On the sixth day of the first lunar month of the Longwu year, a mysterious team was slowly boarding the ship at Tianjin Wei Wharf.

The people who boarded the ship were all wearing ordinary clothes and clothes, cloth shoes, and looked like ordinary people. However, the troops guarding them boarded the ship were all elite guards, and there were even a man holding a rifled flintlock gun that was monitoring the ship with guns not far away, and seemed to attach great importance to these people who boarded the ship.

Of course, it looks strange, but if you list the list of these people in civilian clothes, you can know why the most elite imperial guards in Daqin, who were responsible for defending the emperor, could appear here.

Zhu Yi-han, the former Ming Dynasty King.

Zhu Minchun, the former King of Jin in Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Rensheng, the former King of Jingjiang of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gongye, the former King of Zhou of Ming Dynasty.

………………………………………

Although they didn't sound much, they did become representative names of one of the biggest disadvantages in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang's reward for his descendants was even at the point where the annual income of the whole country in the middle and late Ming dynasties could not be insufficient to the royal family's expenses. In the end, it made the Ming court and the emperor very passive, and had to use various means to reduce the royal family's expenses.

However, the Ming royal family was not allowed to engage in the business of the four people, and the scholars, farmers, industry and commerce were not allowed to do it, which caused some remote royal family members to rely on crimes to obtain the qualification to enter prison and eat in prison, thereby maintaining their lives.

But these are all treatments of remote royal families. Near-branch relatives like King Chu, King Zhou, King Qin, etc., will definitely pay full salary to give them money and give birth to children. They will never have to be treated as a prison and eat to fill their stomachs.

It was this group of people who used their status to suck blood in the entire Ming Dynasty and local gentry, dragging down the Ming Dynasty's finances. Of course, these people had a bad ending. They were either killed by peasant uprising troops or by the Qing Dynasty, and basically did not get a good ending.

The end of Zhu Ming's royal family is indeed very miserable.

After Xiao Ruxun ascended the throne, he decided not to kill them out of his promise to the former Ming royal family, but they needed to obey the arrangements of the Emperor of Qin and had no objection to the arrangements of the Emperor of Qin, otherwise they would not fulfill their previous promises.

The former Empress Dowager Ming personally wrote letters to important clans and vassals in various places, explaining their pros and cons to them, and letting them surrender, not resist, and allow the Qin army to do so, otherwise their lives would be lost.

Those sent to do these things are elite officers and elite troops from Burma. They are loyal to Xiao Ruxun and the Qin Dynasty. They are the best candidates.

Most clans chose to surrender because this was already the case.

There was no threat to the Qin Dynasty's detention of the tripod, and on the surface, they seemed to have hope of restoring the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty's defense against them was no less than that of Xiao Ruxun's defense against them. Many of the people around the vassal kings were spies installed by the court.

Now that the court surrenders, the remnants of the Jinyiwei have been digested into the Central Investigation Department, all in the hands of Xiao Ruxun, and the life gates of the vassal kings have also fallen into Xiao Ruxun's hands. It is not difficult to deal with these vassal kings at all.

Although there were also attempts to resist, such as the King of Chu, who joined forces with his brothers to try to escape from the cage and go to the place to summon the Ming Zhongliang to continue the struggle, but he was soon controlled by the spys of the Yuanjin Yiwei beside him.

Then the other spies surrendered, and the King of Chu family was captured directly, and the fact that they tried to resist was reported.

Other vassal kings could still retain part of their property, but the King of Chu was deprived of all his property because of his resistance, and could not keep a penny and sent it directly to the capital for strict supervision.

None of the brothers of the King of Chu escaped, and were directly beheaded by Xiao Ruxun, and he had to watch him in front of the King of Chu.

Xiao Ruxun implemented a zero-tolerance policy for the behavior of these ungrateful people. One person resisted the arrest of the whole family. The man killed the woman and was confiscated into the Jiaofangsi. In the subsequent persuasion letter, Empress Dowager Li asked to add these contents, warning the vassal kings and royal families in various places.

After learning that the King of Chu's brothers had all died, Empress Dowager Li was extremely angry about it and angrily asked Xiao Ruxun why he did not keep his promise.

"As the emperor of a country, you have not kept your promises! What kind of face do you have to dominate the world?!"

Xiao Ruxun didn't care about this at all.

"I have said that they should not allow any resistance and come to the capital honestly. I guarantee their lives and some property. But I did not say that they resisted and I would forgive them. Those who resisted will surely die. The mastermind Chu should have died. I saved him from death because of the Empress Dowager Ming. What else do you want?"

Empress Dowager Li was so angry that her face turned blue. She threw away the pen and refused to continue writing a letter of persuasion.

Xiao Ruxun's face turned cold.

"I hope that Empress Dowager Ming will understand something. For the sake of your son, I treat you with kindness and will not hurt your lives and give you corresponding treatment. This is all the result of my own efforts to resist the opposition. Most of the ministers hope that you will die because your life makes them feel uncomfortable.

Letting you live is my greatest and last kindness. Write down these things immediately and send them out, telling those vassal princes and relatives not to resist. This is an order, not an agreement. If you don’t do it, I will slaughter the clans in blood!"

Xiao Ruxun didn't want to continue talking nonsense with her anymore.

Empress Dowager Li looked at Xiao Ruxun in disbelief.

"Do you do it?"

"Xiao Ruxun...whether of your conscience?"

Empress Dowager Li pointed at Xiao Ruxun: "Aren't you afraid of lightning strikes?"

"Come."

Xiao Ruxun's expression calmed down.

Li Sheng walked up and said, "Your Majesty."

"Turn the order to behead the former Ming Chu King, all the men in the family were beheaded, and all the women were confiscated into the Jiaofangsi."

"Abide by the order."

Li Sheng turned around and left.

Empress Dowager Li was stunned.

"You...you dare..."

"This is the first one. If you don't write it, the next one is King Lu."

"you……"

Empress Dowager Li trembled all over.

"Then there are King Qin, King Zhou, King Jingjiang, one by one. If you don't write it, I will kill them all. If they resist, I will not hold back. The previous agreement will be invalidated and none of you will survive. Anyway, the surrendered ministers hope that you will die more than I do."

Xiao Ruxun just looked at Empress Dowager Li like this.

"I write, you can't hurt them."

Empress Dowager Li gritted her teeth and made such a decision.

"You write that except for the King of Chu, everything else can survive."

"You can't do it, King Chu!"

Empress Dowager Li stared at Xiao Ruxun tightly.

"It's too late. This is the condition just now. The King of Chu must die. If you don't write it now, I will immediately order the killing of the King of Lu's family."

"You! You..."

"Do you write it or not? I will count it three times, and the life of the King of Lu's family is in your hands."

Xiao Ruxun raised three fingers.

"one two three……"

"Enough! Enough! I write! I write!!"

Empress Dowager Li collapsed, and her trembling hands immediately grabbed the pen and quickly wrote a letter of persuasion to surrender.

After a while, Li Sheng returned to Xiao Ruxun's side.

"Your Majesty, the former Ming King Chu has been beheaded, all the men in the family have been beheaded, and all the women have been confiscated into the Jiaofangsi. Everything is in accordance with Your Majesty's will."

Xiao Ruxun nodded.

"Um."

As soon as Empress Dowager Li stopped, she slowly began to move.
Chapter completed!