In history, these vassal kings of the Old Zhu family are really inexplicable.

They are not without money or food. It is no exaggeration to say that they are all rich, and some are even richer than those who are emperors!

Not to mention the lineage of the vassal kings that lasted for more than two hundred years, even the newly promoted vassal kings of the Wanli Dynasty were not ordinary wealth.

Not to mention King Fu Zhu Changxun, just talk about King Lu. The little brothers of Wanli were so glorious when they were vassals. They just brought five hundred ships of wealth and goods, and the 40,000 hectares of fiefs granted by Wanli!

Forty thousand hectares, that is four million acres. Just a year's rent income is scary.

At this moment, the rent and the land tax of the court are reversed.

The court had a tax of 20 yuan. Based on the average land yielding about two stones per mu, it was a tax that would only be collected by planting ten acres of land and collecting twenty stones of grain.

In other words, if a farmer plantes his own land, he can almost collect nearly 40 stones of grain. With the land tax of two stones, there are still about 38 stones left to support a family of four or five.

It’s different if you rent a rent. The family worked hard to grow fifty or sixty acres of land and harvest hundreds of stones of grain. It would be great if you could get more than ten or twenty stones to support your family. The rest was rented!

In this way, the rent of the Lu Wang Mansion alone is equivalent to the annual land tax income of the Ming Dynasty!

There are also the sons of Wanli, Zhu Changhao, King Hui, Zhu Changrun, and King Gui, Zhu Changying, were all in full glory when they were in the vassal state. The fertile land granted by Wanli alone was 30,000 hectares per person, and there were also gold, silver, treasures, etc., which were all counted as hundreds of thousands of taels.

Many people are surprised that Wanli reigned for more than 40 years, and it was the Longwan Prosperity founded by Zhang Juzheng. He had no worries about taxes. He also sent mining supervision and taxation to scrape the land everywhere. Why did he have no money when he arrived at the Ming Guangzong, Taichang, the imperial court?

Wanli was very good to his brothers and sons. In addition to his hatred of Prince Zhu Changluo due to the dispute over the foundation of the country, he was really good to his other brothers and sons.

He didn't know how much wealth he had given to these people, and he basically gave all the rest to King Fu Zhu Changxun!

In other words, the wealth accumulated over 40 years of Wanli Dynasty was basically divided up by King Lu, King Fu, King Rui, King Hui and King Gui.

It is conceivable how rich these vassal kings are.

The problem is, no matter how rich these vassal kings are, they are like iron roosters.

If they were willing to pay for food, the Ming Dynasty would really not be able to perish, because it would be no problem to support a million troops by the land they had acquired!

To give the simplest example, it is like King Lu of Weihui Mansion. His fiefdom alone is 40,000 hectares, or 4 million acres. Even if he only collects one stone of rent per mu, it is 4 million stones!

Four million stones, it’s easy to support a 200,000 army!

The problem is that they don’t take out a grain of food, and they would rather put it in the warehouse to get mold, and would rather exchange it for delicacies, gold, silver and treasures, and would rather use it to make a beautiful woman smile and donate a little.

In history, all the armies of various vassal kings have experienced absurd things that they can’t get a grain of food even if they are hungry. They won’t give you food, so they will let you protect them if they are hungry!

These vassal kings are not enough to describe them as asking for money but not having life.

If you have to use one sentence to describe their brains, they are pig brains!

Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, they were basically slaughtered like pigs.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty is unlikely to perish now, and Taichang is not Chongzhen either, so he would not be abusive to these vassal kings.

You guys are not a penny, right?

OK.

I'm not going to lose any penny!

Come on, see who can't stand it first?

Anyway, no matter how the vassal kings in various places ask for help, Taichang said in one sentence: he had no money to summon the army and had no food to support so many people. There was no way, you can do it yourself!

These vassal kings were quite tough at the beginning.

OK.

If you are the emperor, we are not in a hurry.

As a result, as soon as the news of the "death" of the Zheng Wang Mansion spread, these vassal kings were immediately scared.

More than 100,000 rebels, who can withstand it?

