In the first year of Ming Hongwu, the Yidu Road of the Yuan Dynasty was changed to Qingzhou Mansion, and the Yidu (now Yidu Town, Qingzhou City) was under the jurisdiction of three prefectures and sixteen counties at the beginning, and then two states and three counties were transferred to build the Lai Prefecture Mansion and still led a state of thirteen counties, which belonged to the small state capital but was one of the strongest three prefectures in Shandong.

The other two are Jinan Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion, yes, these three prefectures are all feudal fiefdoms of vassal kings, King De of Jinan, King Lu of Yanzhou and King Heng of Qingzhou.

King De of Jinan and King Lu of Yanzhou have been plagued by the Qing army, only King Heng is still in the boudoir, waiting for the Hou to have a fate, but at this time King Heng of Qingzhou Mansion does not know that he has been targeted, and there are more than one people all the way.

A storm is brewing in the land of Shandong, which is full of thieves, and the center of the storm is Qingzhou Mansion.

Shandong is mountainous, Mount Tai is the most famous, but Mount Tai is not a peak but a large mountain range across several state capitals in central Lu, Qingzhou Mansion nests in the northeast corner of its vein.

There is a river in Qingzhou Mansion, the Mi River comes from the northeast and goes down through the southeast of the city, there is a Nanyang River in the north of the city, and there is the Beiyang River in the north, it can be said that there are mountains and rivers and it is really a treasure land, no wonder it shows that Xiaozong loves his younger brother, and he chose a good fief to him.

King Heng of Qingzhou was passed on to this time was the sixth and seventh kings, and the king of Heng at this time was the last generation of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youdi, who was in the prime of life but had no ambition to enjoy the glory and wealth in this corner with peace of mind.

In the early morning, the gate of Qingzhou was opened, and the people came in and out, some went into the city to sell goods, some went out of the city to work, bustling and hurried.

There was a shout and cheer on the street of Beichengmen, and nearly 100 people rushed to avoid it, and cursed in a low voice, who was so domineering, and those with vision could see that it was the people of Hengwangfu, and the entire Qingzhou City was so arrogant except for the guards of Hengwangfu.

"Ah, it's the prince of Hengwang" Someone had sharp eyes, pointed to a young man in the team and said, the young man had a slightly fat white face, and a smile on the corner of his mouth was full of virtue, and he was indeed the most famous gentleman in Qingzhou Mansion.

The prince is fun, there is no one he doesn't go to the Qinglou Wine Lane Casino Theater, in addition to his martial arts, he often takes a group of guards from the palace to hunt and train outside the city, and he has a lot of fun entertaining himself.

However, although it is domineering, there is no evil trace, which has to say that the Hengwang lineage is really rare among the vassal kings to win the hearts of the people, from the beginning of the first generation, its benevolent family style has continued, and the reputation in Qingzhou Mansion is very good, so even the second generation of the palace is not so disgusted by some ordinary people.

"Hey, you see, not only the prince, but also a few His Royal Highnesses the King of the County" The sharp-eyed people counted them one by one, and found that there were five or six princes traveling together in the team.

"Five or six princes! Does King Heng have so many sons? A passer-by asked curiously, and others looked at him like fools: "Foreign?" Five or six is called many, and King Heng has eight, and the youngest is just a full moon......"

This person is indeed rare and strange, it is really not too many for the Ming Dynasty vassal king to give birth to ten or eight, and there are twenty or thirty more children than that.

Why are there so many births? Women have more entertainment and less entertainment?

Perhaps, but not the main reason.

The main willingness of the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty to give birth, and even the competition to have children, was to make money by arbitraging state subsidies!

You heard it right, the king of the Ming clan made money by giving birth to children!

Lao Zhu won the world back then, and was worried that his sons were all gangs and factions in the capital to do things, and even came to the Xuanwumen incident again, so in order to divide his sons to all parts of the country to enjoy the blessings of the Qing Dynasty once and for all, he also formulated strict regulations: the vassal king "eats the old man in the world, does not confer office, and the friendship between relatives is very strong", "divides the feud but does not tin soil, the lord does not come to the people, and eats Lu but does not govern things", which restricts the feudal king from the system to grasp the real power, simply put, the country supports you, you don't have to do anything, just sit and eat honestly and wait for death.

When it came to the second generation of Emperor Zhu Di, this product was the vassal king to seize the throne, and he was also worried that others would follow suit, so he looked at the vassal king more strictly, and he had a candy in one hand and an iron rod in the other, and he would give the kings a reward for silver and red envelopes at every turn.

