my days with tyrants

Chapter 149 Zhu Yunxi's plan to cut down the feudal clan
Sapphire's injury was quickly declared to be all right under the joint appraisal of the imperial doctors.

Just take good care of it.

Anyway, he was deprived of military power in this way.

Even the five hundred adopted sons were exiled to Kaiping because they were rude in front of His Majesty the Emperor, and they were incorporated into Kaiping military households and assigned to Zhou Xing. Just solve it.

Anyway, without Sapphire's support, they are just ordinary soldiers.

It will disappear after a few times of mobilization.

And that afternoon Zhu Yuanzhang announced a new campaign against Annan...

King of Chu.

Zhu Zhen, king of Chu, went south to Guangxi, and his father-in-law, Dingyuan Hou Wang Bi, went south together.

Then both the sea and land armies of the Southern Expedition were under his command.

"It's all from your Fu Lu Banquet Pit!"

said the little princess.

"What does it have to do with my Fu Lu Banquet?"

Yang Feng said with a smile.

"Also took out the throne bestowed by the Taizu, and my father gave him the throne. It's not that my father doesn't know that you can't make it up. Since you wrote it like this in the Fulu Banquet, then the descendants of the sixth brother must be like this. Greedy and stingy. What's more, he entrusted Wuchang to control the upper reaches, and his father-in-law Wang Bi is a fierce general. If there is any disagreement in the future, the warship will go straight down the river and reach the capital in a few days.

My dad really didn't care.

Ke Yunxi cares.

This is what he recommended to my dad.

Anyway, Lanyu was injured and couldn't lead troops, so at least he had to be replaced by a battle-tested veteran. It happened that his father-in-law, Wang Bi, was now second only to Lanyu among the generals, and the sixth brother was the closest to Guangxi.

Just let him go south with the guards, and then Wang Bi will be his deputy. "

said the little princess.

In fact, this is also the most reasonable choice.

Zhu Zhen was originally the strongest among the southern feudal lords, and he has been leading troops these years. He was in Wuchang to deal with those chieftains in Hunan. The rebellion of the bandits in Guiyang was suppressed there. Before that, Lanyu was stationed in Nanning, so he just went directly to take over the military affairs nearby.

There is now Lan Yu's deputy, commander-in-chief Zhang Ji, Marquis of Heqing.

In this way, Zhu Zhen, the king of Chu, was the commander-in-chief, and his father-in-law Wang Bi and Zhang Ji were his deputies.

This combination is enough.

In terms of prestige among these veteran generals, apart from the dukes, Hou Bo, it is true that Wang Bi can suppress the generals under Lan Yu's subordinates.

This is the forward of the Ming army in the battle of Yuerhai.

Of course, after Zhu Zhen went, basically he could not expect to return to Wuchang.

He just honestly waited in Annan for the transfer of the feudal clan!
Such another strong vassal king must have been thrown out.

In fact, there are not many such strong vassal kings that really make Zhu Yunxi feel at ease, they are nothing more than Qin, Jin, Yan, Zhou, Qi and Chu. Now King Qi has been resolved, King Chu is thrown to Annan, and King Qin has also been resolved, which is consistent with the original history. The last one was poisoned to death.The rest is Jin Yan Zhou Zhou Wang, Yan Wang is still in Fusang, Zhou Wang experienced a private meeting with his father-in-law last time, after being taught by Zhu Yuanzhang, he was relatively honest, Jin Wang lifted the ban and is currently leading troops in Hetao , but according to the original history, he will die soon.

Of course, Yang Feng knew about this.

Among the remaining ones, although the king of Shu is old, he has always been very honest.

And he is Sapphire's son-in-law.

What's more, Cao Zhen, Zhu Biao's confidant, is currently guarding Sichuan. The nanny is married to him, so of course he is a confidant, so Zhu Yunxi is still at ease with the King of Shu.

Then there is King Xiang.

Now that the king of Chu is going south, the king of Hunan has to be responsible for the suppression of those chieftains in Hunan and Guangxi.

His strength will definitely increase.

As for the other kings of Sai, Zhu Yunxi can tolerate them. After all, places like Liaodong, Kaiping, Xuanfu and even Shaanxi and Gansu are really not a threat to his throne. Without the money and food provided by the court, these vassal kings can't even support themselves. difficult.

There is no money to create a fart.

Zhu Zhi is indeed the best in economics here, but even he has to rely on the supply of the court. Without his salary, and without the salary of his guards and generals from the court, he would not be able to sustain himself. of.These kings of Sai are not important, they don't even have the ability to rebel. The real threat is King Jinyan Zhou Zhou, and potentially King Xiang, especially the second king of Jinyan. Now that Zhu Di has gone to Fusang, it is now Jinyan. Wang became the most threatening.

