The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty

Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Houzhao paced back and forth with his hands behind his back.

Soon Tang Hao strode in.

"Savage, tell me why I did this?"

Zhu Houzhao didn't understand why the military power of the Beijing Army should be thrown away.

This is the foundation of their survival!

"There is nothing we can do about it."

Tang Hao sat down on the chair and said in a deep voice: "This time, Tang Mu and An Guo were calculated by Li Dongyang, and the mutiny was also a fact. We can't just expose it so easily, otherwise other generals will be dissatisfied when they see it!"

"The Beijing Army has long formed a set of inherent training patterns. Whoever goes to supervise the Beijing Camp is actually the same. There are Tang Mu and An Guo watching inside. It's nothing more than changing someone, and there will be no chaos."

Tang Hao created the current Beijing Camp, so how could he willingly hand over the Beijing Army to others.

It's nothing more than being forced by the situation to find a general to take over, but in fact it's still the same.

For example, after Qiu Yue took charge of the Beijing Army, Tang Mu, An Guo, Xu Tianci and other generals would definitely not obey him. With Qiu Yue's qualifications and prestige as a frontier general, it was difficult for him to subdue the Beijing Army soldiers, so in the end it still depended on Tang Hao to make a move!

In name, Qiu Yue was the commander of the Beijing Camp, but in fact it was Tang Hao, the Marquis of Zhongshan.

Zhu Houzhao was relieved after hearing this. He was not at ease with anyone other than the barbarians commanding the Beijing Army.

Especially since the Beijing Army had just mutinied not long ago, Zhu Houzhao was also wary of Tang Mu, An Guo, Xu Tianci and other guys.

It would be best if the barbarians were still alive, so just pack them up and throw them to him.

But if the barbarians were gone, Zhu Houzhao would definitely liquidate these Beijing Army generals, or throw them out to guard one side, or deprive them of their powers and grant them empty positions, anyway, he would not give them any chance to command the army again!

This is actually easy to understand.

The reason why Zhu Houzhao suppressed the civil officials and gentry was to consolidate his own imperial power!

He didn't want the military generals and nobles he had supported to disobey his orders during this process. Wouldn't that be like shooting himself in the foot?

Rather than doing that, it would be better to give up suppressing civil officials and gentry. At least these civil officials and gentry would not rebel!

Fortunately, the savage is still alive!

"The second reason is to maintain the laws and regulations."

Tang Hao smiled and said, "I have to admit that I did it too much this time. I openly executed a veteran of three dynasties and disregarded the laws and regulations of the court!"

"Some rules are difficult to establish, but easy to break. Once they are broken, it is even more difficult to establish them again!"

"So this time, the court must severely punish me, the Marquis of Zhongshan. Whether it is seizing power or demoting me, this is for the people of the world to see."

"Laws cannot be ignored, let alone trampled on. Even if you are as arrogant as the Marquis of Zhongshan, you will lose power if you disregard the laws and regulations, and be hated by His Majesty the Emperor!"

After listening to this, Zhu Houzhao was immediately filled with emotion.

"Savage, savage, you really make me... speechless!"

"It is my fortune and the fortune of my Ming Dynasty that I can get such loyal help from you!"

Outsiders will certainly think that Zhongshan Marquis Tang Hao has lost power, but they don't know that after this incident, the relationship between Tang Hao and Zhu Houzhao has become closer.

The king and his ministers then analyzed the current situation.

The Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao is definitely going to die, and his four sons, including his Ning Wang Shizi, will all be killed.

As for the other Ning Fan clan members, those who should be abolished should be abolished and those who should be demoted should be demoted. Anyway, Zhu Houzhao will never be lenient.

There is nothing to say about this.

What the Ning Fan lineage did in Jiangxi has long reached the point of "heaven's wrath and people's resentment".

Perhaps those Ning Fan clan members did not participate in the rebellion of Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao, but don't they know what this Ning Wang wants to do?

Of course they know, but none of them reported you to the court, and this is their crime!

Thanks to Tang Hao's previous inappropriate metaphor, the old Zhu family was compared to a towering tree, and these vassal kings were branches, covering the sky and blocking the sun, densely packed, constantly absorbing nutrients from the soil, and this "soil" was the Ming Dynasty, and this "nutrient" was the blood and food of the people!

Therefore, as long as there is a chance to cut off a whole big branch, Zhu Houzhao will not give up.

For example, the previous rebellion of Anhua King Zhu Zongxuan, coupled with the evidence of crimes traced by Liu Jin's clearing of the fields, the entire Qing vassal lineage was wiped out from top to bottom. Except for a few individual clan members who were self-disciplined and had noble morals and could retain their titles, all other clan princes, including Qing King Zhu Taihong, were abolished as commoners and left to fend for themselves. As for those who persecuted the people and took their lives, they were secretly executed.

The Qing vassal lineage was abolished, and the people of Ningxia applauded, which shows the harm of these vassal kings and clans to the people of the Ming Dynasty!

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao did not intend to keep the Ning clan this time.

They are all parasites, why keep them?

