Since the war with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the household department has been living a tight life, although the tax collection is more and more, but because of the war, the expenditure is also increasing. The emperor has now issued an order for the whole people to eat together, and the head of the household department is in charge, and all the officials of the household department are gearing up! What does this mean? It means that the grain and silver of the whole city are under the management of the household department!

What the? Relatives of the Imperial Family? The household department is not afraid, the officials of the household department are all "clear streams" who have studied hard for decades! What might be afraid of the powerful?

What the? Will you donate it to your own family? Have you seen anyone who would do it to themselves? At most, a few domestic servants will be dismissed!

So the head of the household, Shangshu Fang Yuegong, faced similar questions dozens of times every day!

"My lord, when are we going to the Guozhang Mansion and ask the Guozhang to donate the food?"

"My lord, I think there is a lot of food in the Chengguo Mansion, let's go to the Chengguo Mansion!"

"My lord, the British Mansion is good, the British Mansion has the most food!"

The officials of the household department all started to propose from the Guogong Mansion, those marquis and earls, we still don't look down on it, the rights given by the emperor should be bigger! Burn the first fire, and those marquis and counts behind you are nothing!

Didn't you see that in order to implement the national food plan, the emperor put two teams of Tianziwei and one Jinyi Wei to implement this policy together with the household department! Tianziwei is the military power, and the Jinyi guard collects information! I have the power of the army, I have the world!

These princes and marquises, all of them rely on the protection of their ancestors, and they don't have any real skills, how can they be like us, who have only been famous for decades, we are really capable!

Let's talk about Fang Yuegong, the head of the household, he is a first-class good hand in "forced donation"!

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, the earthen pond that blocked the sea tide in the area of Songjiang and Luoque collapsed five times in a row, Fang Yuegong decided to build a stone pond, but the Shikun who was present was afraid of increasing the economic burden, in order to raise funds, Fang Yuegong stipulated that "those who have 100 acres of land will be advised to lose 8 cents of silver per mu for the purpose of building the pond", and drove a small boat every day, looking for rich households everywhere to "force donations". This approach has since become a recognized system.

However, Fang Yuegong believes that in terms of "forced donation", the emperor is the real master of forced donation!

Chongzhen once called Fang Yuegong to the Qianqing Palace and asked him how to get those imperial relatives in the capital to hand over the grain, Fang Yuegong said that he took the Son of Heaven Wei Jinyi to these big families every day, and did not let them cook without permission until they donated food!

Chongzhen shook his head at him, no, no, no, you can't do this, you're too slow like this, you have to kill the game. Think about it, who benefits after these big families donate food? It's not me, it's not your household, it's the people of this capital!

Since it is the people who benefit, you let the people urge you to force donations, and your household department only enforces the law.

Fang Yuegong is like an initiation!

That's right, the emperor's policy has come out, this is the emperor's policy. I don't want to offend you, but these "Diao people" force our household every day!

So, Fang Yuegong first asked the household officials to lead Tianziwei to set up a few porridge points in the city, and issued an order that cooking in the whole city was illegal, and he could only come to the porridge to get porridge to eat!

As soon as the porridge was set up, the homeless beggars in the city were the first to cheer. After years of war, there are many homeless beggars pouring into the capital!

Then let the soldiers say to the homeless beggars that the Qing army is going to besiege the city, and everyone will have no food to eat at that time, so if you see anyone with a fire in their house, come and complain!

After the homeless beggar finished eating the porridge, he really spontaneously organized a team, and when he saw which family was cooking on fire, he immediately went to the porridge point to complain!

Soon, there were no fireworks in the capital.

Ordinary people were still noisy at the beginning, but after the news of the Yangzhou massacre came, they all quieted down, and Beijing was not without being besieged, Beijing has been besieged twice in recent years, and everyone remembers the taste of starvation in the siege very clearly!

And the household department set up a porridge point, even if the Qing army besieged the city for a long time, everyone will have porridge to eat, the capital is not better than those states and counties, the capital has a lot of royal relatives and relatives, and there are a lot of grain in stock!

Therefore, the common people and the homeless beggars have set up a united front, and your household department can't just let us ordinary people donate food, when will your household department let the big households donate food?

So every day when there is nothing to do, I go to urge the household department to let the big households donate food! The favorite thing for Chinese people to do is to watch the excitement and coaxing, and it didn't take long for tens of thousands of people to gather outside the household yamen!

Fang Yuegong saw that there were so many homeless people who came to urge the household department to force donations to large households every day, and he knew that the time had come to attack the emperor's relatives and relatives!

This is full of capital, and the richest people are the emperor's relatives! These royal relatives and relatives usually act as prestige and blessings! Looted a lot of money and food!

Fang Yuegong looked at the information provided by Jin Yiwei, thinking about how to attack his subordinates first!

Guozhang Zhou Kui, the emperor's father-in-law, it's not good to be the first to take him under the knife, and the emperor has already dug three feet into the ground and taken away millions of taels of silver, Zhou Kui has no money there!

Tianfu, after the death of Tian Guifei, Tianfu also fell, and Tian Guifei is the emperor's favorite concubine, in case the emperor regrets it!

Cheng Guogong Zhu Chunchen, no, Cheng Guogong is Taifu, the soldiers and horses of the Beijing Camp Headquarters, he is a hard bone from the beginning, and it is not easy to bite!

Fang Yuegong and Jinyiwei thought about it again and again, and decided to start with Xu Yunzhen, the Duke of Dingguo.

This Dingguo Duke Xu Yunzhen is also the descendant of Xu Da, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, hereditary for so many years, the information collected by Jin Yiwei shows that there is a lot of money and food in the family!

So Hubu Shangshu took Jinyiwei and Tianziwei to the Dingguo Mansion first, urging Dingguo Duke Xu Yunzhen to dismiss the servants at home as soon as possible and donate the family's silver and food!

Xu Yunzhen did not expect that he would be the first to be "raided".

This Xu Yunzhen is usually not good to his subordinates, and Jin Yiwei has long figured out the situation of the Dingguo Mansion, and all the servants of the Dingguo Mansion have been disbanded.

"You can't do this, you can't do this, my family didn't break the law, why should you confiscate my food? You can't take my food! Xu Yunzhen's mother also cried.

"After I am a hero, you can't do this to me, I want to face the saint, I want to face the saint!" Seo Yunzhen yelled.

Fang Yuegong said unhurriedly, "Dingguo Gong, I don't want to come either, I am also ordered by the emperor to urge the whole city to eat together." You see, our household department surrounds tens of thousands of people every day to urge us. You are a descendant of Xu Da, and you should set an example at the current national crisis, the emperor said in the court that day, the whole people eat together, and you didn't object at the time, right? If you want to face the saint, you can go, the emperor said at the time, the emperor's relatives are no exception, and there is no mercy for killing."

Xu Yunzhen looked at the crowd outside the door, and could only watch Tianziwei take away bags of food from home.