Chapter 255: Emperor Daxing's edict

"There are 836,549 households registered in the whole government of Suzhou, and there are still 1,370,000 taels of silver in the treasury, and 400,000 stones of grain have not been escorted;

Also..."

Chen Cao listened to Huang Chunyao's careful report, and then nodded with satisfaction, but it is absolutely impossible to clear the whole territory of Suzhou without a month.

"Those who resist stubbornly will have all their property confiscated, and those who surrender honestly will not move their property and wait for a resolution;"

Chen Cao said and drew a few strokes on the official document, and then looked up at Huang Chunyao: "What about those wealthy gentry who were arrested?" ”

"I haven't eaten or drunk for two days, and now everyone is like dead."

"Let's go," Chen Cao stood up: "Set up a banquet to entertain these people..."

The governor's yamen could not set up more than fifty tables, so the banquet of these fifty tables was placed in the military camp of the governor and the standard soldiers.

"Why, the traitorous ministers also poisoned me?"

Chen Cao had just stood on the platform, but under the quiet scene, such an ugly sound was inappropriate.

Zhao Xin was about to have a seizure, but Chen Cao coughed, then approached the stage, looked at the old guy who spoke, and asked with a polite smile: "I don't know how the old gentleman's mansion is honored?" ”

"The old man Zhang Shihuang, the second year of Wanli, the member of the household department in Nanjing, has been in office for 12 years now."

Chen Cao suddenly realized: "Oh, I don't know if it's Lord Zhang in person, disrespectful and disrespectful." ”

Zhang Shihuang saw Chen Cao's appearance, and suddenly a look of leaning on the old man appeared: "Hmph... Don't dare to be disrespectful, you Liangguo Gong eats the king's Lu, but you don't know how to be loyal to the king, you actually rebel and rebel, the old man is starving to death, and he will never be with you. ”

"I don't know what the old thing is..."

Zhao Xin couldn't help but scold...

How do you know that Zhang Shihuang saw Zhao Xin dressed as a brocade guard, so he mocked: "Hmph, you treacherous person, now that the saint has laid off the factory guard, you still dare to wear this dog skin to show off your might..."

Zhao Xin's face was flushed when he was scolded by Zhang Shihuang, when did he receive such anger, he was about to have a seizure immediately, but Zhang Shihuang scolded him for a long time, and Chen Cao in front of him didn't say anything to refute it, and Zhao Xin, who knew that it was powerful, tried his best to suppress this anger.

Chen Cao turned his head and glanced at the red-faced Zhao Xin, and said with a smile: "You guy, let an old man who has no power and no power say a few words and is so unbreathable, how can you do big things in the future?" ”

Seeing the appearance of his father-in-law, Zhao Xin suddenly felt as if he had really lost his temper, and his face turned blue in an instant, and he arched his hand and said, "My subordinates know that they are wrong..."

Zhang Shihuang is quite proud, he is over seventy years old, and he was killed by Chen Cao as an old bone, and he is also a person who has left a name in history, and this kind of person agrees in his heart that a traitor like Chen Cao under the banner of 'Qingjun side' will not succeed.

The reason is simply that now is not the time for the founding of the country.

After Chen Cao finished teaching Zhao Xin, he turned to look at Zhang Shihuang who was close to the audience, and then said with a smile: "Lord Zhang taught a lesson, but Lord Zhang doesn't know what his situation is?" ”

Zhang Shihuang sneered: "Haha, if the old man is afraid of death, why should he speak out to argue with you?" You group of national thieves, under the banner of 'Qing Jun's side', in addition to leaving an infamy in the history books, after the defeat of the army, the nine clans will definitely be wiped out, and you will be punished with a thousand knives..."

I don't know if it's because Chen Cao has been reluctant to respond to Zhang Shihuang's scolding, and those dissident people sitting at the table also think that Chen Cao is a rat trap, so they simply echo it.

Zhang Cai's identity is not simple, he is a fellow villager with Zhang Pu, and he is also one of the leaders of the Restoration Society, the only difference is that although Zhang Pu is from a family of officials, it is just a partial house, and he naturally cannot be compared with his fellow villager Zhang Cai in terms of financial resources.

In addition, Zhang Cai was still a person, and before he was a jinshi, he was favored by Yang Weizhi and became his disciple, and was promoted to the left senator in the governor's yamen, responsible for the government affairs of Changzhou County and other places.

Coincidentally, Zhang Cai was the captured Changzhou official, and at this moment, listening to Zhang Shihuang's loud scolding, the young man's blood was suddenly stimulated, he stood up, and shouted: "Traitor, you read the sage book in vain, but you still know etiquette, righteousness and shame?" ”

Chen Cao looked at Zhang Cai who got up in the middle of the banquet with interest, so he asked people to move the stool, crossed Erlang's legs and listened to Zhang Cai's high-pitched scolding, and drank two sips of tea from time to time, as if listening to a play.

However, Chen Cao really admires these readers, the theory of governing the country is at least ninety-nine points, but the practical operation is not even ten points, let alone the grid, the scolding words are all allusions, without a single dirty word, and there is no repetition.

