King Zhu Huakui of Chu did have dozens of women on the surface, and the harem of the current emperor Zhu Youxiao is not as good as his. It is indeed difficult for him to refute this.

But he didn't feel any guilt about it.

In his opinion, Zhu Youxiao was simply scolding for no reason!

Because the Ming Dynasty was established for a hundred years, there was no emperor who stipulated that there could only be many women in the vassal kings.

But Zhu Youxiao became the emperor and tried to seize the benefits of the vassal kings in a different way and control the power of the vassal kings. Now, there are also many women who should be in charge of it.

King Zhu Huakui of Chu felt an unknown fire in his heart. He felt that he understood Zhu Youxiao's tyranny and unreasonableness. He suppressed his anger and bowed to Zhu Youxiao and said, "Since that's the case, then I will take my leave!"

Zhu Youxiao is now quite dissatisfied with this vassal king who dares to covet his women. Seeing that he was not as good as before, he waved his hand dissatisfiedly: "Get out, get back to your Wuchang!"

Zhu Youxiao's words hit the mind of Zhu Huakui, the King of Chu. Zhu Huakui couldn't help but bow to Zhu Youxiao again and said, "For this reason, thank you Your Majesty!"

Zhu Youxiao was a little bored for a while and didn't think so much about it. It was indeed a trouble to keep these vassal kings in Jinling City.

These nobles in heaven have caused considerable trouble to the commercial order of Jinling City recently. If Zhu Youxiao had not killed King Gui Zhu Changying in public, he would have been afraid that some bold clans would have robbed them publicly.

The people in the capital of Nanyuan complained about this, and Zhu Youxiao could not put all these vassal kings under house arrest without reason, so it would be better to let them go back to their fiefdom first and then slowly clean up in the future.

Moreover, after Zhu Youxiao sacrificed the Xiaoling Mausoleum, he did not get free because of this, not to mention that he did not come to the south to come to Xiaoyao.

Although Zhu Youxiao used powerful means to oppose civil servants and basically broke away from the control of civil servants, civil servants still occupy an advantageous position in this ruling system, while military officers who were originally checks and balanced with civil servants are still affiliated with civil servants. Most of the military officers in the Ming Dynasty were still suppressed by civil servants, which also led to military officials lacking fighting spirit and being too servile.

And to change this habit that has been formed over the past few hundred years, it is naturally not something that can be changed overnight.

What Zhu Youxiao had to do was to reshape the status of military officers step by step. Zhu Youxiao was not worried about whether the military officers would lead to problems when they ran side by side with civil servants, because the imperial guards representing the emerging military officers were all linked to national interests.

These military officers who occupy a share of state capital can only maximize their own interests by constantly expanding to the outside world. Overthrowing the emperor and messing up the world will only make them lose more than they deserve.

The first step Zhu Youxiao had to do was to worship the King of Zhongshan Xu Da with the honor of the emperor!

Zhu Youxiao initially mentioned this decision only to Xu Hongji, Duke of Wei, but the ministers really did not expect that His Majesty the Emperor would really pay homage to Xu Da personally.

Xu Da made outstanding achievements in the Ming Dynasty, was the first martial arts official, and was also somewhat related to the royal family, so it was understandable that Zhu Youxiao worshipped Xu Da, and the civil officials did not object.

Although some people have realized that Zhu Youxiao was deliberately promoting the status of a military officer and proposed that although King Xu Da of Zhongshan had made contributions to the state, he could just send important officials to sacrifice on his behalf. Why should His Majesty work with him?

But Zhu Youxiao naturally disagreed. Although sacrificial matters are not a big deal, if it were the emperor who personally sacrificed it, it not only showed that he was deliberately reshaping the status of a military minister, but also made the nobles realize that his group was gradually being valued by His Majesty the Emperor.

What's more, I just admire him, and the principal priest was Xu Hongji.

Xu Da was buried in Zhongshan by Zhu Yuanzhang, and belonged to the foot of Zijin Mountain as Xiaoling Mausoleum, not far away. Zhu Youxiao also wrote an article by Li Mingrui, a Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, to erect another sacred monument for Xu Da on the day of the sacrifice.

At the same time, the Hanlin Academy organized a special person to write Xu Da's biography, and required that the vernacular and chapter-line form be the best, so that the people of the world can understand and understand it. Heroes who are familiar with the country are also one of the measures to strengthen ideological education.

Using an official organization like the Hanlin Academy to organize the power to write biographies of celebrities (novel genres) is considered a precedent for Zhu Youxiao so far, not only to promote heroic characters, but also to make money.

Institutions like the Hanlin Academy, which are of social science research, cannot live by subsidies only from the court, and those erudite but not ordinary scholars of the Hanlin Academy cannot keep them so poor all the time, so it is also good to make some money by making a publishing cultural product.

The Hanlin Academy edition of "The Founding Father of the Ming Dynasty: The Biography of Xu Da" was released half a year later. It printed 30,000 copies that month, but only 2,000 copies were sold. However, people later found that "The Founding Father of the Ming Dynasty: The Biography of Xu Da" was not a classical Chinese language like white spring, but a vernacular language that anyone could understand, and the story was also interesting. When Hanlin Academy, who were already good at sketching about the red light of Taizu's house, wrote novels, the plot was no less exciting than those of folk storytellers, and even the techniques were even more exaggerated.

In this way, sales of such biographies suddenly increased significantly in the second month.

In the third month, all 30,000 pre-printed copies were out of stock.

The Hanlin Academy had to expand the printing scale, and even no longer rely on internal officials to recruit craftsmen from the outside to meet the people's needs for such reading materials.

However, it can also be seen from this that the spiritual world of the people of the Ming Dynasty is so empty. Water Margin cannot meet their entertainment needs at all. Contemporary hero stories are much stronger in terms of their sense of substitution, familiarity and intimacy, and therefore they are more popular.

Seeing this, Xu Guangqi, a senator of the Hanlin Academy, simply submitted a memorial to ask for an order to take out other founding fathers who were not later denied by Zhu Yuanzhang to make biography and comment. Because the money earned was good for him, these Hanlin officials not only did not object, but also agreed with it.

But they never realized that from a moment on, they were old scholars who began to transform from pure researchers to cultural products exporters serving popular cultural consumption.

Even later, in order to make money, some Hanlin bachelors began to become celebrities and explained Tang poetry, Song lyrics and historical and military stories to the public through various channels, and became well-known figures by the people. These figures were directly called "experts" by the Daming Daily, and the term expert was born.

Less gossip. When Zhu Youxiao came to Xu Da’s tomb to pay homage, King Zhu Huakui of Chu also made up his mind to do a great cause.

That night, he went to Wei Min'er's house, and Wei Min'er just thought he was here to visit his cousin again, so she didn't doubt him anything.

"Prince, have you really thought about it?" Ruan Dacheng asked King Chu Zhu Huakui very seriously.

Zhu Huakui did not answer immediately, and later said: "He rejected Gu's request, not just because of this matter. Gu really doesn't want to be played with and applauded by him like this, but before I promise you, you have to give me two things."
Chapter completed!