Chapter 87: Two Opinions

When the kings arrived, the council was convened.

Lu Zhongheng was naturally also in the meeting, although he was not a prince, but his status in Nanyang was not under the princes and kings, and the Nanyang Governor's Mansion was almost the Lu family's private soldiers. If you count the force alone, Lu Zhongheng is the most powerful. ap.

However, Lu Zhongheng could not feed so many troops, and he relied on the taxes raised by various countries. After all, the countries of the South Seas all need this force to exist. Most of the feudal states have a shallow foundation and are not strong in force.

And the state of Zhou, although the richest. However, in terms of military force, he may not be able to surpass the Chu State, and he is also willing to have a deeper alliance with the Lu family.

Let the Lu family stand with him.

Lu Zhongheng naturally has a place here.

It's just that Lu Zhongheng didn't speak on this matter.

The reason is very simple, Lu Zhongheng is not a prince in the end. Although the kings are outside, they are all the sons of Zhu Yuanzhang, and when they are united, they are almost equal to the Zhu family. So for the contradiction between Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Yunwen. They have a part in speaking.

But who is Lu Joong-hyung? He's an outsider, and a little more excessive, a courtier.

In such a matter, he has no room to speak.

It is in vain to say it.

And Lu Zhongheng also understands one thing, that is, the foundation of the kings of Nanyang is already very deep. And there is a tendency to connect together. Especially when it comes to the Central Plains court.

In the future, no matter which one ascends to the throne, it will be difficult for them to attack these uncles in Nanyang. But for the Lu family, it's different.

Lu Zhongheng is only the governor of Nanyang, but the governor of Nanyang is not an official position that can be hereditary. It is okay for the imperial court to allow hereditary. It's okay for the imperial court not to allow it. It must be known that even the Mu family, which is known as the Shizhen Yunnan, has actually been taken down several times, and in the end, it was found that there was no more suitable person than the Mu family, so a convention was formed.

Lu Zhongheng didn't dare to offend anyone.

Lu Zhongheng didn't speak, and the kings below had different opinions.

The king of Chu said, "We are far away in Nanyang, and we don't know the situation in the imperial court, and now that the war between the two sides is connected, it is too late for us to say anything, so it is better not to do anything." And no matter who comes to power in the future, they will hate us, and that will be bad."

The reason why the king of Chu said this is because the king of Chu has the strongest army, but he is the most difficult to interfere in the Central Plains. On the one hand, the distance is the farthest, and on the other hand, there are enemies between the couches. That is the two kings of the east and the west, if they are not killed, the army of the king of Chu will not be able to be withdrawn.

If you don't have actual troops, you can't speak hard, so why meddle.

What's more, the king of Chu didn't feel that there was any benefit in getting involved.

But the king of Zhou said: "Otherwise, on the golden book of vassal kings drawn up by my father, I have the right to defend the royal family, and today there is chaos and indecision, it is when we uncles and kings intervene, what is the role of not saying first, just saying that if we don't do anything, and there is such a thing, who will care about us?"

"When we speak at the court, will it still have weight?"

As soon as this remark came out, many people talked about it.

King Zhou's statement sounds very similar.

Power, only when it is used is power. If power is only on paper and has never been used, it is not power.

Although He Xi changed the policy of sealing the domain. However, Zhu Yuanzhang still drew up the responsibility of the vassal king, and the power of the vassal king to defend the royal family still exists. And even strengthened. For no other reason, Zhu Yuanzhang is actually very worried that the future power of the Ming royal family will be violated.

Therefore, the vassal king's defense of the royal family was a measure to strengthen the power of the imperial family. If the Ming Dynasty expands in the future, there are many new colonies, and these colonies are all vassal kings. Even if the imperial court is very powerful, the power of the royal family becomes insignificant. However, the relationship between the royal family and the local royal family, this patriarchal relationship, will also become a weapon for the Ming court to rule the world.

A thing must be useful in order not to be abolished.

The same is true of the emperor. Let's talk about the British royal family, when the Commonwealth is still important, the royal family is very important. Because the Queen of England is the common monarch of the Commonwealth, and now the Commonwealth

When this concept became insignificant, the royal family had no status.

