Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 557

"Master, Lord, good news, great news."

Zhao Yi rushed over in a panic, his face flushed with excitement.

Zhu Yihai looked at him like this, put down his teacup, "What's the matter?"

"Here, Concubine Chen gave birth, and gave birth to a prince. The mother and child are safe."

Zhu Yihai froze for a moment.

Then he stood up, moving so fast that he knocked down the teacup in front of him.He didn't expect how he could be so happy, but he did have a galloping urge in his heart.

Zhu Chenggong and Zhu Shengli brothers also stood up abruptly and congratulated the emperor.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, happy to have a unicorn."

"Hahaha!" Zhu Yihai laughed and walked out, "Go, have a look."

Last year, Zhu Yihai had seven concubines who were pregnant and gave birth to one son and five daughters. As a result, the prince died. The atmosphere in the court was very bad. Zhu Yihai felt that it was nothing. I feel that Daming has no heir.

In particular, the population of the Lu family is thin. Several Lu kings were passed down from a single seedling. The nine-year-old Zhu Guanding was the posthumous son born after his father's death. He was also a rare great-grandson of Lu Shi. His grandfather and father were both Before his great-grandfather died, Zhu Guanding had four concubine brothers, all of whom died earlier.

Zhu Guanding, who was recorded as a little devil in history, is said to have done all kinds of evil. He would kill the opponent with an ax if he disagreed with him. He often held open meetings. He was in power for 22 years. He died and was given a posthumous posthumous title. He was even almost dismissed as a prince.

After his death, only one son, Zhu Yitan, king of Baoqing, was left behind as the king of Lu. Because of his great virtue and filial piety, he donated the official residence Zhongtian Lake to help the poor, resigned from his daily salary, and provided for the poor clan. Jiajing once ordered seven times to reward him. , perhaps because of virtue, he gave birth to nine sons.

This virtuous king reigned for a long time. When he died, the first five sons were all dead, and the eldest son had no sons, so the sixth son was finally passed on.

But Zhu Yihai's sixth uncle died after only four years in office, and had no children, so he passed the throne to Zhu Yihai's seventh uncle. It was passed on to his father Lao Jiu.

Zhu Yihai's father gave birth to six sons, which is not too small.

But the eldest son died young and had no son. When he died, the second son also died, so the throne was passed on to Zhu Yihai's third brother.Yipai died when the Qing army broke Yanzhou, and even his sons were either killed or taken into captivity. Then Zhu Yihai's fourth and fifth brothers were also killed by the Tartars. Finally, the Lu Fan throne passed to Zhu Yihai, who was the sixth son of the concubine.

Before Zhu Yihai went south, he had three sons, but one died and the other disappeared. Finally, another son was born in Jiangnan, but he died young.

Now that another prince is finally born, this is great news for Daming.

Zhao Yi didn't even report to Liu Chao first according to the rules, so he came to congratulate the emperor without authorization.

Penglai Palace is not big, Zhu Yihai soon arrived at Concubine Chen's place.

"His Majesty."

Concubine Chen saw Zhu Yihai coming, she hurriedly wanted to get up, Zhu Yihai hurried forward a few steps, "Lie down quickly, don't move around."

The midwife was called, and after inquiring, I found out that the delivery was not smooth, and the position of the fetus was wrong. Fortunately, the midwife was also experienced, and she directly helped the fetus with her hands on the stomach, and the delivery was successful. If she was not experienced, The technology is so good, I'm afraid that it may be difficult to give birth, or even kill two people.

"Reward one hundred dragons and silver."

"are you OK?"

"The concubine drank some ginseng soup, and now she is in good spirits."

Zhu Yihai held Concubine Chen's hand and chatted with her for a while before going to see the little guy.He had already drank some milk and fell asleep, and he looked quite fair, except that his head was a little flattened when he was born.

"He looks very much like His Majesty, especially his eyes." Concubine Chen looked at the child, full of joy.

"I think Xiao Wu is full of heaven, so he must have a blessed life." The six-pound child seemed so light in his hands that he couldn't feel the weight.

"I gave you the name Hongbin, and your nickname is Xiaowu."

