Chapter 233: The Prince and His People (Part II)

Mingxi said: "The eldest brother said that he was young at that time and his thinking was not mature, so he only mentioned three of them. www.biquge.info The first is to reduce, the second is to combine, and the third is to use. ”

"Reduction is a reduction of taxes, and those who reduce taxes also need to reduce the expenses of the government; together it is to combine those many kinds of taxes that can be combined, and to pay taxes as much as possible with money, without the need to produce silk and rice; and to use it is to strictly control the whereabouts of taxes and fees, and even to list out the expenses one by one, so as to alleviate the people's complaints. ”

When Han Feng heard this, he couldn't help but be silent. If everything is as Mingxi said, this great prince will not only be an absurd waste, but will become a generation of Ming monarchs. If the current Emperor had taken his suggestion more than 20 years ago, I am afraid that there would not be so many backlashes in the world today, and even the chaos near Qinghe City would not have arisen.

It's a pity that what Mingxi said is just something that doesn't even have a shadow, but the reputation of the eldest prince is ruined, which is an indisputable fact.

Mingxi said again: "The eldest brother's idea at that time was supported by the queen mother, but I heard that the father smiled and just regarded it as a child's casual nonsense, and ...... The father didn't blame the eldest brother, but the next day he called someone to the queen mother's vegetable garden, destroyed all the land that had just been planted, and left a message, telling the queen mother to be like a queen, don't let the world laugh at it. ”

For today's emperor, this is a reasonable thing. Han Feng sighed lightly, this acting emperor has been clothed and fed since he was a child, and he likes luxury, maybe when he sees the queen doing farm work, he will feel that his face is dull.

Mingxi sighed: "I wasn't born at that time, and I just listened to my uncle...... The uncle said that his father had a great temper, and told his mother that the eldest brother had been taken by her, and if she continued to do so, she would ask the eldest brother to bring it to others, and she would not even be allowed to see her. The queen mother was afraid of being separated from her eldest brother, so she swallowed her anger and ordered someone to pave the ground with bluestone bricks, and all of them were restored to their original state, and after that, she rarely moved around the palace, and only stayed in her own palace. However, the power of the descendants is extremely heavy, and if the father wants to abolish the queen, it is absolutely impossible. So, for about ten years after that, the palace was so peaceful. ”

Ten years without incident, naturally means that there will be something after ten years. According to the age calculation, ten years later, the eldest prince will be eighteen years old, and he has changed from an ignorant child to a heroic youth, and it is rumored that the third princess is twelve years younger than the eldest prince, and should have been six years old at that time.

Han Feng's heart moved slightly, and he couldn't help asking, "Is it your mother's business?" As soon as the words came out, he regretted it a little, but he didn't turn back when he opened the bow, and his words were difficult to accept.

Mingxi sighed quietly and said, "My mother concubine is the cousin of the queen mother, and she is also in the descendant clan. ”

The queen lost power, and it was impossible for the descendants not to know. For these people, no matter how noble the queen is, it is just a chess piece for them to settle down, since this chess piece is useless, the best choice is to change one.

Emperor Dai is not a complete womanizer, but when a beautiful woman is sent, he naturally has more and more kindness. And the queen, who was close to being beaten into the cold palace, was uncomfortable with the new successor, and she had to let her go.

Fresh and always pampered. The queen and the concubine have become good sisters, the situation is gradually settled, and the croaking of the third princess has also made more fetters between the two invisibly.

Mingxi recalled the past, and had mixed feelings in his heart: "The mother concubine and the mother are good sisters, maybe in another ten years, when the mother concubine has a son, the sisterhood between the two will be broken, but this is all 'if', no one knows." The queen mother only has one son of the eldest brother, and the mother concubine is only one daughter of me, the two of them are good personally, I was often with the eldest brother when I was a child, and I saw him even more than when I saw my father, so I was naturally close to him. The eldest brother is different from the second brother, and the rest of my brothers and sisters are also different, he doesn't have so many rules. When I was a child, he carried me to the rockery to dig birds' nests, picked the dog's tail on the edge of the cold palace and made grasshoppers, and the poplars bloomed in late spring every year, and used those fallen flowers to dress up as insects to scare the palace maids. ”

Han Feng couldn't help but feel her happiness and joy at that time when she heard that she had such an interesting childhood, and secretly wondered why she cared for her eldest brother like this, maybe it was this brother-sister relationship that allowed her to turn a deaf ear to the things that the people said.

Mingxi said: "At that time, I just wanted to be an ordinary princess, and I was pampered in the palm of my father's hand every day, and I didn't have to think about anything, and I didn't have to care about anything." But when I was six years old, everything was different. My eldest brother was getting thriving and busy, and he spent less and less time with me. I don't know what he's doing, but when I ask the queen mother, the queen always laughs and doesn't say anything. As a result, it didn't take long for me to hear that the eldest brother had a twist and turn, and hoped that the father and emperor would cancel the matter of the Yi girl going to leave the capital, so that the people who left the capital could gradually get rid of the crime. ”

"What?" Han Feng only thought that something was wrong with his ears. He stood up almost all at once, and was silent for a while before asking, "He...... How could he?"

"Hehe," Mingxi sneered twice and said, "I guess you don't believe it." Unexpectedly, you keep saying that you are a bad person, and for the second time in your life, you asked the emperor for his life, just for you people. I remember very well that the eldest brother said that the girl was poisonous, and most of the people who left the capital were innocent people, and they fed people in the city, which was no different from animals and birds. ”

The Yihou Rebellion was an uprising of the Lidu people 200 years ago, when the army marched all the way south and even hit the imperial capital. As a result, there are many rumors in later generations, one of the most bizarre is that although the righteous marquis himself was beheaded, the person who actually ascended the throne was the heir of the righteous marquis. The real Dai Emperor line was forcibly moved to Huadu in the Windy City as early as 200 years ago, becoming the ancestor of today's Yue Wang.

Of course, these are rumors and are not enough to be trusted. As for Han Feng, he was more concerned about why the eldest prince made this suggestion and what kind of results he got after that.

Mingxi continued: "There are also half-yi girls in the palace, many of whom have been favored by their fathers, and some who have not been favored have been rewarded to other ministers. Of course, the lustful ministers are overjoyed, and the lascivious ones quietly sell the half-yi women, and they can also make a lot of money. My father has never had much control over these things, and those people even really regard buying and selling people as a means to make a fortune. The eldest brother's proposal was to cut off the financial route of those people, of course, it was opposed by many ministers, and some of them compared the eldest brother with Zhan Rong, who was in the 'battle for succession' more than a hundred years ago. ”

This was the first time Han Feng had heard the name of his great-grandfather from the mouths of others. Bai Tong respectfully called Zhan Rong "Second Prince" on weekdays, so that when he heard the word "Zhan Rong", he didn't react for a while. However, Mingxi is a royal person, so it is normal to say so. Han Feng smiled bitterly and listened to Mingxi continue to speak.

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