"You must arrive in Beijing before May, otherwise you will be resisting the decree. You will not stop until I am killed!"
King Fu held the imperial decree in his hand tightly and said with heavy breathing.
Seeing this, Ye Chuchun immediately stood up and said in a passionate voice: "Entering Beijing will definitely lead to death! Your Highness, you must not enter Beijing!"
"But if you don't go to Beijing, you will be dead!"
Zhu Yousong, the Crown Prince's son, followed up and said to Prince Fu: "Father, when you come to Beijing, you are at least acting in accordance with the decree. Even if your Majesty wants to deal with us, you don't dare to be too harsh. After all, as long as we don't resist the decree or rebel, your Majesty will do it." There is not enough reason to kill us all."
"His Royal Highness, are you going to put His Royal Highness Prince Fu in danger? If you enter the capital, you will definitely die! It is better to start a rebellion directly. The rebellion may still have a chance of survival. Nowadays, the court is unethical and is ruthless and unjust to the sects. The sects in the world are I have long been dissatisfied, especially now that King Lu needs to go to Beijing to accept the crime just like His Royal Highness Prince Fu. As long as His Royal Highness Prince Fu raises an army, Prince Lu will definitely respond! From the students' point of view, it is very likely that the old incident of Fengtian Jingnan will be repeated again."
Ye Chuchun refuted Zhu Yousong's views and continued to encourage King Fu Zhu Changxun to rebel.
Zhu Yousong glanced at Ye Chuchun, took a deep breath, and suddenly shouted, "Come here! Drag this scholar surnamed Ye down and hand him over to the government, and say that he is suspected of bewitching the feudal prince to rebel. Prince Fu's palace dare not Stay longer!”
Ye Chuchun was quite horrified when he saw this, and quickly looked at Prince Fu: "His Royal Highness Prince Fu! This student speaks from the bottom of his heart! Now, do you have any other better choice?!"
Zhu Changxun sighed because of this: "That's it, Prince, don't treat Mr. Ye like this."
"But my father, he keeps inciting you to rebel. He clearly has ulterior motives!"
Zhu Yousong explained hurriedly.
"That's enough! I still have the final say in Prince Fu's Mansion! It's not your turn yet!"
Zhu Changxun yelled at Zhu Yousong, then rolled his eyes at him, and then said: "I'd better pretend to be sick, as long as it lasts for a while, Zhu Youxiao wants to force me to rebel, but I won't, but he also Don't think that I will go to Beijing obediently. I will pretend to be sick and see what Zhu Youxiao can do to me. I will immediately ask people in the palace to write a letter saying that I am sick and the prince is also sick! "
"My father is wise!"
Zhu Yousong was originally a little unhappy because he was yelled at by Zhu Changxun, but now that he heard Zhu Changxun said that he would pretend to be sick to delay his trip to Beijing, he quite agreed with it, so he hurriedly replied.
Ye Chuchun frowned inadvertently, and then he hurriedly opened his brows deliberately and forced a smile: "His Highness is still smart, just drag it on like this!"
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"Hmph! Claiming to be sick? What about Prince Lu? Prince Lu is not claiming to be sick too, right?"
After Zhu Youxiao learned that King Fu claimed to be ill and could not come to the capital, he put down the book in his hand angrily and asked about King Lu's situation.
"Going back to your Majesty, Prince Lu said that he broke his leg while riding a horse and it is inconvenient to come to the capital. He will have to recuperate for a while, so he asked permission to come to the capital after he recovers from his injury."
Wei Zhongxian replied.
"A bunch of cowards. If I were forced into this situation, I would immediately rebel!"
"It seems that we still need to add more ingredients and continue to push these feudal kings. Since these two fat pigs cannot be slaughtered with one knife, then use a small knife to slowly cut the meat and see how long you can persist."
Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sneered, and then sneered.
"What other cases have been investigated in Dongchang recently?"
Zhu Youxiao then asked about Wei Zhongxian.
Wei Zhongxian didn't understand the meaning of the emperor's question at first, and just like before, he deliberately said something to make the emperor happy, so he said: "Your Majesty, apart from the fact that the vassal princes are a little dishonest, I have not checked What do you think, the world is much better now than it was a few years ago, the scholars have begun to understand the rules, the people are also doing their duty, and the officials, except for a few exceptions, are much more honest than before."
