Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 255 Mad Emperor Taichang
The current emperor is really crazy, he actually summoned all the vassal kings to the capital and abolished more than half of them in one fell swoop!

This is not a big deal, there are still emperors who abolished the vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty, although there were not a dozen emperors who abolished a dozen vassal kings in one fell swoop, there were still emperors who abolished several vassal kings.

However, the previous emperors abolished only one vassal king, and did not harm their descendants. Moreover, after some vassal kings were abolished, their descendants continued the title.

Fortunately, Taichang not only abolished most of the vassal kings, but also abolished all the descendants of these vassal kings!

And that's not even the craziest.

He abolished all these vassal kings and their descendants, but he even mobilized an army to confiscate all the money, food, property and land of these vassal kings!

Moreover, he also arrested all the descendants and their families of these vassal kings and escorted them to Fengyang.

It's also a pretense to let them go back to accompany their ancestors and live the same life as their ancestors!

What did the ancestors of the old Zhu family do?

That's farming!
What he said seemed to sound nice, but in fact, he wanted all these vassal kings and their descendants to go to Fengyang to farm!
What kind of vassal kings and county kings, what town generals and auxiliary generals, where did they plant the land? They used to live a life of rich clothes and fine food. They stretched out their hands for food and opened their mouths, so they were almost fed. If they went to farm, wouldn't that kill them?

At this time, around Fengyang, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang and Sichuan on the official road leading to Nanzhili are full of wonderful sights.

The soldiers of the Ming army escorted the unknown relatives of the emperor to Fengyang. The whole way was full of crying and wailing!
At this moment, the common people discovered that Daming had so many imperial relatives.

King Qin, King Jin, King Zhou, King Lu and King Shen, etc., as long as they are inherited from the Hongwu Dynasty, each family has at least thousands of males, or even tens of thousands of males. There are at least tens of thousands of wives and concubines on each route!
So, how many roads are there?

This large team of tens of thousands of people happens to be on the eighteenth route.

Of course, this is not about the fact that the eighteen princes of the Eastern Han Dynasty went to Beijing to attack Dong Zhuo.

This is the younger brother of the Prince of the Eighteenth Route Families returning to his hometown in Fengyang to farm the land!
It is said that the princes and brothers of the Eighteenth Route Fan plus their wives and concubines, there are at least a million. Taichang said that each of these people has five acres of land. Where did he get so much land?
There is still some land, because the land around Fengyang Mansion is almost all the farmland of the left-behind division of the Central Capital.

At this moment, there are not so many guards in the left-behind division of Zhongdu. Taichang simply assigned all the guards of the left-behind division of Zhongdu to the guards in Nanzhili to make up for the difference in the guards of these guards. The stationed guards were taken over by [-] real elite guards.

Naturally, these elite guards did not come to farm the land, they were dedicated to guarding the Eighteenth Route vassal kings.

As for the garrison fields of the left-behind division of Zhongdu and the wasteland around Fengyang Fucheng, they were planted for the Eighteenth Route vassal kings and their descendants!
The [-] garrison guards were led by five powerful generals including Hu Dawei, Sun Zushou, Hei Yunlong, Zu Dale, and Zhang Cunren, who dispersed all the vassal kings of the Eighteenth Route and their descendants to the left-behind Sigeweisuo, Qianhusuo and The resident of the Baihusuo guards or farms the land. These Eighteenth Route vassals and their descendants are crushed to death, and there is nothing they can do.

The question is, let them farm the land with their well-clothed royal relatives, they will really not be able to adapt for a while!
The [-]th Route feudal princes and their descendants were screaming from hunger, crying loudly from hunger!

Of course, Taichang didn't really want to starve them to death.

If you really want to starve them to death, you can't drag the ancestors to come and starve to death!
He didn't do everything right, even if these royal relatives couldn't grow food, they still had porridge to drink.

The [-]-strong army set up porridge sheds directly in the guards, thousand-households, and hundred-households, just like the relief for the victims in the Northwest. If these royal relatives can't stand the hunger, they can still line up to get porridge to drink .

Although porridge is not enough to drink, it will not starve to death.

Ever since, another strange scene appeared around Fengyang Mansion.

Millions of royal relatives and their family members lined up in front of the porridge shed to get porridge just like the victims of the disaster in the northwest!

I have to say, this is retribution!
What they did to the disaster victims at the beginning is what they are now.

After these vassal kings and their descendants were all emptied, Taichang sent officials from the household department to receive the fiefdoms of these vassal kings and their annexed land.

Unexpectedly, the officials of the household department of these lands could not accept them, and Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, Sichuan, all the feudal princes' territories that he cut off were full of curses!
People in these places are swearing behind their backs, the current emperor is a lunatic, he doesn't recognize his relatives, he's insane!

What is going on here?
The reason is actually very simple.

Because he moved the interests of too many people.

These vassal kings are neither one person nor a family. I don't know how many local tyrants and gentry are attached to them and suck the blood and sweat of the people.

