Accepted?

This made everyone amazed.

Because this is a challenge with absolutely no chance of winning, it is actually easy to understand. If the content of the test is limited to a certain category at the beginning, it will be easy to deal with. After all, it is limited to the Four Books and Five Classics, or poetry and songs. Whenever you meet a talented person, no matter how difficult or strange the questions you have, there is always a possibility of solving them.

But like Zhu Hougui, it is just digging a hole for people to jump. He can ask any strange questions from the vast sea of ​​books. No matter how powerful a person is, he may not be sure to be able to answer all the questions. If there is a question that you happen to understand and answer it by chance, it can be considered luck; but if you ask three questions in a row, it is impossible.

But Ye Chunqiu actually agreed.

To a certain extent, this is almost no different from being dying. Once you lose, except for the impossible to compete with the King Xing Mansion for the Tatar Khan girl, you are afraid that someone will be made fun of.

However, Ye Chunqiu actually had to increase his bets.

This...is a bit afraid that you will not die fast enough.

Zhu Houhuang's eyes lit up, and he gently raised his eyebrows and stared at Ye Chunqiu with interest, and asked with a smile on his lips.

"Oh, I wonder what else should I bet on Zhenguo?"

Ye Chunqiu looked sideways and saw that all the officials frowned. They obviously didn't support this gambling, and even had some concerns.

To a certain extent, Ye Chunqiu is indeed an alien in the officialdom. In fact, many people don’t like Ye Chunqiu.

For example, this time, in everyone's mind, Ye Chunqiu shouldn't have prying the corner of Prince Xing, but it's just that it's hard to express his opinion.

If it weren't for the aggressiveness of King Xing and his son, Ye Chunqiu wouldn't have been willing to make things difficult for Zhu Houtong and his son. All of this was because of Qiqige.

But now, Ye Chunqiu is obviously in a passive position, both morally and rationally.

How can we get everyone's support?

When Ye Chunqiu saw the expressions of the officials, he couldn't help but smile. Then he restrained his smile and said word by word.

"If I lose, I'd like to receive three million silver silver as a reward. That's right, I'll give you one to the Xing Palace."

Three million taels.

Everyone took a breath. Ye Chunqiu was so generous!

Who doesn’t like money? Zhu Houguan and Zhu Youzhi and his son looked at each other and couldn’t help but feel secretly happy.

Zhu Houcon's joy flashed in a flash, because he realized that Ye Chunqiu dared to bet like this, so what bet should Prince Xing make? He couldn't help but say, "What else?"

Ye Chunqiu smiled and said, "If the Xing Palace lost, and from then on, the Xing Palace will be extinguished from the salary, what if?"

Exclude salary.

Everyone was shocked.

Suddenly, many people's eyes lit up, and some people's mouths even twitched slightly.

Even Li Dongyang couldn't help but look at Ye Chunqiu in surprise.

What does it mean to be a surrogate salary? It means that from then on, the Xing Palace will no longer be able to receive salary from the court.

On the surface, it seems easy to understand, but in fact, this is related to the most stubborn problem in the entire Ming Dynasty.

There were many chronic diseases in the Ming Dynasty, and the most headache-inducing one was something that the cabinets in previous dynasties could not touch, and that was the support of the clans.

According to the rules, if a prince has ten sons, except for the eldest son who inherits the title of prince, the rest of the sons will be all named princes. The prince will give birth to sons and the eldest son will inherit the sons, and the other sons will be generals in the state, and so on.

In the early Ming Dynasty, there were not many princes, princes and generals of the Ming Dynasty, and only dozens of them, but now it is completely different.

Li Dongyang was deeply touched by this. When the former emperor was there, he received a report from the governor of Datong Yang Chengchou to the former emperor: Zhu Zhizhe, the fifth-generation King of Qing near Datong, once again broke the birth record of the royal family. As of August of that year, he had given birth to 94 children.

At that time, the memorial was handed over in the name of a good news, which was nothing more than saying that the royal family had scattered their branches and leaves, which was really gratifying. Li Dongyang clearly remembered that after reading the memorial, the late emperor Zhu Youzhang and the ministers could only smile bitterly and shake their heads.

In fact, although there were many children of King Qing at that time, his son was even more powerful. For example, the total number of children in the Prince of King Qing later reached 70. When the fourth generation of King Qing lived together, the number of people in the fifth generation of King Qing reached more than 1,000, resulting in such an embarrassing situation: every time a family dinner at the festival and the brothers met, they had to be introduced by someone first, otherwise they would not know each other. In the early years of Zhengde, the royal family finally couldn't figure out the population of their own family and reported to the emperor anxiously: "There are many branches in this residence, and the children born to each general may be reported in the age of no matter how long they are, and I beg the generals to investigate and report."

This is just a direct line. If we add the branches of the Taizu period, as well as the generals of the auxiliary state, the generals of Fengguo, and the lieutenant of Fengguo, this small Qing Palace alone requires the royal family support of the court's salary, there will be as many as seven or eight thousand.

Seven or eight thousand people.

What is this? According to the ancestral law of the Ming Dynasty, the lowest level among the royal family was the Lieutenant of Fengguo, and the salary of the Lieutenant of Fengguo was 200 stones, which is 100,000 to 20,000 kilograms of grain. You should know that Li Dongyang, now, even if he is the chief minister of the cabinet, his salary is only 72 stones.

The three Li Dongyangs are not as good as the Fengguo Lieutenant, the most side branch of the Qing Palace, and there are more than 2,000 people in the Qing Palace. Further up, the prince's salary is 10,000 stone, the prince's salary is 2,000 stone, the governor's general, 1,000 stone, the auxiliary general, and so on.

The salary received by the Qing Palace is enough to support several imperial guards in the Beijing camps. But the question is, how many royal palaces were there in the Ming Dynasty? More than 200 people, one carrot and one pit, and one prince's mansion means the so-called generals and auxiliary states with direct and side coefficients of hundreds or thousands.

Every year, almost the Ministry of Revenue has not yet handed over the taxes collected by the court. Nearly 30% of the taxes are sent to the major royal palaces and become the food for the royal family.

But this is the ancestral law and it is absolutely impossible to touch it. Not to mention the civil and military officials, even the emperor cannot.

But now, Ye Chunqiu seems to have raised a hole here, causing the system to become loose.

At this time, Li Dongyang's eyes lit up and he stared at Ye Chunqiu with a bright look. He had thoughts on his face. Could it be that Duke Zhenguo was fake to steal the bride, and was it true that planning and solving this stubborn problem for the court to solve it?

That's interesting. (To be continued., Your support is my greatest motivation.) 16-12-30 10:42:45
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