The kings felt the taste.
The emperor wanted to order the palace guards to come to Beijing to protect him.
But once the guards leave the fiefdom, will they come back?
Will the emperor still allow him to recruit new guards?
Absolutely not!
The Tatars kowtowed, and the emperor did not think about how to repel foreign enemies, but thought about cutting down the vassal! Such an emperor is really not the king of subjugation?
etc!
Even the emperor is not afraid of the capital being surrounded, but what the hell are they afraid of!
The worst case scenario is to go with the emperor and become a Tatar prisoner. Anyway, with King Mobei leading the way, we should just go to Mobei for a vacation. Playing, playing and singing is not bad, but King Mobei's piano skills may not be as good as ours!
The kings remained silent.
Zhu Qiyu's face became more and more gloomy: "Gentlemen, keep drinking."
Stop it, Your Majesty!
Stop drinking, the prince will be whipped if you drink again!
King Ning, King Lu, King Shen and others who were whipped were trembling.
The prince who had not been whipped shed tears. Stop drinking, we are afraid of pain!
"Bring the drinks!"
Zhu Qiyu stretched out his hand, and Feng Xiao handed the wine glass filled with water to the emperor's hand.
"Kings, raise your cup."
"I would like to offer this glass of wine to all the kings in advance!"
"Once Daning is broken and the elite Tatar soldiers besiege the capital, it will be up to the kings to attack first!"
"drink!"
Zhu Qiyu was angry.
I asked you to hand it over voluntarily so that I could change your fiefdom to a better one. But in the end, you didn’t even realize it, so just stay in Beijing!
"Ranking according to seniority, seniority goes first, juniors and so on!"
"One will die, and the other will be killed!"
"Until Lao Zhu's family becomes extinct!"
"Let all the people in the world see the great ambitions of the old Zhu family!"
"Done!"
Zhu Qiyu drank it all in one gulp.
He drank happily, and the hands of the kings holding the wine glass were shaking.
A glass of wine, half spilled.
The kings are different from the civil servants in the court. The civil servants came from the imperial examinations and fought hard, and each of them has eight hundred tricks.
The kings are heirs, and although they have experienced massacres for the throne, in the end they have seen little and killed little, and they are still very naive.
The emperor was really frightened.
"What are you shaking for?"
"I am the emperor and I am not afraid of death. What are you afraid of?"
"I will send people to fetch all the men from each prince's palace. In times of crisis, they will all be there to help!"
Zhu Qiyu became more energetic: "Our old Zhu family is full of people and has integrity!"
"His Majesty!"
King Lu was afraid. His sons were all here, and Yu Qian was stationed in Shandong. The emperor ordered that all his grandchildren would be sent to the capital.
If the imperial edict spreads, he will be the first to be unlucky.
"Wei Chen is willing to transfer the palace guards to the capital to protect the capital!"
King Lu gave in and immediately attracted the resentful looks of the kings.
When the guard takes it out, it's like a meat bun beating a dog. Can he get it back?
You idiot, security is our bottom line and cannot be shaken!
"Your Majesty, I am also willing to transfer the palace guards to serve as kings in the capital!" King Jin also defected.
Fan Guangda's army is stationed in Hetao. If he returns eastward, he can forcefully move the families of the northwest kings to the capital.
They have no room to fight back!
The kings are very disdainful of King Jin. You are mentally ill!
King Ning also shed tears. The emperor sent the Wudang Army to Shanxi and stationed it on Longhu Mountain. His family members could not be saved!
"The humble minister is also willing to contribute as a guard!" King Ning kowtowed.
This time the kings were a little dumbfounded.
We agreed to advance and retreat together, how come you three take the lead in flattering us?
"Wei Chen is also willing!"
All the kings were lying on the ground, shouting and shouting over each other.
Trying his best to stuff the guard into the emperor's pocket.
King Lu, King Jin, and King Ning glanced at them, "Don't kneel down if you have the ability, but you still laugh at us for being spineless?" ridiculous!
but.
Zhu Qiyu said with a sullen face: "The kings seem to mean that I have forcibly moved you and other guards. Could it be that I am a mean and unkind tyrant?"
"ah?"
It would be impossible to deal with it directly to the kings.
Don’t you just want royal guards?
We've already promised it, what else do you want?
"Your Majesty is politically tolerant and generous, how can he be a tyrant?" King Lu began to coy the emperor.
"King Lu is very glib."
"Did I say that I would mobilize the king's guards?"
"Aren't they just the Tatars? A few years ago, the Tatars relied on Oaragou to survive. They tried to annex the Ming Dynasty countless times. I even defeated Oaragou, so why are we still afraid of the Tatars?"
"The kings have the filial piety to send the guards to the capital to serve the king, and I accept it with my heart."
"But the guard is an ancestral system established by Taizu. Although I am the emperor, I cannot change the ancestral system at will."
"Today is a family dinner, don't mention those unhappy things."
"drink wine!"
Zhu Qiyu poured another glass, sat on the steps, and drank it all.
