I Am the Grandson of the Second Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Earning 100 Million Taels at the Beginn

Chapter 222 Ning Wang Zhu Quan: Fourth Zhu, you are a ruthless person!
That night, Prince Ning's Mansion held a grand banquet.

Bright lights illuminated the entire Prince Ning Mansion, and in the huge courtyard, hundreds of dancers danced to the drums.

The graceful figure and fair skin are faintly visible under the light with every gesture.

On both sides of the dance floor, desks lined up from the hall to the door.

A civil servant and military general raised their glasses and chatted, laughing heartily from time to time.

"Your majesty, my brother respects you!"

King Ning, with a bruised nose and swollen face, held up his wine glass and toasted the old man with a smile.

Just look at the corners of his mouth twitching faintly, obviously the smile touched the wound on his face.

The old man glanced at him, hummed lightly, raised his glass for a gesture, and drank it in one gulp.

After drinking the wine, King Ning glanced at the sons who were chatting with Zhu Zhangui, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui, and looked at the old man with a smile on his face as he rolled his eyes slightly.

"Your Majesty, these boys from my younger brother's family are not young anymore. When do you see if you can make arrangements for them?"

As soon as King Ning said this, the conversation in the hall fell silent.

Those sons of King Ning, the old man who looked at him expectantly, waited for the canonization of the other party's holy words.

The old man frowned slightly, he understood the meaning of Zhu Quan's words, he wanted to claim the throne for his sons.

King Ning also mentioned this matter a few years ago, but it was all suppressed by the old man's reason that the Northern Conquest was imminent.

On this occasion today, King Ning brought up this matter again, in order to let the old man make a statement in front of everyone.

Seeing that these sons are all in their 30s and [-]s, and they haven't been titled yet, if this delay continues, seeing that there is no chance of being banned, the sons will fight at home.

Zhu Zhangui cast a glance at the sons of King Ning beside him, seeing their expectant faces, he sneered in his heart, and winked at the old man who was secretly watching.

On the way back from Ah San, the old man talked with Zhu Zhangui about many future developments, including the succession of the feudal king.

It is understandable that Zhu Zhangui's great-grandfather, Lao Zhu, does not want his children and grandchildren to live a hard life.

But as I said before, it is one thing to be able to understand, but this has pitted future emperors.

Under Zhu Yunwen and the old man's policy of reducing the feudal vassal, the prince of the Ming Dynasty has changed from the real power prince to the title prince who eats and waits to die.

These guys are idle and bored all day, either eating, drinking and having fun every day, or making villains with a lot of wives.

With this daily and nightly toss, even if some died young, the family members were very prosperous.

In addition, after giving birth to a son, the imperial court gave him a salary to support him. At the beginning, the vassal king had not found a way to make money, so he used the way of giving birth to a son to make a fortune.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Lao Zhu conferred 25 princes, and until the end of the Ming Dynasty, a total of 65 princes were conferred. By the time of Chongzhen, there were still 34 princes, and there were as many as 924 county princes.

The population of Lao Zhu's family grew from less than a hundred people in the early Ming Dynasty to more than 100 million people including sons-in-law and daughters in the late Ming Dynasty.

Because of Lao Zhu's policy, there are nearly 100 million people, but they all need to be supported by the court.

For these 100 million people, the males are calculated at 20, and the salary of the lowest Lieutenant of Fengguo is calculated, and the annual salary is 200 shi.After this year, 20 people will have to pay 4000 million taels of silver. At the price of one tael of silver for two shimi, the imperial court will need 2000 million taels of silver just to distribute the salaries of these people for a year.

This is only counted as Lieutenant Feng Guo, many of the 20 men are of higher ranks, plus those princess consorts, princesses, and horses.

Calculated in one year, during the reign of Chongzhen, the imperial court had to distribute at least 3000 million taels of silver.

If the national power is strong, or in the current era, the emperor gritted his teeth and tightened his belt to send it out.

But in the generation of Chongzhen, every time the money was issued, the blood of the court was drawn. In the end, Chongzhen was so poor that he couldn't even pay the money, and the royal family quarreled with him every day.

Therefore, at least half of the responsibility should be borne by the policy formulated by the old Zhu who had no money in the Ming Dynasty.

Others are cheating fathers, and Lao Zhu is cheating his descendants, and he is the kind of cheating to death.

Having said that, do these royal families really have no money?

No, they are not only rich, but all of them are rich.

With the help of the royal family's tax exemption policy, they have acquired a lot of land, and even more than half of it has been bought and sold by force.

