Chapter 57 According to the rules

"So you see, I've worked so hard to keep you from making mistakes."

Li Ruolian drank three glasses of wine, and then changed into the newly delivered flying fish suit next to the table. Then, he took a new pair of boots from Fauber's hand, put them in, and stomped them the ground.

"You don't have to worry about this disgusting matter of sending taxes, I'll deal with it for you. Your Majesty, you can also ask more, you can't be wrong. Let's go. I'm going to spend the night in Liulin Town tonight. ”

"Do you have enough people there?" said this sentence inexplicably, and Zhou Yanru felt that he was weak.

Liulin Town was the last big town to enter Yingtianfu.

Today, almost all the people who are going to go to Beijing to pay additional taxes to the imperial court have gathered here. Tomorrow is the day when they set out to Ying Tianfu in a concentrated manner. The town is not big, and tens of thousands of people are squeezed in, which suddenly makes the entire Liulin Town even more crowded.

In this case, there are still rules for these families.

The young men who were in charge of the coolies could not even enter the town, so they had to push the carts full of silver, grain, and cloth together, as usual, and build themselves a place to spend the night.

"Who told you to light a fire here?" A butler-like man with a sharp-beaked monkey cheek rushed up and kicked out the campfire that several coolies were lighting under the cart with a few kicks.

"The owner, I haven't drunk hot water for a day." The honest-looking coolie pulled the steamed bun from the ashes and wanted to argue a few words.

"Do you die if you don't drink hot water? If you burn the taxes that the old man gave to His Majesty the Emperor, you can see how many heads you have enough to cut off. You just say that the old man is kind-hearted, and he can't see you people suffering. But those emperors are good friends? It's just one or two pieces of silver missing, a foot of cloth, and you just wait. ”

The butler of the sharp-beaked monkey's cheeks spitted out like rain.

Soon, a few people who looked like old men walked over, accompanied by a few scholars who were shaking folding fans.

"Hou Fang, I still have to do a few more poems." The old man's mouth is full of wine, and there is only one small restaurant in this town. Even so, because he is a small family, even this kind of restaurant can't take his turn.

"Look, my host, tomorrow the ropes that hang on the cart will be settled. According to the plan, we should be the first to enter Yingtianfu. ”

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"Okay, make your shoulders thicker, this rope is very tight."

The butler pouted, this rope is a pretending silk, how can you let your shoulders be pulled in. But he still said to the woman who was in charge of cleaning and sprinkling next to him:

"Cao Laiwang's family, have you heard it, don't hurry up and work!"

At three o'clock the next day, in the midst of the chaotic shouting and drinking, a large group of poor coolies, amid the shouts of the many butlers, began to prepare for departure. The old man and the scholars attached to the old man sat in the carriage and followed behind like a spring. A strange team set off towards Ying Tianfu in such a concentrated manner.

As soon as they left Liulin Town, the old man's carriage was once again blocked under an arched bridge. Li Ruolian sat on a pipe hat chair by the bridge, with a piece of grass in his mouth, and flipped through a stack of thick booklets in his hand. Hundreds of brocade guards stood neatly behind him.

The leader of this group of people, Lu Gongxian, who was already sixty-eight years old, frowned.

However, now every time he passes through a place, he is asked for the people's life, and he who has boasted that he doesn't know who he is, he directly gets out of the car angrily. As soon as he got out of the car, countless soldiers followed him.

"This lord is invited, I will wait for the people of Jiangnan to personally escort the tax to Beijing, and please be able to make things convenient with the people."

Li Ruolian looked up at him, okay, this is not a formation at all, why did the big boss run up directly. As he spoke, he threw the booklet directly onto the chair, stood up and said.

"Jinyiwei supervises the world, but to see the wonders of this country that have not been seen for hundreds of years. However, Jin Yiwei did not know anything. The documents of the court are still here, but I don't know which one can break them down for me. ”

"Oh? There are still a few scholars on the old man's side, but I don't know what doubts the adults have? ”

This document said: The grass people are willing to personally carry the burden and send the taxes to the capital. Don't know if you have one? ”

"Of course, there is." At this time, by Lu Gongxian's side, there were already a lot of masters.

