King Zhu Yihai of Lu is twenty-eight years old this year, and he is very ambitious. He dare not have any ideas in the Ming Dynasty, but he is quite interested in going overseas to vassal him.

After listening to Zhu Changzi's words, he couldn't help but retort: ​​"How can it be so easy to capsize and fall into the sea? I fled from Shandong to Zhejiang and was taken to Nanjing from Zhejiang not long ago. The sea route I took is not good now?

What's more, this brochure clearly states that we intend to open up new overseas lands, and we need the feudal lord to guard and develop them. In this way, we will be well-planned when sending us overseas, and there is little chance of accidents."

Zhu Yujian also expressed his position at this time: "I also think that it is better to go overseas to establish vassal states than to stay in the Ming Dynasty. However, the matter of establishing vassal states overseas will have to wait until the world is at peace. I am afraid that I am too old to wait until then.

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Among them, Tang Wang Zhu Yujian is the oldest, already 44 years old, and his hair is partly gray.

Zhu Youlang is the youngest, only 23 years old. He was officially awarded the title of King Gui only after coming to Nanjing.

Among the four, he really had no idea. Hearing this, he said: "Don't worry, King Tang. Since I am a fairy who has descended to earth and is the Lord of Destiny, it will not take long to pacify the world. It is estimated that the Qing captives can be conquered in three to five years at most."

Drive out of the gate.

As for the choice of this vassal, I can understand Uncle Lu - Uncle Lu likes music, piano making, calligraphy and painting. If he stayed in the Ming Dynasty, there would be many like-minded people. If he went to the wild places overseas, he would not be able to find them.

I’m a close friend.”

"Well, Nephew King Gui is right, there is a reason why I want to stay in Ming Dynasty." At this point, King Lu looked outside the hall door, then lowered his voice and said, "As far as my experience of being supported twice

, I really don’t dare to choose to seal the vassal overseas, or stay in the Ming Dynasty and stay under the nose of the present, so that the court can feel at ease and I can feel at ease."

After hearing this, Zhu Yujian and Zhu Yihai looked at each other, knowing that it was impossible to persuade Zhu Changzi to choose to seal the vassal overseas.

The two people came to persuade Zhu Changzi this time with a purpose. Since the first purpose could not be achieved, they could only settle for the second best.

Zhu Yujian said: "If King Lu decides to stay in the Ming Dynasty, when I go overseas in the future, can he pay for the shares?"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Changzi looked at Zhu Yujian and Zhu Yihai, and said with a smile: "You two are here to borrow money, right?"

The kings of Tang and Lu couldn't help but blush when they heard this.

When it comes to poverty among the kings, these two are ranked high, no better than the white-skinned clan members who were adopted as heirs to the vassal king who destroyed the sect.

King Lu was different. He saw the opportunity early, but fled to the south of the Yangtze River with a considerable part of his property.

King Tang was more cheeky after all, and said: "You can't say borrowing, it's investment. As it says in this white book, if I make money in overseas fiefdoms in the future, I will give you dividends."

Zhu Yihai also followed up and said: "King Lu, whether you are making pianos or purchasing music scores, you have to spend money. If you stay in the Ming Dynasty, you can't do business, and you don't have a fief, you can't just sit back and have nothing, right?"

Since you don’t want to take risks overseas, wouldn’t investing in us be a good choice?”

Knowing that there would be no financial resources in the future, Zhu Changzi became even more stingy, and he did not know how much money he could really transfer outside the domain - the white book said that he had been transferred to the land where he was born. I'm afraid there were not many people, so how could he make money?

He then looked at Zhu Youlang and said with a smile: "The nephew of King Gui is not short of money, right? Why don't you two borrow it from him?"

Zhu Youlang smiled bitterly when he heard this, "Uncle Lu Wang, my father and I also lived in Guangxi last year. How much property do we have? If we really had it, I wouldn't come here to ask Uncle Lu to borrow money today."

"Are you really here to borrow money?" Zhu Changzi glared.

"Yes." Zhu Youlang nodded, "If Uncle Lu doesn't help, my whole family will suffer from the northwest wind."

King Lu frowned.

He didn't believe that Zhu Youlang could drink the northwest wind - the salary given by the emperor today was small, but it would definitely be enough for the family to eat and clothe, but at most it would be barely enough and they would not be able to enjoy it.

Looking at the looks of the three of them, he knew that it would be impossible without bleeding today, so he said: "Well, I'll lend you ten thousand taels each, so don't try to trick me again."