Should we continue to let them persecute the people?

Tang Hao did propose a plan.

"Your Majesty, this will damage your reputation."

"Killing relatives is not a good reputation. Emperor Jianwen (Zhu Yunwen) and Emperor Taizong (Zhu Di) did not want to bear such a bad reputation."

Zhu Houzhao laughed when he heard it, and laughed and scolded: "Emperor Jianwen has not slaughtered relatives yet? The King of Xiang was forced to burn himself with his family!"

"Emperor Taizong's methods are clever, but they also leave hidden dangers for our descendants. Am I not just cleaning up Emperor Taizong's ass?"

Hearing this, Tang Hao burst into laughter.

Cleaning up the ass of your ancestor Emperor Yongle?

You Zhu Houzhao are really a filial son!

"I mean... to be a vassal overseas!"

As soon as this was said, His Majesty the Emperor immediately became interested.

"What is the rule? What are the benefits?"

"The Qing and Ning clans are both guilty, there is no doubt about that."

Tang Hao smiled and said, "Since they are guilty, they must atone for their sins. How can they atone for their sins?"

"First of all, if someone from these two clans rebels, then the culprit and their direct relatives must be killed and rooted out. There is nothing to say about this."

"Secondly, most of the remaining clan members are actually parasites who eat and wait to die. You say they are not wrong, and they have done some petty things. You say they are guilty, but compared with the unforgivable crime of rebellion, their minor crimes are nothing."

"Besides, Emperor Taizu Gao once ordered that clan members who committed crimes should be reduced by one level as long as they were not unforgivable crimes. So it is not appropriate for Your Majesty to abolish them all!"

Zhu Houzhao also nodded subconsciously.

After all, they are still the bloodline of the old Zhu family!

He still felt a little bit reluctant in his heart.

"The best solution is to establish a vassal state overseas."

"Didn't we conquer Japan? And Japan is waiting for people to develop it!"

"Those gold mines, silver mines, iron mines, etc., although the benefits have been divided out, let these gentry, generals and nobles develop them, but after all, they are not our own people, it is not good to have no one to watch them!"

Hearing this, Zhu Houzhao immediately reacted.

"Savage, you mean... members of the royal family?"

"That's right!" Tang Hao chuckled: "Anyway, they are just parasites, eating and waiting to die everywhere, and going to Japan is just waiting to die?"

"Simply throw all these parasites to Japan, arrange one or two managers in each mine, let them watch, once they find anything wrong, immediately report to the garrison, it can be regarded as a little light and heat for my Ming Dynasty."

"Your Majesty can clearly tell these guys, including that Qing Wang Zhu Taihong, to guard Japan for a number of years, as long as they complete the task, they can Return to the Ming Dynasty, or restore the title or something, so that these parasites will be motivated. "

"Instead of letting them stay in the Ming Dynasty to harm the people of the Ming Dynasty, it is better to throw them all to Japan and let them harm the Japanese slaves. Anyway, the lives of the Japanese slaves are not lives, so they can do whatever they want. When these guys have children with Japanese women, the court can refuse to recognize them and deny their bloodline issues. In this way, the two major vassal states will be completely abolished, and they can only continue to stay in Japan to guard a place for our Ming Dynasty from generation to generation. "

Zhu Houzhao's scalp numbed when he heard it, and he looked at Tang Hao in disbelief.

This savage, what a vicious method!

First trick them over, and then wait for these parasites to have children with Japanese women, and then the court denies their bloodline issues and does not include these children in the royal family. Isn't this equivalent to the Qing and Ning vassal states being directly gone?

Zhu Houzhao heard that in order to please the Ming soldiers, the Japanese were willing to offer their wives and daughters, not to mention themselves, just to improve their slave status!

When the parasites of these two lines passed away, they were just useless playboys who lived a life of idleness and waited for death. How could they resist the temptation of those Japanese women? Moreover, they have no titles now, so they are not considered as members of the Ming royal family, and they don’t have to abide by the new system of the Ming royal family. I’m afraid they will just have fun, have sex with women and have children... The final result is that the court will not recognize them, and they can only stay in Japan for generations!

"Hiss..."

"Savage, you are so vicious!"

Tang Hao was stunned when he heard this, and then he retorted unhappily: "If you don't know how to praise people, don't force yourself to praise them!"

"You have to be smart! Anyway, they are all guilty now. The court gives them a chance to redeem their crimes and restore their titles. They will naturally not refuse. As long as these parasites go to Japan, won't the rest of the things be much simpler? If they want to return to the Ming Dynasty, they can only obey orders."

"The same reason, I have been to the Ryukyu Kingdom south of Japan twice, and I can confirm that the indigenous people there live a very difficult and backward life. As the suzerain of the Ryukyu Kingdom, the Ming Dynasty sent some clan members to spread technology and support their development. Isn't this too much? Then if they give birth to a child, it would be a pity. The court does not accept clan members with barbarian blood. At most, they can be given a title to stay overseas, so that the two major clans will be completely solved..."

Zhu Houzhao looked at Tang Hao deeply.

"You vicious savage!"

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