"Rumors?" Xue Hongqi's hand froze in mid-air.

"Huh?" The Monkey was also full of surprise, and the whole person shrank back.

Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly: "Your impression of the imperial court is that the imperial court has a lot of money, and if you open a warehouse, there are hundreds of thousands of silver in it?" ”

"Huh? Isn't that so? The thieves asked.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled helplessly, there was an indescribable sadness in his smile, it was a sad laugh about the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty: "Actually, the imperial court is much poorer than you imagined...... It is impossible to store 102,000 taels of silver in a mere county warehouse. ”

"Second Brother Wang, when we got into trouble, we plundered the warehouse in Baishui City, how much silver was in it?"

"Uh...... I don't remember exactly, but it must be empty, and I don't have a few ingots at all......"

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head to Xue Hongqi: "Xue Hongqi, I heard that you have broken through Anding, how much silver is stored in Anding's warehouse?" ”

Xue Hongqi heard this, only to feel the pain in the center of her head as if someone had knocked hard, she recalled the scene when she opened the Anding warehouse, and said bitterly: "Only ...... More than five hundred taels of silver...... I...... I thought that before I conquered the city, the rulers had taken the money away......"

Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "It's right if you don't have any silver!" In order to appease the Shaanxi * Western Righteous Army, Emperor Chongzhen worked hard to extract 100,000 taels of silver from within, and he could no longer take out half of it. How could a warehouse in Ganquan contain 108,000 taels of silver? Eight thousand taels more than the emperor's internal money? If there is so much silver in a district or county, will the court have such a headache for a little bit of silver? ”

"This ......" everyone's faces changed color in unison.

Xu Renjie exclaimed: "Why didn't I think of it? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head to face the Monkey, his face was very gloomy and ugly, and he snorted coldly: "You tell me the truth, how much silver did you take from Ganquan?" Why lie? If you can't say it clearly, don't blame me for being polite! ”

The Monkey took another step back, sweating profusely.

Originally, it stands to reason that if he took a step back like this, the ten brothers who followed him should hurry up to help him set up the scene, but the ten brothers had strange faces, and they actually took half a step back together, and it seemed that their hearts were also shaken.

"Speak quickly!" Everyone's eyes stared at the Monkey Monkey together, staring at him until his scalp exploded and his face turned blue...... After a long time, the monkey said with difficulty: "No...... is worthy of Brother Zhu, no one can see through my lie...... I didn't expect Eighth Brother Zhu to see through it in a blink of an eye......"

"It's really a rumor?" Xue Hongqi was dumbfounded, the whole person almost turned into a stone, and when she came to her senses, several breaths had passed, and she couldn't help but pull out the scimitar from the ground: "Bastard monkey, you bastard, you dare to play with the old lady!" ”

"Zheng! Zheng! Zheng! Zheng! A large sound of drawing knives sounded, and the ten subordinates standing behind the Chaos Monkey drew their knives together, surrounding the Chaos Monkey in the middle, and the ten subordinates of Xue Hongqi also drew their scimitars at the same time.

The bright tip of the knife shone brightly, and the scene was about to erupt.

"Stop!" Someone roared!

Then the air sounded the sound of a blunt weapon breaking through the air, and the two groups of people who were tense felt a flower in front of them, and a big man like an iron tower rushed to the middle of them, and the iron rod with a thick arm was waved, and it smashed on the ground with a "peng", the dust was stirred, and the ground seemed to tremble, and the two groups were so frightened that they took half a step back, and looked at it, and the white water king lifted the long stick second-hand, and shouted loudly: "Don't fuck it, listen to Zhu Buggy finish asking." ”

is worthy of the second king of white water, this stick has such a big momentum, if it falls on people, I am afraid that it will be smashed into a meatloaf on the spot. Both the Xue Hongqi and the Mixed Sky Monkey were shocked by Wang Er's momentum, and the knife hung down softly.

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly and said: "Monkey, tell the truth, if this rumor is reasonable, I will help you!" If it doesn't make sense, I'll cut off your head and fold it up with your four thousand rabble! ”

The murderous aura of this sentence frightened the calf and stomach of the monkey, and he couldn't help but take another half step back, and finally knelt on the ground with both knees: "I...... I don't want to tell a lie...... When I gathered people in the township to revolt, I also thought that there was an endless supply of gold and silver in the warehouses of the government, so I promised my brothers that I would conquer the city, let them eat fragrant, drink spicy food, and inexhaustible silver, marry one wife and two concubines, and live a fairy-like life......"

"The result...... Unexpectedly, there were only one hundred and eighty taels of silver in the warehouse of the government...... This amount of silver is not enough to buy a mansion, let alone eat and drink spicy food, marry a wife and take a concubine......"