But the kings can't do it. You summoned our whole family to the capital and asked us to fight bloody battles with the Tatars. When the city gate is breached, you will definitely slip away to Nanjing and become the emperor.
After going to Nanjing, you are still the emperor, what about us?
All dead!
You are not cutting off the vassal state, you are sending us to death!
"Why don't the kings drink?" Zhu Qiyu put down his wine glass and asked.
"Chen, minister..."
The kings drank it with tears in their eyes.
"Pour the wine!"
Zhu Qiyu stood up from the steps: "Kings, these years, the bad things in your family have troubled me a lot!"
"It's your turn to toast me with this glass of wine!"
"Every one of your families is in trouble every year. There are always some troubles. Fighting for the throne, brothers fighting against each other, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fighting, there are so many troubles."
"How many times have I wiped your butts?"
"Respect me!"
How many drinks have you had?
It seems like three more drinks?
"I am here to express my gratitude to you, Your Majesty!" The kings were trembling and put the wine in the cup into their stomachs.
Logically speaking, after drinking so much, he should be drunk.
But as soon as he got drunk, the emperor's big whip started to swing, and he sobered up instantly, and his drunkenness was gone.
On the contrary, they envy the princes sitting outside. At least you won't be whipped.
Snap!
The wine glass hit the ground.
"All the princes outside, come in and kneel in the middle!"
"Tell yourselves and ask yourself, how much trouble have you caused me over the years?"
"Is there anyone you can worry about?"
"Prince Tang!"
Zhu Qiyu pointed at Tang Wang Zhu Qiongjing: "I ask you, where have Prince Xiang's family assets gone?"
King Zhu Qiongjin of the Tang Dynasty was the third generation king of the Tang Dynasty and the second son of Zhu Huan, the 23rd son of Emperor Taizu. The second generation King of Tang Jing, Zhu Qiongjing, had no children, so the throne was inherited by his younger brother Zhu Qiongjing.
"Wei, Weichen..." King Tang muttered for a long time without saying anything.
"I think I have entered your Prince Tang's Mansion!"
"I heard that your new concubine, Jiao, is so domineering in your house that even the prince of Tang Dynasty has to stay away from her."
"One day, Mrs. Xuan Le of the Jiao family entered the palace, and your son Zhu Zhizhi scolded her for a few words. In a rage, the Jiao family hit the palace door with a hammer, scaring Zhu Zhizhi into hiding."
"Is this happening?"
"It's not uncommon for stepmothers to oppress their legitimate sons in wealthy families."
"But as the Prince of Tang, you don't even dare to fart. Are you still a descendant of the Zhu family?"
"Afraid of a woman?"
The more Zhu Qiyu talked, the angrier he became: "Come with the whip!"
Zheng Youyi knelt and put the whip into Zhu Qiyu's hand.
Snapped!
King Tang quickly knelt on the ground and used his back to resist the whip.
Zhu Qiyu wanted to slap him on the face, but ended up hitting him on the back.
"You react quickly. It seems that Mr. Jiao has been practicing with you a lot!"
"There is a fierce woman at home, why not train her?"
"Disgrace me, disgrace the Zhu family!"
Zhu Qiyu shouted angrily: "Raise your head!"
"You lower your head like a stupid bird, why do you still have this face?"
The king of Tang Dynasty looked sad.
This is a private matter of my family, and my eldest son is not a fuel-efficient lamp, so why do you need to go overboard? Let them fight, I will be the king of Tang in peace and contentment.
Snapped!
A whip struck the king of Tang in front of him.
King Tang felt like his head was about to open.
It hurt so much.
The key point is that he doesn't dare to scream yet. As long as he screams, the second whip will fall, and all the kings will understand.
"Three City Kings, Dangyin King, and Xinye King of Tang Dynasty, all get out!"
The three city kings Zhu Zhi'an, Dangyin Wang Zhiquan, and Xinye King Zhu Zhicheng climbed out.
They are all the sons and nephews of Tang Wang Zhu Qiongjing.
The eldest son was in charge of the palace and did not come to the capital.
"Your father is so cowardly, why don't you persuade him?" Zhu Qiyu asked coldly.
"Report to your majesty..." The King of Three Cities had just spoken when he received a whip from his pocket.
He was whipped so hard that he fell on his back.
A trace of blood was printed on his face, dripping with blood.
"waste!"
"They're all trash!"
"I'm afraid of a woman, but I'm not afraid of the property in Prince Xiang's palace at all, let alone the laws of the country and the rules of the family!"
"What are you going to do? Bullying me, don't you dare to hit you? Bullying me, aren't you tough enough?"
"How can you be a king if you don't even know how to control a woman? You might as well just use a hoe to farm the land. I'll let you go to the battlefield. I don't think you're in the way!"
"But when it comes to greed for money, there's no ambiguity at all."
"I sent the factory guards to search the house, and I was lonely!"
"Prince Tang, do you really lack that thing?"
Zhu Qiyu looked at King Tang with a sinister look.
Among all the factions, the Tang vassal was relatively honest, because the first Tang king was granted the title by Emperor Taizong and became a vassal in the sixth year of Yongle.
