Manager Tao led the escorts of the Three Hundred Prince's Mansion outside Mengjia Village, thinking about what words to use for a while.

The thick gate of Mengjiazhuang suddenly opened, and a cavalry roared out, leading by a man in a black mink coat, majestic and extraordinary demeanor. He rode his horse and rushed to him a few steps before stopping, tilting his head, looking at him with a smile.

The cavalry was divided into two, and they sandwiched the guards of the three hundred royal palaces from both sides in the middle.

The guards of the royal palace were panicked and pulled out their weapons to prepare for the battle.

Manager Tao was even more shocked and almost fled.

The man wearing a marten smiled and said, "I am Qin Chuan, who is here?"

Manager Tao reluctantly calmed down, raised his chin, and replied loudly: "My surname is Tao, and I was Tian Zhuang Zongyi, the Prince's Mansion of Ninghua. He was ordered by the prince to come to pick up Sister Wen back to the Prince's Mansion."

"In addition, the prince ordered all the farmers in Ninghua Wangfu farms in Loufan Town to move to Jiaoqu farm immediately, and wait for the next year to cultivate and work hard to farm in the spring and summer, and ensure the harvest of drought and flood."

Hearing his words, Qin Chuan smiled and said lightly: "It turns out that it is Manager Tao, who is indifferent to respect. May I ask Manager Tao, what is the relationship between Prince Ninghua and Sister Wen? Why should I welcome Sister Wen back to the palace?"

Manager Tao frowned and said coldly: "Why should you ask about the royal palace affairs?"

"Oh."

Qin Chuan shook his head and laughed inexplicably.

The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were used to being arrogant and prosperous in the local area, and even the officials of the royal palace were famously arrogant and domineering. He had seen others on forums before, and it was common for the King of Jin to beat and insult local officials. He was accustomed to the records of "Shi" such as "Shi" and "Shi" who were accustomed to the prefectures and counties.

There is also a record that a manager in the Ninghua Palace said that "there was no failure to seek wealth and grain, and he surrounded the governor of the governor and beat Liu Wangzhi, the left governor" in the 37th year of Jiajing. Zong Yi of the Ninghua Palace, who was the same manager as the Tao governor in front of him, went to the governor and asked for salary, money and grain. The governor and the governor did not give it to him, so he led people to besiege the governor and beat a left governor named Liu Wangzhi.

One of the managers is no different from a civilian. He beats up a second-rank official, and after the beating, nothing happened.

It can be seen how awesome the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were.

This kind of behavior has gone beyond the scope of arrogant and domineering.

However, if he is arrogant in front of Director Qin, he will be in trouble.

Qin Chuan was not angry, nor did he discuss Sister Wen's affairs with the other party, but said with a smile: "Manager Tao, go back and say to the prince, and let the farmland in Loufan Valley be managed by Qin from now on. Qin will find the farmhouse to farm for him. After the harvest, he will give 60% of the grain as much as the King of Yue's Mansion. How about it?"

Manager Tao was stunned, then raised his head and laughed: "You... are you trying to join the prince's mansion to do things for the prince?"

"No." Qin Chuan shook his head.

"Manager Tao knew that this area of ​​bandits was rampant, especially during the spring and autumn harvest. Qin trained hundreds of village brave men, so he was naturally not afraid of bandits. As long as the prince handed over the farmland to Qin, he could ensure that those thousands of acres of land were secured for drought and flood."

"Otherwise... if the villager is plundered and killed by bandits during the spring and autumn harvest, Qin will not be able to control it."

"You..." Manager Tao was furious, "Do you dare to threaten the prince?"

"Well, Qin is just a mess, how dare you threaten the prince? Manager Tao only needs to convey Qin's previous situation to the prince immediately."

"Hmph! You are so brave!"

Manager Tao snorted angrily, raised his chin and said, "Take Sister Wen and I will take it back to the royal palace. I will convey what I said just now."

"Sorry, Sister Wen lives well in the village and doesn't want to go to any royal palace."

"you……"

"Manager Tao, it's easy to leave and not send him off."

After Qin Chuan smiled, he turned his horse's head and walked back to Mengjiazhuang on his own.

Manager Tao was so angry that his beard was raised up, pointing at his back without saying a word.

"Go back and report to the prince, how many days can this thief be arrogant?"

After a long time, Manager Tao suddenly snorted and turned the reins of the horse.

On the gate tower of Mengjiazhuang, after Lao Huang and Bobcao arrived, Qin Chuan pointed to the escort guards of the three hundred royal palaces that had gone far away and said, "Send someone to find Luo Daniu in Tieshigou Mountain, and ask him to rush to the Luyukou area to intercept the escort guards of the royal palaces, so that they know whether this area is in hindering the horizontal school."

"You pick a few more people and sneak into the royal mansion farm in Jiaoqu, trick the farmers inside, and then you can eat and drink here, and there are also fields to plant, and thousands of local brave men to protect their safety."

