The King of Chu and his son sat in the lower left head of Zhu Cilang. The father and son were served by several palace maids and ate very happily. They enjoyed the singing and music while eating. From time to time, they nodded and commented a few words, which was very good at enjoying it.

While eating, the prince asked Xu Sheng, who was standing beside Zhu Cilang, what was the bandits looking like, whether they were powerful or not. He kept asking questions. The questions were like a fool who didn't understand the world, and Xu Sheng didn't want to pay attention to him.

The imperial court has great restrictions on these vassal royal families. This cannot be done, and that cannot be done. The world is so big that it is not even given the opportunity to go out and see it, just like living in a five-star luxury prison.

The vassal kings who were idle all day could only eat, drink and have fun, and relying on their generous economic treatment, they plundered property and absorbed people's marrow, which seriously damaged the country's financial resources.

Although the policy of reducing the vassal power of Emperor Chengzu and Emperor Xuanzong of Ming Dynasty eliminated the threat of the vassal kings to the imperial power, it also created a huge parasitic group. To put it bluntly, the court used money to exchange for submission from the royal family through support.

Henan, whose vassal kings, later became a severely affected area for bandits. In Henan Province alone, there were King Lu, King Fu, King Zhou, King Zhao, King Tang, King Yi, King Zheng, King Chong and King Hui ascended nine vassal kings. These golden thorns occupied more than one-tenth of the fields in Henan.

This is just the farmlands of the nine vassal kings. There are also smaller relatives under the vassal kings. These little babies have their own farmlands.

The farmlands of these vassal kings in Huguang account for about one-twentieth of the entire Huguang land, among which the farmlands of Kings of Chu, Liao and Min were the largest.

Zhu Cixuan didn't like this kind of lively scene. He looked at the civil and military officials in the hall, and these officials also secretly looked at Zhu Cixuan. They were still relatively reserved and not as rude as the father and son of the King of Chu.

The King of Chu glanced at Zhu Ciyang, who was bored, and showed kindness, saying, "The Lone King has long heard of the name of the crown prince in the palace, and even more so, I heard that the crown prince killed bandits in the Yinghuo area recently. After this war, the bandits entrenched in Huguang should not be so arrogant."

Zhu Cilang nodded absent-mindedly and said, "After this battle, Huguang will be worry-free."

Just as a group of singers in the hall was dancing happily, Long Xiangye did not accept the group leader Yang Qili rushed into Chengyun Hall with the order. He rudely pushed away a group of dancers and came to the center of the hall, which caused everyone to frown, and even the King of Chu's face was not very good-looking.

Yang Qili bowed to Zhu Cixuan, the leader of the leader, and shouted: "Report to your Highness, the thief leader, the old man who returned to Ma Shouying, and the king Liu Xiyao in troubled times was all killed by our army! At this point, all the five major thief leaders and the five camps of the Ge Zuo were destroyed!"

The fifth camp of Ge Zuo was destroyed? With a bang, everyone in the hall was boiling with incredible expressions.

Zhu Cixuan laughed loudly when he heard this, unable to hide his excitement. After five months of arrangement and more than two months of fighting, he finally took down the Fifth Battalion of the Gezuo, which had restrained half of the officers and soldiers in the Central Plains.

Huguang Governor Fang Kongzhao looked at Yang Qili and said in surprise: "Is it true?"

Since he was killed by the bandits and hung upside down on a big tree and scolded the bandits, Fang Kongzhao has been working diligently since he took over as the governor of Huguang, hoping that one day the bandits would capture Wuchang and hang him upside down on a big tree.

Yang Qili replied: "Shishuai Sun is coming to Wuchang with the heads of the thief leaders. You will see it when the lord!"

"Okay!" Fang Kongzhao and other Huguang officials were happy and cheered, not caring about Yang Qili's rudeness.

The following banquet reached a small climax. Everyone was no longer as reserved as before, and began to swear each other and celebrated in advance.

Soon, Sun Yingyuan led a group of generals of the Tianwu Army who were participating in the pursuit and encirclement into the Chu King's Mansion. They strode into the Chengyun Hall and bowed to Zhu Cixuan on the first seat: "The last general will meet your highness!"

Zhu Cilang stood up and smiled happily, "Please get up, thank you for your hard work!"

"I wish to die for Your Highness!" The generals roared in unison, and the sounds were like a bell, and the officials in the hall were all discolored.

Sun Yingyuan waved his hand and said, "Present the thief's head!"

The several heads wrapped in rags were taken up by the soldiers of the Tianwu Army and placed them together in the hall.

The officials felt distressed. Such a valuable head was wrapped in rags? This is too... at least a brocade box!

Sun Yingyuan ordered people to open it and pointed one by one, saying, "The thief leader Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying, the thief leader is He Yilong, the thief leader is Liu Xiyao, the thief leader is fighting for the world, the thief leader is raised by the king of Jin, the thief leader is He Jin, the thief leader is all here!"

A group of Huguang officials surrounded him, and even the King of Chu and the Prince of Crown and his son leaned forward and looked up.

The picture albums that people from Huguang Governor Fang Kongzhao even brought in. They compared them one by one and looked very carefully, and did not dislike the few heads with ferocious faces at all.

"Not bad, it's them!" Fang Kongzhao said with a caress of his beard, very happy.

An official said excitedly: "These thieves have been harming our Ming Dynasty for several years. In the eighth year of Chongzhen, they even captured Fengyang, dug up the tomb of Emperor Renzu, and cut down hundreds of thousands of pine and cypress trees in the imperial tomb. Now they are finally in prison!"

Zhu Cilang was deeply touched. When the bandits broke through Fengyang, the court and the country were shocked. Emperor Chongzhen heard that the Fengyang imperial tomb was destroyed. He put on mourning clothes and ran to the Taimiao to cry for three days and three nights. He then put down his self-esteem and issued the first "self-crime edict" to the subjects in the world to admit the court's policy mistakes and the steep situation in the world. Afterwards, he even issued an order to kill hundreds of officials of all sizes, including the governor of the grain transport and the governor of Fengyang.

Governor Ji Haoyan said, "It's a pity that the thief has not yet been sentenced to justice. I heard that he had besieged Anqing and Luzhou some time ago. I wonder what's going on now?"

Zhu Cilang said lightly: "You don't have to worry about this, but I still need Governor Ji to help with something."

Ji Haoyan bowed slightly and said suspiciously: "Your Highness, please tell me what's going on."

Zhu Cixuan said casually: "I plan to investigate the military fields of the garrison in Huguang. I wonder how much time it takes for Governor Ji to complete it?"

Ji Haoyan's eyes twitched and said, "The military land in Huguang has been registered with the land list. I wonder what Your Highness is going to investigate?"

Zhu Ciyang raised his eyebrows and said, "Do you understand the number of military households in each guard and the land under your name?"

Ji Haoyan pretended to ponder and said, "It will take a lot of time to spend more than 20 garrisons in Huguang and more than 40 separate thousand-household offices. If your Highness is not in a hurry, I can check it slowly. It will be three years faster and ten years later."

Fang Kongzhao interrupted with a smile: "Don't worry, Lord Ji, I have prepared the field list and the staff, and will assist Lord Ji in the investigation together!"

Zhu Cilang glanced at Fang Kongzhao and smiled and said, "Governor Ji, don't worry, I will leave 20,000 troops to guard Huguang to help you investigate!"

When several guard commanders heard this, their faces changed drastically. If they were talking before, they were now threatening nakedly, with 20,000 troops stationed, or were they attacking the bandits everywhere and hiking the army into the mountains? Are you planning to stay in Wuchang Prefecture and not leave?
Chapter completed!