my days with tyrants

Chapter 300 Brother-in-law and brother-in-law
Soon the five kings entered the palace.

At this time, Shen An, Tang Yingyi and the Five Kings were sealed beforehand.

Here, the two kings of Shen An have grown up.

In fact, King Shen and King Han were born in the same year.

The King of Han has already set up Kaiyuan, and he himself follows King Qin and others. As for his guards in Kaiyuan, they are actually the original [-] Guards and Liaohai Guards, and another one is being formed, so he didn't follow up with them at all...

They don't have time for this shit.

Those military households in Kaiyuan are now working in silver mines. After years of construction, the annual output of Shanmen Silver Mine has exceeded 20 taels.

This silver mine does not belong to the imperial court.

Because of the poor local conditions in Liaodong, and Zhu Yuanzhang didn't understand it very well at the beginning, he was fooled by Yang Feng and gave Sanwanwei and Liaohaiwei supplementary military supplies.

It is the health product of Sanwanwei and Liaohaiwei.

But instead of mining by the two guards themselves, it became a commercial contracting model under the operation of Yang Feng, Zhu Di and others, and then a company contracted by Zhu Di, Zhu Zhi, the little princess, and two generals of the guards. The firm hired local military households as workers, and they changed from agricultural military households to industrial and mining military households.This model is of course illegal, but it works well. After all, agriculture in the Kaiyuan area itself is difficult to feed the military households. With this model, the farmland is left to the family’s wives and children. Anyway, the grain production cannot be self-sufficient, and at this time the sea transportation With the development of Liaodong and the prosperity of the canning industry, there is actually no shortage of food in Liaodong.

Canned food alone can replenish a large part of military supplies every year.

In other words, Kaiyuan is still subject to transportation restrictions.

In places like Liaoyang, the price of grain is even lower than the imperial government's set purchase price.

The same is true in history.

According to the historical records of the Ming Dynasty, the price of rice in Liaodong during the Hongwu period was once lower than the price of grain reserves purchased by the imperial court in the south, because military supplies were rationed and there was no need to buy them, and the local self-produced grain was too much, which eventually led to a surplus of grain in Liaodong. , then the grain flowing into the market can only be sold at ultra-low prices.

Compared with the serious food shortage in Liaodong at the end of Ming Dynasty, there are two extremes.

One of the fundamental reasons is that the fleeing of military households led to a decrease in production, and the increase in the population of Mongolian Jurchens led to the outflow of food. The second is that after the reform of the salt industry abolished the open-centre system, salt merchants did not need to build commercial settlements in Liaodong, and large areas of land were barren.

But now it's different.

Not only are these all available, but also increased the supply source of canned food that can be produced locally.

Eventually, Liaodong began to have a surplus of food.

In this way, a certain amount of industrial population can be supported, so the young and strong in Kaiyuan can leave production and work in silver mines to make money.

Originally, the food they should have handed over to Wei was converted into treasure notes at the official price.

The military supplies transported by the imperial court were directly sent to the silver mines.

The mined silver goes into the bank.

The sky is high and the emperor is far away!

Anyway, it is impossible for Zhu Yuanzhang to go to see how they operate.

King Han went and no one paid attention.

Besides, when he went, Zhu Yuanzhang was already out of business. Zhu Yunxi hadn't planned to let him stay there, but Zhu Yuanzhang let him become a vassal, so he had to fool around first and let him receive a salary in Kaiyuan as a residence. As for King Shen Because he was still behind him, Zhu Yunxi found an excuse to procrastinate, and Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care about it later, and the other four couldn't get their turn. They just held the title of vassal king and worked as Yugong in the capital.

Zhu Yunxie's original plan was to keep them going. In his plan, except for the king of Sai, no one would stay. He would either go to the frontier fortress to receive a fief and suffer, or go to Beijing to receive a salary and enjoy the blessings. It is impossible for Ying Yi to be a fan.

These three fiefs are Nanyang, Anlu, and Luoyang.

How could such a vassal remain?

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang was not actually prepared to let them surrender.

Yang Feng hadn't come yet when they became kings.

After Yang Feng came, Zhu Yuanzhang, who knew the future development, had long since given up thinking about letting them become feudal vassals, but they were still young, and they just had a title and waited in line to make other arrangements.

Qianqing Palace.

"Here is a will."

Yang Feng poked at the will on the table in front of him, which was born less than an hour ago.

Shen Wang and others looked at the content of the will and were speechless.

