"So, is Li Yuanwai unwilling to give out food?" Liu Hong snorted coldly, and the guard battalion behind him immediately drew a knife.

"You...... As an official of the imperial court, do you dare to be a bandit in broad daylight? Li Jingming was frightened, pointed at Liu Hong and said angrily.

These days, hungry people come to beg every day, and Li Jingming is worried that if he gives rice and grain, more hungry people will surround him, so he has always turned these hungry people away.

The day before yesterday, three or two hungry people blocked the door and refused to leave, so Li Jingming led his family to beat these people out of the way, and one of his legs was discounted.

Knowing that this group of officers and soldiers was not good, Li Jingming thought that the officers and soldiers of this institute were here because of this incident, but he never expected that the young man in front of him, who seemed to be of noble status, had come to grab food.

"Everyone is a reader, how can you talk about robbing a scholar? It's so unsven. Liu Hong gradually knew that this product was just a bad person, so he immediately made a joke.

"In this way, how about how much grain do you have at home, and I will buy it at a price?" Liu Hong gradually said again.

Although he did a lot of robbery, after all, he was all about winning the war, but now he represents the court and Chongzhen, and if he still acts like before, it will damage the credibility of the court.

"I'm sorry, Li's family has no food, even if he has it, he won't sell it!" Seeing that Liu Hong was gradually softened by what he said, Li Jingming thought that the official in front of him would not dare to mess around, and then his words became harder.

"The, you thief bird, don't be ashamed! Believe it or not, Liu Liuzai killed you! The bull mallet on the side had not yet squeaked, but Liu Liu, who was behind the guard camp, couldn't hold back.

He had long been fed up with the oppression of these landlords and rich households, and he didn't hold back for a while when he saw that this guy dared to be so presumptuous in front of the prince.

"Are you that Liu Liu from Fengshan Qingfeng Village?" Li Jingming had never met Liu Hongjian in Yanzhou, but he still knew Liu Liu's name.

Not only did he know that this guy was also worried at night, for fear that he would be raided by this Liu Liu like Confucius's family.

But day and night, I didn't expect this guy to blatantly break into his Li house during the day, Li Jingming was shocked, and this group of officers and soldiers were pretending to be bandits, so he couldn't help but take two steps back.

"Stand down, there's no place for you to talk here!

Li Yuanwai, let's make a price, this king only gives you one chance, don't challenge my patience. Liu Hong gradually retreated, and Liu Liu, the reckless man, said again.

"Since the official has said this, Li is not stingy, four taels of silver and one stone, and sells you for one hundred stones." The strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, Li Jingming glanced at Liu Liu, and knew that today's things could not be good, so he had to give in.

"Four taels? Why don't you grab it? The bull roared.

"Two taels of silver and one stone, except for leaving you some emergency food to survive this year of calamity, the rest of the kings will be requisitioned." Liu Hong gradually waved his hand to signal Niu Da Bang to retreat and gave an ultimatum.

He knew that although the grain was more expensive than usual in the disaster year, it was far from reaching the point of four taels and one stone, and although the imperial court was not short of silver now, this cheap naturally could not be taken by this shameless landlord.

"You ......" Li Jingming was choked and didn't know what to say, but the family had already become frosted eggplants, where did he have half a way.

"Stop talking nonsense and lead the way! Chang Yu, you are responsible for weighing, Liu Liu, you lead people to transport grain. Liu Hong gradually said angrily, he should be a prince like this, which is enough to give Li Jingming face.

If you don't know what to do, I'm afraid it will cause him to break out.

A group of people got the order and went to the backyard of Li's house to carry grain, and soon bags of rice and grain were carried out of the backyard by the homeless.

The homeless people are all smiling, who has not starved to death in the past disaster years, bowed their heads and begged from the landlord and was ridiculed, but now it seems that they have turned over and the serf sang and raised their eyebrows, even if they entered the official prison, it was worth it.

Li Jingming and a group of family members stood in the corner and their hearts were dripping blood, since he can remember, he Li family has been treated like this.

In the past, even in disaster years, the government would never trouble these rich people, and even sent a few officials to guard the gate to prevent the hungry people from disturbing them.

"Li Datou, how's it going? Is there someone from the government? Seeing that the little guy who had just been secretly sent out to report the news slipped over from the back door, Li Jingming said in a low voice with joy on his face.

"Master, the prefect of the cow ......" The little guy looked bitter and stopped.

"What are you talking about, what does the government say?" Li Jingming said angrily, if the government does not come again, his Li family's grain will be pulled out, and looking at this, it is still a matter of whether the silver will be given or not.

