Lao Zhu's insinuation not only frightened Zhu Di, but also frightened Zhu Di's little brothers.

In fact, there is a chain of contempt among the princes of the Ming Dynasty, and the top few are relatively more "cared" by Lao Zhu.

At that time, Lao Zhu thought that he had only a few cubs in his life, so he invited the best master for them, and put a lot of effort into their training.

But when he later discovered that his vitality was so vigorous, the follow-up cubs were like dumplings crackling out, and his "love" was scattered, and he didn't pay so much attention to the prince born later.

Even the sons born to the most favored Concubine Guo Hui just brushed their faces a few more times at Lao Zhu's place, which is far from reaching the attention of the first batch of princes.

Zhu Di was very lucky, just in time for the first batch, and received his father's endless fatherly love since he was a child.

Now when the trumpet vassal kings saw that their fourth brother was all eating and hanging, they immediately panicked one by one.

After all, there are few vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty who do not do anything, even if they do not hold back their efforts to rebel, they also bully men and women in the fiefdom and disregard people's lives.

"Father's anger!"

"The fourth brother is the most loyal, how can he do such a rebellious thing?"

"Please also ask my father to investigate!"

After Zhu Zhen, the king of Chu, shouted this slogan, the other vassal kings followed suit.

"I still hope that my father will check it!"

Zhu Di saw that all his younger brothers were interceding for him, and his panicked mood eased a little.

However, when he saw his father's gloomy face, he still lowered his head weakly, putting on a deferential attitude of letting his father dispose of him.

Lao Zhu looked at his sons who were kneeling on the ground, and his heart was very complicated.

Although in view of his foul temper, the officials of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to sue the princes. But how could he, who was the emperor, not notice it at all?

In fact, he knows a lot of things, but he is too lazy to take care of them, and he has no heart to take care of them.

Because once the ugly things about his sons are revealed, there will definitely be ministers who talk about the opposition to the division of the feudal system back then.

When the time comes, will he withdraw the feudal domain, or will he issue an edict for his own crimes?

Therefore, he could only pretend to be deaf and dumb, as if he did not know anything.

After all, no matter how unscrupulous these sons are, they are also his species, and they are part of the big chess game of dividing the feudal domain and guarding the border with the prince.

But for Zhu Di, his mood is very complicated.

While admiring Zhu Di's ability, he was afraid that Zhu Di would cause trouble after his death.

Lao Zhu was not worried that Zhu Di would be able to snatch the throne of the eldest grandson, but he was really afraid that this product would set himself on fire, so he took the initiative to provoke the eldest grandson, and was destroyed by the eldest grandson on the grounds of quelling the chaos!

In that way, King Yan will be extinct!

Therefore, Lao Zhu is now harsh on Zhu Di, isn't it a kind of protection for his father?

"Salt and iron are the lifeblood of the imperial court, and no one is allowed to touch it!"

Zhu Di secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart when he heard his father's words.

It's dangerous!

I was almost killed by the old man and made an example!

"Father's anger!"

"Erchen was also confused for a while, so he put forward this reluctant request, and Erchen didn't dare to have such thoughts anymore......"

Although Lao Zhu's words had the intention of beating Zhu Di, they were more based on reality.

Since the Han Dynasty implemented the monopoly system of salt and iron, salt and iron have always been an important pillar of finance and taxation for the imperial court.

Iron can be loosened occasionally, and folk ironmaking is allowed to be sold.

However, the control of salt in all dynasties has been very strict, and selling illicit salt is tantamount to rebellion, and those who are caught will be beheaded.

The reason why salt was so tightly controlled in ancient times was because it was not only about finances, but also about the rule of the empire.

If people don't eat salt for a long time, they will be tired and even have other symptoms.

Therefore, controlling the circulation of salt also controls the lifeblood of the people.

After Lao Zhu finished beating, the atmosphere in the hall was a little tense for a moment.

Every prince sat upright, and there was no longer the chatter and laughter just now.

Just as everyone was pondering how to break the deadlock, a weak voice sounded.

"Grandpa Huang, my grandson thinks it's not too much for the fourth uncle to want to cook sea salt......

As soon as Zhu Yunxi said this, all the vassal kings in the hall were shocked, and even Lao Zhu looked at his own rebel grandson with a surprised face, and his heart was full of suspicion.

Can't this grandson see that he is protecting his rights and interests!

Zhu Yunxi still said to himself as if he didn't realize it.

"Salt and iron have been monopolized for more than a thousand years, and it's time to lift the ban."

"Besides, the salt tax is only a few million taels of silver a year, and it is decreasing year by year, which shows how corrupt the bottom is."

"Instead of strictly guarding against it, it is better to fully open up and let the people live a free life of eating salt."

When Lao Zhu heard this, he immediately felt that the eldest grandson had something to say, and hurriedly asked puzzled.

