Chapter 472 Aristocratic Family: We must cut through the mess quickly!
Ever since they learned that the imperial army had set up traffic jams on the traffic arteries of the four provinces of North Zhili, claiming to be arresting suspicious people, but in fact they were keeping an eye on the messengers of the wealthy families, Jiang, Qi, Yu and other wealthy families
The heads of the family gathered together again.
In the Daming Mansion, there was still the deep courtyard where everyone gathered together and talked fiercely.
"Everyone, now has reached the most critical and urgent time!"
The head of the Cui family had a face full of pain and sorrow, and he wanted to shout loudly:
"That dog emperor clearly covets my family's wealth. He is red-eyed and has murderous intentions!"
"Don't look at what he hasn't done to us yet. Once he deploys all the troops and all the eagles and dogs in golden clothes, I will be finished!"
"They will all die without a burial place! All the wealth, acres and mansions will be robbed by that dog emperor!"
Not long ago, the Cui family was one of the top aristocratic families in the North, with a long history and strong strength. However, with the Cui family's greatest support in the court, Cui Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites was convicted and executed by Zhu Gaojie, and he immediately suffered an unprecedented heavy blow.
In the court, officials who were openly related to the Cui family were either imprisoned or hurriedly severing ties with the Cui family, directly cutting off their support and sources of information in the court.
What followed was the local government's ill will toward the Cui family!
Although the Cui family itself has great strength and has been entrenched in Taiyuan for many years and has cultivated Shanxi deeply, the local officials can't help but use caution. They have many concerns and do not dare to press too hard and directly attack them blatantly.
But as time goes by, and Zhu Gaojie uses various methods to suppress these powerful families in the North, the Cui family will inevitably suffer heavy losses again in the future!
It is even very likely that they will be reduced from a wealthy family in the north to a small landowner!
After all, a Shanxi governor has recently issued a document to Taiyuan, requesting a re-clarification of the local farmland...
The head of the Cui family saw this very clearly, so he jumped up and down at this time, sparing no effort to advocate Zhu Gaojie's malice towards them, hoping to arouse the same hatred of other families, so that they could join forces to deal with Zhu Gaojie.
After all, not everyone has the courage and ability to deal with an emperor!
After hearing what the head of the Cui family said, although everyone looked calm, no one spoke for a while.
Nowadays, the Cui family's strength has been greatly reduced, and they are already at the bottom of these big families. They are only ranked higher than the Zhang family who was killed by Zhu Gaojie in Yunzhou. The lack of strength is the biggest problem and flaw!
"Emperor Hong Xi wants to eat us. Now it is Sima Zhao's intention and everyone knows it."
Finally, the head of the Yu family spoke:
"He really has a big appetite. He just came back from the Mobei Grassland. He doesn't think about how to stabilize the situation after taking the throne, but he always thinks about taking advantage of us!"
"And he's not afraid of chipping all his teeth!"
The head of the Qi family squinted his eyes with a cold look on his face:
"Those Tatars in Mobei Grassland are really useless snacks!"
"We usually claim to have millions of people who can control strings and are skilled in bows and horses, but this dog emperor brought tens of thousands of horses to charge, and both of them were destroyed?"
"Even if there are hundreds of thousands of pigs, it's not that easy to catch them!"
His heart was bleeding. The secret trade with these foreign races on the grassland had allowed their family to become rich, and they had been amassing money and strength like crazy. But now everything was in vain and completely destroyed!
Harming someone's wealth is like killing your parents!
The current head of the Qi family has cursed Zhu Gaojie countless times in his heart, wishing that the Ming Emperor would die soon...
Seeing the head of the Qi family say this, the head of the Jiang family sitting in the middle finally couldn't help but say:
"Everyone here has more or less trade relations with the grassland. Over the years, we have also accumulated a lot of land and property."
"The news I got from the imperial court is that although Emperor Hongxi won the expedition to Mobei, the imperial court's household treasury was squandered, and the harvest he obtained from the grassland was not enough to equal the consumption of grain and grass.
, it can be described as a real barbaric force."
"Although the price of food has temporarily stabilized in the Beizhili area, it is mainly because we did not take action some time ago, which allowed the court to stabilize the situation."
"But now instead of commending our meritorious ministers, the emperor is trying to use our family wealth to fill the gap in the imperial treasury. It is simply the most ridiculous thing in the world!"
"Has there ever been a tyrant in the past who behaved so absurdly?"
When the head of the Jiang family said this, he slammed the table angrily with a very ugly look on his face:
"Back then, Zhu Yuanzhang killed Shen Wansan, who was dedicated to serving the imperial court, and took away that huge wealth. Now, fortunately, this Zhu Gaojie is the same thing, and he even took the idea of a kind family like us!"
"Zhen Nai is not a family member and does not enter the same family. He, Zhu Yuanzhang, was a begging monk at the beginning. He stretched out his hand to grab money everywhere. Now his grandson has started to grab it too!"
More than thirty years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, after three generations of emperors, in the northern land where the folk customs were fierce, these aristocratic families were still unruly and unruly, and did not have much respect for the emperor and the court.
Not to mention anything else, in the past thirty years, although the Ming Dynasty had almost unified the world and claimed to rebuild China and rule the Central Plains, in fact, rebellions in various places never stopped, rising one after another.
Whether in the north, the south, or the west, rebels in various places are common and quite common.
And these words of the head of the Jiang family are almost equivalent to the final word!
"Everyone, you are all the heads of your respective families. Under the current situation, we must make a decision."
“Faced with such a critical situation, we must cut through the mess quickly!”
The head of the Yu family also spoke out to help:
"I have heard that the armies near the capital have started to leave for the four provinces of the North. Maybe they are here just for us."
"In addition, those dogs in golden clothes are chasing and biting us every day. If we really wait until the day when the army comes, we will all die without a burial place!"
Many family heads were horrified. Since they could become a powerful family in the North, in addition to the shadow of their ancestors, they also used a lot of secret methods. The smuggling trade with the aliens on the grassland was even more in violation of the law.
If the imperial laws were really discovered by that dog emperor and old scores were turned over, it would be a life-and-death affair!
"Fight!"
Several people gritted their teeth and made the final decision in this mansion!