The vassal kings have arrived in the capital one after another.

Because these vassal kings got the will to discuss the expansion of their fiefdoms, they were naturally very happy and active to come to the capital, and they were not allowed to leave their fiefs before this, and now they can come to Jinling City to experience the prosperity of the imperial capital, and they are naturally even more excited.

Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, and Zhu Youli, the king of De, were the first to arrive in the capital.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Yujian, the Tang King who was rebuilt in Shunde after Zhu Youzhen moved south.

and Guiwang Zhu Youlang finally arrived in the capital.

Every Ming vassal king and his relatives arrived in the capital, and Zhu Youzhen would hold a banquet in the Fengtian Hall to entertain them.

Sometimes, if several Ming vassal kings arrived in Beijing together, Zhu Youzhen would entertain them together.

However, Zhu Youzhen knew that these vassal kings were all rich local tyrants, and there was no need to give them delicacies from the mountains and seas.

In line with the principle of cost saving, Zhu Youzhen only let the imperial dining room make the usual vegetarian banquet.

According to Zhu Youzhen's meaning, now half of the country is still in the hands of the enemy, and the people are still in dire straits.

Even, Zhu Youzhen also asked Chen Chunde, the imperial historian of the left capital, to tell about the tragic situation of the people he saw when he moved south with Hu in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

"The people are bitter, you were born in the emperor's family, and you have been clothed and fed since you were a child, where do you know their hardships."

Zhu Youzhen pretended to pity the people's livelihood, and the vassal kings present naturally only echoed him and talked about the difficult topic of the country.

"Now that the state affairs are difficult, half of the country has been lost, Weichen thinks that His Majesty should change the old system of the ancestors, leave the vassal king in the capital, and the royal nobles work together to revitalize the Ming Dynasty, so that it is the blessing of the community, just like the ancestors of the ancestors were helped by the brothers of the vassal kings to set things right, the heavenly family can work together to make all the people work together!"

Shoufu Gao Hongtu saw the opportunity to act, and hurriedly stood up and put forward suggestions.

Immediately afterwards, the civil and military officials present all stood up and expressed the hope that Zhu Youzhen could keep the vassal king in the capital and not have to let him return to the fiefdom.

The vassal kings were all surprised, they didn't expect that they would be left in the capital by His Majesty.

They are naturally unwilling, although they are also enclosed in the fief and are not allowed to leave the fief, but at least in the fief, they are free, and they are far away from the emperor.

But now they are locked in the capital, which means that everything about them will be watched by His Majesty.

Zhu Youzhen laughed: "Shoufu is the old man who seeks the country, according to what Shoufu said, all the emperors, uncles, uncles and nephews will stay in the capital temporarily." ”

"Your Ministers obey!"

The vassal kings can't help it, now that people have come to the capital, this is Zhu Youzhen's territory, and they can only let Zhu Youzhen slaughter it.

However, after Zhu Youzhen announced the edict not to let the vassal kings leave the capital temporarily, he did not care about these vassal kings anymore.

These vassal kings who arrived in Beijing were a little overwhelmed, they didn't expect that the imperial court would not care about their housing and food.

And since they want to stay in the capital, there must be a palace, but they haven't heard any officials say that they will give the palace to them.

"Two highnesses, originally our Ministry of Rites was responsible for entertaining you into Beijing, but we were only responsible for receiving you, and your residence and food were not our responsibility, but now it is the responsibility of the National Management Department of the Ministry of Households, you can go to Nie Langzhong."

The officials of the Ministry of Rites took King Lu and King De to find Nie Langzhong, and Nie Langzhong was also polite, as Nie Xiaowei, who was directly promoted from Zhaoma to the position of Langzhong of the State Management Division of the Ministry of Household because he was good at doing dental business, was very politely brought King Lu to the Qixia Mountain Villa Area:

"The two highnesses are satisfied with the villas here, these are the mansions designed by His Majesty personally for you in the capital, and Your Majesty also has a palace here, do you choose to buy, the ninth to the twentieth is 100,000 silver dollars, and the rest are decreasing in turn, the cheapest is the first one we just saw is only worth 10,000 silver dollars."

"This is strange, dare to love this is not given to us, but to buy it, is this your majesty's intention or you officials are greedy for money and deliberately blackmailed us."

King Lu was a little annoyed, he was also very satisfied with this kind of exquisite and unique and many grand buildings, although it was in the outer city of Nanjing and too remote, but he also knew that his kind of vassal king was the least tolerated by the imperial court, so he felt that he could still bear to be given a building here.

But King Lu didn't expect that this was not a gift, it was for him to buy.

King Zhu Youli, who was with King Lu, also asked: "What if we don't buy it?" ”

"If the two highnesses don't buy it, the lower officials naturally can't do anything about you, but what the lower officials can be sure of is that no one dares to take in the two highnesses except here, and no one dares to sell their house to the two highnesses, and the two highnesses can only sleep on the streets, but the two highnesses please think clearly, it is easy to buy such a villa with the financial resources of the two highnesses, but if the emperor loses face because of sleeping on the street, the emperor will be unhappy at that time, and it will not be good to tear the two highnesses into the same party of King Lu and King Fu."

Nie Xiaowei in the household department made such a threat, King Lu and King De were choked and speechless.

In the end, King De was really angry, and roared: "What about Liu Ge Lao of your household, let him come to see Lone, and Lone will ask him, why is he embarrassed to make money from Lone's hands!" ”

"The old man is now discussing with His Majesty the military expenditure of the war in the southwest with other cabinet elders in the Qianqing Palace, so naturally he has no time to meet the two Highnesses, and the lower officials dare to say something that should not be said, we are all His Majesty's courtiers, not the courtiers of the two Highnesses, if the two Highnesses want to buy it, they will buy it, if they don't buy it, they won't buy it, such a villa, if you don't buy it, some people will buy it, after all, next to Your Majesty's palace, you can live with Your Majesty, not to mention spending 10,000, even 100,000 million people are willing."

Nie Xiaowei in this household department despised King Lu and King De very much in his heart, and thought to himself that he heard that the vassal kings were so rich, how could it be so troublesome for them to buy a villa.

"You!"

Because of the threat in Nie Xiaowei's words, King De was angry for a while, and was about to reprimand Nie Xiaowei for a few words, but was stopped by King Lu, and King Lu took the initiative to ask: "In this villa area, Your Majesty usually comes to live for a few days?" ”

"Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, there will be one day when you will come here, and besides, the hotter the weather is, your majesty will not come here to escape the heat, will it only be in the hot imperial city?"

As soon as Nie Xiaowei said this, King Lu also nodded: "It's okay, just buy it alone, even if Your Majesty stays here for a day, it is worth spending so much silver, but why are these No. 9 and No. 20 so expensive?" ”

"This place is the closest to Your Majesty, so it will naturally be the most expensive," Nie Xiaowei said.

"Then buy No. 9", King Lu said and took out the large-denomination silver dollar exchange ticket.

"Then Gu will buy No. 10", King De had to buy it with him.

Gradually, all the vassal kings who came to the capital came to Qixia Mountain Villa Area to buy villas, but until all the vassal kings arrived, there were still about 20 villas left.

According to Zhu Youzhen's intentions, these 20 or so villas were auctioned and sold at three times the highest price of 100,000 silver dollars.

There were many bidders, and many wealthy businessmen and dignitaries were vying to grab the auction.

For no other reason, there is the emperor's palace and the residence of the vassal kings, who doesn't want to be closer to the top of the empire.

The Zheng family, the Han family, the Yang family, and the Wang family, which were several major families of the Ming Empire at that time, all bid for their villas here.

(End of chapter)