After Song Xiance and the others confirmed that Liu Zeqing had ordered his army to return to Jinan, they began to formulate the next round of policies.

What they have to face is not only Liu Zeqing, but many people. Now it is a chaotic officialdom, a life-and-death coupe, where the strong prey on the weak, and big fish eat small fish.

Liu Yuanqiao sighed, "Actually, I don't resent Lord Zhu. He is also a self-disciplined person, a person who is willing to serve the country and the people. However, the Ming Dynasty has not been my responsibility alone, nor is it caused by my Liu family. Revitalizing the Ming Dynasty is not the responsibility and obligation of our Liu family. If everyone is willing to make contributions, I, Liu Yuanqiao, are willing to make equal contributions. However, his so-called restoration of local policies is just to let me be the sucker. This is not possible. It seems that it is the Prince of Lu, who took away one-fifth of the taxes in Shandong, and the Confucius Mansion. The so-called wealth of our Liu family is a joke in front of the Confucius Mansion, but have they made any contributions?"

Song Xiance said, "Governor, he is also an old lady who only picks soft persimmons. He has no choice but to do anything about it. What can he do to King Lu and what can he do to Lord Yan Sheng?"

Liu Yuanqiao said, "There is no way, we can only protect ourselves. If the Liu family does not have the ability to protect ourselves, we will probably become one of the refugees."

This is the current official ecology of the Ming Dynasty. Everyone's position is for the world, for the court and the people of the world. However, when they pay the price for it, they refuse to take out their own money, and their quality of life cannot be reduced, but they ask others to contribute their property to save the people of the world.

This phenomenon has become a common state in the officialdom. Any official who is a slut is not a slut, and a sage is a slut. Therefore, now the bankrupt ordinary people and many rich businessmen are also trapped in the pattern of big fish eating small fish. Their sacrifice is said to be for the world, but in fact most of the money has been put into the pocket of an official.

This situation triggered another extremely terrifying situation, which was that officials were unscrupulously oppressing the weak. These weak people had no choice but to hang their property and fields with wealthy and powerful families in order to obtain protection.

This money, grain and field will enter the hands of the aristocratic families. If it is a bad person, you will take the opportunity to take away your property. If it is a good person and abide by the spirit of the contract, they will successfully exempt the taxes of the court. As a result, the court will become poorer and less and less taxes.

This is also a reshuffle of rights and interests in a certain form, and the court and the people became the losers of this power reshuffle.

Liu Yuanqiao is an old man in the officialdom. Of course, he knows how powerful the power of the King of Lu and the Confucius Mansion are inflated. There are also many families in Shandong. Who dares to provoke and touch them? If you can't touch these great gods, you can only touch the Liu family.

Liu Yuanqiao also felt that the world is very bad now, and he was shocked by it. The Ming Dynasty was indeed so collapsed.

A sign of the demise of a country.

Of course, Liu Yuanqiao also received hints from the people of the Lu Prince's Mansion and the Confucius Mansion. The other party also saw the predicament of the Liu family. The other party said that if the Liu family was willing to come and serve, they would welcome them at any time. Liu Zeqing understood the same thing very well. With the wealth of their Liu family, if they defect to any of them, they would probably become their slaves and their property would not exist.

After all, Liu Yuanqiao is the patriarch of the Liu family. He is also thinking that they have been glorious before, and it is better to enjoy the success than to live humiliatingly.

In Linqing and the others temporarily repelled Liu Zeqing, an opponent, and gave them a chance to breathe, but the other one was difficult to deal with. Zhu Dadian kept asking him to contribute money and food, hoping that they could make more contributions to the current refugees.

But Liu Yuanqiao knew how corrupt the current official storage system was. No matter how much money and grain he donated, he would be swallowed by these greedy villains. It can be said that only half a tael of silver would be flowed to the victims at most if they donated ten taels of silver. In this way, how much money and grain does the Liu family have to fill the appetites of these animals.

Moreover, there is more than the rich and powerful family in Linqing. Why did the Liu family take full responsibility when something went wrong? Is the Liu family the local parents?

