Li Zhong looked at Zhu Cihong's eyes, looked at King Lu and said, "Lord Wang, if Your Majesty makes an order, it must also be drafted by the cabinet." ”

What King Lu thought was naturally that the little emperor pressured the cabinet, and after listening to Li Zhong's words, he hurriedly said: "Then the tired father-in-law, tell the cabinet and draft the decree as soon as possible." ”

Li Zhong secretly sneered, this King Lu is really a good calculation, let them charge in front, and wait for the benefits in the back.

Li Zhong turned to Zhu Cihong and said softly: "Long live Lord, you can ask Yuanfu to discuss." ”

Zhu Cihong immediately nodded and said, "Please invite Elder Zhou Ge into the palace." ”

Zhou Ge is always Zhou Yanru, and Zheng Xibo is Zhou Zheng.

King Lu was a little disappointed, but he could only endure it.

Zhou Yanru was angry with Zhou Zhengyi, and it took five days to recover a little, and when he heard a rare summons in the palace, he hurriedly entered the palace with the matter at hand.

At the door of the Qianqing Gate, he asked an inner supervisor and whispered, "Do you know what is going on?" ”

The inner eunuch glanced inside and said in a low voice: "Gonggong Li said that it was King Lu who quietly entered the palace. ”

Zhou Yanru suddenly understood, smiled, crossed the threshold, and walked towards the Qianqing Palace.

The inner supervisor looked at his back and whispered: "I don't give a penny or silver, it's really a ......."

Zhou Yanru entered the Qianqing Palace and saluted with a full number of courtesies.

Zhu Cihong looked at Zhou Yanru and said with a respectful expression: "Zhou Aiqing, is it true that King Lu said that the treasury owes the silver of King Lu's mansion?" ”

Zhou Yanru's temples jumped when he heard the word 'ow', his eyes were angry, but his voice was lukewarm: "Your Majesty, King Lu's Mansion sits on thousands of hectares of fertile land, and his annual income is hundreds of thousands. When the first emperor was the emperor, he had a decree to reprimand the Lu Wangfu for being greedy, and the court never owed the Lu Wangfu silver. ”

Zhu Cihong was stunned, he knew that his father had issued an order to reprimand King Lu's mansion, but he didn't know that King Lu's mansion was hundreds of thousands, so he couldn't help but look at King Lu.

King Lu looked startled, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, and today's disaster is like fire, and Shandong is in rebellion and civil unrest, where is there any good land?" If it is really an annual income of hundreds of thousands, how can the minister have the face to ask His Majesty for 30,000 taels of silver? ”

Zhu Cihong felt right when he heard this, and looked at Zhou Yanru.

Zhou Yanru didn't take Zhu Cihong in his eyes from the bottom of his heart, let alone a small, unknown so-called King Lu?

He has been almost vomiting blood in frustration for Zhou Zheng's money and food recently, how could he let King Lu rob again, and said directly to King Lu: "Since this is the case, then the imperial court will take back the fief of King Lu's mansion and give 50,000 yuan a year, how about it?" ”

King Lu was stunned, if it was before, even if the court didn't want to give silver, it would be an excuse to delay, how could it be so direct, and he had to take back the fief?

If you want to take back the prince's fiefdom, there is not enough reason, not only the clan, but also the world will not agree, that is to shake the country's foundation!

King Lu was in a daze, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Although Zhu Cihong was small, he also knew that it was not trivial to take back the clan fief, and looked at Zhou Yanru with some nervousness.

Li Zhong didn't seem to hear it, hugging the floating dust, as if he was pretending to sleep.

Zhou Yanru also seemed to notice that his tone was too heavy, and secretly sighed, and said: "The capital has just been recovered, and we want to chase down the thieves, and there is no extra money and food, please wait a little longer." ”

King Lu was already angry with Zhou Yanru and said, "Wait? How long to wait? If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't open the pot, how could I go into Beijing and disturb Your Majesty? I heard that Yuan Fu raised 500,000 yuan of money and grain for the army to conquer the west, could it be that he lost my 30,000 taels? ”

Zhou Yanru is very clear about the foundation of these vassal kings, and there is no one in the world who wants to say that they are the richest, these clans occupy the most fertile land in the Ming Dynasty, and together, I am afraid that there are millions of hectares! Counting the subsidies for weddings and funerals every year, all kinds of money, and countless rewards, how can they not eat?

