Seeing that Li Yan was not confused by beauty, a trace of disappointment flashed in Mr. Jiezhai's eyes, but his face still smiled: "Oh... I don't know what Mr. Li said?"

Li Yan bowed and said seriously: "Donald Jiezhai, now the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is incompetent and only knows how to favor the eunuch party Wei Zhongxian and the Duke of Na Xin, Yang Feng. He has been in a state of military force over the years. Isn't it true that even though the country is very wary, it will be destroyed? This also makes the people of the Ming Dynasty live in poverty.

Fortunately, Li Zicheng, the King of Breaking, could not bear to see the suffering of the people in the world. The rebel army raised a banner to condemn such an incompetent court for the poor people in the world. Now the rebel army has taken down Anqing Prefecture, but it is difficult for there to be no food and grass. Therefore, he specially sent Li Yan to come to ask for help from Mr. Jiezhai and the kind and righteous men of Anqing Prefecture, hoping that the rebels can lend a helping hand to help our rebel army."

"oh……"

Mr. Jiezhai stroked his beard with a smile on his face and thought. After a long time, he said, "Young Master Li, it's not to be hiding it. People in the world say that Jiangnan is rich, but in fact it is just a misunderstanding of Jiangnan by outsiders.

I don’t know about other places, but the arable land in Anqing Prefecture has gradually decreased over the decades. Many people even converted fertile fields to mulberry trees and silkworms to raise them. Many places even had to buy food from Huguang and other places to maintain local needs, so there was no excess food provided to the rebel army at all."

Speaking of this, Mr. Jiezhai immediately saw the look of disappointment and a faint coldness in Li Yan's eyes, and then changed his tone: "Of course, the rebel army led by King Chuang and Mr. Li is fighting for the people of the world. If I don't have any expression, it would be unreasonable.

Let’s do this, I donated 2,000 taels of silver, 300 shi of food, and 20 pigs to the rebel army on behalf of my Liang family. I thought I would like to celebrate, and I hope Mr. Li will not dislike him.”

Half a quarter of an hour later, Li Yan walked out of Liang's mansion, and the guard who had already long been at the door quickly met him: "Military advisor, how are you talking to him?"

Li Yan shook his head: "It's hard to say, let's go to the next house first."

In this way, Li Yan visited all the gentry mansions in Anqing City one by one, but the results he got disappointed.

These gentry and wealthy families were very enthusiastic about Li Yan's arrival on the surface, and they held banquets and sent singers to accompany him to drink. But once Li Yan mentioned that they were asking them to pay for money and food, all of them showed the same face, and everyone began to cry at him poor.

Although they had more or less thoughts for Li Yan's sake, Li Yan counted that the only thing they had to get today is 7,500 taels of silver, 900 stones of grain, and 110 pigs.

The silver I got was not an integer because a gentry donated twenty-three taels of silver, which made Li Yan almost turned against him on the spot.

When night fell and Li Yan returned to the former prefect's office and the current rebellion base camp, Li Zicheng and a group of bandit leaders had been waiting for a long time.

Seeing Li Yan coming back, Liu Zongmin asked first without waiting for Li Zicheng to speak: "The military advisor will take action personally today, and I guess he will gain a lot. Why not say it out and let us listen?"

Li Yan shook his head with a calm face and bowed to Li Zicheng, "King of Chuang, Li Yan is incompetent and has let you down. Today, he visited almost all the gentry and wealthy families, and only got more than 7,500 taels of silver, 900 stones of grain, and more than 100 pigs."

“Haha…haha…”

Liu Zongmin couldn't help laughing, "What did I say before? Those local tyrants and evil gentry regarded money as their lifeblood. They would rather feed the endless food to pigs than give us these bitter foods. How could they do their best to help us? Now you understand, right?"

Li Zicheng was also ashamed of water. Although he did not expect Li Yan's lobbying this time, he did not expect that even though the Anqing Mansion had been captured by him, these people would dare to despise him so much.

The gentry in a prefecture actually took out thousands of silver, less than a thousand stones of grain and hundreds of pigs and sent them away. Is this slap themselves in the face?

"Did these people really think we dare not touch them after listening to many songs?" Li Zicheng's face was particularly gloomy, and his eyes showed a strong murderous intent. "I originally planned to persuade him, but now it seems that these people will not understand anything other than swords and guns!"

It was late at night, and in a study room in the inner courtyard of Liang Mansion, four or five lamps illuminated the huge study room very brightly.

Liang Qichen, the owner of Liang's mansion in his fifties, nicknamed Jiezhai, sat upright on the chair of the Grand Master, and stood respectfully beside him, a middle-aged man in his thirties. This person was Liang Qichen's eldest son Liang Yunchao.

Liang Qichen said in a deep voice: "Chaoer, what's the situation outside now?"

Liang Yunchao replied respectfully: "Regarding my father's words, since the bandits occupied Anqing Mansion, they have not done anything bad except for searching for the people in the government. However, the kid heard that the bandits were searching for food everywhere, and the kid was worried that they would find us again sooner or later."

"Hmph... I don't know whether they dare."

Liang Qichen snorted coldly: "We in Jiangnan are not as good as those locals in the northwest. Since ancient times, the gentry in Jiangnan has been one, and they all prosper and lose both. Even the court dared not attack us. Can they be more powerful than the court?

If he dares to attack us like he is in the northwest, they will be unable to move in Jiangnan. Do you think why Li Yan, who came from Henan Prefecture today, isn’t it because he knows the power here very well?"

"But..." Liang Yunchao hesitated for a moment. Although his old father's words made sense, he always felt uneasy in his heart.

"There is nothing, just do what my father said. You should contact the Bai family and the Wang family immediately, and let them hide their money and grain, so that those bandits will not be able to see them. Those mud legs will not become a climate." Liang Qichen emphasized his tone, "When you fight the imperial army in a few days, the bandits will naturally disappear."

Liang Yunchao did not dare to disobey his father's words, so he quickly whispered: "Yes, I'll make arrangements now."

Just as Liang Yunchao was about to arrange for manpower to transport food, he heard a noise outside.

Soon, accompanied by a rapid knock on the door, the voice of the butler of the outer courtyard rang out: "Master is not good, there are a large group of bandits coming outside. They rushed in without saying a word. The guards stepped forward to argue with them, but they were all killed. Now they have rushed in and killed when they see people, and they are about to kill to the inner courtyard! Master, you can escape quickly."

"What...they...they dare to take action?"

"No, Dad... let's run away quickly!"
Chapter completed!