Ming Dynasty: The Sixth Brother of the Zhu Family Seeks Immortality

Familiar way of drawing spiritual energy into the body! Familiar spiritual energy slowly flows through the body!

That's the feeling!

Zhu Di suddenly opened his eyes and finally succeeded in keeping the spiritual energy in his body!

"Hahaha!!!!"

Zhu Di laughed happily.

He finally succeeded in breaking through!

See how that grandson laughs at me, an old guy! Zhu Di thought proudly in his heart.

He paced back and forth in the quiet room excitedly. After a while, eunuch Zhang presented a secret report from Jinyiwei.

Zhu Di's excitement was suppressed at once.

The secret report recorded in detail that the envoys sent by King Ning bought all the herbs along the way at a premium.

And when buying, they also put up the banner of King Ning.

The people along the way all praised King Ning as a wise king.

Zhu Di said to himself: "Brother Ning, can't hold it back?"

Another secret report recorded the offerings of King Ning.

The Taoist statue with yellow silk cloth was the offering brought by King Ning.

"Prince Ning, Prince Ning, who gave you the courage to rebel? That unorthodox person who changed his ways?"

Zhu Di, who had investigated the source, was relieved. What he feared most was that he could not find out anything at all.

Although he had not seen what kind of magical power Zhu Zhankan had, he had seen the magical power of the statue curse.

An ordinary person could break through after taking three or four pills of this good medicine, but Zhu Di took nine pills to break through!

From this, it can be seen that the curse has a strong aftereffect!

I originally wanted to give a few pills to the second and third sons, but now it seems that I should let them go to buy them from the grandson.

Speaking of the grandson, Zhu Di remembered that Zhu Zhankan seemed to have submitted a memorial to him.

Zhu Di, who returned to the imperial study, picked up the memorial and began to check it.

One night passed just like this.

After dawn, Zhu Di relaxed his stiff muscles and bones, but he did not feel uncomfortable, but felt full of energy.

Zhu Di put down the memorial and said with emotion: "If I had the strategy of this grandson, the throne would not have been passed to Emperor Jianwen! If Emperor Jianwen had such a broad mind, the world would not have been in the hands of Yongle!"

The memorial written by Zhu Zhankan, combined with the number of vassal kings and the number of royal family members, explained the possible tax situation in the future of the Ming Dynasty.

In the next hundred years, the court may have to support the Zhu family with half or even more of its money.

In theory, the system of supporting royal relatives chosen by Zhu Di does not seem to put much pressure on the court at present.

But that is because there are not many people in the old Zhu family at present, but on average each person only needs to give birth to five children.

A hundred years later, the population of the old Zhu family is a huge number!

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, this view was actually proved to be correct. Almost half of the court's tax revenue had to be used to support the royal family.

However, the most fatal point of the royal family is that they don't have to pay taxes at all!

As the eldest son inherited the title, the other sons were granted the title of prince, and the number of people who needed to be supported increased!

As compensation, Zhu Di also rewarded a lot of land to the vassal kings.

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Adding the expenses of salaries, rewards, etc., the princes can be said to be very wealthy!

Chapter 49: Change the system of princes and royal relatives, and the rise of fortune

The system of princes and royal relatives presented by Zhu Zhankan mentioned the reform of the names and titles of each prince, as well as the corresponding salaries.

And after the son inherits the father's business, he will not completely inherit the father's title, but will reduce the title once every time he inherits.

At the same time, the princes no longer enjoy the right to tax exemption, but instead increase the policy of granting honorary titles and offsetting taxes if they meet the conditions.

Naturally, if the title is reduced from generation to generation, there are naturally ways to increase the title.

For example, you can get the title by making meritorious contributions.

And in the future, when the Zhu family loses the title, there will no longer be those conditions that restrict the Zhu family.

That is to say, the Zhu family can go out to do business, farming, and politics.

Although it has not been perfected to the point where it can be used directly, it has opened up some ideas for Zhu Di.

Zhu Di did not fail to think of these things, but was unwilling to consider them for the vassal kings.

The reason why he set more stringent regulations under Zhu Yuanzhang's vassal king policy was because he himself was a vassal king.

He was more afraid of the vassal kings usurping the throne, and was more worried about the situation of relatives killing each other in the future.

Therefore, he did not change some inappropriate vassal king policies, but instead restricted the actions of the vassal kings.

But Zhu Di is no longer the original Zhu Di!

Zhu Di, who took the first step in cultivating immortals, has a broader view!

Maybe those vassal kings have not lived as long as him, what is he worried about?

Even the sons of some vassal kings may not live as long as him!

Zhu Di nodded in appreciation and changed it.

The current vassal kings are extremely weak, and there are not many of them.

They do not occupy a large amount of land, so it is a good time for reform.

Thinking of this, Zhu Di made changes to the salary column set by Zhu Zhankan.

As an emperor, in order to show his ability, it is reasonable to modify the corresponding salaries of the royal family members, right?

He felt that his grandson was too kind. Why did he set such high salaries for those princes!

The tax exemption for the princes was cancelled.

The princes continued to maintain a salary of 10,000 shi, and an additional 10,000 shi was added!

After being the head of a household, Zhu Di really realized what it meant to be a hero who could not afford a penny.

When it came to these vassal kings, he was naturally not so polite.

When he thought of the fact that Prince Ning had bought so many medicinal herbs back and forth, even the price of medicine in the capital had risen.

Zhu Di was angry!

You have so much money, why don't you come out to support the Northern Expedition!

You actually took so much money and came to plot against me!

Zhu Di took a pen and changed some numbers on this memorial back and forth.

Then he sent it to Eunuch Zhang, asking him to send the memorial to the cabinet and let the cabinet draft a charter.

Putting down the pen in his hand, Zhu Di picked up a few newly sent secret reports.

"How should we deal with Prince Ning?"

"Should we strike hard or lightly?"

Although he murmured like this, the murderous aura on Zhu Di's face could not be suppressed.

From the intelligence, Prince Ning had cleaned up the origin of this statue.

It was almost impossible to tell that it was related to Prince Ning, but Zhu Di's intuition told him that it was related to Prince Ning.

Moreover, Zhu Di could not find any fault with offering poisonous and harmful things to Prince Ning.

Not to mention that Prince Ning offered cursed things.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, a witchcraft disaster cost the entire family of the crown prince!

Offering cursed things and taking Prince Ning with him, it's reasonable, right?

Zhu Di wrote and drew, and finally stamped his seal on the memorial!

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In a blink of an eye, the New Year holiday was over.

The old Zhu family, especially Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, had an extraordinary pursuit of work.

Officials across the country only had three days off.

Old Zhu's birthday, Spring Festival, and Winter Solstice.

This is a real ruthless person!

In the Yongle period, the Spring Festival holiday has been gradually extended.

At present, the first to the fifth day of the first lunar month and the eleventh to the twenty-first day of the first lunar month are holidays.