"What do you mean by what you just said, what do you mean by the Daming salt tax decreasing year by year?"

Zhu Yunxi touched his sleeve when he heard this, and took out a book and handed it over.

"Grandpa Huang, my grandson happened to be talking to Hubu Shangshu about salt politics today, and found that since the twelfth year of Hongwu, the salt tax has been decreasing year by year, and now it is less than two million taels of silver per year."

"And the opening of the Chinese law has gradually been abolished, and now the military rations on my second uncle's side are all transported by my hired businessman."

Lao Zhu listened to the eldest grandson's story, and his brows couldn't help frowning. Opening the Chinese law is a political achievement that he is quite proud of, why did it become a failure in the mouth of this grandson?

However, Lao Zhu looked at the salt tax records handed over by Zhu Yunxi, and his old face became gloomy.

"How so!"

"Obviously, there were still three million in the early years of Hongwu, why did the salt tax drop by thirty percent after so many years!"

Zhu Yunxi heard the words and said that this is already calculated, and in more than ten years, we Daming can collect one million every year, which is considered amazing!

"Grandpa Huang, I have to ask you, have you been slack in your anti-corruption efforts in the past few years?"

Lao Zhu's face changed greatly when he heard this, and he glared at the eldest grandson unhappily.

"It's not because of you!"

"If it weren't for the sake of accumulating virtue for you, we would have cleaned up those moths a long time ago!"

Zhu Yunxi suddenly lost his temper when he heard Lao Zhu's words, no matter what, this is also from the affectionate love of the emperor's grandfather.

"Grandpa Huang, my grandson has discussed this matter with Chen Shangshu, and I think there are several reasons for the reduction of salt tax."

"First, the government's purchase price has been reduced, which has made the stove households reluctant to sell salt to the government, resulting in a decline in government revenue."

The so-called stove households are the people who are specifically responsible for boiling salt, and Lao Zhu also unified them into stove households, and they can only boil water and boil salt for Daming from generation to generation.

"Second, there is collusion between officials and businessmen, and some moths sell salt to merchants at low prices and let them sell it privately."

"Third, the opening of the Chinese law seems to be two pences, which not only facilitates the transportation of grain and grass for the border army, but also makes the merchants profitable, but the loss during the period is not small, and the attraction for the merchants is far less than imagined."

"Instead of struggling to transport grain, it is better to deal with good officials and directly pull salt from our official warehouse in Daming to sell it."

"Then there is the local digging of salt wells without permission, and this kind of thing is also repeatedly prohibited."

"Therefore, my grandson thinks that instead of wasting manpower to rectify the salt industry, it is better to completely open up and let the salt farm operate independently.

"Well...... this"

Lao Zhu listened to the words of the eldest grandson and was quite moved, but this matter was too big, so he couldn't make a decision for a while.

"Let's think about ......"

When Zhu Yunxi saw Lao Zhu say this, he immediately rolled his eyes.

"Then you should think about it slowly, and I'll talk to Uncle Wang first!"

After Zhu Yunxi said this, he really didn't care about Lao Zhu, and enthusiastically pulled Zhu Di to chat.

"Fourth uncle!"

"If you want to sell salt, don't do it!"

"I fully support this!"

Zhu Yunxi's sudden move directly made Zhu Di feel flattered, and even secretly ashamed in his heart.

Isn't this big nephew of your own family very good, why do you always think about rebelling!

After Zhu Yunxi finished speaking to Zhu Di, he turned his head to look at the other uncles.

"Uncle Seven!"

"Your fiefdom is in Shandong, and you can also cook sea salt to subsidize the cost of the palace."

"As long as you don't force you to buy and sell, force the people to sell salt at a low price!"

Zhu Yu was really moved to tears when he heard this, and he raised his hand and gave himself two mouths.

"Uncle Seven is not human!"

"Uncle Seven complained about you before and secretly scolded you several times!"

"Now that I look at it, it's not that you don't miss us Uncle Wang, it's really that we haven't done well enough, wow woo woo woo ......"

Zhu Yunxi just didn't look at the little money from selling salt, how could he think that Zhu Yu could be moved.

"Uncle Seventh has played!"

"I can't write two Zhu characters with one stroke, how can my eldest nephew bear to see you starving and cold?"

"It's just that the matter of the field is related to the stability of the Ming Dynasty, and my nephew has to restrict you. But outside the fields, you can do whatever you like, salt and iron, and so on! ”

"If you lack people and skills, your nephew can provide it for you!"

"But there is one thing, that is, you must keep to yourself, and you must not use the royal power to oppress other merchants and people!"

When the vassal kings saw that Zhu Yunxi had even opened the salt and iron monopoly, they expressed their hearts one by one.

"Don't worry, big nephew!"

"You've got it all said, if we don't fight anymore, are we still human?"

"Beat yes!"

