I am the king of the dead

Chapter 232 They Are Always Closely Together

Looking at Tang Yunyan's face, Zhu Qiyu knew that this girl might have misunderstood, and he didn't intend to do anything out of the ordinary.

He just wanted her to stay for a while and ask the story behind the folk music she sang.

But Tang Yunyan looked shy and full of affection.

Zhu Qiyu motioned Tang Yunyan to sit down and asked about folk music.

This piece of folk music is not from the north, but from the Susong area, Suzhou Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture, where heavy taxes and heavy taxes were imposed in the Ming Dynasty. The heavy taxes and heavy taxes in these two places did not happen overnight, but were formed after the Northern Song Dynasty. .

Productivity is one aspect, and Susong area has three crops a year, and mature development is another aspect.

"I often hear courtiers and common people talk about rent-seeking. What is the specific method of pursuing rent?" Zhu Qiyu had certain psychological expectations for the word "rent-seeking". Just the tone of panic.

Tang Yunyan happened to be singing today, so Zhu Qiyu naturally wanted to ask.

Tang Yunyan knew that His Majesty was asking about a serious matter, so she put away those fantasies that made people run amok, and seriously talked about the word rent-chasing.

Zhu Qiyu listened in a daze to Tang Yunyan talking about the terrible rent-chasing by Jin Gentlemen.

At the Salt and Iron Conference, some courtiers would say that gentry were called great benevolent people in the countryside, and some gentry advocated lenient treatment of servants and opposed treating them too harshly.

Among some family instructions, most of them are how to repair bridges and repair roads, reduce or exempt land rent, reduce recovery, distribute grain in disaster years, build ditches, etc.

Zhu Qiyu had seen those family precepts, such as the family precepts in "Mr. Tongan Lin Ciya's Collected Works", almost all of them said similar words, but he didn't quite believe it.

From Tang Yunyan's words, Zhu Qiyu found that these words were really unbelievable.

Because in Daming, chasing rent has become a common phenomenon in almost all places.

The great benevolent people have indeed cultivated virtue. They handed over these rent-chasing matters to the local rogues and bandits.

Every summer and autumn harvest, they would go to the countryside to chase the rent and even break into the house, looting the inside and outside of the granary, and even forcing the people to hand over their children to pay off the rent.

These children survived to be the servants of the powerful families. The girls, who are attractive, will be sent to various private prostitution halls, raised as lean horses, and sold everywhere.

The skinny horses, the tooth lords and the toothmaids, bought young girls from poor families at a low price, and then sold them at a high price after they were raised. Businessmen bought skinny horses at a low price, fattened them up, and then sold them at a high price.

How to raise?
Playing the piano and blowing the flute, reciting poems and writing calligraphy, painting Go, playing Shuanglu, wiping dominoes, and doing all kinds of obscenity.

Not everyone can marry these skinny horses. Once they are not selected, they will be sent to the fireworks and willow alley when they are a little older and in their 20s. Take care, there is at most one straw mat behind death.

Zhu Qiyu naturally knew about the thin horse in Yangzhou, and in order to prevent these little girls from escaping, they specially bound their feet to raise three-inch golden lotus feet. How could they run?
But he had no idea that things had gotten so serious.

Zhu Qiyu deeply knows that the emperor is a symbol that is as close to the heavens, and the moment he becomes the emperor, he is destined to leave the ground and cannot understand the feelings of the people.

He has always had only one criterion, that is, when these illegal things reach the ears of the emperor, the scale is already extremely large, otherwise he would never see or hear them.

Zhu Qiyu exhaled forcefully.

"Your Majesty's concubine is a woman, and I have only heard about these things." Tang Yunyan bowed her body and said with a smile: "The concubine will leave."

Tang Yunyan only thought it was a rumor and shared it with His Majesty, so she left Huae Pavilion.

Li Xi'er looked at His Majesty who was lost in thought, but shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, you know why they are so rampant? The courtiers and concubines have heard about this in the folks, and every time such a thing comes, they will put up a list saying: The emperor chooses concubines and maids to enter the palace." Palace, spreading gossip everywhere."

"So far, they have robbed other people's daughters and children, and pushed them all on His Majesty's head."

"It's the so-called false Taoism that has always been like this. In ancient times, good things belong to the king, and mistakes belong to oneself. Today's Taoism is that if things go wrong, it belongs to the king, and good things belong to oneself."

"Father didn't believe it. He came to Beijing from the border. After the battle of the capital, he did a lecture in the martial arts hall and asked his concubines to choose concubines. Only then did he know that it was not the case."

Zhu Qiyu looked at Li Xi'er in a daze, and sure enough there was something wrong with her studies.

At this moment in Daming, any faults are to be blamed on the emperor.

At that moment, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, any problems would be blamed on the imperial court.

Li Xi'er sighed and said: "The ministers and concubines have heard more than once during the years when they were at the border, but whenever they do something, some officials will hang up an imperial list, mainly with raw and uncommon characters, and the content is very lengthy. Send a clerk to read it out, deliberately avoiding the important ones."

"Not only that, but every few words that are beneficial to them will be publicized, but all unfavorable edicts and edicts will be placed in a corner and no one will care about them."

Zhu Qiyu sneered, Lu Zicai said before that there were not enough samples for medical observation in Daming Imperial Hospital.

Fighting with people is a lot of fun.

Li Xi'er said in a low voice: "Your Majesty is coming, but my concubine doesn't know about it. I haven't bathed and changed clothes yet, so my concubine came after taking a bath in the bathroom."

