Alliance of the Heavens and Ming Dynasty

Chapter 42 Learn to be obedient
King Ning remained silent. The eldest nephew must have no good intentions in calling him back. He didn't dare to speculate about what he was planning to do, lest he anger Zhu Houzhao.

Now that he is back, Liaodong never wants to go back!
"Uncle, you have suffered all these years!"

Zhu Houzhao said rather sadly, his tone full of concern.

But the more enthusiastic he was, the more uneasy King Ning felt. He was able to take advantage of his rebellion and cleared out most of the wealthy gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. Zhu Houzhao is definitely not a soft-hearted person. his place.

Employing people forward, not backward, the traditional skills of the old Zhu family!

"All criminals deserve what they deserve."

"I don't know what your Majesty's order is for the guilty minister."

If Zhu Houzhao's purpose is not clear, he will not feel at ease. He has no choice but to be frightened!

Seeing that King Ning was so knowledgeable about current affairs, Zhu Houzhao stopped acting in harmony with his uncle and nephew, and said bluntly: "I really need the help of the emperor's uncle, as long as the emperor's uncle can help me to facilitate this matter, I You can restore the title of Emperor Uncle Wangjue."

King Ning was slightly taken aback. Although he was thrown to Liaodong to cultivate land and open up wasteland because of the failure of the rebellion, his title of prince was not revoked. Zhu Houzhao used the restoration of the title to lure him. What is the difference between him and the white wolf with empty gloves!
To use him as a pawn and not give him any benefits at all, that's very Zhu Houzhao.

But he has no choice, unless he wants to go back to Liaodong to continue farming, he doesn't think about himself, he also has to think about his own children. Qi, what it looks like.

"The criminal is a person who deserves to die. His life was saved only by His Majesty's mercy. Your Majesty's kindness to the criminal is as high as heaven. The criminal only wishes to go through fire and water for His Majesty."

In the end, King Ning chose to give in and work for Zhu Houzhao. He may have no power for the rest of his life, but at least it is not a problem to enjoy his old age peacefully.

In Liaodong, he had seen too many people buried in the wasteland, and he didn't want to end up in such a dismal end.

Zhu Houzhao was extremely satisfied with King Ning's attitude. Sure enough, only a place like Liaodong can teach disobedient people to learn to be obedient, and let "iron-bone" people know that they are afraid of imperial power.

"Uncle Huang was joking, you and I are both descendants of the Zhu family, descendants of Taizu, how can I have the heart to let you go through fire and water."

"I just want Uncle Huang to say something and set an example for all the kings in the world."

Zhu Houzhao stopped talking, and expressed his intentions straightforwardly: "The emperor must have heard that I am carrying out a big reform recently, but there are many obstacles, and the kings are even more difficult to overcome. I hope that the emperor can support it. My transformation."

"What does His Majesty want the guilty minister to do?"

King Ning asked calmly, but his mind became more and more confused. How could he, a feudal lord who failed in rebellion, still have the ability to support Zhu Houzhao.

"The kings of the world have occupied a large amount of land since the Taizu divided it. I think the emperor knows how most of these lands come from. I hope that the emperor can donate all the land to set an example for the kings and call on the kings to support my reform."

"I did this for the sake of our Zhu family's country. As the land becomes less and less, there will be more and more refugees. Once it reaches the point of no return, the Ming Dynasty will come to an end. As the descendant of the great ancestor, the emperor's uncle , you probably don’t want to see that happen!”

Zhu Houzhao said in a high-sounding way that part of his reform was for the people of the world, but more of it was for himself and his imperial power.

In the whole world, is it the land of the king, the shore of the land, and the ministers of the king? Everything in Da Ming belongs to him. Da Ming can only have his own voice, and the territory of Da Ming is also his. He has to spit it all out, this is the case for the vassal king group, and other interest groups are no exception.

King Ning was sweating coldly, he understood everything, why Zhu Houzhao didn't kill him when he rebelled, and kept his title of king, just waiting for this day!

As early as when he failed in the rebellion and was captured alive, all his fiefdoms and family property were confiscated. It is no problem to use it as an excuse to support Zhu Houzhao's reform. Anyway, he does not need to pay anything, but if he really did as Zhu Houzhao said, That will have a great influence, and he will become the public enemy of all kings in the world.

He Ning Wang supported the emperor's reform and handed over all his belongings. If the vassal kings of various places did not respond accordingly, then Zhu Houzhao would have a reason to deal with the kings. He only cared about his own self-interest and disregarded the country. Handle the kings easily.

Taking King Ning as an example, responding to Zhu Houzhao's reform, and handing over the land he plundered by various means is tantamount to cutting and bleeding the kings. They will never do it. When it comes to greed, the vassal kings everywhere It is no less than the power groups of all parties, and even worse.

With King Ning as a benchmark, no matter whether they support or not, the vassal princes from all over the world will not be able to escape Zhu Houzhao's palm, unless they dare to imitate King Ning and rebel.

But do they dare? They dare not. After Zhu Di Feng Tianjing was difficult to succeed, because he was also a vassal king, he was extremely wary of the vassal king group, deprived the various rights of the vassal king, and completely treated them like pigs. They make money and enclose land, and they can do anything wrong, but rebellion, whether they can hold a knife is a problem.

Counting it, King Ning is also considered to be an excellent existence among the many vassal kings. If he hadn't met such a freak as Wang Yangming, with the support of the wealthy gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, he might have made some good noises.

Being able to pull up an army to rebel, and there are still many people supporting him, King Ning still has enough brains, and he immediately figured out the pros and cons of Zhu Houzhao letting him speak out in support of the reform, and it was difficult to make a decision for a while.

If you support Zhu Houzhao, even if you have no worries for the rest of your life, you will offend the feudal lord group to death. If you don't support Zhu Houzhao, that ghost place in Liaodong may be his burial place.

After thinking for a while and weighing the pros and cons, King Ning finally made the right choice: "Your Majesty is planning for my great Ming Dynasty's future foundation, and there is no reason for the guilty minister not to follow."

Most of the vassal kings' group are like stupid pigs, they can't achieve anything, even if they are offended to death.

As long as I can live comfortably, I don't care whether the princes of various places are dying or living.

King Ning has completely disregarded it. Although he and all the kings in the world belong to the vassal lord group, but now he cannot protect himself, so what qualifications do he have to consider for the vassal kings of various places? The most important thing is to live freely.

"The emperor's uncle is full of patriotism. I am very relieved. I hope that other emperor's uncles can also be as sensible as the emperor's uncle, and give more consideration to the great Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Houzhao came as soon as he opened his mouth, and he didn't notice that the reason why King Ning became so obedient was all thanks to Zhang Yong, one of his eight tiger servants.

Don’t eat well, don’t dress well, don’t sleep well, work all day long, under the oppression of various means, let alone King Ning, who was pampered and pampered since childhood, is those who often boast that they are strong and fearless. All the scholars have long since collapsed and learned to be obedient, but just learning to be obedient is useless. Before Liaodong is fully developed, it is impossible for those people to come back.

(End of this chapter)