Chapter 149 Zhu Yunxi’s plan to reduce the vassal status

Lan Yu's injury was quickly determined to be normal by the imperial doctors.

Just take good care of it.

Anyway, he was deprived of his military power.

Even the five hundred adopted sons were exiled to Kaiping because they were rude in front of His Majesty the Emperor. They were incorporated into the military household in Kaiping and returned to Zhou Xing for deployment. As for the adopted sons who are still in Guangxi, there is no need to worry about this and they will do it quietly.

Just solve it.

Anyway, without Lan Yu's support, they are just ordinary soldiers.

If you adjust it a few times, it will disappear.

And that afternoon Zhu Yuanzhang announced a new commander to conquer Annan...

King of Chu.

The king of Chu, Zhu Zhen, went south to Guangxi, and his father-in-law, Dingyuanhou Wang Bi, went south with him.

Then the land and sea armies of the Southern Expedition were put under his command.

"It's all because of your Fulu Banquet!"

said the little princess.

"What does it have to do with my Fulu Banquet?"

Yang Feng said with a smile.

"He also took out the throne given by Taizu. My father gave him the throne. It's not like my father didn't know that you couldn't make it up. Since you wrote this in the Fulu Banquet, then the descendants of Sixth Brother must be like this.

He is greedy for money and stingy. What's more, his fiefdom in Wuchang controls the upper reaches, and his father-in-law Wang Bi is a fierce general. If he has other intentions in the future, the warship will go down the river and reach the capital in a few days.

My dad really doesn't care.

Ke Yunxi cares.

This is what he recommended to my dad.

Anyway, Lan Yu was injured and couldn't lead the troops, so he had to at least be replaced by a veteran who had been on the battlefield. It just so happened that his father-in-law, Wang Bi, was now second only to Lan Yu among generals, and his sixth brother was the closest to Guangxi.

Just let him go south with his escort, and then Wang Bi will be his deputy."

said the little princess.

In fact, this is also the most reasonable choice.

Zhu Zhen was originally the most powerful among the southern vassal kings, and he had been leading troops in these years. He was in Wuchang to deal with the chieftains in Hunan. In fact, he had been constantly conquering these years, and he was already at the border of Hunan and Guangxi this year.

There, Lan Yu was stationed in Nanning to suppress the rebellion of Guiyang mountain bandits, so he could just go there and take over the military affairs.

There is now Lan Yu's deputy, Commander-in-Chief Zhang Ji, the Marquis of Heqing.

In this way, King Zhu Zhen of Chu was the commander-in-chief, and his father-in-law Wang Bi and Zhang Ji were his deputies.

This combination is enough.

Among the current veteran generals, except for the Dukes and Hou Bo, in terms of prestige, it is indeed Wang Bi who can suppress Lan Yu's generals.

This is the vanguard of the Ming army in the Battle of Yuerhai.

Of course, once Zhu Zhen is gone, there is basically no hope of returning to Wuchang.

He should just stay in Annan and wait for the transfer of the feudal clan!

Another powerful vassal king will definitely be thrown out.

In fact, there are not many powerful vassal kings that really make Zhu Yunxi worried. They are just Qin, Jin, Yan, Zhou, Qi and Chu. Now that the King of Qi has been solved, the King of Chu being thrown to Annan can be considered solved, and the King of Qin has also been solved, and the original history

The last one was poisoned to death. The remaining ones are King Zhou of Jin and Yan. King Yan is still in Fusang. King Zhou experienced the last private meeting with his father-in-law and was relatively honest after being taught a lesson by Zhu Yuanzhang. King Jin was relieved.

After passing the ban, he is currently leading troops in the Loop, but if the original history is to be followed, he will die soon.

Of course, Yang Feng knew about this.

Although the King of Shu among the remaining ones is older, he has always been very honest.

And he is Lan Yu’s son-in-law.

What's more, the person currently guarding Sichuan is Cao Zhen, a close confidant of Zhu Biao. The nanny is married to him, so of course he is a close confidant, so Zhu Yunxi is still at ease with the King of Shu.

Then there is King Xiang.

Now that the King of Chu has gone south, it is the King of Xiang who is responsible for suppressing the chieftains in Hunan and Guangxi.

His strength will definitely increase.

