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Chapter 219 The difference between the imperial family's hidden veins and bright veins
Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Sandalwood is slightly diffused.

Zheng Ming sat lazily at the tea table and looked at the memorial in his hand.

This memorial is very interesting. It was made by the governor of South China Province, impeaching King Lu for occupying the land, enslaving the people, and suppressing Zhongliang.

"Little Fuzi, go and fetch the file of Li Yuansheng, Governor of South China Province." Zheng Ming said.

A moment later, Xiao Fuzi went to Jinyiwei Yamen to bring Li Yuansheng's file.

Zheng Ming looked at Li Yuansheng's file and couldn't help smiling.

Li Yuansheng, born in the Li family of a wealthy family in Guangyu Province, has been an official for more than 20 years. He climbed from a seventh-rank county magistrate all the way to the first-rank governor. This is a proper history of the promotion of the children of the aristocratic family.

He didn't impeach him sooner or later, but he impeached King Lu at this time, obviously because he wanted to make trouble.

Set up King Lu as a target to test Zheng Ming's attitude.

If Zheng Ming dealt with King Lu, it would inevitably intensify the conflict between him and the royal family. If Zheng Ming didn't deal with it, it would be unfair. This put Zheng Ming in a dilemma.

"It's interesting!" Zheng Ming laughed.

These wealthy families really don't have a good person, they always think of plotting against him.

"It seems that it is still easy to do."

A coldness flashed in Zheng Ming's eyes.

Although Li Yuansheng's purpose was impure, the evidence of his impeachment against King Lu was true.

Prince Lu's Mansion is the oldest royal mansion in Dali, with a history of more than 300 years, and the blood relationship with Zheng Ming is almost to the extreme.

Precisely because of the longest inheritance, the heritage of Prince Lu's Mansion is the richest.

The fiefdom of King Lu's Mansion is in Anhe County, South China Province. At first, it was only 300 mu of land. However, in the past 500,000 years, the land occupied by King Lu's Mansion in South China has exceeded [-] mu, which is larger than that of Zhang Lingzheng's Zhang family. .

Coupled with the taxes of Anhe County, Lu Wang Mansion is simply rich.

And the status of Prince Lu's Mansion in Anhe County is no worse than that of Zheng Ming in Shanhai County before. It can be said that Anhe County is a small kingdom of Prince Lu's Mansion.

Such a wealthy family property, rather than leaving it to King Lu to squander, it is better to return it to the court and use it for the people.

Not only Prince Lu's Mansion, but also other princes and county kings should squeeze it out.

According to the regulations of the Dali Dynasty, princes and county kings have the right to collect taxes on the fiefdoms. This privilege is not conducive to his new tax system, so naturally it cannot be kept.

With salary, land confiscation, and taxes, Dali's preferential treatment for the royal family is too generous, and Zheng Ming seems a little unhappy.

Land can be granted and salaries can be given, but the right to taxation must never be separated from the court.

Not only the right to tax, but also the order of the sect.

In the future, the rights established by sects will also be tightened, and they can no longer be granted at will.

Thinking of this, Zheng Ming asked Xiao Fuzi to get ready to write.

Before, he still ignored the rights of the royal family, and the memorial submitted by the cabinet deliberately avoided the issue of the royal family. Now he has to sort out the issue of the royal family.

In terms of dealing with the royal family, Dali did not have many restrictions. Apart from not being an official or a general, the royal family could engage in any other profession, and there was no restriction on freedom.

In fact, Zheng Ming didn't care about the royal family being officials or generals, and he didn't want to restrict the royal family's freedom, but he didn't allow the royal family to have too many privileges.

Especially the right to taxation and the right to issue Zongmen orders, these two points must be taken back.

In this way, Zheng Ming made a new system for the royal family.

All privileges were abolished, only the salary and land closure were retained, and even the fiefdom was taken away from him.

The original hereditary title was changed to descending one rank every generation.

At the same time, the same is true for different surnames.

After finishing writing, Zheng Ming dried the ink and handed it to Xiao Fuzi.

"Send it to King Li and ask him to add the details accordingly."

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Zongren Mansion.

Looking at what Zheng Ming wrote, Zheng Ziyuan felt that he was not well.

"Your Majesty, why is this?"

He didn't understand Zheng Ming's thoughts.

The royal family is distributed all over the dynasty, and they should be the most staunch supporters of the emperor, but now Zheng Ming is suppressing the royal family in such a way.

If Zheng Ming wants to reduce the expenses of the royal family, he can still understand. After all, there are too many royal families now, and they have become a burden to the court. It is only natural to reduce the expenses.

But he couldn't understand why Zheng Ming was so mean to the royal family.

In his eyes, Zheng Ming's new system is mean.

But in Zheng Ming's eyes, this is already very preferential treatment. He has reserved the salary and land for the royal family. Even the lowest royal family can live a well-off life with their salary, let alone those princes and county kings.

Zheng Song stretched his neck to look at the document in Zheng Ziyuan's hand, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

"Grandpa, His Majesty allows the children of the royal family to participate in the imperial examination!"

"Yeah." Zheng Ziyuan said absent-mindedly.

"Great!" Zheng Song said happily.

"What's so good?" Zheng Ziyuan frowned slightly.

Zheng Song was in high spirits, and said, "Grandson is going to participate in the martial arts exam!"

"Nonsense, what does it look like for you to be a descendant of the king of ceremony to participate in martial arts?" Zheng Ziyuan said.