Zhu Yuanzhang can be regarded as having far-reaching plans for his children and grandchildren.

It's just that future generations may not be able to understand Zhu Yuanzhang.

At least, King Chu of Zhou did not think of these people. They just think of their power.

The battle between the north and the south has taught these princes the biggest lesson, that is, they will be very annoying when they leave their homeland.

Many have the idea, that is, in the homeland, that is, the Ming Dynasty must also have enough influence. Otherwise, if the Central Plains Imperial Court wants to deal with them, it will be difficult for them to deal with it.

Of course, King Zhou's thoughts on this matter are not just about intervening, he actually has a side. He stood in Beijing.

Because he has been kidnapped by interests.

Only Beijing buys so much grain, and Beijing's goods are transported to Nanyang and bought grain in Xingang, which is the most frequent trade in recent years. If Beijing is defeated, will there still be grain procurement in the north?

Not necessarily.

Without him, although economically speaking, it is most convenient to purchase grain from Nanyang, especially Xingang.

The reason is very simple, they all grow food, and the situation is also different.

King Zhou planted grain, and he didn't think about selling grain at first, but the result was that King Zhou's grain planting model was a cash crop. King Zhou's food was obviously in surplus. It is the lowest in various costs. As long as you sell it, you can make money.

The grain in the hands of King Zhou was destined to become a commodity from the beginning.

And the grain in the south is not so pure. Grain production in the south is not low. Don't look at the Ming Dynasty's annual tax of 30 million stones, if it is really the Ming Dynasty's grain production. should be in the hundreds of millions of stones. It is necessary to know that the tax of the Ming Dynasty is five liters per mu. Five liters is 0.05 stones, and the yield per mu in various places is between two and three stones. It can be seen that the total grain production.

It can be said that even by the end of the Ming Dynasty, just counting the grain output of the Ming Dynasty, there was still no shortage of grain.

But more of this food is to feed the local population. Very few are sold.

King Zhou can sell millions of stones every year. It is not that King Zhou produced a lot of grain, more than many provinces in the south of the Ming Dynasty, but that he ate less and consumed less.

In this case, King Zhou had to think about a question, if Nanjing pacified the north, would Nanjing purchase so much grain? It is necessarily impossible.

Without him, Nanyang grain will enter the market on a large scale, which will affect the grain price of the entire Ming Dynasty. After all, as far as Daming grain is concerned, although the output is large. But there is not much food as a commodity. More food is going into the mouths of the people. After all, the Ming Dynasty has a population of 100 million. A population of 100 million people eats three stones of grain every year, and 300 million stones are needed for cultivation, and if you add it as feed, hundreds of millions of stones of grain are nothing at all.

And the right to set prices for food is very important to many people. For example, scholars, landlords.

They exploited tenants in the midst of rising and falling food prices.

Manipulating grain prices, hoarding goods, and disliking King Zhou's large-scale sales of grain to the Central Plains were very disliked.

Even the Nanjing court did not necessarily like to use money to sell the grain of the king of Zhou.

Moreover, except for Beijing, it is estimated that there are no other buyers for King Zhou's grain. Even if there were, the other buyers together would not be able to consume so much food.

King Zhou nominally had nothing to do with each other, but King Zhou's intention was to support Beijing.

There are many people who think like King Zhou.

Without him, Nanyang had a close relationship with the Daimyo, but this closeness, more accurately, was close to Beijing. Although many countries are not Zhou, they will be in crisis without Beijing. But with goods from Beijing, their finances will be easier.

Without that, things would be more troublesome.

Even the King of Chu was the same.

The two sides deliberated for a long time, and finally approved the idea of the king of Zhou, and they decided to send envoys to Beijing and Nanjing respectively, for nothing else. It is persuasion and peace.

This kind of persuasion, as anyone knows, cannot be of any use.

But for different people, there are different ideas.

For the King of Chu, he felt that this was just a ceremony, or even a certain one

In a sense, it is to ask for benefits. Without him, the kings would still be politically influential. There are even tens of thousands of troops in their hands that can be called.

No matter who it is, shouldn't they be appeased, they have united front value.