More than 100 vassal kings turned around the temple, and as the heavy wooden door of the temple closed, the inside and outside seemed to be isolated into two different worlds.

Zhu Zhiyang, the king of Jin, said with a solemn face: "Everyone, what Zhang Yong said before must have been heard by everyone, how should we deal with it?"

After a while, Zhu Biaochu, the king of Hezhong County, said: "Zhu Houwei wants to reform, this king believes, according to rumors, he behaved abnormally when he was still the king of Yongwang in Beijing, and he liked to tinker with craftsmen, and after arriving in Huzhou, he prospered in business, and the industry under his name was even more prosperous, and he was exempted from tenant rent and tax during the disaster last year, and funded the governance of Taihu Lake, and was known as a virtuous person in Huzhou.

Zhu Anxiang, the king of Yining County, snorted coldly: "Prospering business and enriching the country? The wealth of the Ming Dynasty is heavily in the southeast, and the wealth of the southeast lies in the prosperity of the business road, and if he wants to make the country rich, he must change the ancestral system to increase the commercial tax, and the southeast business road is almost all controlled by the hands of the officials and Taoists, and he wants to increase the business tax will inevitably cause opposition from the Manchu Dynasty. ”

Zhu Anxiao, the king of Donghui County, shook his head and said, "Ancestral system? Do you uncles and brothers think that Zhu Houwei will put the ancestral system in his eyes? He tricked everyone into going to the capital and gathering in Fangshan, which is no different from being imprisoned, this move is just Zhu Houwei's plan to kill two birds with one stone. ”

"Killing two birds with one stone? Let's talk about it. Zhu Zhiyang smiled.

Zhu Anxiao said: "A few years ago, the king of Anhua rebelled, it can be seen that there is no shortage of people among the vassal kings who want to learn from the Yongle Emperor, in order to eliminate the trouble of the vassal king, it is naturally a method to gather the kings in the capital once and for all, at that time, the kings will have no soldiers in their hands, even if they want to rebel, they can't rebel, even if they really lose their hearts and rebel, it is just a snap of a finger for Zhu Houwei.

The second is that for the so-called reform, he wants to implement the new policy will inevitably encounter many resistances, so Zhu Houwei wants to use the excuse of reforming the disadvantages of the clan to show the Manchu Dynasty civil and military and the people of the whole world, in order to reform the encirclement of the kings and the elimination of the world's clan relatives, he did not hesitate to isolate himself from the temple, which is nothing more than to declare his determination to the world and reduce the resistance to reform. ”

"That's right." Zhu Zhiyang nodded.

"There have been countless maladministrations in all dynasties, and there have been reforms in all dynasties." Zhu You, the king of Hui, sighed: "However, it is not enough to have determination to reform, even if you change the government of the clan, the ministers can attack each other, and they can bite each other, but when they face the imperial power, they will definitely be united."

Because no minister is willing to serve the powerful monarch, Zhu Houwei treats the clan like this, and it may be the opposite, causing the ministers to be vigilant. ”

"Where did Zhu Houwei get the confidence!"

"Confidence? As soon as he was in charge of the country, he reorganized the three battalions to set up the Shence Army, and directly expanded the Shence Army to 100,000 horses, almost all the generals of the Shence Army were Yongwangwei's people, and the five major battalions practiced day and night, and the shouts of fighting were endless, it can be seen that Zhu Houwei knew very well the importance of military power to the imperial power, he firmly grasped the military power, there was the Shence Army outside, and there were Jinyi guards and factory guards inside, who else would he be afraid of? ”

"Yes, Zhu Houwei colluded with businessmen to seek heavy profits, and almost all of this silver was invested in the Shence Army and Tongzhou, this move is already known to everyone in Sima Zhao's heart, and it is impossible for the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty not to know, but Zhu Houwei has no money from the user department, so he can only stare dryly."

"Relying on 100,000 gods alone may not be able to satisfy Zhu Houwei's appetite, he built hundreds of palaces in Fangshan, and then sold the kings at sky-high prices, if the kings are compliant, this alone, Zhu Houwei can make a profit of 10,000 taels, it is really a good calculation, he has enough silver in his hands, and the next step must be to do it to the 24 guards and even the world's soldiers and horses."

"Does it make sense to say that now?" Huai King Zhu Youqi snorted and said: "How is the emperor, how do the courtiers have anything to do with the kings, now that the kings are trapped in the capital, can they only be at the mercy of Zhu Houwei?"

Zhu Zhiyang sighed: "The tiger falls in Pingyang and the dragon swims in the shallows, Zhu Houwei is determined to eat you, what can I do?"

The Taimiao suddenly fell silent, the words were not rough, Zhu Houwei was now playing with the kings, and in the past seven days, they have recognized one thing, that is, it is useless to cry the temple fart.

If it's useless to cry, I'm afraid there is only one way to fight to the death, just like Zhu Bai, the king of Hunan when Emperor Jianwen cut the domain, directly chose to self-immolate, but unfortunately Zhu Bai died in vain, and his death did not make Zhu Yunwen stop, which led to the vigorous battle of Jingjing later.

Now hundreds of feudal kings are gathered in the capital, if you choose to fight to the death, then one or two deaths will definitely not be enough, and the key question is not how many to die, but who will die?

Everyone is a vassal king, and they are all used to living a good life, why should I die and you live, is it possible that the vassal king still has to use the way of drawing lots to decide life and death?

Zhu Youfang sighed: "If you don't rebel now, you can only let it be slaughtered, and rebellion is to stretch your neck to Zhu Houwei's knife to cut him, a simple trick, but it has forced the kings to a desperate situation, just imagine if Emperor Jianwen used the same method to let the kings of the world return to Beijing to mourn for Taizu, and then catch them all, but there will be a later throne change hands......"

"Why don't you follow the trend and wait and see what happens?" Xingwang Zhu Youqi, who had never spoken, opened his mouth.

The kings couldn't help but look at Zhu Youqi.

Zhu Youqi's son is known as the most shrewd emperor in history, and the emperor Ming Shizong Zhu Houxi who reigned for the longest time.

The reason why Zhu Houxi was able to succeed to the throne was because there was no queen when Zhengde died, and he was a close branch of the imperial family, his father Zhu Youqi was the son of Emperor Xianzong, and Zhu Houwei's father Emperor Hongzhi was the third son of Emperor Xianzong.

To be clearer, Zhu Youqi is Zhu Houwei's cousin, and he doesn't know how much closer he is to the so-called clan relatives in this temple.

If you are in the people, if you have five suits, you are basically not relatives, and it is pure nonsense to say how deep the feelings are, but the relationship between relatives and uncles and nephews is naturally far from being comparable to ordinary relatives.

In other words, Zhu Houwei can do it to the clansmen all over the world without hesitation, and there will be no psychological burden, but if he does it to his own cousins or cousins, it will really be cold-blooded and ruthless, and the six relatives will not recognize it.

Therefore, several princes and sons of Xianzong, including the county kings of one of their lineages, have been very low-key these days, and they are afraid that they will become the target of public criticism if they are not careful.

But now Zhu Youqi still spoke, and he couldn't hold back......

"What a good one!" Zhu Zhiyang sneered: "King Xing is waiting to see what happens, this king is very curious about what he said!"