If you want to talk about the suffering of this vassal king, I am afraid that no one knows better than Wanli.

Because in the early Ming Dynasty were fine, and since the beginning of the Hongzhi period, the problem of the vassal king gradually revealed, and in the Wanli period, the vassal king began to flood, Wanli has several times to take out the internal money to help the vassal king, not every vassal king is very rich, some are very rich, but some are still relatively poor, especially when the court is fighting or there is a natural disaster, many vassal kings will ask the court for food.

The treasury is poor, and Wanli can only take out his own internal funds.

Not to mention the other vassal kings, just talking about King Lu, Wanli doesn't know how much money he spent for him.

However, he is only an auxiliary, and the main expenditure is the state, which has already made him feel very difficult, and who can afford to pay it back.

It is not to give when the time comes, and it is not to give it not.

I scolded those officials in my heart for being too black-hearted, and they dug such a big pit for him to jump.

For Guo Dan, aside from the vassal king, he is not willing to contract Kaifeng Mansion, because he does not need it for the time being, the productivity of Weihui Mansion is enough to meet the current demand, and the overseas side has not yet carried out, producing so many goods, who will sell it to at that time.

He also had to avoid the goods that would overwhelm the economies of other state capitals.

Although Wanli gave him a guarantee, he was worried, and the other party suddenly came out like this, obviously he had seen something greasy, and this matter would never end easily.

Back at Yaxing, Guo Dan complained to Aunt Xu, who was sitting on the sofa reading a book: "Layman, you have taken this trick away." ”

Aunt Xu put down the book and asked in surprise, "What happened?" ”

Guo Dan said depressedly: "I see that they have already reacted, and today those officials suddenly played Your Majesty, saying that they were going to contract Kaifeng, Zhangde, and Huaiqing to me, but this is obviously trying to trick me." ”

Aunt Xu was pleasantly surprised: "Isn't this a good thing for you?" ”

"What's good."

Guo Dan wanted to cry without tears and said: "That Kaifeng Mansion is full of vassal kings, except for the country, who can afford to raise them, even if they can afford it, I have no obligation to raise it, I am a businessman, not a good person." ”

"That's right, Henan Province is the region with the most vassal kings."

Aunt Xu nodded, and said, "Then you can also refuse, isn't this transaction about your love and my willingness." ”

Guo Dan said angrily: "This doesn't need to be reminded by the layman, I have already refused, and Your Majesty has agreed, but I think this matter may not be solved so easily, they should not have this idle effort to tease me." ”

Suddenly, there must be a conspiracy in it.

Aunt Xu looked at his sad face, and inexplicably felt a little cute, so she couldn't help pursing her lips and asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Guo Dan said: "They are saying that it is because of the Weihui Mansion that the crisis in the three mansions has been caused, and the Weihui Mansion must bear it, so they suggest that Your Majesty let me contract the three mansions." ”

Aunt Xu pondered for a moment and said, "You mean, they will use Weihui Mansion to blackmail you?" ”

Guo Dan nodded and said, "Do laymen have a good plan?" ”

Aunt Xu frowned slightly, and said: "If this is the case, the situation is very unfavorable to you, now the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, but they all think that you have earned too much in Weihui Mansion, and the cabinet may not stand up to help you speak again, they are already lucky not to fall into the well." ”

"I also thought about it, and what I need now is a countermeasure." Guo said lightly.

Aunt Xu glanced at Guo Dan and asked with a smile, "If I'm not there, what should you do?" ”

Guo Dan rolled his eyes and said, "If you're not here, I'll go look for you." ”

"Whoever tells you will be able to solve this problem by looking for me."

Aunt Xu shook her head in distress, and said: "I thought this matter was more about money, they didn't want your life, but wanted your money, in the face of this situation, you should be better at handling it than me." I'm just here to help you, you can't just rely on me and give up your strengths. ”

When Guo Dan heard this, he couldn't help but think to himself, she was also reasonable, this is more about economic issues, but it also includes the political problem of the vassal king, if this political problem is solved, the economic problem cannot be solved. He asked Aunt Xu again, "I wonder if the layman knows anything about this vassal system?" ”

Aunt Xu asked rhetorically, "Don't you understand?" ”

Guo Dan said: "But I think the layman must know more thoroughly than me." ”

Aunt Xu pondered for a while and said, "In the eyes of most people, this issue of the vassal king is a very complicated issue, and perhaps in the eyes of you merchants, it may be a very simple issue. ”

Guo Dan hurriedly asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Aunt Xu said: "The vassal kings don't have any power, and they can't have any power, so more vassal kings will focus on collecting money, and the problems related to them are almost all related to money. Although they occupy a lot of land on the surface, there is not so much that really belongs to them. ”

"Really?"

"In fact, a lot of the land belongs to landlords and officials."

Aunt Xu said: "Because the vassal king has the privilege of tax exemption, they took advantage of this privilege to collude with the government and landlords to annex the people's land, so they said that the Kaifeng Mansion said that half of the arable land was in the hands of the vassal king, but a lot of the land belonged to the local landlords and officials, and it was just put in their names to avoid taxes." ”

"It turns out there's another layer in there." Guo Dan nodded thoughtfully.

