That night, a grand night banquet was held in King Ning's Mansion.

Bright lights illuminate the entire Ning Wang's Mansion, and in the huge courtyard, hundreds of dancing girls dance to the sound of drums.

The graceful posture and white and tender skin loom under the light with the gestures.

On both sides of the dance floor, eucalyptus tables line up from the hall to the door.

A civilian, military general, raised his glass and talked, and from time to time there was a hearty laugh.

"Your Majesty, my brother respects you with a drink!"

King Ning, who had a blue nose and swollen face, raised his wine glass and smiled and toasted to the old man.

It's just that the corners of his mouth twitched faintly, obviously the smile touched the wound on his face.

The old man glanced at him, hummed lightly, picked up the wine glass, and drank it in one gulp.

After drinking the wine, King Ning glanced at the sons who were chatting with Zhu Zhangui, Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaosui, and looked at the old man with a smile on his face.

"Your Majesty, these boys from the courtier's family are also not small, see when you will arrange it for them."

As soon as King Ning said this, the conversation in the hall fell silent.

King Ning's sons, the old man who was looking expectantly, waited for the canonization of the other party's holy words.

The old man's brows frowned slightly, he understood the meaning of Zhu Quan's words, he wanted to ask for the throne for his sons.

King Ning also mentioned this matter a few years ago, but it was suppressed by the old man for the reason that the northern expedition was imminent.

On this occasion today, King Ning mentioned this matter again, because he wanted the old man to make a statement in front of everyone.

Seeing that these sons are all in their twenties and thirties, and they have not yet been sealed, if they continue to delay like this, a few cubs will see that there is no chance to seal them out, so they will fight at home.

Zhu Zhangui glanced at the sons of King Ning beside him, and when he saw their expectant looks, he sneered in his heart and glanced at the old man who had come from a hidden look.

On the way back from Ah San, the old man and Zhu Zhangui talked about many future developments, including the succession of the vassal king.

Zhu Zhangui's great-grandfather, Lao Zhu, doesn't want his children and grandchildren to live a hard life anymore, this idea is understandable.

But as I said earlier, it's one thing to be able to understand, but this has pitted the emperors of later generations.

Under the policy of cutting the feudal domain of Zhu Yunwen and the old man, the prince of the Ming Dynasty changed from the real power prince at the beginning to the title prince who ate and waited for death.

These guys are idle and bored all day long, either eating, drinking, and having fun every day, or making villains with a lot of daughters-in-law.

Under the toss every day and night, even if there are premature deaths, the family is very prosperous.

In addition, the birth of a son, the court gave it to Yulu, and the vassal king at the beginning had not yet found a way to make money, so he used the road of giving birth to a son to make a fortune.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Lao Zhu sealed 25 princes, until the end of the Ming Dynasty, a total of 65 princes were sealed, and there were 34 in the Chongzhen period, and the county king was as high as 924 people.

The population of the old Zhu family has grown from less than 100 people in the early Ming Dynasty to more than 1 million people in the late Ming Dynasty, including sons-in-law and daughters.

Because of Lao Zhu's policy, there are nearly 1 million people, but they all need to be supported by the imperial court.

For these 1 million people, the male side is 200,000, and the annual salary is 200 stones, based on the lowest Fengguo lieutenant's salary. At the end of this year, 200,000 people will send 40 million stones, and at the price of two stones of rice and one tael of silver, the court will need 20 million taels of silver for a year.

This is only counting the lieutenants of Fengguo, and many of these 200,000 men are still of higher rank, plus those princesses and princesses.

In a year, during the Chongzhen period, the imperial court will issue at least 30 million taels of silver.

If the national power is strong, or in the current era, the emperor can still send it out if he grits his teeth and tightens his belt.

But in Chongzhen's generation, every time he sent money, he was pumping the blood and bones of the court, and even in the end, Chongzhen was poor and couldn't even afford to pay money, and the royal family made trouble with him every day.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty had no money, and Lao Zhu formulated this policy, at least half of the responsibility had to be borne by him.

Others are pit fathers, Lao Zhu is a pit descendant, and he is the kind that pits to death.

Then again, do these royals really have no money?

No, they are not only rich, but they are all rich.

With the help of the royal tax exemption policy, they have collected a lot of land, and even more than half of it is forcibly bought and sold.

So these guys are very rich, and in the Chongzhen period, they pulled out a vassal king at random, and they were all richer than Chongzhen, the emperor.

In order to prevent future generations from suffering in this regard, Zhu Zhangui has always taken this matter to heart, thinking of solving this matter while the old man is there.

