After redemption, he took away the luck of the future queen

royal palace.

Royal study room.

Gu Jianli looked at the absent-minded Prince Rong and asked: "Jian Xing, the Queen Mother is eyeing the positions of the two concubines of Prince Rong's palace. What are you going to do? Do you want me to give you the money in advance before you get married to Pian He?" You pick two women and send them to your residence to block the Queen Mother's hand towards Prince Rongjun's residence."

Gu Jianxing looked solemn, cupped his hands in front of his chest, and bowed to the end, "Your Majesty, I don't want to marry a concubine, not even a concubine. I hope your Majesty will make it happen."

This time, Pian He almost suffered a plot from Tang Muling. Fortunately, everything was fine in the end. He couldn't watch this happen to Pian He again.

"Oh, it's commendable that you can do this for Pian He, but this matter is not something I can decide alone. It is a rule set by our ancestors for the prince to have one main concubine and two side concubines. You just don't want to If you want two concubines, the Ministry of Rites will choose the opportunity to send two girls from aristocratic families to your residence, let alone the Queen Mother."

After hearing this, Gu Jianxing was thoughtful. He took out the note he had already written and handed it to Gu Jianli, saying: "Your Majesty, this is the note written by the minister to abolish one of the two concubines of the prince."

It is unrealistic for the emperor to abolish the position of two concubines at the same time, and the bunch of snarky scholars in the Ministry of Rites will not agree, so it is best to abolish the position of one concubine first, as long as one is missing, one will be better.

Gu Jianli took the folder and looked through it. When he saw that Gu Jianxing was willing to give up half of his fiefdom in order to give up the position of a concubine!

Offering half of the fiefdom means voluntarily giving up half of the soldiers.

It seems that the Ministry of Rites and the Queen Mother will agree, and no one will object.

Cutting off vassals was something that successive emperors had always wanted to do but did not dare to do. The mention of cutting down vassals would cause panic among the vassal kings. If not done well, it would force them to rebel.

Now Gu Jianxing, the Rongjun Prince, voluntarily gave up half of his fiefdom and soldiers just to take away the position of one of the two concubines that the Duke originally had. Why not?

Gu Jianli had already agreed from the bottom of his heart. He only had to finalize the matter with the courtiers in the court tomorrow. Even now, he was thinking about finalizing the vassal regulations.

In the new sectarian regulations, the prince could have one main concubine and two side concubines, the number of concubines was reduced from the original eight to four, the salary was halved, the fiefdom was reduced to 70% of the original size, and the number of personal soldiers was also reduced accordingly.

As for the county prince, he only had one main concubine and one side concubine, and the number of concubines remained unchanged. It was also stipulated that the prince's fiefdom in the future would only be the same size as when Prince Rong took away half of the fiefdom, that is, the fiefdom would be halved. , the number of personal soldiers is halved, and the salary is naturally halved.

His purpose in doing so was naturally to be frugal and to broaden the people's resources.

The position under the butt determines a person's stance and thoughts.

In his position, he seeks his position, takes his responsibilities, and performs his duties. He is the emperor and the king of a country. He naturally has to consider the country, the country, and the country, even if the person in front of him is his brother.

Seeing that the emperor accepted his post, Gu Jianxing mentioned another matter: "Your Majesty, I plan to marry Princess Wu'an next autumn. I hope your Majesty will make it happen."

Gu Jianli came back from his thoughts, slowly smiled and said, "That's right."

The next day.

There was an explosion in the court because of a memorial written by Gu Jianxing, Prince of Rongjun. When the ministers heard the emperor mention it, they just discussed the weirdness and weirdness of the matter, and no one stood up to express any objection.

The ministers who originally agreed with King Rong to cut half of his fiefdom and one concubine naturally would not stand up to oppose it, but looked at him with admiration.

Everyone agrees that the emperor has a good brother.

Prince Rong understands his righteousness. In the future, the court can collect more taxes from Prince Rong's half of the fiefdom to replenish the national treasury. Moreover, Prince Rong is willing to give up an opportunity to marry with a noble family to enhance his own strength, so the threat to the imperial power will naturally be greatly reduced.

They all selectively forgot or did not mention that the reason why Prince Rong did this was entirely to save Princess Wu'an from suffering any injustice.

Most of the people who opposed it were from the Queen Mother's faction, so naturally they would not stand up to oppose it.

Because it seemed that the emperor approved the reduction of the fiefdom by half of Prince Rong and one less chance to marry into aristocratic families, but it was not the case. This was just the beginning. They speculated that the emperor must have something more to say, and it was not aimed at Prince Rong alone.

This will inevitably anger the princes in the royal family. They were allocated fiefdoms after the death of the previous generation of old princes, but they will also have to reduce their fiefdoms by half. If there is one less concubine, then they will have less fiefdoms. An opportunity for marriage.

If those county princes are not convinced, they will naturally jump out to make trouble. Those who oppose are eager to cause chaos in the court, and then push the Queen Mother out to take charge. The Queen Mother will be able to take away part of the power from the Emperor's hands, which will be extremely beneficial to their future actions.

Sure enough, after Gu Jianli discussed Prince Rong's memorial with the ministers, no one objected, so Gu Jianli went on to discuss with the ministers how to finalize the vassal regulations.

The vassal regulations were re-established, and a preliminary plan was made for the prince, one main concubine, two side concubines and four concubines. The salary was halved and the fiefdom was also halved.

Because Prince Rong is the existing prince with the closest blood relationship to the emperor. The former emperor had no heirs, so there is no prince among the royal family members. Prince Rong's Prince Dairui is the last prince and has passed away.

When he heard this, he was originally opposed to Prince Rongjun's petition but did not stand up to oppose it. He wanted to see the chaos in the court, and suddenly felt that he had been fooled by the emperor.

The emperor has two princes who are still young and have not been enthroned as princes. Who will jump out and object at this time.

The next thing is about the county king. Then follow the regulations after the petition from Prince Rong. The county king has one main concubine and one side concubine, the personal soldiers are halved, the salary is halved, and the fiefdom is halved.

Still, no old prince among the royal family members jumped out to object, and it was because the late emperor had no heirs.

And because the battle for the throne was extremely cruel and fierce, the existing old princes were descended from the original princes. There were originally few princes, so the number of old princes was naturally very small. Prince Rong was the only three existing princes. , but there are many generals who govern the country, and countless generals who assist the country.

Prince Rongjun did it voluntarily.

The other two old county princes had little power in the royal family, and they would not risk offending the emperor just because they lost a concubine, half of their salary, and half of their fiefdom. The vassal regulations were established.

Misstep, misstep.

The Queen Mother's group was so angry that they beat their chests.

Those who were originally supportive naturally supported the emperor's re-establishment of vassal regulations, so they pointed out that the princes (even if there is no prince yet) and the princes would be able to save half the salary and half the fiefdom for the court. A lot of expenses.

Unexpectedly, due to Tang Muling's murder of Wu Zhuojun, things would evolve to this point. It was equivalent to helping the emperor increase revenue and reduce expenditure, win over people's hearts, and unite the people's hearts. This was something that the Queen Mother and the general Zhenguo never expected.

Everything is because of Princess Wu'an and Tang Muling.

This can be regarded as an achievement of Gu Jianli's reign.