At the foot of Lingyan Mountain, about 20 miles southwest of Changzhou County, Suzhou, there is a manor covering an area of thousands of acres, the manor is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the scenery is beautiful, the manor is surrounded by high walls, and the situation in the manor can not be seen from the outside. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, climbing up the nearby mountains, you can still faintly see the layout of the manor, the whole manor is full of green trees, gurgling water, and a straight and flat avenue runs through the manor from north to south, as if it is the central axis of the manor.

In the center of the manor, a group of palace-like buildings were built, covering an area of about 500 acres, the core is a peach-shaped hill, surrounded by sparkling lakes, various buildings and water pavilions, curved bridges and corridors, the building is particularly exquisite.

Surrounded by all kinds of rockery strange stones, bigger and more rare than the Taihu Lake stone in the palace, a moon viewing building in the middle of the lake is made of all sandalwood, not only extremely expensive, but also ingenious, on the side of the lake, there are several magnificent halls, each hall can accommodate thousands of people.

If the master craftsman in the palace sees this building, he will be surprised, this is clearly a miniature version of Yanfu Palace, which is completely made according to a drawing, especially several core halls, which are exactly the same as the Ruizhu Hall and Jinguang Hall in Yanfu Palace.

In fact, Zhu Mian is built according to the drawings of Yanfu Palace, costing nearly 500,000 taels of silver, selecting hundreds of Suzhou and Hangzhou beauties to fill it, its skirt is completely consistent with the palace maid, its luxury and wealth are even more than the palace, and more than ten people of the Zhu family live here for three generations, enjoying the luxurious life of the emperor.

Zhu Mian's father, Zhu Chong, was originally a scoundrel in Suzhou, and he boasted of being a miracle doctor because he knew a few herbal prescriptions, plus he could speak well, and was good at drilling, with the support of capital and backstage power, the Zhu family turned to business, selling cheap and expensive, and the family business gradually developed.

The real development of the Zhu family is to attach Cai Jing, when Cai Jing was relegated to the south of the Yangtze River, the Zhu family seized the opportunity, desperately flattered and flattered, so that the officialdom frustrated Cai Jing felt warm, when Cai Jing was reactivated, he brought the Zhu father and son back to Beijing, and recommended Zhu Mian to the young and fun son Zhao Ji.

Zhu Mian is good at welcoming Feng, and gradually became Zhao Ji's favorite minister, it is under Zhu Mian's encouragement, in the first year of Zhenghe, Zhao Ji, who is greedy for enjoyment, decided to expand Yanfu Palace in accordance with the Jiangnan style, and appointed Zhu Mian to return to his hometown Suzhou to set up the Ying Feng Bureau, responsible for the procurement of Huashi Gang.

Zhu Mian, who held the power, vividly showed his greed and arrogance at this time, he used the excuse of scraping strange stones, flowers and trees, and frantically plundered property in Suzhou and nearby prefectures and counties, in just two years, all the middle-class and above in Suzhou went bankrupt, and the property was all included, and after plundering Suzhou, Zhu Mian set up a bureau in Hangzhou under the pretext of Zhejiang many strange stones and trees, and began to brutally plunder Zhejiang prefectures and counties.

In just six years, tens of thousands of middle-class and wealthy families in Jiangsu and Zhejiang went bankrupt, but Zhu Mian only transported strange stones and flowers and trees into Beijing, and countless gold, silver, jewelry, and fertile fields and beautiful houses were all swallowed up by him, and the fertile land occupied by him alone amounted to 300,000 mu.

It was Zhu Mian's frenzied plundering that was finally seized by the ambitious Fang La and began to incite the people to carry out a large-scale rebellion.

Zhu Mian's crazy accumulation of wealth in Jiangnan for nearly seven years is not only boiling with public resentment, Jiangnan officialdom is also full of complaints, impeachment letters, report letters are sent to the capital like snowflakes, Zhu Mian in order to deal with the exposure of local officials, but also continue to use huge amounts of money to hit the important ministers of the court, in the past seven years he has been unscathed, the son of heaven Zhao Ji also turned a blind eye to him, until Zhu Mian was burned faint by the squandered wealth, and began to imitate Yanfu Palace to build a villa, which offended Zhao Ji's scales.

In the Moon Appreciation Pavilion of Yanshou Villa, Zhu Mian paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, Zhu Mian was about forty years old, although he was middle-aged, but he could still see that he was very delicate when he was young, he was not tall, but he was very strong, his father Zhu Chong had sent him to learn martial arts for a few years after he made a fortune, making him more vigorous and flexible than ordinary people.