When talking to the old man about this on the road, Zhu Zhangui told him about the troubles he might face in the future and put forward his own ideas.

Of course, it can't be said that it was his idea, but the method used by those wild boar skins in later generations.

That is, each generation is downgraded by one level, all the way down to the most ordinary civilians.

That's right, the most ordinary civilians.

Even if the wild boar skins descend again, they will still raise those Eight Banners in the end, and Zhu Zhangui has no bottom line.

Descending to the generation of commoners, the blood relationship between the two sides does not know how many generations are different, rather than taking care of them and wasting the money of the imperial court, it is better to let them develop freely.

Zhu Zhangui's concerns were also deeply recognized by the old man.

He can understand his father's thoughts, but he also needs to consider his grandson's worries.

You can't just be filial to your father and pit the children and grandchildren of future generations.

The two had an in-depth exchange on this.

However, the old man vetoed Zhu Zhangui's idea of directly becoming a civilian when there was no way to descend.

Lao Zhu just didn't want future generations to suffer, so he put forward the rules of supporting the vassal king and demoted the descendants to commoners, which was a bit against Lao Zhu's intentions.

This statement, Zhu Zhangui has deep doubts, the reason that the old man said is just to deal with him, the real reason is that he is afraid of being scolded by Lao Zhu after going down.

Lao Zhu's main purpose in formulating this policy is not to let future generations starve like he did when he was a child.

If the old man agrees with his idea, and descends from generation to generation until it descends to the common people, then there will be another disaster year, and there will definitely be royals starved to death.

If Lao Zhu knew that his children and grandchildren were starving to death again, he would definitely pull the old man out and beat him every day.

While beating, he blurted out and scolded.

"You bastard, why did Lao Tzu rebel back then? Isn't it just that the whole family is starving to death, and we can't survive? We formulated this policy because we didn't want our family to starve to death. ”

"You're good, our bones are not cold yet, you changed this policy, what are you doing, and you are sincerely working against Lao Tzu!"

"Not to mention robbing our grandson of the throne, but also starving our descendants to death, let's beat you to death."

Maybe it's this possibility that Zhu Zhangui thought of, and the idea given by the old man is that when he is demoted to the last level, he will set a new title (Guoqin. ）

Give them a minimum amount of alimony so that they don't starve to death. In this way, when the old man arrives over there, he can give Lao Zhu an explanation, so that he will not suffer so badly.

As for taxation, the old man's plan was to wait for the settlement of the enemy on all sides, he proposed the policy of integrating industry and commerce to pay grain, and would let the royal family set an example.

In this way, it was solved, and the royal family relied on the matter of annexing the land without paying taxes, and solved the trouble of the descendants of the queen.

As for how Lao Zhu explained, after the old man thought about it, he was beaten up, and he didn't have been beaten when he was a child, so he was used to it.

Since Lao Zhu's death, the old man, who has never been beaten, always feels unenergetic and has a feeling of itchy skin.

Looking at the expectant King Ning family, the old man patted the little guy who wanted to steal his wine, looked at King Ning and sighed.

"Seventeen, did my father give you a dream a few days ago!"

King Ning blinked in confusion.

Why did the old man give me a dream? Do you blame me for helping you and rob Zhu Yunwen of the throne of that little bastard?

Oh roar~

King Ning suddenly came back to his senses.

It's no wonder that this Teacher Zhu is so ruthless, he dares to love the old man who beat him up in a dream, he doesn't dare to choke the old man, he is angry with me.

Hum! Zhu Laosi, you wait, when the old man gives me a dream, I will definitely tell all the evil things you have done, and when you go down, let the old man beat you hard.

"Seventeen, what are you thinking, let me ask you!"

Looking at Ning Wang Zhu Quan, who didn't know what he thought of, his eyebrows flew and the corners of his mouth were smiling, the old man knocked lightly on the table and reminded him.

"Well, just now because you mentioned your father, I couldn't help but think of the days when his old man was there."

Zhu Quan wiped the non-existent tears from the corners of his eyes, and pretended to look like he missed you very much.

The old man snorted lightly, and he didn't bother to talk nonsense with this guy, so he said directly to him: "Our father told me about the vassal king." ”

Zhu Quan's eyes widened, and he had a bad feeling in his heart.

The old man raised his hand and arched his hand towards Lao Zhu's mausoleum.

"Our father told me that when he formulated the policy of the vassal king, he was a little ill-conceived and ignored some loopholes, and during this time he was bored below, and he also figured out a lot of things, and he made up for the loopholes and specially asked me to talk about it, which is to prevent the loopholes in the policy and pit the descendants of future generations!"

Zhu Quan's heart was groaning for a while.