His performance is also really dishonest.

After all, the assassination of Yang Feng by his subordinates last time has proved that this guy has a lot of dead men.

Especially those with a beard.

In recent years, he has mainly lived in the northwest of Hetao, which was originally the place where Jianghu was resettled. He got many such loyal dead soldiers, similar to Zhu Di, except that Beiping is the Mongolian resettlement place inside, so Zhu Di has many Mongolians under his command.

and so……

So just watch the fun.

There is no need to tell Zhu Yunxi that King Jin can actually live for three years.

Besides, it was true that he died of illness at the beginning of Hongwu's 31st year in history, but that may not be the case now. Daming's medical level has improved the most, and he also has a dedicated imperial doctor there. What if he doesn't die by then?
There is no need to do this.

Just watch them fight.

"I remember those of King Min should be feudal clans now, right?"

Yang Feng said.

Originally, the four kings of Min, Gu, Han, and Shen became vassals in the same year in the same year in history, but this kind of vassalization is just to announce that they will be vassals, and then start to prepare for them to repair the palace, put together guards, and make various preparations until they are almost ready. Official departure.So in fact, it took a few years to officially pass after the announcement. Zhu Zhi's palace has not been repaired yet, and the same batch of ex-vassals such as King Qing actually don't have a real palace.

These places where the king of Sai is the vassal are all sparsely populated, and almost all of them are military households.

These military households are going to fight.

How can there be so many manpower to repair the palace for them.

"Brother Eighteen is said to be moving to Yunnan, and Brother Nineteen is already preparing to leave for the Xuanfu. The rest have not moved yet. Liaodong is already very nervous about maintaining military supplies. If we go to the two vassal kings, Wu Dinghou will not be exhausted to death." .

How many people will Guangxiu Wangfu get?

Now all the manpower in Liaodong is transporting military supplies to Longquan Mansion to protect the army of the fourth brother in Fusang.

Even my brother's palace is not repaired.

It is estimated that within three to five years, my father will not let them really go to the feudal clan, and even brother 89 is just talking about it.Although they didn't threaten them as far as the feudal clan, they had to bring a large group of guards and so on as long as they were feudal clans. After that, all money and food would have to be provided by the court.What Yunxi thought was that in the future, the guards of the vassals would settle their own money and food, and the imperial court would not pay them salaries anymore. They all had fiefs, so there was no need to give them salaries at all.

If you can't afford it, you can ask yourself to abolish the guards. There is no need for a feudal king to have so many guards.

A few hundred guards are enough.

If you want a salary, then don't be a vassal, build a palace for them in the capital.

But guards and officials are no longer needed. The imperial court will give him a salary every year to support his family, and in the future, each vassal will have a fixed number, otherwise they will continue to give birth. There are not as many magistrates and counties in the country who receive salaries, so how can the court bear it?

A fixed total will do.

What's more, they live in the capital, they don't have guards and subordinates, and their expenses are not big at first, and rewards are definitely indispensable during the festivals.

Their salaries are enough to clothe them well.

Of course, their fief was granted by my father.

This certainly cannot be abolished, but if they don’t go to the vassal, the imperial court will help them guard the fief. The original income from the fief is counted as the imperial guard’s expenses, and a little bit is given to them every year, which is also included in the salary.

How much depends on the situation. "

said the little princess.

She got all the information from Zhu Yunxi.

The aunt and nephew have a good relationship.

Of course, the main reason is that her nephew now needs a military advisor who is trustworthy and cunning enough. Although the little princess is indeed lacking in being cunning enough, the problem is that if she doesn't understand, hurry up and ask Yang Feng!

She was Zhu Yunxi's dog-headed military advisor, and Yang Feng was her military advisor.

Therefore, Zhu Yunxi's future plan to cut down the vassals has actually taken shape. Those who have already controlled their supplies under the control of the vassals forced them to apply for the abolition of guards. Anyway, they are useless without guards.Those who didn’t have a feudal clan gave them two ways. If they were willing to go to the frontier fortress to endure hardships, they could go to the feudal clan, but if they didn’t have a salary, they would rely on the income from the fiefdom for maintenance. If they didn’t want to suffer, they would stay in the capital as a public servant.

Give salary.

Let us be rich.

Including those who are already in the domain, if they don't want to suffer, they can give up the fief and apply to live in Beijing.

But the annual salary given by a feudal clan is a fixed number. If you are willing to have a good life, you can live less, and if you want to live more, you can only live a simple life.