"Tell Luo Daniu again, after dealing with the royal guards, go to Jiaoqu Tianzhuang and grab things. Try not to hurt others and cooperate with you to trick the farmers in the Tianzhuang."

"From now on, as long as Ninghua Palace recruits farmers, you will trick people into it. You can do whatever you want. I want the Ninghua Palace to not even harvest winter wheat. At that time, he can only hand over the fields to us."

"yes."

Old Huang happily took the order and took the bobcat.

Qin Chuan was still staring at the royal palace guards in the distance.

He would not be polite to the vassal kings of the old Zhu family.

When the Ming Dynasty was founded, the country taxed 9 million hectares of land, but by the Wanli period, it was less than 5 million hectares. The reason was nothing more than that the vassal kings and gentry who did not need to pay taxes occupied more and more land.

Especially the most serious are the vassal kings. The Shanxi Jin king system includes Ninghua, Qingcheng, Yonghe, Guangchang, Jiaocheng, Yangqu, Fangshan, etc. More than 20 princes are spread all over Shanxi, the fertile fertile land in the three regions of Shanxi, the central and eastern part of Shanxi, most of which are farmlands of the Jin king system, with nearly 40 hectares, that is, four million acres.

When Luoyang Fu King first won 20,000 hectares of fertile land, not including the later forced purchases and occupations, there are also King Qin, King Lu, King Hui, King Ji, King Chu, King Jing, King Dai, King Lu, King Qi, etc. These vassal kings often have tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land.

The most serious farmland of the vassal kings was Shunfu. In that place alone, the farmland of the vassal kings and Chongzhen had as many as 200,000 hectares, accounting for 70% of the cultivated land in northern Zhili.

There is no need to pay taxes for the land of the royal family.

In the late Ming Dynasty, most of the national tax revenue came from the southeast coastal areas, because those provinces did not have vassal kings and royal relatives, and many fields could still be taxed.

In the central, northern, western, eastern and other areas, the arable land there are either the vassal kings or the gentry who do not have to pay taxes. Many people also banish the fields under the names of the vassal kings and gentry to evade taxes.

Do you think that the family members of the vassal kings will be finished without paying taxes?

No, they still have to pay their salaries until the Ming Dynasty was exhausted.

The shoehorn of the Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that the prince’s salary was 50,000 shi of rice every year, and there were also a lot of mixed things such as silver, money, cloth, silk, and satin, and the prince’s 6,000 shi, and the seven and seven, eight shi were as good as those of the seven and seven.

In the late Ming Dynasty, there were twenty-eight princes and six hundred princes. I don’t know how much food these borers would eat in a year.

After eating, the court could not afford to support it. It hollowed out the national treasury, intercepted taxes, and misappropriated military expenses, but still could not afford the salary of the vassal princes and relatives.

Therefore, the court simply gave the issue of the salary of the vassal kings to the local government, and used local taxes to fill the huge salary. If they could not be compensated, they would increase the tax and try every means to plunder the people's fat. After scraping the people's fat, they had to scrape down the bones.

As a result, the Ming Dynasty court had a strong sense of virtue, while the vassal kings were all rich.

Li Hongji and Zhang Bingzhong liked to slaughter the vassal kings. Whenever they went to a place, they would kill the vassal kings completely before slaughtering the house, and used the vassal king's money and grain to support him with hundreds of thousands of troops.

Ironically, most of the vassal kings were willing to donate money to the court to raise soldiers until they were slaughtered.

Such a vassal king deserves to be slaughtered.

Qin Chuan also wanted to kill a few vassal kings. When his wings were hard, he would first take the King of Ninghua to attack him.

Because the woman who wanted to steal his hair.

...

Luo Daniu was injured, but he was still in a good mood.

Yesterday, after he led the Li sisters to a remote place, he deliberately slowed down his horse. When Li Anru came up, he hugged the beauty and pressed her in his arms, and then was bitten to death.

He endured the pain, threw Li Yueru away, and ran away with the beauty, and stopped until the horse was tired.

Then Li Anru chased him all over the mountains and fields with stones.

It was not until the beauty was tired and couldn't run anymore that she smiled and went to coax her.

After a few words of coaxing, he was beaten by the other party again, and then he chased me again.

After a long struggle, Li Anru couldn't run anymore. Luo Daniu grabbed his hands and begged him, begging the beauty to give him a mouthful.

Finally, Luo Daniu got into a mouth, and he was forced to speak.

The price was to get another bite.

Now, Luo Daniu, who is scarred but in a good mood, is leading the Four Hundred Guandi Army to ambush at the entrance of Luyu.

The spy responded that the guard of the Ninghua Prince's Mansion rested in Jiaoqutianzhuang for an hour and was now coming to Luyukou.
Chapter completed!