allendalepharm Chapter 424: Model Kings!
Chapter 424: Model Kings!
Chapter 424: Model Kings!
When everyone in Fengtian Hall questioned Zhu Yunxi, there were still a group of spectators squatting in Jinshen Hall.
However, they didn't dare to run over to watch the fun, but ordered the little eunuch on duty to send them messages back and forth.
"His Royal Highness King Qin, it's starting over there!"
"The first person to make a move is Yan Shenggong..."
As soon as Qin Wang Zhu Xi heard that Yan Shenggong made a move, he immediately cheered happily.
"Great!"
"Yan Shenggong is the leader of civil servants, and the old man has to take care of it!"
"With Yan Shenggong taking action, Zhu Yunxi's grandson's New Deal will definitely come to naught!"
King Zhu of Zhou agreed.
"Yes!"
"Yan Shenggong is an aristocratic family that has been passed down for thousands of years, how can he watch Zhu Yunxi's grandson mess around?"
Although Zhu Yan and Zhu Di didn't speak, the expressions on their faces were obviously much more relaxed.
The two of them also hated the New Deal, but Zhu Biao was concerned about Zhu Biao's face, and Zhu Di didn't want to make a fuss, so he could only behave like a man with his tail between his legs.
Fortunately, the two of them don't need to be prominent in this matter. According to Zhu Yunxi's new policy, the entire court is his enemy, and some people speak for them.
The other vassal kings were roughly the same, and they all planned to wait and eat ready-made ones.
Of course, if the old man really believed in the grandson's evil and insisted on taking their land, then they would also cry a lot.
Just when everyone was secretly rejoicing, the little eunuch ran over again to deliver a message.
"It's not good, Mr. Yan Sheng was beaten back by Mr. Gao!"
"What?"
Everyone in Jinshen Hall was dumbfounded when they heard this, and Zhu Xi even started to curse.
"This old man Gao really deserves to die!"
"If it wasn't for the old man's instigation, would Zhu Yunxi have thought of asking us to collect taxes?"
"He is alienating the flesh and blood of the Tian family, so the old man should cut him into pieces!"
"Second brother is right, let's go back and write a letter to impeach Gao Ming, saying that he provoked the royal family, alienated the family of heaven, and let the emperor cut off his head!"
When the second child was swearing at the fifth child, the little eunuch ran back again to spread the word.
"Yan Shenggong has turned Mr. Gao back again, and now Yan Shenggong is the loudest!"
Zhu Xi burst out laughing when he heard this.
"it is good!"
"This is the aura after a saint!"
"By the way, didn't my eldest nephew speak?"
"This kid is holding back such a loud fart without making a sound, shouldn't he be dumb without saying a word?"
Hearing this, Zhu Yan glared at Zhu Chen with displeasure.
He is opposed to the new policy of taxing him, but it does not mean that he is against Zhu Yunxi.Zhu Xi is now targeting Zhu Yunxi, which has touched his scales.
"Second brother, be careful what you say!"
"Zhu Yunxie is the grandson of the current emperor. We have already determined our status as a monarch and minister with him. We must respect him like a big brother!"
"Nonsence!"
Zhu Xi sneered when he heard the words.
"Respect him?"
"Is he worthy?"
"How can there be a grandson who helps outsiders bully his own family!"
"If the eldest brother does the same, I, the second child, will still refuse to accept it!"
When the others heard this, they looked at Zhu Xi in unison.Although everyone didn't speak, the expressions on their faces were self-evident, and they collectively supported Zhu Xi's remarks.
It doesn't matter who it is, as long as they are against their princes!
"Report to King Qin, the grandson of the emperor has made a move!"
"The grandson of the emperor took out a chart..."
"Talk about the number of acres of land in the Ming Dynasty. In the 14th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 360 million hectares!"
"The grandson of the emperor said again that in the 24th year of Hongwu, there were more than 380 million hectares of land in Daming..."
"Oh, it's not good, His Majesty the Emperor is going crazy..."
Everyone in Jinshen Hall was shocked when they heard this, and then they were even more surprised when they came back to their senses.
They discovered a shocking secret, the land growth in Daming was only 20 hectares in the past ten years?
The king of Chu stabbed the king of Qi beside him.
"It's okay, kid, one person takes up one-twentieth of our Daming?"
