King Fu and King Lu are the two vassal kings with the closest relationship with Zhu Youxiao, and are also the two richest kings in the Ming Dynasty.

According to historical records, the cost of King Fu's wedding was 300,000 yuan, and the amount of the Luoyang residence reached 280,000 yuan, which was ten times the regular system.

When King Fu was in the vassal state, he gave him 20,000 hectares of farmland, so he was unable to collect all farmlands in Henan, so he had to take the fertile fields from Shandong and Huguang to make up the number of farmlands.

But King Fu was still not satisfied with this, and later asked for the confiscated land of the late Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng, and also asked for miscellaneous taxes from Yangzhou to Taiping River and Dizhou, and Sichuan Yanjing to use tea and silver for their own use.

In addition, King Fu later asked to get a thousand three hundred salts and set up a store to open a wide store in Luoyang.

Originally, Henan ate Hedong salt, but because King Fu sold Huai salt, King Fu directly issued a king's order, and Henan prohibited the consumption of Hedong salt and required the people of Henan to only eat Huai salt. The military pay and salt industry in the Ming Dynasty were linked to the salt industry, which led to a large reduction in border pay.

The Lu King was similar. In order to prepare for the Lu King's wedding, Wanli and Empress Dowager Li embezzled more than 900,000 taels of military salary. Later, the Lu King became a vassal, and the property he obtained in the capital had to be transported by more than 500 ships. After the vassal, he forcibly plundered 40,000 acres of vassal fields outside the vassal fields.

However, the current Lu Wang is no longer the first generation Lu Wang Zhu Yiliu, but the second generation Lu Wang Zhu Changqing.

But Zhu Changqing is not much better than Zhu Yiliu.

In history, Zhu Changqing, as a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, had so much wealth, but when the rebel army came, he abandoned the city and fled in advance. Later, he took the initiative to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and had no backbone.

In any case, Zhu Youxiao was very clear about how much wealth these two vassal kings had occupied in the world.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao also knew that the big reason was that the rulers at that time, Wanli and Empress Dowager Li, were indulged in and regarded the world as private property and took the initiative to give it to him.

However, Zhu Youxiao, who came from later generations, was unwilling to continue to tolerate King Fu. King Lu occupied so much wealth and even continued to plunder the wealth of the world, which increasingly affected the income of the court and its own country.

Zhu Youxiao was not a selfish ruler like Empress Dowager Li and Wanli, who were not concerned about the interests of the world, so he had already decided to seize the property of King Fu and King Lu, and even punish him for his crimes.

King Fu and King Lu now either rebel because Zhu Youxiao now forces them to come to Beijing to receive crimes, or because they are too cowardly to come to Beijing to receive crimes. However, no matter how King Fu and King Lu choose, Zhu Youxiao’s ultimate goal is to take their property and punish them.

Moreover, Zhu Youxiao has not waited for King Fu, and King Lu has already begun to issue an order to recover some of the court income occupied by King Fu and King Lu.

"In addition, the order was issued that the wealth accumulated by King Fu and King Lu could be as rich as the country, but it still accumulated excessive wealth, which led to the majority of the people in the world being consumed by them. It is not necessary to be punished and confiscated. Then, from the fifth year of Tianqi, the Jiangdu collected by King Fu to the Yangtze River and the Dizhou, Sichuan Yanjing, were suspended from the house of King Lu and the Hedong Salt Tax. By the end of this year, these taxes should be unified to the Ministry of Revenue, and will be like this every year from now on."

"I obey the order!"

Han Yu, Xiong Tingbi and others hurriedly replied.

Now Zhu Youxiao personally issued an order to abolish the two fiscal and tax revenues of the court occupied by the two kings, which naturally made the court officials feel relieved.

Zhu Youxiao did this to increase taxes and reduce excessive expenditures of the vassal kings, and to continue to stimulate the two vassal kings.

Zhu Youxiao hoped that under his repeated stimulation, the two kings would be better rebelled directly, so that he could confiscate his land directly for more reason, and reform the vassal system on the grounds that the vassal state should not be controlled.

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"It's too much to deceive people! It's just too much to deceive people! Kill my mother and destroy my uncle's clan, and now I'm going to Beijing to get the crime! What exactly does Zhu Youxiao want to do!"

After receiving the will of Zhu Youxiao, King Fu was naturally furious.

