Zhu Qiyu came to Changle Palace, asked the Queen Mother to say goodbye, and sat on the side of the couch.

Empress Dowager Wu asked: "Son, you don't go out for half a month at every turn, what are you doing at home?" ”

Zhu Qiyu smiled: "Reading, painting, fishing, planting vegetables, walking the dog." ”

When Ning Xiang heard the word "walking the dog", her pretty face turned red and glared at Zhu Qiyu fiercely.

The Queen Mother was also not very satisfied with this answer: "You have so many children, you also take some time to spend with them, and care about their studies." For example, King Han, he has been skipping school for three days in a row, and the gentleman invited can't control him. ”

Zhu Qiyu frowned; "Our little Han Wang is a naughty ghost, he ate himself by eating mushrooms in the mountains last time, and this time he skipped school again.

It doesn't matter if he learns or not, just don't get into trouble everywhere and make a hole for yourself. ”

The Queen Mother also frowned: "Ridiculous, how can you, as a father, have such an attitude." ”

"Xiao Han Wang may just want to win my attention, let him accompany me to Kunming Lake to fish and enjoy lotus flowers in two days, just say that I will test him to make poems by the way."

Miao Yue took a sketch: "Husband, this is the Han Palace, the garden, the amusement garden, and the other courtyard outside the city planned by the little Han King and the craftsmen, which cost a total of 600,000 taels of silver. ”

"Six hundred thousand taels? The average prince's mansion, even if it is built in luxury and magnificence, 200,000 taels will be dead. That's 600,000 taels too much, isn't it? ”

Miao Yue replied: "The husband's estimate is very accurate, the cost of the Han Wang's mansion and garden is 200,000 taels, and the expensive one is the courtyard outside the city. ”

Zhu Qiyu unfolded the sketch and read it carefully, then nodded: "Okay, okay, 600,000 taels is 600,000 taels, don't make the father and son unhappy for such a trivial matter." Besides, we don't lack this money.

King Han is the patriarch of our Jingtai vassal king, and he will have to be a great sect in the future, so spend more money.

After a few years, give him 1 million taels of silver, 30,000 taels of gold, plus other treasures, and let him go to Xi'an in style. ”

When the Queen Mother heard this, she asked, "What about the other sons?" ”

Zhu Qiyu replied: "It's all the same, it's not partial, it's all given." My daughter is the same money, and I will give it correctly. ”

The Queen Mother gasped: "How can our family have so much money?" ”

Zhu Wenfang continued: "Then let the imperial court give some, Japan's minerals, silver alone is millions of taels a year, not counting gold and copper."

Japan, however, was fought hard by the emperor's strength. Minerals worth tens of millions of taels a year can't be spent at all.

According to the previous system of the Jingtai Dynasty, the prince was a vassal, and it should have been paid by the imperial court. Now we are mainly from the inside, and only let the court pay a small part, which is already empathetic enough. ”

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "I have already said that I don't need the court's money." If you have to let the court pay for it, if you, the prince, come forward, I won't go back on my word. ”

Zhu Wenfang first told the story of Shanxi, and Zhu Qiyu nodded: "You did a good job, although ten years have passed since the Tumubao Incident, I still can't get over it in my heart, and I still feel that there is some conspiracy in it."

Anyway, in any case, Shanxi's officials, gentry, haoqiang, and businessmen must pay the price. There is no price, there is no fear, and they will not take our father and son seriously.

Not to mention anything else, at least Shanxi officials, gentry, and haoqiang colluded to empty the treasury and granary, which is a real hammer.

The Shanxi guard collapsed, and most of the soldiers fled, which was also a real hammer.

With these two points alone, they deserve to die, and our father and son should go on a killing spree.

But you can just blame me for this purge, I'll be this bad guy, you be a good guy.

Just like Prince Yiwen, he presided over three of the four major cases of Hongwu, but he became a benevolent prince praised by the government and the opposition.

You just learn to do it, I have done too many bad things, one more is not too much, and one less is not too much. I'm not afraid of carrying the pot, breaking the jar and breaking it. ”

Zhu Wenfang nodded and took out Zhou Chen's notebook again.

After Zhu Qiyu read it, he asked: "At the court meeting, did the ministers discuss that the sixty people who Zhou Chen asked to be sent to supervise the salt administration were civil ministers or eunuchs?" ”

Zhu Wenfang said with a smile: "The son knew that his father had this question, so before the minister had time to discuss, I stopped it, and then said that I would report to my father and give an answer." ”

"Well, it's good, it's still quick-witted. Send the eunuchs, these sixty. It's useless for you to send Wenchen to supervise this kind of thing. ”

Ning Xiang was on the side, and from the blind spot of others' sight, she quietly said two words to Zhu Qiyu.

Zhu Qiyu was speechless, this was really a whisper, there was no sound at all, he could only guess by lip synching.

Fortunately, the husband and wife have a good heart, Zhu Qiyu figured it out after a little thought, so he instructed Zhu Wenfang: "These eunuchs in Beijing, although the top leaders are all our henchmen, it is difficult to say down.

So choose from Nanjing, give this task to Yan Li, and let him choose sixty capable eunuchs to supervise the salt administration for us.

Moreover, I will issue an edict to Jiangnan, warning the officials and salt merchants that these sixty eunuchs, as long as one person dies during the salt patrol, I don't care if he chokes to death by drinking cold water, or falls into the gutter and drowns at night.

If you die one, you will kill ten salt merchants to accompany the burial, and if you die two, you will kill twenty salt merchants to accompany the burial. And so on, I will kill as many salt merchants as I want, and I will kill the whole family, and I will not leave any of them.

If you want to rebuild the emperor's authority that your uncle has violated, we have to use heavy codes in the prosperous era, and whoever doesn't accept it, we will kill him.

In this way, the cost is smaller, and if you can't kill a few waves of people, the whole country will be honest. ”

Zhu Wenfang nodded: "Erchen understands." ”

Zhu Qiyu instructed again: "If you are the emperor, you are fierce first, and then gentle, and the government and the opposition will praise your gentleness."

If you have been gentle from the beginning, the government and the opposition will only think that you are weak and can be bullied.

Human nature, cheap. Confucius said well, only villains and women are difficult to raise, those who are close are not inferior, and those who are far away are resentful. ”

Zhu Wenfang nodded again and again, saying that it was too good. Ning Xiang kicked Zhu Wenfang lightly, and the poor Royal Highness the Crown Prince shut up and silenced him.

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On June 25, Li Bing received an order from the crown prince. Along with the prince's decree, there was also the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Lu Gao, and the three thousand Jinyi Guards led by him.

Three thousand brocade guards, no one has to take chances anymore.

Tian Cewei opened the south gate, 3,000 brocade guards entered the city to arrest people, and 10,000 soldiers of the Shenji Battalion accompanied them to protect them.

As long as there is the slightest resistance, they are ready to kill.

This is a royal privilege, kill in vain, die in vain.

It's a pity that under the siege of 50,000 Heavenly Son's pro-army, the gentry and heroes of Shanxi still did not have the courage to violently resist the French after all.

The powerful can do whatever they want and run amok in the local area, but when it comes to the truth, in front of the imperial power, it is nothing.

Tumu Fort is only a hundred miles away from Juyong Pass, and after annihilating the Ming army and capturing Baozong, why not take advantage of the victory to break through Juyong Pass, so as to reach the city of Beijing? That's a big mystery.

Zhu Qiyu thought about it for ten years and didn't come up with an accurate answer, so he always had great malice towards the officials, gentry, haoqiang, and businessmen in Shanxi.

(End of chapter)

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