The little guy opened his eyes, looked at Zhu Yihai with some curiosity, opened his mouth, and made a humming sound.

"The fifth prince is thanking the emperor." Liu Chao said who rushed over.

Zhu Yihai laughed. He knew that newborn babies are actually short-sighted, seeing everything blurry, let alone not being able to understand adults at all.

"Since you are so smart, I will simply confer you the King of Qin today.

Juezheng Yipin, ranked under the Sangong, has [-] households in the city, [-] households are sealed off, and [-] mu of Yongye farmland. "

"Jin Concubine Chen is a noble concubine!"

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When Zhu Yihai was happy, he directly bestowed the title of King of Qin to the newborn Xiao Wu, and gave Chen Concubine the title of Noble Concubine.

The emperor was delighted to have a dragon son, and the government and the public rejoiced.

However, Chen Hanhui, a scholar of Dongge University, immediately went to the palace to face the saint, and made a face-to-face remonstrance that the award was inappropriate.

The prince should be canonized when he is ten years old, and it is not appropriate for the concubine Chen to be a noble concubine.

"Qing is Xiaowu's patriarch and the father of Concubine Chen. It doesn't have to be like that."

Chen Hanhui is the father of Concubine Chen, who is almost 60 years old, addicted to poetry and wine, good at cursive script, loyal and cooperating with the leader of Yi Yuan Cong, who was always a confidant of Zhu Yihai.

As an important figure in Eastern Zhejiang, Zhu Yihai married his youngest daughter as his concubine, which is also a great affirmation of him.

"I was going to call you here too. After the imperial court reformed the titles, the empress, imperial concubine, and the father of the imperial concubine should also be conferred life-long earls, and cabinet scholars and ministers of the prime minister's office should be conferred life-long marquises."

"You are my co-conspirator and the leader of righteousness. Today, I will confer on you the Marquis of Linhai, which will be inherited by your descendants, and you will be the first class in the world."

Chen Hanhui refused to accept and resigned.

Zhu Yihai refused.

"This is the court system, thank you."

After several adjustments to the title system, the clan titles are now divided into ten ranks, while titles with different surnames are divided into seven ranks.

The male sons of Bohou Bohou in Gongxian County of Guogong County are divided into hereditary and lifelong, and hereditary is the first class of hereditary descendants.

Hereditary titles, except for the Duke of the State, are all added with the word "Jianguo", while life titles are not added with the word "Jianguo", and the highest life title is Marquis.

From the original third class of Duke and Marquis to the current second class and seventh class, there has actually been a great change. In the past, it was the same relationship with the country, hereditary and irreplaceable, and the title of title had great power.

But now titles represent more honor, and the actual power is greatly reduced.

Lifetime nobility does not have a real city, while hereditary nobility has a real food city, but only about one-fourth of the virtual title, and the number of households in the food city only means that each household has a monthly discount of 25 cash, which is the method of the Song Dynasty .

In addition, according to the number of food seals, a piece of Yongye farmland of the corresponding number of acres is awarded, and the top-level real seals are only one or two thousand acres.

Generally speaking, this new style of title can not only reward the heroes and soldiers, but also not affect the country in the long run.

Generally, military merits are awarded with real seals, and the prime ministers and relatives of the central government are awarded lifelong titles.

As long as you can enter the cabinet and become a cabinet scholar, you will be awarded a lifetime earl. If you can enter the prime minister's office, you can be promoted to a lifelong marquis. The queen, imperial concubine, and the father of a noble concubine will be awarded a lifelong earl. These titles cannot be hereditary. It is purely a reputation without even the slightest salary, food town, or Yongyetian.

Of course, with the title of knighthood, you can also enjoy some corresponding standard benefits, such as house specifications, gate specifications, carriage and horse specifications, clothing specifications, and entourage specifications, which can all be improved accordingly.

He even granted grace to his wife and son.

Generally speaking, the new titles have changed a lot, even the rank is not high, the prince is only the first rank, and the baron is only the fifth rank.

"It's not appropriate for the fifth prince to be named a prince just after he was born. He's still too young."

But Zhu Yihai said, "This kid is white and fat, he looks like a good fortune. I like it, and it doesn't matter if he can be canonized in advance."

