Chapter 168: Bandits and Robbers
Zhu Youqi regretted it, and he couldn't wait to slap himself a few big mouths, tell you to talk more, and tell you to talk more......
"It's going to be easy." Zhu Youqi sighed: "Your Majesty is young and vigorous, and it is not difficult to understand the mood of wanting to do something, but it seems a little too hasty, and now Your Majesty is dealing with the clan by this means, which is nothing more than to shock the world and promote his determination to reform, even if I don't support it, there is no reason to oppose it."
All uncles and brothers are the descendants of the blood of Taizu, who does not want to see the eternal existence of the Ming Dynasty, since the Qin and Han dynasties, the elders of the previous dynasties to enjoy the country are only four hundred years, the short is decades, and now the Ming Dynasty has been established for one hundred and fifty years, are the kings willing to see two or three hundred years later, the rebellion in the world is everywhere, willing to see our descendants being wantonly slaughtered by the chaotic enemy, willing to see the temples of the vassal kings of all departments destroyed by the enemy?
If Your Majesty's reform is really effective and can continue for hundreds of years for the Ming Dynasty, even if the kings lose a little benefit, what does it matter? ”
"A little interest?" Zhu Zhiyang sneered: "Zhu Houwei not only wants the kings to spend hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to buy the palace, but also to seize all the land that is not given by the emperor!" Take the fief of this king as an example, when Taizu named the ancestor as the king of Jin, he gave 50,000 acres of land, but today, through the accumulation of generations of previous kings, the land under the name of this king has exceeded 300,000 mu, not to mention anything else, how much is the value of these 200,000 mu of land alone? He Zhu Houwei wants to deprive him of everything in one sentence? Where is the justice of heaven! ”
As soon as Zhu Zhiyang said this, the kings immediately responded one after another, in fact, the vast majority of vassal kings were tired of staying in their fiefs for a long time, and they did not reject the loss of their fiefdoms much, and they may not care much about expelling the country.
For the kings, as long as their lords have not been cut off, then the kings are still the group of people at the top of the great heaven, and they can still be powerful and evil!
The kings' unhappiness and worries are actually very simple, they are unhappy because they used to rob others, but now it's good, Zhu Houwei robbed them, and a snatch can completely rob the efforts of several generations, if they are clever and robbing, Zhu Houwei is a bandit, a robber, a thief who kills God!
As for the worries, it is simpler, think about them in the fiefdom, although they have no freedom, but in any case, they are also the emperor of the fiefdom, even if there is any lawlessness, as long as it does not provoke a civil uprising, even the royal family will only not see it.
Otherwise, even if most of the guards in the hands of the vassal king are removed, as long as there is money and food in his hands, it is not difficult to pull out a group of men and horses, otherwise why would King Anhua rebel, and why would King Ning want to rebel?
Now that Zhu Houwei is building hundreds of palaces in Fangshan, he wants to gather the vassal kings of the world together, and the kings will naturally not be willing, think about it, gather hundreds of vassal kings in such a big place in Fangshan, who do you say to bully?
And they live next to the capital, and their every move is under Zhu Houwei's nose, if they have an abnormal move, even which concubine they stayed in last night will be clearly detected by the Jinyi guard, where are people living this day.
Zhu Youqi could only smile bitterly in the face of Zhu Zhiyang's questioning, and finally sighed: "This king has not been in the domain for many years, and eighty percent of the land under this name is given by Emperor Xianzong, but he can't lose too much, but a palace costs 600,000 taels of silver, and this silver can't be taken out by this king, and he can only owe it first."
Zhu Zhiyang said coldly: "So, King Xing intends to compromise?"
"What if you don't compromise? I can't go back to the domain, it's hard to live in the capital for a long time, is there any other way out than to go to the king of Fangshan? Could it be that this king wants to live with the commoners and make the world laugh at it in vain? ”
"I'm afraid that even if you are Uncle Zhu Houwei, he won't let you owe it, otherwise the kings will do the same, and where will he go to loot the silver."
Zhu Youqi said with a smile: "This king has already thought about it, didn't Your Majesty open a 'Daming Royal Bank' in the capital, this king will take the land under his name as a mortgage, and borrow 300,000 taels of silver, which is enough to buy the palace of Fangshan, and there are not many servants in the Xingwang Mansion, and the annual salary is enough to spend, and when the harvest is in the field, the loan will be repaid in a few years."
The kings were dumbfounded, but soon all the princes were angry, Zhu Youqi of the dog day had already planned it, then you still came to the crying temple to cry a fart.
But Zhu Youqing's words still made the kings sober up a little, what can he do in this world even if he is a prince, he is the emperor, occupies the righteous and orthodox name, and has millions of male soldiers under his command, and Zhu Houwei is hard, don't look at the number of vassal kings, but the arms can't twist the thighs after all.
Since Hengzhu has to go to Fangshan in the end, it is naturally better to be sooner rather than later, otherwise Zhu Houwei will be worried about it, and the ghost knows what reason this guy will use to find them trouble.
The atmosphere in the temple is silent and weird, the vassal kings are not monolithic after all, they can come to the temple with the flow, because they also know that unity is strength, but now the power of unity is completely ineffective, as if a powerful punch hit the cotton, and the only thing that comes to the heart is powerless.
Since they couldn't resist, they went to bear it silently, and the hearts of the vassal kings were shaken at this moment......
Zhu Zhiyang is the king of Jin, his fief is in Shanxi, belongs to the border, and he is one of the nine great kings of the Ming Dynasty, and he is a typical existence standing at the top of the pyramid of vassal kings, so Zhu Houwei's act of encircling the king is also the most harmful for vassal kings of his kind.
Therefore, Zhu Zhiyang has always wanted to wrap the kings together and use the power of the kings to fight against Zhu Houwei, so as to force Zhu Houwei to compromise.
Of course, Zhu Zhiyang himself also knew that since Zhu Houwei had brought the kings to the capital and spent so much effort in Fangshan, he would definitely not let them go back to the domain, so his purpose was just to minimize the losses of the kings.
For example, to buy the silver of the palace, such as the annual salary, such as how much land is reserved in the name.
But now, with Zhu Youqing's words, Zhu Zhiyang knows that the kings' minds are scattered, and there is almost no possibility of condensing this plate of scattered sand.
The door of the Taimiao was opened again, and Zhang Yong, who had been standing outside the door for a long time, was bruised from the cold, he was not Zhu Houwei's cronies, so if he wanted to stand firm in the celebrant eunuch, he had to pay ten times or even a hundred times more effort than Ren Xing and Hong Ji.
Therefore, for Zhu Houwei's will, he will only implement it to the letter and complete it to perfection.
Seeing the King of Jin who was covered with frost and frost coming out first, Zhang Yong's heart had already risen to his throat.
The politics of the vassal kings are related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and it is also related to the governance strategy behind the Son of Heaven, and there is no room for mistakes.
Now what Zhang Yong needs is the answer!