Chapter 135: Asking for Debts
Zhuo Wende, the county magistrate of Daxing County, saw Zhu Youxiao pulling a face, and also realized that he might have slapped the horse's leg with a sycophant, and explained with a smile:
"Back to Your Majesty, this is all the friendship of the people of Daxing County, not the lower officials, because Your Majesty personally led the royal division to drive away the Tartars, so everyone is grateful to you. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Zhu Youxiao just nodded after hearing this, didn't say anything, and went straight into the city, and these bureaucrats and squires hurriedly followed.
The streets are very clean and neat, although there are traces of burning down in a few places, but most of them are intact, but there are no people in the whole county, and some shops facing the street are not open.
There were no beggars and homeless people who mixed into the city, and Zhu Youxiao couldn't help laughing: "Zhuo County Order, you have good governance in Daxing County, although the city is full of depression, there is no beggar, not a single homeless." ”
"Thanks to Your Majesty's false praise, Xia Guan was originally a dull and incomprehensible person, but fortunately, with the cooperation of Li Fuyin and a group of squires and people in the city, this Daxing County is what it is today."
Hearing Zhuo Wende say this, Zhu Youxiao pretended to be surprised, and turned to smile at this Li Chunmao.
It is not uncommon for local officials to govern places by relying on local squires, but Zhu Youxiao's own pro-people officials who don't like have become agents of these local squires competing for private interests, so when Zhuo Wende replied that it was all supported by the squires of Daxing County, he was already a little displeased, but he didn't show it on the surface.
Zhuo Wende, the county commander of Daxing County, first took Zhu Youxiao to the county office, and sat down for a while, Li Maochun, a great squire who had been an official and a second grade, stood up: "Your Majesty's martial arts and virtue are high, and it is the blessing of the people to calm Hulu, and the luck of the Daming Jiangshan Sheji, and Your Majesty, you love the people like a son, and now that the Tartar has left, please also ask Your Majesty to return the people's wealth to the people, so that the people can live and the world can be obedient." ”
Zhu Youxiao heard this, Li Maochun slapped himself with a sycophant as soon as he opened his mouth, and it was also very useful, but he didn't expect that Li Maochun suddenly changed sharply when he said it, saying that he wanted to return the people's property, but in fact, it was just because the Tartars robbed him, a big landlord, of his property and came to him to ask for it.
The other squires and eunuchs who accompanied them into the county government saw that Li Maochun first asked His Majesty to return the finances they had taken from the Tartars, and they all got up and saluted Zhu Youxiao, and told Zhu Youxiao to return the Tartars that they had snatched from them.
Zhu Youxiao didn't expect that these people would ask him for debts before, so he couldn't help but smile and said: "Your assets are all robbed by the Tartars, why are you looking for me, if you have the ability, you have the ability to go out of the customs now to find the Tartars." ”
"Your Majesty said with a smile, the people in the Gyeonggi area know about it, Your Majesty, you have already taken it back from the Tartars for us, and it is precisely because of this that I came to Your Majesty to ask for it, please give it back to Your Majesty, and do not take advantage of the people!"
Li Maochun got up as he said and saluted Zhu Youxiao again, and the other squires also stood up: "Please give it back to Your Majesty." ”
Zhu Youxiao looked coldly at these squires who were obedient on the surface but were actually aggressive and did not speak, put the teacup in his hand, and beckoned to Liu Bin: "Come here with your ears." ”
All the squires looked at Zhu Youxiao whispering beside Liu Bin, and naturally they didn't know what Zhu Youxiao said, and they all hoped that His Majesty the Emperor would return the property looted by the Tartars because of their joint petition, you must know that the gold, silver and jewelry that were stolen by the Tartars were the accumulation of their officials for many years.
"Yes!" Liu Bin answered and walked out, Li Maochun and the others followed Liu Bin's figure and looked out, wondering if His Majesty had sent him to transfer his belongings.
People always subconsciously think about the good side, and the Ming Dynasty's hundreds of years of preferential treatment of scholars' private property also make them unaware of the danger of approaching.
In their opinion, the fate of the Donglin Party and the troublemakers are nothing more than a group of ignorant nerds who take the blame for themselves, and they neither participate in the disaster of the party, nor care who is the emperor, they just want their property back.
What's more, His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youxiao at this time did not show the slightest dissatisfaction.
Zhu Youxiao did not show any dissatisfaction, now that he has his own gun, why should he talk in vain with these selfish vested interests.
Zhu Youxiao just picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and then asked Zhuo Wende, the county commander of Daxing County: "Zhuo Wende, as far as I know, when the Tartars plundered Gyeonggi, the Amin Department also attacked your Daxing County, and your Daxing County still took the initiative to open the city gate, and took the initiative to surrender to the Tartars. ”
When Zhuo Wende heard Zhu Youxiao say this, he also said that Zhu Youxiao was guilty of failing to defend the city, so he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, Weichen was outside the city at the time, and he didn't know that Tartar came to Daxing County, and Kaicheng was done by Yang Zhengying, the county Cheng, and Lu Shilang had corrected it." ”
When Li Maochun and other squires saw that Zhu Youxiao suddenly asked him about Zhuo Wende, they hurriedly defended their parents, and they all proved that Zhuo Wende was indeed not in the city at that time.
Zhu Youxiao put the teacup down heavily, and said in a fierce voice: "I know that you were not in the city at the time, and it is not your sin to open the city and surrender, otherwise you would not have kept your head all this day, but I will ask you, what did you do when you went out of the city, Taizu had a testament, and the pro-people officials had to go out of the city to disturb the people, you had better recruit me from the truth, and don't force me to expose the dirty things you did in front of the gentry in the city!" ”
"Weichen, Weichen is wronged!"
Zhuo Wende didn't dare to say that he went out of the city because Li Maochun invited him to his manor for a small gathering and had a romantic night, which caused a delay in returning to the city, so he just cried wolf and howled.
In Russia, Tang Fusheng walked into the courtyard with a team of gendarmes, and they all pulled out embroidered spring knives and surrounded them outside.
At the same time, Liu Bin walked in with an old servant: "Your Majesty, the old housekeeper of the Li Mansion has brought it." ”
Li Maochun stood up in astonishment, he didn't expect His Majesty to suddenly bring the old housekeeper in his house, he looked at the old housekeeper and then at Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, this, this is." ”
Zhu Youxiao didn't pay attention to this Li Maochun, for these big squires, Jinyiwei had already secretly monitored them, especially these squires in Gyeonggi.
After all, these squires have a lot of real power in the local area, and many times the reason why the Tartars can easily loot the city is not unrelated to the collusion of these big squires in advance.
Of course, the purpose of their collusion is only to keep their own one or three acres of land, and they don't really want to be obedient citizens of the Tartars, but sometimes the Tartars will not abide by the agreement and plunder their property, and they can only suffer dumb losses.
Zhu Youxiao knew that people could do undisciplined things for their own selfishness, so he didn't plan to be too careful.
But now that these people have bullied themselves and demanded debts from themselves, Zhu Youxiao has no intention of being polite to them anymore.