After a while, everyone in the audience found a problem, no matter how ugly Zhang Cai's scolding was, the protagonists on the stage were all smiling, and they nodded in agreement from time to time, and after a long time, they found out that the maid who served the food came, looking at the table full of delicacies, these hundreds of people found an important problem.

It has been two days since they were 'invited' to come to the governor's yamen, and hundreds of people have not eaten or drunk in the governor's yamen for the past two days, and no matter how much they shout and scold, no one will pay attention.

The bold wanted to go out, but was found that the door was full of soldiers, and he couldn't get out at all.

The stomach is empty, no matter how good your eloquence is, there is only one result in the face, that is, eating, and the Five Organs Temple will not care if its master is only eight buckets.

It was Zhang Shihuang who saw the wine and food on the table, and the scolding gradually became quieter, and even sat at the table in vain, looking at the things on the table and swallowing saliva.

If it weren't for the fact that there was a soldier of the Dingwu Army standing at each table, maybe these hungry intellectuals would have fought and grabbed it.

Zhang Cai felt that his meteor fist had all smashed on the cotton, because the people on the stage not only did not scold him, but even began to eat.

"Hey, don't stop, the biggest benefit of my father is to accept words, never shy away from illness and avoid medical treatment, you scold, this father is hungry, eat some first, but how can this stomach listen to you scold?"

It seems to make sense to say it, Zhang Cai is also hungry, not only that, but also a little dry mouth, although it is only June now, but Jiangnan has begun summer at the moment, less than three dogs, the sun in the sky still shines on these hundreds of people sweating.

Without the table guards hearing the order, this group of people wanted to drink wine and eat meat, and it was absolutely impossible.

Slowly, the echo was gone, and the main attacker Zhang Cai and the assistant Zhang Shihuang also died down, and sat at the table one by one, looking at the food on the table, their eyes lit up.

"Isn't that new?"

Chen Cao was holding a roast leg of lamb in his hand, sprinkled with chili powder and pepper, under the mixture of oil and salt, the fragrance was fragrant, and Huang Chunyao and Zhao Xin on the stage had one, and they were eating one by one.

Chen Cao squatted on the side of the stage, although he was sweating profusely, but under the backdrop of eating, these sweats were nothing.

"Is it fragrant?"

Chen Cao tore off a piece of meat and chewed it slowly, asking a middle-aged man in front of him by the way.

The man swallowed hard, then nodded involuntarily.

"Hahaha..."

Chen Cao laughed after swallowing the meat: "A group of fools, my father still thinks that you have a lot of ambition, but you also bow your head in front of this food, Lord Zhang, why don't you scold?" Then scold, this duke has time, within this month, you can scold as much as you want, and wait until Bengong's army takes the entire Suzhou Mansion, at that time the wood has been completed, and you and others are rebellious people. ”

At this time, no one spoke, even Zhang Shihuang and Zhang Cai shut up.

"Don't scold you anymore, when will you be able to eat, when will you learn to be obedient, and my father will talk to you face-to-face."

Saying that, Chen Cao stood up and asked people to hold an umbrella to build a veranda, and everyone walked into the veranda and ignored the hundreds of people.

One of the middle-aged gentlemen was so hungry that he had the courage to reach out and take a piece of smoked goose on the table, but he was slapped down by the Dingwu sergeant guarding the table, and after several slaps, he knocked out three of the gentry's teeth.

Suddenly a wail rang out.

I only heard the soldier say: "Before the grandfather spoke, he sat honestly in his place, if his hands and feet were not clean and he took the food on the table, the end would not be as simple as losing a few teeth;

If anyone can't help but take the initiative to beg for death, he should quickly inform him, so that I can save food for the Dingwu army. ”

The soldier's vicious words frightened the people at the same table, so much so that hundreds of people sat at the table and watched the table full of eating and drooling, and they didn't dare to take it again.

After Chen Cao woke up, he found that it was already evening, and he hadn't slept well once since he took Suzhou in the past two days.

"Hmm..."

Chen Cao stretched, then stared out of the veranda and found that hundreds of people were no longer powerless, especially the old man.

At this time, Chen Cao moved his shins, and felt that the whole person was comfortable for a long time: "What's the matter, all of you who are loyal to the country have the heart to die if you serve the country?" ”

Among the hundreds of people, there are only more than 200 officials, and the rest are all wealthy gentry and wealthy families in Suzhou.

Merchants have no country, that's not empty words.

Among those officials, if they all say that they will serve the country, they will not be captured by the Dingwu army.

Zhang Cai has the heart to die, but unfortunately he is also hungry, two days and one night, he really has no strength.

"In accordance with the edict of Emperor Daxing..."

It was not an ordinary person who spoke, but Wei Zhongxian, who came with the army, and the eunuch spoke sharply and tightly, and normal people knew that the origin of this person was not simple when they heard it.

"Our family Wei Zhongxian..."

As soon as these words came out, hundreds of people were shocked, nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian...

Everyone was shocked and speechless, but when they saw Wei Zhongxian holding the Yellow Silk Holy Decree, he was serious: "There is an edict from Emperor Daxing here, and you still don't kneel down to receive the decree?" ”