Zheng Song raised his head and said: "If I am a general, I can clear the world for Your Majesty, and create a prosperous world together with Your Majesty."

A heroic young man, at the prime of his life; full of pride and ambition, how could he be willing to be a lord waiting to die.

"It's up to you!"

However, before he could fully express his pride, Zheng Ziyuan slapped him away.

"With your little cultivation, even if you take part in martial arts, you won't be able to make it to the list."

"Grandpa, don't look down on people. I'm already a fourth-rank martial artist. Even if I can't rank among the top three, I can still pass the exam for a martial arts scholar." Zheng Song said unconvinced.

Zheng Ziyuan frowned, and said angrily: "Go, go, get out of here, I'm upset just looking at you brat."

Zheng Song curled his lips, but didn't say any more, so he had to leave the study.

And Zheng Ziyuan was sitting on a chair, looking at the document in his hand, his expression fluctuating.

He seemed to understand Zheng Ming's intentions, but he still had many doubts in his heart.

I don't know how long it took before he let out a long sigh of relief.

"I hope His Majesty is right."

He said helplessly.

……

Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Zheng Ming sat on the wide chair, his eyes were slightly closed, but there was a faint smile on his face.

His mind was already immersed in the system page, looking at the constantly beating luck value, his heart was filled with joy.

No matter how many people outside are dissatisfied with the new tax system, the recognition of ordinary people for him is real.

A decree was spread throughout the world, and his luck value increased rapidly as if he was on a rocket.

In just a few days, it has increased by tens of thousands of points. This speed makes Zheng Ming feel like he is dreaming.

However, this situation should not last long. When the heat passes, the speed of improvement will stabilize.

But one thing is certain, even after it stabilizes, the increase in luck value will be much faster than before.

"Your Majesty!" Little Fuzi walked up to Zheng Ming and said softly, "Prince Li, please see me."

Zheng Ming came back to his senses and said, "Please come in."

He still had a good impression of King Li.

When he ascended the throne, the King of Li followed him all the way, took care of all kinds of chores, appeased the royal family, and gave him full support.

Zheng Ming must keep this favor in his heart.

"Greetings, Your Majesty." Zheng Ziyuan walked into the hall and saluted quickly.

Zheng Ming said with a smile: "Uncle Huang, hurry up and excuse me, little Fuzi, bring a chair for King Li."

Afterwards, Xiao Fuzi moved a chair, and Zheng Ziyuan sat on the chair.

"Your Majesty, this is the new royal system supplemented by the old man. Please have a look at it." Zheng Ziyuan handed a memorial to Zheng Ming.

Zheng Ming opened it and looked.

In general, Zheng Ziyuan did not modify his meaning, but only added some details.

Among them, he increased the salary of the royal family by about [-]%.

Zheng Ming frowned slightly, although compared to the power to collect taxes, the salary does not seem to be important.

But this does not mean that the royal family's salary is very small, on the contrary, the royal family's salary is also a big burden on the court.

He could understand Zheng Ziyuan's meaning, it was nothing more than appeasing the royal family by increasing his salary.

However, Zheng Ming was still not satisfied with this.

"Uncle Huang, do you know why I want to deprive the royal family of their rights?" Zheng Ming said.

"Your Majesty, please clarify." Zheng Ziyuan said.

Zheng Ming put down the memorial, tapped on the table, and said: "The royal family is divided into Ming veins and Yin veins. There are 23 people in Ming veins, and less than 20,000 people in Yin veins."

"Most of the 20,000 people in Hidden Vein are cultivators, including more than 3000 middle-rank warriors, more than 500 upper-rank warriors, and three grandmasters."

"Among the 23 people in Mingmai, there are less than 5000 middle-rank warriors, 130 upper-rank warriors, and no grandmaster."

"Yinmai consumes about 800,000 taels of resources and money every year, while Mingmai's annual salary alone costs about 4 million taels."

"Uncle Huang, have you noticed the difference?"

Zheng Ming sneered.

Is there no one with good qualifications in Mingmai?
Yes, and more.

However, with a difference of ten times the number of people, the practitioners of Mingmai are not as good as Yinmai, and the reason for this can be imagined.

Most of Mingmai's children were raised as dudes, while Yinmai focused on cultivation, and instead cultivated many talents.

It's not that Zheng Ming doesn't value the royal family, it's just that he doesn't want to raise the royal family like pigs.

After Zheng Ziyuan finished listening, he remained silent for a long time.

Some things are really incomparable. Once compared, Mingmai more than 20 royals have become waste.

"Your Majesty's painstaking efforts, I understand."

Zheng Ming said: "Not only can the salary not be increased, but I will further reduce the salary. However, I will give 1 million taels of silver to the Clan Mansion, and the Clan Mansion will form the Royal Chamber of Commerce, and all the income of the Royal Chamber of Commerce will be controlled by the Clan Mansion." .”

"Compared to being born rich, I hope that the royal family can strive for self-improvement."

"Your Majesty is wise, but the old man didn't think carefully." Zheng Ziyuan said in a deep voice.

Zheng Ming smiled and said, "Uncle Huang, don't blame yourself."

"I'm worried that some people will do something unwise." Zheng Ziyuan said.

"Unwise move!" Zheng Ming chuckled and said, "If they are like this, the emperor don't need to bother, I will deal with it."

Zheng Ziyuan's heart trembled, and he immediately understood that Zheng Ming was about to use the knife.

However, he didn't refute or persuade. Some people can't see the reality clearly and deserve to die.

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