In the middle of January of the second year of Hongxi, the king of the world arrived.

But just after entering January, there were suddenly a lot of storytellers in the Jingshisuo Tea House Hotel, and these storytellers seemed to have made an appointment, and they were all talking about one thing.

The feudal kings of various regions possessed a large amount of farmland, wealth, and spurs.

The masses of the people are very happy to listen to this kind of gossip news, and for a while, the city of Beijing has been flocking to it for a while, and early every morning, everyone will run to the teahouses and restaurants, for fear that they will not be able to occupy a place if they go late.

One of the larger Sanshan restaurants in Beijing is the property of Cao Guogong Li Jinglong.

At the beginning of today, the restaurant was not open, and many people and readers had already poured in, because the storyteller had been waiting inside for a long time.

After seeing a certain number of people pouring in, the storyteller slammed the table.

"What I'm going to talk about today is Zhu Guiyan, the king of Changyang, who killed his brother and sister-in-law."

This incident happened when Zhu Gaoxu, the king of the Han Dynasty, attacked Jingzhou City, but the storyteller of the whole battle forgot about it, only saying that Zhu Guiyan was vicious and tyrannical from his heart, because he wanted to be the son of the world, he sent someone to deliberately seduce his sister-in-law, so that the prince suddenly fell ill and died tragically in the palace.

After the defeat, he was discovered by the King of Liao, and Zhu Guiyan simply kept going, joined forces with a general, and killed Zhu Zhi, the king of Liao.

At that time, after King Han found out, because Zhu Guiyan was still young and felt that he could still teach, he did not poke him out.

The storyteller said very vividly, and the details were clear, especially when it came to Zhu Guiyan's killing of the son, it was as if he had seen it at the scene.

The people of the Ming Dynasty don't care whether it's true or not, you see that after Yuan Chonghuan was arrested, the court issued a lawsuit, and everyone had to eat his flesh and drink his blood.

Therefore, the crowd at the scene was furious and scolded Zhu Guiyan angrily.

After talking about Zhu Guiyan, the storyteller talked about Zhu Zhang, the king of Qin.

Qin King Zhu Fan is not a thing, he ordered the soldiers and civilians in the Guannai to buy gold and silver in the fief for many years, the army and the people were embarrassed, so that they sold their sons and daughters, but Zhu Fan ordered more than 300 people who came to the palace to beg for mercy, killed an old man on the spot, and arrested nearly 100 people.

Zhu Yuanzhang did everything possible to settle and comfort the people of the eighteen ethnic groups in Tufan, but when Zhu Fan went out on the expedition, he searched and arrested the pregnant women into the house, causing the couple to leave. Zhu Fan went on an expedition to the west, abducted 150 young girls, castrated 155 young boys, and many castrated boys died due to poor recovery.

Zhu Fan built a lot of construction in the palace, and the soldiers and civilians built pavilions and ponds in the palace for fun, and tortured the palace people for fun with the second concubine Deng, and was reprimanded by Zhu Yuanzhang as "ignorant of personnel and stupid as a beast".

The storyteller said that even Taizu scolded Zhu Fan for being as stupid as a beast, and the people around him scolded him after hearing it, and the beast was not as good.

In fact, Zhu Fan is dead, but the storyteller said that King Qin is like this, and only says King Qin, not Zhu Zhang, so the people are scolding King Qin.

When the storyteller said that the king of Shu owned millions of acres of land, seventy percent of the land in Chengdu belonged to the palace, and the people had no land, so they were sold as tenants, and they worked hard to plant two stone grains every year, most of which were handed over to the palace, more than half of which were paid taxes, and the rest was not enough to eat, the people were completely angry and scolded the king of Shu for being inhumane.

Just when the crowd was angry, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted: "The vassal kings are all full of evil deeds, and the court has issued an order to reprimand them every time, is this considered a punishment for the clan?" Are they innocent of murder? ”

The scene fell silent for a moment.