So these guys are very rich. During the reign of Chongzhen, any vassal king randomly pulled out was richer than the emperor Chongzhen.

In order to prevent future generations from suffering in this regard, Zhu Zhangui always took this matter to heart, thinking of solving this matter while the old man was around.

When talking about this with the old man on the road, Zhu Zhangui told him about the troubles he might face in the future, and put forward his own ideas.

Of course, it can't be said that it was his idea, but the method used by those wild boar skins in later generations.

That is, every generation is downgraded to the most common civilians.

That's right, the most ordinary civilians.

Even if the wild boar skins drop again, they will still support those Eight Banners in the end, and Zhu Zhangui has no bottom line.

When they were brought down to the generation of commoners, the blood relationship between the two sides had been different for many generations. Instead of still managing them and wasting the money of the court, it is better to let them develop freely.

Zhu Zhangui's concerns were also expressed by the old man.

He can understand his father's thoughts, but he also needs to consider his grandson's concerns.

You can't cheat the descendants of future generations just to be filial to your father.

The two had an in-depth exchange on this.

However, the old man vetoed Zhu Zhangui's idea of ​​directly becoming a commoner when it was too late to surrender.

Old Zhu just didn't want to make the descendants suffer, so he proposed the rule of supporting the vassal kings, and lowered the descendants to common people, which was a bit against Lao Zhu's intention.

Zhu Zhangui was deeply suspicious of this statement. The reason the old man said was just to deal with him. The real reason was that he was afraid of being scolded by Lao Zhu in the future.

The main purpose of Lao Zhu's formulation of this policy is to prevent future generations from starving like he did when he was a child.

If the old man agrees with his idea and descends from generation to generation until it reaches the common people, then there will be disaster years in the future, and there will definitely be royal family members who will starve to death.

If Lao Zhu knew that his children and grandchildren were starving to death again, he would definitely pull the old man out and beat him every day.

While beating, he would blurt out curses.

"You bastard, what did I want to rebel for back then? Isn't it because the whole family was starved to death and we couldn't survive. We made this policy because we don't want our family to starve to death."

"It's good for you. You changed this policy before our bones were cold. What kind of intentions did you have? You are sincerely fighting against me!"

"Not to mention stealing our grandson's throne, but also starving our descendants to death, I'll beat you to death."

It may be the possibility that Zhu Zhangui thought of. The idea given by the old man is that when he falls to the last level, he will set a new title (Guoqian.)
Give them the minimum alimony so they won't starve to death.In this way, when the old man gets there, he can give Lao Zhu an explanation, so that he won't suffer so badly.

As for taxation, the old man's plan is that after the enemies on all sides are resolved, he proposes the policy of integrating industry and commerce to pay food, and let the royal family set an example.

In this way, the royal family annexed the land by not paying taxes, and solved the trouble of descendants.

As for how Lao Zhu explained it, the old man thought it would be a big deal to get beaten up, and it was not like he had never been beaten when he was a child, he was used to it.

Ever since Lao Zhu died, the old man, who had never been beaten, always felt weak and itchy.

Looking at the expectant Ning Wang's family, the old man patted the little guy who wanted to steal his drink, looked at Ning Wang and sighed.

"Seventeen, did dad give you a dream a few days ago!"

King Ning blinked in confusion.

Why is the old man dreaming of me?Is it because I helped you and snatched the throne from that little bastard Zhu Yunqi?
Oh hoo~

King Ning suddenly came back to his senses.

It's no wonder Mr. Zhu hit him so hard. It's probably because the old man beat him up in his dream. He didn't dare to confront the old man. He was venting his anger on me.

snort!Zhu Laosi, just wait, when the old man gives me a dream, I will definitely tell you all the evil things you have done, and when you go down, let the old man beat you severely.

"Seventeen, what are you thinking, I'm asking you something!"

Looking at King Ning Zhu Quan who was thinking of something, with a smile on his face and mouth, the old man knocked on the table lightly as a reminder.

"Uh, it was because you mentioned Emperor Father just now, and I couldn't help but think of the days when the old man was here."

Zhu Quan wiped away the non-existent tears from the corners of his eyes, and pretended to be like, I miss you very much, Dad.

The old man snorted softly, and didn't bother to talk nonsense with this guy, and said directly to him: "My father told me about the vassal king in a dream."

Zhu Quan stared, feeling bad in his heart.

The old man raised his hand and bowed towards Lao Zhu's tomb.