Return the edict?
When our father died, we were all in front of the bed. Outside Zhu Yunwen passed on the false edict, and inside you also passed on the false edict. The coffin boards of Emperor Daxing couldn’t hold it down. come out?
"Uncles, this edict was left by Emperor Daxing before his death, but His Majesty has a kind heart and doesn't want those veterans to die like this, so he concealed the edict. Your Majesty is the master of the world, and he did it out of kindness. But now that His Majesty is gone, I am a woman, so I dare not continue to hide it, so I brought it out. However, it is very chaotic outside now, and there are many people with sinister intentions. They must spread rumors and say they are false. Therefore, please The Fourteenth Aunt testified with all the uncles, saying that the Emperor Daxing issued the edict in front of you, so that the mouths of those people were blocked. The Fourteenth Aunt knew about it a long time ago, so I will wait for the uncles. "

The queen said very gracefully.

"Wouldn't you be afraid of the Heavenly Punishment of the Daxing Emperor?"

Yi Wang, who was only a junior high school student, couldn't bear it anymore, and pointed at his niece and daughter-in-law angrily and shouted.

Then his sister walked in front of him with a cold face, and with her height of almost 1.7 meters [-], with a strong coercion, looked down at her brother...

"Are you saying that I have passed on a false inheritance edict?"

She said.

Yi Wang was instantly discouraged.

"Your Majesty!"

cried his sister.

Instinctively, his legs gave way, and he knelt directly in front of his sister.

Then the little princess looked at the others.

King Ying, who was the same age as King Yi, and King Tang, who was slightly older, were so frightened that they quickly knelt down. The slightly older King An wanted to be stubborn, but his sister walked over and gave a kick, and then he also knelt in humiliation. After getting off, the little princess walked in front of King Shen who was actually the same age as her...

"The fourteenth sister wants to mess with my Zhu family?"

The latter said angrily.

"How do you talk to your sister? You don't know any rules."

Then Yang Feng's face appeared in front of him.

"This is my Zhu family's business, what has it to do with Your Excellency?"

King Shen said angrily.

The next moment Yang Feng's hands appeared on his shoulders.

Immediately under the pressure of a huge irresistible force, his legs went limp, and he knelt down on the ground. He roared angrily and tried to stand up, but in the end it was all in vain. The hands pressing on his shoulders were like two pedestals. Like a mountain, not to mention standing up, even breathing began to be difficult...

"I'm your brother-in-law. If you disrespect your sister, I have to take care of it."

Yang Feng said very sincerely.

Then he raised the platform with both hands, and King Shen, who was about to suffocate, immediately collapsed on the ground.

Cold sweat dripped from his head.

"Let me tell you, this edict was left by my father before he died. It is for our Zhu family's country. You don't look at what these veterans are doing outside. Don't you think they are our Zhu family's loyal ministers? Our family We started from a humble family. Our father made a living by begging for food when he was young. These people followed him, like Zhou Dexing, and we have known each other since he was poor. They all know what our family was like in the past, even People like our family can sit in the mountains and rivers, so why can't they?
It turns out that these people have been eliminated by our father many years ago.

It was after your brother-in-law came that he persuaded our father to keep them. Now that they saw our Zhu family's internal turmoil, they immediately became ambitious.

Look at Wang Bi is already a separatist regime in Annan.

The He family also wants to separate in Guangdong.

Zhou Dexing, Cao Zhen, etc. Seeing that Lanyu is going to enter the capital, they will bring troops over immediately. I made it clear that they all wait for five months until the queen's child is born. None of them listened. Daddy Zigong They had already disobeyed the capital's orders when Yunxi was killed while still in the palace.

what is this?
The decree is not listened to!

I am your elder sister, and your brother-in-law is the envoy of the Great Xia Kingdom. Everything we do is for the sake of our Zhu family! "

The little princess shouted at her five brothers.

"My fourteenth sister's lesson is that my brother suddenly remembered that my father did have a will at that time, but I didn't pay attention for a while when I was crying sadly, but now I immediately remembered it when I saw the will."

An Wang said quickly.

"what about you?"

cried his sister.

"Brother, I seem to remember this too."

King Tang said tremblingly.

The three youngest of them have been under the shadow of the little princess all these years. After all, those married princesses don't often go to the palace, but the little princess is different, and they control the economy of the capital. Their mother has to curry favor with her. They didn't dare to resist even though their hands were itchy and beaten.It is said that there is no reason for the elder sister to beat the younger brother. If you are in a good mood, you will come over and beat you. If you are not in a good mood, you will come over and beat you. They grow rapidly, and the sixteenth is already over 1.7 meters. To them, they are like giants. None of them have the ability, so many years have already formed the coercion on the soul.

"like?"

His sister stared.

"No, it's not like, it's true."

King Tang said quickly.

The Second King Yingyi quickly followed Kuang and nodded.

The little princess looked at King Shen with satisfaction.

"You are not a child anymore. Why are you so ignorant? Your brother-in-law is also doing it for your own good."

