Chengdu Fucheng, outside the north gate of Da'anmen. Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu in the Ming Dynasty, was crying in mourning. He led the kings of Neijiang, Wenchuan, Shiquan, Qingfu, Nanchuan, Jiang'an, Dongxiang, Fushun, Taiping and a large group of lieutenants. , General, with the most uneasiness and fear, waiting for the arrival of the emperor Zhu Youjian tomorrow.
Although this Zhu Zhishu was a vassal king who could not leave Chengdu, he still had very good ears and eyes, and he had long known that Zhu Youjian was here to beg for food.
Bringing 200,000 military households and more than 10,000 elite soldiers in front of the tent to beg for food...Why did the Ming Dynasty have such an emperor? Emperor! How can you beg for food? Although my ancestors had been in this business, that was before becoming an emperor. How could there be any reason in the world that after becoming an emperor, he would bring hundreds of thousands of beggars with him to beg for food?
Besides, you need food when you want it, why are you bringing so many soldiers? Otherwise, are you still planning to rob me?
Thinking that the emperor might let go, Zhu Zhishu immediately returned to the city to defend the city behind closed doors... Unfortunately, he no longer had any soldiers available. The guards belonging to the Shu Palace have been handed over by their ancestors long ago!
Therefore, the Prince of Shu, who was rated as the richest man in the world by Yan Song, is now a piece of fat meat for the emperor to slaughter. Facing the menacing army of beggars, the only thing he can do is to pretend to be poor.
Including Zhu Zhishu, all the princes, lieutenants, and generals wore carefully prepared shabby uniforms with patches sewn on them, making them look like beggars.
Seeing a group of dragons and grandsons looking like this, the Chengdu people who crowded outside Da'anmen to watch the excitement all asked each other - what happened? Why do the princes wear so many patches on their clothes? Is it fashionable to patch good clothes this year?
"Why do all the princes wear such shabby clothes? Are they all ruined?"
"You know what, it's a beggar emperor who wants to lick the plate!"
"What? The emperor has become the leader of beggars? This is easy to do, but what if others don't give it to me?"
"If you don't give it? Just chop off your head!"
"Really beheaded or fake beheaded?"
"do not know......"
The common people's comments reached Zhu Zhishu's ears. The richest prince in the Ming Dynasty felt a chill on the back of his neck!
Cut off the head! How painful!
But he couldn't give away the wealth he had accumulated in the palace for many years - it was money! It's not something that fell from the sky, but something that the kings of Shu have worked hard to accumulate. It's hard-earned!
Moreover, all the officials and gentry in Sichuan are looking at the Shu Palace... If the Shu Palace cannot withstand it, then the people of Sichuan (the Sichuan bureaucratic landlord class) will be in misery.
How much is the total land tax in Sichuan? 1.08 million shi is more than enough... How much is Shaanxi? 1.73 million stone is more than enough!
Now that Shaanxi has been suffering from drought for many years, and the court cannot collect taxes, it may ask Sichuan people to pay more. This is not good!
So King Shu must resist!
The officials, gentry and landowners of Sichuan Province in the Ming Dynasty all stood behind him... Of course, the Shu Palace itself was the largest landowner in Sichuan. Among the 11 counties under Chengdu Prefecture, 70% of the land belonged to the Shu Palace. This Shu Prince's Mansion has much more land than Prince Fu's Mansion, and it is also much fatter!
Of course Zhu Zhishu knew that Zhu Youjian was engaged in the payment of grain and taxes by officials and gentry in the eight prefectures of Beizhili... If this matter were copied to Sichuan, how much tax would the Prince of Shu have to pay in a year?
This is absolutely not possible!
But do you still want this head? Will this little emperor use a knife if he can't beg for food? It seems like this is what our ancestors did?
Just as he was thinking about it, the sound of horse hooves came from far away. Zhu Zhishu hurriedly looked up and saw a dozen fast horses galloping towards him, all of them wearing red armor. The knight should be the legendary cavalry in front of the tent.
In the blink of an eye, these dozen knights had already galloped in front of Shu King Zhu Zhishu. The knight in front, with a yellow face, long beard, and fierce eyes, was none other than Zhang Xianzhong!
I don't know what happened, but Zhu Zhishu felt frightened when he saw this man. His legs went weak and he almost knelt down. Fortunately, the eunuch beside him reacted quickly enough and supported the prince.
"Which one of you is the King of Shu?" Zhang Xianzhong shouted on horseback, "I am the official who is announcing the decree in front of the tent, here to deliver the oral instructions of Lord Long Live!"
