Li Mingrui returned to his residence and began to consult the classics and revise the etiquette of the sacrifice to the tomb overnight. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the same time, he also immediately found Zhang Dai, a talented son who was in charge of writing the sacrificial text, and asked him to add a text to the memorial text about the feudal king and the current saint on the same stage to worship the filial piety tomb.

"Is it true that Your Majesty summoned all the vassal kings to Nanjing to worship the Tomb of Filial Piety with Your Majesty?"

Zhang Dai's eyes flashed with a hint of surprise, although he only stopped at the students in the imperial examination, he was not a pedantic nerd who only knew the Four Books and Five Classics, so as soon as he heard Li Mingrui mention that His Majesty wanted the vassal kings from all over the country to enter Nanjing to worship the filial piety tomb together, he also guessed that His Majesty was going to attack the vassal kings.

In the Ming Dynasty, vassal kings have always been a major hidden danger, but it is not a military hidden danger, but an economic hidden danger.

Lin Run of the Jiajing Dynasty once said that there were 4 million stones of money and grain for the capital in the world, but the grain to be supplied to the palaces was as high as 8 million stones, and the increasing number of teeth of the vassal kings and clansmen directly caused the financial deficit of the Ming Dynasty.

Even though Zhu Youxiao has now opened up many ways to make a fortune, there is no way to supply these vassal kings.

He even asked Yang Shouchun of the Royal Bank to do an investigation, and found that if the supply of the vassal king was reduced by half, the Royal Bank could increase its profits by five times.

However, the number of vassal kings who only have the power of the cubs can only increase, not decrease.

Now it is hundreds of thousands, and it may be millions in the future, as long as the Ming Dynasty does not die, they will continue to reproduce like parasites until the last bit of vitality of the Ming Dynasty is gnawed away, and then they will be buried together with the dynasty established by their ancestors.

Zhu Youxiao could imagine that a few years later, if he no longer took measures against these vassal kings, just like the previous emperors, he would not dare to move because these people were the relatives of the Ming Emperor and had a special political status, then he would not be able to save the Ming Dynasty even if he opened a few more royal capital industries.

Therefore, the hidden danger of the vassal king must be eradicated!

Zhu Youxiao didn't want to continue to compromise and fetter and let these so-called relatives drag the Ming dynasty into the water.

Regarding Zhang Dai's inquiry, Li Mingrui just nodded silently, and said after a long time:

"You and I are both heirs of the royal family, and you don't have to see outside, now you are willing to give up your group with the literati of the Fushe Society, and are willing to be scolded by others and stoop to Wei Zhongxian, and become the chief writer of this Daming Daily, and now you are personally writing for today's saints, it won't really be just for the lack of office in this Ministry of Rites."

Zhang Dai smiled and said nothing, and only after a moment of silence did he say: "To disappoint Elder Li Ge, Zhang is now willing to be His Majesty's lackey just to be promoted to power, and he has failed in the scientific examination for decades but has been tested again and again, and it is precisely for one day that the official residence is a product, such as Zhang Jiangling back then!" ”

Zhang Dai's answer surprised Li Mingrui a little, and he looked directly at this descendant who was a whole round younger than himself but looked older than himself, and asked, "Why?" ”

Since Zhang Juzheng was ruined and his whole family was starved to death dozens of times, the entire Ming officialdom has been secretive about this former extremely popular minister and the first assistant of the emperor.

No one wants to mention Zhang Juzheng, because no one knows if he will be hated by the officials and attacked by the civilian-official clique.

It is only an arrogant scholar like Zhang Dai who is not from the imperial examination that dares to be a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, and dares to mention him Zhang Juzheng bluntly in front of himself, a cabinet scholar, and bluntly said that he wants to be an official, just like Zhang Juzheng.

With Zhang Juzheng as an idol, if other officials heard it, they were afraid that they would have been accused of ill-intentioned intentions.

But Li Mingrui was not annoyed by this.

"Because the crown prince Taibao Zhao Kehuai Zhao Gong!"

As soon as Zhang Dai said this, Li Mingrui also remembered this person.

Zhao Kehuai was a famous minister of the anti-Japanese war, a subordinate of Yin Zhengmao, he has always been upright and has a strategy, and it is precisely because of this that he will become a feudal official from a small county, and finally served as the governor of Huguang, but because he did not satisfy Zhu Shikui, the king of Chu, in the case of the pseudo-king of Chu, he ended up being beaten to death by the king of Chu.

Zhao Kehuai, who was a hero of the anti-Japanese war and was also the governor of a province, was beaten to death by a vassal king in this way, which did cause a huge sensation in the government and the opposition at that time.

Not only did the civil officials have great opinions on this, but also many military attaches who had a good relationship with Zhao Kehuai in the process of resisting the Japanese, but in the end they were finally suppressed by Shen Yiyi, the first assistant of the cabinet who accepted bribes from Zhu Shikui, the king of Chu at that time, of course, it was also related to the reluctance of the Wanli Emperor at that time to be ruthless to his relatives.

Li Mingrui saw Zhang Dai's ruthless face, and asked with some curiosity: "Please forgive Li for taking the liberty, Zhao Gong is a native of Chongqing, and he has been an official in Fujian, Zhejiang and Hubei for many years, and Zongzi, you are mostly in your hometown of Shaoxing, why are you so jealous and hateful?" ”

"My ancestor once served as a political envoy to Huguang, and when he was young, he stayed in Huguang with his grandfather for a few years, and fortunately Zhao Gong was enlightened for a few years, and he also paid for the favor of his mother, and I and my little sister can also be regarded as childhood sweethearts, and the two have no guesses, but who expected that when they were young, they saw their teacher killed!"

Zhang Dai clenched his fist and slammed it on the table: "The harm of the world is not only the corrupt officials and gentry, but also these lawless vassal kings and princes!" ”

After hearing this, Li Mingrui patted Zhang Dai on the shoulder: "Sit back and wait for the opportunity, whether Your Majesty can kill these royal relatives and nobles at that time depends on how powerful Daming Daily and the pen in your hand can exert!" ”

"Xia Guan understands!"

After Zhang Dai said, Li Mingrui left without saying any more, and Zhang Dai wrote a letter overnight and ordered someone to send it to Wuchang Mansion in Huguang overnight.

The three days passed quickly, and Li Mingrui successfully changed the etiquette of sacrificing filial piety, and the old scholar of the Ministry of Rites who refuted it above the court was speechless.

And because of this, it has become imperative for the vassal kings to come to Nanjing to worship the filial piety mausoleum, and on the same day, Dongchang sent several people to the mansions of the vassal kings in various places to spread the decree.

But this time, because of Wu Jin's latest instructions, the fans of Dongchang deliberately did not go to announce their will as non-stop as before, but deliberately delayed the speed to announce the will.

However, the vassal kings everywhere were not lambs to be slaughtered, and Zhu Youxiao's blows to the Donglin Party, Jin Shang, Jiangnan literati, and Confucian Confucius, as well as the reforms implemented in Fengyang, Shandong, Shaanxi and other places, as well as the expansion of the Praetorian Guard in various places, had alerted these local vassal kings who were already unclean.

Among the vassal kings in various places, some people have already seen what His Majesty is going to do now, and they have also guessed that sooner or later His Majesty will attack those who really hinder the Ming Dynasty.

However, according to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, although they could not leave the fiefdom, they also had their own eyeliner in various places, let alone a big city like Nanjing.

Therefore, as soon as the news spread that His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youxiao wanted the vassal kings from all over the country to come to Nanjing to worship the filial piety tomb with him, some people immediately passed the news to the vassal kings in various places through various means.