What kind of prince does this claim to be, how can he have half a penny, the key is that he has no way at all, if the government doesn't care, who will he go to reason?

"Governor Niu said that he was busy with official business and had no time!" The little guy's words almost choked Li Jingming to death.

This surnamed Niu, when does the old man not honor him during the New Year's holidays, an ungrateful thing! Li Jingming didn't breathe a sigh of anger and fainted.

The grain was moved for half an hour, and watching the rows of panting homeless people coming in and out, Liu Hong's face became deeper and deeper.

A small family in Yanzhou Mansion actually moved out more than 200 stone grain, more than 200 stone, nearly 40,000 catties!

These landlords eat and drink spicy food, and they don't have to pay any land endowments for hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land at home, and they also pinch the necks of the tenants, ride on the heads of the people, and urine, and show off their might.

Is this the benevolence of the reader?

But there is no way, everything is inferior only to read high, this is the case these years, even the people think that the reader should have such treatment, what is the use of shouting and roaring by himself?

The Ming Dynasty has rotted from the roots, and if you want to change this situation, you will definitely not be able to do it overnight.

"My lord, in addition to leaving a thousand catties of grain for this Li house, a total of 218 stones and 70 catties of rice grain were removed." When it was about to get dark, Chang Yu came to report with a sweat.

Liu Hong sighed gradually, ordered someone to take pen and ink to write a receipt in person, stamped it and handed it to Li Jingming, who woke up early and was also sighing, and he went to the political secretary of Shandong to receive the silver taels with this receipt, and then took a group of people out of Li's house.

That night, looking at the long queue of soup kitchens lined up in Yanzhou City, Liu Hong gradually felt heavy.

Shandong and Henan are both provinces with large populations, and there are more than 100,000 people in Yanzhou alone, and 40,000 catties of grain are just a drop in the bucket.

The soup kitchen can only ensure that people do not starve to death, and even if he controls it in this way, it still can't last a few days.

That night, Liu Honggradually thought for a long time in the Yanzhou Mansion, wrote down several letters, as well as many IOUs with blank seals, and sent them to the yamen of the surrounding prefectures and counties on horseback early the next morning.

The letter is also very simple, with the power of the king of Anguo and the order of the envoy, he ordered the governors of all prefectures and counties to cooperate with the Jingying detachment assigned by him to collect the grain of all the gentry families in the area under his jurisdiction from the moment he received the letter.

Except for the food that was left for the gentry to live in, all the gentry were collected, and the government gave porridge twice a day from the time they received the food, and no one was to be wasted or starved to death.

The empty slips that were printed were used to write receipts, and in order to prevent local officials from cheating, each detachment was controlled by his own soldiers.

There is only one task, to let the people of Shandong survive, and for this reason, even if they empty the granaries of the gentry here and are scolded and cursed by the gentry.

In the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, which official still doesn't know the name of the king of Anguo County, this is a master who kills officials and raids his family without blinking, and has obtained Liu Hongji's military order, and the governors of various states and counties dare not slack off and shield at all.

Within a few days, there were long queues of soup kitchens outside the yamen everywhere.

A few days later, the people of the entire Shandong territory knew that the king of Anguo, who had benefited Shanxi, had come to save them, and their families would no longer have to starve to death.

After receiving the porridge, many people did not eat it first, but put the porridge on the ground and kowtowed three times to the rice porridge in the bowl before giving it to the old and young at home.

Hundreds of officials talk about integrity, and the people talk about righteousness, this is life-saving food, whoever saves them, they will remember who they are, and they will be grateful for a lifetime.

On the contrary, all the major landlords in Shandong were subjected to seedlings, and not only the land inherited for several generations was confiscated, but also the rice grain that had been stored for several years had to be expropriated.

In the past, the amiable state and county magistrates even avoided them, which really made the earth and the earth ineffective.

They gradually hated Liu Hong, but they were helpless, and the famous landlords from all over the country wrote a joint letter to enter Beijing to beat the drum.

Some of the angry gentry even sent their slaves to attack the camp of officers and soldiers with human excrement.

After a meal of military sticks, he found the landlord who made trouble, and forced this guy to eat a lump before he was willing to let go.

However, there were too many refugees in Shandong, and the grain stocks of the gentry and landlords were already stretched, and the rice and grain from the Jinyi Guardian in Jiangnan would take at least six or seven days to arrive.

Yesterday, Dongchang sent Chongzhen's secret decree, in which Chongzhen said that the gentry of Shandong had formed a team to impeach Liu Hongji.

