Han Gong, who was responsible for meeting these people, directly explained the current predicament of Yingtian Mansion and took the initiative to compensate and said with a smile:

"You are all the big clans with the most land in the local area and are also famous families loyal to the court. I believe you can't bear to see the high prices of grain in Yingtian Prefecture, which makes the poor lose their food and the vendors have no foundation for their establishment, so the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River is here. Therefore, I am hereby decree to ask you, may you get the grain to the market or borrow it from the court to stabilize the price of grain?"

"I don't know! We are a famous family. We have a lot of land left by our ancestors, but we can't stand the population. The food produced by the ancestral fields is no longer enough. Sometimes, we have to eat porridge for a few days for the family to eat. There is really no excess food. Otherwise, we wouldn't ask the court to give the land to another farm. However, we also know the difficulties of the court and the people, and we really want to help us. Who has let us receive the favor of the country in the world? Gu is willing to offer 50 stones of grain, not to mention borrowing it, just donate it to the court to help the people."

Gu Mingjiao said first, and turned around and showed a smug smile at Zhu Guobi.

Zhu Guobi also smiled, raised his eyebrows and glanced at Han Du, who looked ugly.

Then, Zhu Guobi couldn't wait to stand up, trying to make Han Yu's face look even more ugly, so he said, "Gei Master, the same is true for my Funing Marquis Mansion. Don't look at the large land and the population is large, but if you donate grain, I will also donate it. Who made us loyal ministers? However, my family's fields are not as large as those of Zhenyuan Marquis, so I will donate thirty stones."

Zhu Guobi couldn't help laughing as he said that.

Han Yu was well-educated, and he still smiled, and couldn't help but say in his heart: "It seems that he can only support His Majesty with extraordinary means! These nobles are really selfish. What kind of ancestors are not ancestors? His Majesty and the court are willing to let you have it, and if you don't want to let you have it, you can take it away at any time if you want to take it away."

Xu Hongji stood up at this time: "People also ask Your Majesty that several farms in the Duke of Wei's Mansion have suffered major disasters this year. In order not to implicate the court, Xu has already exempted the tenant rent from the bankers and has to provide food to the tenants. Now there is not much grain stored in the entire Duke of Wei's Mansion, and he can barely make up a hundred stones."

The Korean queen still just smiled.

Then, other nobles and great officials also expressed their opinions in this way, and were willing to take out a few dozen or one hundred stones of grain to dispose of Han and the emperor behind him.

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"Your Majesty calms down. These nobles and nobles are used to being greedy for profit, so they don't care about the life and death of the court and the people. In the eyes of the ministers, they can only force their food to be collected!"

After Han Du told Zhu Youxiao about meeting the nobles and nobles, Xiong Tingbi said something to Zhu Youxiao first.

"What Mr. Xiong Ge said is reasonable. Although this is their own food, His Majesty can increase taxes on them, and increase taxes on them, so that they can hand over the food!"

Li Zhizao also agreed.

If Zhu Youxiao forcibly confiscated these noble families for no reason from the beginning, these civil and military officials standing by the emperor Zhu Youxiao would be worried that they would be taken away by the court for no reason in the future.

But now, because these nobles and nobles are unwilling to give in first, and there is a possibility of destroying the country, and it has nothing to do with the emperor's personal character, the civil and military officials around Zhu Youxiao began to actively support and make suggestions from Emperor Zhu Youxiao directly forcing the food of these nobles and nobles.

"It is not only them who caused the food price to be so high, but there are other people behind them, and even the royal family members. Taking advantage of the rise in the food price, the court just teaches these nobles and those royal families behind them who don't care about the country's foundation! Therefore, it is not the time to directly force their food to be frantic, let them be crazy for a while. This time I let Han Aiqing see them, it is not because I beg them, but because I am giving them a chance, the last chance!"

Zhu Youxiao bit his lips lightly and said.

"yes!"

Xiong Tingbi and others immediately replied.

Then, Zhu Youxiao asked the ministers around him again: "Does the first batch of grain transported from Suzhou have arrived?"

Han Du hurriedly replied: "It is expected to arrive in two days tomorrow."

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao noted: "Then use military rations to replenish them to the official business stores first, or wholesale them to grain shops, but they are required to sell them according to the price limit of the Grain Bureau and implement commercial military control! When the grain from Suzhou arrives, they will replenish them to the military rations. In addition, a message was sent to Fang Congzhe to speed up the grain transfer and raising work in the process of clearing the land of Zhangzhe."

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"If the court forcibly collects grain, I will let you burn all the food! Anyway, it is impossible to escape the life of being scammered and killed, so no one can think of it!"

After Xu Hongji heard his disciple Mei Shuangpu's advice that the court was prone to forcing food and fodder, he replied directly.

