Liu Wanchun, the head of the household department, has nothing to say now, and now with the rise of paper media in Daming, there are popular science magazines such as "Nature", and he also knows that the places referred to by Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen are now wild lands, and there is no state power except for some indigenous people.

Therefore, Liu Wanchun, the head of the household department, couldn't help but think that if the fiefs of these vassal kings were sealed to these places, where was this fief, this would obviously be exile!

"Let's just put it this way, the fief exchange specification is ten times that of the prince, eight times that of the county king, and five times that of the knight below the county king;

That being said, I can't be too generous, and the system of favor must be implemented;

In addition, the income of these vassal kings must also be halved, and half of them must be taken out as military funding, after all, these fiefs of theirs are to be helped by my Ming Guards, and they must give some money;

Because they were royalty and nobles, I didn't ask for anything for the soldiers of the Guards, and it was already generous enough to charge only half of the money, after all, they would get five times or even eight times ten times more land than their current land. ”

Zhu Youzhen said that he asked Liu Wanchun, the secretary of the household department, to start reformulating the distribution of the feudal kings of these feudal domains, and at the same time asked the three departments of the military department, the household department, and the ritual department to unite, and Gao Hongtu, the first assistant of the cabinet, was responsible for redividing the fiefs of these feudal kings first.

On the issue of dealing with the vassal king, the civil officials and the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen had the same position, so they had no opinion that Zhu Youzhen wanted to move the interests of the vassal king's clique.

If it is a civil official, it is not completely useless, for example, Gao Hongtu, the first assistant of the cabinet, is now in Zhu Youzhen's eyes, that is, the mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more satisfied she looks, this Gao Hongtu sold Zhang Shenyan and the Donglin Party for the first time, not to mention, and to decisively stabilize people's hearts when guarding Nanjing, Zhu Youzhen is very appreciative of this action against the vassal king group.

In the decree drafted to Zhu Youzhen, he only said that the descendants of the royal family above the general level of the towns and states in various places would gather in the capital before the Dragon Boat Festival in May to discuss with the emperor and the cabinet about the addition of the vassal king to Lutian, but there was no mention of exchanging land for fiefdoms in the Americas or Oceania.

"Gao Aiqing really cherishes words like gold", Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but admire: "The celebrant will approve the red, and immediately distribute it to the vassal kings of various places." ”

The celebrant and the eunuch Lu Jiude took the holy decree from Gao Hongtu and stamped the big seal.

Zhu Youzhen also smiled proudly when he saw this, as soon as this holy decree was issued by the cabinet, it marked the official start of his first reform after Chongzhen's twenty-one years, and it would not disgust the entire gentry group to take the vassal group, but it could cut off a political boost that the civil official group might rebel against in the future.

It is only February now, and it will take more than a month for the holy decree to be sent to the vassal kings in various places, and it will take more than a month for the vassal kings from all over the country to enter Beijing, plus the delay of other times, and it will be after mid-May when all the vassal kings from all over the country enter Beijing and officially start to change the fiefdoms of the vassal kings.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen decided to take advantage of this time to make some preparations on how to keep the vassal kings in the capital.

Although he said that these vassal kings were raised by the people like pigs, these vassal kings were also human beings in the end, and the family members, slaves, and guards attached to them were also tens of thousands of people, and they could not be raised in vain, they had to arrange jobs, they had to let them support themselves, and even if the imperial court still had to spend money, the cost had to be reduced to a minimum.

Before arranging work, the first question is how to arrange the housing of these feudal lords after they move back to the capital.

To this end, Zhu Youzhen specially convened the head of the cabinet and officials of the household department, the Ministry of Industry, and the officials of the Shuncheon Prefecture to discuss how to make arrangements.

"Your Majesty, there are many people in the south of the Yangtze River, and Nanjing City is even more serious, and the vassal kings, especially the princes, must have a royal palace, according to the regulations, there must be a royal city, and now move to Nanjing, and build a royal palace The royal city is only afraid that there is not so much land, so Wei Chen thinks that it is better to vacate the houses of some idle criminal and noble officials on the edge of the imperial city and divide them into some three or four houses for the vassal kings to live, what do you think?"

Cabinet First Assistant Gao Hongtu proposed.

And after Zhu Youjian listened to it, he understood what it meant to be picked, and now if these civil officials don't call it, no one dares to call it a pick.

These people have their own estates inside and outside the city, and private gardens comparable to the Humble Administrator's Garden have sprung up at every turn, but now the vassal kings have only arranged some houses for three or four entrances when they enter Beijing.

The key is that Liu Wanchun, the secretary of the household department, also put forward a reason that Zhu Youzhen could not refute: "Your Majesty, the shops and fields inside and outside the city of Nanjing are the property of the people who actively pay taxes, and the reason why the people were persuaded to pay taxes was because the government guaranteed to protect the private property of the people, and now the vassal kings cannot touch the property of these people." ”

"Okay, I know, in my opinion, I don't have to give the houses of the offending officials to the vassal kings, I have a better way."

Zhu Youzhen said and ordered someone to bring the map of Nanjing City:

"The mountainous land near the Yangtze River in this area of Qixia Mountain can not grow crops and has no market is set aside for the vassal kings to live, not much, each prince's living area is limited to three acres, two acres for the county king, and one acre below the county king."

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, Gao Hongtu, the first assistant of the cabinet, almost couldn't believe that this was what his majesty said, he felt that it was already too much for his cabinet to save money by not building palaces for these vassal kings and only letting them live in the old houses of the officials who committed crimes, but he didn't expect that his majesty would be even more excessive to his relatives, and he would only give two or three acres of mountain land under Qixia Mountain to live in!

You must know that although the civil officials gave the vassal kings the old houses of the officials who committed crimes, the location was very good, after all, it was on the edge of the imperial city, and it was an inner city, so it was very convenient to enter the palace to congratulate or go to the Qinhuai River to have fun.

And Qixia Mountain is in the north of Nanjing City, all mountainous, there are not many people, the closest to Qixia Mountain is Zhongshan Xiaoling and Xiaolingwei and the tombs of some founding heroes, the key is that the distance from the imperial city is twice as far as the distance between Zhongshan and the imperial city.

"Your Majesty, isn't this not good, the vassal kings are royal nobles, and the geographical location around Qixia Mountain is really not good, it is too deserted and in the outer city, which damages the royal majesty."

Gao Hongtu, the first assistant of the cabinet, couldn't help but ask.

"What's wrong with this location, by the mountains and rivers, backed by the beautiful Qixia Mountain, facing the mighty Yangtze River, the scenery is beautiful, warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is also quiet, close to the filial piety tomb, it is also convenient to worship the ancestors during the New Year's Festival, and in the outer city, there is no need to worry about the chaos affecting the safety of the imperial city, so it is decided, the key is that the land in this area must be cheap, and the imperial court can save a lot of money, don't think that now the treasury is full and you can spend lavishly, especially your household!"

Zhu Youzhen was naturally reluctant to give the houses of the offending officials to the vassal kings, because these were confiscated by Dongchang, and they were his private property, and the key was the private property of the excellent location, just like all the houses within the Third Ring Road in Beijing, how could he be willing to give them to the vassal kings.

Of course, if the vassal kings wanted to live at the base of the city wall, they could use the money to buy these priceless old houses from him.

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