Hearing the sound of footsteps coming from the front yard, Hong Chengchou slowly opened his eyes and looked at Li Banghua with a smile, while Li Banghua squinted his eyes and looked at the tall black locust trees outside the lobby with an expressionless face. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In the courtyard of the Governor's Mansion near noon, the sunlight shines through the branches of the tall locust trees and sprinkles on the ground paved with blue bricks, and everything looks quiet and peaceful.

However, the sound of footsteps from the front yard soon shattered the silence.

With the sound of footsteps, an old man with gray hair, dressed in brocade clothes, and looking fat and bloated, slowly walked into the courtyard with the support of two people, one on the left and one on the right.

Among the two people who supported him, one of them was Yan Siyin, whom Li Banghua had seen before.

And another gorgeously dressed middle-aged man didn't know who it was.

Behind these three people, closely followed by Li Bei, the general of the mine battalion under Li Banghua, and Yuan Jixian, the deputy envoy of the Shanxi military garrison.

At this time, Li Banghua seemed to come back to his senses suddenly, looking at the person who came, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Before I heard Li Bei and Yuan Jixian's return, I heard the fat old man in the prince's clothes walking over and saying loudly: "I heard that Elder Li Ge wants to see this king, but I don't know what happened?" This king is old and frail, and he is not good at walking, even if he is alive today, he also knows! ”

There was a bit of flamboyance and a bit of impatience in the tone.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, most of these clan vassal kings were not bad, although it was common for them to violate laws and disciplines and oppress the localities, but they were able to lead troops into battle and kill the enemy at critical moments.

Especially Zhu Yuanzhang's sons, such as King Qin, King Jin, King Dai, King Yan, King Ning, etc., all have heavy military power, and their martial arts are also good, and they are not the waste appearance of the Ming Dynasty clan more than 200 years later.

Even the decrepit King Shen in front of him, his ancestor Zhu Mo, the first King of Shen, is also a civil and military character among Zhu Yuanzhang's many sons.

Just listening to the title of King Shen, you know that Zhu Yuanzhang sealed him to Liaodong Town to guard the border at the beginning.

It's just that Zhu Mo is Zhu Yuanzhang's twenty-first son, and when Zhu Yuanzhang named Zhu Mo as the king of Shen, Zhu Mo was only ten years old, so he didn't leave Nanjing to go to Liaodong to become a vassal.

After Zhu Mo became an adult, Zhu Yuanzhang was dead, followed by Jianwen and Yan Wang Jingnan, and he never had the opportunity to go to Liaodong to become a vassal domain.

After all the Ming world settled down again, his elder brother Zhu Di, the king of Yan, became the emperor, and he was worried that these younger brothers would learn from him to rebel, so he withdrew all the younger brothers who were sealed in Liaodong, King Ning was renamed in Nanchang, Jiangxi, and the king of Liao was renamed in Jingzhou, Huguang, and the king of Shen of Zhu Mo had never been to Liaodong for a day, so he was renamed in Lu'an, Shanxi.

In this way, in the Ming Dynasty after Yongle, there was such a strange phenomenon, the King of Liao was not in Liaodong, and the King of Shen was not in Shenyang.

King Shen Zhu Mo was in Yongle for six years, and finally left Nanjing and came to Lu'an Mansion, becoming the first King of Shen.

The Shen Wangfu family has been passed down in Lu'an Mansion for more than 200 years, and by the beginning of Chongzhen, the current Lu King Zhu Chengyao was already one of the highest and oldest among the kings of the Ming clan.

Since Wanli inherited the title of King Shen in the twelfth year, forty-five years have passed, during which three emperors have died, but Zhu Chengyao is still alive and strong.

If nothing else, he will continue to live until the ninth year of Chongzhen, and then die of illness.

And Zhu Xiaoyong, the unlucky son of King Shen among the princes of the Ming Dynasty, was arrested by Liu Fangliang, a general under Li Zicheng, just a few years after inheriting the throne.

And the huge wealth accumulated by Shen Wangfu for more than 200 years has also cheapened Liu Fangliang's department under Li Zicheng.

This is exactly the same as the other miser vassal king, the Qin palace in Xi'an.

