With the private support of a enthusiastic citizen who did not want to be named, in September of the 17th year of Wanli, the Lu King, who was delayed in Beijing and refused to join the vassal state.

On that day, Emperor Wanli, who only appeared once a year on New Year's Day, also gave his little brother to his first emperor.

King Lu knelt down and resigned, Wanli descended to the emperor, and his brothers cried. Because of the Ming Dynasty, after the king's country, he would not be able to return to the capital even if the sky fell.

Thinking of the never-ending meeting in this life, the brothers finally couldn't help but hug their heads and cried.

Finally, he kept watching Lu Wang leave the Meridian Gate, but Wanli still refused to retract his gaze. Many of the ministers were moved, such as Zhao Erye’s eyes were red.

However, the result of the emperor's spoiling of his younger brother was that when King Lu left Beijing, he used 9,250 ships to transport treasures and furniture, accompanied by 27 officials of the royal palace, more than 600 lieutenants, and 2,000 soldiers. A total of 32,900 soldiers were used, and more than 1,000 horses were more than 1,000. In addition, there were tens of thousands of palace maids, servants and eunuchs.

In order to complete such a huge systematic project, the imperial court was busy working a few months ago. He ordered every ten prefectures and counties along the way to send one husband, and the other nine men helped him to work. It took a month, and he had a total of eight cents of silver. In addition, people ate horses and chewed, this piece alone cost another 400,000 taels.

Along the way, officials from all prefectures and counties in Henan also need to hold grand welcoming and seeing off ceremony, which is another catastrophe.

The local drought has been severe for many years, and the people have long been unable to survive. I heard that another vassal king was coming, so scared that their whole family fled. Even if the immigration office has no quota, they still have to flee to the south first.

The government was also suffering. The governor of Baoding, Song Shi, wrote a memorial to ask: "The country of Lu Wang, through Hejian and Daming, was extremely expensive. After a year of desolation, the commission was difficult to deal with, so he asked to pay 17,000 shi of rice in Tianjin warehouse and 11,000 shi of rice before clearing the warehouse.'

The other prefectures and counties along the way followed suit and demanded that the court reimbursement. Fortunately, what they wanted was food, and the Ministry of Revenue all agreed with their noses.

In fact, it is easy to say that the government in Beizhi is easy to say. After all, it is a one-time expenditure, so the Henan Provincial Administration Secretary is in trouble. Because according to Emperor Taizu's strange regulations on "sitting and collecting the branches", since King Lu was granted to Henan, his annual salary would be paid by Henan Province.

Moreover, there are already seven vassal kings in Henan, with more than 50,000 royal families. The salary of these pigs alone is already twice the income of Henan Province. Now there is one more, and the emperor's favorite little brother cannot be fooled. Is this not to let the life of a fellow Henan villager?

In Wenyuan Pavilion, Zhao Shouzheng and his son were in the same move, holding a hookah in his hand, leaning against the Grand Master's chair, and closing his eyes to listen to Wang Jiaping's memorial to him by the governor of Henan Zhou Shixuan.

It wasn't that he was making a fuss about Zhang Luolu's wife, but he was so tired that Shoufu Zhao was so angry that he was still angry at this moment. Seeing the heavy shadows of things, he could only let his subordinates read it to him.

Speaking of which, this old man Wang Ge is no longer a newcomer. He entered the cabinet in the 12th year of Wanli, but he went home in the 14th year of Wanli.

This year, he was reincarnated and returned to the cabinet for three months. However, he had not received a look at the sky in his three years since he entered Beijing. He was so angry that he submitted a memorial to question Wanli:

‘There is no minister who has consulted day and night, but he can not meet in March!’

It’s worthy of being Old Xier, and being jealous is just a big deal.

However, although Wang Jiaping could only be ranked as the last supporter as usual, he was in the same year as Zhao Shouzheng, and was a fellow villager with Liu Dongxing. He was also an old friend of the Hanlin Academy. He could live in harmony without jealousy.

"...A province in Henan has been overwhelmed for a long time. I requested the brigade general Jing to leave behind the provinces left by Zhuangtian, Fangke, Yandian, Hebo and other provinces. The officials will be punished to pay the salary of Lu Wang, which seems to be a little less burdened by the people..."

After listening to him finish reading, Zhao Shouzheng opened his eyes and smiled bitterly at the one or two Wang Jiapings in front of him:

"Isn't this a dream? King Lu has long been thinking about King Shangjing's legacy. Did he submit a memorial to ask for it last year?"

"Yes." Xu Guo, who was sitting at the other end of the case, nodded and said, "I filed a request in August last year. At that time, the emperor directly approved the red, 'The farmland is guaranteed, and the border is established so that we can always abide by it. Then check the corresponding land, and you might as well add it to it, as long as I am friendly and happy."

Who can become a Grand Secretary is not a good writer or a good memory, and never forget everything you see... except Zhao Shouzheng.

"What a friendly and friendly person." Liu Dongxing snorted, picked up the teacup and took a sip of rice vinegar and said, "Your Majesty only knows how to be friendly and brotherly, but he never cared about the people. Are the people in the world not his people?!"

"Yes, but there is a difference in closeness." Shen Shixing said lightly: "So at the end of last year, King Lu asked to grant 20,000 hectares of land in Huguang to fill the insufficient amount of land in Henan, and Your Majesty was approved again."