"Really? It seems like you've done a good job as a factory supervisor. It's time for you to be promoted to the ceremonial supervisor to do palm seals."
Zhu Youxiao said this directly.
After hearing this, ordinary people would just think that the emperor was praising him, but Wei Zhongxian was such a shrewd man that he immediately knew that the emperor was openly praising himself but actually saying that he was incompetent. Otherwise, why would he suddenly say that he wanted to be promoted? Do you want to do the palm seal of the Supervisor of Ceremonies yourself?
As a result, Wei Zhongxian immediately fell to the ground and trembled honestly: "Your Majesty, forgive me! I just remembered that there is something important that I haven't reported yet."
"What's the matter?"
Zhu Youxiao asked with a smile without anger.
Wei Zhongxian's mind began to work quickly, and he thought to himself: "The emperor is not satisfied with what he just said. He clearly wants to stir up some troubles in Dongchang so that the emperor can have an excuse to make a big fuss. Now the emperor is mainly dealing with the vassal prince. You guys, they must be asking Dongchang to find some faults related to the feudal princes. Even if Dongchang has not found any faults with the feudal princes, he still has to fabricate some first. Only in this way will the emperor be satisfied. What did he do just now? I didn’t expect that!”
So after thinking about it, Wei Zhongxian hurriedly fabricated it out of thin air: "Back to the emperor, Dongchang recently found that a large amount of illegal salt appeared in Henan. According to Dongchang's investigation, it was King Fu who used up the three thousand Huai salt given by the temple that year. After Chang Yin, he continued to smuggle illegal salt, and according to Dongchang’s current information, King Fu’s people have smuggled nearly 90 million kilograms of illegal salt, totaling about 300,000 pounds of salt.”
Wei Zhongxian is not making it up randomly. What he is sure of is that illegal salt must be rampant in Henan, because this is the case all over the world.
After all, selling illegal salt is a crime of decapitation.
Except for desperadoes, few common people dare to play, but the powerful do.
Many of the people who sell illicit salt and poach the imperial government's tax revenue are powerful people.
Some of the big private salt bosses basically have the background of vassal kings, nobles, and ministers.
As the admiral of Dongchang, Wei Zhongxian naturally knows this.
Therefore, Wei Zhongxian believed that King Fu must also be selling private salt, and he must have sold a lot of it, otherwise Henan would not still be eating Huai salt now.
Therefore, Wei Zhongxian also charged King Fu with selling illegal salt.
"Is this happening?!"
Xiong Tingbi, who had been watching with cold eyes, couldn't help blurting out something at this time.
To work around the emperor, one must have the ability to figure out the emperor's thoughts.
Xiong Tingbi was no exception. Seeing Wei Zhongxian's behavior just now, he also guessed the emperor's thoughts. He knew that Wei Zhongxian talked about Prince Fu's private salt sales at this time in order to give the emperor another chance to continue to deal with the vassal kings, so he also He said it exaggeratedly.
Of course, as a capable minister who has been able to stabilize the situation in Liaodong for many years, Xiong Tingbi is not only good at figuring out the emperor's thoughts, he can also use the emperor's thoughts to achieve his own political intentions.
Therefore, Xiong Tingbi continued: "One jin of salt costs 300 kilograms. In addition to the cost of 6 qian and 4 cents, it requires 6 liang of tax and freight loss. Ninety million kilograms of salt, that is 1.8 million yuan." What a great salt benefit! And salt yin is divided into long yin and short yin. The long yin can be used for one year. Even the long yin used by King Fu has expired. Today, about 90 million jins of Huai salt can still be sold. It seems true. It was caused by smuggling, but the loss in salt tax caused by this was already equivalent to the salt tax revenue of the court in a year! This is really appalling!"
Then, Xiong Tingbi cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, I believe that it is our decree to pursue the loss of salt tax from King Fu and punish him!"
Zhu Youxiao nodded and looked at Han Xu.
Seeing that Xiong Tingbi's views did not make the emperor angry, Han Xu hurriedly agreed: "Your Majesty! I second my opinion!"
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