Xiong Tingbi smiled coldly.

When he was speculating on grain prices before, he clearly remembered that these nobles and nobles were crazy and borrowed money to speculate on grain with mortgages on the property of the mansion, which was a sign that they would not stop until they mortgaged their property.

Now after the failure of food speculation, they are all frightened and at a loss.

Anyone who sees it will be funny.

But Zhu Youxiao didn't plan to play. Not long after Xiong Tingbi met these Nanjing nobles, he issued an order to ask Li Zhizao to investigate the property of the large-scale lenders of the Ming Bank to confirm whether they still have the ability to repay, and asked them to clear their loan debts in time, and let Lu Xiangsheng lead the First Battalion of the Kinggu Town to cooperate.

Take your life while you are sick.

Zhu Youxiao’s purpose is to take away the property of these nobles when they have no money to pay off their debts.

How much is taken away.

This is not a forceful robbery by the emperor, it is reasonable and well-founded. After all, you are a noble in Nanjing, so why should you borrow a loan from the court? It is reasonable for the court to investigate now.

It is impossible to say that the emperor is forcing the property of the heroes.

"What should I do? Lords, what should I do? The court wants to check the loans, but where can we have money to pay them back now? Apart from the fields, mansions, shops and other industries that make money, there is only a lot of food, but the price of food is so cheap now!"

The Nanjing nobles are now like ants on a hot pan, and they are already anxious. After Zhu Guobi, the Marquis of Funing, said in front of Xiong Tingbi that he did not want to mortgage the farmland to the court, he now spoke anxiously in front of other nobles.

"It's all the blame for Dou Ding, and what uncle Zheng Guoyu, and the King of Fu and His Highness Lu, who are behind him, how can we be the opponents of the court? Even if the grain is fried so high, we won't let the grain from Huguang, Henan and other places come over, so what? People can use the army to force the clearance, then collect the grain tax, transfer grain from the whole country, and send the navy to the foreign countries to grab grain. As long as they are willing, as long as they don't care, they can do whatever they want, even the vassal kings dare to abuse and kill. After all, they are His Majesty and the Emperor. Why are we overestimating our abilities? Want to be a chariot and shake the tree with a mantis arm!"

Gu Mingjiao slapped the table in anger and said.

Xu Hongji glanced at Gu Mingjiao and Zhu Guobi, and said a little upset: "Okay! I'm willing to accept the loss. It seems that if I don't do this, I can save my family business."

"Since we started to start the official textile industry and started to attack the gentry, this kind of killing the rich and helping the poor cannot be stopped. Who made us unlucky? We stayed in Nanjing and didn't seize the opportunity to invest money before. Until now, we can only be the fat sheep in the eyes of others."

Xu Hongji continued.

Then, Xu Hongji said to these Nanjing nobles: "When the price of grain soared and was more expensive than the silver itself, you were all so happy that you could spend a lot of gold and a thousand gold overnight and wished you could pay Mr. Dou as your ancestors, but now you started to blame others? You only know how to blame others? You are all Dukes and Guixuns, who dares to force you to fail? Mr. Dou is loyal enough to admit all his sins and let us betray them, but it is too much to blame others now."

Tang Xingzuo nodded, therefore, "Duke Wei said that if you want to talk about losses, the honorary relatives of Zheng Guojiu and the nobles behind Mr. Dou this time, there are King Fu, and the vassal kings such as Lu, are the most losses. The Ganges grain shop is the industry of Mr. Dou, but in fact, the industry of the vassal kings. They invested more than 8 million taels of silver this time and borrowed a lot. Moreover, they are the major farmers with the most grain, especially King Fu, Huguang, Henan, and Shandong. Now that the grain prices in Jiangnan have dropped like this, other places will definitely be affected, and King Fu will definitely suffer a lot of losses."

"Will the court attack King Fu? King Fu is the prince's uncle!"

Gu Mingjiao asked.