"To be honest, this is human nature for King Lu." Wang Jiaping said quietly: "If I had such a brother who would respond to all requests, I would have tried my best to seek more and take more at this time."

"What kind of human nature is that it is lack of greed!" Xu Guo said indignantly: "I have asked for tens of thousands of acres of land, can he eat it!"

"You have to plan for your descendants. After the past two generations, the emperor will ignore it." Shen Shixing said lightly.

"I'm going to return my descendants! If I continue like this, it's hard to say whether I can persist for two generations!" Liu Dongxing snorted.

"Shanxi and Henan retain 2.5 million shi of rice every year, while the annual salary of the royal family in the two provinces has reached 7 million shi! The province cannot afford it, and the capital does not want to take care of it, so they can only let the royal family seize the land of the people and do not pay taxes!"

"As long as there are vassal provinces, the situation will not be much better! This is no longer a long-term plan, but an imminent worry about the destruction of the country!"

The cabinet ministers all nodded silently. Anyone who stands in a global position will see this super huge hidden danger... Well, it can no longer be called a hidden danger, but a malignant tumor.

But so what if you see, Master Zhang finally cut it, but when Emperor Wanli took power, all the cuts were abolished, and everything came back. All the advice would not be listened to. What can you do if you do anything?

As soon as you think of the great masters, you can only let these provinces with vassal kings go a little bit... and you will lose a little sense of pride, honor, and other things.

"Forget it, don't go too far. Let's do this according to the emperor's wishes. King Lu is still the first generation now, how much more money can he save? Isn't the Ministry of Revenue allocating disaster relief food to Henan? Is it allocating another 100,000 stones and writing a letter to Zhou Zhongcheng to Nan, and this matter will be almost settled." Fortunately, Zhao Shouzheng never took it seriously, as long as he could get through it.

"Oh, okay." Wang Jiaping nodded, and was his number to Nan.

Zhao Shouzheng had already figured out the problem that Zhang Juzheng could not solve, so he could not solve it himself, and he should not try to solve it without overestimating his ability.

This is called being in the officialdom... Oh no, this is called "be brave but not dare".

Lao Tzu said, "If you are brave, you will kill; if you are brave, you will live."

It means that it is dangerous to be strong and straightforward. You must be brave to be weak or retreat, and choose not to do something. This is the long-term way.

This is the truth from small things to dealing with people and big things to governing the country.

In his opinion, although he was "courageous but not afraid", he would not make the Ming Dynasty better, at least he would not make the Ming Dynasty worse.

In fact, it was extremely difficult for Zhao Shouzheng to maintain the basic situation of the court in such a harsh internal and external environment.

Over the past two years, he has been trembling with fear, walking on thin ice, and his hair has turned white...

After discussing today's more important memorials, Zhao Shouzheng found that several major scholars were still reluctant to leave.

"You guys are slow, what else is there?" he asked curiously.

"Yuanfu, this Lu Wang has become a vassal. Should the matter of the country be put on the agenda?" Several cabinet ministers exchanged their eyes and Shen Shixing said, "The emperor had agreed at the beginning."

"Ah..." Zhao Shouzheng felt a little angry when he heard this. He felt the people in the room circling in front of him, and quickly closed his eyes again.

"You guys, can't I let me take a breath before talking?"

"Yuan Fu, the foundation of the country has not been established, and people are in peace. Let's work harder together. How about a good rest after the crown prince is established?" Xu Guo said with a smile.

The two old men nodded together, obviously this matter was what everyone expected.

"Oh, it's not that simple..." Zhao Shouzheng looked worried and slugged his head and smoked water.

The crown prince is the foundation of the country. He has been in trouble for a day or two after he has established a crown prince.

In fact, Emperor Wanli is less than 30 years old this year, and the eldest son is only eight years old. It is not so urgent to become a crown prince.

But because of a woman, the ministers were always anxious and didn't hurry up and felt uneasy.

Her name is Zheng Mengjing, and she is an authentic Beijing girl. She has fair skin, beautiful appearance, long legs, and a terrifying personality...

In the ninth year of Wanli, because the first and second concubines married to Wanli, there was no one in four years. Therefore, Wanli issued an order to be a talent show and conferred the title of Nine Concubine the following year. Zheng was named Shupin because of his outstanding appearance, and ranked second among Nine Concubines.

In fact, Wanli was not about giving birth to a son, he was just lustful. Because when he issued the order to give a speech, Empress Wang was already pregnant with Liujia. In the twelfth lunar month of the ninth year of Wanli, he gave birth to a princess.

Just as Queen Wang gave birth to her eldest daughter, he secretly made the belly of a palace maid named Wang next to Queen Mother Li.

Because that time was a temporary nature, he threw himself into that kind. After entering the time of the sage, Wanli realized that this matter was no longer glorious and was even a little scared.

Don’t forget, just one year ago, he just shaved a palace maid after being drunk because he was traveling in Xiyuan for a night trip. He almost got rid of Empress Dowager Li. He even issued a self-criticism edict and swore that he would never dare to do it again.

Just one year later, I actually forced her palace maid in my mother's harem. If my mother knew about it, could she still keep me for the New Year? Eighty percent of the year I would have to go to Fengyang to celebrate this year.

Thinking of this, this guy was scared to a quail, picked up his pants and left. Not only did he not give a set of face to the palace maid according to the rules, he also threatened her not to tell her...
Chapter completed!