandits, Qin would not be able to control it. ”

"You ......" Steward Tao was furious, "You dare to threaten the prince?" ”

"Cough, Qin is just a fart, how dare you threaten the prince, Steward Tao only needs to truthfully convey what Qin did just now to the prince immediately."

"Humph! How daring! ”

Steward Tao snorted angrily, raised his chin and said, "Hand over Sister Wen, I will take it back to the palace, and I will convey Fang Cai's words for you." ”

"I'm sorry, Sister Wen lives well in the village and doesn't want to go to any palace."

"You ......"

"Tao is in charge, it's good to go."

Qin Chuan smiled, then turned the horse's head and walked back to Mengjiazhuang by himself.

Steward Tao was so angry that his beard straightened in the back, pointing at his back, and not saying a word.

"Go back and tell the prince, how many days can this thief be arrogant?"

After a long time, Steward Tao suddenly snorted angrily and turned the reins of the horse.

On the gatehouse of Mengjiazhuang, after Lao Huang and Bobcat arrived, Qin Chuan pointed to the three hundred palace guards who went away, and said: "Send someone to find Tieshigou Mountain to find Luo Daniu, and ask him to rush to the area of Luyukou to intercept and kill this palace guard, and let them know whether this area is a hindrance to Hengxiao."

"You pick a few more people, blend into the Wangfu Grange, and deceive the farmers inside, so that you can eat and drink here, and there are fields to plant, and thousands of villagers are brave to protect their safety."

"Tell Luo Da Niu again, after solving the palace guards, go to Jiaoqu Grange for a while, just grab things, try not to hurt people, and cooperate with you to deceive the farmers of the Grange."

"From now on, as long as the Ninghua Royal Mansion recruits Zhuang households, you will deceive people, you can do whatever it takes, I will make the Ninghua Royal Mansion unable to even harvest winter wheat, and when the time comes, he can only hand over the land to us."

"Yes."

Lao Huang happily accepted the order and took the lynx with him.

Qin Chuan still fixed his gaze at the palace guards in the distance.

For the vassal king of the old Zhu family, he will not be polite.

When the Ming Dynasty was founded, the country paid 9 million hectares of taxed fields, and by the Wanli period, it was less than 5 million hectares, and the reason was nothing more than that the vassal kings and the gentry who did not need to pay taxes occupied more and more fields.

Especially to the vassal king is the most serious, Shanxi Jin Dynasty has Ninghua Kingdom, Qingcheng Kingdom, Yonghe Kingdom, Guangchang Kingdom, Jiaocheng Kingdom, Yangqu Kingdom, Fangshan Kingdom, etc., more than 20 county kings, all over Shanxi, the southern, central, eastern three regions of fertile and fertile fields, most of them are the Zhuang fields of the Jin Dynasty, nearly 40,000 hectares, that is, 4 million acres.

When King Fu of Luoyang was first sealed, he got 20,000 hectares of fertile land, not including the later forcible purchase and occupation, as well as the King of Qin, King Lu, King Hui, King Ji, King Chu, King Jing, King Dai, King Lu, King Qi, etc., these vassal kings are tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land at every turn.

The most serious of the feudal king's Zhuangtian is Shunfu, and in that place alone, the feudal king and Chongzhen's own Zhuangtian is as much as 200,000 hectares, accounting for seventy percent of the cultivated land in Beizhili.

The fields of the royal family are not subject to taxes.

In the late Ming Dynasty, most of the national tax revenue came from the southeast coastal areas, because there were no vassal kings and no royal relatives in those provinces, and many fields could still be taxed.

In the central, northern, western, and eastern regions, the cultivated land there is either owned by the feudal king, or by the large gentry who do not have to pay taxes, and there are many people who hang their fields in the names of the feudal kings and gentry in order to evade taxes.

Do you think that the vassal princes don't have to pay taxes and it's over?

No, they still have to eat Yulu until the Ming court is hollowed out.

Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's shoehorn stipulates that the prince pays 50,000 stones of rice every year, as well as a lot of miscellaneous things such as silver, money, cloth, silk and satin, 6,000 stones for the county king, and a lot of things in 778 Australia.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were 28 princes and 600 county kings, and these moths didn't know how much food they had to eat in a year.

Eating and eating, the court really couldn't afford to support it, hollowed out the treasury, intercepted taxes, embezzled military spending, and still couldn't afford to pay the vassal kings.

Therefore, the imperial court simply gave the problem of the vassal king's income to the local government, and used the local tax to fill the huge amount of money, and if it could not make up for it, it increased the tax, and tried every means to scrape the people's fat, and after the people's fat was scraped, even the bones had to be scraped down.

As a result, the Ming court was poor and virtuous, and those vassal kings were all rich.

Li Hongji and Zhang Bingzhong liked to slaughter the vassal king, and whenever they went to a place, they would first slaughter the vassal king and then slaughter the house, and then use the vassal king's money and grain to support him with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses.

Ironically, most of the vassal kings were not willing to donate money to the imperial court to raise soldiers until they were slaughtered and killed.

This kind of vassal king deserves to be slaughtered.

Qin Chuan also wanted to slaughter so many vassal kings, and when his wings were stiff, he would first take King Ninghua to open the knife.

Because the hanging hair wants to rob his woman.

……

Luo Daniu was injured, but he was still in a good mood.

Yesterday, after he led the Li sisters to a remote place, he deliberately slowed down the horse, waited for Li Anru to come up, hugged this beauty, pressed it in his arms, and then was bitten bloody.

He endured the pain, shook off Li Yueru, and ran away with the beauty, not stopping until the horse was tired.

Then Li Anru chased him all over the mountains with stones.

It wasn't until the beauty was tired and couldn't run anymore that he smiled and went over to coax people.

Just coaxed a few words, and then hit the other party's teeth, and then you chased after me.

After tossing for a while, Li Anru really couldn't run, so Luo Daniu grabbed someone's hands and begged for a while, begging the beauty to give him a mouthful.

In the end, Luo Da Niu was on the lips and had a strong mouth.

The price is another bite.

Now, Luo Daniu, who was scarred but in a good mood, was leading the four hundred Guan Emperor troops to ambush at the mouth of the furnace.

The spies reported that the guards of the Ninghua Royal Mansion had rested in Jiaoqu Grange for an hour, and now they were coming to Luyukou.

I guess it's almost there.