Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 977

Zhu Youjian had known for a long time that the vassal kings had come to the capital, and thought that they would ask for face-to-face saints only after spending some time in the capital!

"Call!"

"According to the order!"

The vassal kings came to the capital more than ten days ago. At the beginning, the emperor took the initiative to let them recruit troops at their own expense. Now the soldiers and horses have been trained for a year. The emperor never said what he wanted them to do. Later, he personally drove to Russia.

When they heard that the emperor was coming back, they rushed to the capital immediately. They were previously confined in a fief and could not go out. Later, the emperor lifted the restrictions, allowing them to see the great rivers and mountains of Ming Dynasty.

The vassal kings who thought they were very knowledgeable were completely dazzled when they first arrived in the capital. They also played in the various big hotels and Yichun Towers in the capital. It was a joy.

Especially the official prostitutes in the Yichun Building, there are all kinds of races, friends include Japanese beauties, Annan people, Burmese beauties, Indian beauties, Korean beauties, and many Nanyang beauties, they have tasted all kinds of styles , as for silver they have plenty.

It's not that the vassal kings don't have honest men, they have been living such a corrupt life for a hundred years, they can't do anything, they can only eat and wait to die.

After King Zhu Yihai of Lu learned that the emperor had returned to Beijing, he immediately sent someone to call back the vassal kings who were still enjoying themselves in the Yichun Tower, and they went to the Qianqing Palace together to ask for an audience.

If it is said that the vassal kings will think about rebelling after they have their own troops, to be honest, none of these vassal kings have thought about it that way, they are not stupid, the emperor must have a way to deal with them if they dare to move If you move, your family will be ransacked and your family will be wiped out.

Besides, there are several vassal kings in Ming Dynasty who were able to rebel successfully, and Emperor Yongle was the only one. Not only did Zhu Di fight outside all the year round, but he also had a large number of loyal soldiers under his command.

"Call all the vassal kings to come in!"

The shrill voice of the little eunuch came, and the vassal kings immediately walked into the Qianqing Palace, saying that most of them only met Zhu Youjian once, which was when the vassal was cut down.

Seeing Emperor Chongzhen sitting on a grand teacher's chair, they hastily stepped forward to salute:

"See Your Majesty."

Zhu Youjian smiled slightly:
"Exemption, flat body! Give me a seat!"

The vassals hurriedly thanked:

"Thank you, Your Majesty, long live my emperor!"

Zhu Youjian looked at the vassals in front of him. There were not many of them. Only eleven vassals arrived. It was obvious that the other vassals didn't want to spend money to recruit soldiers and horses, but just wanted to eat and wait to die.

In fact, there were a lot fewer vassal kings in the late Ming Dynasty, and most of them were wiped out by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. Now there are only more than 20 vassal kings left, and it is not bad to have eleven vassal kings coming.

You Minghei made a statistic, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, that is, from Wanli to Chongzhen.At that time, the descendants of the surname Zhu, that is to say, the vassal kings in various places, if combined, there were more than 100 million people.

In other words, one of the reasons for the collapse of the Ming Dynasty's national finances was that a large part of the national finances had to be allocated to support the vassal kings in various places, so it is said that the vassal kings overwhelmed the Ming Dynasty.

This is pure nonsense, and it is also a slander to the old Zhu family. There are many vassals in the Ming Dynasty, and it is indeed a heavy burden on the court, but there are only more than 20 people. Could it be that they broke the Ming Dynasty?
Of course not entirely. The demise of the Ming Dynasty had something to do with the Little Ice Age, the plague of plague and locusts everywhere, the greedy civil servants, the warlords everywhere, and Emperor Chongzhen. In short, many factors superimposed on the Together they caused the downfall of Ming Dynasty.

The most important thing is those second ministers and third ministers. If they hadn't been disloyal to Daming, if they hadn't lacked the integrity of the Han people, it would be absolutely impossible to live in the Central Plains with the tens of thousands of cavalry in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

In fact, some vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty did not live a good life every day as some people said, and they were drunk every day.Never worry about your livelihood.

When the Ming Empire first started, as we all know, Zhu Yuanzhang sent his children to various places as vassal kings.One of the purposes of doing this is to allow the vassals to fulfill their obligations and responsibilities everywhere.

For example, Zhu Yuanzhang entrusted some children to the north as vassal kings.In addition to Yan Wang Zhu Di, there are other vassal kings in northern China, such as King Ning who later rebelled, and King Shen in Shenyang in Northeast China.

One of the first things these local princes had to face was the military threat from the nomads.That is to say, as soon as they arrive at the border area, they must fulfill their responsibilities and obligations to protect the border of the Ming Dynasty.

Later, due to the reduction of the vassals, the vassal kings lost their military power. Except that when the war came, the vassal kings could not take any action. In ordinary days, if the vassal kings in some places could choose, they might not want to. Choose yourself as a descendant of the vassal king.

The vassal princes placed in various places by the emperor, although they are the emperor's own flesh and blood, but in fact, they are just high-ranking prisoners.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, after the vassal kings arrived, it can be said that as long as they walked out of the vassal mansion, they would be recorded by the local officials. Every move of the vassal kings would be recorded by the local officials, and then reported to Beijing. imperial court.In other words, once the vassals arrived, they would be placed under residential surveillance.

If a vassal wants to visit a scenic spot outside the vassal's mansion, the first thing the vassal should do is to report to the local officials, or to ask the emperor for leave, only with the consent of the local officials , or after the emperor agreed, the vassal king can leave his house and visit the local places of interest.

Not only do you have to make a report when you go out, but you have to get the consent of local officials.There was another rule in the Ming Dynasty, which can be said to be very ruthless.That is to not allow the two princes to meet.

In other words, some vassals, if they were the emperor's sons, might even meet their brothers and sisters before leaving the palace.If the two children are named vassals.When they got to the place, a pair of originally friendly brothers would never see each other again even if they died.

Although there are express regulations,.The vassal kings could not engage in social work, and all the living expenses of the vassal kings were borne by the national government finances of the Ming Dynasty.

However, some of the generous financial aid provided to the vassals was only aimed at the important vassals considered by the emperor at that time.Like the son of Emperor Wanli, that is, the favored King Fu.Naturally, many economic benefits can be obtained.

And some are also the children of the Zhu family, and they are also the vassals of the emperor's clan.If it is considered by the next emperor to be a relative who does not need to exist.The life of this kind of vassal king can be described as impoverished.

Later became Zhu Houcong, Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty. Before becoming emperor, his father died in Anlu Prefecture, Hubei.If history has not changed, Zhu Houcong will be just a small vassal in Hubei after his father's death.

The place where the vassal king is located, Anlu Prefecture is not very rich in products and cannot support too many people. Emperor Jiajing not only lost his father as a teenager, but all his brothers and sisters died young.This is due to the arrears of payment and the decline in treatment by the imperial court to the vassal palace.

There is also the King of Lingqiu. This vassal king is not only in a poor place.The treatment that the vassal king should have was stopped by the civil servants, and the court defaulted on his salary for 50 years.

Not to mention other local vassals with distant bloodlines like King Lingqiu. Some children of vassal kings really couldn't stand such a life, and eventually starved to death, wandering and begging.

(End of this chapter)