"King Dai, are my math skills good?" Zhu Zaijing sat on the dragon chair and looked down at King Dai on the ground.
The latter was trembling, and his voice was trembling, "Your Majesty...I have no...corruption..."
"Then how are you going to rely on the first two accounts?"
"This this…"
Dai Wang knew that he could not rely on him, because that was what everyone saw and heard.
"Let's talk about those things you did in the fiefdom? You said it didn't happen, so it didn't happen? Those officials who impeached you, the ministers in the court, and me, are we all slandering you?"
Prince Dai couldn't stand it any longer and immediately stepped forward and knelt next to his father.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. My father is old and old. He...he doesn't say anything big or small..."
"He didn't look old when he beat my slave!"
In one sentence, the resentful prince could not refute.
King Shen and King Lu looked at all this with serious faces, and they couldn't help but feel wary of the new emperor.
"Your Majesty, spare your life! Your Majesty, spare your life!"
Seeing that his son could not help much, Dai Wang kowtowed quickly, thinking about winning the emperor's sympathy and letting it go.
"I'm so confused. My ears and mouth can't work! I'm really so confused, Your Majesty!"
As the saying goes, to catch a thief first, capture the king. The first vassal king that Zhu Zaijing targeted was the oldest acting king.
Of course, he would not be the first to be killed. If he wanted to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys, he would have to pick someone from the Jiajing generation.
Let the other vassals see that as long as they are corrupt and bend the law, they will kill the common people even if they are real uncles.
Zhu Zaijing planned to take three steps.
The first step is to use their various criminal behaviors to extort a sum of money to solve an urgent need.
The second step is to require them to pay taxes, build water conservancy projects locally, or provide relief to the people at the expense of leaving the fiefdom.
The third step, hey hey hey...
With their temperament, they would definitely collude with officials and businessmen to annex larger lands and seek more private gains after being able to freely enter and exit the fiefdom.
Then catch them all in one fell swoop.
Fatten them up and then kill them!
Boil a frog in warm water!
Zhu Zaijing almost laughed when he thought about this.
"Are you saying that this matter has just passed away because I'm an old fool? Tell me, how can this matter be settled?"
King Dai raised his head in surprise. Did the emperor mean that all the things he did in the fiefdom could be discussed?
correct!
Didn’t the emperor just say that the treasury has no money?
You can buy the crime by paying yourself, right?
"I...I...I am willing to take out 30,000 taels and send them to the national treasury!"
Zhu Zaijing's face looked ugly.
Damn it!
You punish yourself with three cups, right?
Just such a painless 30,000 taels, are you fooling me?
"Is the Prince's family property so small?"
Zhu Zaijing is too lazy to pretend. Labor and management are just short of money. If you want to return to the fiefdom, you can do it yourself!
When the princes below heard this, their views were shattered.
Damn it, Emperor, no matter how poor you are, you can't be so straightforward!
When King Dai heard this, he immediately felt at ease.
Sure enough, he wants money, you should have told him earlier!
Is it still a thing to do something that can be done with money?
"Your Majesty, your Majesty's family only has this much! Your life as a vassal is not rich!"
Although spending money can settle this matter, I am not so generous that Your Majesty can just ask for it.
"It seems that not only I am poor, but the princes are also poor!" Zhu Zaijing sighed.
"Yes, Your Majesty, life is not easy for the vassal king!"
"Then I will send Jin Yiwei to send some silk cotton and a few carts of gold and silver to Dai Fan. Do you agree with Dai Wang?"
Damn it!
Dai Wang said in his heart.
"OK?"
"Your Majesty, I suddenly remembered that I still have some property in my family. I can use 100,000 taels to help the national treasury!"
Zhu Zaijing smiled evilly.
How many of you vassal kings can withstand investigation?
For so many years, the local people have been preying on the people and greedy for money!
How many vassal kings have been changed one by one, is there anyone who is not greedy? It’s all about changing the soup without changing the medicine!
The people also have reasons to say, I used to support the imperial court and the army, how good is your Zhu family vassal king that you ask me to support you now?
What is the current state of King Zhu Jiafan?
There are just a few vassal kings who are sucking the blood of the people and the country!
You don’t have the conscience to know!
These people want to covet the land after being sealed. After annexing the land, they then collude with businessmen. They collude with the businessmen to covet taxes and minerals. After coveting the minerals, they then covet food. In the end, they no longer want to be greedy, and a province cannot support a vassal king.
The Zhu family's world is about to be destroyed by the Zhu family.
Even if Zhu Yuanzhang came to this situation alive, he would have to say:
"You don't even have any shame!"
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Seeing that the emperor had not spoken yet, Dai Wang gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, I am willing to give you 200,000 taels!"
"coax!"
All the vassal kings below began to whisper, and they were all whispering to each other.
The prince nervously plucked his father's sleeves and signaled to him, are you crazy?
Dai Wang: It’s okay if labor and management don’t go crazy. If I don’t go crazy now, Jin Yiwei would have driven me crazy in the past!
"The Prince's family is really rich!"
Zhu Zaijing stood up and patted King Dai on the shoulder.
"Hey! Why are you doing this, King? I don't even dare to just scold you!"
All the vassals just watched silently as the Dog Emperor showed off his acting skills.
Ah, yes, yes, who was the person who just cried about poverty?
"Your Majesty, there is no need to be angry for me. I hurt the dragon's body. I am willing to make up for it. It is also what my Zhu family should do to help the national treasury!"
"That's right!" King Lu cursed in his heart.
"Why are you dragging us down? The emperor is talking about you, not us!"
Daiwang just can't be the only one who is unlucky. It doesn't matter if I pay, you have to pay too!
The emperor said that the treasury was running out of money, and the eldest vassal prince "took the initiative" to express his position. Do the other vassal princes have to express their opinions?
If you don't express your opinion, just wait for Jin Yiwei to come to your door and give you warmth!
Zhu Zaijing patted King Dai on the shoulder again, "Uncle King Dai! Wouldn't this be too unfair to you?"
"I will not be wronged, Your Majesty. I will never be wronged! This is what I should do!"
"Would it be too difficult for you?"
"No, no! Your Majesty, please don't blame yourself like this. I will never be embarrassed!"
"is that true?"
"Your Majesty, I really wish I could move the feudal prince's palace here and present it to Your Majesty right now!"
Zhu Zaijing felt happy.
"Okay! Your Majesty, help your father up! How can the old man kneel down!"
The prince cursed in his heart and helped his father up.
In this life, everyone in the Heavenly Family is an actor!
After that, Zhu Zaijing looked at the vassal kings with Cixi's face.
That look was like his eyes were gleaming!
The vassal princes also understood what the emperor meant: Why are you standing there in a daze?
King Shen was the first to kneel down.
"I can't bear your majesty's hardship, so I am willing to send 150,000 taels to the national treasury!"
He didn't want to be the one who stood out, but now someone was standing out. If he took the initiative for the second time, he could win the favor of the emperor and not take the blame. It was simply killing two birds with one stone!
King Lu said in his heart, "Come on, I can't help it now if I don't pay for it!"
Then he knelt down behind King Shen very perfunctorily and said, "I am willing to take 120,000 taels and send it to the treasury!"
His perfunctory behavior was seen by Feng Bao in the dark.
Then all the feudal princes knelt down one after another.
"I am willing to give you 170,000 taels!"
"I will take out 100,000 taels!"
"I will take out 210,000 taels!"
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