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The current Zhu Youjian is only able to stabilize the situation, precisely because he has crossed the south, and only he or the country can be stable.

Zhu Cihong's big wedding naturally involved the nerves of the entire royal family. As long as the royal families are still in Ming Dynasty, they must express themselves.

"Prince Tang, have you ever counted how many people are in the royal family?" Zhu Youjian is generally not easy to address Zhu Yujian, because according to seniority, Zhu Yujian is three times older than him, and must be from Zhu Youjian's great-grandfather.

"Report to the emperor, according to the statistics of the new file of the clan mansion, the population of our royal family is 40..."

Zhu Youjian was taken aback, and thought to himself: There are so many relatives in my family?

During Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, he appointed one of his sons to be king in Shanxi, but in the Jiajing period, there were more than 1800 members of the royal family who were knighted.The Zhou Wang family in Kaifeng, Henan, had grown to more than 5000 people in the Wanli period.Inquiring about the number of people officially included in the Ming Dynasty's Jade Document Archives found: 58 people in the Hongwu period, 127 in the Yongle period, 19611 in the Jiajing period, and more than 8 in the Wanli period.

Due to the continuous growth of the number of the royal family, it means that the financial expenditure has increased dozens of times, hundreds of times, and the royal family's salary directly comes from the fiscal revenue of various places, and the finances of various places will be in trouble.The annual fiscal revenue of Shanxi is 152 million shi, while the annual salary consumed by Shanxi princes is 312 million shi.The annual fiscal revenue of the Henan area is 84 shi, and the royal family needs to supply 192 million shi.This situation continued until the end of the Ming Dynasty. Since the finances could no longer afford the salaries of these "uncles", some royal families with estranged blood began to support themselves, and they were no different from ordinary families.

It can be said that Daming's finances were completely crushed by these royal families.Confining so many royal families in the fief and not allowing them to move around, eating and drinking enough all day long, what else can they do if they don't try their best to make people?

It can be said that all the resources of the society have been taken up by these people, and all the wealth and beauties belong to them. How much is left for the common people?

"Are the salaries given by the clan's mansion to princes everywhere?" Zhu Youjian calculated that there should be no more prescribed salaries in this period, otherwise the imperial court would not be able to get any money out.

"It has been in arrears for many years. At present, the Clan Mansion is only supporting some royal families who stay in Nanjing, and the salary has long since stopped."

The local finances can only barely maintain the stability of the court, and there is no money to send to the vassals.Since the fall of the capital, basically no prince dared to bring up these matters.The example of Fu Wang is not far away, and everyone knows what will happen.

"Then what are the congratulatory gifts from the royal families in various places?" Zhu Youjian asked Zhu Yujian, pointing to a pile of congratulatory forms.

"According to the usual practice, when the crown prince gets married, the emperor will also reward the royal families everywhere..."

Zhu Yujian didn't say the last half of the sentence, Zhu Youjian already understood that the co-authors came to join in the fun and wanted to benefit.

Zhu Youjian could guess that the poor relatives all over the world are now counting on him to reward some money to live.

"If you can't pay the full salary, how much money do you need?" Zhu Youjian was very curious. If he followed the system, he would have to see how many years he had to work hard to make up for these people's wages.

This is a joke, but it is also a real problem of Da Ming, as long as Da Ming exists, this problem will exist.

"I'm afraid it won't be enough to sell Daming five times. I calculated it. According to the current fiscal and taxation, it will take about 300 years."

Zhu Youjian slapped himself across the face, he felt that he really shouldn't ask such a question. 300 years?It's better not to have a great Ming, which has not been established for 300 years.

Co-authoring the founding of the Ming Dynasty is really raising children and grandchildren for the old Zhu family.

Chapter 274: The Prince's Wedding

Fu Wang Zhu Yousong's life is really not very good, as if he has been abandoned by the whole world, no one cares about him.

Those who planned to support him before were either dealt with by Zhu Youjian, or they took refuge in Zhu Youjian; and Dong Lin was born to have a grudge against Fu Wang's family, and he, Zhu Yousong, became a loner in Nanjing.

Zhu Yousong, who is already 40 years old, has no strengths.Moreover, he is greedy for money and lustful, and he is especially edible.Today's Prince Fu's Mansion has already lost its source of income, and it relies on the relief of the clan's mansion every month to live, but Zhu Yousong has newly married three princesses, all of whom are maids in his mansion.It costs money outside, so Zhu Yousong can only eat the grass beside the nest.

Zhu Yousong himself needs to eat and drink well every day, and it takes money to support his wife.It was impossible to count on the clan mansion as a money bag, so Zhu Yousong thought of a way. He relied on his status to eat and drink everywhere, and he didn't have the guts to do such a thing as blatant robbery.

Zhu Yousong is indispensable for any family in Nanjing who has a wedding or a wedding. He may not give gifts, but he must be eaten without him.He can't eat by himself, and he has to ask for a gift in return when he leaves, anyway, it's just as long as everyone can live well and not turn against each other.

In terms of bloodlines, Daming is now left with Zhu Youlang and Zhu Youjian who are the closest relatives of the emperor's family. No one is too embarrassing for this shameless prince, at most he is raised as a pig from the heart.

The prince is getting married, and as his uncle, Zhu Yousong will naturally attend the ceremony.That's right, Xiaofu Wang Zhu Yousong is four years older than Zhu Youjian and 21 years older than his nephew Zhu Cihong.

Zhu Yousong's participation in the prince's wedding has another purpose. He wants to take another look at the beauty he fell in love with at the beginning——Shi Xiangyun.Zhu Yousong always thought about this beautiful woman, if it wasn't for Zhu Youjian Nandu, he felt that Shi Xiangyun would have become his bedside person long ago.

