Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 269

Zhu Huakui, king of Chu, finally arrived at Jinling City after several days of rushing. At the same time, dozens of princes and princes including Zhu Yiming, King Xiang, Zhu Changxun, King Fu, and Zhu Yumao, King Tang also arrived at Jinling City.

Among them, there are only one generation higher than Zhu Youxiao, and some are several generations higher than Zhu Youxiao. In the relationship, King Fu is undoubtedly the closest blood, and King Xiang can be regarded as a close royal family.

Therefore, in comparison, Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu who dared to pretend to be the great-grandfather of the current emperor Zhu Youxiao, seemed to be a relatively distant relative.

Other vassals who are closer to the royal family do not think that they will be punished or severely punished by His Majesty the Emperor during this interview, because they do not believe that His Majesty the Emperor will disregard their relatives like them and disregard the principles of ethics .

These close vassal kings cast a sighing look at Chu Wang Zhu Huakui and others. In their view, even if His Majesty really wants to eradicate the vassal king directly if some radical newspapers say that a strong man will cut off his wrists, demote him to a commoner, and commit a serious crime. If they were dealt with according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, then Chu Wang Zhu Huakui and other vassal kings who had no close blood relationship were undoubtedly the easiest targets to be rectified.

But Zhu Huakui, king of Chu, is very confident. He now believes in Ruan Dacheng's advice, and feels that as long as he corrects his attitude first, His Majesty can let him go back.

The gate of the palace slowly opened, and the eunuch Wang Cheng'en, the chief inspector of ceremonies, came out and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty has an order to announce the audience of the vassal kings from all over the world."

The leader, Fu Wang Zhu Changxun, walked in with a group of people.

Zhu Youxiao felt dizzy when he saw these vassal kings coming in front of him, and stood up in horror.

There are so many relatives!

If this was a critical moment, he could form an army of hundreds of thousands with just his own Zhu family.

"It's hard to invite you. If Emperor Taizu Gao didn't come to Beijing to pay homage on his birthday, you will lose all face of my Daming." Zhu Youxiao got up and said with a smile: "Now let you come, Naturally, one is to ask you to pay homage to the spirit of Emperor Gao, the great ancestor, and to bless my country and people in Ming Dynasty! The other is to let you give me advice on how to solve some difficulties that still exist in Ming Dynasty, such as the problem that the treasury has less money and food than last year."

Just when Zhu Youxiao said this, Fu Wang Zhu Changxun added: "Your Majesty, vassal kings are not allowed to interfere in politics."

"That's good, but I didn't tell you to do things, I just asked you to give me detailed information. Now you are all very rich, and the increase in land every year is no less than a thousand acres, and your salary is no less than ten thousand stones every year, but my Daming is getting poorer and poorer, so tell me, whose fault is it?"

Zhu Youxiao's question also baffled these vassals. These vassals had no way to answer them. Naturally, they were unwilling to admit that they were the vassals who dragged down Daming, but they dared not say that it was the sin of poor governance today.

And Zhu Youxiao directly said what they didn't want to hear the most, and Zhu Youxiao stood up and pointed at Fu Wang Zhu Changxun and said, "It's you!"

"All of you are receiving huge salaries from the imperial court, but you are still plundering people's wealth and seizing people's fields to enrich your own affairs. Don't think that I don't know what you have done!"

Zhu Youxiao was so frightened that Zhu Huakui, king of Chu, couldn't help but thumped, his knees softened, and he couldn't help but want to kneel down in front of Zhu Youxiao.

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He didn't say anything more about these vassal kings who arrived early, but for those who were late or didn't come at all according to the order, Zhu Youxiao simply issued an order to demote these vassal kings who refused to come and disrespected the order. If he is now a certain prince, his heir will no longer be the prince, but the county king.

In addition, the vassal kings who resisted and disrespected were also punished with a two-year salary and their annual salary was reduced by half.

The vassal kings who were late also canceled hereditary replacements, and were demoted by two ranks, and their salaries were fined for one year.

In this way, many vassal kings couldn't help crying out for injustice, especially those who didn't come. They only said that they just followed the ancestral system but were canceled for no reason.

Some vassal kings were even more dissatisfied because of this, threatening that there must be treacherous ministers in the court, and that as a vassal king, it is necessary for them to enter the capital and serve as the king.

But now these vassal kings are more timid than Yan Wang Zhu Di back then, shouting fiercely one by one, but few of them have the courage to dare to confront the central court.

Zhu Huakui, the King of Chu, who knows current affairs, made a statement, saying that he is the vassal king of Daming, but he can't worry about His Majesty and Daming, so he feels extremely ashamed. At the same time, he also published an article in Daming Daily to support His Majesty's opposition to these edicts. Disrespect or being late punished the vassals, and even suggested that His Majesty Zhu Youxiao impose more severe punishment on these vassals.

Regarding the crisis of the country and the difficulties of the people's livelihood, Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, said that he was willing to donate half of his farmland to Huangzhuang, and then let Huangzhuang contract it to the landless people; It will fall into the suspicion of a vassal king interfering in politics.

Not only that, Zhu Huakui, the King of Chu, also suggested whether to allow vassal princes from all over the country to freely engage in other industries besides politics, especially academic fields such as literature and medicine.

Anyway, the vassals are rich, and most of them are not illiterate, so it is easy to find talents in this area.

Even Zhu Huakui, king of Chu himself, asked Zhu Youxiao to allow him to visit and do an internship in Daming Daily for a period of time, so that he could familiarize himself with the specific process of starting a newspaper office. The Huguang Report.

Zhu Youxiao immediately agreed to the request of Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, and sent an order directly to Zhang Dai, the editor-in-chief, who would personally guide Zhu Huakui to familiarize himself with the newspaper's procedures.

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Just as Zhu Huakui, King of Chu, was about to take a good look at the production line of Daming Daily, the day of offering sacrifices to Xiaoling was approaching.

The original Yingtian Governor Wang Wenkui, Fang Dayou, Chen Mingxia, Mao Pijiang and others were also released from their cells.

These people were covered in bruises at the moment, and they couldn't bear the torture, and they almost called out everyone they knew, but in the end they bit more scholar-bureaucrats.

Now they hated to death the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao who was sitting on the high steps, and also hated to death Li Mingrui who overshadowed the sky with one hand.

They all raised their heads and looked at the Ming emperor Zhu Youxiao on the jade steps. Unexpectedly, Chen Mingxia screamed at this sight, and then fell to the ground.

When someone poured cold water on his face and Chen Mingxia woke up again, Zhu Youxiao had already stood in front of him and asked: "Chen Mingxia, the famous Chen Mingxia in the south of the Yangtze River, right? It is Bai Ding who is ignorant, now I ask you, is it true that I am ignorant."

"No, it's not, it's a crime, the criminals have blind eyes, please be punished by Your Majesty!"

As Chen Mingxia spoke, he knelt down towards Zhu Youxiao in great pain. When he knelt down, Yuan Yingtian Governor Wang Wenkui also followed him: "The old minister is dazzled, please punish me, Your Majesty!"

　Today's cal text is serious, I just finished writing it now, first invent and modify it tomorrow
　　
　
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