In fact, Zhu Changzi had a good relationship with the three of them. If other vassal kings came, he would not borrow a penny from them.

Zhu Youlang immediately laughed and said, "Uncle Xie Lu!"

Zhu Yihai and Zhu Yujian, on the other hand, looked sad, thinking: What can 10,000 taels be enough for? It seems that I will have to go to King Lu more in the future.

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Under the leadership of Zhu Yuluo, the efficiency of the Ming Dynasty court was greatly improved.

Now that the vassal reform was agreed upon, the official announcement was made on September 5th.

By September 10th, the 27 princes in Nanjing and more than 500 county princes and heirs were sent to the "Daming Zongfan School" opened in Xiaolingwei to receive education.

It must be mentioned that among the 27 princes, six of them were originally within the fifth server and their entire clans were wiped out, while the other six were captured by thieves and disappeared.

Therefore, there are 12 princes who were actually appointed by the Ministry of Rites to members of close clan clans.

There were actually only 15 princes or their heirs who originally fled to the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, regardless of others, the 12 princes who were granted the title by the clan must have obeyed Zhu Yurao's orders - their thrones were given by Zhu Yurao.

As for the 613 registered princes, the court has only found more than 300 at present, and it is difficult to determine whether the rest are alive or dead.

For these "missing" county princes, the imperial court will no longer select clans to ennoble.

The imperial court allowed a vassal prince to send up to five heirs to the vassal school for education at the same time, so the first batch of princes and heirs from the county to enroll included more than 500 people.

The principal of Zongfan School is King Hui Zhu Changrun.

This man was the first generation of King Hui, the sixth son of Emperor Wanli, and among the princes he was considered to have the highest right to inherit the throne.

But Zhu Changrun was obsessed with Buddhism and spent all day meditating and worshiping Buddha. He had no understanding of worldly affairs and was not a person who could achieve anything.

Zhu Yushuo appointed him as the principal of Zongfan School, but he only used his first name. The school's affairs were actually handled by three vice-principals.

In addition, Zongfan School implemented a boarding system and semi-military management.

For every seven days of classes, the prince will have three days of vacation; for every eight days of class, the prince and heir of the county will have two days of vacation.

The princes and heirs of the county had no place to live in Nanjing, and there were so many of them that the court could not arrange them, so Zhu Aona asked them to live in the dormitory of Zongfan School.

Princes also need to live in dormitories, but they are small residential courtyards with bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchens.

Considering that the heirs of county princes who were too old or too young would definitely not be able to endure the hardship of living in a dormitory, Zhu Aao made provisions when she ordered the princes to send their children to Nanjing.

The age of the county prince must be between 13 and 30 years old. Those who are over this age do not need to come...

September 10th, morning.

The king of Tang Dynasty, Zhu Yujian, took a middle-aged servant and came to the Daming Zongfan School in Xiaolingwei in a carriage.

Only then did he discover that the so-called school was the original Xiaoling Guard camp and several nearby villages where the families of the former Xiaoling Guard soldiers lived.

The soldiers of Xiaoling Guard were integrated into the Nanjing Garrison as early as April and May, and their families had recently moved to other places to live, so this place was vacated.

However, there is now a battalion of the Nanjing Garrison stationed here.

After Zhu Yujian asked his servant to find someone to report, he was quickly taken to a small village with dozens of households and handed over to the "village chief" Li Tie.

Li Tie was actually a somewhat disabled veteran, and was quite polite after meeting Zhu Yujian.

He led the two of them to a small residential courtyard with the words "Prince Tang's Dormitory" hanging on it, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is your dormitory at school. You can go in and take a look. If there is anything missing, you can

Come to me at the east end of the village and I will help you apply to the higher authorities."

Zhu Yujian nodded, "I'll have to ask Village Chief Li to take care of me from now on."

Li Tie smiled and said: "Your Majesty, you don't have to be polite, this is our job."

This was not the first time that Zhu Yujian had heard the new word "work". The garrison who guarded them had often mentioned it before, and it was said that it came from the Imperial Guard.

Zhu Yujian and his servant entered the small courtyard and found that although it was simple, it was very clean.

After looking around a few houses in the house, I found that the basic expenses were all covered and you could move in directly.

This reminded him of his life within the high walls of Fengyang, and he couldn't help but sigh: "I guess apart from those adoptive clans, I should be the most adaptable to the boarding life in this school, right?"

After saying that, his eyes fell on a white booklet on the table in the main room.

I saw eight large horizontal characters written on it - "The Study Manual of the Ming Dynasty Zongfan".
Chapter completed!