People live in the Ming Dynasty, evil spirits are soaring into the sky

Chapter 225 The clan of the Ming Dynasty is the most hateful! It's time to deal with them! !
The young man fell to the ground and said loudly: "Henan has been impoverished because the imperial court divided too many vassals and plundered the people's wealth. Now, there is a severe drought. In order to cover up the truth, local officials and the vassal princes and clans have Don't hesitate to block the news.

The court's disaster relief food could not come in, but they still plundered the people's fat and money and rushed it into the treasury for their own luxury enjoyment. "

Chen Han was furious after hearing this.

In the Ming Dynasty, Henan Province had a total of eight prefectures and one Zhili prefecture, namely Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Prefecture, Weihui Prefecture, Huaiqing Prefecture, Guide Prefecture, Zhangde Prefecture, Runing Prefecture, Nanyang Prefecture, and Ruzhou Zhili Prefecture. Lizhou.

Henan is located in the Central Plains. Because the Yellow River Basin is fertile and rich in products, it gathers products from all over the world. Therefore, many favored princes in the Ming Dynasty arranged their fiefdoms here.

By the late Ming Dynasty, Henan Province had the King of Zhou of Kaifeng, the King of Tang of Nanyang, the King of Yi of Luoyang, the King of Fu, the King of Zhao of Zhangde, the King of Huaiqing Zheng, the King of Chong of Runing, the King of Hui of Yuzhou, and the King of Wei Huilu.

In other words, in Henan province, except Guide Prefecture and Ruzhou Zhili Prefecture, every prefecture has a vassal king.

According to records in the "Ming Jing Shi Wen Bian", by the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty, the entire province of Henan had "five princes, eighty princes, generals, lieutenants, lords of counties and counties, and honorable guests, a total of 6,800 More than ninety people.

They relied on their status and connections to annex land. Coupled with the continuous natural disasters, the people of Henan were miserable.

For the clans entrusted to Henan, Henan Province alone had to bear the stipends of seven princes, hundreds of county princes and countless descendants of the clan.

These are still normal financial expenditures, and do not include many temporary or special subsidies and payments to these clans, such as weddings and funerals, the construction of palaces and mansions, the construction of mausoleums, the salaries of honor guard officials who serve the clans, and additional payments. rewards, etc.

Not only that, Henan also had to bear the real estate such as Zhuangtian and salt fields that the emperor granted to the vassal princes.

When Li Zicheng first entered Henan, no one followed him, but Henan was so oppressed by the clans. Li Zicheng exempted taxes and divided the land, instantly gathering tens of thousands of refugees, and gradually became a force and attacked Luoyang.

At that time, someone suggested to King Fu that if you use your property to reward the miserable farmers, they would be grateful, but King Fu did not listen.

Then Luoyang City was breached, and King Fu fled in a hurry but was still captured.

There is even a legend in history that Li Zicheng personally cooked King Fu, which shows how much the people hated him.

If it were not for the hungry people in Henan, "the hungry people from far and near rushed to pick up the hoe, and those who responded were like running water, day and night, with millions of people shouting, but the momentum would set a prairie fire and be unstoppable."

Not to mention conquering the world with the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng, the powerful king of Chuang, even evaded the pursuit of the imperial army.

The reason why these vassal clans did not report the disaster in Henan now is also very obvious.

Why did Henan suffer from famine immediately after a severe drought? Isn't it because there were too many Zhu family members and Henan was impoverished.

It can be said that the current famine in Henan is mostly caused by the vassal clans.

The clans of the Ming Dynasty rarely produced good people.

These people have very great privileges, and their children and grandchildren can be supported by the country and receive a lot of salary, so they have the money to annex land.

Because these people cannot do business and cannot be officials, they are just killing the people out of boredom.

Especially in Henan, there are so many vassal families.

There are more than 6,000 people, and these are just names.

The servants, servants, maids, old ladies, cooks, guards, the guards' families, the old ladies and other servants' families who relied on these six thousand people all relied on the huge palace to make a living.

Since ancient times, evil masters have produced evil supplements. With so many vassal kings and clans, their evil deeds may be limited, but when their slaves commit evil, they will do so in groups.

The six thousand are named feudal princes and clans. When the number expands, there may be 60,000 or even 600,000 or one million people attached to them.

So many people are ruthlessly exploiting the people of Henan. How can the people of Henan endure it?

In good times, the people of Henan are living a miserable life.

Not to mention the Little Ice Age at the end of the Dynasty.

During the Little Ice Age, floods, droughts, locust plagues, and other harsh climates were already prone to occur. When various unstable disasters came one after another, the lives of ordinary people became even more miserable. Just like now, they block the news and make the disasters in Henan more and more serious.

It has started since last year.

If a disaster had been reported last year, then according to Emperor Longqing's character, some clan members might have been demoted.

It was precisely because of the political turmoil in the court last year.

There are ongoing battles among senior cabinet officials.

The old emperor died, and the young new emperor ascended the throne.

At this juncture, messy things are happening one after another, coupled with inconvenient transportation and closures, and man-made reasons, it makes perfect sense that the disaster in Henan has been delayed.

Chen Han became angry when he thought of this.

Originally, he was very dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty clan.

Although some clan members lived in poverty because they could not do business or serve as officials.

But these vassal kings in Henan are all extremely rich and do evil things.

There are seven or eight princes, hundreds of prefectures and princes, and there are a lot of descendants of the so-called auxiliary generals below, and they are extremely rich.

Where did their industry come from?

Isn’t that just exploiting the people!
Especially the branch of Zhou kings, starting from Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, to the Wanli year, nearly two hundred years.

In these nearly two hundred years, the Zhou king's group occupied an astonishing amount of industries.

In Kaifeng, the former capital of the Song Dynasty, most of the industry belongs to their family, including land.

This shows how wealthy these clans are.

Even if there was a disaster in Henan, these clans lived very comfortably.

Chen Han originally wanted to rectify and rectify these clans, but now he added such a thing, which immediately ignited his anger.

That night, Chen Han transferred Cao Zhengchun to his side, and then took five hundred Jinyiwei musketeers. Liu Ting, Wang Hu, Li Rusong, and An Youniang immediately went to Henan with the young man.

This time, Chen Han wanted to use thunderous means to get rid of these evil-doing vassal kings. At the same time, he wanted to kill the chickens and scare the monkeys, shock the vassal princes and clans all over the world, make them restrain themselves, and not allow them to continue to do evil.

Since the people of Henan have been suffering from the vassal king for a long time, they must be given an explanation.

We must take the opportunity of disaster relief to eliminate these vassal kings, vent the bad breath for the people, and win over the people.

Then the land in Henan, which had been harmed by the clan for two hundred years, was redistributed to the people.

So that this place will no longer become Li Zicheng's main source of soldiers in the future, nor will it become a place where Li Zicheng raises his voice and attracts millions of followers.

At this time, in Kaifeng Mansion, Henan, the ninth king of Zhou, Zhu Zaicheng, was having a big night banquet.

Henan is located in the Central Plains and is far away from the sea. However, this time King Zhou was entertaining guests with all kinds of seafood...

PS: Fourth update! I'm currently imagining the plot of how to kill the evil lord of Henan, so I'll be updating four times today! Shamelessly ask for a monthly ticket.

Guaranteed to kill the clan king, it can also be very satisfying!

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