Hearing Zhu Yunwen's words, Zhu Zhen, the king of Chu, immediately secretly screamed that it was not good, is this another temptation? When my father was here, we princes made meritorious deeds, established careers, and gathered some manpower, but since you ascended the throne, you immediately decreed that we, the vassal kings, should not control civil and military officials, so how can we make meritorious deeds? The fourth brother wanted to make a contribution, but it turned out that that road would not work.

Zhu Zhen didn't dare to look at the faces of others, but it was estimated that they were almost the same as himself, and he had a brain teaser, pondering how to deal with the emperor's provocation. But just when he hesitated, a person stood up in the seat, and he bowed down and said: "I don't know what the emperor is referring to when he says meritorious service?" Can it be explicit? Everyone was shocked, looked at it, and found that this person was smiling and elegant, and it was Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, who was known as "Shuzhong Xiucai".

Zhu Chun gave more culture and education in Shuzhong, never led troops to prepare for the border, and Zhu Chun did not lead troops to resist the enemy, but asked the court for help. So he is the most relaxed of the kings, he has no fear, and naturally dares to accept Zhu Yunwen's words. But even so, the other kings did not say anything on their faces, but secretly admired their courage in their hearts.

"Very good, Uncle Shu asked well, I was about to talk about this matter today." Saying that, Zhu Yunwen stood up and said: "All of you here today are my Ming royal family, and the matters discussed are also the secrets of the imperial family. ”

The kings' faces turned pale, and they hurriedly pointed to the sky as an oath and never leaked half a sentence.

Zhu Yunwen looked at the kings and swore an oath, nodded, and then said with both hands: "Princes, after the rebellion of the Yanshu people was calmed down, I was very sad, do you know why?" The two princes rebelled, the rebel army reached 200,000 at the most, and the imperial court transferred nearly 600,000 troops, which took eight months to pacify, and the last king committed suicide, and one king was deposed as a concubine. It seemed easy to quell the rebellion, but including the rebels, the imperial court lost 300,000 troops, hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties, and 4 million stone in military expenses and food. If there is another rebellion like this, the Ming Dynasty may not be able to sustain it, right now," Zhu Yunwen pointed to the north and said sharply: "The White Lotus Sect is prevalent around Beiping, and some villages have White Lotus in every household, forming a party to make trouble, I have ordered the three divisions of Beiping to focus on relief, pacify the people, and arrest the rebellious party, but you should all understand that once the White Lotus Sect takes root, it will be very difficult to eradicate, and this is the poison of the Yanshu rebellion." I really regretted it, why didn't I take the opportunity to move the Yanshu people to Nanchang, which caused the later disaster. Speaking of this, just listening to the sound of "dong", Zhu Yunwen smashed his fist on the Longshu case with hatred.

I heard that the White Lotus Sect appeared in Beiping, and the kings were also a little discolored, as the heirs of Zhu Yuanzhang, they knew the harm of the White Lotus Sect, and they also knew some of Zhu Yuanzhang's secret history.

Zhu Yunwen glanced at the kings and continued, "Since the rise of the rebellion, I have been thinking about how to solve the contradiction between the clan vassal king and the royal family once and for all. Since ancient times, the feudal kings of the founding emperors, as the royal family, have received a temporary effect, but in the end they have all been solved by cutting the feudal domain. Emperor Gao's original intention was to let all his heirs enjoy wealth and wealth, not just the emperor's family to enjoy glory, but unfortunately his hard work was completely in vain. ”

"I have always wanted to uphold the will of Emperor Gao and share the glory with your uncles, but in the end I found that it had no effect, and in the end, as Jia Yi said, the strong rebelled first. After the rebellion was put down, I was thinking about whether to take away the king's guards and let them enjoy wealth and not authority. ”

"But I calculated it, this can't be done, according to the ancestral system of Emperor Gao, except for the crown prince, the son of the son of heaven is the prince, except for the prince, the rest of the sons are the kings of the county, and so on. My royal family, I don't have to worry about food and clothing, I have many wives and concubines, and my heirs will be prosperous. Ladies and gentlemen, please take a look, this is the situation of the clan in the next fifty years, Liu Zhen, you can give this to the kings. ”

When the kings heard about the loss of the Yan King Rebellion, they were a little moved, but most of them disagreed, this is your emperor's business, what does it have to do with us? When I heard that the emperor had calculated the future situation of the clan, they were interested. But after watching it, I was surprised.

