Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 224

In history, the vassals of the old Zhu family are really inexplicable.

They are not without money, nor are they without food. It is no exaggeration to say that they are all rich, and some of them are even richer than the emperor!

Not to mention the kings of Qin, Shu, Jin, and Zhou who have lasted for more than 200 years, even the newly promoted vassals of the Wanli Dynasty were not ordinary rich.

Don't talk about Fu Wang Zhu Changxun, just talk about Lu Wang, when this little brother of Wanli was in the domain, it was a scene. He pulled [-] boats for wealth alone, and [-] hectares of land granted by Wanli!

400 hectares, that's [-] million mu, just the annual rental income would scare a person to death.

At this moment, the rent and the court's land tax are reversed.

The imperial court paid a tax of [-] shi. Based on the calculation of the general land yield of about [-] shi per mu at this moment, that would be a land tax of [-] shi for planting ten mu of land and only one shi for grain.

That is to say, if an average farmer owns their own field and plants 38 mu, they can harvest nearly [-] shi of grain. After removing the two shi of land tax, there are still about [-] shi of grain left to feed a family of four or five.

The rent is different. The family works hard to plant [-] or [-] mu of land, harvest hundreds of stones of grain, and finally earn more than ten or twenty stones to support the family. The rest is rent. !
Calculated in this way, one year's rent in Luwang Mansion is equivalent to one year's land tax income of the Ming court!

There are also Wanli's sons Zhu Changhao, King Rui, Zhu Changrun, King Hui, and Zhu Changying, King Gui. They are all in the number of 10 taels.

Many people are surprised that Wanli has been in power for more than 40 years. During the prosperous and prosperous era created by Zhang Juzheng, there is no need to worry about taxes. Moreover, he also sent mine supervisors and tax envoys to scrape land everywhere. Where is the money?

Wanli is not generally kind to his brothers and sons, except for the fact that he hates the prince Zhu Changluo because of the dispute over the country, he is really kind to the other brothers and sons.

He didn't know how much property he had bestowed on these people, and in the end, he basically gave all of it to Fu Wang Zhu Changxun!

In other words, the wealth accumulated for more than 40 years during the Wanli Dynasty was basically divided among Lu Wang, Fu Wang, Rui Wang, Hui Wang and Gui Wang.

The wealth of these princes can be imagined.

The problem is, no matter how rich these princes are, they are as stubborn as iron roosters.

If they were willing to spend money and food, Daming would not be able to perish, because it would not be a problem to feed millions of troops with the land they annexed!

To give the simplest example, it’s like King Lu of Weihui’s Mansion. His fiefdom alone covers 400 hectares, or 400 million mu. Even if he only charges one shi per mu for rent, that’s [-] million shi!

With 400 million shi, it is easy to feed an army of 20!

The problem is that they don't take out a grain of grain, they would rather put it in the warehouse to become moldy, and would rather exchange it for delicacies, gold and silver treasures, and would rather bring it to Pomeranians to laugh than donate a little.

In history, when armies from all walks of life passed by feudal lords, there have been absurd things about being hungry and not being able to ask for a grain of food. They will not give you food, but let you starve to protect them!
For these vassals, it is not enough to describe them as wanting money but not killing them.

If you insist on using one word to describe their brains, they are pig brains!

Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty fell, they were basically slaughtered like pigs.

Of course, Daming is unlikely to perish at this moment, Taichang is not Chongzhen, he will not be used to these feudal lords.

You're so stingy, aren't you?
Row.

I don't take a hair out of it either!
Come on, let's see who can't bear it first?

Anyway, no matter how the vassal kings from all over the country ask for help, Taichang just said, there is no money to summon an army, and there is no food to feed so many horses. There is no way, you can figure it out!

These vassals were quite tough at first.

Row.

You are not in a hurry when you are an emperor, we are in a hurry.

As a result, as soon as the news spread that the whole family of Prince Zheng's Mansion had "died", these feudal lords were immediately frightened.

More than [-] rebels, who can stand it?
It's not that whoever flees is unlucky, no matter which feudal lord's territory these rebels rush to, their whole family will be "killed"!