The first Tang king was not as fierce as his brothers, and his descendants were naturally honest.
Unlike Ning Fan, who relied on Emperor Taizong to share the world, he had disrespectful thoughts and wanted to get his hands on the throne from generation to generation.
"Your Majesty, please give me a clear warning, I am a humble minister, I am a humble minister..."
King Tang looked at King Jing cautiously.
The vassals in Huguang were headed by King Jing.
Even though King Jing was younger, he was the closest to the emperor, so he naturally became the leading brother.
Snapped!
Seeing that the King of Tang was cowering in fear, Zhu Qiyu whipped him directly!
"Ah!" Prince Tang couldn't bear it anymore and screamed.
Zhu Qiyu continued to wave his whip.
Let you dishonestly hand over the guards!
This time, you want to have sex, but I don’t want it anymore!
"It's King Jing! It's King Jing!" King Tang was whipped so hard that his body twisted.
King Jing was stunned for a moment.
He had just been whipped, the emperor's whip, it was an indiscriminate attack, no matter how close the blood relationship was, you could hit whoever you wanted.
Snapped!
The moment he was stunned, the whip had arrived.
Zhu Qiyu whipped him hard: "Zhu Qihao, what are you going to do? Are you taking the lead against me?"
"Yes, yes..." Zhu Qihao was stunned and it hurt too much.
He wanted to say that the King of Tang framed him, but in a hurry, he choked and stuttered, and then said the word "yes" without saying the rest of the words.
But he saw Zhu Qiyu's eyes were blood red: "You think so?"
"You are my cousin, but you are taking the lead against me?"
"Get out of my way!"
"I will clean up the house today!"
"Discipline you well for your father!"
Zhu Qiyu raised his hand and whipped his whip, hitting King Jing hard.
The first King Jing was the sixth son of Emperor Renzong and the younger brother of Emperor Xuanzong.
After the death of King Xiang, King Jing became the local emperor of Huguang.
Huguang suffered from seedling chaos every year, and the refugees could not be resettled. Huguang degenerated from a large granary into a desolate land. The main reason was that the clan kings tried their best to harm the people, causing the people to live in dire straits.
"Your father is so honest! He is a brother and sister to Emperor Xuanzong!"
"You are my cousin, and you actually took the lead in opposing me!"
"If your father comes back alive, he should beat you to death!"
"I think it was a mistake for your father to give birth to you!"
"I made a huge mistake by letting you attack the Lord in the first place!"
"I will put an end to this mistake!"
Snapped! Snapped! Snapped!
The whip fell.
King Jing rolled all over the ground, but failed several times.
"Hold him down and I'll beat him to death, this bastard!" Zhu Qiyu's lungs exploded.
"Wei Chen is talking nonsense..." King Jing was in so much pain that if he were to be whipped more than a dozen times, he would be whipped to death.
Never doubt that the emperor did not dare to kill the kings.
Prince Xiang was the emperor's direct uncle. He and Emperor Xuanzong were from the same mother, so the emperor was roasted to death.
Zhu Qihao is nothing!
"Hold him down!"
The kings retreated, fearing that watching the excitement would cause them to be splashed with blood.
Originally, the eunuchs were holding him down, but as a result, King Zhu Qijian of Duchang, King Zhu Jianpu of Duliang, and King Zhu Jianman of Fanshan took the initiative to hold King Jing.
Of these three, King Zhu Qijian of Duchang is the direct younger brother of King Jing.
King Du Liang and King Fanshan were the biological sons of King Jing.
They are all blood relatives.
At the critical moment, sell King Jing cleanly.
"Okay, you are filial!"
Zhu Qiyu whipped his whip hard and beat King Jing as hard as he could.
After being whipped for more than ten times, King Jing was dying, with more air coming out and less air coming in.
"King Duchang, tell me, is your family really short of that little money?" Zhu Qiyu let King Jing go and immediately pointed the finger at King Duchang.
King Duchang was stunned.
We just helped you, Your Majesty, you can't kill like crazy and accidentally injure friendly troops, right?
"No, no shortage!" King Duchang regretted.
He thought that the emperor deposed King Jing in anger, so as King Jing's biological brother, he was fully qualified to inherit King Jing's throne.
But the emperor went crazy.
"Then why are you greedy?" Zhu Qiyu asked.
"Wei, Weichen doesn't know either!" King Duchang was very innocent.
Snapped!
Zhu Qiyu raised his hand and whipped King Duchang on the face.
This time, King Duchang was heartbroken and finally understood what it felt like when the whip hit him!
It hurts!
"You are his biological brother. He did something wrong. Why didn't you try to persuade him?" Zhu Qiyu grew angry.
"Wei Chen wants to persuade you, but you can't do it!"
King Duchang shouted that he was wronged, pointed at King Duliang and King Fanshan, and said, "They are the sons of King Jing, and they don't even try to persuade them!"
A dead Taoist friend is not a poor Taoist!
King Duliang and King Fanshan, the former is the second son of King Jing, and the latter is the third son.
Everyone was dumbfounded at this moment.
Uncle, you really perfectly interpret brotherhood and brotherhood!