In short, the future imperial court will definitely not be like the one described in the Fulu Banquet, where hundreds of thousands of clans are raised and more than half of their annual financial revenue is given to them. A random vassal king can catch up with the sum of all magistrates in the country in one year.Not to mention Zhu Yunxi, even those civil officials know that this is completely absurd. According to Fu Luyan, this is so much in less than 200 years.

Is it possible to develop like this?
In the future, the whole country will support them with taxes and taxes. What will civil servants and military generals eat?
The cake is so big, you cut more and more, leaving less and less, even if the emperor will not crack down on corruption like Zhu Yuanzhang in the future, everyone must have something to be greedy in order to be greedy!
It's all given to you, and we have nothing to be greedy.

This plan to cut the vassals is still very reasonable, especially for the vassal kings, it is still acceptable, at least for those vassal kings who have no ambitions, they don't like to go to the frontier fortress, but the Liao king still lives in the barracks.Compared with going to these barren and cold places to guard the border, it is obviously more cost-effective to live in a prosperous place in Nanjing with a salary of tens of thousands of stones per year. In this way, Zhu Yunxi's future plan to reduce the vassal clan will ultimately be faced with Zhu Di , if Zhu Yan is not dead, then add Zhu Yan.

As for the lack of strength of the second king of Zhou Xiang, it is not difficult to solve it.

In short, this plan is smarter than Zhu Yunqi.

The latter's plan to cut down the vassal was too urgent and too naive to leave no way out for the vassal king.

"So Fu Lu Banquet really helped them a lot, so give them another copy."

Yang Feng said.

"Who do you want to hurt?"

Zhang Ying next to him said unbearably.

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm going to publish a love story this time."

Yang Feng said solemnly.

He did write a love story...

"You call this love?"

The little princess looked at his first draft and said in amazement.

His love story is Peach Blossom Fan.

Of course, it's the real version.

The previous content is similar, except that the background is changed to the real end of the Ming Dynasty when the rich are full of sheep and the poor are hungry. It also describes the situation of Hou Gongzi's family. His father has already appeared in the Fulu Banquet. Hou Xun also participated in digging the Yellow River.

The plan to flood Kaifeng was put forward by Gao Mingheng, a censor from Henan Province, and Huang Shu, a Kaifeng official from Huizhou, and then agreed by a group of officials, including Hou Xun, who was the commander of the reinforcements at the time. It was just to flood Li Zicheng.But everyone is a literati, and the poems and songs are of course top-notch, but it is definitely not good when it comes to engineering design, so the Yellow River did not follow the design after it was opened, but quickly poured into an abandoned river, and then rushed straight to Kaifeng. In the end, tens of thousands of people were killed drowned.

This process is clearly documented in the National Discussion.

So Yang Feng didn't wrong him.

As for his real version of the Peach Blossom Fan, the ending is also the most reasonable one among Li Xiangjun's different versions. She was taken home by Mr. Hou and became a concubine...

A concubine of course.

It is impossible to do anything else with her status.

What's more, at the age of Mr. Hou, it is impossible not to have a regular wife.

So she was quickly kicked out of Hou's mansion, rushed to the Chai Garden of Hou's family, and then died of illness in a broken house, and Yang Feng added a new background to her death, that is, she was already wearing a money mouse. Hou Gongzi, who was at the tail, was standing servilely beside the foreign conqueror, instructing the latter to push aside the Yellow River so that the water of the Yellow River would submerge the resisting rebels.

This is also true history.

The real history is that Hou Fangyu gave the Qing army a plan to dig the Yellow River and flooded the Yuyuan army who fought against the Qing.

"This is love!"

Yang Feng sighed with emotion.

"You are too dark."

The little princess was amazed.

Civil servants, gentry, vassals, wealthy merchants, eunuchs...

The attack surface is extremely wide.

Especially the Confucian scholar, Mr. Hou with the tail of the money rat, is obviously a great irony, especially compared with the previous content, it is even more perfect when the water is too cool, and the wealthy businessmen who are full of sheep are even more impressive. What is extravagance, coupled with the people who rebelled because of the famine, the satire effect is excellent.

"This is wrong. Since it is the capital, why is there no emperor? Why are the eunuchs left behind in Nanjing?"

Zhang Ying suddenly discovered a problem.

"you guess?"

Yang Feng said with a smile.

So the most critical question of this story is where it happened.

Nanjing.

Even if he didn't follow the original version, but just said that the capital was captured and the ministers of Nanjing supported King Fu, it clearly shows that the capital is not Nanjing at this time. As for where it is, let people guess.Anyway, this is not the Ming Dynasty, but his fictional dynasty, so everyone can be bold, use your imagination, and guess where the capital is.

Of course, it must be in the north.

Whether it is Beiping or Taiyuan, you can guess!

(End of this chapter)