Take a plane to the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 452 Nightmare
Zhu Yujian raised his head and looked at his wife and queen who had gone away, but he didn't listen to Zhu Changyuan's words at all. He was always worried about his wife, afraid of wearing a cuckold tonight.

Therefore, when Zhu Changyuan asked, he just said casually: "Please, Your Majesty, I know everything I can say."

Zhu Changyuan nodded, and asked abruptly and shamelessly: "I want to know how much land is under the name of King Tang?"

"Um, land, I have..."

Wait, wait, something doesn't seem right.

Zhu Yujian resolutely stopped talking immediately, looked at Zhu Changyuan in a daze for three seconds, then changed his words and said, "I don't know either!"

Zhu Yujian really didn't know that he just took over the title and family property of King Tang. When he was in power, he only studied. He never asked about the financial situation of the family, and asked him how much land he had.

Moreover, he is now looking at Zhu Changyuan very vigilantly, and secretly said: Could it be that the emperor wants to draw my attention, which piece of my land has he taken a fancy to?No, the emperor is rich all over the world, so he can't even value my small land!
"Tang Wang really doesn't know?"

Zhu Changyuan picked up the wine glass with a smile, and asked while drinking.

Zhu Yujian shook his head decisively again, "I don't usually ask about this matter!" Indeed, because this guy was first imprisoned in the Flattery Department for 16 years, and now he was imprisoned in Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum for three years, he has no time to ask.

"Okay!" Zhu Changyuan took a deep breath and said, "You don't know, I'll tell you, your Tang family is powerful, and now you have 16 hectares of first-class farmland."

Zhu Yujian remained silent, wondering what Zhu Changyuan meant by this.

Zhu Changyuan kept talking: "16 hectares, 16 hectares."

16 hectares of land is roughly equivalent to a square of [-] kilometers long from north to south. From this, it can also be imagined that the entire land of King Tang in Nanyang covers as many as three or five counties, and Nima is bigger than Riyue Island. Several times!
Three or five counties are negligible compared to the entire empire, but one must know that there were more than 120 vassal kings and county kings in the Ming Dynasty, and each of them embezzled one or two counties, so what will happen to this country?

Moreover, the land of the Tang Palace is not the largest among all the vassals, it can only be said to be average!
Thinking of this, Zhu Changyuan was heartbroken, and realized the root cause of the Ming Dynasty's subjugation on a deeper level.

"Uncle Huang, with 16 hectares, 600 million mu of land, the annual income of the Tang Palace should not be less than tens of millions of taels of silver?" Zhu Changyuan's face muscles twitched slightly, and there was a burst of heartache.

Nima, all the taxes and incomes on Sun Moon Island are only a few times more than yours.

Before, he thought about using silver to buy back the land in the hands of the feudal lords, but now it's a good thing. After calculating it, he took out all the silver in Riyue Island to buy it, which probably wasn't enough to buy the land of Tang Wang's family.

After all, in the late Ming Dynasty, the price of one mu of land was still around ten taels of silver!Even Zhu Changyuan couldn't have so much money in his hands.

"Return to Your Majesty!" Tang Wang shook his head and said, "Although I don't know the annual income of the family, I will never have tens of millions of taels of silver as Your Majesty said!"

"Oh?" Zhu Changyuan looked up at Zhu Yujian.

Zhu Yujian said: "Your Majesty does not know that there are [-] descendants of the royal family of the Tang Dynasty. After deducting the salary distributed to them, it is not bad to have one or two tenths of the annual income. It is absolutely impossible to have a huge amount of tens of millions! "

Zhu Changyuan said "oh", as if I understood.

That's right, the Ming Dynasty needed to raise so many vassals who looked like pigs, so why didn't every big vassal have to raise a royal family like a pig?

Calculated in this way, Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants should have several million or more descendants just for those clan children who are idle and do not work, because after all, these people are not allowed to be officials and imperial examinations. Do something else.

Tumor, big tumor!

Zhu Changyuan sighed for no reason, and secretly said: If there were no burden from these clans, the Ming Dynasty would not have collapsed so early. With the money raised by these clans, at least 200 million elite soldiers could be built.

pity!

"I know!" Zhu Changyuan replied to Zhu Yujian with interest, leaned his head on the chair behind him, thought for a long time and only said to him: "Uncle Huang, go down first, I suddenly feel unwell !"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Zhu Yujian cupped his hands and saluted, then looked around, meaning, where is my wife?
Zhu Changyuan waved his hand, calling Cao Huachun who was beside him, and said: "Mr. Cao, invite the concubine out, and send off the Tang Wang and his wife for me. I don't know what's wrong, I'm too lazy to move!"

After seeing off the king of Tang, Zhu Changyuan got up and went back to the south study, and also sat on the chair, thinking slowly.

At the beginning, he thought about getting some land out of Tang Wang's hands, but as the conversation deepened and his thinking deepened, he suddenly felt that this method was extremely unfeasible.

