Mingshi

Chapter 1309 Surrender
King Jing is really not a coward, when he heard that Luo Xin was coming, he didn't make a gesture of pretending not to see him. He knew that whether he would see Luo Xin at this time was no longer up to him.If he dared not see him, Luo Xin would dare to barge in. Didn't he see Yu Dayou leading his troops in the prefect's yamen not far away?
Didn't you see that Luo Xin brought a hundred soldiers from Yu Dayou?

He was just a little anxious, why didn't the housekeeper come back with three hundred dead soldiers?

Luo Xin was led, and walked inwards along the bluestone road of the palace, followed by ten servants and ten Yu Dayou's men behind him.The rest stayed in the front garden of the palace.King Jing's people didn't dare to stop Luo Xin from entering with twenty guards. They didn't see those people staring at the tiger, holding the handle of the knife at their waist, as if they dared to say a word, and they would immediately draw the knife and chop it off. .

"Lord Luo, I've heard about Daming for a long time, and seeing you today, Sansheng is lucky." King Jing walked down the steps with a friendly smile on his face.

"Luo Xin, I have met the prince." Luo Xin saluted King Jing.

"Hahaha, there is no need to be formal!" King Jing strode forward, grabbed Luo Xin's arm and said, "Please come inside."

"My lord, please!"

Luo Xin also held King Jing's arm with a smile, and the two walked towards the house side by side.The gate was closed, outside the gate twenty people brought by Luo Xin stood on the left, and one hundred guards from Prince Jing's Mansion stood on the right, both sides staring at each other.

inside the room.

There were only King Jing and Luo Xin. After sitting down, King Jing looked at Luo Dao with a smile:
"Lord Luo..."

Luo Xin waved his hand, then took out a stack of papers from the bundle on the table, and handed it to King Jing:

"My lord, take a look first."

King Jing seemed to realize something in his heart, he took the stack of papers with a trembling hand, his eyes fell on the papers, and he suddenly raised his head to look at Luo Xin, with fear in his eyes.Luo Xin said softly:

"My lord, don't panic, take a look first."

King Jing nodded involuntarily, then looked down.Beads of sweat then trickled down from his forehead.

First came the confessions of those bandits, water thieves and horse thieves, and then Wang Haicheng's statement, which described in detail what King Jing had done over the years, and where the dragon robe was placed was clearly written.

King Jing put the paper on the table tremblingly, with a murderous look in his eyes.Luo Xin waved his hand lightly and said:
"My lord, don't get excited. By the way, I forgot to tell you, your three hundred dead soldiers have all been killed. And Yu Dayou's three thousand cavalry are not far away. As soon as the signal is sent here, they will come immediately."

King Jing no longer had his original demeanor at this time, and knelt down on the ground with a plop.

"Lord Luo, Xiao Wang was confused and fell for Wang Haicheng's trick..."

Luo Xin stepped forward to help King Jing up, let him sit on the chair again and said:

"Your Majesty heard some gossip about the prince, so he asked me to come and investigate. The investigators and the final interrogator are all my confidantes, and no one knows. Yu Dayou is only in charge of suppressing bandits, and he should not know things , he doesn't even know."

A look of anticipation appeared on King Jing's face and he said, "Lord Luo, what do you want Xiao Wang to do? As long as you can save Xiao Wang's life."

"It's not difficult to save the life of the prince, and the prince can continue to be your prince in the future, enjoying the glory and wealth. It's just that there is something that the prince needs to cooperate with."

"You said."

Luo Xin took out a few more sheets of paper from the bag and handed them to King Jing:

"Look, my lord."

King Jing took the few sheets of paper and read them quickly, with a relieved look on his face and a bit of heartache at the same time.

It was clearly written on those few pieces of paper that he was asked to hand over the occupied farmland, and he also had to take out a lot of food and grass, roughly half of his family's wealth.

Just half and half!

This is money for life, and it can keep the prince's position, what more do you ask for?
In fact, it was Luo Xin who left him a way out. According to Emperor Jiajing's intention, he would not only let the farmland be returned, but also collect rent for a hundred years, and the entire Prince Jing Mansion would go bankrupt.

Can Luo Xin do this?
No!

The south is so turbulent. If he really does this, he will force the southern royal family and aristocratic families to rebel.If the family is ruined and the family is dead, how can you care about other things?

At that time, would Emperor Jiajing admit that he gave the order?
will not!

Then who was scapegoated?
Luo Xin chant!
Therefore, Luo Xin ignored Emperor Jiajing's imperial edicts, and those imperial edicts were only used as a trump card when he really had no other choice.

Luo Xin took out a few more sheets of paper from the bag, and handed them to King Jing, saying:

"These people are the relatives of the emperor who invaded the farmland. Let them hand over the farmland and pay the money and food as a fine for occupying the farmland for so many years. Can you help me complete this matter, my lord?"

After reading these papers, King Jing couldn't help showing a wry smile on his face: "There shouldn't be any problem. You have managed the fire just right. It will hurt us people, but it will allow them to maintain a basic decent life. Don't worry about it in the future." It is said that there is no desire to rebel, even if you want to rebel, you don't have the money.

However, Zhu Yuan is greedy and stingy, so it may be difficult to convince him. "

Luo Xin waved his hand and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, greed will kill them."

"Damn it?" King Jing looked at Luo Xin incredulously, and asked tentatively: "Lord Luo, this Zhu Yuan is just greedy and stingy, but also as timid as a mouse, he didn't..."

"Rebellion?" Luo Xin said lightly.

"En!" King Jing nodded and said, "After all, he is a relative of the emperor..."

"Hehe..." Luo Xin smiled lightly and said, "King Jing, do you know why His Majesty is following you? Do you know why I let you go?"

"why?"

Luo Xin pondered for a moment and said: "I will not admit what I said in this room today when I go out."

"I understand!" Looking at Luo Xin's calm expression, King Jing felt Luo Xin's mystery even more, and even dared to call himself Xiao Wang, and called me instead.However, Luo Xin didn't care about a doomed prince at all, and said lightly:

"Although the Ming Dynasty had the Southern Shibo Department and the Northern Mutual Market, after all, the Shishi Shiji has only been in operation for a few years, while the Northern Mutual Market has just started, and the imperial court's finances can only be said to have just come out of the predicament and are not rich.

However, in the past few years, there have been successive natural disasters, and the country has to spend a lot of money and food for disaster relief every year.Moreover, the extermination of Japanese pirates in the past few years and the war with Goryeo in recent years have left the imperial court financially stretched.Now that the White Lotus Sect and Zhang Daoyuan's rebellion broke out again, the court has no money. "

"No money?"

King Jing was taken aback for a moment, and then his face became very ugly.

The imperial court has no money, so they are eyeing their relatives, do they still have privileges?

Without privileges, what do you do as a relative of the emperor?
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(End of this chapter)