Chapter 152: The Way of Kissing

Zhu Qizhen said: "What do you mean? ”

Cao Nai said: "Your Majesty, the minister is a product, and his salary is only 800 stones. But the vassal king has more than 10,000 stones a year, and there are only a dozen ministers like ministers in the world, but the vassal king breeds day by day, and His Majesty has said this before. ”

"The minister was like thunder at that time, and the memory is particularly fresh so far, and now the court is difficult, so it is natural to rectify it, and the minister thinks that the gentleman is the three generations of Ze and beheaded, but where the children of the three generations are allowed to come out of the feudal ban and make a living for themselves, if there is an outstanding talent, they can also be entered into the clan, so that they can also assist the king and reprimand the rebellious ministers."

"From now on, the imperial court only distributes the vassal king's Yulu, and below the vassal king, so that the princes' mansions can keep it themselves."

What Cao Nai said was actually Zhu Qizhen's idea at the beginning.

It's just that the authority of Zhu Qizhen at the beginning and the current Zhu Qizhen is different.

At the beginning, Zhu Qizhen struggled to speak, and only let the king of the Northwest Domain receive the money in Nanjing. It's just a disguised reduction of the king of the Northwest Domain.

But now, Cao Nai's charter limits the vassal king's fortune to 300,000 stones.

After all, the Ming vassal kings are only more than twenty together.

Moreover, if only the vassal king's money is distributed, the vassal vassal will be compressed to an extremely low level. After all, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were only more than fifty vassal kings.

There are more than 50 princes, but they consume nearly 10 million yuan. If more than 50 princes only consume more than 500,000 stone of grain, in fact, the imperial court can afford it.

A large number of low-level clans are not too many in this era.

Cao Nai gave them a way out and let them fend for themselves. In fact, Zhu Qizhen is already doing it.

In the main hall, several groups of people have already arrived under the command of King Xiang, and many of them have already led troops to fight. Of course, there are also losses. However, these people who were sent here were not too valued in this domain.

Otherwise it won't be sent out either.

Zhu Qizhen only needs to find a few role models among these people.

Naturally, it will attract many low-level clans to leave their homes to study.

There is another meaning of Cao Nai's words, and Zhu Qizhen is also very clear

Yes, there were almost no ministers with the same surname in the Ming Dynasty.

Looking at the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, and Qing dynasties, there were not a large number of ministers with the same surname in that dynasty, especially in the Southern Song Dynasty, many ministers with the same surname played a key role in the inheritance of the imperial throne.

Clans were highly valued in ancient times.

If the Zhu family wants to sit firmly in the world, it is good to have more ministers with the same surname. Of course, if the blood relationship is too close, it is naturally not good, and the distant clan cannot be enough to threaten the inheritance, and it is the same surname, and it is benefited by the imperial court.

At critical times, it is the loyalty that is the highest.

In Zhu Qizhen's opinion, many times, these clan ministers are estimated to be much more useful to the vassal kings who are raised as pigs.

They may be able to replace the internal officials, Cheng

for the extension of the monarchy's power.

Zhu Qizhen thought a lot for a while, but in the blink of an eye, he came back to his senses and asked, "Sir, how about the instability of the vassal kings everywhere?" ”

Cao Nai said: "Your Majesty, this matter is naturally raised high and gently put down, what the minister is responsible for is only lifting it high, how to put it down gently, but it depends on Your Majesty's mind." ”

"However, the minister has already ordered it to go down, and the court is nervous, and this year, next year's clan will no longer be released."

Zhu Qizhen said in his heart: "Cao Nai wants to blame himself and his reputation to me." Thinking of this, he was a little moved, and said, "I know what Mr. means." ”

"It's just that this matter is too big, Rong Zhen thinks about it more."

Cao Nai said: "The minister understands. The minister retired. ”

Cao Nai slowly retreated, standing at the door of Qianqing, he raised his head slightly, looked at the sun, but closed his eyes, the sun is not allowed to look directly, even if he closed his eyes, the sunlight could penetrate his eyelids and penetrate it.

For a while, between the eyes, it was as gorgeous as gold.

Cao Nai secretly said in his heart: "I hope everything goes well." ”

What Cao Nai has been doing is to promote the reforms that Zhu Qizhen has already started or has not started. And avoid a big battle with the imperial court and the tile thorns.

Without him, Cao Nai knew too well how much the war would hurt the people in the north.

