The advisors around him were all staring at the three princes, and so was the forty-year-old prince.

Loving the people like a son has always been lip service.

In particular, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince felt that he had not yet sat on the throne of Emperor Yuanjia, so he ran to love the people like a son, didn't he think that he was not suspicious enough by his father?

The prince has seen it clearly all these years. If he highlights his ability too much and shows that he loves the people like a son, his father will suppress him mercilessly, and then begin to promote his younger brothers.

Over the years, his three unconscious younger brothers have been staring at him closely.

The prince was pressed by his younger brothers step by step, so he could only be cautious everywhere.

Every word and deed, every move, is as if it has been measured, and I dare not deviate from it.

Living this depressing life every day, the prince feels that he is not driven crazy, it is all his own ability.

Now that he was thrown by his father and the emperor with such a lot of messy things, the prince waited until those advisers left, and he was alone in his study, and began to walk back and forth.

Finally dissipating the fire in his chest, the prince sat down at his desk and began to practice calligraphy and meditate.

has been the crown prince for more than 20 years, and he is very familiar with the affairs inside and outside the court, as well as those courtiers who alternate between the old and the new.

The Great Dragon Kingdom is now controlled by the family.

In the center of the imperial court, there are eight surnames and twenty-three families, controlling six departments of the imperial court.

Outside the capital, there are countless families of all sizes, large and small, dividing local interests.

Originally, the land and population of various places should all be concentrated in the hands of the royal court. However, more than half of those land, population taxes, and good things such as salt and iron have been controlled by those wealthy families.

He wants to solve the problems of crisis rule one by one. However, the suspicion of his father, the jealousy of King Rui and King Gong and King Alcohol were eyeing him, and he was eager to pull him down from the position of the crown prince and step on him in the mud.

Internal and external troubles are in front of us. He worries every day.

Time waits for no one, and the longer these problems drag on, the bigger and bigger they will be like snowballing on snowy mountains in the future.

The prince, who has a clear brain and can see clearly, is now in a hurry. However, he couldn't tell others what he was thinking.

Because at this time, the people who supported him were actually those children of the family.

He had to step on his father and his brothers, as well as those uneasy brothers, so that he could rack his brains to bring all the power of various local families back to the central government to strengthen his rule.

Today, Weng Tonghui and a few people said that people's livelihood is insignificant. The prince ostensibly agreed, but in fact he had other ideas.

He has long seen it, but anyone from a family will always treat the people like a mustard. The disgust was written on his face.

The prince thinks that with these children of the family in charge of various places, those Li people can have a good life, then it is called a strange thing!

Thinking of the number of uprisings in the Great Dragon Kingdom every year and the number of people who revolted each time, the crown prince Liu Wei was upset.

Uprisings again and again will endanger his Liu family.

At present, the number of uprisings in various places in the Great Dragon Kingdom every year is more than dozens of times. At least one or two hundred times. This has happened everywhere from east to west, from north to south.

The wealthy family with its own subordinates, servants, including other private armed forces, if they can suppress those rebel forces, it is actually fine.

But what the crown prince Liu Qian is most worried about now is that the wealthy family in a certain place thinks that they are strong and the time is ripe, and they want to rebel against their family.

The crown prince Liu Xue has been thinking about it for a while, and feels that those wealthy families actually have a heart of disobedience. It's just that the gun shoots the first bird, and no one wants to come out casually at this moment.

always feels that his position as the prince is in jeopardy, and the prince Liu Xue has not slept well these days.

He didn't sleep well, Prince Rui, Prince Gong, and Prince Alcohol, these days, he didn't sleep very well, and the food was not good.

They all knew in their hearts that the crown prince was born to the queen's mother. He is the elder and the eldest son. What's more, the queen's maiden family, the Liu family, is a strong man in Kansai. There are 8,000 private soldiers and iron horsemen in his hands, strong men and horses, and powerful weapons, which is the largest family in the world.

In addition, the prince's wife's maiden family, and one of the eight surnames and twenty families, Qinghe Cui, Prince Gong, Prince Rui, and Prince Alcohol often feel ,...... When their father was still alive, if they couldn't do everything they could to pull the crown prince down from that position, then they would be in danger at that time.

Either he was sent to the Thanksgiving Temple and became a monk for a lifetime, or he was locked up in the Taoist Temple every day and copied the Heart Sutra every day.

What's even more unbearable is that they, including their own children, may be given a cup of poisoned wine by the new emperor and go to Huangquan forever.

As for their own wives and concubines, as long as their mother's family is powerful, once they are left out or die, they may be brought back to remarry.

Of course, they could also be killed by them.

Thinking of the success or failure of those rights and wrongs, Prince Rui, Prince Gong, and Prince Alcohol threw aside the twists and turns distributed by Emperor Hongyu.

They don't want to care about this bullshit. Don't care.

The local disaster has nothing to do with their royal family!

From those places where the rich and powerful are everywhere, they do not receive much tax every year.

The total financial income of the Great Dragon Kingdom last year was 6 million taels of silver.

Compared with the year before, it was a million taels less.

What is the greasy in this, all of them are clear in their hearts.

The local fields were annexed in large numbers by the powerful families. The peasants who lost their land, in order to survive, were forced to become tenant farmers of wealthy families.

The peasants only needed to pay 20 catties of grain per mu every year for the cultivated land for the imperial court.

However, for those wealthy families, they need to pay 60 catties per mu of land.

In this world, anyone who has planted the field knows in their hearts that a farmer is fortunate to have been working hard for a whole year, and they can only harvest more than 100 catties of rice from the ground for one season a year.

Soybeans are up to 200 catties per mu.

Planting one acre of wheat will yield a harvest of more than 150 catties at most.

Under the exploitation of those wealthy families and the usury of various local officials, many peasants could not survive at all.

Internal and external troubles, various crises in the court, Prince Rui, Prince Gong, and Prince Alcohol, including the poor people around them, all understand in their hearts.

However, no matter how well they understood, they did not dare to say it.

It is a matter of national peril, and no one wants to break this layer of window paper.

Because many people know in their hearts that often after a thing or a series of problems emerge, people often do not solve the problem, but directly solve the person who raised the problem.

As a person of insight around the prince, everyone knows the truth of self-preservation.

As long as there is a life, they still have a chance to solve the problem. If you accidentally lose your life, it will be in vain. There is no way to help his master and achieve his wish.