Li Mingrui returned to his residence and began to review the classics and modify the etiquette of the sacrificial ceremonies of Xiaoling Mausoleum overnight.

At the same time, he immediately found Zhang Dai, a great talent who was responsible for writing the sacrificial text, and asked him to add a manifesto to the sacrificial text about the vassal kings and the current sages on the same stage to worship Xiaoling Mausoleum.

"Is it true that Your Majesty summoned all the vassal kings to Nanjing to worship Xiaoling Mausoleum with Your Majesty?"

Zhang Dai's eyes flashed with surprise. Although he was only a student in the imperial examination, he was not a pedantic nerd who only knew the Four Books and Five Classics. So when he heard Li Mingrui mention that His Majesty wanted His Majesty to go to Nanjing to worship Xiaoling Mausoleum together, he guessed that His Majesty was going to attack the vassal kings.

In the Ming Dynasty, vassal kings were always a major hidden danger, but not a military hidden danger, but an economic hidden danger.

Lin Run of the Jiajing Dynasty once submitted a memorial saying that the world supplied four million stones of money and grain in the capital, but the grain from each royal palace was as high as eight million stones. The growing number of relatives of the vassal kings directly caused the fiscal deficit of the Ming Dynasty.

Even though Zhu Youxiao has opened up many financial channels, he has no way to supply these vassal kings.

He even asked the Royal Bank of China Yang Shouchun to conduct a survey, and now if half of the supply of the vassal kings are reduced, the Royal Bank can increase its profit by five times.

However, there are only more and more vassal kings who have the power to give up their children, and will not be fewer and fewer.

Now it is hundreds of thousands, but then it may be millions. As long as the Ming Dynasty does not perish, they will continue to reproduce like parasites until they nibbled the last bit of vitality of the Ming Dynasty and then buried with the dynasty established by their ancestors.

Zhu Youxiao could imagine that if he no longer took measures against these vassal kings in a few years, just like his predecessor emperor, he would not dare to move because these people were relatives of the Ming Dynasty and had special political status. Even if he opened a few more royal capital industries, he would not be able to save the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the hidden dangers of the vassal kings must be eliminated!

Zhu Youxiao did not want to continue to compromise and detain, and let these so-called relatives drag the Ming Dynasty into the water.

Li Mingrui just nodded and said after a long time:

"You and I are both descendants of the royal sect, so you don't have to see each other. Now you are willing to give up the gang of Fushe literati, willing to be criticized by others and agree to it, and betray Wei Zhongxian. He became the chief editor of the Daming Daily, and now he personally wrote a letter to the current emperor. It wouldn't be really just for the empty position of the doctor of the Ministry of Rites."

Zhang Dai smiled but said without saying a word, and after a moment of silence, he said: "To disappoint Mr. Li, Zhang is now willing to be His Majesty's lackey just to be promoted and taken to power. He failed the scientific examination for decades but took the exam again and again, just to one day become the first-rank official, like Zhang Jiangling in that year!"

Zhang Dai's answer surprised Li Mingrui. He looked directly at the young man who was younger than him for a whole round but older than him, and asked, "Why?"

Since Zhang Juzheng was disgraced and his family was starved to death for dozens of people, the entire Ming Dynasty officialdom has always been very secretive about this former minister and the power of the emperor.

No one wants to mention Zhang Juzheng because no one knows whether he will be hated by all officials and attacked by civil servants.

Only an arrogant scholar like Zhang Dai who is not from the imperial examination dares to be a newborn calf and not afraid of tigers, dare to mention him directly in front of his cabinet Grand Secretary, and also bluntly said that he wanted to be an official, just to become Zhang Juzheng.

If other officials heard this, if they had heard of Zhang Juzheng, they would have been charged with a crime of ulterior motives.

But Li Mingrui was not angry about it.

"Because the prince's grand guarantor Zhao Kecai, Duke Zhao!"

After Zhang Dai said this, Li Mingrui remembered this person.

Zhao Kehuai was once a famous official in the fight against the Japanese and a subordinate of Yin Zhengmao. He had always been upright and had a strategy. It was because of this that he became a magistrate from a small county magistrate and finally served as the governor of Huguang. However, because he did not satisfy King Chu of Chu in the pseudo-King King Zhu Shikui, he ended up being beaten to death by the King of Chu.

Zhao Kehuai, who was also a hero in the anti-Japanese war, was also a governor of a province, and was beaten to death by a vassal king in an unknown way. This did cause a huge sensation in the court and the public at that time.

Not only did the civil servants have a great opinion on this, but many military officers who had a good relationship with Zhao Kehuai during the anti-Japanese war also had great opinions. However, they were eventually suppressed by the cabinet Fu Chen who was bribed by King Zhu Shikui of Chu at that time. Of course, it was related to the reluctance of Emperor Wanli at that time to attack his clan relatives.

Seeing Zhang Dai's face showing a ruthless look, Li Mingrui asked curiously: "Please forgive Li for taking the liberty. Mr. Zhao is from Chongqing Prefecture and has been an official in Fujian, Zhejiang and Hubei for many years. But you, the Zongzi, are mostly in Shaoxing, your hometown, why do you hate evil so much?"

"My grandfather was once a senator from the Huguang Administrator's Office. When he was young, he stayed in Huguang with his grandfather for several years. Fortunately, Mr. Zhao was grateful for his teaching for several years, and he also received the favor of his teacher's wife. My junior sister and I were childhood sweethearts, and we were not a guess, but when we were old, we saw that my teacher was killed!"

Zhang Dai grabbed his fist and slammed it on the table: "The harm in the world is not only the corrupt officials and gentry, but also these lawless relatives of the princes and royal relatives!"

After hearing this, Li Mingrui patted Zhang Dai on the shoulder: "Sit wait for the opportunity. Whether Your Majesty can kill these royal relatives and nobles at that time depends on how powerful the Ming Daily and the pen in your hand can wield!"

"The official understands!"

After Zhang Dai said that, Li Mingrui said goodbye and left without saying anything. Zhang Dai wrote a letter overnight to order people to send it to Wuchang Prefecture, Huguang overnight.

Three days passed quickly, and Li Mingrui successfully changed the etiquette of worshiping Xiaoling Mausoleum, and a group of old ritual officials who refuted it in the court were speechless.

It is precisely because of this that it became imperative for the vassal kings from all over the country to come to Nanjing to worship Xiaoling Mausoleum. On that day, Dongchang sent several troops to the residences of the vassal kings from all over the country to pass the imperial edict.

But this time, the Dongchang man's phone number did not deliberately proclaim the order as he had received Wu Jin's latest instructions, but deliberately delayed the order and promulgation.

However, the vassal kings everywhere were not lambs slaughtered. Zhu You proofreaded the attacks of the Donglin Party, the Shanxi merchants, the scholars and Confucius, the reforms implemented in Fengyang, Shandong, Shaanxi and other places, and the expanded imperial guards in various places have made these vassal kings everywhere, whose butts were not clean.

Among the vassal kings in various places, some people have seen what His Majesty is going to do today, and have guessed that sooner or later His Majesty will attack those who really hinder the Ming Dynasty.

However, according to the Ming Dynasty, although they could not leave their fiefdoms, they also had their own spies everywhere, let alone big cities like Nanjing.

Therefore, as soon as the news that the current emperor, His Majesty Zhu Youxiao asked the vassal kings from all over the country to come to Nanjing to worship the Xiaoling Mausoleum with him, someone immediately passed the news to the vassal kings from all over the country through various means.
Chapter completed!