Hang yourself on that crooked-necked tree!

When these words came out of Zhu Mingzhong's mouth, everyone fell into unprecedented panic.

For these clansmen who have experienced the "Jiashen Heavenly Change", they may not have seen the scene of Emperor Lie hanging himself on the crooked neck tree, but it does not prevent them from imagining, and the old experience once again surfaced in their minds.

At that time, the sunset was not guaranteed, the upheaval at that time, and the old memories and experiences all emerged in everyone's minds. Even after so many years, now when they think about what they went through. Still having palpitations.

After all, many experiences back then. Even now they still emerge in nightmares, and now when the nightmare of the past is mentioned by the emperor again, they are surprised to find that the nightmare has not gone away with time. Even nightmares can recur at any time.

Among the kings, the youngest King of Lu, Zhu Honghuan, although he had not experienced the Jiashen Heavenly Change, the death of several brothers made him immediately say in a deep voice.

"What Your Majesty said is very true, we are ignorant, appoint profiteers as confidants, ignore the countrymen as the foundation of Zhuxia, and allow profiteers to encroach on the interests of the people, and after returning to China, the ministers will let people punish profiteers, waste rice merchants and officials, and allow the people to ......trade freely."

Compared with others, Zhu Honghuan, who inherited the throne as the son of King Lu, has always grown up in the peaceful world, as the widow of King Lu, at least until a few years ago, because he was extremely young, so the national politics of Lu State were handled by courtiers, although he also married merchants, but because of the relationship of his youth, so the status of the abbot in the court was average, and he did not have much influence, and because of this, there were not too many interests between the rice merchant and the Lu State, which was also the reason why he was able to make a decision immediately.

The reason why they had such and such scruples before this was because of the entanglement of interests, and they chose to ignore it intentionally or unintentionally. It is not the threat that those people pose to their rule.

"Punish the profiteers ......"

Looking at Zhu Honghuan, Zhu Mingzhong smiled coldly, and then asked rhetorically.

"In what name?"

You always need a reason to want to kill. Killing without guilt is not in line with the Ming system. Even if you want to deal with those people, you can't do it arbitrarily.

The law is the law, and even the emperor cannot export it into a constitution.

"This ......"

Zhu Honghuan suddenly became dumb, the reason why he made this suggestion was because he knew very well that those rice merchants and officials had a strong influence in various countries, and if they were put under great pressure, at least they could not take care of expansion for a while, and Lu State could seize the opportunity to expand.

At that time, because he was young and closed the country late, Lu State has always focused on internal politics, and naturally he is unable to expand, which directly leads to Lu State becoming the smallest pro-kingdom in Zhuxia, which is obviously unacceptable for the young Zhu Honghuan.

Now, if he can take advantage of His Majesty's anger and take advantage of the opportunity to expand when the countries are suppressing the rice merchants, it will be extremely beneficial to the future of the Lu State, in fact, he is also opposed to the division of this meeting, after all, the Lu State is the smallest country, even if it divides the sphere of influence, he will suffer in the end, so he hopes that this meeting will be interrupted now.

Only if an agreement is not reached now, will Lu have a chance in the future. Now that the emperor is intervening, it is just right to make the meeting fruitless.

In fact, this is also the fundamental reason why this meeting has not solved the problem until now. Each country participating in the conference has its own ideas and interests to protect, after years of development. Although the countries are all vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, they have actually begun to bargain with other residents in order to protect their own interests.

This may also be an inevitability of separation. But as the emperor, Zhu Mingzhong couldn't stop all this.

"Your Majesty, since the rice merchant and official bank have monopolized the transportation of rice grain for many years, they must have committed a lot of things, as long as they investigate, they can always find out something......

Zhu Cixuan said casually. Although Liang Tianyou is his father-in-law, he ...... The emperor's family has no family affection.

His Majesty's reminder made him realize that the Liang family had threatened the rule of the Gui State, and in the past, he was never afraid that the Liang family would have power in the court, because there were Zhuxia and Daming, and neither Zhuxia nor Daming would tolerate rebellious ministers.

