Call of Heroes: A History Only I Know

Chapter 192 One by one, the blockbusters are completely stupefied! (seeking subscription)
At the beginning of the founding of the country, Zhu Yuanzhang entrusted his descendants to various places.

These princes are like seeds. After one or two hundred years have passed, they will continue to take root and sprout, mature and bear fruit, and the number of reproductions is astonishing.

In Shanxi province alone, there was only one King of Jin during the Hongwu period, but in the Jiajing period, the number of descendants of the royal family with titles had increased to 1851.

During the Hongwu period, there was originally only one Zhou king in Henan, but in the Wanli period, there were more than 5000 descendants of the royal family.

Because of the ancestral system, these descendants of the royal family cannot engage in other occupations and can only live on the salary of the imperial court.

It was indeed not a big problem at the beginning, but as time went by, these people continued to prosper, and the geometric growth of the royal population meant that the financial expenditure increased by dozens or hundreds of times.

During the Jiajing period, a censor named Lin Run listed a set of data:
There are 400 million shi of grain shipped to the capital every year, but the annual salary of the royal family is 850 million [-] shi.

Shanxi has 150 shi of rice every year, and 310 shi of the annual salary of the royal family.

Henan has 84 shi of rice and 190 shi of royal salary.

In other words, even if all the food left in the two provinces was paid to the royal family, it would still be more than half short.

In this way, where does the official salary come from, and where does the military salary come from?

The output in the field is limited, but the clan's reproduction is unlimited
The descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang gradually became a heavy burden on the Ming Empire.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't discover this problem at the beginning, even if the emperors who followed had discovered it, but due to various factors, they could only turn a blind eye to it and chose to suffer the common people no matter how hard it was.

In addition to these salaries, the royal family also extended their hands to many profitable areas because of their special status.

Through all kinds of plunder, the royal family hoarded countless wealth.

These powerful royal clans colluded with local wealthy businessmen and officials, and for the sake of profit, even falsely claimed and embezzled the salaries of the descendants of the royal family, causing the poor clan who were also descendants of the royal family to starve to death.

History has reincarnation, so many years of carnival banquet, after all, it is not free.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, after Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other "72 families" uprising army swept the world, it was finally time to pay for the carnival feast of the Ming royal family.

These princes, county kings, and generals surnamed Zhu became the most interesting prey of the peasant army.

Wherever peasant armies, large and small, passed, all the wealthy royal families were doomed.

Almost all the most magnificent palaces across the country were wiped out in the war that stretched across the country.

In the 16th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng sent his army into Shanxi. Every time he went to a place, he first hunted and killed the royal family.

After Chongzhen captured Taiyuan in the early 17th year, Li Zicheng's army "captured more than [-] members of the Jin clan, sent them to Xi'an, and killed them all."

In March of the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's army captured Datong again.

Within six days, more than 4000 royal clans under Dai Wang Zhu Chuanqi were killed.

The other county kings were hardly spared either.

Shanxi is just a microcosm.

In fact, although Li Zicheng was famous for his "not bloodthirsty", almost none of the princes surnamed Zhu survived his battles.

However, Zhang Xianzhong's army was originally good at burning jade and stone together. Wherever they went, the kings wiped out and burned everything.

Zhu Yuanzhang's initial idea was to let his son guard the world.

No matter who rebels in the future, it will be the Zhu family who will be the emperor.

But the development of reality always backfires, the exact opposite.

These people did not become the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty.

Instead, they all lie on the merits of their ancestors and do their best, becoming the bloodsuckers of the empire.

For these descendants of the royal family, they are justifiable and justifiable... When my ancestors conquered the world, they finished the work of my life. Why should I work?
Even at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when Chongzhen was the most impoverished, these wealthy royal families didn’t even think about lending a helping hand and offered to give Chongzhen some money. Woolen cloth?When do you want to procrastinate?Even the prince's family has no surplus food!

This directly accelerated the demise of the Ming Dynasty, and also dealt a devastating blow to their interests.

When the mountains and rivers were about to be broken, when the building of Daming was about to collapse, these people did not help in the slightest. Without righteousness, it is performed vividly.

Faced with this hopeless situation, Chongzhen let go of the pick: I hanged myself!

After the death of the emperor, the royal family of Ming Dynasty either made a final resistance, or committed suicide and died for the country. Of course, most of them surrendered to the rebels and the Manchus.

When these people first surrendered, the Qing government treated them well, not only giving them money and food, but even doing things for officials.

But until the third year of Shunzhi, the Qing court stopped giving money and food.When Luck Dehun marched south, he directly ordered his subordinates:

"As for those who surrendered their land with the surname of the abolished vassal clan of the Ming Dynasty, they all wanted to avoid death and brought them to the capital. Those who were forced to surrender, or rebelled and returned, and those who were obsessed, there will be no long-term, and they will be wiped out!"