No wonder the emperor likes to kill his uncle. It turns out that his uncle likes to kill his nephew. This is passed down from generation to generation.
but.
The emperor looked at them with red eyes.
Plop!
The two kings knelt on the ground.
King Duliang reacted the fastest: "Wei Chen persuaded the eldest brother, but the eldest brother and his father are in a nest of snakes and rats, and Wei Chen can't persuade him!"
As long as King Jing and his son are eliminated, King Jing's throne will fall on his head.
King Duliang also went crazy.
King Fanshan opened his mouth and wanted to get rid of his second brother, but found it too difficult and his uncle, King Duchang, was watching him, so he simply shut up.
Snapped!
Zhu Qiyu whipped King Fanshan!
King Fanshan was confused, why me?
I didn't say anything, but I got whipped?
But King Duliang knew that his words were aimed at the emperor's thoughts.
He hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, my father and brother not only coveted the property of Prince Mo Xiang, but also secretly swallowed up the two concubines of Prince Mo Xiang..."
boom!
Qianqing Palace exploded instantly.
King Xiang’s concubine is King Jing’s aunt!
Moreover, King Xiang was guilty and the whole family was escorted to the capital. How did you steal the two women out?
really.
Zhu Qiyu's pupils became more sinister: "Go on!"
"The one who is colluding with my father is the King of Chu!" King Du Liang went crazy.
King Chu wants to die now.
Looking at King Jing's miserable condition, he knew that he would not survive!
"Wei Chen is guilty! Wei Chen is guilty!" King Chu cried loudly.
Zhu Qiyu slowly looked at him: "How does King Xiang's concubine feel? Compared with your concubine, which one is better?"
The King of Chu kowtowed: "Wei Chen is guilty, Wei Chen is guilty!"
"Hahaha!"
Zhu Qiyu laughed sadly: "How can the old Zhu family clean up such a scandal that violates human ethics?"
"How does King Chu Zhao's spirit in heaven view his descendants?"
"I don't even want to hit you!"
"I don't even want Qi Julang to be written down in the history books. It's hard for me to talk about it!"
"You are shameless, why do I still want shame?"
"There are so many women in the world, why do you focus on your relatives' concubines?"
"Is it fun?"
"It's in vain that you have a reputation of filial piety among the people. I don't dare to investigate. I'm afraid that your reputation of filial piety is fake and created?"
"I don't even dare to investigate your Chu Prince's Mansion!"
"How many more bullshit things are there?"
"If I find out, I won't be able to put my face on it!"
"The good Ming Dynasty and the good royal family have all been ruined by you! It's ruined! It's stink!"
Zhu Qiyu was heartbroken: "Published the decree and revoked the title of King of Chu. Zhu Jiqi picked the word 'Ji', banished the jade plate, and was demoted to Fengyang to guard the ancestral grave." (Zhu Jiqi has no children)
"The kings of the Chu vassal, if they make mistakes and fail to teach them, and if they knowingly commit the crime, they will be punished with ten years of family remuneration. The whole family will shut up and think about their mistakes. They will not leave the government without an edict. Anyone who disobeys the edict will be killed!"
"It is decreed that the King of Jing is unfilial and has violated human relations. He has deprived him of the title of King of Jing. He removed the character 'Qi' from Zhu Qihao and banished the jade dish. He demoted him to Fengyang to guard the ancestral grave. His son removed the character 'jian' and banished the jade dish. He will not be granted the imperial title." !”
"King Duliang has reported meritorious service and will be promoted to the title of King Jing."
There was a wailing in the Qianqing Palace.
The feudal clan has been cut off!
Blatantly cutting down the vassal clan!
No one dares to say no!
After more than fifty years of unremitting efforts to reduce vassals, the kings were finally raised like pigs. Once the palace guards were eliminated, the kings became playthings in the hands of the emperor, who could be manipulated as he pleased.
Some are happy and some are sad.
The Chu vassal wailed loudly, and more than 20 kings of the Chu vassal were like eggplants beaten by frost.
On the contrary, Prince Liang was beaming with joy and was definitely getting a big deal.
His younger brother, King Fanshan, cried so miserably, was whipped, and was deprived of his throne. Who should I ask to reason?
King Duchang was also crying. He was supposed to inherit King Jing, but King Duliang took advantage of him.
"Wei Chen reports!"
Zhu Mengju, the king of Jiangxia, crawled out and said: "Wei ministers reported that the one who participated in the division of the Xiangwang family's wealth was also Minwang!"
Let's just die together!
All vassals in Huguang, let’s thunder together!
King Zhu Jihuan of Dong'an came out and wanted to report him.
We can't let Chu Fan bite him randomly.
The King of Liao knelt on the ground with a bang: "Weichen surrendered, Weichen participated! Weichen is willing to accept the punishment!"
"It seems that all the kings of Huguang have not escaped!"
Zhu Qiyu waved his hand to silence everyone: "Min Fan and Liao Fan, get out of here and let me see how poor you are."
“Even Prince Xiang’s family assets are concerned about him!”
"Are you also thinking about my internal funds?"
