Chapter 2: Great Ambitions

After establishing the country and becoming emperor, Zhang Rui was not idle, but instead gave him a letter to his relatives in front of the villagers.

First, the two sons Zhang Zhong and Zhang Ji were respectively named Kings, and Taoist Luo was named Prime Minister.

In addition, Zhang Rui also exempted Taoist Luo from working for a year, and did not have to go to the fields to work. He also gave him half a bucket of millet and a leaking thatched hut.

Although there are very few things, for Taoist Luo, it is the most important thing to let himself not go to the fields to work.

Otherwise, if he fooled Zhang Rui into being an emperor, wouldn’t the old lady begs to hang herself purely for death?

By the way, Zhang Rui did not forget his eldest son, Zhang Bo, who was studying abroad, and decided to be the crown prince on the spot.

The child left the village alone at the age of sixteen and headed to the county town dozens of miles away, saying that he wanted to learn.

At first, Zhang Rui disagreed, but what happened to this child? He wanted to read and write.

In the end, Zhang Rui agreed, but he went there for four years and never came back at home.

However, Zhang Rui, who became the emperor, did not forget his son. After all, he still hoped that Mr. Zhang would inherit his throne in a hundred years.

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At noon, the ascension ceremony ended, Zhang Rui asked Taoist Luo to take Zhang Zhong and others to collect taxes from each family.

He thought so. Since he was the emperor and the entire village was his own, it would be not too much to collect some taxes!

Anyway, Zhang Rui thinks this way, and it has nothing to do with Zhang Rui when it comes to other people's thoughts.

Soon, Taoist Luo knocked on the wooden door of the first house, and soon, an old man with white hair and wrinkles on his face came out.

Taoist Luo did not speak nonsense and announced directly: "The Emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty ordered that from today on every household, every household would pay half a stone of millet."

"Half stone...grain!" The old man was frightened by this number, then reacted and begged.

"There is too much half of the stone millet, I can't take it out."

Taoist Luo shook his head and refused ruthlessly: "No, no one can lose a grain of millet."

Then, with a wave of his hand, Zhang Zhong beside him took the people in to get it, and soon he raised a small bag of millet.

This should be all the food in the old man’s house, and it is estimated that there are about three or four dou.

Seeing the remaining food being stolen and the old man wanted to snatch it back, but seeing a few young and strong young men on the other side, he didn't even dare to move.

But they were not ruthless people, only saw Zhang Zhong pouring grain into his own bag with the old man’s grain bag.

When the old man had about a bowl of millet left in his grain bag, Zhang Zhong stopped pouring it over, but threw it over to the old man's feet and then walked towards the next family.

The old man picked up the food bag under his feet and opened it. He saw that less than a bowl of millet was left.

The old man seemed to have taken the time to lose his strength and collapsed directly at the door of his house. Two wrinkled veterans tightly covered their food bags and wailed.

"God helps me and took away Zhang Rui, the ungrateful wolf, God!"

The old man fainted from crying. Fortunately, someone passed by the old man's home, otherwise someone would definitely die.

Besides, since leaving the old man’s house, the taxes for the next dozen families were quickly collected.

Until the last family, they encountered a nail, and the owner of this family was a young man of twenty-five or twenty-six years old.

When the young man saw that Taoist Luo asked him for food, he had a hot temper and picked up the hoe on the wall and wanted to fight them desperately.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Zhong had a bad temper and didn't spoil him, so he directly asked his body's followers to beat him.

The four followers heard the order and moved their hands and feet, then surrounded the young man and wanted to beat him up.

But the young man did not suffer any loss with the hoe in his hand.

As the saying goes, blessings come unparalleled, but misfortunes never come in singularity, but the young woman and the young child were grabbed by Zhang Zhong.

"Dad, I feel pain!"

"His father, save us!"

"Baoer, fuck!" Seeing that the mother and the mother were caught by Zhang Zhong, the young man screamed out in a daze.

At this time, a follower took advantage of the young man's attention and directly punched the young man in the cheek.

The young man fell directly to the ground, and blood flowed from the corners of his mouth.

This is not over yet, and the other three men took advantage of his illness and killed him and punched and kicked the young man.

The fists and feet hit the young man countless times, causing him to scream in pain.

As for the young woman and the young child, they were so angry that they cried.

Fortunately, after the fight, I left with the food from the young man's house, leaving only the young man wailing, as well as the young woman and children.

Of course, there were also villagers who came to watch the show. When these villagers saw them leaving, they hurried over to help them and comforted them with kind words.

But the young man and his family looked at them with resentment.

He resented his family for being bullied, and they just came to help, he resented himself for not being able to protect his family, and he resented God for not accepting Zhang Rui's family.

Just when Taoist Luo was about to go back to the broken thatched house, Zhang Ji suddenly found him and told him that Zhang Rui asked him to go there.

Taoist Luo didn't dare to wait and went to Zhang Rui's home as fast as possible.

Outside the door, Taoist Luo wiped the sweat from his face with his Taoist robe, then bent over and said respectfully.

"Your Majesty, Taoist Luo is looking for a meeting!"

"Come in!"

Zhang Rui in the room heard Taoist Luo’s voice and said directly.

"Long live your Majesty!"

Taoist Luo entered the house and saluted respectfully at Zhang Rui on the straw mat.

"No gifts, just flatter you!"

Zhang Rui got up from the straw mat and asked him to sit down.

Taoist Luo knew that he would not sit on Zhang Rui's straw mat, but instead found a relatively flat place and sat down cross-legged.

"I asked you to come with only one thing, that is, how to destroy the pseudo-Song."

Zhang Rui didn't bother to talk and went straight to the point.

As for Taoist Luo, his heart was full of mud horses at this time.

He didn't expect that Zhang Rui called him to come and asked him to find a way to destroy the fake Song.

"Go to you, if I have a way, why are you fooling you? It won't be very good to do it yourself!"

Looking at Zhang Rui's face, the best in the world, Taoist Luo kept complaining in his heart.

"What's wrong? Is it mute?"

Seeing that he had not replied for a long time, Zhang Rui said in dissatisfaction.

Seeing Zhang Rui's face getting darker and darker, Taoist Luo was so anxious that he was sweating profusely.

"Your Majesty...Your Majesty, I suggest that you capture Zhuti County first, then Yizhou, and then divide the troops into two groups, one to go north to capture Liangzhou, Sizhou, etc., and the other to go south to capture Jingzhou, Yangzhou, etc., and then the world will be settled."

Thank God, fortunately, I heard a line before. This drama is about Hanzhong, the previous dynasty, otherwise it would have been lingered.

"Okay, very good. According to your ideas, it won't take long? The fake Song will definitely let me destroy it."

"I will definitely reward you very much at that time."

Compared to Zhang Rui's ecstasy, Taoist Luo was frightened and scared.

Nonsense, no one is afraid, this guy who is ignorant of the world is afraid that he has not even come out of the village and let the county magistrate lead his troops to destroy him.

"No, I must find a way to leave. If I don't leave, I will wait until the matter fails, and then everyone in the village will die."

Taoist Luo's eyes shone brightly and he thought secretly.

"Dad, there is a carriage passing by us."

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!