Who is Luo Guanzhong? Zhang Shicheng's military advisor at the beginning, how did this kind of dictatorship of the Ming Dynasty become the eagle dog of the imperial court?

What does this mean? The Ming Dynasty has not yet entered the tenth year, and even the people around King Zhang have stopped holding on......

What made the big families even more uneasy was that they found that there were two old acquaintances standing next to Luo Guanzhong, Shen Rong and Gu Yuanchen.

Although the two of them are much older, the big families in Jiangnan will not admit their mistakes.

If Luo Guanzhong's appearance is just to make everyone in the audience sigh. The appearance of these two made many people restless.

Shen Rong needless to say, the Shen family's wealthy and rivaling the country's industry was completely divided by these people in the audience.

As for Gu Yuanchen, the big family in Suzhou is known as 'Gu Lu', the Gu family and the Lu family are side by side, and the two families have been married for generations and share weal and woe. Before the Gu family was moved to Fengyang, Gu Yuanchen asked Lu Zhonghe to help dispose of his own property.

He was worried that he would be too bargained for in a hurry, so he asked the Lu family to sell it on his behalf. As a result, the Lu family really didn't let others cheat them, because the Lu family ate all the Gu family's property for nothing......

Lu Zhonghe's abacus is very good, anyway, the Gu family has gone and there is no return...... Even if they had a chance to come back, he would be sure to mess them up...... In that case, why waste money?

He didn't expect that he would meet Gu Yuanchen again on this occasion. When I thought of what I was talking about just now, the first thing the Buddha said after he became enlightened. His face burned like fire, and he longed to find a crack in the ground to get into.

Zhu Zhen seemed to understand Lu Zhonghe's psychology, stared at him with a smile and asked, "Then what does this mean?" ”

"That's it, that's it." Lu Zhonghe didn't dare to raise his head, and said with difficulty: "It's literal - all sentient beings, all of them have the wisdom and virtue of the Buddha, but because of delusion and attachment, they can't attain the Buddha." If you can get rid of delusions, you can become a Buddha even without the guidance of a master......"

"Well, that's a good point." Zhu Zhen gave him a thumbs up, and then swept his eyes over the big families in the audience and said: "This king looks at everyone here, all of them have the wisdom of the future, and everyone can become a Buddha!" ”

"Hehe......" The big ones sneered: "Your Highness has won the prize." ”

"I just don't know you," who knew that he changed his words again: "Can you let go of the delusional attachment in your heart and build a beautiful and harmonious city with this king?" ”

Seeing that His Royal Highness the King of Chu finally pointed to the question, all the big families looked at Lu Zhonghe and Xie Yunzhang.

The latter got up unhurriedly and said: "So that Your Highness knows that we are all people who cultivate and read heirlooms, and we have a few acres of thin fields at home, and we have been engaged in agriculture and mulberry for generations, and we don't know anything about the city and sea trade." ”

"Yes, His Highness told us about the city, which is tantamount to asking for blindness." All the big families chimed in.

"Whether the city is open or closed is a matter decided by the imperial court, and ordinary people like us have no way to put their beaks." Lu Zhonghe also said slowly: "Whether Your Highness is in charge of the City Shipping Division or the Salt Transportation Division, we and other law-abiding and good people will support it, please rest assured that Your Highness can only rest assured." ”

"Hehe, okay, this old man said it really nicely." Zhu Zhen's thick eyebrows were raised, as if suppressing anger, and after a while, he smiled again:

"Actually, legend has it that this laba porridge has an origin, which is said to have been invented by my father. As you know, my father was a great inventor, and he invented many things such as moon cakes, peeling and picking grass, and I don't know if it's true or not.

"But what about this laba porridge, he said it himself. He said that when he was a child, there was a big winter, and the landlord ...... That's right, it's the cow of Liu De's family who lost one. Although he was later recovered, Liu De still locked him in the cowshed and did not let him eat and drink.

"It was freezing at that time, and my father was cold and hungry, and he was dying. Suddenly he found a rat hole in the corner of the cowshed, and he dug it up, and guess what? I actually took out a lot of red beans, rice, and red dates...... There are eight whole grains. My father boiled these things into porridge, and because it was the eighth day of the lunar month, it was named Laba porridge.

"My father said that Liu De cried poor all day long, and only ate one kind of coarse grain in front of outsiders. But he didn't expect that all the food he saved would be stolen by the rats. Of course, the rats didn't eat it, and in the end it cheapened my father. Zhu Zhen said nonchalantly, his sharp gaze swept over everyone:

"You say, what is that Liu De, what is that nest of rats?"

"......" Everyone in the audience looked at each other, and many people didn't know what Lao Liu's words meant.

Even if there is something that understands, he doesn't dare to answer, so he can only pretend to be confused there.

"It seems that you have neither Liu De who doesn't tell the truth, nor rats who are thieves." Zhu Zhen smiled teasingly and asked, "This king is not wrong, right?" ”

"Yes, yes, of course." Everyone nodded their heads busily.

"I'll ask you one last time," Zhu Zhen said word by word, "Are there any maritime merchants among you, or any of you who have business dealings with maritime merchants?" ”

"No, absolutely not." The answers of the big families were categorical.

All right. Zhu Zhen waved his hand, and a soldier came out with a tray.

The big families thought that the food was finally served, but who knew that what was put on the table was a set of pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

"Your Highness, this is ......," they looked at the sixth child in confusion.

"For this king, I hate others for deceiving me above all. Since you say that you are not a maritime businessman, then you should use your words as evidence. Zhu Zhen said lightly: "I will say a word, you write a sentence-"

"I assure that my family is by no means a maritime businessman, and I have no business dealings with maritime merchants, let alone any other collusion. If what you say is not true, you are willing to be severely punished by the law of the country, and you will be punished without complaint! ”

Saying that, his eyes became sharper and sharper, and he said with a piercing heart: "Whoever dares not to write is blatantly deceiving this king, and this king will throw him into this porridge pot and add another treasure to the eight-treasure porridge!" ”

"Write!" The sergeants with the trays shouted in unison.

"Your Highness, this is not appropriate, is it?" Lu Zhonghe protested: "We said that it has nothing to do with maritime business, but it doesn't matter, those who are clear are self-purifying, and those who are turbid are self-turbid, why do we still need to write a guarantee?" This is a humiliation to us! ”

"Bastard thing!" Zhu Zhen said coldly: "You have said three times that you have nothing to do with maritime merchants, but you don't dare to write down your guarantee in black and white, which can only show that you are full of lies and have nothing to do with maritime merchants!" ”

"It's okay with the old man, but I just don't write!" Lu Zhonghe was so angry that he threw away his pen and got up to leave the table.

But he was held down by the shoulders by two sergeants and did not move.

Then Lao Liuyi waved his hand and said, "Throw him into the porridge pot." ”

"You dare?!" Lu Zhonghe was lifted up and screamed with a blank face: "The guilds of the government and the opposition...... I'm going to get you killed! ”

"Even you, are you worthy of the king's life?" Zhu Zhen picked his ears indifferently and said: "It's just to cook you, I will be scolded by my father for a few words at most, and I will be locked up for a few days." What's more, if you provoke this king several times and three times, my royal brothers will testify to me. ”

"......" Lu Zhonghe saw that his head was about to plunge into the porridge pot, and hurriedly screamed: "Don't, I write, I can't write!" ”

ps. I sent it a little earlier today, because there was a dinner in the evening~~~

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