Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 171 The Rampant Lords
Zhu Youjian severely reprimanded the two cabinet ministers, but they have not yet begun to teach these vassals a lesson, and they took the lead in launching the attack.King Heng of Qingzhou stepped forward and bowed to salute:
"Your Majesty, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, we have never paid a penny in taxes, nor have we paid a penny in grain. Now that the family population has increased several times, our burden is also extremely heavy.

The imperial court cannot collect our commercial and agricultural taxes. Now that the population has dropped sharply due to the war, shouldn’t we be rewarded with some of the excess land? "

Yiwang Zhu Youben:
"That's right, King Heng is right. We really don't have enough to eat. I hope the emperor will show mercy by not collecting our taxes and giving us more land."

Ji Wang:

"The two brothers are right. Please forgive me. We are a family. The land of Daming originally belonged to our Zhu family. We should enjoy it when you sit in the mountains and rivers. This is what Taizu meant at the beginning."

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These vassal kings were so thick-skinned that they could say anything, and they didn't take Zhu Youjian seriously at all. They must have had the same attitude when Emperor Chongzhen was in power.

Tianqi Emperor Zhu Youxiao passed away suddenly. Because he had no heirs, his younger brother Xin Wang Zhu Youjian took over the throne. These vassal kings were not happy at all.

They are also descendants of the old Zhu's family, why should they let King Xin ascend the throne, but they didn't get anything.

So they began to occupy many fields and shops. The country was impoverished, but they were all rich.

But there is no consideration for the country at all, even in the most critical time.

After Zhu Youjian traveled to Chongzhen, the situation just turned around. Not only did they not cooperate with the reform of the imperial court, but they also shamelessly asked for land.

Zhu Youjian's inner rage almost reached the limit, but in order to see all their faces clearly, Zhu Youjian still held back his anger and insisted on waiting for them to express their views.

Sure enough, after the vassal kings whose fiefs had not fallen took turns to perform, the vassal kings who had lost their fiefdoms began their own performances.

King of Fu Zhu Yousong:
"Your Majesty, now that Luoyang has been recovered, can you divide our fiefdoms among us? I don't ask too much. I want the original ones. As long as they are tax-free, I don't want a cent of land."

After King Fu asked for the return of the fief, other anti-kings also began to claim their lost fiefs, asking for nothing more than King Fu, as long as they were returned to Zhao.

They have the King of Chu in Wuchang
King Tang of Nanyang

King Jin of Taiyuan

King of Datong

King Su of Lanzhou

King Ming of Wugang

King Rong of Changde

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Most of the vassals who lost their fiefs expressed that they wanted to return the fiefs, but they would not pay taxes.

People who don't know the inside story will definitely think that they are not demanding, they just want to return to the fief, and whether to pay taxes can be discussed again.

First of all, it is necessary to find out how many people there were in their family before, at least several hundred people in their heyday.

But now they are almost all killed by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. None of the vassal kings' families have more than 20 people, and these are just fish that slipped through the net.

They don't pay a penny of taxes to Daming, and they have to receive a total of 837 million shi of grain from Daming every year, accounting for more than 30.00% of Daming's total output value.

And their family's grain, gold and silver all became supplies for the rogues to attack Daming.

If it weren't for them, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others would have been wiped out by Da Ming long ago.

Now he is still shamelessly demanding all the fiefs and exempting all taxes.

The only thing that made Zhu Youjian feel relieved was King Zhou. He lowered his head and didn't say a word, which seemed to be inconsistent with other vassal kings.

When the rogues attacked Kaifeng, the king of Zhou took out more than 50 taels of silver to pay the army, and rewarded the people and soldiers in the city to defend Kaifeng.

On the other hand, other vassal kings were just the opposite. Their fiefs were attacked by bandits, as if they had nothing to do with them, and they didn't pay a penny. As a result, their families were ruined.

Seeing the performance of the vassal kings, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were extremely dissatisfied. They were all worried about the emperor, wondering if the emperor could handle their relatives.

They really hope that the emperor can be stronger again, just like those corrupt officials, and punish these shameless princes.

But would the emperor do that?They all feel that it is impossible to do that. No matter how angry the emperor is, he will not destroy his nine clans. If he does that, even the emperor himself will be punished.

After the vassal kings finally finished speaking and calmed down, Zhu Youjian asked:
"Have you all finished talking? Is there anything else that needs to be added? You can continue now."

Several vassals felt that what they said seemed to be missing something, so they wanted to add a few more words, but they gave up when they saw that the emperor's face was not right.

"Your Majesty, it's almost enough, we don't want to haggle over every detail, there is nothing to add."

They all thought that the emperor summoned them to negotiate with them and want them to cooperate in the reform, but if they want them to cooperate, the emperor must give them enough benefits.

"Snapped……"

Zhu Youjian suddenly split the Long Shu case with his palm, which frightened all the civil and military officials in the court.

Those invincible vassals just now were also taken aback, but they didn't think the emperor could do anything to him.

After Zhu Youjian shot the Broken Dragon Book Case, Teng stood up and shouted violently:
"King Qin, King Jin, King Su, you can be convicted. As the lord of the Ming Dynasty, I did nothing when the bandits attacked the city, and surrendered to the bandits after the city was broken.

The income from the fiefdom for many years has become the supply of the rogues, let them counterattack our Daming, causing the loss of life, come here, push them out and behead them to show the public. "

The three vassal kings who were still invincible just now never expected that the emperor would suddenly turn his face, and suddenly felt a huge murderous aura enveloped them.

The emperor laid down millions of corpses in a rage, and once the majesty of the imperial power exploded, how could three cowardly vassal kings be able to resist it.

The three of them lost their legs and knelt down in front of Zhu Youjian, begging for mercy:
"Your Majesty, we were all joking just now. I beg your Majesty to spare your life. I will never dare again. We don't want any land."

Zhu Youjian smiled coldly:
"Are you kidding me? You actually joked with me in our Great Ming court. This is a crime of contempt for the court and bullying the emperor, and it was launched to beheaded for public display."

"Yes"

A few Jinyi guards broke into the Hall of Supreme Harmony, grabbed them by the neck, twisted them up like an eagle grabbing a chicken, and left.

"Zhu Youjian, you can't treat us like this. If you kill us today, how will you face Emperor Taizu in the future?"

Zhu Youjian snorted coldly:
"Hmph, you still have the face to mention Emperor Taizu. If Taizu knew that there were unworthy descendants like you, he would have crawled out of the imperial mausoleum angrily and killed you."

"Your Majesty, no, they are all members of our Zhu family, so we can't kill them easily, and they haven't committed any serious crimes..."

No one in the civil and military courts of the Manchu Dynasty pleaded for mercy, but these vassal kings pleaded for the three of them one after another.

Zhu Youjian looked at these princes disdainfully, and said coldly:

"They have already become traitors, betraying my Ming Dynasty, isn't it a heinous crime, then what is a heinous crime in your heart, is it that my Daming country is not as good as your little land?
I will start to settle accounts with you immediately, what qualifications do you have to intercede for them, if any intercedents commit the same crime as them, Qinglong will execute them! "

"Qinglong obeys orders"

(End of this chapter)