The turmoil in the city quickly subsided, and after Zhu Jun entered the city, he maintained order while extinguishing fires and saving people. The rebellious people were gathered together by the Zhu army, and those who were willing to join the Zhu army were all included in the army. Zhu Yuanzhang knows that when the chaotic people are excited now, since they want to join the gang, no matter who they are, they have to accept it, if they reject a few people, it will cause other people to cower and refuse to join the army, which will hinder the expansion of his army. Those who are not suitable can be easily solved by just finding an excuse to go out of the army, or distributing fields for them to farm. As for those who are suitable, they can be left behind for a long time to enhance the combat effectiveness of the army.

Interestingly, not only the rebels asked to join, but also many wealthy merchants, squires, and even officials of the imperial court also came to ask for joining, they were frightened in that chaos, seeing the black-hearted rice merchants being killed all over the place by the rioters, other rich people all felt cold in their hearts, thinking about it, the safest thing is to be a thief, as long as you follow the thief, you will no longer be disturbed by the chaos people, even if you want to break some money, at least your life can be saved.

So there was a crowd in front of the Qin Palace, and many rich people ordered the servants at home to carry large bags and small bags, large bags and small bags, and the bags were full of gold, silver and jewelry, and transported them to the Qin Palace. If the imperial court orders them to fund to help suppress bandits, they will not spit out, and will use the relationship between the DPRK and China to intercede in many ways, and use the huge bureaucratic system to contain the decree in order to protect themselves. But when the city was destroyed, all the gold, silver and jewels they refused to hand over to the court were moved to the thieves' homes......

In the final analysis, this is because the court has to talk about a charter when doing things, and you can't kill the rich indiscriminately and rob wealth, but thieves have no taboos in doing things, if you don't give it to me, I will kill your whole family and rob you of your gold and silver. The rich have one face in the face of the court, and another face in the face of thieves, how sad.

Zhu Yuanzhang knows very well how such a situation is caused, and it is a class issue to make it clear. If the imperial court hadn't tolerated these rich people like this. Rather, they were managed on the same footing as the ordinary poor, taxed as they were, and were not given privileges, and they would not be what they are today. So. The system of the state is very important. In the future when he founded the country. It is necessary to eliminate such class differences as much as possible, so that everyone is equal before the law, regardless of whether they are rich or poor. It is difficult to achieve this goal by everyone in dealing with foreign enemies, but we must work towards this goal step by step.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not take all the wealth handed over by the rich, he did not come to Xi'an to rob, to govern the huge territory he has now built, it is not enough to rely on the mud legs, and it is not enough to rely on Li Qingshui and Li Chujiu, two or three literate people, he needs these rich people to contribute, and he needs intellectuals.

If he put on a robbery and accepted the gold, silver and jewels that these rich men had come in, it would be difficult to collect their hearts in the future. If these guys go against him and don't do anything, he will rely on a group of mud-legged people to govern southern Shaanxi, and he will definitely make this hard-won territory worse and worse. As a result, there is no difference from Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others.

In the last life, after Li Zicheng conquered Beijing, why was he quickly defeated? In fact, it was because he failed to win the hearts of the rich, the warlords, gentry, and wealthy families led by Wu Sangui all opposed him, how could his Dashun Empire be peaceful? Once Shanhaiguan was defeated, it was a complete defeat, and it could no longer be turned over. If he had understood the truth of accepting it when he saw it, and had accepted Wu Sangui's heart, and then accepted the hearts of the rich people all over the world, history would have been different.

Zhu Yuanzhang cautiously received these wealthy people who came to donate their property, first counted their family property, and then calculated according to their financial resources, collected a year's tax, and let them take the excess gold and silver home by themselves, without having to hand it over, so that they could do so. The hearts of the rich people in the city hanging in the air fell to the ground, they walked out of the Qin Palace, they couldn't help but feel deeply happy, and thought that after the city was broken, the family would be ruined, but I didn't expect Baishui Zhu Ba to be a kind-hearted person, and he collected taxes for two seasons a year without hesitation, which can be regarded as an unexpected joy for the rich, and many people thought in their hearts: Such a thief is rare, if he surrenders to such a thief, it is better than making trouble with him.

On this day, as soon as Zhu Yuanzhang sent away a cloth merchant, he heard a veteran from Baishui come in and report: "Ma Zhixiong is here." ”

After a while, I saw Ma Zhixiong walking in with his knifemen, each of these knifemen carried a big bag, it seemed that the bag was very heavy, and when they walked into the carrying hall, the knifemen were so tired that they hurriedly put the bag on the ground. Ma Zhixiong opened the bag to show Zhu Yuanzhang, only to see that the bag was full of silver ingots, no wonder the knife hands were out of breath, and whoever carried hundreds of catties of silver across a few streets would be as tired as a dog.

