King Fu and King Lu are the two feudal kings closest to Zhu Youxiao, the emperor, and they are also the two richest kings of the Ming Dynasty.In history, the cost of King Fu's wedding is 300,000 yuan, and the camp Luoyang Mansion is 280,000 yuan, ten times the regular system.And when King Fu became a vassal, he gave 20,000 hectares of farmland, so that he could not gather Zhuangtian in Henan, so he had to take the fertile fields of Shandong and Huguang to fill the number.But King Fu was still not satisfied with this, and later asked for the confiscated land of the late university scholar Zhang Juzheng, and also asked for miscellaneous taxes from Yangzhou to Taiping along the Yangtze River, and Sichuan Yanjing tea and silver for his own use.In addition, King Fu later asked for 1,300 Huai Yan to set up a store in Luoyang.Originally, Henan ate Hedong salt, but because King Fu sold Huai salt, King Fu directly issued an order that Henan banned the consumption of Hedong salt, requiring the people of Henan to only eat Huai salt, and the military salary of the Ming Dynasty was linked to the salt industry, which led to a large reduction in border salary.King Lu is similar, Wanli and Empress Dowager Li in order to prepare for King Lu's wedding, embezzled more than 900,000 taels of military salary, and later King Lu became a vassal, and the property obtained in the capital had to be transported by more than 500 ships, and after the vassal, he forcibly looted 40,000 acres of farmland outside the village.However, the current King Lu is no longer the first generation of King Lu Zhu Yiyi, but the second generation of King Lu Zhu Changshu.But Zhu Changshu is not much better than Zhu Yiyi.Historically, Zhu Changshu, as a feudal clan of the Ming Dynasty, had so much wealth, but when the army came, he abandoned the city in advance and fled, but later took the initiative to surrender and was spineless.In any case, Zhu Youxiao was very aware of how much wealth these two vassal kings possessed in the world.Of course, Zhu Youxiao also knew that a large part of this was due to the fact that the rulers of the time, Wanli and Empress Dowager Li, connived at and regarded the world as private property and took the initiative to give it.However, Zhu Youxiao, who came from later generations, was unwilling to continue to tolerate King Fu and King Lu occupying so much wealth, and even continued to loot the wealth of the world, so that it would affect the income of the imperial court more and more seriously, and then affect his own country.Zhu Youxiao is not a selfish ruler like Empress Dowager Li and Wanli who disregard the interests of the world, so he has already decided to take away the property of King Fu and King Lu, and even punish them for their crimes.King Fu and King Lu are now either taking the initiative to rebel because Zhu Youxiao is now forcing them to enter Beijing to receive their crimes, or they are enough to coax them into Beijing to accept their crimes, but no matter how King Fu and King Lu choose, Zhu Youxiao's ultimate goal is to seize their property and punish them.Moreover, Zhu Youxiao has now begun to issue an order to recover some of the court income occupied by King Fu and King Lu without waiting for King Fu and King Lu to make a choice."
In addition, the decree is that the wealth accumulated by the two kings of King Fu and King Lu has long been rich and rival the country, but they are still amassing too much wealth, so that most of the people in the world are in their hands, and the poor court and the people are really not supposed to, and they should be fined and confiscated, so that is, from the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the miscellaneous taxes collected by King Fu from Jiangdu to Taiping along the river and the tea silver of Sichuan Yanjing, and the salt tax of King Lu and Hedong will be attributed to the Ministry of Household at the end of this year, and it will be the same every year in the future.""
Obey the order!"
Han Yi, Xiong Tingbi and others hurriedly replied.Now Zhu Youxiao personally decreed the abolition of the two fiscal and tax revenues of the imperial court occupied by the two kings, which naturally made the courtiers feel gratified.And Zhu Youxiao did this not only to increase the tax revenue of the imperial court and reduce the excessive expenditure of the vassal kings, but also to continue to stimulate the two vassal kings.Zhu Youxiao hoped that under his repeated stimulation, it would be better for the two kings to rebel directly, so that he could have more reason to directly confiscate their land and property, and also reform the system of the clan on the grounds that the place left by the clan was not suitable for control."
It's too much of a deception!
It's just too deceitful!
Kill my mother and concubine, destroy my uncle's clan, and now they want me to go to Beijing to accept the crime!
What does he Zhu Youxiao want to do!
”And King Fu was naturally furious after receiving Zhu Youxiao's will."
