Jiaohua

Chapter 1020 Who will give in first (one more)
For seven consecutive days, from the morning bell to the evening drum, a large number of fast horses galloped in Mingtai County, Xizhou Prefecture, and Hejing Imperial City, and the Jianwu Gate in the southeast was wide open for this.

After Li Ju came to Hejing, he has never been so sleepy and sleepy like now, he has been in the Yanguang Palace, except for the morning, he never stepped out.

When he was about to be ugly, Li Ju hadn't slept yet, and another team of fast horses rushed to the gate of the palace.This time there were seven people who got off their horses, five of them carried weapons and handed in all the weapons. After a search, they stepped into the imperial city.

The person on duty tonight is Jiang's servant who was newly promoted last year.

Jiang Neishi led them into the Yanguang Hall, where there were also Ninth Prince Li Shou and Minister of Rites Di Zi'an.

Several people entered the inner hall, the first two people, Li Shou, didn't know their names, but they didn't know their faces. They knew that they were the leaders of Tianrongwei, while the other five people were completely unfamiliar faces.

It wasn't until they knelt down and reported their names that Li Shou raised his thick eyebrows, and his gaze fell on the strongest of the five behind him.

Di Zian was also looking at the man.

He called himself Hong Yuanjie, and this name was a warrior who had suddenly risen a few years ago.

Hong Yuanjie is Yun Bozhong's subordinate. In the year of Geng Yin, he was the one who beat back Jidi who had been taken by Tian Dayao.

It is said that in the battle of Pingyu County, he captured 300 heads with one man and one horse.

Emperor Xuanyan personally stepped forward to help him, his eyes brightened and said: "Although I have lived in the deep palace for a long time, I have heard about General Yinlong Qilian for a long time. I never thought that General Hong, you are so young."

"The last general can't afford the word 'dragon', but your majesty is a real dragon!" Hong Yuanjie said loudly.

Xuanyan Emperor Longyan was overjoyed.

Li Shou and Di Zian glanced at each other, then looked back at these people.

Hong Yuanjie is very famous, as famous as Lu Meihui and Bi Ying.

And Bi Ying, who came from Bi Jiajun, was Bi Xiao's cousin.

If you add Bao Suwei, and Li Xiao, who has always been rebellious, there are so many generals under Emperor Xuanyan's command.

It should be a good thing, but Li Shoucai came back from Huazhou, and after the battle with Cao Yijun's attack battalion, his morale has not been boosted yet.

He looked at Hong Yuanjie, and suddenly felt a burst of fear, not for Li Shi, but for himself.

He couldn't even feel motivated to join such a general, and he couldn't feel excited.

Although Hong Yuanjie came late at night, the news spread like wildfire the next day.

The teahouse and wine shop with the fastest news had a large number of articles related to General Yinlong Seventh Serial in the evening of the same day.

There are only a few famous battles of Hong Yuanjie, but after the mouth of storytellers, one hundred thousand flowers can be boasted in various fancy ways.

The alleys spread all over the place, and of course the nobles and celebrities knew about it earlier.

However, Mu Tingyu didn't have much interest in this, and just came back from Guihe. Mu Tingyu was going to sleep well for a few days, and stay in bed for a few days and nights.

But good things are hard to come by, just after Mao o'clock on the second day, the housekeeper came to report that Lu Mingfeng had come.

Mu Tingyu was tired and hard to handle, so he didn't want to pay attention, and asked the housekeeper to call him sick.

What good can Lu Mingfeng do with him now, before, he asked him to use money and food to buy Li Xiao and send troops.

He did so, what more.

Moreover, as he did, Li Xiao also arrived in time, and it turned out that Li's iron cavalry fought with others, and both sides suffered losses.

This pot can't be blamed on him.

Unexpectedly, the housekeeper came back not long after he left.

The door was opened directly, and footsteps came in, Mu Tingyu became irritable for a while, sat up from the bed, and saw Lu Mingfeng and Jia Fei, the head of the Tianrong Guard, stopped five steps away from his door.