The wedding was co-hosted by the most senior Tang Wang Zhu Yujian and the Minister of Rites Qian Qianyi. In terms of seniority and blood relationship in the clan, Zhu Yousong was naturally only ranked behind Zhu Changxiao, and the position was quite high.

The prince's wedding was not the emperor's wedding, and the bride also covered her head. Zhu Yousong looked hard, but still didn't see Shi Xiangyun's face, and was quite disappointed.

Just when Zhu Yousong was lamenting that there was no chance of a stunning beauty today, the groom and bride's big gift was completed and was ready to be sent to the wedding room.At this time, Chen Yuanyuan, who was the only concubine in the harem, came out of the side room, ready to lead Shi Xiangyun into the backyard.

Chen Yuanyuan is not yet a queen, so she is naturally not qualified to accept the visit from the prince and princess.Zhu Yousong was stunned when Chen Yuanyuan showed his face. He took advantage of the time when everyone's eyes were attracted, wiped his saliva, and took a few greedy glances.

Suddenly, Zhu Yousong felt a chill coming towards him, King Fu was startled, and saw a very beautiful female officer looking at him from the corner.

He thought it was his handsome appearance that attracted a certain beautiful woman, but he didn't expect that gaze to be full of coldness, as if it contained deep hostility.

Zhu Yousong didn't dare to look at Chen Yuanyuan any more, so he could only look left and right, picked up a tea bowl beside him, and pretended to drink tea.

"My lord, don't come here!" Just when Zhu Yousong was very embarrassed, an old official of half a hundred came over to strike up a conversation.

"Who are you?" Zhu Yousong glanced at this person, and saw that he was not of high grade, and he didn't seem to be in the front of the queue. He hated this old face, and naturally he was not as good-looking as a beautiful woman.

"I'm next, Liu Zongzhou." Liu Zongzhou didn't mind, anyway, everyone knew the character of this King of Fortune.

"Hmph! I'm not free." Zhu Yousong didn't want to see him when he heard that he was from Donglin.

"Hehe, the lord is so busy, do you want to come to Fu Wang's mansion to be more glorious than before?" Liu Zongzhou said with sarcasm, mocking Zhu Yousong.

"What do you mean?" Zhu Yousong blushed, of course he knew the current situation of his family, and the whole city of Nanjing knew it.

"The old man just wants to turn the fight with the prince into friendship." Liu Zongzhou stared at Zhu Yousong seriously.

"Who will believe it?" Zhu Yousong was taken aback for a moment, then dropped a sentence and turned his head to the side.

"Believe it or not is up to the lord. Farewell!" Liu Zongzhou didn't say much, he just came to test Zhu Yousong's reaction, and didn't expect decades of enmity to be resolved all at once.

The prince's wedding is not too grand, nor shabby, quite satisfactory.The ones who attracted the most attention were not the prince and princess, but Ma Shiying who had returned to Nanjing, especially Qian Qianyi and his gang of Donglin. They took Ma Shiying's appearance for granted and were full of surprises.

This character, who had slowly disappeared from the scene, stood in front of everyone again. Everyone didn't know what kind of medicine Zhu Youjian was selling in his gourd.

Most people think that Zhu Youjian must have called Ma Shiying back to Nanjing to balance Shi Kefa, a relative.Now Shi Kefa has become the prince's father-in-law and the leader of the cabinet.

While giving Shi Kefa enough honor, he must also consider the influence of his relatives.After all, Zhu Youjian is still in his prime, and it is still too early for the prince to ascend to the throne.The ministers of the whole court felt that after the prince's wedding, the court would face a major adjustment.

Sure enough, on the second day after the prince's marriage, Zhu Youjian issued an imperial edict to adjust the government.

Shi Kefa supervised Yangzhou, was in charge of the Jiangbei military administration, and formed a team with Huang Degong; Ma Shiying returned to Nanjing to preside over the government, and by the way began the formal adjustment of his staff; Yuan Jixian, the new left servant of the Ministry of War, and Yuan Jixian's governor of Nanzhili were handed over to Song Yingsheng, who was promoted the fastest.Song Yingsheng's original position was replaced by Zhang Huangyan who was transferred back to Nanjing.The defense of Haizhou was handed over to Shi Kefa's godson Shi Dewei.

So far, in the Nanjing government, the replacement of the old and the new has been half completed.Zhu Youjian's own team basically controlled the core departments of the entire government.But from the outside, the status of Donglin people has not been shaken.

Only Zhu Youjian knew that among the newcomers he appointed, the influence of Donglin's old faction had weakened a lot.

But the reward that the royal family was most looking forward to did not get it, but Zhu Youjian issued an imperial decree: the emperor felt that the country's affairs were difficult and the ancestral society was in crisis, so he decided to recruit an army in the clan. Young people from the clan can sign up to join the army.

In addition: Those who are below the general of Fengguo, who are willing to serve the country, can apply to the patriarchal government for a position. They need to be evaluated and arranged by the patriarchal government, and they can enter various institutions of the inner government to do business.The rest of the people, starting from the general of Fengguo, no longer pay salaries, and let them rely on themselves.For generals above the auxiliary state, the salary is reduced to half, and it is supported by the inner government.

This imperial decree about the clan most directly hit Zhu Yousong and a few other princes. Princes like Zhu Youlang who owned land in the south actually had little influence at all.

As for the other clans and others, they haven't received their salaries for many years, they are just a series of figures on the accounts, and they don't expect this kind of life. For so many years, they have their own ways of survival.

The most direct benefit is that many clans can make a living by themselves without being restricted.

As for Zhu Youjian's so-called clan soldiers, not many people would come at all.Regardless of their surname Zhu, there are not many clans with Zhu Yujian's ambitions.