Chapter 172: The Confused Vassal King

Zhu Youzhen's face suddenly sank.

Immediately, these feudal kings felt the majesty of imperial power.

Only then did they suddenly realize that the emperor had changed and became very decisive and resolute.

The indecision that used to be completely disappeared without a trace.

These vassal kings finally lowered their noble heads, and did not dare to intercede for the three unlucky ones.

Soon the wailing outside stopped, and Qinglong walked quickly into the Taihe Hall and bowed:

"Back to the emperor, the three princes have been corrected."

"Very well, step aside."

"Obedience"

"Oh my God, the emperor really killed the three vassal kings, and these three people are all relatives of the emperor......"

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were very shocked, and they all thought that the emperor was scaring the three vassal kings.

The vassal kings, on the other hand, began to feel their legs go limp, and their minds were buzzing.

Zhu Youzhen stepped down from the dragon throne and walked back and forth beside these vassal kings, which suddenly made them even more frightened.

"You all have heard me clearly, since my Ming Dynasty was in Taizu, there have been a total of 87 princes and 934 county kings, and now there are only 25 princes and 154 county kings left.

Most of them have been killed by the rogues, and they are all in the house, you are all lucky, and you should be lucky that you are still alive.

You occupy the best land in the Ming Dynasty, not only do you not pay a penny of taxes, but also receive a huge share of the grain from the imperial court, and the money you receive accounts for about 30% of the total grain output value of the Ming Dynasty.

The so-called official coercion and civil rebellion.

The people rebelled one after another when they couldn't eat enough, and almost subverted my Ming Dynasty, and you, pampered and pampered, occupied the people's fertile land.

Agrarian reform is imperative.

If there is no reform, the people will rebel again.

Then you are their target, ask yourself.

If my Daming country is subverted, where is there still room for you vassal kings.

King Fu was stingy and was boiled into Fushou soup by Liukou, have you all forgotten?

I didn't do anything, I lost my fief, and now I don't know how to ask for a fief.

Give you a fiefdom, and if there is another rebellion, will you be able to hold it? If the Ming Dynasty perishes, you all have to pay a certain amount of responsibility.

Now I declare that all the vassal kings will hand over all the land they have occupied, and that they will only pay the previous 10%.

If you have a fief of yeldom, you can't pay a penny less in taxes.

The three feudal kings who betrayed the imperial court revoked their titles and took back their fiefs, and the clansmen were delegated to farm labor.

Don't tell me that you don't have enough to eat, but that the fields of your fiefdom are enough to feed your whole family, and that you have a hundred percent to take.

If you feel that your income has been reduced too much, your family can go into business, have surplus labor, or go to work on a local farm to earn money to support yourself.

If the fief is lost, your fief will be lost forever, and now I have decided to give each of you an equal distribution of 20 acres of land, and distribute the previous 30%.

As long as you have the ability, your family can get famous, and you can also join the army to serve the country.

You can also rebel, but if you are discovered, you will kill all of them.

Also, after retreating from the court, you can stay in Beijing, and there was no ban on summoning you to enter Beijing and leave the fiefdom at will, and it will be lifted from today. ”

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, he waved his hand, and the little eunuch immediately shouted:

"There is a morning music, and there is no retreat."

There will definitely be no one to play the book now, because the ministers have not reacted, and Zhu Youzhen has returned to the Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Youzhen's decision was like a thunderbolt from the blue, not only made these vassal kings like a lightning strike, but also made the Manchu civil and military frightened, they secretly praised the emperor's sage, and also felt that the emperor did too ruthlessly.

In fact, as a traverser, Zhu Youzhen is very aware of the history of the Ming Dynasty, and the fall of the Ming Dynasty has a lot to do with these vassal kings, who are a great burden to the imperial court.

Zhu You has calculated that there is still a lot of space he left for these vassal kings, but it can't be compared with before, even so, they can earn a thousand taels of silver a year.

