Jingtai Fenghua

Chapter 395 Your Majesty shows mercy

On the twenty-eighth year of the year, Lin Cunde's house was cleaned very clean, and all the gifts were given away. Lin Cunde just sat in the study and read. Lin Cunde had already sent the restrictive memorial to the vassal king to Zhu Qiyu.

Lin Cunde and Zhu Qiyu discussed it for two hours and finally decided to act in accordance with Lin Cunde's memorial.

The first point is that the prince can only have one son to succeed the prince. Starting from the county prince, there is no longer a prince son, and he is demoted from the county prince. There is no longer an eighth level, but a fifth level, that is, the prince and the county prince. , the general who governs the country, the general who assists the country, and the general who serves the country.

General Fengguo is the lowest title. After reaching General Fengguo, it no longer decreases. The lowest title of all clans is General Fengguo, which is different from ordinary people.

In addition, all salaries are reduced by half. In addition, there are also restrictions on the land owned by the clan. The prince is allowed to own 10,000 acres. If the land exceeds 10,000 acres, it must be handed over to the court. The land owned by the county prince is 3,000 acres. The land owned by the general is 1,000 acres. , the general of Fuguo is five hundred acres, and the general of Fengguo is one hundred acres.

However, in order to allocate more money to those clans, a royal trading company was specially established, and the currently confiscated shops and mansions, as well as 30% of the soap workshop, 30% of the bicycle workshop, and 30% of the cement workshop, were included in the royal trading name.

Eighty percent of the profits generated by the royal business every year are given to the princes below, one point for the feudal general, two points for the auxiliary general, three points for the subjugating general, five points for the county prince, and ten points for the prince, all added together. , calculate how much each portion costs, cents.

If there is a loss, no money will be paid. If there is a loss for ten consecutive years, the royal business will be cancelled.

At the same time, restrictions were also imposed on those members of the clan who broke the law, oppressed the people, and bullied officials, ranging from canceling five or ten years' salary to expelling the clan.

In addition, every three years, each prince can recommend three members of the clan who are generals and below to come to the capital to take the assessment and select one to serve as a court official. Starting from the seventh rank, they will receive a salary from the court and the clan will not be cancelled. Salary.

In addition, each prince can select one person to participate in the management of the royal company, and the emperor can decide whether to replace the person based on his ability and character.

In short, it is just a sentence, reduce the expenses of the court, but the emperor can compensate the vassals from other places.

In addition, for clan members who participate in the imperial examination, those who pass the exam will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver and 1,000 acres of land. Those who pass the exam will be rewarded with 50,000 taels of silver and 5,000 acres of land. Those who pass the exam will be rewarded with 5,000 acres of land. Those who pass the exam will be rewarded with 5,000 acres of land. The same will be true for those who pass the exam and pass the martial arts exam.

Zhu Qiyu was very satisfied with this memorial, which greatly reduced the court's expenses and also gave some opportunities to those clan members!

However, this memorial is still in Zhu Qiyu's hands and has not yet been read to the vassal kings.

This morning, the vassal kings went to the prison together to see the eight kings.

When they arrived at the prison, they were very shocked to see the eight kings sitting in the cell dirty and dirty.

The eight kings and the imprisoned county kings all stood up at this moment.

King Lu looked helplessly at the eight vassal kings and county kings, and sighed and said: "What are you doing, how much money is enough? You are on the border, there are so many opportunities to make money, why do you choose to cooperate with the enemy?"'

After hearing this, the eight kings bowed their heads and remained silent.

They didn't expect that it would be okay to do this before, but now they were caught by Zhu Qiyu, but they were not given any chance, and they were all escorted directly to the capital.

However, at this moment, Jin King Zhu Zhongxuan looked at King Lu and the other vassal kings and said: "I am afraid that your Majesty has some ideas about us vassal kings, so he deliberately seized this matter to deal with us. You should also be careful. !”

"Be careful what you say!" King Lu stared at Jin King Zhu Zhongxuan fiercely and said, this is a prison, and the guards here are all His Majesty's confidants. If you say such words here, isn't it looking for death?

"Well, we have ourselves to blame for this. We should not listen to the words of those civil servants. Those civil servants really killed people. Besides, those civil servants are corrupt. What does it have to do with us? They gave it to us, but if we If Wang Ying's son hadn't been dragged into the water, Lin Cunde probably wouldn't have taken action. If Lin Cunde hadn't taken action, we wouldn't have ended up like this.

But please give us a few more words in front of His Majesty. We also know that we are wrong. We agree to any punishment His Majesty wants. But, eh, if we can keep the titles of the vassal king and the county king, please show mercy to your Majesty! "King Qing also raised his hands to King Lu and the others and said.

"Yes, please have mercy, Your Majesty, we know we were wrong!" The other vassal kings and princes also said with their hands in hand.

King Lu and the others were also helpless. Of course they wanted to keep their prince title, but how could things be so simple?

Although King Lu was helpless, he still wanted to ask them: "Is this really true?"

The vassal kings nodded helplessly. Not only was this true, but something even more serious was that they didn't know whether Zhu Qiyu would continue to investigate. If he did, it would probably be very troublesome for them.

