Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 262 Zhang Dai hates the vassal king

Li Mingrui returned to his residence, and began to consult the classics and revise the etiquette of offering sacrifices to Xiaoling overnight.

At the same time, he also immediately found Zhang Dai, the great talent who was in charge of writing the sacrificial text, and asked him to add in the sacrificial text about the vassal king and the current saint on the same stage to worship Xiaoling.

"Your Majesty summoned all the vassals to come to Nanjing to worship Xiaoling with His Majesty. Is it true?"

A look of surprise flashed in Zhang Dai's eyes, although he was not a pedantic nerd who only knew the four books and five classics in the imperial examination, so when he heard Li Mingrui mentioning that His Majesty wants the princes from all over the country to come to Nanjing to worship Xiao Xiao The matter of the mausoleum also guessed that His Majesty was going to attack the vassals.

In the Ming Dynasty, vassal kings have always been a major hidden danger, but it is not a military hidden danger, but an economic hidden danger.

Lin Run of the Jiajing Dynasty once reported that the world supplied the capital with 400 million shi of money and grain, but the food supply to the princes was as high as 800 million shi.

Even though Zhu Youxiao has now opened up many ways to make a fortune, there is no way to supply these vassal kings.

He even asked Yang Shouchun of the Royal Bank to do a survey, and found that if the supply of vassal kings was reduced by half, the Royal Bank could increase its profits by five times.

However, there may only be more and more vassal kings who only have the power to give birth to cubs, not fewer and fewer.

Now it is hundreds of thousands, and it may be millions in the future. As long as the Ming Dynasty survives, they will continue to reproduce like parasites until they eat up the last bit of vitality of the Ming Dynasty, and then they will be buried with the dynasty established by their ancestors .

Zhu Youxiao can imagine that after a few years, if he no longer takes measures against these vassal kings, just like the previous emperors who dare not move because these people are relatives of the Ming Dynasty and have special political status, then even if he opens a few more Even the royal capital industry can't save Daming.

Therefore, the hidden dangers of the vassal king must be eradicated!
Zhu Youxiao didn't want to continue to compromise and restrain him, and let these so-called relatives drag Daming's country into the water.

Regarding Zhang Dai's question, Li Mingrui just nodded and said nothing, and said after a long time:
"You and I are both descendants of the king's family, so you don't need to see outsiders. Now you are willing to abandon the group of literati in Fushe, willing to be criticized and agreed by others, and submit to Wei Zhongxian's sect. You have become the chief writer of this Daming Daily, and now you are writing for the present day. The Holy Majesty Liyan, it’s not really just for the vain job of a doctor in the Ministry of Rites.”

Zhang Dai smiled without saying a word, and said after a moment of silence, "I'm going to disappoint Mr. Li Ge. Now Zhang is willing to be His Majesty's lackey just to get promoted and take power. He has failed in the scientific examinations for decades but failed in the examinations again and again. It is for one day to be a first-class official, just like Zhang Jiangling was back then!"

Li Mingrui was a little surprised by Zhang Dai's answer. He looked directly at this young man who was a whole round younger than him but looked older than him, and asked, "Why?"

Ever since Zhang Juzheng was ruined and his whole family was starved to death dozens of mouthfuls, the entire Ming Dynasty officialdom has been keeping secrets about this once extremely human minister and chief assistant of the Quantong Emperor.

No one wanted to mention Zhang Juzheng, because no one knew whether he would be hated by officials and be attacked by civil officials.

Only an arrogant scholar like Zhang Dai, who was not born in the imperial examination, dared not be afraid of tigers when he was born, dared to mention Zhang Juzheng in front of himself, a cabinet scholar, and said bluntly that he wanted to be an official, just to be Zhang Juzheng That kind.

Taking Zhang Juzheng as an idol, if other officials heard about it, they would have been charged with ulterior motives long ago.

But Li Mingrui was not annoyed by it.

"Because the crown prince Taibao Zhao Kehuai Zhao Gong!"

When Zhang Dai said this, Li Mingrui also remembered this person.

Zhao Kehuai used to be a famous anti-Japanese official and Yin Zhengmao's subordinate. Zhu Shikui, the king of Chu, was not satisfied, but he was beaten to death by the king of Chu.

Zhao Kehuai, the hero of the Anti-Japanese War and the governor of a province, was beaten to death by a vassal king for no apparent reason.

Not only the civil servants had great opinions on this, but many military officials who had a good relationship with Zhao Kehuai during the anti-Japanese war also had great opinions, but in the end they were suppressed by Shen Yiguan, the chief minister of the cabinet who accepted bribes from Chu King Zhu Shikui at that time. At that time, Emperor Wanli was unwilling to deal with his clan relatives.

Seeing Zhang Dai's ruthless expression, Li Mingrui also asked curiously: "Please excuse Li's presumptuousness, Mr. Zhao is from Chongqing Prefecture, and he has been an official in Fujian, Zhejiang and Hubei for many years, and your eldest son is mostly in Shaoxing, your hometown, why are you so jealous? "

"The ancestor of my family used to be a councilor of Huguang's political envoy. When I was young, I stayed with my grandfather in Huguang for a few years. Fortunately, Mr. Zhao's kindness to teach me a few years was also repaid by his teacher's mother's favor. And I You and your junior sister can be considered childhood sweethearts, childhood sweethearts, but who would have thought that when they reached their prime, they would see their mentor killed!"

Zhang Dai clenched his fist and slammed it on the table: "The harm to the world is not only the corrupt officials and gentry, but also these lawless princes and relatives!"

After hearing this, Li Mingrui patted Zhang Dai on the shoulder: "Just wait for the opportunity. Whether His Majesty can kill these royal family and nobles at that time depends on how powerful the Daming Daily and the pen in your hand can exert!"

"The subordinate understands!"

After Zhang Dai said, Li Mingrui left without saying anything, and Zhang Dai wrote a letter overnight and ordered someone to send it to Wuchang Mansion in Huguang overnight.

The three days passed quickly, Li Mingrui successfully changed the etiquette of offering sacrifices to Xiaoling, and a group of old academic officials from the Ministry of Rites who refuted in the court were speechless.

And because of this, it became imperative for the vassal kings from all over the country to come to Nanjing to worship Xiaoling. On the same day, Dongchang sent several people to the mansions of the various vassal kings to deliver the decree.

But this time, because of Wu Jin's latest instructions, the Fanzi of Dongchang deliberately did not proclaim the will non-stop as before, but deliberately delayed the speed to proclaim the decree.

However, the vassal kings everywhere are not lambs to be slaughtered. Zhu Youxiao’s attack on the Jin merchants of the Donglin Party, the Jiangnan literati, and the Confucian scholars, as well as the reforms implemented in Fengyang, Shandong, Shaanxi and other places, as well as the expansion in various places The imperial guards have already alerted these vassals from all over the world who have unclean buttocks.

Some of the vassal princes from various places have already seen what His Majesty is going to do, and guessed that sooner or later His Majesty will attack those who really hinder the Ming Dynasty.

However, according to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, although they cannot leave the fief, they also have their own eyeliners in various places, let alone a big city like Nanjing.

Therefore, as soon as the news spread that His Majesty Zhu Youxiao wanted the vassal princes from all over the country to come to Nanjing to sacrifice Xiaoling with him, some people immediately passed the news to the vassal princes from all over the world through various methods.

(End of this chapter)