She said.

"Brother obeys Fourteenth Sister in everything."

King Shen said somewhat weakly.

While speaking, he also looked at his brother-in-law. His brother-in-law smiled kindly, and he immediately shivered in fright.

The rest is simple. Next to the will, there will soon be another secret document. The five kings jointly named the Emperor Daxing already fainted at the end of his life.Then there is the imperial decree given to them by His Majesty the Emperor, which is to accept their advice and temporarily suppress the will, so that the whole incident becomes the five kings persuading the emperor to suppress the will.As for the emperor's imperial decree, how can the emperor write the imperial decree himself? It is written by the ceremonial supervisor, and then stamped, but the procedure is that the cabinet drafts the decree, the ceremonial supervisor copies it, and then goes to six departments for review, but they are secret. played.

At least this is not so troublesome in the early Ming Dynasty.

There are two types of memorials in the Ming Dynasty, one is the title book, which can be made public, and even needs to be copied to various departments.

One is playbook.

This is not public.

After civil servants control the government, they must strictly follow the procedures, but this was not necessary in Zhu Yuanzhang's era.

In this way, the imperial edicts of the two dead emperors were quickly processed.

Then call Zhang Xianzong, he is a bachelor, and he is still the same after returning, basically equivalent to the later chief assistant, anyway, the six ministers and the king of Shu are still locked in the Daqing Palace, and the other civil servants are in their respective yamen, now the capital Closed, there is no government affairs to speak of.

After Zhang Xianzong arrived at the palace, the queen immediately ordered him to draw up an edict, asking the kings to enter Beijing immediately.

"Go, pass the decree!"

Yang Feng said with the imperial decree.

"Ambassador, King Guangze's army is still besieging the city."

The queen reminded him.

"Did he delay my entry into the city by besieging the city?"

Yang Feng said.

The queen was speechless.

In fact, Zhu Yunqi couldn't surround the capital either.

At present, he still focuses on Shence, Jinchuan and other city gates, and then some regiments practice at Yuhuatai. Cao Zhen's army did not land on the south bank, but the whole army landed on the Pukou to Hezhou line. Qu Neng led the main force to Qingliuguan. Sitting in Pukou with the King of Chu, Chen Huan, Marquis of Puding, went north to Xuyi.

After Lan Yu returned to Fengyang, he left Zhang Yi, Marquis of Heqing, at Qingliu Pass.

He is not worried about Nanlu.

As long as Zhu Yunqi can't enter the capital, he has nothing to worry about, and the little princess also gave him a surprise.

What really made him afraid was Zhou Dexing who went south from Kaifeng.

The latter was supported by the coalition forces of the kings and had already approached the Huaihe River.

Moreover, the Shaanxi army led by Xu Huizu and the Gansu army brought back by Sun Ke are all coming, and it will not take long for Xu Huizu's troops to arrive. As long as Lan Yu solves the northern line, the south does not necessarily need to fight. We have known each other for decades, what can we not talk about?But Zhou Dexing and Xu Huizu's group is difficult to manage, because Zhu Di is still behind them. At this time, Zhu Di is still waiting, and it is not even ruled out that they have colluded with Zhu Di long ago.Zhu Di didn't care about Zhu Yunqi, because Zhu Yunqi was the one who picked him up. It is said that Ma He's fleet is still in the south, and Zhu Yunqi is relying on Jiangsu and Zhejiang. As long as Zhu Di makes a move, Ma He lands behind, and Zhu Yunqi's good situation will collapse immediately.

In the final analysis, those mobs under him are really not worthy of being opponents.

Just need him.

But Sapphire is different.

Zhu Di knew very well that even if he was himself, he would not be able to say that he would win a field battle against Sapphire. The latter was indeed not familiar with the new tactics at first, but he had begun to adapt in the later stage. If Sapphire controlled the capital, he would be in trouble.

In this case, it is obviously good for his uncle and Zhou Dexing to do it first.

Sapphire is also very aware of the situation.

The south is easy to deal with, but the north is hard to deal with.

"But it's already late today, let's go tomorrow!"

said the little princess.

The queen smiled slightly.

"In this case, the ambassador, ah, uncle is resting in the front hall, fourteenth aunt, please arrange this!"

She said.

The little princess pulled Yang Feng with a smile on her face, and walked away with Zhang Ying.

"King Shen, please five uncles to go to the Daqing Hall to announce the decree to the King of Shu. Before the kings arrive in Beijing, the five uncles and the King of Shu should all be in the Daqing Hall. There are also rooms on the left and right."

Then the queen said to Shen Wang and others.

These five can no longer be released from the imperial palace, they must wait until all the kings have arrived, and before that, they must be on guard, especially those like King Shen and King An.

(End of this chapter)