This is the benefit of separation, at least one or two hundred years, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or Zhuxia, there may be ministers, maybe the ministers will be powerful, but no one will dare to seek power and usurp the throne, because once he does this, he must face the Ming Dynasty and Zhuxia Xingjun crusade.

Therefore, he can accept Liang Tianyou's status as "Huai'an Jun" in the court, but his oppression of the countrymen is obviously unacceptable, and there seems to be nothing in the past, but now after being reminded by His Majesty, he found out what the dissatisfaction of the people means to Guiguo.

It means that the country's capital is shaken!

Perhaps, it is tolerable for the Liang family to earn some silver, but it is not possible to shake the country's foundation. It's time for the Liang family to dispose of it.

"Back then, I divided the clan in Nanyang for Zhuxia, it is not easy for Zhuxia to establish a country, I can also understand, Zhuxia established a country in a foreign land, millions of people in the country, only 100,000 people, with less and more, it is not easy, Fuyi returns to Xia, it is even more difficult, after so many years of peace, some domestic ministers are bound to feel that the world has been peaceful, and it is inevitable that there will be some oppression of the people, but, you must keep in mind that Zhuxia is different from the Ming Dynasty, and the people are also different from ordinary people, the people are dissatisfied, and the country will be overthrown."

Stretching out his hand to signal all the kings to sit down, Zhu Mingzhong looked at them, except for the King of Jin, they may not actually be related to him, but what they have done in Nanyang over the years is very gratifying, after all, with their efforts, everything here has changed.

Millions of native people have become more and more like the Ming people, maybe they are now called the Zhou people, the Qin people, the Lu people, the Gui people, but the people of Zhuxia are also Ming people, they speak Chinese, learn Chinese characters, words and deeds, customs and habits all follow the Ming tradition, Chinese civilization has basically taken root here now, the expansion of civilization, it is with the help of these princes to promote, what is the purpose of their efforts to promote education?

It is to consolidate his rule.

This is exactly the reason for the implementation of the separation back then, only the things of your own home, will be more thoughtful. The officials of the colonies will never be as dedicated as they are, but they have not yet figured out the art of rule.

This kind of imperial way. There will be no one to teach him. The so-called emperor. What is taught is just some simple bureaucratic ruling skills, not the ruling skills that emperors need.

In fact, it is Zhu Mingzhong himself, who is also unfamiliar with all this, but growing up in the era of the big bang of consulting allows him to learn these skills through various channels. Over the years, he has had the opportunity to put the techniques he has seen into practice and develop his own set of rules.

"Most of you are clans, and no one has ever taught you in governing the country, and the domain ......"

Many of them have experienced the upheaval of the past, and even if they once lived in the palace, they had the opportunity to learn how to rule others, and then recall, they were divided into Nanyang. There is indeed a suspicion of catching ducks on the shelves.

Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty is strong enough, and a strong mother country acts as a deterrent, otherwise their throne may even be usurped by the ministers.

Perhaps this is the biggest benefit of the sub-envelope system. The mother country can deter those ministers of the vassal states. Let them not dare to be double-minded. The existence of vassal states can also deter the ministers of the mother country, so that they do not dare to have the desire to seek power and usurp the throne. And this security guarantee is to a certain extent mutual.

Turning his gaze to Zhu Heyu, Zhu Mingzhong asked.

"Who are the Royal Friends?"

"Back to my father."

Zhu Heyu, who was named, said with a smile.

"The royal herdsmen are the herdsmen, and the people are subject to the royal family, so the people are not friends of the royal family, and the ministers are just the king's lu, sharing worries with the king, but driven by fame and fortune, so they are not royal friends. Among the people, ministers, and nobles, only the nobles are the friends of the royal family. Because the nobles are different from the ministers, the ministers rely on a talent, just like today's talents, whether it is in the Ming Dynasty, or maybe in the Xia or even the countries, can be reused, but only limited to him, and has nothing to do with his children, and the future status of his children still needs to rely on personal talents. But the nobles are not, after they left the Ming Dynasty, they are just ordinary people in foreign countries, the so-called nobles, all generations are "military meritorious" after the second generation, all by virtue of their bloodline, all their status, wealth, completely based on the title given by the royal family, without the royal family, they are nothing! Therefore, compared with most ministers, the honorable nobles are closer to the royal family and want to invite royal ......"

