Chapter 159: Selling the House
Emperor Zhengde liked martial arts and hated literature, and danced with knives and guns all day long, fantasizing that he could one day hold a long spear and lead a large army to fight on the battlefield, so as to restore the glory of the ancestors to expel Meng Yuan and conquer Mobei.
But now he is much more thoughtful than his imperial brother, just now he didn't do anything in charge of the country, so he reorganized the three battalions, reorganized the Shence army, and also broke up his Yongwangwei's soldiers and became the middle and upper generals of the Shence army, firmly holding the military power in his own hands.
Clear-eyed people knew at a glance that Jinshang wanted to rely on the strength of the army to quickly sit on the throne, and then implement his reform ideas, and the clan was obviously the first sword he wielded, and the 100,000 elites of the Shence Army was the greatest confidence for him to dare to do so.
Daming's maladministration is far more than the clan, as a descendant of the Zhu family, he dares to act blatantly against the clan, which shows that he has no scruples about acting today, so today he split the clan, where will the next knife go?
Yang Tinghe is worried!
But Yang Tinghe was just worried that the kings in the hall were about to despair.
Whoever raises an army in his domain will kill the local vassal king for the crime of treason, what is this?
This is to force the kings to stabilize the domain and not move, otherwise they will be the ones who will fall to the ground, and the kings can be regarded as completely aware that Zhu Houwei, who is now sitting on the throne, was premeditated and extremely ruthless.
Zhu Houwei was able to unceremoniously destroy Ning Fan and several county kings, which shows that he can definitely be ruthless to the kings present, even if it is to make an example of chickens and monkeys!
Now the kings are in the capital, they are swordsmen, and they are fish and meat......
If you don't resist, you don't want to be willing, and resisting may be looking for death!
"I have built hundreds of mansions for you in Fangshan County, the prince's mansion covers an area of 300 acres, the regulations are the same, the county prince's mansion covers an area of 200 acres, and the regulations are the same, the kings can move their families from their respective domains, as for the kings' palaces in the domain, I will keep them for you, and in the future, you or your descendants will have the opportunity to suppress various places, but once the vassal kings who return to the domain still go their own way and take pleasure in cruelty to the people, then I will also send someone to take you back and continue to live in Fangshan."
"And what about our land and property in the domain?" Zhu Weizhuo couldn't help but ask.
Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "The property can be kept, hire the shopkeeper to continue to do business, and the silver obtained will be sent to the kings' mansions, if it is troublesome, it will be sold directly, as for the land, it depends on how much land the royal family has given you, and all the land in the name of the kings that exceeds the given land will be regarded as your clever and plundered income, and all the taxes will be confiscated, as for the tax on the land granted by the emperor, I will send someone to the king's mansion every three months, of course, the same reason, if the kings are troublesome, you can also learn from the example of how I dealt with Yongwangtian, Sold it directly. ”
The kings didn't say anything this time, what Zhu Houwei said sounded like there was no loss to them, but most of the kings have been passed down for several generations, how much land did these generations of ancestors get by various means?
The land given to the first generation of kings may only be tens of thousands of acres, but now the land under the names of the kings has at least increased several times, or even dozens of times, and Zhu Houwei deprived the kings of the land that was not rewarded, which was a heavy loss for them.
But the struggle? Zhu Houwei didn't care about the family affection of the clan, and would rather bear the notoriety of unfilial descendants than clean up the kings and fight against him, it was better to simply stick his head under his knife and cut it directly, maybe it would be more practical.
Zhu Houwei had a faint smile on his face, the clan is the top three evil diseases that Daming can rank, if this evil disease is not exposed, Daming will be dragged down sooner or later, there is no doubt about this, and he is actually doing this to remind the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty and even those princes in the world, he can be so ruthless and even cold-blooded to the clan, if they want to resist themselves, then they have to think about whether their necks are hard enough.
Taizu divided the kings, guarded the places with his descendants, and even sealed the nine kings, the purpose was to let his own people guard the Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately the original intention was violated by the descendants after all.
Take Jiubian as an example, the king of Zayisai, who has no ambition, is not willing to raise too many soldiers to increase the expenditure of the palace, and ambition is naturally the real ambition.
As for the inland vassal kings, they were pigs in captivity, and they themselves knew that they were pigs, so the vassal kings who were trapped in one place had nothing else to do, so bullying the small people, arsoning with slaves, exploiting the people, and harming Sangzi These things may not bring them much honor, but they have become their pleasure.
This is a vicious disease caused by the solidification of the system, and it is because of Zhu Di's usurpation of the throne that caused the suspicion of future generations of descendants, and finally made the development of the royal family completely a deformed product.
Of course, this does not mean that there are no good vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, there are indeed ones, but they are really not too much, so Zhu Houwei would rather be killed with one shot than see these good descendants become new tumors.
It has never been an easy task to cut the domain, and rebellions caused by the cutting of the domain have abound throughout the ages, so Zhu Houwei does not cut the domain.
This is equivalent to leaving the final bottom line for the kings, leaving the domain, they are still princes and county kings, in the final analysis, what is lost is property and fiefdom, in addition, the honor that the vassal king should have is the same, then there is no need for them to jump over the wall in a hurry and rebel at the risk of being cut down.
Of course, there must be many vassal kings in this hall who are dissatisfied and want to move, but unless these vassal kings can twist into a rope, Zhu Houwei is not worried at all.
This is his fundamental purpose of deceiving the vassal kings of the whole world into the capital, and he uses the herd mentality of the vassal kings to make them jump into this bottomless pit.
"By the way, this king built many palaces in Fangshan, for which tens of thousands of people migrated to Fangshan, and the silver to buy land, migrate, and build palaces is so much that I am sad...... I don't overcharge this acre of land, just two thousand taels. ”
The elders of the cabinet, the six ministries and the nine secretaries all gasped, it turned out that they didn't know why Zhu Houwei wanted to move the people of Fangshan, thinking that this was purely a waste of silver, but after all, he didn't take the silver from the treasury, so Zhu Houwei would just let him go as much as he wanted.
But today they know that Zhu Houwei is doing this to concentrate the vassal kings all over the world in captivity, and Fangshan is the captive place that Zhu Houwei set aside for the kings.
In the eyes of the ministers, even if Fangshan fights every day in the future, and beats people's brains into dog brains, it has nothing to do with their half a penny, maybe they are still happy to see it......