Six or seven princes, including Xingwang Zhu Youqi, Yiwang Zhu Youbing, and Hengwang Zhu Youyi, jointly entered the palace to meet the Jiajing Emperor.

Although Emperor Xianzong favored Wan Guifei alone, it was rumored that Wan Guifei killed many princes because of his son's early death, and Emperor Xiaozong would probably have been poisoned if he was not protected by eunuchs and palace maids.

The son born to Xianzong and Wan Guifei is also the eldest son of the emperor, who died less than a year after birth, it is estimated that if this son did not die young, with Xianzong's favor for Wan Guifei, coupled with the ancestral system without a grandson, the throne of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably fall on the head of this child.

The second son of the emperor, Zhu Youji, was made the prince in the seventh year of Chenghua, did not live to the age of four, died, and was named the prince of mourning, and the third son was Zhu Youji of Ming Xiaozong.

The fourth son, Zhu Youxi, was named King Xing, that is, the father of Zhu Houxi, the smartest emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and it was also because he caused the famous Great Discussion Ceremony incident in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and finally Zhu Houyu won, and Zhu Youqi was posthumously named Emperor Xingxian.

Zhu Youdi, the king of the fifth son, died in the fourteenth year of Hongzhi, and the king of Qihui was removed from the country without children.

The sixth son is King Yi Zhu Youbin, the seventh son is King Heng Zhu Youyi, the eighth son is Yongwang Zhu Youfang, the ninth son Shouwang Zhu Youyu, the tenth son Ruwang Zhu Youqi, the eleventh son Jing Wang Zhu Youshu, the twelfth son Rong Wang Zhu Youshu, and the thirteenth son Shenyi Wang Zhu Youkai......

The princes who came together are Zhu Houwei's uncles, and in terms of blood, they are the closest clansmen in the world except for his mother, son and brother Zhu Houzhao.

As the closest side branches of the royal family, several of them will naturally stand on the side of the royal family, and these people also believe that the reason why they are treated the same as the kings is completely because of the influence of those distant vassal kings.

At the same time, they also firmly believe that as long as the time passes and the rumors pass, Zhu Houwei, the emperor's nephew as the Son of Heaven, will definitely compensate them!

are all his own family, if Zhu Houwei treats them as the same as the kings, can he still be regarded as a person?

When several princes saw the ceremony, Zhu Houwei smiled and said, "Uncle Wang doesn't need to be polite, just sit down."

The kings sat down, and Zhu Houwei said, "If you uncles don't come to see me again, I will send someone to invite you."

The spirits of several princes were suddenly shocked, look, this is their own family, I have looked for them in advance, how can this relationship be comparable to those distant vassal kings!

"Except for a few uncles' vassal kingdoms, the uncles must not be happy in their hearts, and they don't blame their nephews for thinking about it."

Zhu Youqi said solemnly when he heard this: "Your Majesty will see the outside world when you say this, the family does not speak two words, they are all descendants of Emperor Xianzong, Your Majesty does not take us with you, how can the vassal kings of the world be convinced."

Zhu Houwei sighed and said: "Your imperial uncles can understand the plight of your nephews, and your nephews are very relieved, they are all clans, but they are inevitably close, and a few imperial uncles support their nephews, and the nephews will definitely not treat a few imperial uncles harshly."

As he spoke, he picked up a stack of papers on the royal table and said with a smile: "These are the loan vouchers of several imperial uncles in the bank, and they have been written off since then."

The price of 600,000 taels of silver in a prince's mansion is calculated according to the down payment of two or three percent, and several princes have almost borrowed more than 400,000 taels of silver each, which is a simple sentence, which is equivalent to more than 3 million taels of silver completely gone.

This is not that Zhu Houwei is wealthy, but a reward for the full support of several imperial uncles!

Sending hundreds of vassal kings to the capital to encircle Fangshan does not mean that everything will be worry-free from now on, to put it bluntly, these vassal kings are time bombs, and they may explode at any time.

Therefore, Zhu Houwei must have his own power among the vassal kings and unswervingly support him, there is no doubt that the brothers of these ancestors are naturally the best candidates.

Don't think that the uncles seem to be weak, in fact, because they are close branches of the royal family, their power will definitely not be lower than that of the kings.

Because they support the royal family, Zhu Houwei will naturally become their backing, which is to form a small alliance, and it is an alliance that cannot be ignored.

Those vassal kings who are not far from the royal family, such as the Ying clan, will naturally move closer to this small alliance, so that the vassal kings can be completely separated, plus the vassal kings themselves are ghostly, Zhu Houwei only needs to be appropriately divided and co-opted, and it is easy to make the kings a plate of scattered sand.

The loan of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver was lost all of a sudden, but several princes were not much excited, after all, in their opinion, this is a matter of time in itself, and letting them also take out a loan is nothing more than to set an example for the kings.

What they are concerned about is whether Zhu Houwei will return the down payment to them, after all, it is the silver taken out by Bai Huahua, and it is not the same concept as the one on paper at all.

"My nephew originally planned to return all the down payment to you......

It was intended to ...... That is, there is no retreat, and the eyes of several princes involuntarily showed a look of disappointment.

Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "A few uncles don't have to be disappointed, don't return the down payment, the nephew has his own considerations, but the nephew will never let a few uncles suffer, as long as the uncles are willing to cooperate with the nephew and do what the nephew wants, then the nephew can promise two points to the uncle."

The first point is that the nephew can guarantee that the uncles can earn several times or even more than ten times the down payment.

Second, in the future, the nephew will let his cousins and cousins become feudal lords, not the current feudal kings who are called fiefs but are actually captive lands, but real feudal kings!

However, it may not be in the Central Plains, but it is certain that those lands will not be worse than those in the Ming Dynasty, and even more abundant! ”

The eyes of several princes suddenly lit up!

Regarding Zhu Houwei's promise, several princes did not have the slightest doubt, especially the first point.

Who doesn't know that the Son of Heaven is the reincarnation of the god of business, and the means of collecting wealth are simply endless, and now the treasury of the royal family and the treasury of the household department are both abundant, and the Ming Dynasty no longer has financial worries!

That's the means!

As for the second point, the kings are not idiots, and they instantly smelled a different smell from Zhu Houwei's words.

That is, Zhu Houwei wants to expand his territory!

And these pioneers are now not part of the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Houwei has decided to let the vassal king go to suppress it!

This is completely understandable, because this hand is exactly the same as Emperor Taizu's intention to divide the kings.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the remnants of the Yuan forces were ready to move, and bandits were rampant in the Central Plains, so Emperor Taizu divided the kings to guard all places, which naturally meant that the Ming Dynasty still had to rely on the descendants of the Zhu family to defend themselves.

It's a pity that Taizu didn't expect that his grandson Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen would be so stupid, nor did he expect that his son Yanwang Zhu Di would brazenly raise the banner of Jingnan and openly rebel.

What I didn't expect was that most of my descendants did not become a weapon, and instead of becoming a pillar of various places, they became a local scourge......

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