Ma Zhixiong said with some trepidation: "This silver was earned by selling grain before the city was broken, and now it is all dedicated to the king, and the Ma family does not even have a tael in private." ”

Because before the city was broken, the price of grain had risen to five taels of silver a bucket, fifty taels of silver a stone, the price was really not terrifying, the Ma family really made a fortune, these silver ingots are all from selling grain for more than half a year, because the Ma family finally donated a lot of grain, so the income is not the most, there are a few rice merchants who earn more than the Ma family. However, those rice merchants are now ruined and wiped out by the chaotic people, and a large number of burned gold and silver ingots melted into a ball in the mansion after the burndown, which were all taken away by the Zhu soldiers. Later, Zhu Jun smashed the gold and silver and distributed it to the rebels who helped Zhu Jun break the city.

Where does Ma Zhixiong dare to hide these black-hearted gold and silver in this situation? If it weren't for the fact that the Ma family had suffered from the White Water Rebellion, they had been prepared and trained a group of swordsmen to protect the family and the courtyard, and now he would have turned into a corpse.

This kind of black-hearted silver, Zhu Yuanzhang wants to collect it, taking advantage of the famine in the city to raise the price of grain, this kind of behavior is not to collect taxes to forgive, taking away these ill-gotten gains is the right thing to do, he waved his hand and asked the soldiers to move the silver aside, and then said to Ma Zhixiong: "I still have something to do with you." ”

Ma Zhixiong hurriedly said: "The king has orders, don't dare to disobey." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, Li Chujiu walked over from the side, and handed over a list to Ma Zhixiong, it turned out that the list was a batch of taro, which was stored in the warehouses of several counties, and all of them were added together to hundreds of thousands of catties, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "I will hand over these grains to you to manage, you change Ma'an Mi Xing to Xi'an Grain Bank, even if it is my Zhu Jun's official grain store, these taro are the capital of the grain store, you take them and sell them to the people in Xi'an City, the price...... Twenty pennies a catty, not to sell more. ”

Ma Zhixiong was secretly shocked in his heart: government-run grain store? Isn't that? I think it's almost the same as a thief running a grain store, but in other words, a thief running a grain store is also strange.

He was amazed in his heart, and couldn't help but ask, "King, what is your purpose in selling grain at such a low price?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said seriously: "Although Xi'an has changed its owner, the situation of food shortage has not improved, in a few days, some powerful guys will transport grain from other places, once it is sold, it will be a sky-high price, the people of Xi'an still can't buy cheap grain under my management, won't they come against me again?" Therefore, I will set up a grain store and sell grain at a low price, and those guys who want to make a lot of money by selling grain will not be able to sell it if it is more expensive than my government-run grain store, so they will have to follow me to set the price before they can get rid of the goods......"

In fact, he only needs to promulgate a grain price standard and order the rich to do so, and he can also control grain prices, but in this way, it may also lead to instability in the city, and the rich people will not be willing to dump grain if they do not do well, and the situation of food shortage in Xi'an will not be improved. Therefore, he adopted the method of competition between state-owned enterprises and private enterprises to stabilize grain prices, without leaving a trace, and at the same time allowing the people to get benefits.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Ma Zhixiong was a powerful businessman, and it was much more reliable to have him to help him sit in the government-run grain store than to find another person. Ma Zhixiong also thought in his heart: If I climb Zhu Ba and help him run an official-run grain business, it will also be a good way to settle down, better than being afraid of being killed by him.

He hurriedly saluted Zhu Yuanzhang and accepted the matter.

Zhu Yuanzhang also said: "In the summer and autumn in the future, the government-run grain store will buy grain from the people at the official price, and then establish chain stores throughout southern Shaanxi, all of which will be sold at a unified price, and these things will be handled by you." ”

Ma Zhixiong promised, just thinking in his heart: Can you still occupy southern Shaanxi for a lifetime? What kind of chain store? As soon as the officers and soldiers come, you have to flee again. Thinking of this, he suddenly changed his mind again: My third sister didn't know where to flee, Du Shan killed the second brother, and he was afraid that I would scold him, so he ran away? I'm not an unreasonable person, if I explain the reason for killing my second brother, I may not be able to do anything to them, I think it's probably the second brother who is wrong.

Just thinking about it, Ma Xiaotian rushed in from outside the hall and said hurriedly: "Brother Zhu, we can't find the third miss of the Ma family and her son-in-law Du Shan, so we have to draw a portrait and ask people in the city, but it is really evil, no one in the city knows where they went, and after looking for a whole few days, I finally found a little clue, there is a little girl who saw the portrait of the third miss of the Ma family and Du Shan, her face was different, and we invited her over......"

When Ma Zhixiong heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, and an eager expression appeared on his face, wanting to know the news of the third sister and brother-in-law.

Zhu Yuanzhang heard a little news, and was slightly relieved in his heart, but his face did not move at all, and he did not see any joy, as if that person had nothing to do with him, he waved his hand and said, "Bring it in, I'll ask a few words." (To be continued.) )