Almost 30.00% of the land in the world is occupied by vassal kings. Even if he can afford to buy the land of King Tang, there are still a lot of King Jin, King Lu, King Qin, King Ning, etc. behind, are they all one by one? to buy.

Unrealistic.

Even if you can afford it, you can't buy it, because Zhu Changyuan is the emperor and represents the country, how could he use money to buy his own land, otherwise how should future history books comment on himself?
As for extortion, at least on the surface, it is not acceptable, and it is not acceptable now. This matter should be taken slowly.

"It seems that this world is still not completely broken!" Zhu Changyuan couldn't help expressing such emotion: "If Li Zicheng had killed all these vassal kings and harvested all the landlords, then when I came to power That's not going to happen."

Forget it, let them make a fuss for a while, first figure out the official system of the central government, and then take the knife in the local area.

Zhu Changyuan shook his head, and took two quilts from outside to cover his body, wanting to take a rest, after all, he had a meeting all day, and all he could think about was the world, and he was exhausted.

This rest didn't matter, and he fell asleep in a daze.

Cao Huachun came over, adjusted the quilt on Zhu Changyuan's body a little, and turned on the charcoal fire in the charcoal basin to make the whole room look warm. He leaned against Zhu Changyuan and took a nap not far away.

Outside the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Changyuan's three most loyal subordinates, Wang Wu, Polu and Guo Cheng led the guards to patrol and stand guard.

In a daze, Zhu Changyuan seemed to be dreaming of the vision of the sky that he encountered when he completed the task that day.
The whole day suddenly turned into night, the sun went to nowhere, and the sky was full of bright stars, each of which was as big as a glass ball, hanging in the sky with a cold brilliance.

Suddenly, a star on the western sky jumped up, making a "thud-dong" sound like a heart, and then all the other stars jumped up.Like a happy elf, jumping and running, going east and west for a while.

In the end, all the stars moved around, forming an incomparably huge eye on the huge black sky. The eyebrows of that eye were formed by the arrangement of stars, shining silver, with a piercing murderous aura.

After Zhu Changyuan felt the murderous aura, he trembled inexplicably.

Under the slender eyebrows is the outline of eye circles composed of a circle of dim stars. In the middle of the eye circles, many stars form the whites of the eyes. The black sky is used as the background to set off the pupils.

With a giant eye, overlooking the world, despising all living beings, Zhu Changyuan felt terrible and terrible with the spirit of looking down on everything.

After staring at the giant eye for a while, Zhu Changyuan suddenly found that the giant eye had changed.

The stars are gone, the sky is gone.

Those eyes seem to be made of flesh and blood, silver eyes, silver eyebrows, and pupils move, as if the universe is contained in it, constantly breaking and combining, birth and death!

Moreover, Zhu Changyuan seemed to see that big eye and seemed to blink for a while, a voice that only he could hear sounded in the endless time and space, uttering a word to him: Come in!

Those eyes seemed to say "in", also seemed to mean "near", also seemed to be "gold", Zhu Changyuan couldn't tell the difference clearly, but this voice was inexplicably stirring in his mind.

"boom!"

The stars in the sky suddenly collapsed, and then, the sun rose from an unknown corner.

The sky was quiet, cloudless, without a trace of wind, as if returning to the place before.

"Huh? No, why is it so hot in here?"

Zhu Changyuan looked around, and found that there were neighbors, beaches, and the scorching sun above his head, relying on everything above the ground, as far as he could see, there was hot air swaying faintly.

What is this place?
Not a tree, not a blade of grass, not a drop of water.

Zhu Changyuan ran desperately, trying to find something under the sunshine, he felt that there was something calling him not far ahead, and he had to go there, otherwise, he might lose something that was extremely important to him forever. thing.

Run, run, run, run!
After running for an unknown amount of time, he finally saw what he wanted to see.

No, that was the back of a person.

Cool and fairy-like, ethereal and picturesque, the figure with long hair fluttering in the wind, white clothes better than snow, stepping on the round stones below with bare feet, walking forward step by step, with the sound of pebbles rubbing against each other from time to time. .

Looking at the back view, it seems that it is Liu Rushi whom Zhu Changyuan misses day and night.

"Yes!" Zhu Changyuan shouted in rough clothes, and the figure on the opposite side walked forward as if he hadn't heard anything.

Zhu Changyuan ran like crazy.

He ran and ran, but unfortunately, although Liu Rushi's back was right in front of him, he couldn't catch up or catch him no matter what.Liu Rushi walked very slowly, but Zhu Changyuan felt that he was getting further and further away from her.

"If so, wait for me!" Zhu Changyuan shouted hysterically, and the figure in front still left.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Zhu Changyuan didn't dare to stop, and ran faster.

Finally, when he caught up, he stretched out his hand to grab Liu Rushi's arm, but at this moment everything in front of him suddenly shattered, like a mirror.

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