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Today is the day when the Chu Wangfu collects summer rent.

The entire backyard of the Chu Wangfu resounded with the sound of an abacus, and the square in front of a row of warehouses in the backyard was crowded with tenants of the palace who came to pay rent and taxes and domestic slaves in charge of various shops and industries.

In order to prevent the people below from evading taxes and rents, Zhu Shikui even decided to personally supervise it, and he had to personally inspect every stone of grain that entered the warehouse and every silver dollar that was handed over.

However, his Chu Wangfu occupies eighty or ninety percent of the property and acres of land in this Wuchang City, so even if he pays the summer rent, he will not be able to pay it for a while, so it didn't take long for the King of Chu to doze off on the Taishi chair in the main hall of the backyard.

As soon as he dozed off, he dreamed that he had been guillotined, and a man with a crown yelled at him, and a large knife slipped from the executioner's hand.

But just as the big knife fell, and he thought he was hacked to death, he dreamed that a certain clan concubine who looked like he had been ravaged to death flew towards him with teeth and claws, and the two fangs seemed to bite into his neck in a moment.

Yes!

Zhu Shikui, the king of Chu, was suddenly frightened and woke up, and broke out in a cold sweat, and Shi Luo Xing, the left chief of the palace beside him, saw this and hurriedly asked: "Lord Wang, but the nightmare disease has been committed again?" ”

"Isn't it", Zhu Shikui rubbed his temples speechlessly, since the case of the puppet king of Chu appeared, plus Zhao Kehuai was killed by himself and caused a sensation in the court and the opposition, he has never worried that he will not be punished by the imperial court, plus he has done too many immoral things over the years, which has made him suffer from this nightmare disease, and sometimes he will have nightmares as long as he sleeps.

And this time, I was just a little sleepy because of the overseer of paying taxes for a long time, so I took a nap, and who knew that I began to have nightmares again.

"Lone asked you to go to Huajue Temple to invite Master Lingyi to come, did you invite it?"

The king of Chu asked Luo Changshi, and Luo Changshi couldn't help laughing: "The abbot of Huajue Temple said that Master Lingyi will not go out of the customs until the third day of the first month of next month, and in addition, Huajue Temple needs to reshape the Buddha statue this year, and it needs 10,000 taels of gold. ”

Hearing Luo Changshi say this, Zhu Shikui said without thinking about it:

"Bring 10,000 taels of gold from the library to Huajue Temple, and let Huajue Temple add another 100,000 catties of lamp oil to Lone, and give him the lamp oil money, as long as Master Lingyi can go out of the mountain to cure my nightmare disease, it is to be a gold mountain, and Lone will also give it to him!" This great merit is also allowed to be done by Lonely! ”

Seeing that Zhu Shikui, the king of Chu, was so generous, and did not hesitate for a moment, Luo Xingneng couldn't help but be secretly happy, just because the king of Chu had nightmares and superstitions, he didn't know how many times he had united with monks and Taoists to deceive this prince of money.

"Lord Wang, Wu Zhuangtou said that their Zhuangzi had a locust plague this year, and there was no harvest for hundreds of acres of land, and the tenants really had no money to pay the rent, so I want to ask the prince to forgive this half-year rent."

At this time, Shi Ming Changxin, the right head of the palace, stepped forward, and the one behind him was Wuzhuang Tou, who was wearing a soap-colored short coat with a white handkerchief wrapped around his head.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Shikui, the king of Chu, got up and kicked at the head of this Wuzhuang, and ordered the captain from the side to say: "Fight Lone to death!" ”

Where did this Wu Zhuangtou think that he would be beaten like this for a small report and suggestion, so he hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, but the whip had already rained down.

At the same time, Zhu Shikui, the king of Chu, who suddenly had a violent temperament, scolded:

"Lonely is a dignified nobleman, enshrined in Wuchang, as a subject of the Ming Dynasty, you should support Lonely!

Now it's easy to perfunctory loneliness in this disaster and that disaster, and refuse to pay taxes, you really can't be deceived by loneliness, what disaster is not a disaster, what does it have to do with loneliness, that is the affairs of the imperial court, understand! ”

After Zhu Shikui, the king of Chu, scolded him for a while, his mood was relieved a lot, and his breath disappeared, and the depression caused by the nightmare was also reduced a little, but this Wuzhuang head was no longer breathless.

"It's really unlucky, drag it down and find a place to bury it, bury it far away, don't spoil the feng shui of the palace!"

Zhu Shikui, the king of Chu, didn't feel the slightest guilt, so he sat down again after casually commanding, and continued to urge the tenants behind him to pay the rent quickly.

No one present dared to say anything, and even Luo Xingneng and Ming Changxin, the two long histories, didn't dare to say more, because they didn't want to be killed like Governor Zhao Kehuai back then.

However, at this moment, Su Ming, the servant in the palace, hurriedly ran over: "Lord, it's not good, it's not good!" ”

"What's wrong, what are you doing in a panic, bastard thing, is Liu He's going to hang Mingzhi again, find someone to watch it closely, I'm busy now, I don't have time to care about that girl!"

Zhu Shikui, the king of Chu, thought that this servant Su Ming came in a hurry because of a widow caught by his predecessor and wanted to commit suicide, so he said a few words impatiently, who knew that this Su Ming panted as soon as he came: "It's not her, it's Your Majesty, Your Majesty today!" ”

"News came from Nanjing, His Majesty ordered the vassal kings from all over the country to rush to Nanjing immediately, and His Majesty to worship Emperor Taizu Gao, if there is any hesitation, it will be severely punished, and now it is less than eight days away from the day of the sacrifice, the prince should be fast!"

As soon as Su Ming said this, the king of Chu, Zhu Shikui, immediately stood up, and he was a little frightened when he was surprised, he couldn't help but think of the scene in his dream, the one who was wearing a crown to kill himself might be His Majesty today!

"Luo Changshi, this, how is this good, His Majesty will not fight to punish Yu Gu today, right?" Chu King Zhu Shikui asked tremblingly.

"Don't worry, the most important thing now is to rush to Nanjing immediately, and you must arrive in Nanjing City before the birthday of Emperor Taizu Gao, otherwise, Your Majesty will definitely use this as an excuse to cut the domain!" Luo Changshi said.

"Cutting the domain?"

Zhu Shikui, the king of Chu, sat back, his eyes were a little dull, and said with a wry smile: "As a royal relative handed down by Emperor Taizu Gao of the Ming Dynasty, Lone has no military power and no money now, and now His Majesty is afraid that he will not be able to cut it if he wants to cut the domain, and besides, Lone has nothing to cut now." ”

However, thinking of His Majesty the Emperor's series of actions in Shandong, Jiangnan and other regions this year, Zhu Shikui, the king of Chu, was still a little worried, so he ordered: "Prepare a few good horses immediately, and rush to Nanjing immediately." ”

Zhu Shikui was talking, and at this time, another guard suddenly came to report: "The people from the imperial court Dongchang have come with a will." ”

As soon as Zhu Shikui heard that he really wanted to go to Nanjing to worship the filial piety tomb, he was also a little nervous, and he was so busy that he was about to ride a horse and immediately run in the direction of Nanjing.

After learning the news, the other vassal kings also rushed to Nanjing City, but as everyone knows, they fell into a trap.

Because the Ming Dynasty already had regulations, the vassal king had to leave the fiefdom half a step at will.

Therefore, some vassal kings did not come, they were afraid that they would be guilty of violating the ancestral system for no reason, but if they did not come, they would be violating the decree of His Majesty the Emperor.

Therefore, whether these vassal kings come or not, Zhu Youxiao will have sufficient reasons to punish them in the future.