His only appearance defect is that his eyes are more prominent, and he was not very conspicuous when he was young, but when he reaches middle age, his eyes are extraordinarily bulging, and when he is angry, he will be congested, making him look particularly fierce and cold.

In the past two days, Zhu Mian was very sad, but also angry, his second son Zhu Tao was killed in Bianjing, the murderer had no clue, the news reached Suzhou, which made Zhu Mian thunderous, but when he calmed down, he had an indescribable fear in his heart.

Of course, he also knew that Li Gang, the superintendent of the imperial history, impeached him for trespassing, and these days he was busy dealing with some items that he shouldn't have, and the maids all took off their palace maid clothes, and burned them off, and he packed them and sank them to the bottom of the lake with really valuable things, but how to deal with him in this Yanshou Mountain Villa was a little difficult.

Zhu Chong, the father of Zhu Mian next to him, said slowly: "You can tear down the villa, keep the valuable bricks, wood and stones, and then we will build a new garden in the future, and no one will dare to say that we have trespassed." ”

Zhu Mian's eldest son Zhu Lang also said: "Grandfather is right, the child studied carefully yesterday, in fact, as long as the three palaces are demolished, and the attic is also demolished, it will be completely unrecognizable, and the corridors, roads, bridges, flowers and trees can be preserved, in fact, the loss is not big." ”

Zhu Mian sighed and said: "Yanshou Villa is a small problem, I will dedicate it to Zhao Ji if it is a big deal, just say that it is a palace built for him, and I want to give him a surprise to deliberately conceal it, I know Zhao Ji's person, his ears are very soft, and he is greedy for enjoyment, as long as the garden is dedicated to him, there is no problem, the key difficulty is the army!" ”

Zhu Mian's distressed and unmanageable problem is that he raised 3,000 dead soldiers, nominally called Jiading, in fact his private army, this army has a very practical significance to his family, Zhu Mian knows that he is guilty, without the protection of this army, he and his family will be torn to pieces by tens of millions of enemies, and the imperial army cannot protect him, he can only rely on himself.

Here's the problem, if he disbands the army, who will protect them, and if he doesn't, how can he explain it to the Son of Heaven?

"Father, we can actually reduce the army, such as 3,000 to 300, so that we can not only protect our families, but also explain to the Son of Heaven, after all, we have done so much, he should also understand our difficulties."

Zhu Mian's heart moved, this is a good way, he looked at his father, wanting to hear his father's opinion.

Zhu Chong sneered, "It's okay if the little hairy child in his twenties is naïve, but you, a person in his forties, are also naïve, so people can't figure it out, do you think Zhao Ji will really build a manor for you and raise thousands of dead soldiers to embarrass you?" You think too much about the problem, it's just an excuse, it's just an excuse to kill you! ”

Zhu Mian was stunned, he didn't understand why his father said this.

Zhu Chong continued: "You have scooped up all the money for him, making the heavens angry and angry, the second child died in the capital, this is the signal, he is going to unload the mill and kill the donkey, kill you, not only calming the people's anger but also buying the hearts of the people, he has become a benevolent monarch again, Fang La has no excuse for rebellion, he has all the benefits, you have to carry the notoriety, what a clever trick this is, why can't you understand it?" ”

"So what should I do?" Zhu Mian was a little anxious.

"A knife to shrink your head, a knife to stretch your head, you can do it yourself!"

After saying that, Zhu Chong leaned on the dragon's head crutches, turned around and left, Zhu Mian sat down, and a cold air rose from his heart, making his mind dazed.

At this moment, someone outside the door reported, "Master, there is an urgent pigeon letter delivered in the capital." ”

"Show me!"

After a while, a family member walked in and presented a roll of pigeon letters to Zhu Mian, which was sent by his brother-in-law Wang Wenyao in the capital, who was responsible for running his property in the capital, including two restaurants, three green buildings and more than a dozen shops, and the red Wang family rouge shop was also one of them, and Wang Wenyao was also responsible for collecting all kinds of relevant news for him and sending him with pigeon letters in time.

Zhu Mian hurriedly opened the pigeon letter, the pigeon letter was the news that Jiawang Zhao Kai was ordered to appease Jiangnan, although it was not said that it was aimed at him, but Zhu Mian's heart was like a mirror, and he was really said by his father to be right, since Zhao Ji asked his son to appease Jiangnan, what did he take to appease? It must be his Zhu Mian's head.

"A knife to shrink your head, and a knife to stretch your head!"

Zhu Mian thought of his father's words, and slowly gritted his teeth, since Zhao Ji is unkind, don't blame him for Zhu Mian's injustice, then fight to break the net!

[I'm sorry for all book friends! Lao Gao is a little unwell today, so he can only watch two shifts! Strive for tomorrow's three watches. 】