"My father told me that when he formulated the vassal policy, he was a little ill-considered and ignored some loopholes. During this period of time, he was bored below, and he also figured out a lot of things. He filled in the loopholes and specifically asked me to talk about them. , It is to prevent the loopholes in the policy from harming future generations!"

Zhu Quan felt like shit in his heart.

Nima, your fourth brother Zhu is too shameless.

You yourself think that the policy of the vassal king is not good, if you want to change it, you can just say it, and you don't need to use the old man to talk about it.

If you act in the name of the old man like this, you won't be afraid that the old man will peel your skin first after you go down.

Really, mother Xipi!Why didn't I see how shameless you brat was before.

"My oh no, it's what my dad thinks."

The old man ignored the confused King Ning's family and said slowly.

"My father means that the policy of succession of feudal lords has been slightly changed. It is no longer the continuous inheritance of the throne, but the inheritance of demotion!"

"It's like you, when you die later, when the throne is passed to Pan Xuan, you will be demoted to the county king, and the other nephews will be demoted to the generals of the town."

"And for your grandson's generation, the eldest grandson will be the general of the country when he inherits, and the other grandsons will be the generals of the auxiliary country, and so on in the future, until we descend to the new level set by our father. End!"

After finishing speaking, the old man patted his forehead and seemed to think of something again. He looked at Zhu Quan and said seriously: "Our father also said that you are the most obedient and his favorite son. You should stand up and set an example. So this inheritance policy, let’s start with your family!”

King Ning Zhu Quan's eyes widened after hearing this.

"Zhu Laosi, you are a fucking ruthless person, you can imagine this kind of rotten idea, you are really a fucking thing. '

'I was beaten up, why do you care about your food and drink?Don't you just want to vent your anger and give my sons a throne?In the end, you old boy actually gave me this whole thing. '

'I also let you play, and arranged for you to eat, drink and beauties. '

'Nonsence. '

'If I had known that you, an old boy, would play this trick, I should have given you a whole table of pig food to remind you of your life in the pigsty. '

'Return what my father said, I'll pooh spit on your face. '

'If the old guy could say that, would he just step over you and pass the throne to his useless grandson? '

'It's okay for you to do such a fucking thing. Why didn't I be cruel and kill you when you entered the city alone? The three guards of Duoyan were poached away. '

Zhu Quan, who was cursing in his heart, became more and more wronged as he scolded.

Finally, with tears in his eyes, he could not help but murmur.

"I still suffered from my youth. If I had been smarter at that time, I wouldn't have been cheated by this old guy for his military strength and money!"

King Ning really wanted to stand up, pointing at the old man's nose and yelling.

But looking at the old man clapping the sword at his waist, if you don't believe me, I can send you to see my father and ask him in person.

King Ning could only grit his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, forced a smile.

"My brother must listen to what my father said. Since our father has given orders, then...then...then..."

After opening his mouth for a long time, King Ning just couldn't say the last sentence.

Once he said this, he would be scolded by other fan kings in the future.

Those fellows of the old man were too afraid to retaliate, he would definitely be taken as the punching bag.

The more he thought about it, the more aggrieved King Ning felt. He raised his head and narrowed his eyes, staring at his old man, and couldn't help but howl in his heart.

"Why is my life so hard?"

"Zhu Laosi, you bastard, I hate you for the rest of my life!"

Under the grief and indignation, a wave of blood rose up, Ning Wang Zhu Quan's throat was sweet, he spit out a mouthful of blood and fell down.

In an instant, the hall was in a panic.

The sons of King Ning rushed forward and shouted for help, Zhu Zhangui also stood up, shouting for the imperial doctor.

When King Ning was rescued by the imperial doctor and Yoyo woke up, Zhu Zhangui couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Grandpa Seventeen is so filial and touching. Hearing that Grandfather still cares about you after he has been gone for so long, and that he spewed three feet of blood in grief, Zhangui really admires him!"

"puff!"

King Ning, who had just woken up, spurted another mouthful of blood when stimulated by these words, kicked his legs and passed out completely.

In an instant, the sons of King Ning looked at Zhu Zhangui with angry eyes.

Nima is really nothing, my father is like this, and you still use words to anger him.

If you grandpa and grandson don't want to kill my father, you are unwilling to do so.

Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Gaosui, and many generals looked at Zhu Zhangui with suppressed smiles.

Xia Yuanji, who was on the side, secretly gave a thumbs up and praised Zhu Zhangui's performance.

Zhu Zhangui looked around and spread his hands in a daze.

"It's not my fault. I just gave a compliment and didn't say anything. Don't look at me like that. It's none of my business!"

(End of this chapter)