Your Highness, please forgive the student for being bold and outspoken, isn't the tyrant's intention obvious, he just wants to get rid of you, Your Highness!
Let Your Highness have no place to bury your death, and the purpose of him doing this now is that either Your Highness will rebel, or Your Highness, after you enter Beijing, he will cut off the prince, punish him with capital crimes, and take away your family property!
Therefore, Your Highness, in the humble opinion of the students, instead of entering Beijing to lead the death, it is better to directly raise an army to rebel, maybe there will be a glimmer of life!
”Ye Chuchun instigated from the side.He was an undercover agent in Dongchang, and on the surface he hated to devour Zhu Youxiao's radical reactionary scholars, but in fact his task was to obey Wei Zhongxian's arrangement, deliberately provoke these reactionary forces that needed to be eliminated by the emperor, but could not find a reason for the time being, and created a reason for the emperor to fight these forces by taking the initiative to rebel or colluding with thieves and other major crimes.At the beginning, Ye Chuchun instigated Ye Xianggao like this.But Ye Xianggao is too cunning, no matter how generously Ye Chuchun scolds the court for being unreasonable, and Emperor Zhu Youxiao is a ruthless tyrant, it seems that Ye Xianggao, who has seen some clues, has never taken a step to be caught by the court, and finally forced Zhu Youxiao to let Wei Zhongxian use extraordinary means to get rid of Ye Xianggao.And now Ye Chuchun needs to repeat the old trick on King Fu.After listening to Ye Chuchun's analysis, King Fu also deeply agreed, and nodded hurriedly: "What you said is very true, the tyrant is to get rid of this king first, and say what he wants to save the dignity of this king, and let this king enter Beijing to accept the guilt, to put it bluntly, it is to force this king to rebel!"
”King Fu became short of breath as he spoke, and suddenly threw the Chengyao cup in his hand to the ground: "This king is really the opposite!"
”But at this time, Zhu Youxiang, the son of King Fu, came out: "Father is angry, this matter should be considered in the long run, Your Majesty is now orthodox in the world, how can you say that it is against it?"
For example, today is not the beginning of the country into a temple to raise troops to appease, even if the temple is difficult to do, there is a lot of luck, not to mention that now the world's elite soldiers are in the hands of the imperial court, and the vassal king has no real power to operate the army, so when the temple is martial, the king of Anhua, the king of Ning, etc. are all unable to rebel, how can we succeed now?
From the perspective of Erchen, it is better to think of other ways first, and you can't raise troops lightly unless you have to!
”Although Zhu Youxiang is only nineteen years old now, he already knows the stakes.Otherwise, in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he would not have performed better than King Lu in the struggle for the throne, knowing that he would fight against the Donglin Party by uniting Ma Shiying and the four towns of Jiangbei, and then become the first emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty.At this time, in his opinion, if his father honestly entered Beijing to accept the crime, at most he would only kill his father alone, and then his royal property would be confiscated, and his heirs of the royal family could at least live because they were children of the clan, but if his father really wanted to rebel, the whole family would be beheaded.Therefore, he had to come over to persuade his father Zhu Changxun, and glanced at Ye Chuchun, and said in his heart: "Persuading my father to rebel is either stupid or bad, maybe this person is the villain who was deliberately sent by those traitorous ministers to instigate it, I wish my father would rebel, so as to completely get rid of my Fuwang Mansion!"
This world can't let you get your wish!
”Ye Chuchun also glanced meaningfully at the young son Zhu Youxiang in front of him.At this time, Zhu Changxun also listened to his son's words, and said: "What you said is also reasonable, he Zhu Youxiao is now a soldier and a general, and then he wishes that this king will rebel, but this king is not as good as he wants!"
”"You mean that Zhu Youxiang, the son of King Fu, persuaded King Fu Zhu Changxun?"
Zhu Youxiao here, after learning from Wei Zhongxian's mouth, the Fu King Zhu Changxun's reaction to his decree to let him enter Beijing to accept the crime, asked Wei Zhongxian a little more in surprise."
Back to the emperor, yes, according to Dongchang's eyeliner, this Fuwang Shizi is quite assertive and a little troublesome, and he successfully stopped the Fuwang Zhu Changxun's conspiracy."
Wei Zhongxian replied."
Then issue an order urging King Fu to enter Beijing as soon as possible to receive his crimes, give him a time limit, and if he can't enter Beijing before May of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, he will be punished for the crime of resisting the decree!"
Zhu Youxiao said coldly.