Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 184 The World Raises Zhu (Pig)

"Your Highness, I think that the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty established the country for more than 280 years, and now many old systems are out of date and should be changed, such as the Ming Dynasty's vassal system, such as the Weisuo military household system and so on."

After entering Jingjiang City, the old scholar Xu Shiqi said to Zhu Yihai.

Finally someone is talking about this.

In fact, as long as there is a little bit of knowledge in Ming Dynasty, no one would know that those ancestral systems are already out of date, but the problem is that this is the ancestral system set by the Taizu, who would dare to change it lightly.What's more, behind these ancestral systems, countless vested interest groups are desperately defending them.

The vassals of the Ming Dynasty said that they guarded various places and screened the court of the vassals.

But in fact, from the beginning of Jianwen, these vassal kings who led troops to the territory could no longer tolerate them. After a vigorous cut of the vassals, after killing several vassal kings, they also forced Zhu Di to rebel, and then Jing Nan.

After Jing Nan, his uncle Zhu Di took over his nephew Emperor Jianwen, and he himself was the vassal king who raised troops to seize the throne, so he couldn't tolerate the vassal kings continuing to have great power.Therefore, various policies such as reducing guards were introduced. In fact, Jianwen still followed the path of cutting feudal vassals, but no one dared to go against it this time.

After such a toss, Zhu Yuanzhang originally designed that the descendants of the old Zhu family would guard the various places and screen the center of the vassal, but in the end it became the vassal kings raising pigs in various places.

Can no longer shield the imperial court, but slowly became a huge burden on the imperial court.

After each emperor came to the throne, he always entrusted his princes and grandchildren, so more and more suzerains were entrusted. These vassals were restricted in various ways. There was only one thing left to do to make money.

Emperors also like to reward their sons with land. For example, Emperor Jiajing rewarded his son Jing Wang with 400 million mu of land at one time. Fu Wang Zhu Changxun was also ordered to grant 200 hectares of farmland at the beginning. Later, he refused to halve it, which was also [-] million mu. mu.

After hundreds of years, suzerains and vassals all over the world have occupied a large amount of land. Later, some princes had no land to seal, so they directly let the local land be allocated for rent, and many of the suzerain's Lumi were also directly allocated to some governments. The county is responsible for turning over the supplies.

It is said that most of the land in Henan is occupied by the clan.

Not to mention that the suzerain and vassal enjoyed many privileges. Their farmland did not pay food or service, and they even sent labor to the tenants, and sometimes the local government had to pay them silver.

In short, the vassal clan of the Ming Dynasty has long been an important burden on the imperial court, and at the local level, it has also greatly encroached on the interests of the people and has become a huge malignant tumor.

It's just that this question has been mentioned before, but the emperors didn't pay attention to it, or deliberately ignored it.

Now Zhu Yihai has supervised the country for more than two months. With his Northern Expedition, he has finally gained a firm foothold. When the problem of survival has been partially solved, now he has finally started to deal with other problems.

Xu Shiqi has high qualifications and high prestige, and he is very responsible for attacking such a deep problem.

If he doesn't mention this kind of thing, it won't have much influence if others mention it.

"My lord, sit down."

After two Junes, it is now July. Although the weather in July has turned cooler, the weather at the moment does not mean to turn colder at all, it is still hot as hell.

As a time traveler, Zhu Yihai knows more about Daming's long-standing disadvantages than anyone else. After all, so many people in later generations have summed it up countless times, and they can find out any problems for you.

But the problem is, he knows this, but he is not free for the time being, or he can't touch it for the time being.

It's like he knows that the Zheng family in Fujian is ambitious and wants to be the king of Fujian, and they have no loyalty to the Nanming court, but can he convict the Zheng family of treason now?It's not that they haven't found their way back, even if they found out, in the current situation, they have to divide the main contradiction into secondary contradictions, and have to solve them one by one.

Regardless of the three sevens and twenty-ones when they come up, they hack at will, that is to demolish the house. In the end, the beams are broken, the pillars are broken, the house collapses, and I have to bury myself in it.Even if you know that the pillars are crooked and the beams are not straight, you have to carefully straighten or even strengthen them first, and you have to repair the house first, not demolish it.

Don't say that Zheng Zhilong didn't rebel, even if he did, he had to be comforted, eat every bite, and do everything one by one.

When he raised the flag, he demolished the house before he was even recognized as a state supervisor. Wouldn't that be his own death?

Even now, in fact, it is not easy to get involved in these deep-water areas. After all, no matter how cancerous these suzerains are, they are still their own people when facing the Tartars.

"Does your lord have any good suggestions?" Zhu Yihai asked.

Xu Shiqi said, "In the more than 280 years of my Ming Dynasty, a total of 83 princes have been enshrined. Except for those who died young and have not yet determined their fiefdoms, a total of 280 princely kingdoms have been established all over the world. By the end of Chongzhen, there were still more than [-] countries, and during more than [-] years, a total of [-] nine princes and eleven Jingjiang kings were registered..."

The eldest son of the Ming emperor was established as the crown prince, the remaining son was made a prince at the age of ten, and he became a fiefdom at the age of 20.

The eldest son of the prince is the eldest son, and the remaining son is the king of the county at the age of ten.The eldest son of the prince of the county was named the son of the prince, and the remaining son was named the general of the town.

Then came Fuguo General, Fengguo General, Zhenguo Lieutenant, Fuzhongzhong Lieutenant, and Fengguo Lieutenant.

It was passed to Lieutenant Fengguo and no longer surrendered.

All titles are hereditary and will always be different from Qimin.

Below the prince, receive Lumi.

Ten thousand stones for the prince, two thousand stones for the king of the county, one thousand stones for the general of the town, eight hundred stones for the general of the Fuguo, six hundred stones for the general of the Fengguo, four hundred stones for the lieutenant of the town, three hundred stones for the lieutenant of the Fuguo, and two hundred stones for the lieutenant of the Fengguo stone.

In a word, the feudal vassals of the Ming Dynasty were divided into feudal lands but not tin land, nobles but not close to the people, rich and rich but not governing affairs, and could not participate in the careers of the four peoples, and could be hereditary.

As a result, the situation of raising Zhu (pig) in the world was formed.

Even apart from men, princesses and son-in-laws, princesses and Yibin also have salaries to support them.

In the Wanli period alone, the population of the clan exceeded 15. In the Wanli year, the total amount of talent in the country was 300 million shi, and the salary of the clan was more than 800 million shi.In Shanxi and Henan, which are large grain-producing provinces, the food tax in the two provinces is not enough to provide half of the clan.

However, many princes and county kings also possessed a large amount of farmland, and even annexed and occupied people's land, which also caused the local people to suffer unspeakably.

By this time, although the population of the Ming clan had dropped sharply after years of peasant uprisings and the entry of the Qing army into the customs, there were still many.

Now the front is tight, but some clans behind are still tight.

Just like today's Yiyang King Zhu Chaocheng, he's fat as a ball.

Xu Shiqi really couldn't stand it, couldn't bear it, and couldn't care less about the ancestral system or not.

In addition to the fact that the Northern Expeditionary Army was able to fight traitors on the front line and raided the city and plundered land, they received a lot of supplementary money and food, and there was no shortage of food and pay for the time being.

Now that Lu Jianguo re-established the imperial court, suzerains and vassals from all over the country gathered here, or went south to the rear, how to arrange these people is also a big problem.

(End of this chapter)