The chaotic monkey drooped his head and said bitterly: "I saw the poor sour appearance in the warehouse, and I was almost scared to death." If only the brothers I instigated to rebel knew that there was no money in the warehouse...... They're going to tear me to shreds...... I didn't know what to do, so I had to move a lot of stones and put them in the storehouse, and then let my most confidant brother carry them into a cart, saying that he had brought a lot of silver out...... And then casually said a number ......"

"Because the Monkey King in "Journey to the West" can turn 108,000 miles with a somersault, so the chaotic monkey grabbed 108,000 taels of silver, right?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a deep voice.

"That's right...... That's what it means......" said the monkey in despair, "After telling this lie, my brothers really obeyed me, and hoped that I would give them a little more when I divided the money...... There are also many small bands of gangsters who have come to me...... However, the more people there are, the less stable my heart becomes. Everyone stared at the carts loaded with stones, to see when I would divide the money, but how dare I divide the money? I had to use the excuse that the officers and soldiers were still chasing us, and it was not appropriate to divide the money at this time, and relying on this lame reason, I was running around in embarrassment with several large carts of stones...... Later, I was approached by Sister Xue Hongqi, she asked for silver, but I couldn't give it, and I couldn't take out the stones to show the public, otherwise my army would collapse in an instant......"

When it comes to this, everyone understands! This thing is clearly self-inflicted, one lie sets out another lie, the lie is getting bigger and bigger, and now he has forced himself to Liangshan, and he can't get down.

"Actually...... There will be such a thing...... "The scimitar in Xue Hongqi's hand fell to the ground with a bang": "I actually chased such a waste for a hundred miles...... I'm so stupid! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head and glanced at Xue Hongqi, and then said deeply: "If the monkey really grabbed 108,000 taels, it is also someone else's ability, you insist on dividing half of it, and this will be inferior!" Money that shouldn't belong to you, you have to reach for it to get it, and you will encounter such a stupid thing......"

Xue Hongqi didn't know if she heard Zhu Yuanzhang's words, she was a little stunned. After the horse thief has done this kind of thing for a long time, the merits of the matter are a little blurred, and when she saw a large sum of silver, she actually didn't think carefully about whether she should reach out and take it, but the horse thief's kind of robbery and robbery drove her to come and get it, and the result was to do a big stupid thing, chasing the empty shell for hundreds of miles, spending a lot of manpower and material resources, and finally getting nothing.

It can be seen that the things of the world have their own providence in the dark, people are doing what the sky is watching, and if they do too many unreasonable things, one day they will be teased by God!

"Brother Zhu save me! What should I do now? The monkey disease rushed to the doctor, hugged Zhu Yuanzhang's leg and cried: "If it is revealed that I have no money now...... My four thousand brothers will definitely swallow me alive, Brother Zhu, help! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded lightly: "That's right, you can't turn back now, you will definitely die if you turn around!" So there's only one thing you can do right now! ”

"Which one?"

"Go to the city and seize the land, grab the territory, and fight against the officers and soldiers...... Zhu Yuanzhang sneered: "Fight him four or five tough battles, and when your subordinates who only want silver and don't want to do serious things are dead, you can be liberated." ”

"Huh? That's right! And this method! The chaotic monkey was overjoyed: "Brother Zhu, you are really resourceful, I will take these fools to death, let the officers and soldiers kill them all, and I will be free, hahahaha......"

After he said this, the faces of the ten henchmen behind him changed slightly, and one of them gently tugged on his sleeve and said, "Brother Monkey...... Say less...... Is that right? ”

The chaotic monkey woke up suddenly, he looked around, and saw Zhu Yuanzhang, Wang Er, Generalissimo, Xue Hongqi and others all looking at him with contempt, as if they were looking at a maggot and a piece of...... I didn't even look at a person, and my eyes were so cold that they froze the surface of the lake.

"Don't look at me like that...... It's obviously ...... Obviously, it was the idea of Brother Zhu...... I'm just going to echo it......" The Monkey whispered incoherently.

"Humph!" Wang Er said angrily: "Eighth Brother Zhu is just making a statement to test you, if you have a heart of right and wrong, and know how to be polite, righteous and honest, you will immediately refute Eighth Brother Zhu's strategy, and even scold Eighth Brother Zhu angrily, but look at what kind of face you are now...... If it weren't for the fact that you were also against the government, Lao Tzu would cut you into seventeen or eighteen pieces now, and you would get out of me! Immediately get out of the territory of Huanglong Cottage, if you dare to step in half a step again, don't blame me for being unkind to you. ”

"Get out!"

"Get out of here!"

"Roll as far as you want!"

Several leaders of the Huanglong Cottage were furious together.

Even Xue Hongqi couldn't help but wave the scimitar in his hand, and shouted: "Get out of your eggs." ”

In the rivers and lakes, there is a set of standards that are completely different from those of the court, burning, killing and looting is actually not a big crime in the eyes of the people in the rivers and lakes, and it is not a great bad thing to be abducted and deceived. But there is only one thing that cannot be tolerated, and that is - betraying your brother!

(To be continued)