They don't pay attention to the 30,000 taels, but they don't care about it, and they don't want to let it go!

Zhou Yanru suppressed his endless anger recently, seeing that King Lu was unrelenting, his tone immediately became heavy, and said: "The treasury is empty, at least wait until next year, if King Lu is willing to wait, he will wait in the capital, if he can't wait, he will go back to Yanzhou first!" ”

King Lu listened to Zhou Yanru and wanted to send him away without giving a penny, where was he willing to follow, puffed his knees, and almost cried to Zhu Cihong: "Your Majesty, they all say that foreign ministers bully their relatives, and the first emperor doesn't believe it, now, have you seen it?" In front of you, Zhou Ge always wants to force us clan relatives to death? Your Majesty, we are the royal flesh and blood of the blood, and we are about to be forced to die......"

Li Zhong's eyelids jumped when he heard this, King Lu's words were too ruthless.

Sure enough, Zhu Cihong didn't do it anymore, seeing that Zhou Yanru didn't have the respect he had before, he said with a small face: "Old Zhou Ge, can't you really squeeze out 30,000 taels?" ”

From Zhou Aiqing to Zhou Ge Lao, Zhou Yanru noticed the change in Zhu Cihong's mood, but he didn't care much, he was angered by King Lu's words, forced it, and said with an old face: "Your Majesty, most of the money and grain are now in the levy of Xibo, unless his military salary is embezzled, the levy of Xibo will not agree." ”

Zhu Cihong looked at King Lu, who was still miserable, frowned, and said, "Just move 30,000 taels." ”

Zhou Yanru just wanted to find an excuse to send King Lu, but he didn't want to embezzle Zhou Zheng's military salary, he really wanted to anger Zhou Zheng, and he couldn't make more trouble.

He thought about it, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Your Majesty, the military salary cannot be moved, otherwise, the military salary of the patrol battalion in the capital will be moved, and the summer grain will come up to make up for it." ”

Zhu Cihong didn't want to affect the northwest bandits, so he responded: "Well, that's it." ”

When King Lu heard that there was silver, his cry slowly weakened, and before he knew it, it was gone.

Zhu Cihong didn't like such troublesome things, so he found an excuse to leave when he solved it.

King Lu followed Zhou Yanru out of the Qianqing Palace, and said with a smile: "Yuanfu, did Xiao Wang go to the household to receive silver?" ”

Where is there any silver in the household!

Zhou Yanru didn't want to entangle with him anymore, so he said directly: "I will send someone to meet Zheng Xibo with you, and the military salary has been allocated to Zheng Xibo." ”

No matter where the silver is, as long as you can get it, King Lu hurriedly said: "Okay, thank you Yuanfu." ”

Zhou Yanru didn't want to pay attention to him, and asked Fan Wenjing to lead King Lu to the west corridor across the wall.

Zhou Zheng was not there, and Zhang Heyi, who was in charge of presiding over affairs, listened to King Lu's intention, his eyes widened and he was surprised.

When did someone dare to hit them with the autumn wind?

Zhang Heyi quietly delayed the time, and secretly sent someone to ask Zhou Zheng's attitude.

There is no doubt that what he got was the word 'no money', King Lu was furious, felt that he had been tricked, and went to find Zhou Yanru, who seemed to have expected it a long time ago and had already hid out.

King Lu was even more angry and went to the Qianqing Palace again, but Zhu Cihong in the Qianqing Palace was also afraid of this kind of trouble, so he made an excuse not to see him again.

"Okay, okay, I can't do it alone, then I'll find a few more people to see how you still hide!" King Lu jumped angrily and yelled in front of the Daming Gate.

The arrears of the imperial court are not only the Lu Wangfu, but also the clans of the world.

King Lu was furious, turned around and began to write letters, contacting those clans who were not familiar with each other, and preparing to jointly put pressure on the imperial court to ask for the fortune of the clans in the world.