When his son explained what a "Friend of the Royal" was, Zhu Mingzhong asked rhetorically.

"Then why is it that Yu Zhuxia, such as Huai Anjun of Guiguo, as a nobleman, does not hesitate to encroach on the people of the country and seek personal interests?"

"Back to my father, although the people of the country are the people, but they are also military meritorious ministers, if the founding of the country was not for the courage of the people, how can there be the current Zhuxia, if Yu Daming is not a warrior, naturally there is no current Ming!"

Turning his gaze to the kings, Zhu Heyu said in an extremely flat tone.

"Most of the Xia people think that they are nobles, but they are just ministers and officials in the court, and as for the countrymen, they are just ordinary people, so they are naturally allowed to be squeezed by the nobles."

If there were ordinary ministers here, Zhu Mingzhong would not let his son say anything about "Friends of the Royal", after all, this is the undeclared secret of the royal family, and many times, the emperor just does not see this clearly, which will lead to the collapse of the country.

"Then what is the situation in Zhuxia now?"

Looking at Zhu Heyu, Zhu Mingzhong motioned for him to continue.

"Zhuxia lords oppress the lords, not only do not stop the monarchs, but are accustomed to it, so over time, it will inevitably cause the lords to deviate from morality, the people of the country are the people of the country, once the people of the country are centrifuged, he will inevitably have rebellion in the future, the people of the country and the people of the people of the country are in chaos, and the people of Zhuxia naturally cannot be ......"

When he said these words, Zhu Heya even envied Zhu Xia a little, maybe the Nanyang where Zhu Xia was founded seemed to have many diseases, but it was also a fact that the population was large, and now the population of the Jin Kingdom was only 500,000, in contrast, even the weakest country of Lu had a population of more than one million, although they had the problem of using less to control more, but it was still enviable.

However, this also brings a problem, that is, the problem of the Chinese people and the natives. Influenced by tradition, they do not know the position of the Chinese people. This is also the root cause of these problems.

"What does King Jin mean that we should treat our countrymen well?"

King Zhou asked rhetorically. There was some doubt in his tone, after all, in the Zhou State, in addition to officials, soldiers, and people, they were slaves and maids. If the people are the foundation, then who are the people?

"It's not kindness, but equal treatment, when the great nobles oppress the people, the monarch should uphold justice for the people, after all, the people and the nobles are the foundation of the monarch."

"But, King Jin, in Zhuxia, except for officials, soldiers, and people, they are all slaves and maids!"

Maybe they won't refute His Majesty, but when facing King Jin, even if he is His Majesty's son, their status is equal, and besides, they urgently need to know some knowledge of ruling now, which no one has taught them.

"One day, slaves and maids will also be free, five generations ......"

Zhu Cihuan, the monarch of the Qin State, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.

"Don't forget that according to the laws of various countries, slaves and maids must be released back to their freedom after giving birth to children for five generations, and besides, slaves and maids who have made military merits, or the owner has merits, can be verified by the government and released to freedom. People...... There always is. But before that, they were all countrymen, and they were all the king's ministers, and in terms of their status, there was no difference between them and those who had titles. ”

As His Majesty's own brother, Zhu Cihuan's status among the kings is transcendent, and the Qin State is the closest to the royal blood among the Nanyang Zhuxia, maybe others have not learned the skills of ruling, but there are some things that Zhu Mingzhong did say to him. But...... He had almost forgotten about it.

"Yes, even in the pre-Qin period, there were both Chinese and savages, and now there are no savages in all countries."

Listening to their words, Zhu Mingzhong didn't speak, but just let them speak freely there, the kings of Zhuxia are all smart people, and they will be able to figure everything out quickly.

In fact, these questions are very simple. Just a little bit about it. They will be able to get to the bottom of it and make decisions right away. With each of them is well understood. The emperor must be ruthless. This is fundamental to maintaining rule. Perhaps those people had contributed a great deal to the establishment of the Banggu Kingdom in a foreign land and to maintain their rule.

But now, it's time to address them.