"No matter whether the court will attack His Highness Fu, what is certain is that the court is sure of us. After each goes back, they will count the property and see how much can be left after the loan is repaid by the court."

Xu Hongji said.

"The problem is that when the food price is lower now, everything is lower. Houses, shops, and fields are not as valuable as before. If you don't need to count them, you all know that they will lose everything. I'm sorry to the ancestors of the Gu family!"

Gu Mingjiao started crying and then said, "Your Majesty, why don't you let us go!"

"I'm not willing to give up, I'm really unwilling to give up. We have all suffered such a miserable loss. Why should we give the family property that the Zhu family has accumulated to the court? Why would the emperor rather give silver coins and transfer grain to those poor families who were bankrupt by the rebels? Why can't we be kind to those of us who have made contributions to the Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Guobi became more angry the more he thought about it.

"That's it! Being mean and polite!"

Tang Xingzuo couldn't help but say something, then looked at Xu Hongji and said, "Duke of Wei, you are the leader of our Nanjing nobles. Please make an idea. Do we really have to sit and wait for death?"

"As it said, I am willing to accept the loss and go home to count the family business! Otherwise, what, should I turn from meritorious deeds to rebel?"

After Xu Hongji said this, he said, "Send out the guests!"

...

"Just because they are heroes, I have already been kind enough. If it were other families, I would destroy their clans long ago without regard to the safety of the country. I will tell Li Zhizao and Lu Xiangsheng to strictly investigate and kill those who block them!"

After learning about the complaints of these nobles, Zhu Youxiao only said this.

"yes!"

After Wei Zhongxian answered, he immediately sent an order to Li Zhizao and Lu Xiangsheng.

Here.

Li Zhizao, Lu Xiangsheng and others who collected the accounts by force had already arrived at the Funing Marquis Mansion, which was closest to the Emperor's Palace.

"Please come out! We are here to collect grain and check bank debts. The amount of loans of your marquis is huge and needs to be checked in time."

First, courtesy and then the army, Li Zhizao first came forward to give instructions to the general manager of the Funing Marquis' Mansion.

The chief steward of the Funing Marquis Mansion hurriedly informed Zhu Guobi.

Zhu Guobi glanced at his luxurious mansion and said nothing.

On this side, after Li Zhizao finished speaking, Lu Xiangsheng had ordered the officers and soldiers of the First Battalion of Infantry in the Guard Town to break in.

"What are you doing? How can you break through?"

As soon as a concierge in Funing Marquis's Mansion asked, Lu Xiangsheng personally cut off his neck.

Then, Lu Xiangsheng shouted loudly: "The emperor has an order. During the investigation, those who block it will be killed without any quarantine!"

The other conciers of the Funing Marquis Mansion hurriedly shut up.

Li Zhizao, Lu Xiangsheng and others successfully entered the Funing Marquis Mansion.

Li Zhizao issued an order to the supervisors who brought him to the inspection on the spot: "Inspection immediately! Check the food, houses, industries, and land deeds one by one!"

When Zhu Guobi saw this scene, he came to his senses and hurriedly shouted: "You, what are you doing? This is my marquis's mansion. How can you break in at will?"

Li Zhizao hurriedly bowed and replied, "Marquis Funing, we are here to investigate according to the order, please cooperate."

Zhu Guobi directly hugged the carved golden beams and pillars of his mansion: "No, no, you can't check, you can't check my home business!"

...

"You, you, this box of land deeds is all watered fields accumulated by generations of my family. You can't just take them away!"

After that, when the family of Tang Xingzuo, the Marquis of Lingbi, was investigated, Tang Xingzuo also held a box of Tian Qi, which was found to be paid off by Li Zhizao and others, and cried bitterly.

Lu Xiangsheng held a knife and pointed at Tang Xingzuo: "Marquis Lingbi, if you don't let go, your subordinates will have to act according to the order, so that you can't be in a different position! The subordinates will be three times."
Chapter completed!