Nima, you Zhu Laosi is too shameless.

You yourself think that the vassal king's policy is not good, and if you want to change it, you can just say it, and you don't need to pull the old man out to talk about it.

If you act in the name of the old man like this, you are not afraid that after you go down, the old man will skin you first.

Really, Niang Sipi! I didn't see you being so shameless before.

"Oh no, it's our dad's idea."

The old man ignored the confused Ning Wang family, and said slowly.

"What our father means is that the policy of succession of the vassal king has been changed slightly, and it is no longer a continuous inheritance of the throne, but a downgraded inheritance!"

"It's like you, when you die, the throne will be passed to Panyan and you will be demoted to the king of the county, and the other nephews will be demoted to the general of the town."

"And then what about your grandson's generation, the eldest grandson was the general of the Zhenguo when he inherited it, and the other grandsons were the generals of the auxiliary country, and so on in the future, until it was lowered to our father's new level of national relatives, and it was officially over!"

After speaking, the old man patted his forehead, seemed to think of something again, looked at Zhu Quan and said seriously: "Our father also said, you are the most obedient and his favorite son, you should stand up and set an example, so this inheritance policy starts with your family!" ”

Ning Wang Zhu Quan's eyes widened after hearing this.

'Zhu Laosi, you are a fucking ruthless person, you can think of this kind of rotten idea, you are really not a fucking thing. ’

'I'm beaten, why do you eat and drink?' Don't you just want you to vent your anger and get a throne for my sons? As a result, your old boy actually gave me this whole play. ’

'I'll let you fight, and I'll also arrange for you to eat and drink beautiful women.' ’

'Ahh ’

'If I had known that you old boy could play this hand, I should have given you a whole table of pig food, so that you can reminisce about life in the pigsty.' ’

"It's back what our dad said, I'm spitting on your face." ’

If the old fellow could say this, would he go straight past you and pass the throne to his useless grandson?' ’

"There's no one else who fucking did this thing, why didn't I be ruthless and kill you when you entered the city alone, but instead entertain you with delicious food and drink, and let you poach my three guards." ’

Zhu Quan, who scolded in his heart, became more and more aggrieved the more he scolded.

Finally, with tears in his eyes, he couldn't help but murmur.

"I still suffered a young loss, if I had been clever at that time, I wouldn't have been deceived by this old man and cheated money after finishing the army!"

King Ning wanted to stand up, pointing at the old man's nose and scolding.

But looking at the old man's hand patting the sword on his waist, if you don't believe it, I can send you to see our father to ask in person.

King Ning could only grit his teeth and swallow in his stomach, and forced a smile.

"Our father's words must be listened to, since our father has ordered it down, then... That... That..."

After opening his mouth for a long time, King Ning just couldn't say the last word.

Once his words fall, he will be scolded by other kings in the future.

The old man's gang of guys are scared and don't dare to scare him, he will definitely be used as that punching bag.

The more he thought about King Ning, the more aggrieved he became, and when he looked up at the old man who was staring at him with slightly narrowed eyes, he couldn't help but wail in his heart.

"Why is my life so miserable?"

"Zhu Laosi, you bastard, I hate you to death in my life!"

Under the grief and indignation, a stream of qi and blood rose, and Ning Wang Zhu Quan's throat was sweet, and he spurted out a mouthful of blood and fell down.

In an instant, the hall was in a panic.

King Ning's sons pounced and shouted for rescue, and Zhu Zhangui also stood up and shouted for the imperial doctor.

When King Ning was rescued by the imperial doctor and woke up, Zhu Zhangui couldn't help but sigh.

"Grandpa Seventeen is really filial piety and touching, hearing that the grandfather is still caring about you after being gone for so long, three feet of blood spurted out under the sadness, which really makes Zhan Gui admire and admire!"

"Poof!"

King Ning, who had just woken up, was stimulated by these words and spurted out a mouthful of blood again, and his legs kicked and passed out completely.

In an instant, several sons of King Ning looked at Zhu Zhangui with angry eyes.

Nima is really not a thing, my father is like this, and you still use words to anger him.

You grandparents and grandchildren are not willing to kill my father.

Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Gaosui, and many generals looked at Zhu Zhangui with a smile.

Xia Yuanji, who was on the side, secretly gave a thumbs up and praised Zhu Zhangui's performance.

Zhu Zhangui looked left and right, and spread his hands blankly.

"Don't blame me, I just praised it, I didn't say anything, don't look at me like this, it's none of my business!"

Look at my second emperor grandson of the Ming Dynasty, I earned 100 million taels at the beginning.8.2... m。 ：