The palace ladies shuttled back and forth in the Baifu Palace, and the delicacies were placed on the table, and the fragrance became more and more intense. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

King Huainan and King Ruyang looked at the emperor and King Yong who were singing and harmonizing, and their hearts were complicated.

After all, they are not a royal family with the same surname, and King Yong can calmly let go of the feudal country, but they can't do it, because for them this is the inheritance of their ancestors, how can they easily give it up? At least the imperial court must give them a satisfactory settlement.

Xiao Ming's afterglow swept over the King of Huainan and the King of Ruyang, and he had a plan in his heart.

After a deep sigh, he did not rush to mention the matter of cutting the domain, but beckoned: "Ladies and gentlemen, the wine and food have been ready, you have come from thousands of miles away, and I will have a drink with you today." “

With that, Xiao Ming raised his wine glass.

Seeing this, King Huainan and King Ruyang immediately got up with their wine glasses and drank all the liquor in the cups.

Xiao Ming nodded, and also drank the liquor in the cup, and then he didn't mention anything about cutting the domain, but talked about interesting things about Qingzhou.

After three rounds of drinking, the atmosphere of the Baifu Hall gradually relaxed, and then Xiao Ming smiled, the time for negotiation has come, "Today, the three of them entered the palace to see me together, it must be for the sake of cutting the domain." He finally got the conversation on the right track.

King Yong's face was flushed, and King Huainan and King Ruyang also drank very happily.

"Yes, Your Majesty, this is exactly what we entered Beijing for this purpose." The king of Huainan and the king of Ruyang glanced at each other, and on this wine, they were much bolder.

And King Yong said directly: "Isn't it just cutting the domain? Now no one in the world can see that today is different from the past, the emperor is an ambitious person, this Dayu country can not continue to be chaotic, for the sake of Dayu country, this king is the first to support the emperor. ”

After a pause, he continued: "However, if you cut the feudal domain, you still hope that the emperor can keep our glory and wealth." ”

King Huainan and King Ruyang nodded, and King Ruyang said: "What King Yong said is very true, now the civil and military people of the Manchu Dynasty are clamoring to cut the domain, it can be seen that this is the general trend of the world, Xiao Wang does not dare to go against the current, and is willing to accept the decree of cutting the domain, but we have been guarding the border and expanding the territory for so many years for the Great Chongqing State, and there is no merit and hard work, and I hope that the emperor can consider it." ”

King Huainan also said: "The matter of cutting the feudal domain is already on the bow, and now I don't ask for much, and I hope that the emperor will have mercy." ”

As soon as the topic was opened, Xiao Ming breathed a sigh of relief, in fact, he understood that the three of them had already guessed that he supported the cutting of the domain.

Because it is impossible for the newspaper's manuscript to be published without his review, which is also something that everyone knows.

After thinking for a while, he said: "Aiqing is too worried, I have no intention of depriving you of the feudal country, and the ministers have no intention of putting you to death, this feudal country is still your feudal country, but since then, the military power will be withdrawn, and you will obey the orders of the imperial court in government affairs, and from now on, the feudal country will take out a part of the taxes and hand it over to the imperial court, which means that you are still the king of Huainan and the king of Ruyang in the feudal country." ”

He didn't want to be too drastic this time, because this would only have the opposite effect.

So he decided to take a more modest approach, which was to turn the feudal state into their fiefdom, just to collect their military power, and make them lose their independence in government affairs.

In this way, they will become nominal vassal kings, and they will no longer pose a threat to the Great Yu Kingdom, but they will be just ordinary officials.

King Huainan was silent for a while when he heard this, this was already acceptable to him, except for the military power, everything else was retained, and he was still a noble prince in Jingzhou.

"Thank you for your grace." King Huainan bowed and said.

King Ruyang also decided to accept this proposal, and also got up and said, "Thank the emperor for his grace." ”

King Yong originally had the intention of giving up the feudal country, but he was immediately happy when he heard it, and he said gratefully: "The emperor is shengming, the emperor is shengming." ”

Xiao Ming coughed, and he said: "But I said ugly things in the front, you can't have any ambiguity in the decree of the imperial court, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to protect you." ”

The three of them looked serious, and they bowed down and said, "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

The matter of cutting the feudal domain was easily solved, Xiao Ming was in a good mood, in his opinion, the success of this cutting of the feudal domain was all due to the strength of the Qingzhou Mansion now, otherwise this cutting of the feudal domain was likely to lead to a rebellion.

But now that they know their strength, the three of them don't dare to take any risks, because once they do, they will completely lose everything, and even drag down their loved ones.

The knot in their hearts was untied, and the atmosphere in the Hall of Hundred Blessings became more and more soothing, and the four of them resumed drinking and enjoying food.

The banquet ended at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Let Qian Dafu send the three vassal kings back, he went to the imperial study and began to write the holy decree, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, he still decided to hurry up and finalize the matter of cutting the domain.

Once the decree is issued, this cutting of the feudal domain will be a sure thing.

It took half an hour to prepare three holy decrees, and Xiao Ming was ready to promulgate them to the three at the court meeting, so that the matter of cutting the feudal domain could be over.

The next day, at the court meeting, Xiao Ming announced the decision to cut the domain, and the king of Huainan, the king of Ruyang, and the king of Yong all listened to the holy decree in the Zhengda Guangming Palace.

At this time, Qian Dafu took out Xiao Ming's holy decree, and handed it over to the corresponding vassal king every time he read it.

In the holy decree, Xiao Ming clearly stipulated the content of cutting the feudal domain, and asked the three to officially hand over the army to the accompanying generals of the forbidden army after returning to the feudal state.

The generals of the forbidden army will select elites from their army to retrain and integrate into the military system of the Great Chongqing State, and they no longer have the right to interfere with the army.

In addition to the holy decree, in order to appease the three people, he also awarded the three of them a gold medal to avoid death to show his sincerity.

The plan to cut the feudal domain has been decided, Xiao Ming is relaxed for a while, since then the Great Yu State has taken another step towards the goal of unification, and now he will concentrate on dealing with the Chu State.

At the same time, he also looked overseas, and in the turmoil around Chongqing in recent years, he could see some Westerners.

This incident made him very unhappy, but he endured it for the sake of domestic reunification, and now that reunification was in sight, the desire for revenge in his heart was aroused again.

After all, if it weren't for their involvement, the Great Yu Kingdom would not have died so many people.

He was thinking about it, Pang Yukun came out of the queue at this time and said: "Your Majesty, the first batch of firearms and the first batch of firearms shipped to Lin'an, a total of 20,000 arquebuses, 8,000 flintlock guns, these firearms Li Chuyuan is willing to pay three million taels of silver. ”

"Three million taels of silver?" Xiao Ming frowned, "You told Li Chuyuan's people that the imperial court does not accept money, let him go to the bank to exchange it for a golden dragon and then trade with us, and all his transactions with the imperial court must use new currency." ”

Pang Yukun understood, he smiled evilly, and said, "Yes, the emperor, the lower officials understand." ”