"Are you more concerned about my throne?"
Snapped!
Zhu Qiyu whipped the King of Liao and King Min directly.
"Wei Chen doesn't dare, Wei Chen doesn't dare!" King Liao and King Min kept kowtowing and did not dare to move even after being whipped.
Many county kings were frightened out of their courage.
How many thrones have been deprived of by the emperor's decree?
This is more ruthless, bigger and more powerful than when Emperor Xuanzong killed nine vassal kings in one go.
However, the kings had no room for resistance.
This is no longer the first year of Xuande, but the eighth year of Jingtai, more than thirty years have passed.
"Wei Chen is willing to contribute all the wealth of the palace to His Majesty!" King Min went crazy.
The King of Liao rolled up: "Wei Chen, please ask Your Majesty to abolish the palace guards and order the guards to come to the capital. Wei Chen is in the fiefdom, there is no danger, and there will be no need for guards in the future!"
boom!
The Qianqing Palace exploded.
The King of Liao has no bottom line. Should he take the initiative to put his neck under the emperor's sword?
How can the kings have any autonomy in the future?
Will they all become playthings in the hands of the emperor from now on?
However, who dares to speak for the King of Liao and King Min?
Everyone looked at King Zheng.
King Zheng was also afraid. Although the emperor did not slap him, he concluded that if he dared to speak, the emperor would definitely slap him.
He was a concubine, and Emperor Xuanzong was his legitimate son.
The relationship between their brothers is not good.
Emperor Xuanzong treated him as if he were raising a cat or a dog, just teasing him a few times when he was happy.
Just because he couldn't participate in the seizure of the heir, Emperor Xuanzong gave him a place to stay. That was pity for him. Don't take yourself seriously.
Forgot what Our Lady said about him?
When Empress Dowager Sun was in the East Palace, even Emperor Taizong liked her. The lives of their two mothers are not as good as a hair of the Queen Mother Sun.
The kings thought he was the emperor's uncle.
Little did he know that the master was also sitting above his uncle.
A word from Empress Dowager Sun could bring him back to the days when he was dominated. The two of them were not as good as the dog raised by Empress Dowager Zhang.
So, he has to pretend to be dead.
Snapped!
A crisp crack of the whip pulled him out of the horrific memories.
King Zheng opened his mouth wide. Unexpectedly, the emperor whipped King Liao.
The King of Liao kept screaming.
Doesn't the emperor want guards?
wrong!
He wants more!
Not only a guard, but also trying to gain the royal family's wealth?
It shouldn’t be. The emperor is rich all over the world and has piles of money in his coffers. How could he take a fancy to their mosquito legs?
What's the picture?
The King of Liao was also confused. You asked for palace guards, but I gave them to you. Why are you still beating me?
"Who do you think I want you to be?"
"Believe it or not, you lead them to attack Fucheng."
"You can't conquer even a single city!"
Zhu Qiyu sneered: "Those people in your palace have been crippled and cannot fight at all!"
"Take them to fight against the elite Tatar soldiers?"
"I'm afraid that they will escape before the battle and disrupt my plan!"
"Let Ming become a joke!"
This is the truth.
The guards of the palace are hereditary, and they were abolished by the central government. They have long been in ruins.
"Prince Xiang's family wealth will naturally be returned."
"I don't want your own belongings."
"But you have to recruit it from the ground up. How did the family wealth come into your hands?"
"Who among the factory guards did you bribe?"
"After the banquet tonight, you go to Jinyiwei and explain the matter to Jin Zhong honestly."
"I will send Jin Yiwei to investigate, and all those who find out will be killed by the nine tribes!"
"As for you?"
Zhu Qiyu's eyes turned cold: "Passing the message, the King of Min and the King of Liao have a good attitude towards admitting their mistakes and are open-minded."
"But the death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be forgiven. I will be demoted to the county king, the county king will be demoted to the general of the country, and the general of the country will be demoted to the general of the country. They will be demoted in turn and fined for twenty years."
"The King of Jiangxia reported meritoriously and made an exception. He was allowed to go out and carry out normal activities."
King Min and King Liao were immediately stunned.
Demoted to a county king?
Then their son is the general of Zhenguo?
Min Fan and Liao Fan cried loudly.
The king of Jiangxia kowtowed and thanked him.
"King Liao and King Min, are you satisfied with this result?" Zhu Qiyu looked at them.
They both thought they were clever enough.
As a result, he didn't know that the emperor and the vassal king were always in an antagonistic relationship.
Cutting off vassalage is only the first step.
"Satisfied." King Liao and King Min knocked to the end.
"If you are satisfied, why are you crying?"
Zhu Qiyu asked: "Come on, raise your head and say it again with a smile."
He has been demoted to a county king, can he still laugh?
However, thinking about King Jing and King Chu, they were considered lucky.
Then just smile, right?
"The smile you two are making is uglier than crying."
Zhu Qiyu sneered twice: "Put out the generals who govern the country. All the people here are kings, and there are no generals!"
The emperor turned against him too quickly!
Did you just say that we are all blood brothers?
Now you have to say that if you are not the king, you are not a relative?