That's not a person who is in trouble. No matter which robbers rush to the territory of the vassal king, their whole family will be "dead"!

At this time, the feathers of these iron roosters finally became soft because they didn't pull out any hairs, and the thief would pinch them in their hands, pull out all their hairs, and kill them like chickens.

The King of Jin in Taiyuan Prefecture, King Chen in Lu'an Prefecture, King Lu of Weihui Prefecture and King Zhou in Kaifeng Prefecture could not bear it anymore because their vassal states were full of rebels, and they might rush forward to do it at any time!

In fact, saying that they want money but don’t live is to polite them.

These vassal kings are the most afraid of death these days, because they have enjoyed all their wealth and glory, and they eat, drink and have fun every day. I don’t know how happy life is.

The reason why they are not shy is simply because they have a water in their minds and will not shed tears without seeing the coffin.

They always think that those who are emperors dare not leave them alone.

At this moment, the Zheng Wang and his family were already lying in the coffin. Taichang, who became emperor, still said in one sentence: he had no money or food and could not summon a large army to protect them.

What can they do?

Do you really die with endless money and endless food?

None of them wants to die!

Faced with the threat of death, their hair was so scared that they exploded. When will they not pull out at this time?

Kings of Jin, King Chen, King Lu and King Zhou all sent urgent reports, willing to pay for money and grain, only asking the court to mobilize people to protect them as soon as possible.

The iron rooster is finally willing to pluck her hair!

Taichang was not vague when he received the urgent report. Heiyunlong, Sun Zushou, Zu Dale, Zhang Cunren and other powerful generals were transferred to Taiyuan General, Lu'an General, Wei Hui General and Zhengzhou General, and asked them to mobilize 10,000 elite troops in the Tunwei nearby to protect King Jin, King Chen, King Lu and King Zhou respectively.

After their operations, not only did the vassal kings begin to surrender, but the thieves from all walks of life also began to have headaches.

These rebels are not stupid either. They will definitely not dare to attack the places where the official army is stationed, because once the city guarded by the official army cannot be defeated in a short period of time, the official army's cavalry will rush over and destroy them!

Question: What should we do if the four vassal states in their active areas are stationed in the four vassal states?

The thieves hesitated for a while, but finally chose to move south slowly.

There is no way, they came from the north. Shanxi is basically full of mountains and cannot support so many of them. They can only move to the south with more food.

Taichang still kept silent when he received the news.

Because many spies from the Jinyiwei have already sneaked into the rebels, he knew very well that the rebels had no weapons and equipment without the addition of the border troops and the guards, and their combat effectiveness was not good, and they were far less powerful than the Chongzhen Dynasty in history.

He was not in a hurry, but the vassal kings along the way were in a hurry.

Rebels are coming in a turbulent manner. If they do not have the protection of the imperial army, they will be dead end.

So, the rebels had just shown their faces near Anyang, Ruyang, and Xiangyang. King Zhao, King Chong, and other vassal kings sent urgent reports, expressing their willingness to pay for food and only asking the court to send troops to protect them quickly.

They also followed suit, because there was nothing wrong with the protection of the imperial army, such as the King of Tang, King of Jin, King of Lu, King of Zhou, and others. The only unlucky King of Zheng was destroyed without the protection of the imperial army. Naturally, they did not want to be the next unlucky guy.

Taichang was not vague and directly transferred several generals with great military achievements from Liaodong to serve as generals. He mobilized people nearby to go to the territory of these vassal kings and "protected" these vassal kings.

At the same time, he ordered Ma Shilong to rush to Nanzhili, mobilized 50,000 elite troops in the guards to defend Nanzhili to the Yangtze River, so as to prevent the rebels from rushing into Nanzhili or crossing the Yangtze River.

After his secret operation, a large net was formed faintly.

On the west side, there is a 70,000 army led by Sun Chuanting, in the north, there are 40,000 troops mobilized by Heiyunlong, Zu Dale, Sun Zushou and others, in the east, there are 50,000 Shenwu camp soldiers led by Lu Xiangsheng and Cao Wenzhao, and in the south, there are 50,000 elite troops of the Tunwei led by Ma Shilong.
Chapter completed!