Zhu Zilong, who sighed that his face was darker, suddenly remembered a few things.

In 1502, when the fleet of navigators Columbus wanted to dock at the nearest XXX coast to avoid the sudden wind and waves, in an instant, all the navigational instruments failed, and the compass hands no longer pointed to the true north, but deviated 6 degrees to the northwest.

In 1274, the Great Yuan Empire, ruled by Kublai Khan, gathered a huge fleet of more than 900 ships to conquer his coveted territory, Japan.

The outcome was predictable, but a catastrophic event in the Dragon Triangle prevented the massive fleet from advancing. More than half of the fleet sank in the storm, and about 25,000 troops were killed or lost in the disaster.

In 1281, Kublai Khan again launched a larger attack on Japan. This time he led 140,000 men and commanded 3,000 warships. The second invasion struck a similar disaster. An estimated 70,000 Yuan troops are said to have been killed and most of the ships destroyed.

Both of the Yuan army's attempts to attack Japan were struck by a peculiar eerie storm in the Dragon Triangle, which the Japanese historically referred to as the presence of a sea god protecting them.

But now it seems that this is obviously in Dongsheng Shenzhou, what is there, who doesn't like the people of the Yuan Dynasty, so he made a move.

In this way, Zhu Zilong is not the first person to pass by there and have a black face.

The so-called people are more popular than dead people, and it is also easiest to get satisfaction.

Thinking that he had entered the Dongsheng Divine Continent in the Dragon Triangle, he came out freely, and he also earned a "Dingdao Divine Needle". Zhu Zilong's face couldn't help but turn depressed into joy!

People are like this, if they are not the most unlucky, and even have the upper hand in turn, they will be much more comfortable immediately after the comparison.

The current Zhu Zilong mentality is like this!

After a few more days, Wang Binghe and the others still did not come back.

And Zhu Zilong, who was worried about entering the Dongsheng Shenzhou Dragon Triangle World by mistake, couldn't make up his mind for the time being, and went over by himself.

So, day after day passed in waiting.

Until, during this period, he possessed his soul several times on the emperor's body, and got the details about the county where the great earthquake occurred in Shanxi.

"The migration money before the earthquake, the person who was greedy for ink was the king of Shanxi."

Looking at the situation reported by Dongchang and Jinyiwei, Zhu Zilong, the copycat emperor, sat on the dragon chair and fell into deep thought.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, several older vassal kings were relatively strong, and most of them were feudal to Shanxi, Gansu, Shaanxi, Liaodong, and Hebei, and their military strength was much stronger than that of the later vassal kings (after Yongle). For example, the Qin, Jin, Yan, Zhou, and Ning domains had a large number of troops, because at that time, they were to guard the border passes and prevent Mongol invasions.

Zhu Di, the Emperor of Yongle, also relied on this favorable condition to launch the battle for the throne.

At that time, several of Zhu Di's elder brothers died, and the young vassal king who ascended the throne was not very capable, so Zhu Di not only became the eldest vassal king, but also became the most powerful and capable vassal king.

However, after Zhu Di ascended the throne, he was worried that other vassal kings would rebel like him in the future, so he greatly reduced the guards and official offices of each domain. Therefore, although the vassal kings after the late Ming Dynasty had high status and wealth, their military strength could not be compared with that of the vassal kings in the early Ming Dynasty.

This Linwang of Shanxi is such a prince!

And it is not far from Zhu Zilong's first fiefdom, Linqing.

For these princes of the Zhu family, Zhu Zilong generally has a bad impression, and the last time he received their request, he said that he had not paid his salary for several months. He threw it directly on the table and did not reply!