According to the Ming system, one hectare of land is 100 mu, and [-] hectares of land is [-] million mu.
King Qi seized one million acres of land in Qingzhou before, which happened to account for one-twentieth of the newly reclaimed land in the Ming Dynasty.
When King Qi heard this, his face turned pale with fright.
He knows the old man's temper very well. If he is greedy and takes a little bit, it's fine, but if he is too greedy and takes too much, to the extent that it hurts the country, the old man can send troops to destroy him without Zhu Yunxie's son-in-law fanning the flames. !
"Stop making sarcastic remarks!"
"Don't pretend we don't know, you also occupy a lot of land in Wuchang!"
"There is a mixture of barbarians and barbarians in my Hunan territory. I am expanding the territory. How can it be compared to your behavior of usurping the common people's familiar land?"
After the king of Chu attacked the king of Qi, he didn't forget to look at the kings of Shu and Xiang.
"Zhu Chun, Zhu Bo, what do you two think?"
The fiefs of Zhu Chun and Zhu Bo also had many barbarians and few Han people, which belonged to the land that often rebelled.
When the two heard the provocative words of King Chu, they smiled awkwardly, neither nodded in response, nor shook their heads in denial.
In fact, the two of them also more or less occupied the people's fields around the fiefdom, but the disturbance was small, not as big as other brothers.
After all, the two of them are also vassal kings with three guards each. Even if they don't care about their achievements in the land, the generals who follow them still have to rely on that to support their families, right?
Then the general occupied a lot of land, give them two points, can they refuse?
However, now that it has been ten years since Daming, and the field has only grown so much, the two of them know something is wrong.
Sure enough, after a while, the little eunuch ran over panting.
"Your Majesty is angry!"
"Send all the officials home and write their confessions!"
Hearing this, Zhu Xi drooped his head in frustration.
"Come on!"
"Let's stop watching the excitement, and hurry home and write a confession note!"
"I guess it won't be long before the old man's imperial envoys will be sent to various places to check the fields!"
As soon as Zhu Xi's words fell, Qin Deshun led several eunuchs over.
"His Majesty the Emperor's oral order!"
As soon as everyone heard this, they hurriedly knelt down to listen to Lao Zhu's dictation.
"You sons of bitches!"
As soon as Qin Deshun said this, everyone stared at him angrily, and King Qin Zhu Xi was so angry that he jumped up from the ground.
"Dead eunuch, who the hell are you scolding!"
Seeing this, Qin Deshun hurriedly explained.
"You princes, calm down, it's not our family who scolded you, it's the emperor who said so!"
"The old man really said that?"
"It's absolutely true!"
"Otherwise, give our family 1 guts, and our family would not dare to scold you princes like that!"
"This……"
"These words really sound like the old man's tone..."
Zhu Xi knelt down resentfully, and threatened Qin Deshun with his eyes.
"Old Qin, don't keep the original taste, and modify it for the emperor to some extent?"
Qin Deshun hurriedly waved his hands when he heard the words.
"No no no..."
"What's the matter, what we pass on is the emperor's oral order, not a single word or sound can be wrong, if it's wrong, it's a fake imperial decree!"
King Qin rolled his eyes angrily when he heard this, and said bitterly.
"Row!"
"You pass it on, today's bounty is gone!"
Upon hearing this, Qin Deshun immediately put on a smiling face.
"Don't tell me!"
"Although it can't be changed, the speed can still be changed..."
"His Majesty said, you sons of bitches, we are really blind, why did we send you all over the place to be vassal kings..."
Qin Deshun finished speaking quickly, and then looked at King Qin with a smile.Being watched by the old eunuch, Zhu Xi's heart trembled for a while, so he could only take out a piece of silver from his sleeve and throw it over.
"I'm in a hurry to enter the palace today, I only have this little money in my pocket, do you want it or not!"
"want!"
"If our family doesn't want the reward from His Royal Highness the King of Qin, wouldn't it be shameless, hehehe..."
Qin Deshun took the silver and wiped it on his clothes curiously, before stuffing it into his sleeves contentedly.
"His Majesty the Emperor also said, I want you to go back and figure out how much land the imperial court has occupied over the years, and write a note about it!"