"This!" King Lu looked at them nodding and became even more speechless. But when he thought about it, he didn't know how many dirty things happened on his side that His Majesty didn't know about.

Then King Ning next to him asked: "If we go to the Marquis of Luling, will it be useful?"

"Yes, yes, it's useful. We need to find the Marquis of Luling as soon as possible and ask the Marquis of Luling for help. You can reassure him that we are all responsible for Wang Zhi's matter. We guarantee that this matter has nothing to do with Wang Zhi. Please show your respect to the Marquis of Luling!" Upon hearing this, King Qin hurriedly said to them.

"This, what the Marquis of Luling said is really useful?" King Zheng next to him said doubtfully.

"It's very useful. You must help. You must find the Marquis of Luling and intercede on our behalf. Only the Marquis of Luling can help us with this matter!" King Jin also said anxiously to them. In fact, they knew a long time ago that they had offended Lin Cunde, otherwise the end would not be so miserable.

They had also calculated that there was no chance of a head-on confrontation with Lin Cunde. This time they had been fooled by the civil servants.

"Okay, we will go to see the Marquis of Luling in the afternoon. We hope that the Marquis of Luling will give him face and agree to see us. Otherwise, there is nothing we can do. I heard that many ministers want to see the Marquis of Luling, but they can't! King Lu said with a sigh.

"Okay, thank you King Lu. This matter can only trouble you, eh, us, us!" King Qin stood there, wanting to say that we were also unlucky, but he didn't dare to say it. They also knew in their hearts that they were not unlucky. They are seeking death themselves.

King Lu and the others chatted with the eight kings for a while, and then left the prison. The vassal kings looked at each other and smiled bitterly, but they didn't expect that they were all true.

Since it is true, it means that there is something more serious, but Zhu Qiyu has not found out yet.

How difficult is it to keep them?

"Let's go, let's go to the Luling Marquis Mansion together?" King Lu asked the vassal kings.

"All of them go? Is this appropriate? With so many vassal princes going to his house, it will be difficult to talk about it. I think we can just send three people there!" King Tang said looking at the other vassal princes.

"Yes, only three people can go. If there are more, it will be difficult to talk. Moreover, if there is a language conflict, it will be troublesome!" The other feudal kings also nodded and said.

"Then I will go. Who else is willing to go?" King Lu had no choice but to ask him to contact the feudal kings, so he must go.

"I'll go too!" Chu King Zhu Jicheng said.

King Lu looked at King Ning. King Ning shook his head and said, "I won't go. Regarding this matter, I'd better not go. When I was in Jiangxi, I was scared of him. Although I have never seen him, I feel that I still don't want to go." Nice meeting, but I will visit alone. In Jiangxi, Lin Cunde helped me. Those corrupt officials must have exposed me, but I have been fine.

Therefore, I need to repay this love, but it is not appropriate to talk about those things with you. I will go alone when the time comes. "

"Who else is going?" King Lu asked, looking at the vassal kings.

"I'll go!" Zhu Yueshen said with a smile. The New Deal had not yet been implemented in Shu, and he knew about the New Deal. Lin Cunde had great say, so Zhu Yueshen also hoped to have a good relationship with Lin Cunde.

Let's meet him first. If we can get to know each other well, we will try to visit him a few more times while we are in the capital to learn more about the New Deal.

"Okay, just the three of us will go!" King Lu Zhu Zhaohui nodded.

Soon, the three of them separated from the other vassal princes, and the three of them took a carriage and went straight to Lin Cunde's mansion.

When they arrived at Lin Cunde's mansion, they found that there were still many people asking to see them.

When those people saw the three feudal princes getting off the carriage, they also saluted one after another. The three returned the salute and walked straight to the gate of Lin Cunde's mansion. The servants of Prince Lu's mansion tapped the copper ring. The concierge of Lin Cunde's mansion opened the door and saw three people. A man wearing a prince's uniform stood at the door and immediately saluted.

"This is my greeting card. Just say that King Lu, King Chu, and King Shu hope to talk to the Marquis of Luling!" King Lu said, taking out his own greeting card.

The concierge again said wait a moment, took the invitation with both hands, closed the door, and hurried to Lin Cunde's study.

When they arrived at Lin Cunde's study, the concierge gave Lin Cunde a greeting card. When Lin Cunde heard that the concierge said that three vassal kings were coming, he immediately smiled, and then said anxiously: "Quickly, open the door, the middle door!"

"Yes!" After hearing this, the concierge hurried out quickly.

Lin Cunde looked through King Lu's greetings and deliberately waited for a while before setting off from the study. At the same time, he said to the maid at the door: "Prepare snacks and fruits in the west wing!"

"Yes, Lord Marquis!" The maid immediately went to inform people.

Lin Cunde also walked quickly to the gate of the mansion. When he arrived at the gate of the mansion, he saw three vassal princes preparing to enter.

"Your Majesty, Lin Cunde, pays homage to His Royal Highness King Lu, King Chu, and King Shu!" Lin Cunde said, cupping his hands at them.

"Ah, so young?" King Chu said with a surprised look. Although he knew that Lin Cunde was very young and was still a military general, at first glance, he saw that Lin Cunde was so young, and even though his skin was a bit dark, he looked very delicate. I knew he was a scholar, so I was a little surprised.

(End of this chapter)