The officials of the court were in an uproar, but Chongzhen did not criticize or praise him, but only said four words to Liu Hong, and the people wanted.

Liu Hong's heart warmed after reading the letter, although he did it, but in the end, Chongzhen carried the pot, after all, he was just Chongzhen's spokesperson.

Compared with himself, Chongzhen is under even more pressure.

"Lord Wang, although most of the grain stocks of the gentry in various states and counties in Shandong have been expropriated, there is still one family, if you can take all the grain stored by this family, the danger of food shortage will definitely be solved."

Niu Chun, the prefect of Yanzhou, saw that Liu Hong was gradually worried about the food, and lowered his head and said softly.

"Which one else? Why didn't you say it before? Liu Hong gradually frowned, after staying in Yanzhou Mansion for more than ten days, he felt more and more that this surnamed Niu was not a good official.

"This ...... Yes, yes, but if this family is moved, the world is in turmoil, even the prince may not be able to afford it, it is the following official ......" Niu Chun's words were respectful, but the meaning of his words was full of contempt.

"What's the hell, who's it?" Liu Hong slapped on the table, how could he not hear this guy's words, but he didn't have time to take care of this bird official now.

"Lord Yu, as far as I know, the Confucius family in Qufu has the largest grain in the family, and it should be the most important in the mountains." Niu Chun saw that the young prince was in the trap, and then whispered.

"The Kong family? Yan Shenggong? Liu Hong's mind instantly remembered the portrait of the old master Confucius in the later generations.

Yan Shenggong, the hereditary title of the eldest son of Confucius, began in the Song Dynasty and ended in the Republic of China.

Since Dong Zhongshu deposed Confucianism, Confucius's Confucianism has taken root and sprouted in the land of China and has been inherited for thousands of years.

The canonization of the descendants of Confucius also began in BC, when Han Gaozu named Confucius's eighth grandson, Kong Teng, as the enshrined monarch, and since then the descendants of Confucius have had hereditary titles.

After a thousand years, the title has been changed repeatedly, until the second year of Song Zhihe changed the title of Yan Shenggong, until the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China, the Republic of China government canceled the title of Yan Shenggong and changed the title of Dacheng Holy Master Enshrined Official.

For more than 2,000 years, the imperial examination has been based on Confucianism, scholars have taken Confucianism as the sky, and people all over the world have respected Confucianism.

Qufu Confucius's house is the holy place of scholars all over the world, and it is also the belief in the hearts of hundreds of officials.

I'm scared! If you want to save the victims, if you have the ability, you can go to Kong's house, Niu Chun was silent, but he snorted coldly in his heart.

The imperial court measured the land, and even the hundred acres of fertile land in his hometown were also confiscated, and now he has seen Liu Hongjian himself, although he can't afford to provoke him, but he can also get over the addiction with a trip.

In his opinion, even if His Majesty is in person, he will not dare to move the Kong family easily, unless he ...... The imperial court doesn't want to operate normally, let alone you, Liu Hong, a mere county king.

"Chang Yu!" Liu Hongjian only groaned for a moment, and then shouted at the door.

"Humble duty." Hearing his lord's order, Chang Yu walked into the yamen lobby.

"One thousand soldiers from the Beijing battalion and all the battalions are guarded, and the barracks will be on standby in two quarters of an hour!" Liu Hong gradually commanded.

Confucius taught without class, advocated the rule of the world with benevolence, he respected Confucius, and he also believed that many people in later generations respected Confucius.

However, Confucius is Confucius, his descendants are his descendants, Confucius is a sage, but his descendants are not, Confucius rules the world with benevolence, and when the people are in trouble, they will certainly not stand idly by.

But his descendants, enjoying the blessings of their ancestors for 2,000 years, watched the starving people around them starving all over the land.

Righteousness? Bullshit isn't! The saints are unkind, and the people are all dogs!

He also knew the consequences if the Kong family was moved, but since he had made an oath to make a life for the people, he had already prepared what Qianfu pointed out.

Heng Mei coldly pointed at Qianfu, bowing his head and being willing to be a son of a cow, although there are tens of millions of people, I will go!

As for the hundred officials? That's Chongzhen's business, since he let Liu Hong gradually take care of this errand, what to do depends on his own conscience.

Half an hour later, Liu Hong gradually sent troops to order his generals and headed for Qufu, which was a hundred miles away.

Niu Chun, the prefect of Yanzhou, squinted his eyes and watched Liu Hong gradually leave, shook his head and sighed secretly that this young prince was really stunned.

The imperial court, there is going to be chaos!