The King of Shu immediately stood up and said, "Your Majesty, is this calculation correct?" In less than a hundred years, our clan's offerings will exceed half of the income of the Ming Dynasty? ”

"What? Uncle Shu doesn't believe it? ”

"The minister doesn't dare, it's just, it's just, the minister has the courage to measure it himself."

"Okay, let's count it today, I'm not in a hurry."

"Yes!"

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In less than an hour, the kings finished the calculation, in fact, it was very simple, Zhu Yunwen wrote the calculation process and assumptions of each step on the paper, and in the end the kings just had some objections to each clan having five sons, Zhu Yunwen smiled and said: "Princes, do you think it is too much?" Or do you think it's less? ”

This one? The kings knew in their hearts that five was not much, that is, the total amount of Yulu was even more.

Looking at the dejected appearance of the kings, Zhu Yunwen sighed secretly in his heart, and was silent for a while before saying: "Princes, from this simple calculation, it can be seen that the current ancestral system is difficult to sustain. Of course, all the kings sitting here, including my lifetime, will not have too many problems, but there will inevitably be problems in the future, and the emperors and vassal kings of later generations will inevitably face this problem, and at that time I am afraid that the relationship between the royal family and the vassal king will be very tense, because it is impossible to issue a fortune to all the clans, so the inevitable choice is the prince at the top, and the auxiliary lieutenants and Fengguo lieutenants at the bottom will not be issued or will be less paid, and these people may have a difficult life, or even be unable to survive! ”

This? Listening to Zhu Yunwen's calm voice and slightly cold description, the kings fell silent one by one, and they were all a little worried about their children and grandchildren. At this time, most of the hearts were thinking, does the emperor want to remove our prince? Or do you want to cut our fortunes? That's not going to work.

After a while, Zhu Yunwen raised his hand, stood up and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, there is no immortal dynasty in the world, and there is no eternal royal family, I only hope that when that day comes, Emperor Gao's bloodline will still be respected and admired!" ”

This sentence is very artistic, but it is useless, Zhu does not squeak, just looks at Zhu Yunwen, and wants to know how the emperor intends to deal with this matter.

In the eyes of everyone, Zhu Yunwen walked down the steps, walked to the map, and said in a deep voice: "After thinking about it, looking through the history books, there is no good way, the dynasties have not been able to treat the clan from beginning to end, Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, is just farming in the countryside, Liu Bei, Emperor Zhaolie of the Shu Han Dynasty, once weaved and weaved shoes, and our Ming Dynasty is no exception, this is an objective law, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is so large, the food that can grow, and the population that can be fed is limited. ”

"Later, I looked at the history of the Yuan Dynasty and the map of the Yuan Dynasty and found that the Mongols had a very special idea, that is, the feudal system, but not the existing territory, but to equip their sons with armies, so that they could go out to fight and conquer the land. For example, the eldest son of the Ogedai period went on an expedition, which effectively solved the dissatisfaction of the Jochi family; During the Möngke period, he let one of his younger brothers, Kublai Khan, conquer the Southern Song Dynasty, and the other brother, Hulegu, on expeditions to Arabia and Persia. Of course, this practice was terminated immediately after Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty, and the expansion of the Mongols stopped. ”

Hearing this, some people began to get excited, is the emperor going to send himself on an expedition? That's great! Some people began to be afraid, the emperor was going to send himself on the expedition? Isn't that trying to force me to die?