Moreover, these local tyrants and squires basically formed marriage relations with these vassal kings.

The descendants of these vassal kings are as numerous as an ox hair, and their in-laws are naturally as numerous as an ox hair.

Taichang not only abolished these vassal kings and their descendants, but also confiscated their homes and took back their land. Naturally, the in-laws of these vassal kings quit.

Because many of the land under the name of the vassal kings are actually donated by them, and it is impossible for the vassal kings and their descendants to manage their own land in person. The renting and renting of these lands are basically controlled by the in-laws of these vassal kings. what!
I don't know how big the benefits are, so they naturally won't give up easily.

When Taichang received the news, he was immediately angry.

Oh, you gang of local tyrants and squires have turned the world upside down!
I even dealt with my own vassal king, how can I not deal with you?
He directly sent a large army to suppress it by force!
Anyway, apart from [-] of the [-] horses supported by the feudal lords are currently guarding Fengyang, the other [-] are sent to take care of those obedient feudal lords. The abolished vassal state, suppress it!

Whoever refuses to accept, come!
I will arrest all of you and drag you to farm!

Of course, the so-called royal relatives of these vassal states are not qualified to go to Fengyang to farm land. They can only go to Qiongzhou Prefecture to farm land and plant rubber trees.

Yazhou in Qiongzhou Prefecture is called Tianya Haijiao. These people have gone to Tianya Haijiao, and they will never come back in this life!

This time, the official roads leading to Qiongzhou Mansion from all over the country were crying again, and wailing was everywhere.

The royal relatives of these vassal states are much more powerful than those abolished vassal kings and their descendants. If Taichang did this to them, they were madly slandering Taichang secretly!

They even gave Taichang a nickname, Crazy Emperor Taichang!

They even made up the most popular folk song, and let their relatives and friends secretly spread it wildly.

The folk song says:
Donghuang Taiyi, the treasure in the palm of his hand, shakes the three worlds; the mad emperor Taichang, steals the imperial power and harms the world!
This folk song is made up, and it is a fairy tale, and it is a fairy tale, and it really has a little meaning. Although the common people didn't really sing about it, some people secretly couldn't help but spread it.

These guys are so brave!
Luo Sigong couldn't help being shocked when he received the secret report, he had to report this matter to the emperor!

He hurried to the imperial study to see Taichang.

After paying respects to the monarch and his ministers, he bit the bullet and said, "Your Majesty, those chaotic officials and thieves are secretly slandering you, and they even gave you a nickname."

Are there any traitors at this moment?

Taichang asked curiously, "What kind of nicknames have you given me?"

Luo Sigong carefully explained: "It's the in-laws of the deposed vassal kings. They secretly slandered you, calling you the mad emperor Taichang!"

It turned out to be these guys.

Taichang smiled slightly and said: "It's okay, they will know how powerful they are when they go to Qiongzhou Mansion, anyway, they don't want to come back in this life, let them go."

Uh, there are worse ones.

Luo Sigong saw that Taichang was not angry, so he said cautiously: "They also made up folk songs to slander you, and people spread them secretly."

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help saying with great interest: "Oh, what folk songs."

Luo Sigong could only bite the bullet and said: "Your Majesty, forgive me, I didn't intend to offend you. The folk song is that the Eastern Emperor Taiyi, the treasure in the palm of his hand, shakes the three worlds; the crazy emperor Taichang, who steals the imperial power and harms the world!"

"Ha ha ha ha."

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help laughing.

Could it be that the emperor laughed angrily!

Luo Sigong was so frightened that his expression changed.

Seeing this, Taichang didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "What's your expression, what's wrong with this folk song? They know who is crazy, and I can still be mad at them?"

Is that all?
Luo Sigong asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, do we not care about this matter?"

These people are really bold. Questions, they have something to rely on for their boldness.

The so-called law does not blame the public, they deliberately spread it like this, and spread it everywhere. Could it be that the common people who have said or heard about it are all arrested?
Isn't this nonsense?
People probably want you to mess around like this!

Taichang was quite helpless and said: "How do you manage it? Do you arrest all those who secretly spread this? Do you know how many in-laws of these [-]th princes, how many relatives and friends of their in-laws, and how many people their relatives and friends passed on?" Arrest them all, how can we get so much food to feed so many people! What is the use of these people cursing secretly, can they still turn the world upside down? Don’t worry, it’s fine for the common people not to scold.”

Uh, this.

Luo Sigong thought for a while, and carefully reminded: "Your Majesty, I dare to say that these people can't overthrow the sky, but those abolished vassal kings... After all, there are too many of them!"

What is this.

Taichang said lightly: "Don't worry, I won't let them farm in Fengyang for the rest of their lives. I don't have a place to exile them right now. When I take down Dongying or Nanyang and throw them directly on the island, they will jump and jump." I can't get up."

He wants to spread the seeds of the old Zhu family everywhere!

I don't know what the end result will be.

(End of this chapter)