"Don't move here, get here!"

Zhu Di was a little annoyed, "Your father and I have such a little family background, do you have to catch me all in one net?" ”

He was a little frightened when he saw it, he saw King Qi's posture, and he clearly wanted to pack up all the things in the Qianqing Palace except for the jade seal!

I almost removed the beams and pillars and went back!

Zhu Gaoxian smacked his tongue, waved at the eunuchs and said, "Okay, then move these first, you send the things back to King Qi's Mansion first, be careful, and I'll come back to Ming'er and move them one by one." ”

Hearing that King Qi was coming to move tomorrow, Zhu Di almost fell to the ground unsteadily.

Zhu Gaoxian sat back at the table and said to the old man happily: "Dad, you also know that our Qi Wangfu is poor, so it's not too much to ask you for relief?" ”

Zhu Di was shocked, thinking about whether what you King Qi did was called relief?

You're robbing my Qianqing Palace!

Zhu Di said with a dark face: "Lao Tzu has robbed it all his life, and this is the first time that someone else has robbed it." Today, Lao Tzu put his words here, if you don't leave something dry, today you want to walk out of the Qianqing Palace vertically. ”

Is the old man so easy to grab!

In his life, he grabbed the world and grabbed the land, the sparrow flew in front of his eyes and had to leave a handful of bird feathers, Emperor Jianwen had to obediently call out the throne when he was dangling in front of him, how could he have thought that he would be robbed one day when he was old.

Zhu Gaoxian looked innocent: "Dad, didn't you let me take it?" ”

"I'll let you take it, I didn't want you to sweep it!"

Zhu Di was furious, "Lao Tzu knows that your head is full of some ghostly ideas, and I have to pry something out of your head today!" ”

Zhu Gaoxian saw that the old man was serious, and hurriedly said: "Father and the emperor are angry, and the sons and daughters know everything, you first extinguish the fire, come, drink tea smoothly." ”

Seeing King Qi so attentive, Zhu Di's heart calmed down a little, but when he looked for the teacup, he was stunned: "Beast, what about my teacup!" ”

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Zhu Gaoxian quietly took out two blue and white teacups from his sleeves and placed them on the table.

Zhu Di laughed angrily: "Your sleeve is a treasure bag, how many things have been taken away from me!" ”

"Not much, not much."

Zhu Gaoxian was a little embarrassed, and took out a blue and white teapot matching the blue and white teacup from his sleeve, and beckoned the eunuch to come over and make tea.

Seeing Zhu Di's complicated eyes, Zhu Gaoxian hurriedly changed the topic: "Dad, although the second brother's rebellion has been quelled, this also wakes us up." ”

Zhu Di frowned slightly: "What do you mean?" ”

Zhu Gaoxian said: "This time I sent troops to Shandong to quell the rebellion, the king of Qi in Shandong is in Qingzhou, and he is still in charge of a Qingzhou guard, from beginning to end, this Qingzhou guard has never appeared on the battlefield." ”

Zhu Di snorted coldly and said, "King Qi, this dog thing, it's not too much to kill him a hundred times with those pickled things, I wanted to kill him back then." Fortunately, this dog has repented, and he has performed well in the years of solitary confinement in Jinling City, and he has not made any major mistakes since returning to Qingzhou, so I forgave him. ”

Zhu Gaoxian said: "Dad, think about it, King Qi also belongs to the group that has an excellent relationship with the imperial court, because he knows that his own foundation is not clean, so he is honest." But in this counterinsurgency, although the King of Qi did not help the King of Han to make a rebellion, he also did not help the court from beginning to end, what do you think this means? ”

Zhu Di said: "It's nothing more than that he doesn't want to get angry, he stays well in Qingzhou, as long as he doesn't do anything, lying flat in the palace as a waste can make the King of Qi last forever, why bother to get into trouble." ”

Zhu Gaoxian smiled and said, "Since he is gone, why do we still have to raise him?" ”

Zhu Di said in surprise: "The imperial court has always been like this for the support of the clan. ”

Zhu Gaoxian said: "It's always been like this, right?" ”

Zhu Di was silent, and he suddenly realized that his thoughts were stuck in the wrong way.

Everyone is used to the fact that the clan is a waste. And the imperial court provides for these wastes, and everyone is used to it.

Since they are waste, they are of no use to the imperial court, so why are they still being raised?

Because it always has been.

Zhu Di said in a deep voice: "You want to take this opportunity to get rid of the vassal king?" ”

Zhu Gaoxian shook his head: "It's not to get rid of it, it's to treat it in a different way, and the court is not obliged to raise waste." ”

Zhu Di sighed: "It's not the time yet, fourth, you're too anxious." ”

Zhu Gaoxian asked rhetorically: "Dad, you have won the world with martial arts, and the imperial power is concentrated in your hands, and the power is no less than that of the founding emperor." I am also a military superintendent of the country, and there are four provinces of Annam, Jianzhou, Goryeo, and Yingzhou as support, asking for money, money, money, people, and soldiers, you and my father and son join forces, and the control of the court is even better than that of grandpa, this is not the time, what is the time, if there is something that you and my father and son can't do together, then how can future generations do it? ”

King Qi's words pierced Zhu Di's heart.

He knew that what King Qi said was right, since ancient times, the power of the emperors of the dynasty has been inferior to the generation, and the same is true of the Ming Dynasty.

The founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the three major eucalyptus of Hongwu killed the world with a river of blood, and if other emperors were in power, an uprising would have broken out long ago, and the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang could sit firmly on the throne was because everyone was afraid of him. Zhu Yuanzhang himself defeated the world, and the military power is in his hands.