How heartless!
However, looking at the dying King Jing, he was a cousin of the emperor. He had been beaten like that. The imperial doctor did not announce his diagnosis and treatment. It was clear that he was going to die.
He also wanted all the kings in the world to watch him die, which was extremely cruel.
He is so cruel to his close blood relatives, let alone those who are from other branches?
The eunuch entered the palace and moved the cases of King Min and King of Liao out of the palace.
The two kings looked at each other and burst into tears.
Kowtow and leave the palace.
"It's a lot easier this time, isn't it?" Zhu Qiyu asked with a smile.
The kings have seen through it all.
As long as the emperor's wishes were not satisfied, the emperor would cut off his vassal, his authority, and make him lose everything.
The emperor is like a child grabbing a toy. If he can't grab the toy, he will cheat.
"Your Majesty, I request that King Zheng's guards be abolished!" King Zheng was the first to kneel on the ground.
He had no time to express his feelings about life.
Keeping the throne is the most important thing.
"Why does Uncle Zheng want to abolish the guards? Can't he afford them?" Zhu Qiyu's eyes flashed.
"Reporting to your majesty, the burden of guarding is too heavy, and the ministers really cannot afford to support them." King Zheng borrowed the slope to get off the donkey.
"But this is the ancestral system and I cannot change it."
Are you afraid now?
Want to ask for the abolition of the bodyguards and become a lazy feudal king?
Dream on, what were you thinking about just now?
At the beginning, I still felt compassion and wanted to let the feudal king go. Now, I just stew it in a spoonful to prevent future troubles.
"I killed Uncle Xiang Wang, and I have always felt guilty in my heart, but I have no chance to repay him." Zhu Qiyu lamented.
But all the kings stood on their heads.
Look at King Jing who is lying on the ground, lingering.
He was about to die, but the eunuch refused to diagnose and treat him. He kept humming. The eunuch was worried that he would disturb the emperor, so he stuffed a cloth ball into his mouth.
The cloth was soaked with blood, but the emperor turned a blind eye.
No one dared to care about him.
How sad that the majestic Prince of Ming Dynasty died in front of all the kings.
But the emperor was remembering King Xiang who he killed with his own hands. What does this mean?
If you really miss King Xiang, just treat King Jing and save yourself from saying sorry to King Jing again one day?
Everyone is not a fool.
They were all pondering the deep meaning of the emperor's words.
The emperor roasted King Xiang to death and whipped King Jing to death.
Just now, the King of Chu was beheaded, and the King of Liao and Min were demoted. The kings of Huguang were all dealt with in one fell swoop.
Caught people off guard.
who is the next?
"Wei Chen, please ask your Majesty to remove the guards!" King Qin was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing.
My heart can't take it anymore, so I won't play anymore!
I'm convinced!
King Lu, King Qing, and King Zhou all fell down on the ground and begged the emperor to remove the guards.
In the past, the emperor racked his brains to cut down the vassals, but the vassal kings were always dissatisfied, making it difficult for the emperor to do his job.
Now the vassal king is begging to cut down the vassal, but the emperor does not agree, and they are still impatient.
"Are you forcing me to change the ancestral system?"
Zhu Qiyu's voice was sinister: "Let me bear the reputation of being unfriendly and unkind?"
"It's better for you. Once your upper lip touches your lower lip, I'll help you reduce the pressure on the palace."
"On the contrary, let me bear the infamy?"
"Are you so filial to your father?"
"Kneel down before me!"
Zhu Qiyu suddenly became furious and said in a high-pitched voice: "Prince Zheng, say it again!"
King Zheng was frightened.
Your Majesty, could you please have a little face?
Who said we can't afford guards? It's obviously you. You are both responsible and independent. It's difficult for us to do this!
"Because of the poor management of the palace and the lack of financial resources, I am unable to provide for the palace guards. I request your majesty's permission to disband the palace guards. I would be very grateful!"
King Zheng can still speak.
If you disband the guards yourself and write a letter to plead guilty, wouldn't it give the emperor an excuse to abolish the guards?
All the kings followed suit.
But King Su and King Huai remained silent. They were worried that after killing the palace guards, they would become lambs to be slaughtered, without the slightest strength to resist.
In the future, if the emperor wants to cut off his vassal, he will cut off his vassal.
That is absolutely not allowed.
"Prince Su, what do you think of what Prince Zheng said?" Zhu Qiyu saw him.
King Su Zhu Fanyan was the second generation of King Su. The first generation of King Su was Zhu Kuai, the 14th son of Emperor Taizu, who founded Ganzhou (Zhangye).
King Su has always kept a low profile and is known as the wise man of Ganzhou.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, I think what King Zheng said is reasonable."
What does King Su dare to say?
His fiefdom is remote and his sense of presence is very low.
Moreover, the emperor stationed troops in Hetao and sent Kou Shen to supervise the town of Gansu. Kou Shen hated the feudal king the most. If he offended the emperor in Qianqing Palace, Kou Shen would torture him to death when he returned to his fiefdom.