"Salt and iron can make money lying down, if you rely on royal power to bully people, it will be too bullying!"

Zhu Yunxi automatically ignored the language disease of a certain Zhu Zhi who was unwilling to reveal his name and did not learn anything, strictly speaking, the fiefdom of this product was in Liaodong, and it was also a place where the sea could be boiled and salted for sale.

But Zhu Yunxi didn't want him to sell salt, for fear that this stupid uncle would lose all his pants.

"Uncle Fifteen, don't get involved, you can reclaim the wasteland and farm with peace of mind."

Zhu Zhi's face was full of unhappiness when he heard this, he also wanted to make money, and he also wanted to buy pearl necklaces and coral jewelry for his daughter-in-law!

"What!"

"The others are your Uncle Wang, and I'm not?"

"I'm going to sell salt!"

Zhu Yunxi was angry when he saw him looking dead, the reason why he opened up salt and iron was because he couldn't look down on this little money, and on the other hand, he wanted to industrialize salt production!

Once the salt workshop on their side is put into operation, its output will be more than five times the output of Daming at this stage, and their small workshop will not have one way to lose money?

In fact, Zhu Yunxi's ultimate goal is to put the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty into iron smelting, after all, steelmaking is a heavily polluting and labor-intensive business.

Only by bringing in more people can he satisfy his ambition to pave the railway all over the country.

Otherwise, just relying on the factories under his name, he would never have imagined seeing the train galloping in Daming in his lifetime.

"Okay, okay, you can sell if you like!"

Zhu Zhi snorted smugly when he heard this, and squeezed his eyebrows at the others, as if to prove that he had a strong enough relationship with the imperial grandson and could speak more casually.

Other people are indeed very envious of Zhu Zhi's treatment, after all, they grew up with Zhu Yunxi, and they have an advantage over their older Uncle Wang.

Only Zhu Gui's heart moved, feeling that his eldest nephew must be holding some bad water in his stomach. But because there are many people now, he doesn't dare to ask more, so he can only bury his heart in his stomach.

Zhu Yunxi fooled the uncles for a while, and tried to tell them about the benefits of steelmaking, and everyone was stunned.

In fact, everyone knows that steelmaking makes money, but they don't dare to earn this money, for fear of violating the taboo of the imperial court.

Even if Zhu Yunxi, the imperial grandson, personally promised, they didn't dare to believe it.

Who knows if after a hundred years of the old man, this grandson will use this incident as evidence to accuse them of intending to rebel?

After all, as long as steel is refined, whether you make a sickle or a hoe, it can be picked and said to be a weapon made privately.

Besides, they will definitely make weapons.

Each of them had three guards and horses, and they also had a certain number of border soldiers and guards in the territory.

Since you have a steel mill at home, it's impossible to go to other places to buy weapons, right?

Therefore, even though Zhu Yunxi said it wildly, they just giggled and didn't mean anything at all.

Only Zhu Di's eyes lit up, and his little heart was beating wildly.

If you get the steelmaking license yourself, won't the weapons workshop you hide underground be whitewashed?

"Big nephew, you said you agreed to our steelmaking, but is it true?"

"Of course!"

"As long as you don't make weapons privately, you intend to fight against the imperial court!"

Zhu Di blushed in embarrassment when he heard this, and denied it.

"The eldest nephew is saying too much!"

"I can't write two Zhu characters in one stroke, we are all descendants of the Zhu family, how can we do that kind of thing?"

"If you really agree, then the fourth uncle will ask you for someone, and you can see if there is a good place to build a factory in the fourth uncle's fiefdom?"

Zhu Yunxi thought silently in his mind when he heard this, and really thought of a good place. He remembered that there was a place called Cao Feidian in later generations, which seemed to be in the fief of King Yan.

"There's really a ......"

"Come on, move the emperor's grandfather's map out!"

Qin Deshun heard that Zhu Yunxi was such a smug envoy to the people in Lao Zhu's palace, he looked at Lao Zhu's face worriedly, and saw that Lao Zhu did not have any uncertainty, so he ordered the little eunuch to move the map out.

Normally, the rules of the palace are very large, and even the crown prince does not dare to point fingers in the old Zhu Palace.

Four little eunuchs walked in with a huge screen, causing the shock of all the vassal kings.

Because this map was different from the kind of sketchy map they had seen before, it was a very detailed one, not only showing the mountains and rivers, but also the cities and military towns.

"This ......"

"When did my Ming have such an accurate map?"

Zhu Yunxi waved his hand nonchalantly when he heard this.

"It's so-so, it's still being perfected, and we'll be able to see a really detailed map in a few years."

When the vassal kings heard this, they couldn't wait to strangle this grandson, your special mother has drawn the map in such detail, have you been thinking about cutting the domain?

Only Zhu Di looked at the map eagerly with his eyes full of excitement, thinking that this is the country of loneliness!

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