Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 393 New Enfeoffment System

The Tokugawa shogunate announced to the world, vowing to submit to the Ming Dynasty forever, and the war against Japan came to an end.

Of course, the end of the battle does not mean that everything is over. There are still many things to come.

First of all, meritorious soldiers must be rewarded.

Expansion of territory is the number one military achievement, which has been customized since the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Winning Dongying is an inexhaustible feat, so it is natural to reward the meritorious soldiers.

Otherwise, who will fight the world for you?
Also, after taking down Dongpu, you have to manage it well. If you just ignore it or even mess around after taking it down, it won't last long.

The so-called "fighting the world is easy, defending the world is difficult" is the truth.

Taichang has a deep understanding of this.

After the Battle of Japan was over, he began to consider the two most important issues.

After considering these two issues together, he found that this seemed to be a problem.

To put it bluntly, it is the problem of the enfeoffment system.

For example, fiefdom.

Originally, he wanted to seal all the 66 kingdoms of Dongying to the ten vassal kings of Lao Zhu's family.

However, at this moment, he found that it was not possible to do so.

Because those vassal kings have failed to accomplish anything!
Moreover, among the ten vassal kings, except Tang Wang Zhu Yujian, none of them seemed capable.

If he continues to award rewards in such a random manner, can these vassal kings hold Dongpu?

More importantly, he enfeoffed all the territory that the soldiers of the three armies had worked so hard to conquer to those vassal kings who had not made any achievements. Did the soldiers have no opinion at all?
Is it true that soldiers who open up territories are only worthy of titles, not fiefdoms?
Could it be that all fiefdoms can only be granted to vassal kings who have not made any achievements?

It's definitely not going to work like this!
After all, the road of Da Ming's expansion has just begun, and there are still many battles to come. He must make his soldiers full of fighting spirit.

If many people are dissatisfied after just conquering Japan, and if they can't be twisted together, then no matter how big the Ming is, the fate of disintegration will inevitably be inevitable in the end.

There are many examples in this history, just like the Mongolian Yuan once established a huge territory, and as a result, it fell apart in less than a hundred years.

Therefore, this fief cannot be sealed indiscriminately, and it cannot be granted only to vassal kings who have not made any achievements as before.

Ministers with meritorious service must also be sealed!
In other words, fiefdom is not the exclusive privilege of feudal lords, and meritorious soldiers can also be granted fiefdoms.

Of course, this fief is not granted to all meritorious ministers, which is not good. Only those who have made great contributions will be granted, so that everyone can strive for great achievements.

As for vassal kings, not all vassal kings can be granted titles. At least, they must have made a certain contribution and ability to be granted titles.

For example, Tang Wang Zhu Yujian, whether it was donating money and food for the court or supporting the reduction of feudal clans, he has made certain contributions, and he is really capable.

Therefore, after being entrusted to the New Tang State Mansion, there were no complaints, and there were no troubles in the local area.

As for the remaining vassal kings, let's make one taller than the short ones first, and work hard on the others.

If these vassal kings are now showing their abilities, enfeoffing all the 66 countries in Dongying to them is simply asking for trouble, and Dongying doesn't know what kind of chaos it will be.

Therefore, this fief cannot be sealed indiscriminately according to the previous rules.

And titles.

Daming's title system is actually quite messy.

For example, princes, it seems that they can only be conferred on feudal kings who have not achieved an inch of merit, and those sons of the feudal kings.

These people seem to be able to become kings by lying down as the descendants of the old Zhu family, but the others are desperately working hard, and no matter how great their achievements are, they cannot be crowned kings.

If the old Zhu's family only sealed one or two vassals, it would be fine, and even ten or eight would not be a big problem.

The problem, it turns out that there were dozens of vassal kings in Daming, and hundreds of county kings!
This is undoubtedly a kind of irony for the word fair!
This is a great irony for the meritorious ministers who are desperately working hard to expand their territory.

What kind of prince will Xiangning?

This sentence was yelled out more than 1000 years ago.

However, Emperor Hongwu seemed to have never heard of this saying, that he wanted the old Zhu family to be crowned king after birth.

Also, the titles were originally divided into "Grand Marquis and Uncle Sons". This system of titles has been used for thousands of years, but it was castrated in the Hongwu Dynasty, and only Dukes and Earls remained!