Then someone shouted: "Your Majesty Shengming, please ask Your Majesty to severely punish the vassal kings and confiscate their property. ”

"Severely punish the vassal king and confiscate his property." Someone in the crowd raised their arms and shouted.

Suddenly, more and more people were shouting.

In the lower left corner of the restaurant were sitting two people dressed as scribes, their faces flushed and trembling.

If Zhu Gaoxu knew here, one of them was Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, and the other was his eldest son Zhu Yuexi.

Zhu Chun's attitude is better, after Zhu Gaoxu ordered them to enter Beijing, he came as soon as possible, and also brought his eldest son Zhu Yuexian.

Because Zhu Yuexian's health was not very good, Yuan Shi died of illness in July this year, and he wanted to ask the imperial doctor to take a look.

Then he never saw the emperor, but the emperor sent the imperial doctor to help Zhu Yuexian see a doctor.

Recently, he heard that the king of the vassal was talking everywhere in the capital, and he brought his son to the restaurant today, but he didn't expect to see this scene.

At this time, Zhu Yuexian lowered his head and whispered, "Father, does Your Majesty want to cut the domain?" Why do you need to do such a thing? "Emperor Jianwen didn't do that either.

Actually preach the evil things of the vassal kings everywhere, don't you know if the ugliness of the family is not publicized?

Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, had an ugly face, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty doesn't just want to eliminate the domain. "If you have to confiscate your property, you can still call it the elimination of the domain, this is the destruction of the domain.

"What are we going to do? Do you want to go back to Sichuan? Zhu Yuexian also wanted to flee back to Sichuan.

"What's back? Where can I run now? Zhu Chun shook his head speechlessly.

Zhu Chun left the restaurant with his son and changed the teahouse.

I changed places all morning, and found that most of them talked about the same, all of them talked about the ugly and evil things of the vassal kings, and the things that publicized their sudden wealth.

For example, he is the king of Shu, in fact, he has done a very good job among the kings, the storyteller did not say anything bad about his king of Shu, but tried his best to promote his more than 3,000 farms and millions of acres of land, and the people hated the rich very much, and even hated the king of Shu.

During the whole process, there were no government personnel to dissuade and reprimand, it was obviously an organized and premeditated arrangement, and it was certain that Zhu Gaoxu was doing this to build momentum to deal with the vassal kings.

Moreover, Zhu Gaoxu is very ruthless, I am afraid that in addition to Jingshi, there are people in major state capitals across the country who are doing this at the same time.

By the end of January, the emperor had a banquet for all the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty in the Fengtian Palace.

There are not many vassal kings in this meeting, only more than sixty, because a group of old ones died, many people Zhu Gaoxu have never seen them, or he has seen them when he was a child, and now he has forgotten them.

As for the generation, he can't remember, or Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, took Zhu Gaoxu and introduced them one by one, this is an elder, or this is a junior.

After a circle, Zhu Gaoxu barely remembered a few elders, but many of the elders had unsightly faces, and even said that they were quite ugly, such as Zhu Quan, the king of Ning.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't care about them, and when he returned to his position, he toasted everyone first.

Then he began to say: "I think back then, Emperor Taizu Gao, start a bowl-"

There was silence all around.

Zhu Gaoxu seemed to be talking to himself, and everyone listened quietly, anyway, it was said how difficult it was for Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world, and finally established the Ming Dynasty.

However, at this time, Zhu Gaoxu's topic changed, the Ming Dynasty is now in difficulty, unable to make ends meet, a few days ago the Mongols beheaded our envoy, I want to be famous and crusade, but there is no money and no food, Taizu has knowledge underground, I am afraid that I will insult the Han style and damage the prestige of the Ming.

Of course, the more people listened, the more ugly their faces became.

I finally waited for Zhu Gaoxu to finish speaking.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a good song."

Everyone turned around, but it was Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, who stood up.

Everyone immediately looked at him.

Zhu Chun said loudly, I am a child of the Ming Dynasty, and I am willing to do my part for His Majesty and the Ming Dynasty, I have thought about it carefully in the past few days, I have so many fields and real estate, it is useless, and I want to donate it to the imperial court.