"If your majesty finds out if you dare to deceive and cheat, you will eat the fruit!"
"Kin this!"
When everyone heard the word "Qin this", they immediately got up from the ground, and they really didn't want to kneel for a moment.
After the princes got up from the ground, they collectively ignored Qin Deshun, a dead eunuch, and gathered beside King Qin in unison.
"Second brother, you are the king of all kings in the world, you have to say something fair to your younger brothers!"
"We have occupied some imperial court land these years, but we are also supporting the army for the imperial court, and we have also stabilized the place for the imperial court!"
"We didn't occupy this land for nothing, we..."
Zhu Yu was directly confused by the phrase "the head of the kings" by all the vassal kings, and he was all-inclusive.
"My brothers, don't worry, with the second brother here, I will definitely not let you suffer!"
"Don't write anything when you go back. If the father blames you, just say that I let you, and let the father come to trouble me alone!"
When everyone heard this, they all praised Zhu Xi for his grandeur, only Zhu Xi and Zhu Di cast suspicious eyes on Zhu Xi.
Zhu Xun is old, and the young feudal lord doesn't know his virtues, but Zhu Xun and Zhu Di have played with him since they were young, so they know that Zhu Xun is unreliable.
Now he promises to take care of things for everyone, and when he turns his head, he can hug the old man and cry, saying that he was kidnapped by everyone.
"Second brother, are you really not afraid of the old man getting mad?"
"Not afraid!"
"The old man has the guts to destroy me!"
"For Jijiyan, I captured all his grandsons in Xi'an, hung them on the city gate and bled them. When I saw him, it was his heart that hurt, or my heart hurt!"
When Zhu Fen heard Zhu Fen's shameless words, he could only silently feel sorry for his nephew Zhu Shangbing for three seconds.
Zhu Shangbing had such an unreliable father, it was really bad luck for eight lifetimes!
Zhu Yan and Zhu Di didn't believe it, but the other vassal kings really believed it. They felt that they had the support of their second brother, and they suddenly became more courageous.
However, after Zhu Xing was surrounded by all the vassals and left the palace, he wandered back not long after, and sneaked to the outside of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, leaning against the wall outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation, listening to the old Zhu's words. .
In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Old Zhu was angrily cursing.
"A group of trash who received a thousand knives, we really should cut them alive!"
"There is also that scum of King Qin, what can he do, occupying the No.1 land!"
"Grandpa Huang, Second Uncle didn't occupy much. According to Jin Yiwei's investigation, it has only occupied less than 1000 million mu in total over the years..."
"1000 million mu?"
Old Zhu almost lost his breath when he heard this number.
In the entire Ming Dynasty, only a total of 2000 million mu of land was added in ten years, half of which was taken up by King Qin, a rebellious son!
"He occupies 1000 million, and others occupy another 1000 million. A dozen vassals are more than 1 million mu!"
"They have taken all the land in the world, our grandson and our grandson's grandsons eat and drink whatever they want!"
"Our Daming army eats and drinks whatever they want!"
"The people of Ming Dynasty eat and drink whatever they want!"
After Lao Zhu finished cursing, he came to the screen angrily, pointed at the screen and cursed.
"Who else has more?"
"How about your aunts, how much do they each have?"
"And how much do those generals take?"
Zhu Yunxi shook his head when he heard the words.
"It's hard to say. Many data can only be estimated now, but generally speaking, it is still the land that is concealed by the people."
"Concealment by the people?"
Old Zhu sneered when he heard this.
"What are the common people hiding?"
"If it weren't for the government to fill private pockets and deceive the upper and lower, it would be so easy for the common people to hide their land property!"
"We must thoroughly investigate and find out the number of acres in the country, otherwise we will not be able to close our eyes when we die!"
Zhu Yunxi is one of the 1 people who support the inventory of acres across the country, but he just started a pilot project in Shandong, and it hasn't yielded results yet, so he always feels a little bit unwilling.
"Grandfather, will Shandong's new policy still be implemented?"
"implement!"
"Why not execute it?"
"Can the civil and military officials in the court support it?"
Old Zhu sneered again when he heard this.
"Where do they have the face to object!"
"Go ahead and do it boldly, no one dares to care about this now!"
Zhu Yunxi was overjoyed when he heard this.
"okay!"
