Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 45 Copying the home of evil gentry and profiteers

Li Shanchang then asked people to control Yan Wuliang.

Yan Wuliang came to his senses after being detained, and looked at Li Shanchang in shock and anger: "You! Why do you dare to do this?!"

"You have the nerve to ask why. Don't you know what you have done? You ordered your slaves to discredit our rebel army with the intention of harming the people and taking wealth. His behavior is so abominable that it cannot be exaggerated to cut him to pieces with a thousand cuts!"

"In addition, I have never had any friendship at all with you Tatar lackeys who regard the captives as their fathers and hate our rebels."

"So don't ask me why, I'm just doing justice for heaven!"

As Li Shanchang spoke, he raised his hands to the sky with an upright look on his face.

then.

Li Shanchang walked to the atrium of Yan's house and ordered the officers and soldiers who were conducting inspections everywhere: "Copy carefully! Come two people, I will step on a floor tile, and you guys will lift up a floor tile to take a look. Generally speaking, the hidden treasures of wealthy families The Cellar of Wealth also likes to set up formations to gather wealth according to Feng Shui!"

Tang He nodded with admiration, and said to Tang Shengzong who was also here: "This Mr. Li is really experienced!"

"This is called specialization in the art."

Tang Shengzong pointed his fingers at Li Shanchang and replied.

It is no coincidence.

Feng Guo used this place to carry out the task of ransacking his house, so he brought a compass here. When he arrived at the house of Cheng Yang, who had served as the chief minister of Shuiyongtian in Hu Yuandu during the Zhizheng period, he specially asked Hua Yun and others. He ordered:
  "When you go in later, don't be blind and pull gold and silver jewelry off people's bodies. You must listen to my instructions first, because the places where wealthy families in this city always hide their wealth can be found out based on the hexagrams. What you want is eternal wealth and honor. You don’t know it unless you read the Book of Changes, so don’t act rashly.”

After hearing this, Hua Yun looked at Feng Guoyong with curiosity: "Old Feng, you are raiding a house and you still have such a great scholar? Then since he used hexagrams to hide wealth, can you still steal it?"

Feng Guoyong glanced at Hua Yun and saw that Hua Yun, who had once punched and kicked him but was not very polite to him, looked at him with respect. He felt quite proud in his heart and said with a smile: "You think you are copying the wealth of a rural landlord?" What kind of family? We are copying from the family of officials from the Hu and Yuan Dynasties. Can it be the same? However, even if there are hexagrams, it can still be copied. This family has violated the laws of heaven. Although there are hexagrams, God has not blessed it. !”

Hua Yun said disdainfully: "What difference can there be? They are all doing the same evil things!"

But Hua Yun had just finished speaking.

The head of the Cheng family, Cheng Yangquan, who happened to come to the gate to look around because of the noise, saw a man wearing a Confucian crown from Feng Guoyong appearing outside the gate, so he thought that the rebel army was here to invite him to become an official, otherwise he would not have sent literati. Come, he opened the door and said very righteously:
  "I will not associate with you traitors and bandits who rebel against the imperial court, let alone you unfaithful and unfilial gentle scum. You can either kill me and cut me into pieces, or return my country to me, surrender and plead guilty, and don't even think about me doing your job. Thief official!"

Snapped!
  Feng Guoyong took the compass in his hand and pointed it at the arrogant Cheng Yangquan's head, and cursed: "You are just a person who forgets his ancestors and is a wolf-hearted person. What qualifications do you have to talk about loyalty and filial piety in front of our Han family rebels?!"

"If you are loyal and filial, why do you kneel down to welcome the Tatars who have different customs from yours, and then become a Tatar official?"

"When you were offering sacrifices to your ancestors who served in the Zhao and Song Dynasties, and when you saw the Han attire of your ancestors in the ancestral hall, didn't you realize how unfaithful and unfilial you were when you knelt down to worship the Tatars?!"

"I'm afraid that your ancestors and the emperor of the Han Dynasty who have always been loyal to them have scolded you for being shameless!"

"People like you who are willing to sell your ancestors for fame and fortune are no different from Qin Hui's people!"

"Forget being unfaithful and unfilial, it is still unkind and unjust. When I saw our rebel army entering the city, I actually instigated my slaves to rob my niece, and wanted to commit incest and kill her. Such disregard for propriety, justice and shame, is it worthy of the teachings of a saint?!"

"Not as virtuous as a village man in the mountains!"

