The shop in Qixia Mountain was directly managed by him in the inner court.

The merchants of this era are not stupid, knowing that these feudal kings are all local tyrants, they are all vying to buy the shops here, and even the most famous Fengyue Land in the Qinhuai River has opened a branch here.

All of Zhu Youzhen's stores here were sold out within a few days, which once again proved that the Daming real estate industry was also hot, and at the same time, it also made Zhu Youzhen's internal money make a lot of money.

In less than half a month, the area of Qixia Mountain, which was cold and lonely in the past, has a bustling atmosphere.

The vassal kings are even more drunk than before.

Nanjing City has always been a prosperous place for smoke and willows, and most of the scholars and doctors came here to pursue sound and beauty.

Therefore, there are many services that make people want to die.

Some vassal kings who had been in remote areas for a long time now came to Nanjing, and naturally felt fresh.

It didn't take long for the news that an old prince died suddenly on the body of a certain girl, and suddenly became the first vassal king to die in the villa area of Qixia Mountain, and almost caused an unjust case, which caused a sensation in Nanjing City, but fortunately, it was finally found out that it was not the girl who killed her, and she was spared the pain of punishment.

Although Zhu Youzhen has been knocking out the bones of these vassal kings,

But now his relationship with these vassal kings is also okay, and the relationship between the king and the king is also harmonious.

Even if the vassal kings complained that they were blackmailed too much, Zhu Youzhen also put the blame on the civil officials:

"Alas, you emperors and uncles don't know anything, I am also very difficult as the emperor, and it stands to reason that I should give you some rewards for the mansion, but the hundred officials discussed that the military budget is tight and you need to rest with the people, so you can only grieve the royal family!

Not only did I not give you a reward for your mansion, but even my palace and imperial mausoleum were not repaired!

Tell me, what can I do, even now, I can only eat five dishes per meal, do you tell me that this is an emperor's life, hateful, hateful! ”

The civil officials wanted to dump the pot that the vassal kings complained about to Emperor Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen, on the other hand, first threw the pot on the cabinet and the civilian clique it represents.

Moreover, Zhu Youzhen directly said that what he was directly unwilling to do was deliberately targeted by civilian officials.

In addition, making money from the hands of the vassal king, Zhu Youzhen did not directly intervene in many things, and it was the household department that came out, so the vassal kings also believed in Zhu Youzhen's words, and asked Zhu Youzhen why he did not remove Gao Hongtu, the first assistant of the cabinet.

Zhu Youzhen continued to cry and say that Gao Hongtu had great merit in defending Nanjing, and that he could not remove Gao Hongtu, the first assistant of the cabinet, and that he could not remove Gao Hongtu, the first assistant of the cabinet, and the vassal kings asked Zhu Youzhen why he did not dismiss Liu Wanchun, the secretary of the household department whom they hated the most.

Zhu Youzhen also said some unspeakable secrets, saying that the dismissal also needs a reason, and without the impeachment of the following officials, he cannot arbitrarily depose one by one the dignified household secretaries, after all, today's household secretaries are all recommended and appointed by the first assistant of the cabinet.

The vassal kings understood what Zhu Youzhen meant, and they really wanted to vent their anger, wanting the officials in the court and China to be afraid of them.

Therefore, the vassal kings began their own political show, and some people began to bribe some imperial historians with silver or other means, and then impeached Liu Wanchun, the head of the household department.

Liu Wanchun, the head of the household, was not stupid, knowing that this was deliberately done by his cunning Majesty.

He knew what His Majesty wanted, so without saying a word, he gave Zhu Youzhen 30% of the proceeds from the auction of the so-called state-owned assets of the Ministry of Household Treasury.

However, soon, Zhu Youzhen still fined Liu Wanchun for half a year.

Liu Wanchun, the head of the household department, knew that his majesty meant that the share he gave was not enough, so he raised it to forty percent.

Therefore, Liu Wanchun, the secretary of the household department, was suddenly crowned as the third orphan of the crown prince after being fined for half a year, and also added his position as a scholar to Wenyuan Pavilion, jumping from the sixth to the fourth place in the cabinet scholar!

The vassal kings were shocked!

After being away from the court for a long time, they realized that imperial politics was not as simple as they imagined.

Some politically sensitive vassal kings found out that it was Liu Wanchun, the head of the household, who sent money to His Majesty.

His Majesty, who was "bribed", naturally would not treat Liu Wanchun for his crimes.

The vassal kings were busy instructing some civil officials who spoke for money to accuse Liu Wanchun, the secretary of the household department, of being a huge greedy minister who could only make money, and at the same time also sent money to His Majesty Zhu Youzhen.

Liu Wanchun, the head of the household, has been in the center for a long time, and after being deeply affected by the shamelessness of Emperor Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Dynasty, he also followed the shamelessness and continued to hug Zhu Youzhen's thighs, sending money and warmth, but he didn't send women.

The vassal kings couldn't stand it, and in order to overpower the civil officials, they also rushed to give Zhu Youzhen money.

For example, Guiwang Zhu Youlang took the initiative to take out a loan to take over the reconstruction project of Fengtian Temple.

Zhu Youzhen was very happy about this, and immediately rewarded Zhu Youlang with the official of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry.

Zhu Youlang became the youngest high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, and he was also directly concurrently served by the vassal king.

The other vassal kings also looked at the red eyes and competed for money, and some Qingliu civil officials were not far behind, collecting money and scolding the officials of the six ministries of the cabinet while also scolding the vassal kings for breaking the ancestral system, but they did not dare to point the finger at Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen is like a person watching the scenery from the city tower, and the vassal kings and civil officials below are in an uproar.

In addition, there is still a dispute for succession, and the Ming Dynasty seems to be very chaotic in this era.

Some ministers who were eyeing the position of the first assistant also began to instigate the party henchmen to directly reprimand the first assistant Gao Hongtu for inaction.

Gao Hongtu's people were naturally not far behind, and the hostile factions such as Ruan Dayue also began to scold.

For a while, Daming seemed to have returned to the era of "three old papier-mâché and six clay sculptures".

But the fact is that both Zhu Youzhen's internal treasury and the treasury's income began to increase substantially, especially after the end of Chongzhen's 21st July, with the end of the commercial tax collection, the annual treasury revenue jumped to 200 million silver dollars!

And Zhu Youzhen's own internal savings have also exceeded one billion silver dollars!

This is the prosperity of the era of imperial chaos.

Officials are quietly discovering that the wealth of the empire has reached the age of billions.

While these vassal kings no longer waited for death or only focused on exploiting the low-level people and started political games with civil officials, Zhu Youzhen still did not start to tell the vassal kings how to expand their fiefdoms.

However, after August, Zhu Youzhen suddenly ordered the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dongchang, and the General Military Justice Department of the Generalissimo's Office to jointly set up a special group to uniformly begin the execution of war criminals and traitors.

Zhu Youzhen's edict ordered all feudal kings and civil and military officials above the second rank to go to Taipingmen every day to observe the execution from the beginning of the execution on the 5th day of the first month of August, and to leave at three o'clock, and every time a war criminal was executed, he must write his thoughts in an article.

Except, of course, on duty days.

The reason why Zhu Youzhen did this was naturally to let these vassal kings know the fate of disobeying themselves and betraying the Ming Dynasty through real severe punishment and harsh laws.

The first to be tried was naturally Hong Chengchou, who had been instigated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty to go south again to destroy the Ming Dynasty, and personally took command of the death of the homeland, and was positioned as a Class A war criminal by the Criminal Department of the Ming Cabinet.

(End of chapter)