Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 718: Your Majesty Asks for an Meeting
  Zhu Xuan wrote another letter about Fengyang and asked someone to send it back to Grandpa Huang.

As soon as the letter was sent, Jiang Zhiwen, the prefect of Dingyuan, arrived.

He handed over the list and stood aside with trepidation and uneasiness.

Zhu Xuan opened the list and saw that, except for the Tang family and the Geng family, all the others were unclean. Those nobles were extremely greedy and had serious collusion with the Buddhist temple.

Even in Fengyang, there was collusion with Qianye Temple in Dingyuan.

There are many Buddhist temples in Fengyang Mansion, which are within the scope of their cooperation. The business of those Buddhist temples is really wide, and their methods are also powerful. They can deal with so many nobles with ease, and they can't do this without any skills.

"Hou Xian, make a copy."

"Send one copy back to Grandpa Huang, and I'll keep one copy."

Zhu Xuan threw the list to Hou Xian.

"Yes!"

Hou Xian knew what to do, so he quickly found pen, ink and paper, lay aside and copied the list carefully.

Zhu Xuan's eyes fell on Jiang Zhiwen again.

"Your Highness...Your Highness!"

Jiang Zhiwen trembled slightly, feeling so scared that he couldn't help swallowing his saliva and said in a trembling voice: "This matter has nothing to do with me. I just received some benefits. I am willing to cooperate with all His Highness's actions. Can you really atone for your sins?"

Zhu Xuan saw that this guy was too courageous and dared to bargain with him, so he sneered lightly: "What do you think?"

"I deserve to die!"

Jiang Zhiwen knelt down and kowtowed.

Zhu Xuan waved his hand and said: "Okay, you can go down! Just do what you have to do. I believe you know better than me what things should be said and what things should not be said."

He didn't plan to do anything to Jiang Zhiwen, and even the nobles of Fengyang Mansion didn't want to do anything to them.

These have to be left to Grandpa Huang to handle, waiting for Grandpa Huang to make arrangements.

Of course Zhu Xuan can handle it, and he has the qualifications and abilities, but he is afraid that if he handles it, he will be unfriendly to those nobles, and it will not be in line with the emperor's inner thoughts. After all, those people are the descendants of the emperor who fought together with the emperor.

Let’s leave it to Grandpa Huang!

That's what Zhu Xuan thought in his heart.

"what?"

Jiang Zhiwen raised his head in disbelief.

That's it, don't worry about it?

Then he thought of something and was shocked.

His Highness doesn’t care, but His Majesty may not be sure, maybe His Majesty will kill himself!

His Majesty's treatment is a hundred times more terrifying than His Highness's.

"Your Highness, please forgive me!"

Jiang Zhiwen kowtowed and said.

"Drag him down!"

Zhu Xuan was too lazy to talk nonsense.

Jiang Zhiwen was quickly taken away and dragged out by several Jinyi guards.

After a while, Yan Guan came back and placed the latest information on Zhu Xuan's desk, which was about the number of fields occupied by nobles in Fengyang County.

Seeing the numbers above and the numbers below each house, Zhu Xuan didn't know how to describe his shock.

Some of them were given by the Emperor's grandfather, and Zhu Xuan thought it was fine and no problem, but there were still quite a few that they had annexed.

"Fengyang's problem is quite serious."

"However, these problems have accumulated for a long time, and it is normal for them to be serious."

Zhu Xuan looked at it for a while and shook his head helplessly.

At this time, he had another idea. Why not let the civil officials push for it and impeach the nobles?
  The civilian officials were absolutely happy to do this, and they did not want to miss any opportunity to suppress the military generals, although the struggle between the civilian officials and the military generals had temporarily stopped.

"Someone, please send this letter back to the Yushitai... Shen Qian!"

Among the officials at Yushitai, Zhu Xuan was most impressed by Shen Qian, who had helped him in the past.

The people from Jinyiwei took the letter and sent people back to Beijing again.

Let the civil servants impeach, open up the situation, scold those Wu Xun, and then prepare to promote rectification. The specific method is probably this. In fact, not only military generals, but also most officials in the court do this.

After passing these things on, Zhu Xuan rubbed his shoulders and did nothing else.

Go back and chat with your little wife.

But not long after we stayed together, Hou Xian came over and said, "Your Highness, Guo Quan from the family of Guo Ying, Marquis of Wuding, is here."

Those nobles are finally coming to see me.

Zhu Xuan thought for a while and had no choice but to go out and meet them.

"Greetings to His Royal Highness the Emperor Grandson!"

Guo Quan immediately knelt down and saluted.

Before Zhu Xuan could say anything, Hou Xian came in again and said, "Your Highness, Chen Zihuan from the Chen family of Puding Marquis is here."

Zhu Xuan had no choice but to let them all in.

But the representatives of the noble families seemed to have all agreed. Not long after Chen Zihuan and Guo Quan arrived, Xie Qing, son of Yongping Hou Xie Cheng, Zhang Lin, husband of Princess Fuqing, and Zhang Zongzhao, son of Zhang He, gathered together. The earth has come.

They are all descendants of those founding heroes.

During the Hu Weiyong case, Lao Zhu cleared out a group of local nobles in Fengyang County, but there were still many left. After all, this was the land of Longxing.

Zhu Xuan asked them to come in together. They all knelt down and did not want to get up after kneeling down and bowing.

"You guys are here together, what are you going to do?"

Zhu Xuan asked pretending not to understand.

Xie Qing first said: "We heard that His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun returned to Fengyang to worship his ancestors, and he came here to kneel down and salute. In addition... he came to confess his sins!"

Sure enough!

Zhu Xuan was not surprised by their arrival.

If it doesn't come, it will be an accident.

Everyone in Fengyang must know what happened in Dingyuan. Even if Jiang Zhiwen is very strict and doesn't dare to talk nonsense to the outside world, he can't stop all kinds of news coming back from Dingyuan.

Taking the initiative to plead guilty, maybe the crime is not that big. If something is really found out, and Lao Zhu does it himself, they are worried that they will follow in the footsteps of Hu Weiyong and be eliminated by the nine tribes.

Zhu Xuan asked curiously: "What are your crimes?"

Chen Zihuan kowtowed and said, "I am guilty. I should not have colluded with the Buddhist temple to conceal the property to avoid taxes!"

Zhu Xuan's gaze swept across them and sneered: "So you also know that concealing property is a crime. As a distinguished noble, how dare you know the law and break it?"

They immediately kowtowed.

"Just tell me, what are you going to do after you plead guilty?"

Zhu Xuan said again.

Now he is handling the matter. If it were Lao Zhu, he might not even have a chance to plead guilty and just drag him down and behead him.

"I am willing to make up for all the taxes I have missed over the years."

"How much is missing, I will pay as much as I am willing to pay."

Zhang Lin said quickly.

Even though he was the consort, Zhang Lin did not dare to compete with the Ming Dynasty.

If Zhu Xuan is offended, even if Princess Fuqing pleads for mercy, it will be useless. Old Zhu will not be merciful to the person who deserves to be killed.

"Is this what you said?"

Zhu Xuan said calmly: "I didn't force you, right?"

"no!"

They said in unison very cooperatively.

Zhu Xuan said: "You make a list, pay the taxes, and send it to Yingtian to the Ministry of Revenue. I'll just forget it here. As for Grandpa Huang..."

At this point, he paused for a moment.

Taking the initiative to pay taxes can reduce the crime, but only Zhu Yuanzhang knows whether Zhu Yuanzhang will let it go, and this is what they fear the most!

(End of this chapter)