Since Zhu Di, the vassal kings "did not farm, do not work, do not shi, and do not merchant", but only enjoyed certain economic and political treatment as a court clan. At this point, the vassal kings were like a group of high-ranking prisoners with fine clothes and fine food, locked up in the invisible prison of the fiefdom.

But if they don't farm, don't work, don't work, don't trade, and the vassal kings spend a lot of money on food and clothing and want to save money, so what should they do?

There were two ways for the vassal kings to make money.

As soon as the rent is collected, the fiefdom of the vassal king often has thousands of hectares of fertile land, and it is a large amount of money to collect rent.

Second, state subsidies, that is, fixed wages and rewards.

And the more children born, the more state subsidies, and the Ming Dynasty vassal kings were "hereditary replacements". The emperor's sons, except for the crown prince, were all made princes. The prince's hereditary sons, and the other sons are all county kings. The eldest son of the king of the county is a lord, and the other sons want to be crowned the general of the town country...... And so on. The prince "Sui Lu Wan Shi", the county king, the general of the town country, etc., all enjoy different numbers of Sui Lu. This is a fixed salary. Every New Year's festival, wedding and funeral, the court also has to carry out various rewards. Sometimes, the reward is higher than a fixed salary.

Since fixed wages and incentives are fixed, they are determined according to the population. As a result, most of the feudal kings competed with each other to have sons. After all, the more sons are born, the higher the income of the royal house; The higher the income, the better life will be for everyone. Therefore, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty became the princes who were the most likely to give birth to sons in all dynasties.

Therefore, King Heng, ten or eight princes, is really not much, his son is about twenty years old, and the rest are also four, five, six, seven or eight years old, which is the age of Sa Huan, and sometimes he organizes a group to go out of the city to hunt and play The people of Qingzhou Mansion have long been surprised.

But it is said that a group of princes led more than 100 guards out of the city from the north gate, and galloped for several miles to the bank of the Nanyang River, which is like a moat to enclose Qingzhou City from west to east, and the princes have long lost interest in playing on the riverside since they were children, and they are going to the Beiyang River to have a good skin.

"Brother Wang, it's hot enough today, let's go into the mountains to play" The second child frowned and looked at Tiansedao. The white fat prince disagreed: "Although the mountains are cool, there are many thorns and difficult to walk, but it is not as happy as playing in the water."

Hearing him say this, the rest of the princes could not say anything, and beat the horses and followed him to the Beiyang River in the north.

The Beiyang River originates from Qingliang Mountain in the west of Qingzhou, and flows from north to south to Qingzhou for more than ten miles.

After a while, the prince's gate stopped in a small forest on the bank of the Beiyang River, and the family members were busy digging pits and making fires to prepare for picnics, some of the princes led their families to hunt horses and bow hunts, some fished by the river, and some went directly into the water to frolic, which was in stark contrast to the people sweating profusely in the fields facing the loess with their backs to the sky.

"Hey, who's over there?" When the princes were having a good time, a family member frowned and pointed to the north, and saw more than a dozen people on the riverside beating horses and galloping, as if they had weapons on their bodies.

Horse thief! The family shouted, and the guards immediately put down their work, turned over and mounted their horses, and surrounded the princes in the middle.

"them, them" Shizi's face was red, and his expression was extremely excited: "Poplar them!" ”

Hu Yang is the chief of the palace guard, and he chuckled when he heard this: "Is His Royal Highness the Prince itching?"

"It's not, I've been dreaming of killing thieves for many years" I have to say that every man has a heroic dream, a general dream, leading thousands of troops to fight the world, and the princes of these vassal families are even worse, but most of them can only be silent, only a few people dare to take any step, but the ending is very sad!

This prince of Heng Wang, since he was a child, did not worry about eating, drinking, fighting, fighting, and often took his family out of the city to play a game of marching and arranging to entertain himself, and now he heard that there are horse thieves who finally have actual combat experience, how can he not be excited.

He is not unfamiliar with the name of the horse thief, the west of Qingzhou is the reckless mountain, there are horse thieves entrenched in the mountain, but those horse thieves hide in the mountains to do evil, rarely come to Qingzhou City, after all, there are officers and soldiers stationed in the state capital, and they dare not come, so that the prince has never seen it when he hears his name.

More than ten horse thieves, he has more than 100 families, just practice!