At this time, the feathers of these iron roosters finally softened, because if they didn't pluck some hair out, the rebels would pinch them, pluck their feathers, and kill them as chickens.

King Jin of Taiyuan Mansion, King Shen of Lu'an Mansion, King Lu of Weihui Mansion, and King Zhou of Kaifeng Mansion couldn't bear it anymore, because there were rebels everywhere in their vassal states, and they might swarm up at any time Made them!

In fact, to say that they want money rather than life is flattering them.

These vassal kings are most afraid of death these days, because they have enjoyed all the glory and wealth, eating, drinking and having fun every day, and their lives are so enjoyable.

The reason why they don't pull out a hair is purely because their brains are flooded, and they don't cry when they don't see the coffin.

They always think that the emperor dare not leave them alone.

At this moment, King Zheng's family was already lying in the coffin. Taichang, who was the emperor, still said that he had no money or food, so he couldn't summon an army to protect them.

What can they do?

Is it true to die with inexhaustible money and inexhaustible food?

None of them wanted to die!

Faced with the threat of death, the fur on their bodies exploded in fright. If they don't pull it out at this time, when will they wait?
Jin Wang, Shen Wang, Lu Wang and Zhou Wang sent urgent reports one after another, willing to pay for food and money, and only asked the court to quickly mobilize people to protect them.

The iron cock is finally willing to pluck!
Taichang received the urgent report and it was unambiguous. Even if they transferred Hei Yunlong, Sun Zushou, Zu Dale, Zhang Cunren and other fierce generals, they were directly promoted to Taiyuan General Soldier, Lu'an General Soldier, Wei Hui General Soldier and Zhengzhou General Soldier. Mobilize [-] elite guards nearby to protect King Jin, King Shen, King Lu and King Zhou respectively.

After their operations like this, not only the vassal king began to give in, but also the rebels from all walks of life began to have headaches.

These traitors are not stupid, they would definitely not dare to attack where there are officers and soldiers stationed, because if the city guarded by the officers and soldiers cannot be defeated in a short time, the iron cavalry of the officers and soldiers will rush over and destroy them!

The question is, the four vassal kingdoms in the area where they are active have officers and troops stationed there, what should we do?

The rebels from all walks of life hesitated for a while, and finally chose to move south slowly.

No way, they came from the north. Shanxi is basically full of mountains, so they can't support so many people at all. They can only move to the south where there is more food.

When Taichang received the news, he remained calm.

Because many Jinyiwei spies have already mixed into the rebels, he knows very well that the rebels have no weapons and equipment at this moment because they don't have frontier troops and garrison guards, and their combat effectiveness is not good. They are far from being as tough as the Chongzhen Dynasty in history .

He is not in a hurry, but the princes along the way are in a hurry.

The rebels are rushing in. Without the protection of the imperial army, they will die.

As a result, the rebels had just shown their faces near Anyang, Ruyang, and Xiangyang. King Zhao, King Chong, King Xiang and other vassal kings sent urgent reports one after another, expressing their willingness to contribute money and food, and only asked the court to send a large army to protect them.

They can be regarded as learning from the example, because Tang Wang, Jin Wang, Lu Wang, Zhou Wang and others who were protected by the imperial army did not have any accidents. The only unlucky King Zheng, without the protection of the imperial army, had his entire family wiped out. I don't want to be the next unlucky guy.

Taichang was also unambiguous, and directly dispatched a few illustrious generals from Liaodong to act as general soldiers, mobilized troops nearby, and ran to the territories of these vassal kings to "protect" these vassal kings.

At the same time, he also ordered Ma Shilong to rush to Nanzhili, and mobilized [-] elite guards to guard the line from Nanzhili to the Yangtze River, so as to prevent rebels from fleeing into Nanzhili or crossing the Yangtze River.

Under such a secret operation by him, a large net has been formed indistinctly.

On the west side of Yunyang Tongguan, there are 4 troops led by Sun Chuanting; Ma Shilong's [-] elite garrison guards.

It can be said that the rebels are already surrounded by groups, and the Liaodong Army and the Shenji Battalion will crush all the way through the net when Jiannu is dealt with.

(End of this chapter)