"Grandson, let's do it!"
"By the way, Grandpa Huang, grandson wants to re-appoint a Shandong chief envoy. Do you have any opinions?"
Old Zhu was angry, but he still attached great importance to authority. Seeing that Dasun suddenly wanted to appoint a chief envoy, he immediately asked vigilantly.
"Who do you want to appoint?"
"Grandfather, what do you think of the former minister of the Ministry of War, Ru Xun?"
"Ru Yu?"
Lao Zhu didn't dislike Ru Xun, but because he violated the national law, he was sent to the coal yard to mine.
Now hearing Zhu Yunxi mentioning this person again, Lao Zhu's brain immediately started to work.
"It's not impossible for this person..."
"He is capable, and he has received such a great favor from you, so he will definitely work hard for you..."
"It's just, how long has he been sent to the coal yard, are you really willing to let him out like this?"
Zhu Yunxi laughed when he heard the words.
"Grandfather, isn't it just for officials to use?"
"If Ru Yu works hard and raises the taxes on the Shandong border for us, it's nothing if we give him a high-ranking official. If he doesn't work hard and keeps colluding with those officials, then we won't feel bad if we kill him!"
Lao Zhu laughed happily when he heard this, he was happier than picking up a piece of gold on the road.
"Good good!"
"This is our great grandson!"
"You can tell how to use people this way, which shows that our hard work these years has not been in vain, hahaha!"
Zhu Xi listened outside the door for a while, and left the palace with a heavy heart. When Zhu Xi returned home, he called his confidants over and asked them to rush back to Xi'an overnight.
As for himself, he went to the study honestly and wrote the list of his property to the old man.
He raised his head and said "my son Zhu Xing would like to play", he was extremely respectful, and he was not at all arrogant like he was in the palace.
He finally understood that the old man wanted to play for real this time!
The next day, when Jin Yiwei came to urge him, all the vassal kings were called by Lao Zhu to the palace for questioning.
A group of vassal kings stood under the sun, whispering incessantly.
"Lao Qi, have you written it?"
"Not written!"
"Didn't the second brother say that the sky is falling and he is holding it up, why should I write that stuff!"
"I didn't write it either, I don't believe that Father can force us to death?"
Everyone whispered for a while, and suddenly saw Zhu Xi coming in from the outside, and hurried forward to ask in a low voice.
"Second brother, you must have written it too, right?"
Zhu Xi asked in a daze when he heard the words.
"Write what?"
Seeing Zhu Xun like this, Zhu Xi burst out laughing immediately.
"What did I say, I just said that the second brother didn't bring the writing, so you can rest assured!"
After hearing the words, Zhu Yu still worriedly added a sentence.
"Didn't the father say yesterday, let us write down how many fields the imperial court has occupied over the years?"
When Zhu Xi heard this, he showed a suddenly realized expression.
"Oh ah..."
"That's what you're talking about!"
"This is the imperial father's oral order, how can I, as a son, disobey it?"
"what?"
Everyone was dumbfounded when they heard Zhu Xi's words, and Zhu Xi and the others stared in disbelief, looking at Zhu Xi like a foolish goldfish.
"Second brother!"
"That's not what you said yesterday!"
"You said that the old man blamed you, and you told none of us to write!"
Zhu Yu made up his mind to pretend to be stupid to the end, even if Zhu Yu exposed him face to face, he would pretend not to know.
"Did I say so?"
"Why don't I remember?"
"you……"
"You tricked us!"
While everyone was arguing, the majestic old Zhu came out of the door.
Seeing this, Zhu Xi quickly stepped forward and knelt down respectfully, and then took out a memorial from his sleeve.
"My son Zhu Xi, by order of my father, I have made a list of the properties of Prince Qin's mansion, and I ask my father to have a look!"
Old Zhu looked down on Zhu Xi, but he didn't expect him to cooperate so much this time, and he was the first to submit the property list of the palace, which made him admire him.
Lao Zhu stretched out his hand to accept Zhu Xi's memorial, and praised him sincerely.
"Not bad!"
"It is worthy of being the head of the kings, and it really means a role model for the kings!"
After Lao Zhu praised Zhu Xi, he immediately looked at the other sons beside him, and asked in a majestic tone.
"How about yours?"
"us……"
(End of this chapter)