In other words, the Qing Dynasty not only stopped giving money, but also stopped treating the descendants of the old Zhu family as nobles, and also wanted to completely kill the Ming Dynasty clan.

This is also the standard practice in all dynasties.

Since Liu Yu in the Southern Dynasties, each new dynasty began to massacre and persecute the royal nobles of the previous dynasty.

Became an emperor, became a man of heaven, his destiny was already bound to the country, he lived with the country, and shared life and death.

It's a pity... In this world, people who only focus on their own immediate interests eventually account for the majority.

This ending has already proved that what Lao Zhu did was a big mistake.

That being the case, of course Su Che changed without any psychological burden.

The most important thing is that it is too late to change it now!
This time point is also very early.

If you wait until the middle and late Ming Dynasty, when the plan is done and the accumulated disadvantages are deep, it will be really too difficult to change it.

Su Che didn't hesitate, and immediately made drastic changes!

The first thing to be abolished is Lao Zhu's rule that the royal family cannot engage in any profession.

The second is endless offerings.

Prior to this, the system of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that the prince should be named a prince.

Awarded gold books and gold treasures, a salary of ten thousand stones, the ability to open a mansion and build teeth, and have military power. There are as few as 3000 guards and as many as 9000.

Food and clothing and various etiquette are only inferior to the emperor.

Once the prince's direct son reaches the age of ten, he will be awarded the golden book and golden treasure, making him the prince's son, the eldest grandson as the grandson, and the crown and clothing as the first grade.

The rest of the prince's sons were awarded gold and silver books and silver treasures when they were one to ten years old, and they were named county kings.

The eldest son of the county king is established as the son of the county king, and the eldest grandson is awarded the eldest grandson, crowned as the second rank.

The other descendants below are General Zhen Guo, General Fu Guo, General Feng Guo, Lieutenant Zhen Guo, Lieutenant Fu Guo, and Lieutenant Feng Guo, descending step by step.

After the sixth generation, they will be unified as Lieutenant Fengguo, and they will no longer be surrendered.

Under Su Che's modification, in the original system, the prince's treatment will not change for the time being, while the county king's treatment will be cut by more than half.

After descending step by step, the royal family of the seventh generation will directly become ordinary civilians, who can engage in any occupation to make a living.

Also.

Su Che also formulated an incentive standard and punishment mechanism!
Those who have meritorious service will be rewarded, and those who have made mistakes will be punished!

Before that, Zhu Yuanzhang treated his descendants with unconditional doting. What he lacked in his early years, he gave his son everything he could.

Although most of Zhu Yuanzhang's sons are normal, the king of Chu loves doing business, the king of Yan likes fighting, the king of Zhou loves to study medicine, some like to study mathematics, and some even like to farm.

Of course, there will also be some fools.

These people do whatever they want with who they are.

For example, Zhu Yuanzhang's tenth son is called Zhu Tan.

This man is good at writing and poetry, and he is a humble corporal. Lao Zhu liked him very much at first, and he was named King of Lu shortly after he was born.

And he married the daughter of the founding father Tang He. It can be said that Zhu Tan's life reached its peak at a very young age.

At the age of 16, Zhu Tan took his wife to his fief Ludi.

The sky is high and the emperor is far away. Without the restraint of the royal family, he can do whatever he wants in the fief.

Without restraint, this is often a disaster for immature people.

Zhu Tan imagined that he could become an immortal immortal. He raised many Taoist priests and was obsessed with the art of elixir.

His wife, Tang Shi, not only did not persuade, but prevented him, on the contrary, she always encouraged her husband's great cause of cultivating immortality.

Later, the Taoist priest around Zhu Tan lied to him, saying that conventional practice is too time-consuming, and if one hundred eight-year-old eunuchs are used to do things, he can speed up becoming a fairy.

Tang personally led people to search for the eight-year-old boy in the fief. After the boy was caught, he was immediately castrated and imprisoned in the palace, causing public resentment.

Later, they stretched their claws into the barracks, and many children in the barracks were taken away by them.

After someone reported to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and immediately arrested King Lu and his wife and went to Beijing.

Zhu Yuanzhang first bestowed the death of his daughter-in-law Tang, and then tortured his son Zhu Tan, the king of Lu, by shaving his hair to humiliate him.

The following year, Zhu Tan was poisoned and died.

Lao Zhu hated it very much, and gave him the posthumous title of "Huang", and he was known as the King of Lu Huang.

Regarding these absurd things about his son, Zhu Yuanzhang recorded quite clearly, recorded all the mistakes in the book, and made them public, trying to warn other princes.

However, without a suitable reward and punishment mechanism, it is impossible to have too much deterrent effect.

In addition to the new policy, Su Che also allowed these Zhu family princes to develop in an all-round way according to their own preferences.

