The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty could not raise private soldiers, or they could not raise more than two thousand private soldiers.

This is the rule set by Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

You can sit at home and eat and drink, but it won't give you a chance to rebel.

This rule resulted in a large number of vassal kings who were rich enough to rival the country.

But most of them stood idly by and watched the safety of the Ming Dynasty.

Like Luoyang's Fuwang, he would rather Luoyang City be broken and be boiled into Fushou soup by Li Zicheng with him and sika deer.

He was unwilling to take out the money to pay the army and motivate the Ming soldiers to defend the city (of course, he didn't know how he died)

After his death, Li Zicheng took dozens of carts of gold and silver from his house.

This shows the wealth of the Ming vassal kings, who not only had the best land resources, but also enjoyed the country's extremely high fortunes.

Their shops, land, etc., will not pay a penny to the imperial court.

However, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's early army almost all relied on robbing them to survive.

After more than a dozen vassal kings were exterminated by the Rogues, the other vassal kings were indeed worried day and night, and they were really afraid that they would be exterminated by the Rogues.

However, Zhu Youzhen finally fought against the Liukou army in Beijing, so that they, the vassal kings, would no longer be worried and afraid.

Soon, however, the imperial court began to carry out reforms, not only to divide the land, but also to levy commercial taxes.

This kind of reform made these feudal kings feel extremely angry, and it was clearly to cut off their financial routes?

Not only did they refuse to hand over the land they had encroached upon, but they also said that they would not pay a penny of commercial taxes.

The twists and turns that Li Banghua gave to Zhu Youzhen just now were their joint letters, asking the cabinet to delete the provisions on the taxation of vassal kings.

Otherwise, they united with all the vassal kings to put pressure on the imperial court to remove the current cabinet and the secretaries of various departments.

In one breath, Li Banghua told Zhu Youzhen everything about the vassal king's obstruction of reform.

After Li Banghua finished speaking, Ni Yuanlu, the head of the household department, also said that he was also threatened by the feudal kings in various places.

They asked the emperor to give them the master, and they must restrain some of those vassal kings, otherwise it will be difficult for the reform to proceed smoothly.

Hearing the complaints of the two adults, Zhu Youzhen almost became angry.

These vassal kings really take themselves too seriously, he is not the cowardly Chongzhen Emperor.

"Two Aiqing, do you know how Daqin's Shang Ying died?"

Ni Yuanlu and Li Banghua were stunned, they didn't know what medicine was sold in the emperor's gourd.

As former college students, they are certainly familiar with history.

"Back to the emperor, Weichen knew how Shang Ying died, after Qin Xiaogong died, he was framed by traitorous ministers, and King Qin Hui was killed, and the crime was rebellion."

Zhu Youzhen nodded:

"What you said about Shang Ying's death method is right, but you don't mention the real cause of his death, Shang Ying's change of law greatly touches the fundamental interests of the nobles.

After the death of Qin Xiaogong, King Qin Hui came to power, but his foundation was still unstable, and in order to stabilize the overall situation, King Qin Hui had to kill Shang Ying.

Shang Ying's death was also his own change, and he had a chance to escape, but because of the system he had set himself, he was killed.

However, after Shang Ying's death, King Qin Hui did not abolish Shang Ying's changes, and still strictly implemented them, so that Qin became stronger and stronger, and finally stood out from the Seven Kingdoms.

It can be said that the Great Qin unified the six countries, and the Shang Dynasty changed the law and played a great role. ”

The two first-class officials of the dynasty were very surprised that the emperor could still be familiar with history under the circumstance of managing every day.

Hearing the emperor's question, he hurriedly replied:

"Your Majesty, you are today's son, although Shang Ying is great, how can he be compared with my emperor."

Zhu Youzhen laughed:

"The two Aiqing have won the award, since I understand the importance of reform, can a few vassal kings stop my reform, it's just a mantis arm as a car, you just have to let it go.

If anyone dares to hinder the rise of the Ming Dynasty, I will never spare them, no matter who they are, even if Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang crawled out of the imperial tomb to oppose it, he will not be able to stop my reform. ”

"Your Majesty, ......"

"Obey the order, the emperor is shengming, and the old minister will retire."

When they heard that Taizu climbed out of the imperial mausoleum to oppose it, and they couldn't stop the Ming reform, Li Banghua and Ni Yuanlu were taken aback.

I thought to myself:

"Your Majesty, how can you talk nonsense!"

But I have to admit that this is really domineering.

With the support of the emperor, the two were full of confidence, and only turned around and left after bending down to exit the imperial study, in order to express their respect for the imperial power.

"Your Majesty, Cao Zhengchun asks to see you."

Zhu Youzhen raised his eyebrows, just wanted to find Cao Zhengchun, this old eunuch arrived, and Cao Cao's descendants were not slow.

"Announce him to you."

"Obey"

As soon as the little eunuch left the imperial study, Cao Zhengchun stepped into the imperial study.

"The humble Cao Zhengchun visited the emperor and wished my emperor long live, long live, long live."

Seeing Cao Zhengchun, Zhu Youzhen remembered one of the White Lotus Sect Double Saints imprisoned in Zhao Prison.

"Pingshen, did that person confess?"

"I returned to the emperor and confessed, but I didn't dare to say it."

Cao Zhengchun's words made Zhu Youzhen feel a little funny, the number one master in the interior, Cao Zhengchun, who kills people without blinking, actually has something he doesn't dare to say.

"Cao Zhengchun. You don't show off in front of me, I don't believe that there are still things you don't dare to say, if you have something to say, say it quickly, and let it go if you have a fart. ”

Seeing that the emperor was rude, Cao Zhengchun hurriedly said:

"Under the severe torture of his humble position, he finally confessed, assassinated the king and was instructed by others, and the person who instructed them to do things was my eight vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, including the king of Fu, the king of Huai, the king of Ji, and the king of Qin."

Zhu Youzhen smiled coldly, and his face immediately became gloomy:

"Nonsense, this is clearly a false accusation by the White Lotus Sect, if one or two vassal kings collude with the White Lotus Sect, it can still be justified.

There are so many vassal kings, how can they all collude with the White Lotus Sect, and now the vassal kings can't raise private soldiers, they don't have the strength to rebel at all.

Cao Zhengchun, with your ability in the West Factory, can't you not have any news about this, didn't I let you supervise those vassal kings a long time ago?

If you can't even do this thing well, you can revoke the Jinyiwei of the West Factory and the East Factory. ”

Cao Zhengchun heard the emperor's anger and hurriedly knelt on the ground, although the civil and military officials were very afraid of them.

But all these powers are given by the emperor, and they are just the emperor's retainers.

The emperor was angry, and the Dongchang Fanzi monitored the vassal kings, although they were all opposed to the reform of the imperial court.

also complained and resisted in private, but did not find anyone to get together with the White Lotus Sect.

The Qin king in Shaanxi was the most arrogant of all the vassal kings, and the one who was the most fiercely opposed to the reform of the imperial court, but no evidence of their rebellion was found. ”

Speaking of that King Qin, a murderous aura suddenly appeared in Zhu Youzhen's eyes.