As for the other kings of Sai, Zhu Yunxi could tolerate them. After all, places like Liaodong, Kaiping, Xuanfu and even Shaanxi-Gansu could not threaten his throne. Without the money and food provided by the court, these vassal kings could not even support themselves.

Disaster.

I don’t have the money to create a shitty rebellion.

Zhu Zhi is indeed the best at economics here, but even he has to rely on the supply from the court. Without his salary, and his bodyguard generals without the salary from the court, he will not be able to survive.

These kings of Sai are not important and do not even have the ability to rebel. The real threat now is the three kings of Jin and Yan, and potentially the king of Xiang, especially the second king of Jin and Yan. With Zhu Di already going to Fusang, now instead

It was King Jin who became the most threatening.

His behavior was indeed dishonest.

After all, the assassination of Yang Feng by his men last time proved that this guy had many casualties.

Especially those who descended from Hu.

In recent years, he has mainly focused on the northwest of Hetao, which was originally the resettlement place for Jianghu. He got many such loyal dead soldiers, similar to Zhu Di. However, Beiping was an attached Mongolian resettlement place, so Zhu Di had many Mongolians under his command.

so……

So just watch the excitement.

There is no need to tell Zhu Yunxi that King Jin actually only has three years left to live.

Besides, it is true that he died of illness in the early 31st year of Hongwu in history, but that is not necessarily the case now. The medical level of the Ming Dynasty has improved the most, and he also has specialized imperial doctors. What if he does not die by then?

No need to go overboard.

Just watch them fight.

"I remember that those of King Min should be vassal by now, right?"

Yang Feng said.

Originally, in history, the four kings Min, Gu, Han, and Shen were vassalized in the same year. However, this kind of vassalage only announced that they were vassal, and then began to prepare to build their palaces, assemble their guards, and make various preparations until they were almost ready.

Official departure. So it actually took several years after the announcement to officially pass. Zhu Zhi's palace has not yet been repaired, and the same batch of vassals, such as Prince Qing, actually do not have real palaces.

These places where King Se was a vassal were sparsely populated, and almost all of them were military households.

These military households have to fight.

How can there be so much manpower to build the palace for them?

"It is said that the Eighteenth Brother is preparing to move to Yunnan, and the Nineteenth Brother has already prepared to leave for Xuanfu. The rest have not moved yet. Now Liaodong is already very nervous to maintain military supplies. Going to the two vassals again will not exhaust Wu Dinghou to death.

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How many people do you need to build the palace?

Now all the manpower in Liaodong is transporting military supplies to Longquan Mansion to protect Fourth Brother's army in Fusang.

Even my brother’s palace is no longer repaired.

It is estimated that within three to five years, my father will not let them really go to the vassal state. Even the Eighteen and Nineteenth Brother are just talking about it. The palace still needs to be repaired, and Yunxi doesn’t want them to go to the vassal state. Although they will

There was no threat from the vassal, but as a vassal they would have to bring a large group of guards and other people. From now on, all the money and food would have to be given by the court. What Yunxi thought was that in the future, the guards of the vassal king would have to pay for their own money and food, and the court would no longer pay them salaries.

, they all have fiefdoms, and there is no need to give them any more salaries.

If you can't afford it, just file a petition yourself to request that the guards be abolished. It's totally unnecessary for a vassal king to have so many guards.

A few hundred guards are enough.

If you want a salary, then don't join the vassal state and build a palace for them in the capital.

But the guards and subordinate officials are no longer needed. The court gives him a salary every year to support his family, and each vassal will have a fixed number in the future. Otherwise, if they continue to have children, just like what was said in the Fulu Banquet, a vassal king can earn thousands of dollars.

There are not as many magistrates and counties in the country as they receive salary, so how can the imperial court bear it?

Just fix a total number.

What's more, they live in the capital, have no escort officials, and their expenses are not large. They will definitely receive rewards during the holidays.

Their salary is enough to provide them with good clothing and food.

Of course, their fiefdom was granted by my father.

This definitely cannot be abolished, but if they don't go, they will become a vassal. The imperial court will help them guard the fiefdom. The income from the original fiefdom will be counted as the imperial guarding fee. In addition, they will be given a little bit every year, and this will be included in the salary.

How much you pay depends on the situation."

said the little princess.
To be continued...