"History of the Ming Dynasty, Zhi Fifty-eight, Food and Goods Chronicle" records, "In the forty-first year of Jiajing, Yu Shi Lin Runyan: The affairs of the world are extremely disadvantageous and worrying, and there is no one more than Zong Liang Lu. The world provides 4 million stones of grain for the Jingshi every year, and the Zhufu Lu Mifan has 8.53 million stones, and in the Shanxi dialect, 1.52 million stones are kept, and Zonglu is 3.12 million; Is it the grain of the two provinces, and all the orders are lost, less than half of the rice for Lu, and the salaries of the officials and the army are all out of it?

That is to say, the cultivated land of the Ming Dynasty was 7.01 million hectares, that is, 701 million mu, and there were more than 140.2 billion catties according to the average yield of more than 200 catties per mu. Rice is 188.8 kilograms, equivalent to about 740 million stones, and the Ming Dynasty rice and wheat tax is 26.6 million stones, with a tax rate of 3.6%.

However, the annual wages to the princes and their descendants across the country are as high as 10%-20% of the national fiscal revenue.

If you think 10-20% is not much, try to imagine it in your head. If New China, with a population of more than 1.3 billion, wants to take out 10-20% of China's tax revenue and give it to the royal family members to spend for free, how much will it cost?

Based on the total tax revenue of New China in 2014 of 10 trillion yuan, and the annual national tax revenue of New China in 2020 is 20 trillion yuan.

10-20% of the revenue is about 4 trillion!

I'll go, take trillions a year for free to the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and their descendants to spend a lot of free money, eat, drink, prostitute and gamble?

I can't kill you, these pig kings.

(That's not all, often these princes also occupy the fields of the common people, as well as monopolize commerce and open road toll booths, and the income is definitely more than doubled.) ）

It is not surprising to say that the Ming Dynasty, from another point of view, was eaten by these resident insects.

You say, will Zhu Zilong feel comfortable in his heart?

Thinking of this, Zhu Zilong's soul turned back to the main body Zhujiazhuang after finishing the recital.

Immediately summoned Wang Yang and Wang Zhengzhi to come over.

After having a small meeting and learning about their recent work, Zhu Zilong began to get to the point, and said to the two of them: "Today I received an oral secret decree from the palace, and Your Majesty has a troublesome matter now. That is the Shanxi earthquake corruption case, involving Linwang, you talk about it, how can you deal with this matter quietly? ”

Wang Yang and Wang Zhengzhi thought about it, and then Wang Yang replied to Zhu Zilong: "Don't worry, my lord, the Holy Lord's secret decree will be given to us, which means that we can rest assured." And King Linwang is not far from the fiefdom of the adults, between Shanxi and Shandong, if it is handled properly, it will be of great benefit to the adults. ”

"Oh?" Hearing Wang Yang say this, Zhu Zilong seemed to think of something, and couldn't help but be interested: "How do you say it?" Let's talk about it! ”

Immediately, Wang Yang's expression became unprecedented, and he said slowly:

"The most important thing about this case is that it can not only reassure Your Majesty, but also stabilize the hearts of the government and the opposition, stabilize the situation, and allow us to gain a firm foothold. Judging from the current evidence, it is certain that the mastermind who will be caught in the end is King Lin. But the ancestors have rules, and the history of King X's corruption has been going on for a long time, and I am afraid that he cannot be severely punished. ”

"So, it depends on whether the Holy One wants to do it again, or if he wants to do it lightly?"

Zhu Zilong understood a little at the moment, frowned, and said in a deep voice: "You mean, if the Holy Lord wants to re-establish the Linwang, even if it is impossible to re-establish the Linwang just by relying on the current crime of corruption, we also have a way?" ”

Wang Yang sneered at the moment: "My lord, if you want to come with a humble position, Your Majesty's thoughts at this time are probably the same as those of a humble position. It doesn't necessarily matter who the real culprit is. In fact, for this Linwang, and his various fellow party accomplices, may they have the heart to do it together? As long as you understand the emperor's heart, the evidence or anything doesn't matter at all. ”

Wang Zhengzhi on the side also nodded! (To be continued.) )