Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, agreed with Ruan Dacheng's words, although he asked himself to cut off his own money and donate part of his land, but it was not much different from other criminal vassal kings who were forcibly fined for one or even two years and banned hereditary replacement, and he felt distressed at the thought that after returning to Wuchang, he would ask court officials to come to his palace to ask for it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"According to what Mr. said, whether you obey the emperor's will alone, or disobey the will, you will only end up being reduced to a commoner?"

Zhu Huakui naturally has anxiety in this regard, because he has a good attitude, so in this Jinling City, Zhu Youxiao did not take care of him so strictly, and allowed him to inspect the commerce of Jinling City, especially the royal capital such as the Royal Industrial Company and Daming Daily, but when he thought of the other feudal kings who were under house arrest in the Forbidden City and refused to ask for a reduction in their salaries and were not released, it was inevitable that there was a sense of sadness that the rabbit died and the fox died.

Ruan Dacheng nodded: "Today, Your Majesty wants to prosper the Ming Dynasty, which is understandable, but vassal kings like you, princes, gentry like me, etc., have become the biggest obstacles, and it is not enough to save the national fortunes, which is also a helpless thing, Qin Zhishang Ying, Song Wang Anshi, and Zhang Jiangling of the previous dynasty, which of what they did was not to attack people like us." ”

"Throughout the ancient and modern times, after a hundred years of the dynasty, it is inevitable that there will be serious disadvantages, our dynasty has gone through more than two hundred years, most of the world's money, grain and land have been in our hands, and the common people can not make a living so they rise up and rebel, but since ancient times, few common people have been the lords of the world, because they are against our high-ranking officials and nobles who occupy the wealth of the world!"

"Only those who are high-ranking officials and nobles themselves can be favored by heaven and spend their days together!"

Ruan Dacheng's tirade made Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, very excited, and secretly sighed at the wisdom of this person, who saw the general trend of the world so clearly, and couldn't help asking: "According to Mr. So, why are high-ranking officials and nobles like you and me winning the world?" ”

"Because only we gentry know how to control the royal road of the world, how do the common people know that you are a descendant of the royal family, and you can command the heroes, and now Your Majesty has offended the kings and gentry of the world.

"In fact, since ancient times, the phenomenon of national poverty and even extinction caused by the concentration of a large amount of land in the hands of our gentry is only a common thing, but as long as someone rebels at this time, and with the support of our gentry officials, we can solve the dilemma that the land is occupied by a few people and most people have no land to plant, and because of this, the place where each dynasty was founded will be desolate and poor, and there will be few people and many people, and the prosperous era of cultural rule can be built."

"Since ancient times, you and I want to survive this change in the situation and continue to enjoy this glory and wealth, either they will raise their own swords to be the lord of the world such as the Sui and Tang Li families, or take refuge in the rising heroes, such as the Yang Ye of the Song Dynasty, and now it is the occasion of this Ding Revolution, the prince you are the prince of the Ming Dynasty, if you ascend to the heights and shout, there are naturally not a few people who respond to you, do not take the gentry's land and protect their privacy, and make the surviving Shun people have land to plant through the slaughter of the population, then the gentry will inevitably follow, and the people will obey."

After Ruan Dacheng finished speaking, he arched his hand towards Zhu Huakui and said, "Lord Wang, why don't you do it!" ”

Ruan Dacheng's rebellious words frightened Zhu Huakui and immediately stood up, pointing at Ruan Dacheng and speechless for a long time.

Although Zhu Huakui could hear from Ruan Dacheng's words from the beginning that this person had a backbone, he did not expose some dissatisfaction with the imperial court, and as Ruan Dacheng said, he also saw that if Daming allowed his vassal kings and gentry to be arrogant and corrupt, Daming would indeed perish in a few decades.

Moreover, although he is the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, he is essentially a big landowner, so he does not want to let the Chu Wangfu also be buried with the Ming Dynasty in the future, and he also has the will to make friends with the next family.

But Zhu Huakui really didn't dare to make it clear that he wanted to stand up and order the world, rebel, and overthrow Zhu Youxiao's country.

It is true that he has a certain political advantage as the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, and there are many gentry who can find a reason why they are loyal to the Ming Dynasty but not loyal to the faint king, and he himself has some ambitions, but when he thinks that the previous vassal kings have not succeeded in rebellion and the end of the end, he is also a little cramped and afraid, afraid that once the rebellion is not successful, it will be worse than now.

"Mr. Ruan doesn't need to say this anymore, let me think about it again", Zhu Huakui said and fled here in a hurry, and looked around very nervously, afraid that someone from Dongchang was secretly watching, but he could feel that his heart was beating numbly and he was short of breath now.

As soon as Zhu Huakui left, Ruan Dacheng couldn't help but snort coldly: "The dignified vassal king, who has this ambition but doesn't have the courage, where is the courage to wear a dragon robe and shout long live in the palace ceremony!" ”

"Mr. Ruan, do you think he will go to His Majesty to expose us?"

At this time, the majestic man who had been beside Ruan Dacheng couldn't help but ask worriedly.

"He's not that stupid, he should know that if he exposes us, he'll die too!" Ruan Dacheng said and turned to the majestic man beside him and ordered: "You go back to Huguang first, secretly recruit more troops and horses, I said hello to Hou Zhongcheng, I won't care about you, in addition, Huguang's Praetorian Guard is now practicing in Yueyang, and you can recruit troops near Wuchang City." ”

"Okay, then I'll go back and return to Zhongcheng", as soon as this person left, Ruan Dacheng couldn't help but slap his palm on the railing, and said fiercely: "Ma Shiying, you are hard-hearted, you want to follow Zhu Youxiao and offend the gentry of the world, now we will wait and see, I will support Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, unite with the Donglin Yu Party, and see which of us can fight whom!" ”

Ruan Dacheng is not willing to be lonely after all, from the time he first entered the career, he will defect to the eunuch party and defect to the Donglin party for a while, which can be described as the first rat at both ends, but he can always get up after repeated falls, in the original history, his last rise was in Nanming after taking refuge in Ma Shiying and became a military secretary, but in this time and space, he was disagreed with him because Ma Shiying chose to follow Zhu Youxiao's reform of the new policy, and his political line changed from defecting to Ma Shiying to becoming a mortal enemy with Ma Shiying.

Of course, it's not just because of Ma Shiying, but also because of Zhu Youxiao.

Ruan Dacheng naturally knew that it was the will of the current emperor Zhu Youxiao that caused the Fengyang area to start a high commercial tax collection system, which in turn destroyed the interests of his family, and Zhu Youxiao also killed his cousin Wei Guangwei.

Among the bureaucrats and gentry, there are many marriages to establish social relationships, when the eunuch party was in power, he Ruan Dacheng was also able to rise to the top, and it was not unrelated to Wei Guangwei, and Wei Guangwei also personally taught him to learn how to raise the subject, so in terms of personal feelings, he could no longer stand on the side of Zhu Youxiao and Ma Shiying.