"Your Highness, please forgive the students for their courage and blunt words. Isn't the tyrant's intention obvious? He is to get rid of your highness, you will die without a place to bury him. The purpose of his current purpose is to either your highness, you will rebel, or your highness, you will be removed from your title after you enter the capital, and be punished for death and your family property will be taken away! Therefore, your Highness, in the humble opinion of the student, instead of going to the capital to die, it is better to rebel directly, and maybe there will be a glimmer of hope!"

Ye Chuchun started to instigate him from the side.

He was an undercover agent in the East Factory. He was an aggressive reactionary scholar who wanted to swallow Zhu Youxiao alive on the surface, but his actual task was to obey Wei Zhongxian's arrangements and deliberately provoke these reactionary forces that needed to be eliminated by the emperor but could not find a reason for the time being, and created reasons to allow the emperor to attack these forces by actively rebelling or colluding with rebels.

At the beginning, Ye Chuchun instigated Ye Xianggao like this.

But Ye Xianggao was too cunning. No matter how Ye Chuchun made a generous speech, he scolded the court for being unruly, Emperor Zhu Youxiao was a cruel and ruthless tyrant. He seemed to have seen some clues, Ye Xianggao had never taken a step to be able to be caught by the court, and eventually forced Zhu Youxiao to let Wei Zhongxian use extraordinary means to get rid of Ye Xianggao.

Now Ye Chuchun needs to repeat the same trick on King Fu.

After hearing Ye Chuchun's analysis, King Fu expressed his deep agreement and nodded quickly: "You are very saying, then the tyrant is to get rid of me first, and say with a high sound that preserves my dignity and let me go to Beijing to receive the crime. To put it bluntly, I force me to rebel!"

As King Fu said that, his breathing became rapid and suddenly threw the Chengyao Cup in his hand to the ground: "I am really against it!"

But at this time, Prince Fu Zhu Yousheng walked out: "Don't rest assured, this matter should be discussed for a long time. Your Majesty is now the orthodox world. How can you say that the country is the orthodox world? If it is not the time when the country first built a temple to raise troops to maintain the crisis, even if it was built a temple to maintain the temple to maintain the crisis, it would be a lot of luck. What's more, the world's elite soldiers are in the hands of the court, and the vassal kings no longer have the power to hold the troops. Therefore, when the Wu Temple, King Anhua, King Ning and others were unable to rebel. How can we achieve success now? For my son, it's better to think of other ways first. You can't speak out without any necessity!"

Although Zhu Yousong is only nineteen years old now, he has already understood the pros and cons.

Otherwise, in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he would not have performed better than King Lu in the battle for the throne. He knew that he would unite Ma Shiying and Jiangbei to fight against the Donglin Party and then become the first emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

At this time, in his opinion, if his father went to Beijing to collect crimes, he would at most die his father, and then his property in the royal family was detained. The descendants of his royal family could at least live for the sake of being a royal family. But if his father really wanted to rebel, the whole family would be killed.

Therefore, he had to come and persuade his father Zhu Changxun, and glanced at Ye Chuchun and said to himself: "Please advise your father to rebel, either stupid or bad. Maybe this person is the villain sent by the treacherous ministers in the dynasty to instigate him. He wished that his father would rebel, so that he could completely get rid of my Fu Palace! This prince can't let you do what you want!"

Ye Chuchun also glanced at the young prince Zhu Yousong in front of him meaningfully.

At this time, Zhu Changxun listened to his son's words and said, "What you said is reasonable. Zhu Youxiao now has soldiers and generals, and then he hopes that this king will rebel, but this king is not as good as his wish!"

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"You mean that the Crown Prince of Fu Zhu Yousong persuaded King Fu Zhu Changxun?"

Zhu Youxiao, after learning from Wei Zhongxian about the reaction of King Fu Zhu Changxun of his order to let him go to Beijing to receive the crime, he asked Wei Zhongxian more in surprise.

"Return to the emperor, yes, according to the Dongchang's eyeliner, the prince of Fu is quite independent and troublesome. He successfully stopped the plot of Fu Zhu Changxun's chaotic behavior."

Wei Zhongxian replied.

"Then I will issue an order to urge King Fu to enter Beijing as soon as possible to receive the crime and give him a time limit. If he cannot enter Beijing before May of the fifth year of the Age, he will be punished for his crime of resisting the imperial edict!"
Chapter completed!