Mei Shuangpu is not good enough to say more.

Xu Hongji also ordered his son Xu Wenjue: "You go to the farm and tell each farm to increase the tenant rent to 80%! Then burn a batch of old grain in the warehouses of each farm, and then let the tenants collect it!"

Xu Hongji said, "Even if it is burned, it will never be put on the market!"

"Father, will it be too high if the rent is mentioned at 80%?!"

Xu Wenjue couldn't help but ask.

"What do you know? Being a tenant for my Xu family is a blessing he has cultivated in eight lifetimes. Even if I collect 80% of the tenant rent, he can still fill his stomach with thick bran without starving to death. It is much better than the untouchables outside who have no land, no grain and no living plan. Whose land in the entire Yingtian Mansion is as much as my Duke of Wei Mansion? If he thinks it is too high, he can give up his status as a tenant for my Xu family and go to another place to be a tenant, and my Xu family won't stop me!"

Xu Hongji said loudly.

"Yes, kid will do it now!"

Xu Wenjue took his servant to the village.

"Little Marquis, okay, 70% of the tenants are already high enough. The tenants in this farm have long been unable to eat enough. Some of them don't even dare to have more children. It's because there is not much food to support them. Why is it going to rise to 80% now? If you collect it at that time, you're really afraid you will force them to rebel!"

The Xu family's village head, who was called Wu Guokun, was excited to persuade Xu Wenjue to come because he learned that the Duke of Wei was going to increase the rent to 80%.

Xu Wenjue whipped Wu Guokun impatiently, "What's the use of telling me? This is the old man's order. How can I change it? However, the old man said that if I dislike my Xu family's rent for a high rent, I will leave by myself and go to another family to farm. The Xu family will not stop me, and there will be no shortage of tenants like them!"

Wu Guokun didn't know what to say for a moment.

But when he saw the Xu family's slaves piled all the old grains in the warehouse outside and poured tinder oil, he couldn't help but say, "Master! Why do you have to burn them again? Even if you don't sell them, you can still send them to the tenants to live. Isn't it a waste of time for us farmers to burn them?"

Xu Wenjue kicked Wu Guokun directly: "Get out! Give it to the tenant again? You can think of it. If you give it to the tenant, what rent will I add! This is the grain from the Duke's Mansion. Do whatever you want. What is your fucking mansion? What do you mean by the fucking mansion?"

Wu Guokun owed a sigh of relief and fell on the snow.

At this time, the fire was already lit up by the pile of old grains. Soon, the old grains were lit up by a big fire, and the fire was very big and dyed half of the sky red.

After all, there is indeed a lot of Chenliang in the Xu family.

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"Your Majesty, they are simply contrary to the nature and human nature! I don't know how many people in the Ming Dynasty still have food to eat. Now there are people in the Jiangnan region who jump into the river every day because they can't bear hunger, but they would rather burn the food and throw it into the market. I ask Your Majesty to issue an order immediately to strictly deal with these despicable and selfish people! Scrawl the house! Scrawl the house and release the food directly!"

Xiong Tingbi was quite impatient, so after hearing Wei Zhongxian in the East Factory report to Zhu Youxiao that there were often burning grain in the fields of Nanjing nobles such as Duke Wei and others, he couldn't help but make an urgent comment to Zhu Youxiao loudly.

Zhu Youxiao was not surprised by this, and just asked Han Du: "What does Han Aiqing think about this?"

Han Yuze said: "Report to Your Majesty, I believe that what Your Majesty said before is reasonable. Now is not the time to attack him, otherwise it will be easy to force them to be impatient, because the most important thing for the court now is not to deal with them, but to send the food to you quickly."

"Your Majesty, I dare not agree! These people are already burning food. When will they have to wait? How many people can these burned food support?!"

Xiong Tingbi immediately fought hard.

"Her Xiong Ge Lao thought that since they could burn old grain, can't they burn new grain after being forced to do so? The court can send troops to confiscate it, but the court's top priority is not to treat them, but to let the people survive first."

Han Yu said, "Report to Your Majesty, the military ration has been personally escorted to various stores in the East Factory and the grain shops that intend to stabilize the price of grain with the court. The officers and soldiers have been responsible for maintaining order in each store, preventing looting, and preventing people from attacking the store. The shops responsible for selling affordable grain in various places have been under military control."

Zhu Youxiao pointed out: "It's great. There are not enough officers and soldiers in the patrol battalion. The army is used to maintain order first. I have decided long ago, so I will let those people go crazy first. When will the second batch of grain from the capital be delivered?"

"Five days later."

Han Du replied.

"Continue to ask Fang Congzhe, Shandong, Henan and Huguang, how much grain will be received after clearing the land of 100 million yuan? When will it be delivered to Jiangnan?"
Chapter completed!