They have a noble identity and status, as well as absolute power, which is simply incomparable to others.

Originally, in Lao Zhu's opinion, these sons' other hobbies were crooked ways, and governing the country was the way and the right way, so they were not allowed to develop their hobbies at all.

But now, Su Che not only let go of the constraints on them, but also encouraged them.

If you like farming, let him study farming carefully, how to fertilize to increase soil fertility, how to choose Lingmi seeds, so as to increase more harvests.

Continuous research from this aspect can continuously improve the harvest, and it will be greatly rewarded, and it can even become the hero of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Any industry has unlimited potential.

Su Che's attitude is very clear—Fa Confucianism should not be the main theme of society. Fal Confucianism is indeed honorable if it holds power, but if there is no development in other aspects, it is fundamentally complacent.

Therefore, even if it is farming, someone should study it.

The ancient peasant family respected Shennong as their teacher and took agriculture as the foundation of the country. His theories had far-reaching influence.

In the pre-Qin period, there was a saying about scholars, farmers, businessmen and commerce, "Farmers and farmers speak forcefully, scholars speak and act with scholars, workers speak skillfully with workers, and merchants talk about numbers."

The Chinese dynasties have always emphasized agriculture over business, just to recuperate, which is the foundation of strengthening themselves.

But even though agriculture is so important, it is one of the "nine streams" and one of the most humble industries.

This is absolutely not the way it should be.

Su Che doesn't have that much energy. While taking care of so many things, he also needs to study agriculture.

Just leave it to Lao Zhu's son to do it, blossom in another field, break some Confucian traditions, and open up some new tracks.

If the research becomes a system, Su Che will also create an "agricultural college" to recruit people who are willing to study agronomy from all over the world, and appoint agricultural officials to manage local agriculture.

There is a specialization in the art industry, let professional people manage professional things, instead of letting some Confucian scholars who only understand the world do these things.

This is Su Che's idea, and this is just the beginning.

Except for agriculture.

If you like to do business, let them develop commerce, set up various commercial places, transport materials and sell them everywhere, and even later open the sea for business and the Silk Road, you can let them get involved.

Instead of giving away part of the commercial profits to those rich merchant families, it is better to let your own people eat it. At least it will be relatively simple to collect taxes.

If you like to study medicine, let them establish a medical school, teach people who are willing to study medicine in the world, let them serve as medical officials in various places, and establish official hospitals.

If the standard of medicine can be raised, those bastards in the imperial hospital who harmed the emperor of the Ming Dynasty will no longer exist.

In addition, the development of medicine, like agronomy, is also a new track.

The status of doctors in ancient times was not low, but with the dominance of Confucianism, the status of doctors is getting lower and lower, which is obviously unreasonable.

Su Che should not only encourage others to study agriculture, but also encourage others to study medicine.

In addition, those who study mathematics are more worthy of vigorous promotion.

Ancient Chinese mathematics has developed to a very high level in practical mathematics.

However, due to the lack of systematic mathematical thinking and logical thinking, its development height and breadth, as well as its role in promoting society as a whole, are limited to a limited range and cannot go further.

To put it simply, the development of mathematics in China tends to solve practical problems——

Such as bookkeeping, construction, field measurement, and calendar calculation, the relevant knowledge is mainly mastered by practitioners.

At the same time, because this kind of engineering knowledge was always regarded as "unpopular" in ancient times when Confucianism was admired, this led to the best talents never investing in research in these fields, and eventually fell into the ceiling after developing to a certain extent .

It is a pity that it has been the leader and the world leader for a long time, but in the end it has limited achievements.

Su Che naturally hopes to change this phenomenon!

Agronomy, medicine, mathematics, these fields basically have to cut a piece of the Confucian cake, and they will inevitably be crazily opposed.

Ordinary high-ranking and powerful people are not qualified to do this, and even the emperors of later generations are also not capable of doing this.

But Su Che is different. His identity is the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

He can judge the life and death of tens of thousands of officials in one word, and what is the meaning of reform?
The revolution is your Confucian life!
What you share is your Confucian cake!

Dissatisfied?

Then die!
Besides.

As for the Yan King Zhu Di who likes to fight, Su Che also arranged a task for him, asking him to set up a military academy to teach military talents, command, army formation, and various tactics.

Zhu Di can't do it alone, so he can invite those honorable generals!
If this thing is done well, then reward him as the general who conquers the North, give him the most elite soldiers and horses, let him fight in the north, and seal the wolf to live in Xu!

This condition is very tempting, Su Che is not worried at all that Zhu Di will not agree, on the contrary, he will be very happy to do it well.

After formulating the relevant policies, Su Che released them.

This is like a blockbuster, thrown out all at once, and they all explode!

Those important court officials of Ming Dynasty were all blown away!

(End of this chapter)