"Then why didn't you say anything just now?" Zhu Qiyu refused to let him go.
King Su seems to be honest and responsible, but in fact he is the wise man of the kings in the northwest. He is old and has the demeanor of an elder.
This kind of person must be treated.
"I am old and am in a daze. Please forgive me, Your Majesty." King Su used his age as a shield to save the emperor from whipping him.
Although he has a good brain, he is also afraid of whips.
A few strokes of this thing will make even an Iron Man submissive.
"Are you getting older?"
"Yes, Prince Su is my great-uncle and the same generation as my imperial grandfather, Emperor Renzong."
"You are indeed old, but you still have to kneel here."
"I am being too unkind."
"King Su, please rise."
Zhu Qiyu sighed.
But no one knows what medicine the emperor sells in his gourd.
King Su didn't want to get up. He was afraid that the emperor would whip him back and teach him how to behave.
"Prince Su is not feeling well, so he should stay in the capital for recuperation." Zhu Qiyu said calmly.
Sure enough, the backhand taught Prince Su how to behave.
As soon as King Su stood up, he knelt on the ground again with a thud: "Your Majesty, this..."
"What? King Su doesn't want to stay in the capital?" Zhu Qiyu asked him.
"this……"
King Su was speechless.
If you say you don't want to, then there is nothing wrong with your health. You just committed the crime of deceiving the emperor!
But if you say yes, stay in Beijing. When can you return to the fiefdom?
If he returns to the fiefdom, will King Su be replaced? His brothers and sons are not fuel-efficient lamps.
"I thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!" King Su cried and thanked him.
Zhu Qiyu sneered and turned to look at Huai Wang Zhu Qiquan: "Huai Wang, you are not satisfied either?"
King Huai is a good boy.
Just give birth at home if you have nothing to do.
At a young age, he had seven sons, six of whom are still alive.
Zhu Qiyu looked at it with envy.
"The minister is thinking about whether to donate the palace's property to the court because of the national crisis!" King Huai burst into tears.
He didn't want to follow in King Su's footsteps.
The emperor doesn't care how close their blood is, he can kill them if he wants.
The closer you get, the harder you kill.
The emperor is poisonous.
"Then what do you think?" Zhu Qiyu asked quietly.
"Wei Chen is willing to donate all the property of Huai Fan to the court to fight the national disaster together!" King Huai spent a lot of money.
Just because he didn't agree, the emperor put him in a bad position.
All the money is gone!
This is not the Hongmen Banquet. This is the banquet of taking the initiative to reduce the vassal status!
They all took the initiative to stuff them into the emperor's hands. The emperor slapped them and threw them out. In the end, they had to beg the emperor's men.
What's going on!
Thinking about it now, it is better to be the orthodox emperor. How happy it would be if King Mobei was restored.
"Are you telling the truth?" Zhu Qiyu couldn't tell whether he was happy or angry.
"If I tell a lie, I will be struck by lightning!" King Huai broke his teeth and swallowed it.
Fortunately, there was no thunder.
Otherwise, King Huai would not be able to explain it clearly.
"If you are still filial, let Jin Yiwei take over." Zhu Qiyu accepted the order.
King Huai was dumbfounded.
Do you really want it?
What about you? You are rich all over the world, why are you so harsh on your relatives? Who are you keeping it for? You have no son!
"I don't take your things in vain. I will give you the Huai Fan mansion in the capital. All future expenses in the capital will be paid out of the internal funds."
Of course Zhu Qiyu wanted it, but he wasn't a fool. He didn't want the money?
King Huai was also dumbfounded.
What's the use of giving me Jingzhong?
How many times can I come to Jingzhong in this life?
You are really good at doing business. You took a bad check and robbed my family of all our wealth.
King Poyang, King Yongfeng, King Qingjiang, King Nankang, King Dexing, King Shunchang, King Chong'an, and the seven kings of the Huai Fan looked at each other.
They all saw the anger in each other's eyes.
Why? Zhu Qiquan!
It’s enough for you to donate your own wealth. Why are you donating my family’s too?
"Since the kings have many complaints against the palace guards."
"Then it will disband on its own."
"After all guards enter the capital, they will be reviewed by the Ministry of War. Those who should be abolished will be disbanded, and those who should be placed in the guard post will be placed in the guard post."
Zhu Qiyu relaxed and dismissed the palace guards.
Nowadays, the number of guards in the Prince's Mansion is 5,600, and the Prince's Mansion has more than 3,000 guards, and generals at all levels have guards.
This is the result of the painstaking efforts of the five generations of monarchs to reduce their vassal status.
At today's banquet, it seemed easy to cut off the guards.
In fact, five generations, Taizong, Renzong, Xuanzong, King Mobei, and Emperor Jingtai, spent more than fifty years eating away at the vassal king's power bit by bit, breaking the vassal king's power into pieces, and slowly raising pigs to raise the vassal king. Only by raising the guards into pigs can they be eliminated in one fell swoop.
"But the palace cannot be without guards."
"Instruct each vassal king to station a beacon tower at the local garrison. If there is something going on in the vassal prince's palace, light the beacon fire. Thousands of households will arrive at the garrison. Those who don't come will be killed!"
