People in Zongwu: Starting with the Yin Gui Sect

"Wei Zhongxian, the governor of the East Factory, greets the emperor!"

After two years, Wei Zhongxian has more or less figured out the character of this gentleman. As long as you can work for him seriously, he can forgive you no matter what your previous status is.

So after hearing that this gentleman summoned him into the palace, Wei Zhongxian knew that the other party was going to find him something to do, or that he would take the blame again.

But he didn't care. Anyway, his reputation was already so bad during the Tianqi period that it couldn't be any worse. Even if he really wanted to turn over a new leaf one day, no one would believe him.

And as long as the emperor still has things for him to do, it means that he is still useful. As long as he is still useful, the emperor will not give up on him. In this case, what is there for him to be afraid of?

Although he no longer has influence in the court, in the eyes of ordinary people, he is still the East Factory Nine Thousand Years Old who can decide the life and death of countless people with a single word.

As for Wu Yu, after seeing that Wei Zhongxian was still respectful, but not as afraid of him as before, he could roughly guess what he was thinking.

But he didn't care. After all, Wei Zhongxian was just an ant that he could manipulate at will.

If he got tired of him one day and no longer needed to use him, he could easily crush him to death with just a slight raise of his hand. It could be said that the other party's life and death depended entirely on his own thoughts.

Seeing Wei Zhongxian kneeling down, Wu Yu didn't waste any words and threw a piece of intelligence in front of him.

"Did Prince Zhu Changxun of Fu hide the dragon robe?"

The news in the intelligence shocked Wei Zhongxian. He looked up at the emperor in front of him in disbelief. When he saw that the other party didn't speak, he immediately understood what the other party meant.

"The emperor is going to take action against those vassal kings who are sucking blood from the Ming Dynasty!"

Prince Zhu Changxun of Fu, the uncle of the current emperor, was the person closest to that position at the time.

Of course, the most important thing is that this Prince of Fu is the head of the vassal kings in the world. He is not only the richest among all the vassal kings, but also the one who controls the most and richest land in the world. Even the Shu King lineage that has been entrenched in Sichuan for more than 200 years is definitely not as good as this Prince of Fu.

"Go, take all the direct descendants of Prince of Fu to Beijing!"

"Old slave obeys the order!"

Wei Zhongxian did not expect that this gentleman would have such great courage and dare to take action against those vassal kings, but these have little to do with him, he just needs to act according to the order.

In fact, Wei Zhongxian didn't know that Wu Yu was not the only one who had this idea. As early as many years ago during the Jiajing period, many problems caused by the vassal kings had been discovered.

At that time, Emperor Shizong Zhu Houcong also thought about restricting these vassal kings, such as limiting the number of wives and concubines and the number of titles of vassal kings, controlling the population of the royal family, etc., but the results were minimal.

Even the reduction of royal family support was proposed, but until his death, this policy was not implemented.

When his son Zhu Zaigui came to power, this proposal was again raised by the ministers at that time, but Emperor Muzong was only thinking about making money. In just a few years, he earned one-third of the world's silver. Moreover, because he was in power for too short a time, this policy was still not implemented.

Finally, it was the Wannian period, but this Emperor Shenzong was just rotten and didn't even go to court, so let alone cutting the salaries of the royal family.

After Wanli, whether it was his dead father Zhu Changluo or his brother Zhu Youxiao who faked his death and escaped, the whole court was either in party struggles or on the way to party struggles. Who had time to take care of the mess of the royal family, so until now, the affairs of the vassal kings and the royal family have not been resolved.

Now that Wu Yu has finally taken advantage of the great prestige of destroying the Jiannu, if he doesn't take this opportunity to solve this problem, I don't know how long it will take.

After sending Wei Zhongxian away, Wu Yu found Fang Zhenghua again and asked him to be responsible for dealing with the King of Shu.

Compared with the King of Fu, the King of Shu was not so wealthy, but his family had been entrenched in Sichuan for more than 200 years. He not only had a lot of wealth and land, but also had military power.

Yes, the King of Shu also had soldiers, but they were not given to him by the court, but he colluded with some local chieftains.

Even the local government had written more than once about the King of Shu's military power, but Zhu Youxiao didn't care at all at that time.

And Wu Yu had no time to deal with him because he had to consolidate the imperial power at the beginning of his reign, but now that the throne has been consolidated and he has a huge reputation, it is natural to deal with the King of Shu.

Of course, this matter cannot be done by Fang Zhenghua alone, and the cooperation of the local garrison is also needed, and that cooperationWu Yu also thought of Qin Liangyu.

This unique woman in history who was awarded the title of Marquis as a woman, spent her whole life working hard and selflessly for the Ming Dynasty.

From her youth to her old age, she always adhered to her loyalty and love for the Ming Dynasty. Even after the Ming Dynasty was in decline and heading for destruction, she did not flinch in the face of the urgent situation of the Qing army approaching the city. She was determined not to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

In addition, this legendary woman is also the prototype of the heroine Mu Guiying who was widely praised by later generations.

So this time, Fang Zhenghua went with him, and there was also an order to confer a title of Marquis - Loyal Marquis!

With this person cooperating with Fang Zhenghua, Wu Yu believed that the King of Shu and the local chieftains would not stir up trouble.

As for the King of Fu, it goes without saying that his uncle, who had the will but no courage, would not dare to really rebel even if he was given ten courages, and he did not have the ability to rebel.

So when Wu Yu decided to take action against the two of them, the fate of these two people had already been decided, and at that time he could use this favorable wind to stop the supply of those vassal kings and royal family members.

You can give birth, right? Then let you give birth and raise yourselves, anyway, the court has no money to support you.

Whether you are doing business or taking the imperial examination, the court will relax its policies, as long as you don’t make people angry like before.

And the fact is just as Wu Yu thought. A few months later, when Wei Zhongxian and Fang Zhenghua escorted Prince Fu and Prince Shu to Beijing respectively, the whole court was shocked.

But because this is the business of the old Zhu family, they can’t intervene even if they want to. His Majesty doesn’t care about the reputation of the royal family, so why should they worry about it.

Even when Wu Yu said to cancel the supply of royal family members, many people applauded in their hearts. It can be imagined how unpopular these royal family members are in the eyes of the court officials and the world.

It was precisely for this reason that when he issued this order, surprisingly no minister opposed it, and even Wu Yu found it a little unbelievable.