In the Tang Dynasty, it was customary to confer titles at the age of three. In the Song Dynasty, the dukes were conferred first, and then the conferred titles were granted. Zhu Yihai directly conferred the title of King of Qin on the fifth child, also because of the issue of heirs.

And there are no suzerains in the five servers.

This can be regarded as the first clan title conferred after the clan reform.

He has already thought about it, the old five will be the king of Qin, and in the future when they have another son, they will be the king of Han, Tang, Song, then Zhou, Jin, Wei, Qi, and then Zhao Han, Chuyan, Wu Yue and so on.

Zhu Yihai believes that he will have many sons in the future. After all, a time traveler can kill countless people in just one ovulation period. Even though he only has 13 people in the harem now, he is only under [-], and a concubine gave him three births. Five, can also give birth to thirty or forty.

He is not worried that having too many children will become a burden to the country, anyway, the world is inferior, Xiaowu is now named King of Qin, his eldest son will only be the heir to King Qin in the future, and his eldest grandson will only be the county king in the future.Xiaowu's other sons had to be demoted to the fourth rank as Duke of the county.Xiao Wu's other grandsons even became viscounts directly.

This kind of title succession method is not afraid of large numbers of people. Anyway, the eldest son's house can be passed down to seven generations at most, and the other offshoots will all become common people after five generations.

If these descendants are promising, they will naturally be able to make meritorious deeds and then be ennobled. For those who are not capable, it is good to be a commoner.

Like Zhu Yuanzhang, the descendants will not be replaced by hereditary inheritance, but fission and enfeoffment will be divided from generation to generation. No matter how powerful the dynasty is, it will not be able to bear this burden.

"Your Majesty, have the two princes been found yet?" Chen Hanhui asked.

"Well, I found some clues and confirmed that what Song Mingwu said before is indeed true. They were taken outside the pass, but I don't know where they are now. I only know that they are no longer in the hands of the original Tartars. It has been resold several times, and we are still investigating."

For these two bastards who had no impression, Zhu Yihai could only search for them with all his strength.

Although some people were worried that the two princes were taken captive when they were young and served as slaves to the Tartars. They might have died young, and even if they survived, they were only afraid that they would become like Song Mingwu.

Zhu Yihai didn't think about this, as long as he was still there, he had to find a way to get it back.

Even if they are really destroyed and turned into the same as Song Mingwu, he will support them for a lifetime, as long as they don't become princes and princes, it will have no impact on the country.

There are three more concubines in the harem who are pregnant again.

The queen also entrusted the princess to a wet nurse to feed her. She was young and could conceive soon. Although Xiao Wu was established as the king of Qin, he was only a concubine and had no chance to be a concubine.

However, Chen Hanhui was not as ambitious as Huang Binqing. He hoped that his grandson could be the heir. He also attached great importance to the patriarchal system. The Ming Dynasty paid attention to the system of patriarchal succession, not only the eldest son, but also the eldest son of the great clan.

From the emperor's family to establish the crown prince, to the vassal kings' establishment of the son, it is the same system. The eldest son is established as the prince, and if the eldest son is gone, the eldest grandson is established.

So in the Ming Dynasty, there were emperor grandsons, grandsons, and even great-grandchildren.

If there is no eldest grandson, then the eldest grandson must also be established. Unless there is no one in the eldest family, it will never be the turn of the second and third families to inherit.

For example, in the Tang Dynasty, there was a system of establishing a descendant, and when the eldest son was gone, a descendant was established, and generally no grandchildren were established.

Zhu Yihai didn't intend to change this ancestral system either. The system of heirs is not a system of selecting talents, but it is the most secure inheritance system. Once a virtuous person is established, a battle for succession may start.

The later secret reserve system of the Tartars is actually a disguised system of establishing virtuous persons, which is also related to the old traditions of the Tartars. After all, it has not been many years since the Tartars entered the Central Plains from a barbaric tribe. Baylor discussed military affairs together, and Huang Taiji was also decided by the princes of the Eight Banners.

But Daming definitely can't do it like this, it's a way of chaos.

(End of this chapter)