I, the Ming Dynasty, can still save me

But I didn't expect that the emperor would become furious after seeing the report about the clan, which led to the scene just now.

According to reports by Zhang Weixian and others, there is now a serious polarization among the clans. The lives of the lower-level clans are difficult, and some cannot even maintain basic life.

Those in the middle and upper classes, especially the clans above the county prince level, took advantage of their clan privileges to usurp the salt tax, tea tax and other privileges of the court. They even allowed evil servants to insult the court officials. They were bold and overbearing.

The typical example is King Fu who became a vassal in Luoyang.It doesn't matter if he says this, but it makes Zhu Youxiao angry even more.He has never had a good impression of King Fu. It can be said that from his previous life to the present, he has always been extremely disgusted with this King Fu.

Not to mention that when Shenzong was the emperor, he often bullied his father Guangzong Zhu Changluo by relying on Shenzong's favor for him.He also wanted to use the help of his mother, Concubine Zheng, to get Shenzong to make him the prince, which triggered the extremely famous dispute over the country's foundation in the Shenzong Dynasty.

The matter was quarreled for 15 years, and countless ministers were scolded, demoted, and beaten with sticks. Although his father successfully ascended the throne, the consequences were extremely disastrous.

And even if he didn't succeed in being established as the prince in the end, his uncle was still very restless.With the favor of Emperor Shenzong, he caused trouble everywhere and made the court restless.

For example, in the 31st year of Wanli, he was extravagant and extravagant in the name of getting married. The entire wedding cost a full 30 taels of silver.You must know that Emperor Shenzong's wedding ceremony only cost 7 taels of silver.In the tenth year of Wanli, although the wedding cost of King Lu (the younger brother of Emperor Shenzong) exceeded this amount, it was only 8 taels of silver.

And his father, Crown Prince Zhu Changluo's wedding only cost 10 taels of silver, but he had a full 30 taels of silver, which can be described as extremely extravagant.

And this was not enough. According to the system, his uncle had to go to Luoyang to join the feudal clan after getting married.

But he was still dreaming of becoming a prince, taking advantage of Shenzong and Concubine Zheng's love for Prince Fu and not wanting him to leave for Luoyang prematurely.They delayed the construction of Prince Fu's Palace in Luoyang on purpose, and it was not completed until April of the 40th year of Wanli. This mansion cost 40 taels, which was ten times more than other palaces.

After the construction of the palace was completed, he still didn't want to leave. Finally, with Ye Xianggao's strong advice, he was "forced" to go to Luoyang to join the feudal clan.But he has a premise, that is, he must be given [-] hectares of land to support him before he is willing to leave.

Faced with this ridiculous excuse, Shenzong actually agreed. Instead of criticizing King Fu for inviting too many petitions, he instead blamed the local officials for their ineffectiveness.

In the end, Ye Xianggao had no choice but to order Henan, Huguang, Shandong and other places to share the land in order to satisfy such a large amount of land.Until then, King Fu finally dragged his feet out of the capital.

According to records at that time, in order to move the property of Prince Fu's Mansion, the expenses for banquets and vehicles alone amounted to 4000 taels of silver.Among them, 4000 taels were borrowed from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Works, and [-] taels were borrowed from Taipu Temple.

What he relied on was extremely majestic. It was a fleet of 170 ships, carrying a group of people from Prince Fu's Mansion and a large amount of gold and silver treasures. Under the protection of [-] soldiers, he sailed toward The march to Luoyang was as majestic as an emperor going on patrol.

This was just all kinds of evil deeds in the capital. After he arrived in the fiefdom, it even included property and extravagant life, not to mention indulging his slaves to do evil and other evil deeds.

Not to mention that in history, when Li Zicheng attacked Luoyang, this rich uncle only cared about himself, mobilizing his own soldiers to protect the treasury and turning a blind eye to the war at the top of the city.

The general who defended the city repeatedly asked him to distribute silver coins to reward the soldiers who defended the city.He finally made up his mind and allocated a huge sum of 3000 taels.And these 3000 taels of silver were swallowed up by the commander-in-chief Wang Shaoyu and others.In the end, he had no choice but to reluctantly take out 1000 taels again, which aggravated the soldiers and turned into a mutiny.He burned the city tower and opened the north gate. The city of Luoyang was destroyed, and he was also lit with sky lanterns.

All these things made Zhu Youxiao extremely disgusted with his uncle.Since he ascended the throne, he has been thinking of taking action against him.It's just that he was entangled in various wars at the beginning, so he didn't have enough energy to deal with him.

But he didn't expect that he didn't bother to deal with King Fu, but King Fu jumped up and down in front of him, really thinking that he was easy to bully.

Thinking of this, he suppressed his anger and said to Zhang Weixian:

"Just because we are of royal blood, we should take into account the royal face. King Fu is so greedy, monopolizing sales, and bullying the people. Isn't this just setting an example for other clans. Now that we want to rectify the clan, we must set an example. OK."

Zhang Weixian thought he had heard wrongly. Hearing the emperor's tone, he was afraid that he might be attacking King Fu.But King Fu is the emperor's uncle. If the emperor issued an edict to punish King Fu, people in the world would talk about it.Thinking of this, he couldn't help but ask:

"Your Majesty, I dare to ask, do you mean to deal with this matter? But I am afraid that it will attract criticism and may damage your Majesty's reputation."

Seeing Zhang Weixian's embarrassment, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but shake his head.

"What criticism? Haven't I suffered enough criticism? When I was dealing with the turmoil in the capital and investigating the eunuchs and nobles, I also had criticism! When I opened up sea trade and established the Ming Dynasty trading company, I had even more criticism. In the end, after all this, What happened?"

Zhu Youxiao's words left Zhang Weixian speechless. The emperor was right.Doesn't the emperor suffer enough criticism?But all of them have been eliminated without exception, and now it doesn't matter if there is one more.

"Wei Aiqing!"

"Wei Chen is here!"

Upon hearing the emperor's greeting, Wei Dazhong, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, responded immediately.

"Wei Aiqing, last year Zhang Aiqing asked me to help him handle the affairs of the clan. He also said that you were upright and not afraid of the powerful. When you patrolled the south of the Yangtze River as the censor of the capital, you treated all officials equally, which made all officials fearful. , but there is nothing we can do.

Therefore, punishing the clan's illegal activities requires talents like you to intimidate the clan and implement the court's decisions.Now it seems that Zhang Aiqing made the right recommendation. Since you were able to detect so many illegal things in one year, it is enough to demonstrate your ability.But today I am going to give you a task. I wonder if you have the confidence to do it? "

Wei Dazhong immediately became serious when he heard the words. He had already guessed what the emperor meant by calling him, so he took a deep breath slowly and said immediately:
"I dare not disobey His Majesty's entrustment. As long as it is beneficial to the country and the people, I will do it with all my heart and mind, and I will not dare to neglect anything." (End of this chapter)