Seeing that Li Yan was not confused by the beauty, a trace of disappointment flashed in the eyes of the fasting man, but he still had a smile on his face: "Oh...... I don't know what Li Gongzi said? ”

Li Yanyi arched his hand and said: "Fasting Gong, now the Ming Emperor is mediocre and incompetent, and only knows that he favors Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch party, and Yang Feng, the prince of the country, who has been reckless in these years, and has not heard that although the country is very warlike, it will die, which also makes the corrupt officials and corrupt officials of the Ming Dynasty all over the place make it difficult for the people to make a living."

Fortunately, Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, could not bear to see the people of the world suffer, and the rebel army raised a banner to denounce such an incompetent court for the poor people of the world. ”

"Oh......"

The fasting man stroked his beard with a smile and thought about it, and said after a long time: "Li Gongzi, don't hide it, everyone in the world says that Jiangnan is rich, but in fact, it is just a misunderstanding of Jiangnan by outsiders.

The old man in other places didn't know, but the cultivated land in Anqing Mansion had gradually decreased over the past few decades, and many people even changed the fertile land to mulberry trees to raise silkworms, and many places even had to buy grain from Huguang and other places to maintain local needs, so there was no surplus food for the rebels. ”

Speaking of this, the fasting prince immediately saw the disappointment and a faint coldness in Li Yan's eyes, and then the words changed: "Of course, the righteous army led by King Chuang and Li Gongzi is fighting for the people of the world, and the old man and the others can't say it if they don't have a trace of expression."

In this way, the old man only donated 2,000 taels of silver, 300 stones of grain, and 20 pigs to the righteous army on behalf of my Liang family, thinking that he would celebrate, and hoped that Li Gongzi would not dislike it. ”

Half an hour later, Li Yan walked out of the Liang Mansion, and the guards who had already been waiting at the door hurriedly greeted him: "Strategist, how did you talk to him?" ”

Li Yan shook his head: "It's hard to say, let's go to the next one first." ”

In this way, Li Yan and his family visited all the gentry mansions in Anqing City one after another, but the results he got made him very disappointed.

These gentry and wealthy families were very enthusiastic about Li Yan's arrival on the surface, and they were holding banquets and entertaining them and sending singers to accompany them to drink, but once Li Yan mentioned that they would give money and food, these people all showed the same face, and everyone began to cry at him.

Although for Li Yan's sake, they all meant it more or less, but Li Yan counted it, and today at the end of the day, there were only 7,5223 taels of silver, 900 stones of grain, and 110 pigs.

The reason why the silver to be received was not a whole number, it was because a gentry donated twenty-three taels of silver, and Li Yan was so angry that he almost turned his face on the spot.

When night fell, Li Yan returned to the former prefect's yamen and now the base camp of the army with some stupidity, Li Zicheng and a group of rogue leaders had been waiting for a long time.

Seeing Li Yan come back, Liu Zongmin didn't wait for Li Zicheng to speak, and asked first: "The military advisor personally went out today, and he must have gained a lot, why don't you say it and let us hear it?" ”

Li Yan shook his head with a calm face, and said to Li Zicheng: "King Chuang, Li Yan is incompetent, he has failed your trust, and today he visited almost all the gentry and wealthy households, and only got more than 7,500 taels of silver, 900 stones of grain, and more than 100 pigs. ”

"Haha...... Hahaha......"

Liu Zongmin couldn't help laughing, "What did I say before, those local tyrants and shoddy gentry regard money as the root of their lives, and they would rather feed the endless grain to the pigs than give us these bitter haha, how can they help us wholeheartedly, now you understand, right?" ”

Li Zicheng's face was also as heavy as water, although he originally didn't have much expectations for Li Yan's lobbying this time, but he didn't expect that even now that Anqing Mansion has been captured by himself, these people would dare to despise him so much.

Is it a slap in the face that the gentry of a dignified state capital sent themselves away with only a few thousand silver, less than a thousand stone of grain, and hundreds of pigs?

"Do these people really think that we don't dare to touch them after listening to too many songs?" Li Zicheng's face was extremely gloomy, and his eyes revealed a strong murderous intent, "Originally, I planned to persuade each other with good words, but now it seems that these people don't understand anything other than knives and guns!" ”

It was late at night, and in a study in the inner courtyard of the Liang Mansion, four or five lamps illuminated the study of Nuoda very brightly.

The owner of the Liang Mansion in his fifties, Liang Qichen, nicknamed Fasting, sat on the Taishi chair, and next to him stood a middle-aged man in his thirties, this person was Liang Qichen's eldest son Liang Yunchao.

Liang Qichen said in a deep voice: "Chao'er, what's the form outside now?" ”

Liang Yunchao replied respectfully: "Back to my father's words, since those thieves occupied Anqing Mansion, they haven't done anything evil except for searching for people from the official mansion everywhere, but the child heard that those rogues are looking for food everywhere, and the child is worried that sooner or later they will find us again." ”

"Hmph...... Forgive them and don't dare. ”

Liang Qichen snorted coldly: "Our Jiangnan is no better than those turtles in the northwest, since ancient times, the gentry in Jiangnan have been one, one is prosperous and the other is lost." Even the imperial court doesn't dare to attack us, can they be more powerful than the imperial court?

If he dares to attack us like he did in the northwest, they will not be able to move an inch in Jiangnan. Why do you think Li Yan from Henan Mansion today is so polite to us, isn't it because he knows the powerful relationship here? ”

"But ......" Liang Yunchao hesitated, although his old father's words were also reasonable, he always had a feeling of uneasiness in his heart.

"Nothing but do as the Father says. You immediately go and contact the people of the Bai family and the Wang family, and ask them to hide the money and grain, so that those rogues don't see it, those mud legs can't become any climate. Liang Qichen accentuated his tone, "After a few days, the imperial army will be defeated, and those rogues will naturally disappear." ”

Liang Yunchao didn't dare to disobey his father's words, and hurriedly whispered: "Yes, the child will arrange it." ”

Just as Liang Yunchao was about to arrange for people to transfer grain, he heard a commotion outside.

Soon, with a quick knock on the door, the voice of the housekeeper in the outer courtyard sounded outside the door: "The master is not good, a large group of rogues came outside, they rushed in one by one without saying a word, the nurses came forward to reason with them, but they were all killed, and now they have rushed in and killed people when they see them, and they are about to be killed in the inner courtyard!" Sir, run away."

"What...... They...... How dare they do it? ”

"Not good, Dad...... Let's run away! ”

"Let's go...... Get out of the secret passage right now......"