please make me king

Chapter 767 Each has its own difficulties

Zhang Shun fought big with small things, and the princes were caught off guard.

According to rough statistics on the spot, except for Tang Wangfu, every county prince's mansion and princess mansion successively spit out dozens or even hundreds of fertile land.

As for the Tang Palace, the situation is even worse.The King Tang disappeared long ago, and the Princess Tang was also taken over by others. Naturally, all the property of the Prince Tang Mansion was taken to Lao Zhang's house as Princess Tang's "dowry".

Zeng Yurou couldn't help laughing and cursing: "You're just bullying me! It's fine for the rebels to take away a little bit of softness, and you can't take those farms and shops away, so what are you doing with them?"

"Who said I'm leaving?" Zhang Shun couldn't help laughing, "It's rare to catch a litter of 'fat pigs', why not keep them for the New Year if they don't kill them?"

"Ah?" Zeng Yurou only said that he was a thief in Luoyang, and she had planned to flee to Luoyang with him, but she didn't plan to leave when he came!
At this time, those high-spirited princes in the past saw that the "thief" was more "reasonable", and they couldn't help but make trouble again, reluctant to give up their own fields.

In fact, it's no wonder they want Tian to die.As the saying goes: "There are small difficulties, and there are big difficulties."

Nominally, the palace has imperial salary and industrial support, so it should be easy to eat and drink.

In fact, it is not the case. Since Zhu Di "Jing Nan", he was worried that the brothers would follow suit.

He seized their military power and suffrage power successively, and then supported them with wealth, which can be called the Ming Dynasty squad's "drinking wine to release military power".

It was okay at the beginning, the fiscal revenue of the Ming court was acceptable, and Zheng He earned a lot of wealth from his voyages to the West, so he could support it.

When Prince Daming can't play with the army or politics, he can only play with women.That was a litter of births, and Daming Finance couldn't stand it.

If you are not in charge of the family, you don't know how expensive the firewood is, and the later emperor of Ming Dynasty couldn't stand the way of life of the prince.

It simply stipulates that the prince needs to report to the court for approval before marrying a concubine, and even the number of concubines is limited.

For example, when Concubine Chong, who was beside Zhang Shun, was chosen by King Chong, just happened to meet Emperor Wanli passed away, and Prince Zhu Changluo passed away less than a month after succeeding to the throne. , was able to be canonized by the court.

The salary of the royal palace was delayed again and again by the court, and the salary was distributed at a discount.The whole family is waiting for the rice to cook, who can afford it?
In the Wanli period, this master became even more ruthless, and directly ordered the vassal king's salary to be "customized forever" and no longer increase.Then he gave his son King Fu and his younger brother King Lu [-] and [-] acres of fertile land respectively.

When the other kings heard about it, they couldn't help but have something to say about Ma Maipi!

Asking for help is better than asking for oneself, and other palaces have begun to think about buying properties.

How to buy property?The easiest way is to ask the emperor for a reward.

However, Nanyang City, the feudal land of the Tang king, is the smallest among the feudal vassals in Henan, and its palace is also the smallest among the feudal vassals. It is known that Zhu Yuanzhang does not like it.

So the first generation Tang Wang looked eagerly at Zhu Yuanzhang. His father rewarded King Zhou and King Zhao;

There is no way, the old king of Tang died one after another, and his relationship with the royal family became more and more estranged, and he looked desperate.

As a result, a vassal king suddenly became extinct, and the pie fell from the sky, and the Tang Palace inherited hundreds of lands, and everyone was so happy from ear to ear.

It's just that this kind of thing can happen but can't be asked for. After waiting for more than two hundred years, it just happened.

If Tang Wangfu pointed at this, the whole family would have starved to death, and even the fertile land just acquired would be inherited by other feudal lords.

There is no way, father is not close, mother does not love, so I can only buy it and open up wasteland!

The Tang Palace had no choice but to squeeze some money from the gap between its teeth, "Storming the frosty road, cutting the thorns, so as to have a place of size."

As a result, I turned my head and saw that the princes of other people's families wrote letters asking for "more than [-] dumps of wasteland in the west of Hexi" and "[-] dumps of tidal flats in the north of the mountain".

Tang Wangfu took a look, where did you get so many people to open up wasteland?
After inquiring carefully, heh, my good fellow, they are all well-cultivated cultivated fields, have you learned it?

The Tang Palace hurriedly applied to the imperial court for "barren mountains" and "wild mountains".

The other prefectures also followed suit, and soon surrounded the "wasteland" around Nanyang, and then set their sights on nearby Xinye, Tangxian, Dengzhou and other places.

This is also one of the reasons why after Zhang Juzheng cleared up the land of the country, the area of ​​cultivated land increased greatly, but the tax did not increase greatly.

First, the distribution of land is uneven, and forced taxation will lead to direct bankruptcy of farmers with little land; second, a large amount of land is distributed under the names of vassal kings, clans and rich gentry, and the court cannot collect taxes.

The tax amount collected by the imperial court during the Hongwu period was enough to support the "three major Wanli levies" and the extravagant life of the Wanli emperor.

Of course, Zhang Shun didn't know that the princes of the Zhu family were also in such a difficult situation.

After listening to the grievances of the lords, he smiled slightly, stretched out his hand to grab the fish scale book, and pulled out the waist knife at his waist, saying: "Are you going to reason with me, or are you going to play tricks on me?"

When talking about "reasonableness", he shook the fish scale book in his hand; when talking about "shaming", he shook his waist knife.

The princes were shocked immediately, and couldn't help laughing and said: "We are all cultural people, we are absolutely reasonable, and we will not mess with you!"

"You say yes, it is, we recognize it! It's just that we as a big family don't have enough food and drink, so please ask King Shun to think about it!"

"It's okay!" Zhang Shun said with a smile when he heard the words, "Isn't it just that there is not enough food, I am good at this thing!"

"Miss, girl, concubine, aunt in the family, there are young and beautiful ones, you can't afford it, I will take care of it!"

"What other guards, civil servants, military generals, and internal officials of the palace, the king will not refuse anyone who comes, and I will take care of you for you. What else do you have to say?"

When the princes saw Zhang Shun turning his face, they were frightened and immediately begged for mercy: "Grandpa, forgive us, we dare not."

"These things are actually done by the chief officials of the palace, we really don't know!"

"These chief officials are in charge of the palace in name, but they are actually the eyes and ears of the court. The property of the palace has always been managed by them. The collection of grain and the sale of land are all done by them."

"Don't look at me as a prince, a descendant of the Zhu family, and I am often bullied by him. Even if there is a matter of marrying a daughter, I have to bribe him, so that I can report and proceed according to the law."

"If not, I will make things difficult in every possible way, control the palace, and bully wantonly. Where am I waiting for a prince? This palace is clearly opened by his family!"

When Zhang Shun heard this, he couldn't help but said with great joy: "My lords, be at peace and don't be impatient, this king is a master of Qingtian!"

"Everyone is equal before the law. Since the common people can sue you, you can also sue the officials in the government?"

"I will take care of things that the court can control, and I will take care of things that the court does not dare to control. As long as it is true, I will definitely punish them according to law!"

(End of this chapter)