As soon as his voice fell, someone on the side angrily scolded: "What is useless, eleventh brother, what are you afraid of, your relatives are here today, if you have anything to say, just say it to Gao Xuming, everyone is standing together, does Gao Xu want to deal with us?" ”

Everyone looked at it again, and it turned out to be Zhu Rong, the king of Qi.

This guy is known in history for his fierce personality and no one else.

During the Hongwu period, he accompanied the army on the Northern Expedition, proud of his military achievements, and was later cut by Jianwen, demoted to a concubine, and imprisoned for four years.

Zhu Dijing was difficult to succeed, released him, restored the throne, and Zhu Rong was even more arrogant.

At the beginning of Yongle, Zhu Di summoned the king of Qi to meet with him in a letter, and advised the king of Qi with the past of common suffering. Not only did the king of Qi not repent, but conspired to raise assassins, recruited alien warlocks to curse, and used his own guards to guard Qingzhou City, and built the city wall and the wall of the palace side by side to isolate the outside world from coming and going, and did not allow the guards to go to the city to patrol the city at night. Li Gong, Zeng Mingshen and other officials wrote to Chengzu to report the change, and the king of Qi detained them and hid them with the intention of killing them.

In the fourth year of Yongle (1406), the king of Qi went to the court to see Ming Chengzu, and the ministers of the court impeached the king of Qi for his crimes. will kill this generation. Zhu Di was displeased when he heard this, so he left King Qi in the Jingshi Mansion.

After the king of Qi was left in the capital, he complained even more, so in August of the same year, Zhu Di summoned his son to the capital and deposed him as a concubine.

This time, Zhu Gaoxu summoned the kings of the world, and Zhu Yu was called again.

He was already a concubine anyway, and immediately shouted in the Fengtian Palace, intending to incite everyone to oppose Zhu Gaochu, don't you believe that Zhu Gaochu killed everyone like this?

Jianwen and Zhu Di have never killed the vassal king.

Jianwen cut down the feudal domain, and some vassal kings committed suicide, but none were killed.

The vassal kings were a little moved, like the older ones, and there were many elders of Zhu Gaoxu, in addition to King Ning and King Shu, there were also King Zhou, King Dai, King Chu, King Su, King Qing, King Min, King Gu, King Shen, King An, King Tang, King Yi.

Among so many elders, many of them were the kings of the Nine Sides back then, who had led soldiers and fought battles, Zhu Yu was so agitated, and several people at the scene showed fierce faces.

Zhu Gaoxu's means and degree of cutting the feudal domain far exceeded that of Emperor Jianwen, and everyone had long been dissatisfied with him, and today there are many people, and they just work together.

Just as Zhu Rong was loudly agitating around.

"Bang" Zhu Gaoxu slapped the royal case fiercely, and Huo Ran got up.

He pointed at Zhu Yu and scolded angrily: "Dog, you have been demoted to a concubine, I kindly respect the elders, please come, you dare to humiliate me, when I dare to punish you?" ”

"Someone."

There was a commotion, and a wave of armored soldiers immediately poured in outside, and everyone on the scene gasped.

The King of Shu was shocked and quickly knelt down: "Your Majesty is angry." ”

Zhu Yu still can't believe it, so many clan elders are here today, Zhu Gaoxu, you dare to kill someone?

He glared at Zhu Gaoxu with a disapprehensive expression.

Unexpectedly, several armor soldiers rushed up and pressed him to the ground with his hands on the wrong side.

"You dare to kill me?" Zhu Yu roared fiercely: "Emperor Taizu Gao, my father, your unworthy descendants, Gao Xu is rebellious, and wants to kill his uncle——"

"You don't have to drag it out, -—— on the spot—" Zhu Gaoxu said sharply.

The blood flashed at the scene of "fluttering", and the head fell to the ground.

The entire hall fell silent in an instant, and all the vassal kings stared at Zhu Gaoxu in disbelief.