If Zhu Yuanzhang wants to cut the domain, who dares to say nothing?

Emperor Jianwen didn't see his strength clearly, and Zhu Yuanzhang didn't take the power he left, so he couldn't wait to move the knife, and then there was no one.

When Zhu Di came to power, because he was born in rebellion, his right to speak was actually not much worse than Zhu Yuanzhang's.

In the same way, as for Zhu Di's relocation of the capital, it was Emperor Jianwen who did it, and the whole country was against it.

And the emperor after Zhu Di, the alternation of power is not as good as the generation, Zhu Zhanji can still control it at this time, and when it comes to Xiaozong and Wuzong, he almost pasted a note on the emperor's head "I am a puppet".

Although there is a strange thing called Jiajing, who used his miraculous power to regain the imperial power again, but after his death, the imperial power passed rapidly, like the Yellow River bursting its embankment out of control.

Zhu Di, who simulated the fortunes of the Ming Dynasty from prosperity to decline and then to the demise of the country, understands this truth very well, but he is always unwilling to face this fact.

The fall of imperial power means that there will be party struggle, and the more fierce the party struggle, the faster the country will perish.

No matter how prosperous a dynasty is, it can't drag on the fate of extinction after all.

Zhu Di was a little confused: "Is it difficult, is there really no way?" ”

When he said this, he was actually saying that the Ming Dynasty would not be able to escape the fate of the country.

Zhu Gaoxian sighed and said: "Throughout the ages, there has been a dynasty that has stood still, it is nothing more than which country is longer and which country is shorter, Dad, you and I are both the watchmakers of this empire, where the weak is to make up for it, no matter how much it is supplemented, sooner or later there will be a day of wind leakage, what we can do is nothing more than to make this day of wind leakage come later." ”

If it was Zhu Di when he first ascended the throne, he would definitely say with high spirits: "Unknown life, unknown death, the one who makes the life is the sky, and the one who makes the life is me!" ”

However, Zhu Di, who is already in his old age, feels a little powerless in the face of the tide of fate, and after a long time, he sighed with emotion: "Pengsheng is in the hemp, not supporting and straightening, the white sand is in Nirvana, and it is black." ”

When turbidity becomes the norm, sobriety becomes a crime. Some people think that everything can be played with in the palm of their hands because they are too transparent, and the more familiar they are, the more fearless they are. Some people, because they live too transparently, see through the ever-changing world and know that no matter what they do, nothing will change, and they feel the paleness and powerlessness of mortals.

Zhu Di said: "The vassal kings have been abolished, with your cleverness, it is not difficult to guess, even after thousands of years, these vassal kings are powerless to fight against the imperial court, so why bother cutting the grass and eradicating the roots?" ”

The vassal kings were so arrogant and uninhibited in the Hongwu Dynasty, and the most fierce people who fought against foreign races in the Hongwu Dynasty were not Xu Da, Lan Yu and other generals, but these Sai kings who held military power to guard the border, and they fought against foreign races all the time after the domain.

But after the cutting of the two dynasties of Jianwen and Yongle, Jianwen cut them down, Yongle cut them down, and the current vassal kings no longer have the ferocity of the Hongwu Dynasty, only a group of waste lying on the palace and waiting for the dead to make children.

Zhu Gaoxian sighed and said: "Dad, you really haven't been to the household department to be a scholar and don't understand the account, the vassal kings are not rebelling now, they make money!" ”

Zhu Di was a little unhappy: "How much can these vassal kings spend in a year, our old Zhu family has fought for a lifetime, can't we let the Zhu family enjoy it?" ”

Zhu Gaoxian nodded: "Yes, what you said is right, from now on, the vassal kings can't make much money combined, let's raise them, but you have to look at the future, this group of clans has not done anything since they were abolished, and they have babies at home, which is inevitably too good to give birth, this can bring down the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Zhu Di was stunned for a moment: "I'm afraid that there is too much water in your brain and moss, can the vassal king eat the Ming Dynasty down?" ”

Zhu Gaoxian was a little helpless: "My grandfather set the rules at that time, and the Zongfan received 10,000 stones from the imperial court every year, 10,000 stone for the prince, 2,000 stone for the county king, 1,000 stone for the general of Zhenguo, and 800 stone for the general of the auxiliary country...... To the least lieutenant of Fengguo, there are also two hundred stones, the second son of the crown prince, and the concubine, and the prince of the county. It will be given every year, and it will be the same as the prince who has been crowned the king of the county. The woman shall marry and be given every year, and shall be the same as that of the married woman of the land. The eldest son of the county king, who attacked the county king, his age was reduced by half compared with the first county king. ”

Moreover, according to this regulation, the clan did not exchange money for physical goods, that is, only the original color and folded color, that is, they either took silver or grain, and did not use worthless physical goods or copper money printed out of the market that no one cared about to pay.

The meal ticket that the clan asked for from the imperial court is still semi-permanent, the son of the prince, the prince is still the prince, and the other sons are demoted to one level and become the king of the county. The other ranks are the same, they are all inherited by the eldest son, and the sons are demoted by one level, and it continues until the lieutenant of Fengguo receives a 200-stone salary.

To put it simply, once the prince is crowned, this royal title will always exist, unless it is passed on to which generation, no matter whether the eldest wife or the little lover gets together, a son cannot be born, and there is no queen.

Therefore, the vassal kings tried their best to give birth to sons, first, they were really idle and had nothing to do, and secondly, they were afraid that their titles would be canceled by the imperial court.