Zhu Qiyu nodded, sat at the table, and wrote down the things he learned today. Using the name of the emperor to act recklessly, that is arrogance!
It is the heinous crime of treason and treason. Zhu Qiyu felt that it was necessary to send some of them to the imperial hospital, so that the courtiers all over the world would remember them for a long time.

You have to punch hard.

After more than half an hour, Li Xi'er came in, her hair was still a little wet, but she sighed and said helplessly, "If your majesty is busy with state affairs, then..."

As for the latter, Li Xi'er couldn't say anything, if her Majesty came to the Nuan Pavilion, she would still be perfect tomorrow, then she might as well invite her out of the palace to find a nunnery, the ancient Buddha of Qingdeng, and spend her life here.

Li Xi'er looked at her pear-shaped figure, logically speaking, His Majesty should like it.

Zhu Qiyu breathed out, put the piece of paper into his sleeve, and said with a smile: "Today's New Year's Eve, I don't have any business to do. I just wrote it down when I heard you mention it."

"I'm just going to write this down and make a decision after careful consideration."

It is not unreasonable for Zhu Qiyu to remain vigilant against bureaucrats, because once they lose the reins, they will run wild with their feet.

"Your Majesty's ministers and concubines are good at dancing, and dance for the king." Li Xi'er stuck out her tongue and clapped her hands.

Zhu Qiyu was stunned for a moment. Inside the Huae Pavilion, red curtains descended layer upon layer, covering all the window rails of the attic. The dim candlelight came onto the stage, passing through the red paper-covered lanterns and sprinkled on the ground, casting shadows of the lights one by one. , In the attic, there were bursts of pipa sounds, the unique aroma of rouge gouache permeated the air, and the smoke of incense curled up.

This is a long-awaited preparation to attack him, the Great Ming Emperor!
It's hard to guard against!

Li Xi'er set up this set, I'm afraid it took a lot of thought, she has been looking forward to day and night, waiting for His Majesty to come.

The long red palace skirt had already faded away, and she was only wearing a light blue gauze dress, which perfectly complemented her fine figure.

Li Xi'er blushed and clapped her hands, and the musician's music suddenly sounded.

The sound of silk and bamboo rose slowly, and the breeze of Li Xi'er's dance brought up the skirts of her clothes, her white hands like jade, lingering in the air, and the skirt followed her body.

A pair of smoky water eyes, hesitant to speak, are constantly looming in the long sleeves, like a fish swimming among the lotus leaves, or a flying dragon rippling above the white clouds.

The sound of silk and bamboo became more and more urgent, the sleeves were flung open, and the sleeves fluttered and stretched, like water waves rippling in the calyx pavilion, and like countless petals floating in the air.

"Ahem, put on your clothes." Zhu Qiyu pressed his gun tactically. This piece of long cloth and blue gauze was wrapped around his body, which was nothing more than a prop.

Li Xi'er's dance steps stopped for a moment, she stared blankly at His Majesty, and asked dully: "Husband, is your concubine dancing well?"

She has been preparing carefully for this moment, but His Majesty actually let her...put on clothes!
Could it be that in His Majesty's eyes, he is so unsightly?

Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said: "The main reason is that the weather is cold, I'm afraid you're caught by the wind and cold, what strange things are you thinking?"

Only then did Li Xi'er understand that the worry and all kinds of panic on her face disappeared. Instead, she smiled and threw herself into Zhu Qiyu's arms like a swallow falling into a forest, and said in a low voice timidly: "Put it on again, and take it off again." , how troublesome, the bed has already been made."

"Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

Wang Meilin is enthusiastic, Hang Xian is good at cooperating, Tang Yunyan is bold and unrestrained, and Li Xier is a match for chess and will meet a good talent. Unfortunately, Li Xier is a perfect girl after all, so she is naturally unstoppable.

Zhu Qiyu, victory is repayment!

In the early morning of the next day, when Zhu Qiyu led the ministers and workers of the Ming Dynasty to worship, the situation in Fujian was already like sitting on a keg of explosives.

In December of the 13th year of Zhengtong, Ningyang Hou Chen Mao, 72 years old, led [-] Beijing camps and [-] guards to Fujian to counter the rebellion. The great turmoil of millions of people finally has a tendency to subside.

But Chen Mao did not dare to return to Beijing at all, because His Majesty asked him to implement the farm law in Fujian. This farm law has been promoted for more than a year, and the effect is excellent. The people actively organize production. The people live and work in peace and contentment.

However, Chen Mao knew that once His Majesty's farm law was implemented, those gentry who escaped before would find ways to return to the old place and continue to dominate.

His Majesty issued an order to kill the gentry, abandoning the land and abandoning the people. It is already a great favor that His Majesty did not order to attack, but these gentry don't think so.

They wanted to go back to their hometowns. Chen Mao was in charge of Fujian, and [-] soldiers from the old battalion guarded the major passes and main roads to prevent the gentry from returning to their hometowns.

As Yu Qian said, rentiers seem to never unite, but in fact they all have a natural and tacit union, and there is no need to run around to tell each other, echo each other, and communicate with each other.

It looks like a loose piece, but it is tightly and tightly combined!
The reaction to the imperial court was that people kept impeaching Chen Mao, the words became more and more fierce, and the frequency became higher and higher, and there were also those who asked for meritorious service for Chen Mao, praised him to the sky, and then threw him to death!
Countless people are waiting for Chen Mao to leave Fujian and the army to return to Beijing.

Chen Mao recently received a message from someone.

Song Zhang, the former Fujian chief envoy, was escorted back to Fujian. His majesty has confirmed the punishment and made a second investigation. He is convinced that this person should be killed, and he issued an imperial decree to behead him to show the public.

But some people don't want Song Zhang to die.

who?His Majesty's aunt and grandfather Zhao Hui.

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