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Like a storm and clouds, a large pot of mutton was eaten in a short time!

After everyone had eaten and drunk enough, King Lu touched the corners of his greasy mouth with a silk handkerchief, looked at the other vegetarian foods on the table that had hardly touched chopsticks, sighed lightly, and said: "This time I went south, things were in a hurry, there was not much gold and silver brought out of the treasury, and the state government had limited assistance. Now that the domain is occupied by thieves, the palace is gone, and there are dozens or hundreds of people in the palace, all living on a little silver brought out, or it won't be long before the pot will be opened, and I don't know if the imperial army can recover the lost land, hey! ”

Now in the last days, the Ming Dynasty's finances are dwindling, and the amount of rice that the royal palace can receive from the imperial court every year is really limited, and it is not enough to spend at all. Therefore, in the final analysis, the main source of income of the vassal king depended on the rent of the king's house and the income from the shops, and now he was forced to move around, and the shops in the village were not in the war, and the source of income in the palace was naturally cut off.

When everyone heard this, they were a little sad in their hearts, and they also hated the thieves and rebels who ruined their rich and worry-free life.

Only Zhu Youhua's face was calm, and he didn't feel much sad, he could more or less understand the thoughts of everyone here, to explain that the vassal kings of the dynasty, although the political and military power was gradually deprived after Yongle, but life was worry-free, and the vassal kings had a lot of money and private wealth.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is about to die, the peasants are constantly revolting all over the country, and the feudal royal clans in various places have either fled or been killed, and hundreds of thousands of clans in the north have almost been killed, which can be regarded as heavenly retribution from a certain point of view.

Although Zhu Youhua has also become a member of the Luoluo Sect in this life, because of his full preparation and thoughtful planning, he is much better than an office worker in his previous life in terms of identity and living standards, and his mentality is naturally much calmer.

Seeing that the kings were still sighing, he comforted him warmly: "Uncle Wang, Brother Wang don't have to worry, the nephew looks at that Li Chuang's style, which is similar to the Huangchao at the end of the Tang Dynasty, only knows the flow, and does not know how to set up officials to guard the land and manage the people, and resume production. ”

The Tang Dynasty only survived for twenty or thirty years after the Huangchao Rebellion, and then perished, Zhu Youhua gave this example is really not a good analogy, but for now, it is rare for the Ming Dynasty to continue for a few more decades like the Tang Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty arrived in the late spring of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, which was almost hopeless, and the Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng was leading his 200,000 elite army to conquer Beijing with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai.

It's March 29 now, if history hasn't changed because of his crossing, the Beijing division should have been conquered for many days, although the Ming Dynasty still has a lot of troops in the south, but its generals have lost their fighting spirit, either look at the wind and surrender, or preserve their strength, raise their own respect, as for the loyal monarch to serve the death, with troops to serve the king, but there is no need to mention it.

At this time, except for a few people, I am afraid that everyone has lost confidence in Daming. And King Zhou, King Lu and others are a few of them.

King Lu didn't expect the young Fu Wang's nephew to be able to say such incisive remarks, and he couldn't help but nod in agreement.

Zhu Youhua also took advantage of the hot iron and said: "Now that we are facing adversity, we should unite as one, support each other, and go through the difficulties together." ”

Seeing that the youngest Fu Fan took the lead in expressing his position, no matter what the others thought in their hearts, they all expressed their willingness to spend the tribulation together.

King Lu nodded with satisfaction, looking at the full house of clan relatives, he raised his wine glass and said to everyone: "Come on, let's have a drink together, and I wish the court to calm down the thieves as soon as possible!" Peace together! ”

As soon as everyone finished drinking, a few attendants ran into the main hall in a panic, and their clothes were scattered.

Seeing this, King Lu's face turned cold, and he just wanted to scold, but the waiter said, "It's a big deal!" He forced his words back.

"What the hell is going on? Could it be that the thieves have called? As soon as he heard that the big thing was not good, King Lu's first thought was that the thieves had called, and his expression became very frightened.

"Not a thief." The chamberlain replied quickly.

"It's good not to be a thief, it's good not to be a thief."

King Lu unconsciously patted his chest, and the other kings were also happy, they had already become frightened birds who escaped death along the way.

"Tell the prince, our Dongchayuan has just been surrounded by Dongpingbo's soldiers and horses, and they ......" Before the inner attendant's voice fell, there was already a sound of swords and armor striking each other outside the hall, accompanied by a large number of neat footsteps.

When everyone heard this, they walked out of the hall in a panic.

I saw two or three hundred armor-clad swords in the courtyard outside the hall, and the heavily armed guards were neatly lined up with dozens of mandarin duck phalanxes under the command of the commander Zhang Tanggong, and there were also sixty or seventy guard knives out of the sheath, the arrows were wound, and they formed a three-talent formation one by one, guarding the exits of the front and rear courtyard gates with all their hearts, and they had a tacit understanding of the division of labor with each other, obviously after a long period of training and actual combat.

"Isn't this the palace guard of King Fu's nephew (brother)? Really, what an elite man! ”

After seeing the people clearly, King Zhou, King Lu and others were surprised with a deep shock!

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the vassal kings had their own feudal states, and there were three guards in the feudal country, all of whom commanded the envoys, and each feudal king had a royal palace guard army of less than 3,000 or nearly 20,000 people at any time.

Since Yongle ascended the throne, on the surface, he rewarded the clan and gave great gifts, but he was afraid that the kings would follow his example and rebel, so he gradually took away the prince's protection and cut off his military power.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, in addition to the few clans inherited from the time of Taizu, such as the King of Shu, the King of Han and the King of Jingjiang, there was also a guard of the royal palace, and the vassal kings canonized after Xuande were no longer guarded.

However, with the collapse of the guard system, most of these royal guards from military households fled, and those who did not escape also became mercenaries under the officers, without the slightest combat power at all.

As for the royal palace honor guard who belongs to the Jinyi Guard system, after more than two hundred years of hereditary service, it has no other use except to serve as an honor guard, and it cannot protect the safety of the prince's palace at all.

Therefore, with the prevalence of the family system in the army in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the prince's palace will generally recruit hundreds of families to guard the palace within the scope of the imperial court's tolerance.

If it weren't for the desperate guards fed with money, Zhou, Lu and other kings would have been caught by thieves or bandits and horse thieves on the way to escape, and they would not have survived now.

However, now it seems that compared with the more than 300 tigers and wolves in the Fuwang Mansion, they really don't know what to say, only the Fu Wang's family members are seen in the courtyard, but they can't see a few guards subordinate to them, and they can see the gap between each other, and the difference in strain and mobility is really 108,000 miles!

"I really don't know how Brother Fu (nephew) managed to get these tiger and wolf people!" With their cognition, they naturally won't know that this is Zhu Youhua's painstaking efforts to spend a lot of energy, financial resources, and material resources.

Everyone was still amazed, Zhang Tanggong had already trotted to Zhu Youhua's side, between the shaking of the nail leaves, after quickly making a salute, he said solemnly: "Lord Wang, when we were rehearsing the battle array, we found that there was a large army that wanted to surround the East Procuratorate, friends and enemies were unknown, and I didn't dare to take it lightly. ”

"Zhenwu responded in a timely manner, what is the crime?" Zhu Youhua patted Zhang Tanggong on the shoulder and signaled that there was nothing to do.

At this time, outside the gate of the north and south courtyards, many guards of other feudal kings had gathered, they were short brown and gray clothes, with knives hanging from their waists, and they were rushing towards the courtyard in a chaotic manner, all of which were blocked by the spears and crossbow arrays of the Fufu guards at the head of the door.