Aunt Xu continued: "Not only that, but many vassal kings also monopolized the local salt and iron franchises, so they cooperated with salt and iron merchants. In fact, the court gave the vassal kings, but secondly, the key is that they have too many privileges, which leads to a large amount of land annexed by them, and the people have a hard time, and at the same time he helps those landlords to conceal a large amount of tax revenue, causing great losses to the treasury, which are far more than the court gave them. ”

The danger to society caused by the vassal kings was not how much land they occupied, but the negative impact they had on the whole society, and their existence hastened the annexation of land to a certain extent, causing harm to both the people and the country, which is the most fatal.

But then again, Taizu and Chengzu are not very kind in this matter, because the salary they give to officials is very low, it should be the lowest in all dynasties, but they give a lot to their own people.

Although this person is not for himself, heaven and earth will be destroyed, but this sentence also applies to officials, or to anyone.

Those officials looked at the pampered vassal king, and they inevitably thought in their hearts, why do you do nothing, but live such a luxurious life, I am especially exposed to the wind and sun every day, and when I get the money in my hand, I am not as good as your horseman.

Since you don't give it, then I'll get it myself.

Guo Dan frowned and said, "Since everyone knows these problems, why didn't they find a way to solve them?" ”

Aunt Xu smiled bitterly: "No matter how much money you give your son, others won't say anything." ”

"That's just as well."

Guo Dan nodded, and said with a smile: "They also have a monopoly, that also monopoly, the businessmen are there, don't you have to rely on them, otherwise you can't even eat salt, what can I do as an outsider." ”

Aunt Xu nodded slightly.

Guo Dan said depressedly: "Layman, don't nod your head all the time, the more you nod, the more bottomless my heart becomes." ”

Aunt Xu said: "But what you said is indeed reasonable, it is really difficult for outsiders to say anything about this matter." ”

Guo Dan was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but glance at Aunt Xu again.

Aunt Xu just smiled.

.......

And the recitals of Huang Daxiao and Li Zhi soon came out, which caused a great shock in the court.

Are these people crazy?

Otherwise, there is no way to explain this twist.

It's a really inexplicable turn.

When Yang Ming heard the news, he was furious and immediately found Huang Daxiao.

"Huang Yushi, do you know what you're doing? Are you crazy? ”

"Don't be in a hurry, and listen to the lower official explain to you. You may be seated, you may be seated. ”

Huang Daxiao bowed his hand, and stretched out his hand to lead the chair next to him.

"Okay, well, old man, I want to hear what you have to say."

Yang Ming snorted angrily and sat down, he really couldn't understand that these officials, who usually hated Guo Dan to the bone, suddenly changed their attitude and helped Guo Dan to contract.

Huang Daxiao said with a smile: "Scholar Yang is inevitably a little overestimated by Guo Dan. ”

Yang Mingshen only felt inexplicable, and said angrily: "The old man overestimates him? The old man thinks about it, but is he not worthy? ”

"Then the lower officials don't know why Senior Yang is anxious."

Huang Daxiao smiled slightly and said, "Judging from the attitude of Scholar Yang, it seems that Guo Dan will definitely dare to contract these three mansions, and even he will definitely be able to solve the problems of these three mansions." Now the officials who govern the three prefectures, which one is not from Jinshi, and all of them are far better than Guo Dan, and they can't solve those problems, can Guo Dan solve them? If Scholar Yang hadn't overestimated Guo Dan, how could he be so anxious. ”

Yang Mingshen said: "The old man just thinks that this thing can't be done like this, since ancient times, how can anyone contract the state capital to a businessman, this is simply a big fallacy." ”

"But it's already done like this, and Weihui Mansion is still contracted by Guo Dan." Huang Daxiao said.

Yang Ming said deeply: "Even so, the lesson of Weihui Mansion, have you forgotten it?" ”

Huang Daxiao said with a smile: "Of course we haven't forgotten, at that time, we didn't think that Guo Dan, a small businessman, could contract Weihui Mansion, so we didn't seriously negotiate with him, the contract was drawn up by him, this time we just have to learn the lesson of the last time, and this condition must be determined by us." ”

Yang Ming said deeply: "Guo Dan is not a fool, how can he let you decide?" ”

Huang Daxiao snorted: "Then he must take the money to relieve the three mansions, this thing is all because of Weihui Mansion, if he didn't buy people's hearts in Weihui Mansion, how could the three mansions have today's predicament, how can this make the treasury allocate money." ”

Yang Mingshen was stunned for a moment, looked at Huang Daxiao blankly, and seemed to understand something.

Huang Daxiao said with a smile: "Don't worry, whether it is the following official or not, I believe there will be an answer soon." ”

Yang Mingshen asked, "Where do you start with this?" ”

Huang Daxiao said: "If Guo Dan really has the ability to contract these three mansions, then His Majesty will definitely push the boat down the river and try his best to contract these three mansions to Guo Dan, but if he doesn't have this ability, the twists and turns will sink into the sea." ”