After finishing the affairs of Liaodong, the time has entered April of the second year of the Apocalypse, and by April 15, the vassal kings from all over the country have basically arrived in the capital. As the saying goes, if you don't look at it, you don't know, you are startled when you see it, Zhu Youxiao has only heard that by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the heir of the Zhu family, Ding Xingwang, had a population of more than 100,000, but when he saw that there were 28 vassal kings who went to the capital alone, there were some small and distant branches that had given up. If these vassal kings had an average of 5,000 hectares of fertile land per family, that would be 140,000 hectares, or about 14 million acres of fertile land, and that there was only a lot of land in the entire Ming Dynasty in this era, at most 700 million mu of land, plus people with the status of Xiucai or above in various places did not need to pay taxes, and in the end, about 30 percent of the land did not pay taxes, and then there was a low level of cultivation at that time, and the yield per mu did not exceed 200 catties, and the grain problem would inevitably become the source of social unrest. The purpose of Zhu Youxiao's convening of the vassal king meeting was to completely solve the land problem, which was essentially to solve the problem of eating for the common people of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao arranged for the vassal kings to live in the prince's mansion where he originally lived, and the houses and so on were ready-made, basically without much cost, because this vassal king meeting did not belong to the nature of the state, it was purely an internal affair of the family, and all the expenses were paid by the internal funds, and Zhu Youxiao also let the vassal kings develop a good habit of saving in the future.

In the living room of the prince's mansion, there are a total of thirty-one people, including Zhu Youxiao, and the eunuchs can only serve outside the living room, except for summoning them when they need to add water and tea. Until now, none of the vassal kings knew what Zhu Youxiao was going to do, and they were all nervous in their hearts, especially Zhu Youxiao's strict confidentiality measures, which made them feel that things were unusual.

On the main seat in the living room, Zhu Youxiao sat in the middle, and next to each other were his four uncles, namely Zhu Changxun, King Fu, Zhu Changhao, Zhu Changrun, and Zhu Changying, King Guiduan. Now in addition to the Fu King Zhu Changxun has been a vassal, the other three imperial uncles have not yet been vassal, and they are still living in the capital, Zhu Youxiao invited them all together, in fact, these three imperial uncles are not big, the youngest Guiduan King Zhu Changying is only four years older than Zhu Youxiao, only 22 years old this year, Huiwang Zhu Changrun is 26 years old this year, and Duanwang Zhu Changhao is 28 years old this year. These people can still become helpers as long as they are sent to Daming Technical School for a few years of training.

Zhu Youxiao opened his mouth and said: "Uncles and brothers, Zhu Youxiao is ashamed to be the son of today, it is really given by the ancestors and ancestors, and he is frightened every day, I am afraid that one day I will accidentally lose the Ming Dynasty, and it is difficult to face the ancestors in the sky." Today, I invite all the imperial uncles and royal brothers here, so that everyone can work together to continue the national glory of our Ming Dynasty for thousands of generations.

"Please come to see this wood, you can clearly see that it is full of moths, this wood is a rafter on the side house, the house has been many years, and now it has been demolished, the moths on this rafter began to gnaw on the rafters just to survive, and then gnawed on the rafters in order to reproduce, and when it gnawed the entire rafters, purlins, and beams, its family has reached the maximum, but this time is also the time when the house should be demolished, with the demolition of the house, The whole family was wiped out.

"We, the descendants of the Zhu family, have the grace of the ancestors, have brocade clothes and jade food, and infinite scenery, but these are all superficial phenomena, I don't know if you have studied the history of the rise and fall of the past dynasties. The 400-year-old Han Dynasty was divided into the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty; The Tang Dynasty was the most powerful dynasty in history, but since the Huangchao Rebellion, it has never recovered its prosperity; The Zhao and Song dynasties were divided into north and south, and their existence was less than 300 years; And the powerful Meng Yuan really ruled the Central Plains for less than a hundred years.

"The Han Dynasty reached the peak of strength and prosperity from Emperor Wu, and then there was a Zhang Jiao Rebellion, the reason for which was that the clan group annexed the land seriously, and the people were not able to make a living, so Zhang Jiao was able to rely on the practice of medicine to teach, and finally responded to the call of a hundred people, completely ruining the Han family; At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong took history as a mirror and worked hard to make the rule of 'Zhenguan', and in the later period of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, he did not hesitate to send lychees for the sake of his concubine's smile, laboring the people and losing money, living a corrupt life, and resenting the people, and since then there has been no prosperous Tang Dynasty; As for the Meng Yuan, its brutal rule was the cause of its demise at all.

"I and your imperial uncles and brothers analyze the process of the rise and fall of these dynasties, just to talk to you about the relationship between these histories and all of us. Everyone is the descendant of Emperor Taizu, and the treatment that can be enjoyed today is all due to Emperor Taizu, and it is clear that we are all the biggest beneficiaries of today's court, and if today's court perishes, the biggest loss is everyone here.

"In order to ensure that our interests are not harmed, we must do something together for our court. Just like the rafter that was eaten by moths just now, everything we enjoy comes from the house, we can't be moths in the rafters, and we don't allow anyone here to be moths in the rafters, because he harms the common interests of all of us, and if we see that person who has done moths in the future, the Zongren Mansion will remove the series of Zhu's descendants.

"Every dynasty and each generation reaches its peak, and the reproduction of the population must reach its peak, and at this time the land problem, that is, the problem of feeding the common people, becomes the main problem, because more and more people have to be fed on the inherent land, so that there will be the problem of not having enough to eat. And at this time, the problem of land annexation will be even more serious, and a large amount of land will be concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, just as all of us here together may account for two percent of the country's land, and what about ordinary landlords and squires who are more numerous than us? They had more land, and there were a large number of people who were above the rank of merit, and they were exempt from labor, and all these burdens were put on the common people. Think about it, what would happen if most of the people couldn't eat?

According to the data of the Ministry of Rites, the imperial examination once every three years will admit nearly 300 jinshi, accounting for about 9 percent of the people, that is, there are about 3,500 people in the country, plus there are still those who do not participate in each scientific examination, and there are more than 60,000 people who are admitted once every three years, and these people do not have to pay taxes.

In addition, according to the data of the Ministry of Households, 50 percent of the land is occupied by landlords and gentry and officials who have returned to their villages, but their population accounts for less than 10 percent of the total population, and the rest of the population, which accounts for 30 percent of the population, is yeoman farmers, who occupy about 35 percent of the land, while the remaining 65 percent occupy nearly 15 percent of the land. In this way, they not only have to pay the state tax, but also give most of the grain to the landowners, in good times, they can also eat, once they encounter natural and man-made disasters, they will definitely be displaced, and eventually become homeless, and the homeless people are the least to cherish life, once there is turmoil, they are the main force of turmoil. ”