The proclaimer before the tent is a temporary job, and anyone can be a knight before the tent. Because he had to deliver an oral message to Shu King Zhu Zhishu today, Zhu Youjian sent Zhang Xianzhong - they were destined in previous lives!
"Ben, Ben, this king is..."
Zhu Zhishu's words were all in vain.
"Why do you still stutter!" Zhang Xianzhong is also a master who talks nonsense, but he looks too fierce... so the chief eunuch of the Shu Palace did not dare to scold him.
And Zhu Zhishu really stuttered, "Wan, long live my lord, what edict do you want to preach?"
Zhang Xianzhong smiled and said: "It's nothing, I just asked you to come with me!"
"Go, where are you going?" Zhu Zhishu asked.
"Go to your ancestral tomb!" Zhang Xianzhong said, "Long Live Lord has already arrived at Phoenix Mountain. I think the Feng Shui there is good, and there are several large tombs that are more interesting... I want to ask the prince to go see them together!"
Zhang Xianzhong suddenly thought of something again, "By the way, Long live the Lord will not enter the city today, everyone should disperse!"
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Fenghuang Mountain is where the tombs of the Shu kings of the past dynasties are located. Because the Shu princes' palaces were very wealthy, the tombs were also built in super luxurious ways. There is a saying in later generations that "looking at the Ming Tombs in the north, there is the Tomb of the King of Shu in the south"!
The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty could not leave the city easily because of the vassal restrictions, but they were allowed to go to the ancestral mausoleums to sweep the tombs... You can do it slowly, the ancestral mausoleums are very big! Therefore, the princes built gardens near their ancestors' tombs, and then lived there in the name of sweeping the tombs, which was equivalent to going out of the city to play.
The garden of the King of Shu in Fenghuang Mountain is of course spacious and luxurious, and it is full of elegance and meticulousness. It is much more comfortable than the palace of the King of Shu. Zhu Youjian also knew this unspoken rule (he himself was also a prince), so after arriving in Chengdu Prefecture, he moved into the Shuwang Villa in Fenghuang Mountain. And in this other courtyard, I saw Zhu Zhishu wearing a patched python robe.
"King Shu, how many years have you been wearing this python robe?" Zhu Youjian asked Zhu Zhishu, who was pretending to be poor, with a smile.
"Ten years..." Zhu Zhishu shed tears, "Long live Lord, She Chongming has brought great harm to Sichuan... Chengdu was even surrounded by him for more than a hundred days. The surrounding area has been turned into a wasteland due to disaster, and there is no longer a land of abundance! I, the King of Shu, have almost lost everything due to him!"
She Chongming is really the number one scapegoat in Sichuan!
Zhu Youjian looked at the crying King of Shu with a half-smile but not a smile, "King of Shu, I ask you again... is Chengdu really poor?"
"Poor... Of course I am really poor..."
Zhu Youjian asked again: "You are really the emperor, you can't lie to me... Is Chengdu really poor?"
"I'm so poor..." Zhu Zhishu already realized that something was wrong, but he could only grit his teeth and carry on.
"Okay," Zhu Youjian nodded, "Then I will change your fiefdom for you. Now that the King of Qin is gone and there is no one to guard Xi'an, I will give it to you. You will be the new King of Qin! I will give you a fiefdom in Yan'an, Qingyang, and Pingliang. We will grant you 500,000 acres of land and land!"
What? Zhu Zhishu was dumbfounded. The good King of Shu, now he becomes the King of Qin? He was also given 500,000 acres of land in northern Shaanxi... It's already so drought-stricken, what are you doing here?
"Long live Lord," Zhu Zhishu knelt down with a plop, "The burial place of my ancestors is in Chengdu. I can't leave it behind! Please take back my life..."
How is it possible to take it back?
Zhu Youjian has been thinking about moving the King of Shu away from Sichuan since the seventh year of the Apocalypse... Once the King of Shu leaves, the land occupied by the King of Shu's Mansion will become official land, and he will receive two or three dou a year. It's all possible. The Prince of Shu's Mansion has at least several million acres, which is tens of millions of stones!
"Zhu Zhishu!" Zhu Youjian's face has darkened. "I heard people say that there is Tianshou Mountain in the north and Fenghuang Mountain in the south...the feng shui of these two places is the best in the world, and they can bless you." Future generations will produce emperors! Are you reluctant to part with the blessed land of Phoenix Mountain and want to live in it as soon as possible?"
"Long live the Lord..." Zhu Zhishu subconsciously touched his head!
Zhu Youjian snorted: "Still here! Go to Xi'an early, this head won't fall off!"
