"Chen Huaiyi deserves to die because he insists on telling the truth!"
Li Jin's understatement made everyone at the table change their expressions.
Lan Yu looked at Li Jin in horror, daring to say this in front of the emperor, fearing that no one could save him.
It is estimated that even his nine clans will go down to accompany him.
Ma Sandao looked at Li Jin with the same horror, and immediately stood up to plead with Li Jin.
"Emperor..."
"shut up!!!"
Zhu Yuanzhang roared violently, interrupting Ma Sandao's words.
At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang's face was flushed, his eyes were wide open, bloodshot eyes were spreading towards his pupils, and he was staring straight at Li Jin, looking extremely scary.
After Zhu Yuanzhang saw Li Jin's memorial, he always thought that Li Jin was someone who could understand him. But now it seems that he, Zhu Yuanzhang, was wrong.
It was because Li Jin did not dare to tell the truth that he agreed with him and wrote down his thoughts.
In this case, let's take this opportunity to take a good look at what this bastard has to say.
Zhu Yuanzhang slowly turned to his right and pointed at Li Jin and said:
"Tell me, how dare Chen Huaiyi tell the truth? If you can't tell the truth, we will let the emperor kill you."
Zhu Yuanzhang's aura was so overwhelming that even those sitting opposite Zhu Yuanzhang felt creepy, let alone Lan Yu, who was sitting next to Zhu Yuanzhang.
However, Li Jin didn't realize it and picked his ears without fear.
This old Huang is bad at this. He roars at every turn and is simply a noise maker.
"When it comes to fencing the king and guarding the border, I am afraid that only the emperor himself in the world will think this is a good strategy."
"For military generals, they are naturally unhappy if the feudal king takes away their jobs."
"For civil servants, the vassal king is the source of trouble and cannot be tolerated by civil servants."
"For the common people, supporting the imperial court is already a huge burden. In the future, they will also have to support the vassal king of the vassal area. The days will only get worse day by day."
"To the prince, these vassal kings hold military power and are simply countries within a country. How can they be recognized by the prince?"
"For future generations of Ming Dynasty kings, this is even more of a strategy to subjugate the country!!"
Li Changgeng's speech was inspiring.
Whether it was Lan Yu and others who were sitting, or Zhu Biao who was standing, they all looked thoughtful.
Only Zhu Yuanzhang, not only his face, but also his neck was red, and his eyes were bloodshot, as if he had been greatly stimulated.
"That's nonsense. I think you're just trying to confuse people with your lies."
"How could this strategy of fencing the king and guarding the border become a strategy of subjugating the country in the future?"
Li Jin saw Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance and sighed:
"Old Huang, it's too small! The situation is too small!"
"The current emperor has set a precedent for creating vassal kings. Later emperors will only follow the script and ennoble their descendants to vassal kings."
"The so-called descendants are endless. With so many princes and grandsons, how much should their annual salary be?"
"But all these salaries must be supported by the imperial court. By then, the royal salary will become a burden on the national treasury."
"When these salaries take up more than half of the national treasury, the imperial court will completely lose money to provide food and wages to the army, provide relief to the victims, and govern the king!"
"At that time, how long can the Ming Empire last?"
"Not only that, when the vassal king arrives, he will own the vassal land, but these vassal lands will not have to pay taxes to the court at all."
"As generations pass on, the vassal territory of the vassal king will only become larger and larger, and he will continue to annex land and become the largest landowner in the Ming Dynasty."
"But they don't have to pay taxes. Between this increase and decrease, the national treasury will be empty of money every year."
"The tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty vassal will not be reduced by half because of the empty treasury. In the end, the treasury will have no income at all. What will happen to the world?"
Zhu Yuanzhang felt uncomfortable being choked by Li Jin and asked:
"The world is so big, how many descendants can the emperor have?"
"In such a big place, what if we can support these princes and grandsons for two hundred years, not to mention one hundred years?"
Li Jin frowned slightly and said:
"Old Huang, it's no wonder that you are still a relative of the emperor. Why are your horizons so small?"
"Our Ming Dynasty wants to become an empire that lasts for a thousand years. How can we only see the next one hundred or two hundred years?"
"At the beginning of the establishment of an empire, the foundation is the most critical."
"If the emperor laid hidden dangers for the foundation of the empire at the beginning, how could the Ming Empire last for thousands of years?"
Li Jin directly made a big cake for Zhu Yuanzhang. After all, as a relative of the emperor, as long as the Ming Dynasty lasts forever, then he, Lao Huang, will naturally be one of the beneficiaries.
"Thousand-year Empire...Thousand-year Empire..."
Zhu Yuanzhang kept murmuring Li Jin's words, his eyes a little wandering.
Seeing this, Zhu Biao couldn't help but ask:
"Isn't there any merit in being a king and guarding the border?"
"If the king's border defense was really so bad, how could so many people agree to it?"
"Even Li Shanchang, the prime minister of the current dynasty, took the initiative to ask the emperor to grant him a title to guard the border."
Li Jin looked at Zhu Biao, pondered for a moment and said:
"There is certainly merit in being a king and guarding the border."
"For the emperor, sealing the king to guard the border is the best way to stabilize the imperial power now."
"Now that the world is settled, there are remnants of the Mongolian Yuan in both the north and the south, and they might make a comeback."
"In addition, there are proud soldiers in the imperial court."
As he said this, Li Jin looked specifically at Lan Yu and others, only to be met with angry glares from all of them.
"Everyone holding military power is ultimately a destabilizing factor."
"If the prince leads the troops outside, the emperor doesn't have to worry about someone wearing a yellow robe and Chen Qiao mutiny."
"You don't have to worry about unguarded borders. It's like killing two birds with one stone."
"It's just that royal power will eventually affect imperial power. As the founder of the country, the emperor will naturally be able to firmly suppress these vassal kings."
"But in the next generation, once the emperor is weak and incompetent, the vassal king will usurp the throne and civil strife will break out."
"But it depends on the current prince!"
After Li Jin finished speaking, everyone fell silent.
Lan Yu and others looked at Zhu Yuanzhang uneasily. Just as Li Jin analyzed just now, as Huaixi nobles, they are naturally arrogant and domineering.
However, they were relying on the emperor's favor, but Li Jin's words just now told them that the emperor had begun to be suspicious of them.
This made them feel uneasy.
Zhu Yuanzhang finally came to his senses at this time. As Li Jin said just now, the most important function of fengwang garrison is to consolidate the power of his old Zhu family.
This is crucial so he never changes his mind.
But if the king's border garrison would have such a great impact on future generations, then he still needs to think carefully and not implement it completely according to his own ideas.
"Then in your opinion, how can we improve the border defense of King Feng so that we can get the best of both worlds?"