Leave the feudal lord in the capital and come little by little.
"I would like to thank Your Majesty for your kindness!" The kings thanked him with tears and returned the beacon tower. Believe it or not, they set the palace on fire and the guards wouldn't care about it. Those scholars are doing bad things.
From this moment on, the feudal king no longer had the strength to rebel.
Some people laugh at King Su. You have guards in the palace now, but do you dare to rebel? Aren't you still being manipulated by the emperor at will?
The lineage of the King of Yan was bad. Jianwen was overtly bad, but the lineage of the King of Yan was secretly bad. From the early years of Yongle to the eighth year of Jingtai, for more than fifty years, they worked hard and secretly cut down the vassal.
Do you think you can resist?
Look at what happened to King Jing.
The emperor only selects the nearby branches to kill. After killing the near branches, will he care about the life and death of the distant branches?
From the moment they entered the capital, the kings had no initiative.
The emperor can do whatever he wants.
The era of feudal garrison passed, and a new era began.
The emperor picked up a new wine glass and filled it with wine: "Since the kings strongly demand that the ancestral system be changed, I will follow the lead and talk about it later."
"Since I changed the beginning, I changed it completely!"
"I allow the general to come out and do things!"
"For example, General Zhenguo, General Fengguo, Lieutenant Zhenguo, Lieutenant Fuguo, Lieutenant Fengguo, etc. Anyone with the surname Zhu will not have the throne!"
"You can all come out and do things!"
"Allow them to take the imperial examinations, allow them to engage in business, and allow them to engage in agriculture!"
"This year's Spring Festival has been delayed. After the Dragon Boat Festival, this year's examination will be held."
"All generals from each domain will directly participate in the examination!"
"From now on, all the generals of the vassals can be promoted to the imperial examination, participate in the Spring Festival, and pass the Jinshi examination."
"According to your reports, don't they all study seriously at home?"
"It just so happens that I will test their knowledge in the school."
"Look at how many talents there are in the clan who are worthy of being used."
"I don't stick to any one pattern, I will use them all!"
The words trailed off.
There was an uproar in Qianqing Palace.
The emperor actually allowed the generals of various vassals to participate in the imperial examination and lifted the ban?
This is a good thing that everyone is happy with.
After handing over the palace guards, the emperor turned around and gave everyone a piece of pie.
This move was of great significance to the county prince's family. Except for the prince's son, everyone else was a general in charge of the country, and their titles were getting lower and lower with each passing generation.
Customized in the year of Yongle, anyone in the feudal king's family can only be a pig and cannot work.
The emperor has done a good thing.
But, what the hell is school examination knowledge?
If they are asked to carry a bird in a cage, then there will definitely be no problem. If they are asked to test the meaning of the scriptures, forget it, they probably won’t be able to read all the words.
but.
Even if they are studying, they should read slowly from the beginning. What the hell is going on if they are directly asked to participate in the test?
Could it be that the emperor wanted to force the vassal family members to enter the capital?
Is the so-called imperial examination just a whitewash?
In addition to the surprise, one of the feudal lords came back to his senses.
But no one dares to stand out.
Just look at the fate of King Su and King Huai, and you will know that the ones who stand out are definitely unlucky.
Zhu Qiyu laughed and said, "Since the kings have no objection, let's make it final."
"In order to give generals at all levels sufficient time to enter the capital, the date of the joint examination is set on June 15th. Forty days are enough for them to enter the capital."
"Here, drink this cup to the full."
Zhu Qiyu drank again.
The kings were puzzled, why was the emperor so good at drinking?
Nine glasses of wine, one pound of liquor, but nothing happened.
That's not right either, when he goes crazy it's like he drank too much.
After beating someone, you are not drunk anymore. How about drinking smartly?
wrong.
There's something wrong with this wine!
The kings understood that what the emperor drank was definitely not wine.
The truth is a bit deceiving, the kings shed tears like rain, and we drank real wine.
The emperor specially prepared high-strength liquor, waiting for them to drink too much to make a fool of themselves, and then took the opportunity to whip them.
There seems to be a script!
Without a script, we wouldn’t believe it would be such a coincidence!
But!
What about understanding?
Several kings were gone, and the guards were cut.
The children of the prince's palace also have to enter the Beijing Examination.
Everything runs in the direction of the emperor's plan.
They now only have their lives.
This wine is not fragrant.
Drink in tears.
Outside the hall, it seems that the only drunken one is the king of Mobei.
He hugged his wine and looked at the emperor from his eyes, his feelings of grievances, overflowing with words.
"Cough!" Queen Mother Sun noticed that Zhu Qizhen was out of attitude, coughing lightly, reminding him to pay attention to his words.
But King Mobei really drank too much.
As soon as Zhu Qiyu glanced, he saw the drunk state of King Mobei, and suddenly thought of something.
What I wanted to say before, because King Mobei suddenly entered the hall, causing him to finish his words.
Think of it this time.
"The kings, I still have a sentence to ask!" Zhu Qiyu raised the glass, solemnly.
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