This does not include the commercial income of the vassal kings, in the Ming Dynasty, which is about to flourish, they can completely rely on their network resources to make a lot of money.

Even if they don't do anything, the feudal king with a fief can still receive 10,000 stone of grain from the imperial court a year, which is equivalent to 130,000 catties of grain now.

The vassal kings who did not have a fief could receive 390,000 catties of grain a year, and 20 acres of land per person were also allocated to them.

Today's results are all their own sins, if they hadn't vigorously resisted the reform of the imperial court, Zhu Youzhen would not have lost so much of their money.

To deal with these people, you must have the means to deal with them, otherwise you will have no feeling for him if you are good to him, and if you snub them a little, they will come up.

As for King Zhou, who did not express his position, Zhu Youzhen decided to return half of his fiefdom, but not a penny of taxes was missing, which was a compliment to him.

As for worrying about the rebellion of the vassal kings, this does not exist here in Zhu Youzhen, and they will be killed in minutes, Zhu Youzhen and them are not related, he is just a traverser.

After Zhu Youzhen retired from the court, it took the vassal king half a day to react, and it turned out that the emperor summoned them not to give them benefits, but to start stabbing them.

Facing Emperor Chongzhen, who was in full swing, the vassal kings were extremely uncomfortable.

But they can only obediently abide by Zhu Youzhen's decision, none of them are fools, if they resist to the end, the three vassal kings will be his end.

If it is said that there is a rebellion, who dares, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have been destroyed, and the Eastern Captives are now beaten into shrinking turtles, so they will not do that self-defeating thing.

These vassal kings are like a cancer growing on the body of the Great Ming.

If the Donglin Party civil official group is the biggest tumor, the vassal kings are not small.

On the prairie, Yue Fei Huang led an invincible army of 50,000 dragons, and wiped out three or four tribes in a row without bloodshed. More than 40,000 enemies were annihilated.

Except for the annihilated enemy, the rest fled to the other tribes of Mengyuan.

Now everyone on the grassland knows that there is a Ming Longteng army, which is very brave and good at fighting and killing people like hemp, and almost does not leave a living mouth.

Men were killed almost when they saw it, cattle, sheep, horses, and women were snatched away, and the place they passed was desolate.

But there are also tribes who are not convinced, these things are what they are best at, they are all descendants of Genghis Khan, a people on horseback.

How could he lose to the Han people who can only farm and weave cloth and are like two-legged sheep.

And the supplies have been looted, it would be good for these Han people to ride horses, can they have such powerful cavalry?

It must have been those cunning Han people, what kind of intrigue and trickery were used, or they used ten times as many people and horses as the Mengyuan tribe.

Looking at the Meng Yuan cavalry who fled back in embarrassment, they all thought that these people were lying and making excuses for their incompetent performance.

However, with the Bahrain Division, the Zalut Division and other divisions being wiped out again, the other tribes of Mengyuan finally believed that the Han people did have cavalry, and they were still very fierce.

At this time, it was getting late, and in Yue Fei's military tent, Yue Fei, the governor of the right army, was arranging tactics, and he also took out some things that no one had ever seen.

These things were all just sent from Jingshi, that is, the prize walkie-talkie that Zhu Youzhen had drawn, and there was also a drainage car and dining car parked outside.

There was no shortage of horses in the prairie, and after Yue Fei annihilated the four Mengyuan tribes, he got countless cattle, sheep and horses.

The sword and shield soldiers under his command are all equipped with war horses, the cavalry is now one man and two horses, and the water wheel and dining cart are all five horse-drawn carriages.

When Zhu Youzhen went to the water wheel and dining car, he just felt that it was suitable for combat use in the grassland or desert.

So it was given to the Longteng Army in Mengyuan for use.

But he didn't expect that it was the arrival of these things that made the Ming Dragon Tengjun feel like a fish in water without scruples on the grassland.