Liu Yuanqiao was in Linqing, and the difficulties it faced were actually the same as those faced by Liu Bu in Foshan. Now the other party is driving refugees to you, hoping to ask you to help you. If you don’t help, you will use righteousness to suppress you. It is estimated that after a winter is over, there will be fewer refugees, but the Liu family will also be charged with the crime of not saving you.

This is actually a dilemma.

It is both difficult for them to save or not to save.

Why do we say this? It is that today's moral concepts are distorted and cannot be used as reason. If their Liu family appeared in the attitude of saving the world, took out a lot of money and food to save these refugees through difficulties and gained a good reputation, the refugees might be grateful to him, but the court would never be grateful to him. The court would only think that they were buying people's hearts.

The powerful and wealthy people in the local area will not be grateful to them. They only think that the Liu family is rich and wants to be saints, but they turn them into villains. They spend money and become people inside and outside. Liu Yuanqiao was very frustrated. He felt that it was too difficult to be a human being like this.

Liu Yuanqiao was born in a wealthy family and has been in charge of the family for nearly 20 or 30 years. He has always liked to avenge people and things, but now he cannot use this method. The current situation makes him feel frustrated so that no matter what he does, it is a dilemma. If you do it, it is a mistake, and if you don’t do it, it is a mistake.

Such a dilemma made him feel that he was the leader, the big ship of the Liu family, was shuttled through the reefs and jungles. If he was not careful, the boat would collapse and die.

Now Liu Zeqing and the others are leaving, but they are facing a new dilemma, that is, a large number of refugees flocked to Fushan and Jimo. Do they save them or not?

In Jimo, the Liu family is the richest family, and these farmers came for the Liu family after the conscious guidance of the government. If they did not launch relief operations, the consequences would be unimaginable. It is estimated that these vagrants would no longer exist after winter.

However, this winter is a very severe test for the Liu family and the refugees.

One thing that is certain is that there are two types of people in the world. One is a docile person. Under the circumstances of God's will, they have no choice but to sit on the ground, without any ability to resist, and die silently. The other is that they are unwilling to starve to death like a dog. They rise up and kill all directions, and are not afraid of rebellion. Although this is a serious crime to destroy the nine clans, they first care about the present and eat a full meal first. So for the present, they can do anything.

If these refugees trigger a riot, they will know and understand how much impact it will have on the Liu family.

Just like in Shaanxi now, why is it completely in chaos and a mess? After these bandits entered Henan, they also caused chaos in the Central Plains.

The court dispatched countless troops and mobilized countless generals to wipe out the bandits, but they did not find out what the essence of the bandits was. Liu Yuanqiao knew that if he had not handled the problem here well, it would probably be that similar large-scale bandits and rebellion events in the East and Three Prefectures in Shandong would trigger similar large-scale bandits and rebellion events. Once the fight broke out, the first thing that would suffer was the big family led by the Liu family.

Of course, these officials now cannot get benefits. They will also become the first person to be killed by refugees. The first person to be killed by refugees in rebellion is the official. Following these wealthy and powerful families, they cleaned up the past one by one, without survivors and no luck. Just like in Shaanxi and Henan, wherever the bandits go, they basically transformed into desolation and rural areas into ruins. They carry a large number of people and rushed to another city like locusts, and everywhere they go, they are restless.

This is equivalent to a new power reshuffle. If they have the ability to survive in this huge crisis, they can continue the glory of their family. If they do not have the ability to continue, the Zhou rich man died in this crisis and became the old yellow flower.

Such history and such experiences are basically constantly on the Central Plains. As the saying goes, thousands of sails pass by the sunken boat, and thousands of trees are spring in front of the dead tree stumps.

Liu Yuanqiao, as the patriarch of the Liu family, had the obligation to guide his family from this crisis to protect their family's wealth and honor.

Now they have entered a dilemma. When he has few choices, he has to authorize Liu Fuqi to give him more rights. It depends on him to do it slowly. It is impossible for them to do their best and save refugees at all costs. They do not have the ability, but at present, they can save one if they can save one, which is one of their few choices.

Even a cunning and wise man like Song Xiance doesn’t think much about it now. He can only take one step at a time. They don’t have much confidence and confidence in the future. They can only say that they are taking one step at a time. Their current policy is to first contribute money and efforts to save some people.
Chapter completed!