Zhu Youzhen severely reprimanded the two cabinet ministers, neither of whom had yet begun to teach these vassal kings a lesson, and they took the lead in attacking. King Heng of Qingzhou stepped forward and bowed:

"Your Majesty, since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, we have never handed over a penny of taxes, nor have we handed over a stone of grain, and now the family population has increased several times, and our burden is also extremely heavy.

The imperial court cannot levy our commercial and agricultural taxes, and now that the population has plummeted due to the war, shouldn't we be rewarded with some excess land? ”

Yiwang Zhu Youben:

"That's right, King Heng is right, we really can't eat, I hope the emperor will be gracious, don't levy our taxes, and add some land to us."

King Ji:

"What the two brothers said is reasonable, please be gracious to the emperor, we are a family, the fields of the Ming Dynasty were originally our Zhu family, you sit on the country, we should enjoy it, this is what Taizu meant at the beginning."

……

These vassal kings are extremely thick-skinned, they can say anything, and they don't take Zhu Youzhen seriously at all, presumably when Emperor Chongzhen was in power, they must have had this attitude.

Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse died suddenly, because he had no heirs, his younger brother Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters, took over the throne, and these vassal kings were already unhappy.

are also the descendants of the old Zhu family, why did they let King Xin ascend the throne, but they didn't get anything.

So they began to occupy a lot of fields and shops, and the country was poor, but they were all rich.

But there is no consideration for the state, even in the most critical moments.

After Zhu Youzhen crossed into Chongzhen, the situation had just been reversed, and they not only did not cooperate with the reform of the imperial court, but also shamelessly began to ask for land.

Zhu Youzhen's inner anger almost reached the limit, but in order to see all their faces, Zhu Youzhen still held back his anger and insisted on waiting for them to express their positions.

Sure enough, after the vassal kings whose fiefs had not fallen took turns to perform, the vassal kings who had lost their fiefdoms began their own performances.

Fu Wang Zhu Youxiang:

"Your Majesty, now that Luoyang has been recovered, can you divide our fiefdom to us, I don't ask for much, I just want the original ones, as long as they are tax-free, they don't want much land."

After King Fu asked for the return of the fief, other anti-kings also began to ask for their lost fiefs, demanding the same as King Fu, not asking for a penny, as long as it was returned to Zhao.

They had the king of Chu in Wuchang

The Tang King of Nanyang

King Jin of Taiyuan

The acting king of Datong

King Su of Lanzhou

The King of Wugang

The Rong King of Changde

……

The vast majority of vassal kings who lost their fiefs said they wanted to return their fiefs, but they would not pay taxes.

People who don't know the inside story will definitely think that they don't have high requirements, but they just want to return to the fiefdom, and whether they pay taxes or not can be discussed.

First of all, it is necessary to find out how many people there were in their family before, and at least a few hundred people in their heyday.

But now they have almost been killed by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and none of the vassal families has a population of more than 20 people, these are just fish that have slipped through the net.

They do not pay a penny of taxes to the Ming Dynasty, and they also receive a total of 8.37 million stone of grain from the Ming Dynasty every year, accounting for almost more than 30 percent of the total output value of the Ming Dynasty.

And their family's food, gold and silver were all turned into supplies for the rogue to attack the Ming Dynasty.

If it weren't for them, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others, what to rely on to confront the Ming Dynasty, would have been exterminated by the Ming Dynasty long ago.

Now he shamelessly asks for all the fiefs and exempts all taxes.

The only thing that made Zhu Youzhen feel relieved was King Zhou, who lowered his head and didn't say a word, which seemed to be inconsistent with other vassal kings.

When the king of Zhou attacked Kaifeng, he took out more than 500,000 taels of silver to pay the army and reward the people and soldiers of the city for defending Kaifeng.

On the contrary, the other vassal kings were attacked by the rogues in their fiefdoms, as if they had nothing to do with them, and they didn't pay a penny, and as a result, their families were ruined.

Seeing the vassal kings behaving like this, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were extremely dissatisfied, they were all worried about the emperor, and they didn't know if the emperor could cope with his relatives.

They really hope that the emperor can be stronger again, just like he treats those corrupt officials, and take care of these shameless vassal kings.

But will the emperor do that? They all felt that it was impossible to do that, no matter how angry the emperor was, he would not destroy his nine clans, and if he did that, even the emperor himself would be punished.

The vassal kings finally quieted down after speaking, and Zhu Youzhen asked:

"Have you all finished speaking, is there anything else you need to add, you can continue now."

A few vassal kings felt that what they said seemed to be missing, so they wanted to add a few words again, but when they saw that the emperor's face was wrong, they gave up.

"Your Majesty, it's almost enough, we don't want to worry about it, there is nothing to add."

They all thought that the emperor summoned them to negotiate with them and wanted them to cooperate with the reform, but if they wanted them to cooperate, the emperor would give them enough benefits.

"Smack......

Zhu Youzhen suddenly split the Longshu case with one palm, which frightened the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

Just now, these invincible vassal kings were also taken aback, but they didn't think that the emperor could do anything to himself.

After Zhu You inspected the case of the broken dragon book, Teng stood up and shouted:

"King of Qin, King of Jin, King Su, you are guilty, as the king of my Ming domain, I did not do anything when the Liukou attacked the city, and surrendered to the Liukou after the city was broken.

The income of the fiefdom for many years has become the supply of the rogues, allowing them to counterattack our Daming, causing the lives to be ruined, and the people who come will push them out and kill them to show the public. ”

The three vassal kings who were invincible just now never thought that the emperor would suddenly turn his face, and suddenly felt a huge murderous aura enveloping him.

The emperor was furious and ambushed millions of corpses, and once the majesty of imperial power broke out, how could three timid vassal kings resist it.

The three of them had weak legs, and they knelt down in front of Zhu Youzhen, kowtowing again and again and begging for mercy:

"Your Majesty, we were all joking just now, please beg the emperor to spare your life, we won't dare to do it again, we don't want any land."

Zhu Youzhen smiled coldly:

"Are you kidding? In our Ming Dynasty, he actually joked with me, this is the crime of contempt for the court to bully the king, and he withdrew to behead the public. ”

"Yes"

A few brocade guards broke into the Taihe Palace, grabbed their necks, and twisted them up and left like eagles catching chickens.

"Zhu Youzhen, you can't treat us like this, if you kill us today, how will you face Emperor Taizu in the future."

Zhu Youzhen snorted coldly:

"Hmph, you still have the face to mention Emperor Taizu, if Taizu knew that there were unscrupulous descendants like you, he would crawl out of the imperial tomb and kill you early."

"The emperor can't, they are all members of our Zhu family, they can't be killed easily, and they haven't committed any heinous crimes......"

No one in the Manchu Dynasty interceded, but these vassal kings interceded for the three of them.

Zhu Youzhen looked at these vassal kings with disdain, and said coldly:

"I have already become a traitor and betrayed my Daming, isn't it a great crime, so what is a great crime in your hearts, is my Ming Dynasty not as good as your land?

I will immediately start settling accounts with you, what qualifications do you have to intercede for them, and if there are intercessors who are guilty of the same crime as them, the green dragon will be beheaded! ”

"The Green Dragon Obeys"