Mu Tingyu was startled, then became angry, and shouted in a deep voice, "Commander Lu."

"Master Mu, sleep well." Lu Mingfeng said in a neutral tone.

"Since you know that this son is your son, Commander Lu should at least knock on the door!"

Lu Mingfeng raised his hand lightly, and Jia Fei immediately went to fetch the stool.

Lu Mingfeng sat down in Mu Tingyu's bedroom, looked at Mu Tingyu and said, "Since the eighth day of the first lunar month, the Hu family of General Zhenguo's Mansion has been sitting in front of your gate."

Mu Tingyu swallowed the anger in his chest: "Commander Lu, most of my family's wealth is gone, and that's why I persuaded Li Xiao to send troops, but if he goes late, then Li Shitie..." Mu Tingyu stopped, did not continue, He continued, "What else does Commander Lu want me to do? My shepherd's family is almost ruined now."

"Mingtai County, I need you to go." Lu Mingfeng cut to the chase.

"I've heard about it on the way here," Mu Tingyu smiled. "Didn't Meng Xiaochuan have already gone? Isn't Qian Rian still there? What do you want me to do?"

Lu Mingfeng smiled: "Troubled times are a heavy code. Meng Xiaochuan is good at face. He claims to be a benevolent and righteous man, so he can't be shamed. Qian Ri'an is a waste who likes to flatter and flatter horses and hold grudges. What's the use of Bi Jiajun? Xuanwu Army is a good sword, but What can such weapons do in the hands of mediocre people like Meng Xiaochuan?"

Mu Tingyu's gaze deepened, he didn't expect Lu Mingfeng to completely summarize these people in a few words, and more importantly, he told himself without hesitation.

Lu Mingfeng regards him as one of his own?

Mu Tingyu didn't believe it.

"You have to go to this matter," Lu Mingfeng said lightly, "Mingtai County is not in peace every day, and the emperor is rarely at peace every day. Meng Xiaochuan brought the imperial decree, but it was useless."

Mu Tingyu raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, feeling dizzy.

For Princess Yangping's outrageous actions, the people of Mingtai County should be thankful that they did not rebel.

The emperor punished Princess Yangping severely. It is said that she has been locked in the palace since she came back.Princess Yangping cursed loudly in it every day, and she was going crazy.

But when he turned to deal with Mingtai County, the emperor did not appease him, but suppressed him even more furiously.

The imperial decree brought by Meng Xiaochuan contained a decree that almost drove everyone crazy, and the whole county was heavily taxed.

The entire Mingtai County complained, but what they heard in the past few days was that a few wealthy businessmen from outside were buying a large number of farmers' fields and properties.

The officials turned their heads to deal with these rich businessmen, but after they bought the fields and properties, they immediately took over the tea, caramel and silk that had been sold, and secretly transported them out of Xizhou and Li Gan.

And the fields and workshops that couldn't be moved were thrown over there, no matter what, it was like... just buying and playing.

So now, very few people in the entire Mingtai County are still engaged in farming and production. Now, it seems that Mingtai County has collapsed, and there is no taxation.

This is, determined to fight against the emperor, against the emperor.

"Actually, there are no so-called rich merchants," Lu Mingfeng said calmly, "It's all Mingtai County's own chamber of commerce that is doing this."

Mu Tingyu was puzzled: "Commander Lu is saying that these chambers of commerce will spend a lot of money on their own to support farmers in the entire Mingtai County?"

"I confirm that they are themselves, but there is no direct evidence, they seem to have changed."

"changed?"

"Extremely slippery."

Mu Tingyu still couldn't understand: "But it won't last long, right? They still have to work. If they don't work, they will starve to death?"

"They don't farm, they don't raise silkworms, but they secretly start handicrafts." Lu Mingfeng actually couldn't understand where those handicrafts came from. Death, they will not know it themselves. Right now, they are fighting with the court to see who will give in first."

"As for the emperor, it is impossible for him to give in." Mu Tingyu said thoughtfully.

　Thank you for the reward in April
　　
　
(End of this chapter)