"I am dedicated to the country, as long as Your Majesty is willing, don't say that it is this tax, you just want us to destroy our family and relieve the difficulties, that is also a matter of Your Majesty's words." Lu Gongxian didn't know what this Jinyiwei wanted to do, but he knew very well that the matter had become a matter on the cusp of the Ming Dynasty, even if Jinyiwei came, it was impossible to directly drive them back.

Now if you break the story, you will really become the common enemy of the Jiangnan squire.

Even if you're a brocade guard, what's the matter? We are not afraid of eunuchs.

"I don't know if the adults are blocking the bridge, but you want me to wait for the turnaround?" Lu Gongxian said directly.

"How so? The court is still waiting for your taxes to be paid. How can I persuade you to turn around? ”

"It's just ......"

He smiled and looked Lu Gongxian up and down and said.

"Since you said that you will personally carry the burden, this is clearly written in black and white, you don't want to deceive Your Majesty and the court, right? Compared with making up for this tax, deceiving His Majesty is a serious crime to kill the head. ”

Finally, Lu Gongxian understood the other party's intention. It was originally a written kind word, but the other party grabbed his handle all of a sudden.

However, as long as the other party is more serious, this matter is really unreasonable.

"I don't know the name of the adult? Under the command of Tianfu Jinyiwei, Lord Hu is a friend of the old man......"

"Jin Yiwei commanded Li Ruolian. Hu Siping from Ying Tianfu is there, do you want to ask, is he familiar with you? ”

Lu Gongxian was a little flustered.

"Master Li, you see that this cart is full of children of the old man's clan, and it can't be regarded as deceiving Your Majesty."

"That's easy to do. I also have some household registers here, you might as well call them over, and register which house and which family they are. We immediately got out of the way and escorted all the children of our clan to Beijing. ”

How dare Lu Gongxian. Not to mention his own children, even in his life, there are not many people who do rough work. These are tenants and men who are attached to their own people. If you really leave your name on the household register, you will find these poor people when you look back, and you won't have to turn your family upside down.

"Your Excellency." Lu Gongxian didn't know what to say.

"Your last name." Li Ruolian asked with a smile.

"Lu Gongxian, right?" He turned his head to the thousand households behind him and said.

Lu Gongxian's heart was cold, it seemed that the other party had made his gang very clear.

This Qianhu jumped directly on the car marked with the Lu family in Hangzhou.

"Everyone, the one who escorts and pays taxes for the imperial court is not the children of the Lu family, and the imperial court has a reward of five taels of silver. It is the son of the Lu family, and there is another reward from the imperial court, so everyone can gather here. ”

"Oh!" As soon as the bitter haha heard that there was money to take, they followed Qianhu away. There were only less than twenty children of the Lu family left gathered in front of the five carts.

Regret not at the beginning, in order to create their bitter image, they didn't even ask for horses, they just let these old Li pout their butts and pull the cart.

"Okay, Lu Gongxian, right. Do you want to leave as soon as possible? ”

Li Ruolian dragged Lu Gongxian's hand stiffly, and this time he really knocked him down in front of the cart.

Then he said to Qianhu:

"You see, it's not a rule. Everyone says that our Jinyiwei is unreasonable, but in fact, these are their rumors. If you want to talk about this Daming, the most reasonable thing is our Jinyiwei. When people say that they want to go to Beijing in person, they must go to Beijing in person. If you say that you will arrive in the capital after three months, you must arrive in the capital in three months. Do you understand? ”

"Okay, aren't there more than 70 in the future? I don't care, you check them one by one. Like this of the Lu family. ”

Li Ruolian looked down at Lu Gongxian, who had been put on a rope and followed next to the cart.

"You can't go too slow, can you?"