But just as the sun cannot be seen directly, it is not easy to change Zhu Qizhen's mind.

Cao Nai didn't know if he was right or wrong to find a way to divert Zhu Qizhen's thoughts. You can only know when you see the dagger.

Although Cao Nai's eyes were full of golden light, he lowered his head and opened his eyes, but he saw that the whole front was black, and he couldn't see clearly. It's like he is now.

He couldn't see clearly what the road ahead was.

He could only go on his own way.

Zhu Qizhen sent Cao Nai away.

He secretly thought in his heart, when he was weighing whether to attack the vassal king.

He thought about it, and felt that the worst would not happen if he thought about it, and in the past few years, the guards of the various vassal kings have been reduced by Zhu Qizhen little by little.

There weren't many other vassal kings he had to deal with, and most of the vassal kings had already eliminated the three guards in the Yongle era. The rest is nothing more than the King of Qin and the King of Chu.

Now the guards of the King of Qin have been transferred to Yan'an, and the guards of the King of Chu have also been transferred to Guizhou.

All the vassal kings no longer have an organized guard, at most only a few hundred families. If the family of the founding kings, Zhu Qizhen is also worried.

After all, most of the founding kings were capable of fighting. When Emperor Taizong raised his army, it was only a few hundred families.

But now, just like on the way of marching and fighting, Zhu Qizhen knows that he is not as good as Emperor Taizong, and how can the kings of various places be compared to the previous kings?

And really

There are eloquent and strategic, and the vassal kings who think they can lead the troops into battle are probably all in Beijing. King Xiang was not comfortable in Luchuan.

After King Xiang entered Luchuan, he had to fight one or two battles almost every year, rubbing against this toast, fighting with that toast, and so on.

Although he was not living well, Zhu Qizhen promised him that there was no less, and now King Xiang also has several counties under his command, with 30,000 armor, and the government decree is autonomous, and the court does not care much.

King Han had the heart of going out to the distant town, so he entered the Jingshi to take over the Zongren Order. In today's world, as long as you are not a fool, you know how low the success rate of the vassal king's rebellion is.

Therefore, rebellion will not be.

The worst outcome will not, Zhu Qizhen is still a little worried, after all, even the emperor can't avoid the way of kissing. Zhu Qizhen corresponds to Changbo, and he already has a bad reputation.

It is even rumored outside that Zhu Qizhen is not the son of the Empress Dowager Sun, and the story of the tanuki changing the prince and so on.

If you are ruthless against the vassal king, your reputation will only get worse.

Zhu Qizhen didn't care about reputation, but reputation in this era is part of political assets, so Zhu Qizhen naturally has to think about it more.

"The way of kissing." Zhu Qizhen suddenly thought of something, and said secretly in his heart: "It doesn't have to be right for relatives, it's okay for younger brothers." ”

If you want to refute others, you will finally create a model and create a model of a prince of the clan. Let people know that it's not that the emperor treats the vassal kings badly, but that they are too bad.

For example, King Xiang, the emperor treated him very well.

"King Xiang can't." Zhu Qizhen immediately denied King Xiang.

The reason is very simple, there is no eternal secret in the world, the matter of King Xiang's golden book is not a secret this morning, many people say that King Xiang was sealed to Luchuan, in fact, Zhu Qizhen's revenge.

Zhu Qizhen also knew that these things were not clear, and the more they were described, the darker they became.

Suddenly, a person appeared in Zhu Qizhen's mind, and that was Zhu Qizhen's younger brother King Yu.

As his own younger brother, Zhu Qizhen is naturally responsible to him, and his bloodline is the most intimate, and it is only natural for Zhu Qizhen to shape him into a typical.

It's just that in the past few years, Zhu Qizhen has been relatively distant from him.

On the one hand, government affairs are busy.

Zhu Qizhen only feels that there is not enough time every day, and it is not even the right time to see his son, so his younger brother naturally has to put it aside.

Of course, there is another reason. That is, Zhu Qizhen actually has a big pimple in his heart more or less.

That is, Zhu Qizhen's younger brother is Zhu Qiyu, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Zhu Qizhen also knew that the reason why Zhu Qiyu was able to ascend the throne was also because the orthodox emperor himself died in history, but as an emperor, as a sensitive power creature, he would reject anyone who could threaten him.

Even if it's a history that doesn't exist.