In history, the Qin Wangfu was rich and rivaled the country, but it was unwilling to take out a little money and food to reward and motivate the soldiers defending the city, and as a result, not long after Li Zicheng's army besieged Xi'an, the hungry and cold defenders mutinied themselves and opened the city gates.

And all the wealth of the Qin Palace's mansion was cheaper, Li Zicheng.

After receiving a large amount of money, food and materials from the Qin Palace, Li Zicheng rewarded his subordinates, and then proclaimed himself emperor in Xi'an.

Similar to this, there are fiefdoms in Datong of the king, fief in Taiyuan of the Jin kings, these last vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty have a common problem, the more wars and chaos, the people are not happy, the more they step up plundering wealth, firmly guard the wealth, they are unwilling to help the victims, reward the soldiers they are unwilling, typical rather lose their lives, not give up wealth, is really to do "pull a Maoli world and do not do it".

Of course, among the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, not all of them were so rich, let alone so rich and unkind, and some of the vassal kings were even quite poor, and their lives were very tight.

However, these vassal kings who have been registered in Emperor Chongzhen's heart are not among them.

They have accumulated wealth for more than 200 years, and they have become rich and rival countries, and they have been verified by thieves in history.

Therefore, before Li Banghua left, Emperor Chongzhen had hinted to him that these two Wang Fu in Shanxi were willing to donate money and suppression, then everything is easy to say, if you are not willing to give money and food quickly, then there is no need to be polite, King Fu and King De are a lesson from the past.

So at this time, although Li Banghua heard the words of Zhu Chengyao, the old Shen king, he was still sitting on the main seat in the middle of the hall, motionless.

It wasn't until Shen Wang Zhu Chengyao strode into the lobby that Li Banghua suddenly stood up, and then said loudly: "Shen Wang Zhu Chengyao takes the order!" ”

After saying this, Li Banghua stretched out his hand and took a roll of things from the hands of Lu Yuanding, a guerrilla of the Chinese army standing behind him.

This volume is one of the holy decrees that Emperor Chongzhen handed over to Li Banghua to bring to Shanxi before he left.

And the object of this edict is, of course, the one in front of him, who is a little arrogant and impatient.

As soon as Zhu Chengyao, the king of Shen, who was about to have a seizure with a belly full of anger, stepped into the lobby, he suddenly heard Li Banghua's shout, and he was immediately stunned.

In Zhu Chengyao's opinion, Li Banghua has been in Lu'an Mansion for several days, but he has never taken the initiative to come to see him, which makes him very uncomfortable.

In his opinion, although Li Banghua is a cabinet minister and a minister of military aircraft, he is the ninth grandson of Emperor Taizu Gao after all, and his title of King Shen is still the one-word prince of Taizu at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhu Chengyao was unhappy, and in the past few days, except for sending an old eunuch to come over to greet him, he did not send anyone to contact him.

Today, Zhu Chengyao heard from the mouth of his son Zhu Xiaoyong, the son of Shen Wangfu, that several governors who led the army into Jin gathered in Lu'an Mansion to discuss the problem of thieves.

Zhu Chengyao, who originally wanted to take the prince's shelf, suddenly felt a little apprehensive when facing Yuan Jixian and Li Bei.

Yuan Jixian has come to visit Zhu Chengyao, the king of Shen, many times in order to recruit and train village soldiers in Lu'an Mansion, except for the first two times he saw Zhu Chengyao's face, the remaining times the old eunuch came out to deal with it.

Moreover, Yuan Jixian came several times as the deputy envoy of Shanxi's military garrison, and only the first time he raised three thousand taels of silver from Shen Wangfu, and the other times he came again, no matter how he begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother, Shen Wangfu was a dime.

And this time when he came to Shen Wang's Mansion again, Yuan Jixian's cold and firm attitude made Zhu Chengyao's heart beat a drum.

Of course, he doesn't know the story that happened recently from the Qin Wangfu in Xi'an, but he knows all about what happened in Luoyang Fuwangfu and Jinan Dewangfu last year.

Now this emperor does not pay any attention to the clan vassal kings, and even the officials in the court lack the respect and awe for the clan vassal kings before.

This made Zhu Chengyao, the old king of Shen, very dissatisfied.

But dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, in addition to muttering in his heart, he doesn't dare to show it, you must know that today's Jinyiwei and Dongchang are pervasive.