To be honest, he really didn't understand why Emperor Hongwu wanted to cut off the viscount and baron.

Is it just to be different?
Doing so is actually very detrimental to rewarding meritorious soldiers.

Because the lowest among the entrusted titles is the earl!

How much credit does an earl have to be named?

Once he castrated the viscount and baron, it became very difficult for the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to obtain titles!
All, in the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, except for the Hongwu Dynasty and the Yongle Dynasty who wantonly divided two groups of dukes and nobles because of the two wars, the next ten emperors did not give titles to a few meritorious soldiers.

Even, the titles awarded to meritorious officers and men by the more than ten emperors later were not related to those empresses, imperial concubines, etc., and many titles were obtained because of kinship.

This may be one of the reasons why the Ming army is getting weaker and weaker.

Everyone doesn't have much motivation!
For meritorious soldiers, earls are too difficult to seal, let alone marquises and dukes.

Those foreign relatives can be granted titles casually, earls, marquises and so on are just like a joke!
In other words, it is very likely that you will not get anything if you work hard, and even if you want to get military rewards, you have to live long!
Then why work so hard?

This is like when a candidate goes to take an exam, the teacher gives a score, either [-], [-], [-], or zero, without even [-] or [-] in between!
However, it is extremely difficult to take the test of 200, [-], and [-] points. After [-] years of the test, only a few people have scored, and everyone else has zero points!

Honestly, this is ridiculous!
The enfeoffment system established by Emperor Hongwu is really a bit of a scam, not only cheating Daming, but also cheating the descendants of the old Zhu family!

Is it okay to confer kings and lands on your descendants for no reason or principle?

Actually not good!

The lessons of the demise of the Ming Dynasty in history prove that Emperor Hongwu was cutting his own roots in such a random enfeoffment!
This is a lesson in blood!

Why did common people rebel in history, and why did the Ming Dynasty perish?
Natural disasters are only one reason, corrupt officials are only one reason, and those feudal princes and county kings who have been entrusted indiscriminately are an important reason!
Those vassal kings and county kings are hated so much. No matter if they fall into the hands of the rebels or the Luojian slaves, they will all be cut off from their children and grandchildren. How many people will be killed!
There were so many vassal kings, princes, and royal family members in the Chongzhen Dynasty, how many were left in the Shunzhi Dynasty and the Kangxi Dynasty?

It is estimated that none of the 1 survived!

Moreover, those who survived had to try their best to hide their identities, or they would die!

The enfeoffment system established by Emperor Hongwu may be to let his children and grandchildren enjoy the glory and wealth. The problem is that such random enfeoffment actually harms his children and grandchildren in the end!

Therefore, this enfeoffment system must be changed!
It is necessary to unify the princes and dukes and uncles and barons into one system, so as to be fair.

And the Viscount and Baron had to be added.

In this way, it is not so difficult for meritorious officers and soldiers to obtain titles, and everyone will have a head start.

In this way, there are more levels of titles, instead of reaching the top with three titles, there is nothing to seal.

As for whether there will be a king with a different surname, this can be discussed later, at least people must feel that the enfeoffment system is fair, at least people must see the hope of becoming a king!
After thinking about it for a few days, Taichang directly issued an edict to the world, setting a new enfeoffment system.

This system is not as simple and absurd as before.

The new enfeoffment system is from high to low, and the details are extremely detailed.

For example, the title system is from prince to baron, with a total of six grades and eighteen grades. Moreover, in addition to feudal kings, first-class dukes, first-class marquises, and first-class earls also have fiefs.

The fiefdom of the vassal king is nine states and counties.

The first duke's fief is eight states and counties

The fief of the first-class marquis is seven states and counties.

The first-class earl's fief is six states and counties.

There are also the criteria for enfeoffment, the criteria for promotion, etc., all of which are described in detail.

As soon as the edict came out, the entire Ming Dynasty was once again a sensation.

The emperor was so crazy that he even changed the enfeoffment system set by Emperor Hongwu!
However, well done!

It's really good!

In this way, all the soldiers will feel that they have a bright future, and they will work hard to make contributions!

(End of this chapter)