"How shameless to think that we would politely invite a scum like you, who has never been seen in history, as an official! Asking you to be an official will only dirty our rebel army. If our rebel army asks you to be an official, it is better to invite a dog. A dog At least you know how to wag your master's tail, but you can only wag your tail to his master's enemies!"

"I also wish I could eat your flesh and sleep on your skin! How can you let a smelly person like you bark here!"

With trembling hands, Feng Guo pointed at the bloody Cheng Yangquan and cursed loudly.

"Stop scolding!"

"Stop scolding!"

"You literati just love to talk!"

"Searching the house, it's important to search the house!" "By the way, is your compass broken? Didn't you ask us to follow your orders? Look at the direction quickly!"

Hua Yun was busy trying to stop Feng Guoyong.

Because he felt that Feng Guo was speaking too much.

Feng Guoyong came to his senses at this time, glanced at the compass, and then said: "It's not broken! We must ruthlessly raid the homes of these Han thieves!"

Cheng Yangquan came to his senses at this time and pointed at Feng Guoyong: "You!"

But Cheng Yangquan, who was about to scold Feng Guoyong, held it in for a long time, but couldn't hold back a word.

As the saying goes, you are not afraid of rogues, but you are afraid of rogues who are educated.

Feng Guo used several phrases in a row to scold Cheng Yangquan, including the ancestors of the Cheng family, the emperors of Zhao and Song, the common people of the world, and Confucian sages. Cheng Yangquan didn't know how to refute for a while. In the end, he only spit out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground.

Feng Guoyong ignored Cheng Yangquan here. He only looked around the Cheng family angrily, then pointed at the mouth of a well and said:
  "Send people down, there is definitely a basement down there! We have to copy it hard and copy more, so that we can have more capital to kill the Tatars and feed more wives, concubines, children and grandchildren, than these Han thieves who have forgotten their ancestors. If you go and flatter the Tatars, you will bully and harm the people and be stronger!"

Feng Guoyong now has a strong sense of justice, and the depression of not becoming the first civil servant around Zhu Yuanzhang has been swept away.

"well said!"

"It's up to you, Lao Feng."

Hua Yun also responded loudly to Feng Guoyong cordially.

"You thieves are just going to ransack my house. Why are you scolding my house like this?"

At this time, Cheng Yangquan's younger brother Cheng Yanglu came out. He heard what Feng Guoyong said and knew that these rebels came to raid his home because what his brother had done was exposed, so he shouted loudly here.

"Just scold!"

"Not only will I scold you, but I will also write an article to record your family's sins to prove today's righteous deed!"

Feng Guoyong replied while looking at the direction.

After hearing this, Cheng Yanglu pushed forward fiercely, his face full of fear and uneasiness, and thought to himself, "Whose plan was this to let these gentle lackeys come to ransack my house!"

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Yan Wuliang was also shocked by Li Shanchang's attitude.

"Li Shanchang, you are also a Confucian scholar. Why don't you intercede with me and why do you want to ransack my home?"

"Aren't you afraid that doing this will leave you with eternal infamy?!"

Yan Wuliang even started to question Li Shanchang loudly and uncontrollably after seeing that he ransacked his house too seriously and actually used a professional method to let the rebel officers and soldiers dig out the gold and silver he had hidden deep in the cellar.

After all, it was the family property that his ancestors had saved for many years after he came to Yuan Dynasty and followed Yuan Bing.

Li Shanchang sneered. Now that Zhang Cheng had persuaded Zhu Yuanzhang to give his family enough political and economic benefits, he didn't care about these. He only replied: "I will restore China, let them laugh and scold them! As long as the great cause can be achieved, I will have my own." If you speak uprightly for me, how can you believe the words of a bunch of officials and unofficial historians?"

Li Shanchang said to his younger brother Li Cunyi: "Let the children carefully measure and register the size of the house, population, age, fat and thin, and physical condition. Don't miss out every tree, grass, brick or tile. Don't give it to such a man." If the thief stays, don't be greedy for money. Let the superiors and Mr. Zhang see that we, the children of the Li family, are more capable and honest, because the officials below will mainly be selected from us and the children of the Feng family. Don't give it at this time. My Li family is in disgrace!"

Li Cunyi raised his hand and said yes.

Yan Wuliang was even more surprised when he heard Li Shanchang's words. When he saw the large silver winter melon and large gold bars that he had treasured for many years being carried out, he felt even more heartbroken. He had to kneel down: "Master Li, I was wrong. Back then, I shouldn’t reject your Li family’s marriage proposal and marry your daughter to a lustful man as a concubine! Please intercede for my family in front of the rebel commander! Woohoo!”

(End of this chapter)