Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been closing his eyes and recuperating his mind, heard Chu Ze swear that sentence about the death of the country.

His eyes, which had been closed, suddenly opened.

And for a moment, Chu Ze even felt as if the air around him was about to freeze.

Sen Ran's murderous aura slashed across his face like a steel knife.

It was just an instant, Chu Ze's back was directly wet with cold sweat.

He was already ready to die, but he was scared!

"Do you know what the consequences of what you say now?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's voice at this time was extremely cold, and even the crown prince Zhu Biao and Yan King Zhu Di on the side were trembling slightly because of his powerful aura.

Especially Yan Wang Zhu Di, his legs seemed to be trembling at this time.

However, even so, after coming back to his senses, Chu Ze still stood straight.

"Your Majesty, my soul has returned to this era, that is, after the time travel that we later said, I have not received any memories of the past."

"That's one of the reasons why I'm bent on dying. Of course, the main reason, if there is still a chance for a while, you can continue to say. ”

"However, I can still guess some roughly, it is nothing more than the three tribes of Yi, the nine tribes and the like."

"But doesn't Your Majesty want to hear it, why do I say that?"

"Just a few words of time, if it is true, for the fifty years of the Ming Dynasty luck like a rainbow. Your Majesty, don't you feel at a loss? ”

After looking down on life and death at this time, Chu Ze also found that he became more and more calm.

And Zhu Yuanzhang, who was on the throne, looked at Chu Ze, whose expression had returned to normal, and his eyes gradually softened.

Of course, this is not that his mind is calm.

It's just because his city is too deep.

It's just impossible to see what he's thinking.

"Tell me, we're really interested now."

After getting Zhu Yuanzhang's approval, Chu Ze didn't talk much nonsense.

If he can say more now, he will earn more.

Even, he looked at Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and Zhu Biao, the crown prince, on the side.

I was still thinking about whether I should mess with their mentality before I died.

This crossed, and I left in a hurry before I did anything, and it seems to be a bit of a loss when I think about it.

At the very least, it seems like a good idea to do something and prove that you've been there.

"Your Majesty, if my memory is not wrong, in the period of peace, the price of one stone of rice is converted into one tael, and a prince, a year of rice alone will require fifty thousand taels."

"After that, there are miscellaneous expenses such as silk and satin, cloth, silk, salt, tea, cotton, etc., which are counted as a total of 20,000 taels."

"And Your Majesty has set the ancestral training, the prince's title is hereditary, the prince's position is passed down from generation to generation, and the prince's heir is reduced to the king of the county!"

"The treatment of the county king, six thousand stones, even if it is six thousand taels. plus other miscellaneous items, according to the conversion of eight thousand taels. ”

"His Royal Highness the Prince, I don't know if there is any error in this data I obtained?"

Chu Ze's previous words were indeed said to Zhu Yuanzhang.

But in the last question, he went to Zhu Biao.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Lao Zhu is a reasonable person.

But in his eyes, Li is always on his side.

All Chu Ze actually didn't really want to deal with him.

On the contrary, the crown prince Zhu Biao is much easier to speak.

And after Zhu Biao listened to Chu Ze's question, he nodded subconsciously, but then shook his head.

Then, he added with a slight frown.

"It's not just these expenses, but in the rules set by my father, princes and county kings all need maids and eunuchs to take care of their daily lives. Then there is this part of the cost, which should also be counted. ”

When he heard Chu Ze start settling accounts, in fact, Zhu Biao already had a bad premonition in his heart.

It's just that he doesn't know where this premonition comes from.

So when Chu Ze threw the question at him, he unexpectedly cooperated with Chu Ze's words.

"yes, I really forgot about that..."

After Chu Ze heard Zhu Biao mention this matter, he suddenly nodded in understanding.

Looking at his move, Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly in a somewhat unhappy tone.

However, under Zhu Yuanzhang's gaze, Chu Ze spit out such a sentence without hurry.

"If you count the palace maids and eunuchs, then you have to count the loss of population. That's all it takes for a while. ”

"Since the prince said that there is no problem. Then let's move on. ”

"Nowadays, Emperor Taizu has a total of 26 heirs. That is, twenty-five princes. The annual expenditure of these twenty-five princes is about 1,750,000 taels. ”

"And under the prince, there is also the prince of the county. . . We don't exaggerate. For each prince, ten children are counted, and this is considered a few. You must know that Liu Sheng, the king of Zhongshan in the Han Dynasty, had more than 100 sons. ”

"Even if the foundation is two hundred and fifty county kings."

This number is quite auspicious...

originally thought that when this number was mentioned, Lao Zhu's father and son would have some bad expressions.

But it's clear that this meme is not popular in this day and age.

Chu Ze, who was a little disappointed, continued to settle the account.

"Each county king, according to the previous calculation, consumes eight thousand taels. That's two million taels. ”

"Calculated in this way, in a year, just to support these princes and county kings, the Ming Dynasty needs to consume three million and five hundred thousand taels of financial revenue."

"Moreover, this is only the first prince and the prince of the county."

"If it is still calculated according to the proportion just now, the prince is hereditary, and it is still counted as one million and seven hundred and fifty thousand taels."

"And the first generation of county kings grew up, and the second generation of county kings began to be born. is still counted as having ten children for each county king. ”

"Of the two hundred and fifty county kings of the previous generation, ten for each of them, two thousand five hundred county kings were born."

"After that, there is the third generation, and under the third generation, we count the two hundred and fifty county kings of the first generation of collective funerals, and the number is defined at two thousand and five."

"Then, of these 2,005 county kings, ten new county kings were born, and then 25,000 county kings were born."

"In the fourth generation, 250,000 county kings were born."

"Even if we are the fourth generation, 250,000 county kings need to be supported by the imperial court... Its annual cost is close to 200,000 taels of silver! ”

"I don't know very much about the financial income of the imperial court in this era, I don't know how much income there are in the Ming Dynasty in a year?"

“...”

After Chu Ze's words fell, he didn't wait for the answer he imagined.

At this time, the entire imperial study became silent.

When Chu Ze raised his head, he saw the three old Zhu family father and son who were breaking their fingers and sweating on their foreheads.