Chen Xiucai's words obviously hit the point, and the people also came back to their senses at this time, this Li Dashuai did not force us to go to Leiden.

"Go back and pack up your belongings, or the Dongyu will come, but it's too late, quick, quick!"

One after another, people ran to their desperate homes, some planned to pack up and follow the Jingbei army to Leiden, some thought about going to the state capital in the south to seek refuge with relatives, and some were preparing to hide in the mountains south of the city.

Fortunately, the Tartars are still in Linqing, and there are still hundreds of miles away from Jinan, although the people are afraid, but there are officials in the city to maintain order, except for more than a dozen ruffians who have made trouble by making trouble, but there is no chaos.

The people went home to clean up, but there was a long queue in front of the yamen of the governor of Shandong, not far from Daming Lake.

In addition to those rich gentry who live outside the city, those gentry with heads and faces in the city are here, if you don't come, you can't do it, this Leiden general soldier is a murderous lord who doesn't blink, only a few days after entering Jinan, he broke through the mansion of King De, and it is said that he also killed several clansmen.

The gentry are all discerning, Li Dashuai invited us to a banquet, naturally there is no reason to go empty-handed, the gentry who came came with big bags and small bags, prepared heavy gifts and lined up outside the mansion.

Li Bangjie, who has recruited 600 warriors, has been promoted to the commander of Li Xingzhi's personal army, and while the gentry are giving generous gifts to the commander-in-chief, they naturally do not forget to give a little heart to the commander-in-chief.

After receiving the "heart" of Kong Wenming, the head of the gentry in the city, Li Bangjie brought Kong Wenming to the general army of Leiden.

Without waiting for General Layden to speak, Kong Wenming took out a big red gold paper from his sleeve pocket and presented it respectfully.

Li Xingzhi frowned, flipped through the paper casually, glanced at the gifts on it, suddenly raised a smile on his face, raised his hand slightly, and said to Kong Wenming: "Mr. Kong, why bother to spend money, this handsome has been busy with official business since he arrived in Jinan, and today he has also stolen half a day of leisure, so he invited you to drink together." ”

"The handsome is polite, on the day I heard that Li Dashuai, who captured the king of Tartar, came to Jinan, and I have long wanted to see the tiger power of the handsome, but the handsome is busy with official business, where do you dare to disturb the handsome, today the handsome is invited, and our villagers in Jinan are also very honored!"

Confucius civilization is a side branch of the Confucian family in Qubu, relying on the reputation of the sages and saints, in this Jinan city is invincible, according to Li Youcai's report, in addition to the Dewang Mansion in this Jinan City, one-third of the industry is the Confucian family.

This time Li Xingzhi feasted the gentry of Jinan, Kong Wenming moved his mind, now the world is difficult, and he can't figure out the details of this marshal who dares to move the palace of De, so he prepared a heavy gift of eight thousand taels of silver, to see the attitude of the general soldier of Leiden towards the gentry.

"Mr. Kong has a good reputation, Ben Shuai has also studied for two years, and he can be regarded as a saint's son, and he also invited Mr. Kong to serve tea in the flower hall, and Ben Shuai will come to talk to Mr. later."

Li Xingzhi, who received a heavy gift, was obviously in a good mood, and the more he looked at Kong Wenming, the more pleasing he became.

Listening to Li Youcai's singing and listening to the gentry's compliments, Li Xingzhi's face became a flower, and he also put down the shelf, whether it was the officials or the gentry of Jinan Mansion, they all greeted a few words, so that the gentry were like a spring breeze, and everyone was bent by the demeanor of the commander-in-chief.

After all the gentry arrived, Li Xingzhi ordered to go down to the banquet, and I have to say that the chef's skills in the governor's yamen were really good, and after only a short while, the dishes were served like flowing water.

Li Xingzhi raised his glass and said a few words to the officials and gentry attending the meeting, although it was a symbolic polite phrase, but it was still praised by all the gentry.

At the banquet, the gentry's performance was naturally very regular, even the toast was also a literary crepe.

They all came with a purpose, just to see what Li Dashuai was up to, but Li Xingzhi didn't speak, and they didn't want to talk nonsense.

The generals and officers of the Jingbei Army who came to the banquet did not have so many fancy intestines, they were all arranged in the lobby, and a few glasses of wine were eaten.

"Five horses, six, six, six!"

"Brother Li lost, it's almost dry, it's done."

"Come, brother, fill it up for you."

The noise in the lobby obviously caused the displeasure of Li Dashuai, who was pushing cups and changing lamps with the gentry in the flower hall behind the hall.

"Close the door to Ben Shuai!"

Li Xingzhi frowned, drank at the two maids who were waiting at the door of the flower hall, and then drank the wine in the cup in one gulp.

The gentry also knew that Li Xingzhi had something to say, so they put down the dishes and chopsticks one by one, and raised their eyes to look at the general soldier Leyden who was frowning.

"Ahem...... Cough! Li Xingzhi cleared his throat, looked around at the gentry in the flower hall, and sighed: "Dongyu has entered Kou Gyeonggi, and now that the soldiers have arrived in Linqing, I think you must have heard of it!" ”

The gentry, you look at me, I look at you, knowing that Li Xingzhi is talking about the right topic, and they are sitting in danger one by one.

Seeing that all the rich gentry did not speak, Li Xingzhi said to himself: "You are all the townsmen of Jinan, the people with heads and faces in Shandong, the heart of benevolence and righteousness, even the commander has heard of it in Beijing. ”

Kong Wenming was shocked, he is also a human spirit, the so-called banquet is not a good banquet, before coming to the governor's yamen, he knew that this Li Dashuai must be asking the rich gentry of Jinan to donate money and grain.

"Li Dashuai, over the years, there has been a drought every year, and the small people are not able to make ends meet, but the small people are from the Confucian family, and they have learned the way of the saints since they were young, so they naturally will not watch the people in the township suffer, and the small people are willing to donate 30,000 taels of money and food for the big marshal to call."

Li Xingzhi was noncommittal, and looked at the rest of the gentry.

Seeing Kong Wenming taking the lead, the gentry in the flower hall stood up one after another to express their attitudes, some three thousand taels, some five thousand taels.

Huang Wenchang, the chief soldier of Baoding who attended the meeting, listened to it straightly, and secretly thought in his heart, when Dongyu retired from the army, he returned to Baoding, and he also asked his mother to train a few thousand troops, just for this meal, Li Xingzhi, who was killed by the day, got 150,000 taels of money and food.

After the gentry finished speaking, they raised their eyes to look at Li Xingzhi one by one, and scolded their mothers in their hearts, Yan Jizu They are greedy, but they are not as rude as you, they just ask for it!

"It's not enough, Ben Shuai wants 600,000 taels of money and grain, of course, ploughing cattle, craftsmen, gunpowder, iron, these things can be used as silver collateral, more than 100,000 people in Jinan have settled in Laiden, Ben Shuai can't starve them!"

"Ahh

600,000 taels of silver, why don't you grab it, is it easy for us to save some belongings? The gentry exclaimed.

Li Xingzhi said: "Everyone, Ben Shuai doesn't take your money and grain in vain, when we arrive in Leiden, Ben Shuai will build a sailor, those people in the south eat the proceeds of shipping, one by one rich flowing oil, why can we only eat the silver of Caoyun?" ”

"Open the sea?"

Kong Wenming was shocked, and the gentry in Jinan were also shocked, who didn't know those gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, which one of them relied on shipping to make money.