If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 84: Poisoned to Death
"Absolutely right. Once every two years, the vassal king comes to Beijing to communicate with the Tian family. At the same time, he also understands the court's policies and reports on the governance of each vassal. In this way, each vassal is grateful for the emperor's kindness and will naturally stop rebelling." Zhu Zhanquan The words sounded nice, but Zhu Di felt a little cold on his back, especially when he said: "Grandpa, you missed the scene when you were studying with the brothers in the Dabentang, so you joined the brothers and reopened the Dabentang. Let them send their eldest son, Prince Wang, to the capital to study with the prince and his grandson, and cultivate their relationship from an early age, so that the vassals will not be alienated from family ties because they have not seen the emperor for a long time."

"Good boy! There is no more poisonous plan than exterminating the household. This plan of yours is even more poisonous than the plan of exterminating the household! What a bad person! I don't know who taught it." Zhu Di shook his head. He had been a vassal king and an emperor. This Of course he could tell how vicious the plan was.

When the eldest son of each vassal king comes to the capital, he is a proton. He studies with the prince and grandson. The relationship cultivated since childhood will of course become deeper when he grows up. These eldest sons of the vassal king are even less likely to betray the court easily.

And the most critical point here is the direct eldest son. The Ming Dynasty has always had the inheritance system of direct eldest son.

Even a vassal king cannot abolish the inheritance rights of the eldest son and establish another son without reasonable and legitimate reasons.

If a vassal king did this, the court would intervene, ranging from fines and reductions in salary, to severe... Just replace the prince with someone who is obedient and obedient.

As for the eldest sons of the vassal kings who want to inherit the throne, they naturally need the support of the court and the emperor's conferment, so that the court can better control each vassal king.

And each vassal king can only do his best to serve the court, instead of thinking all day about "the emperor will do it if he has strong soldiers and horses" and "he can replace him" and other disrespectful things.

If there are still feudal kings who are determined to rebel, there is no problem. What Zhu Zhanchen said about letting the feudal king come to Beijing every two years is enough for each feudal king to spend a lot of money, and it can also make the court very good. Understand the situation of each vassal.

If he really has different intentions, the emperor only needs to issue a decree saying that he is reluctant to part with a certain vassal king, let him stay in the capital for a long time, and then put his eldest son who grew up in the capital back to govern the fiefdom.

In this way, the feudal king could not only defend the territory and develop the border areas, but also allow the court to strengthen its control over the feudal prince's fiefdom and eliminate the threat of the feudal prince's rebellion.

"But in this way, the vassal kings have consumed too much financial resources. Can the troops and horses in their hands be able to resist the threats from the frontiers?" Zhu Di recalled that when he was in Peiping, he couldn't help but wonder how much his Yan vassal spent on each battle. Frown slightly.

Zhu Zhanjun was well prepared for this. He said to Zhu Di: "We can divide the vassal kings into two types, the outer vassal and the inner vassal. The inner vassal is the vassal king in the inland area of ​​the Ming Dynasty. When they come to Beijing, their pomp can be huge. One thing, for example, if you want to bring a thousand guards with you, what specifications must you have?

As for the outer vassal, it is the vassal king on the frontier. Considering the poverty of the local area and the difficulty for the vassal king to guard the border, there is no need to bring so many people to Beijing. Just bring 500 people at a time. "

Hearing what Zhu Zhanqun said, Zhu Di nodded with satisfaction. This is the flexibility of the policy. If a poor vassal king brings fewer people, he will naturally spend less money. A rich vassal king will bring more people. , more money will be spent. In this way, as long as the court pays attention to control, the vassal prince is just a dog tied by the court, and can only guard the Ming family business honestly for the court.

"Okay, this is a good idea. You can write a statement later, explain this matter clearly, and bring it to the court for discussion. If there is no problem, let's do it this way." After listening to all Zhu Zhanchun's suggestions, Zhu Di felt that this was indeed the case. It was a more effective method than cutting down the vassal vassal, so he planned to ask Zhu Zhanchen to write a letter to propose this plan.

However, Zhu Zhanjun shook his head and said, "Grandpa, it's not my place to bring up this matter. There is someone more suitable than me."

"Who?" Zhu Di saw that Zhu Zhanyu didn't want to take the blame, but he didn't feel dissatisfied. He just wanted to know who Zhu Zhanyu planned to push to resist the blame.After all, this policy is indeed very good for the court. For the various vassals, being able to regain control of the army and return to the real power of the vassal king is also what many vassal kings are thinking about. But in the final analysis, the court is really going to do this. Swearing is an understatement.

"Prince Ning." Zhu Zhanquan gave a name that made Zhu Di slightly raise his eyebrows, and explained: "Prince Ning has always been restless. When you, grandpa, were in Jingnan, you abducted Prince Ning's Duoyan Sanwei. People will always remember this!
You send someone to secretly send a message to King Ning, saying that the court wants to re-confer the vassal kings. As long as King Ning submits the request, he can return to Daning, and the court can even return the three guards of Duoyan to him. With King Ning’s character Speaking of which, he would definitely want to take advantage of this discount. "

Ning Wang Zhu Quan was the 17th son of Zhu Yuanzhang. The Ning Wang Fan at that time was right next to the Yan Wang Fan.

When King Yan raised an army to quell the crisis, he was short of troops and Li Jinglong besieged Peiping. Queen Xu personally went into battle to defend the city, while Zhu Di kidnapped King Ning and kidnapped King Ning. He also took three of King Ning's men with him. Wang Wei, that is, the three Duoyan guards who are all elite cavalry.

After all, King Ning's troops were the best among all the vassals at that time. The combined efforts of King Ning and King Yan gave Zhu Di the real capital to raise troops to quell the difficulties.

Originally, what Zhu Di did was not honest, so he made a cake for Prince Ning and said that he had captured half of Nanjing's share of the world.

But how could it be possible for Prince Ning to get half of the throne that Zhu Di had fought so hard to conquer?So King Ning was not allowed to return to Daning, and his three guards, Duoyan, were taken in and moved to Nanchang, Jiangxi.

After Zhu Quan arrived in Nanchang, he kept a low profile and became a disciple of No. 40, the third generation Zhang Tianshi. He studied Taoist classics intensively and made great achievements.

But King Ning has always been resentful of Zhu Di's deception and the contempt and derogation of King Ning's line by Zhu Di's descendants, so that the descendants of King Ning's line must remember this hatred.

After Zhu Di died and Renzong succeeded to the throne, Zhu Quan once wrote to Zhu Gaochi, saying that Nanchang was not his feudal state. After Zhu Zhanji succeeded to the throne, he requested that Ning Fan be granted land near Nanchang, and argued that the clan should not determine its rank, which angered people. Zhu Zhanji was extremely unhappy.

As for what happened later during the reign of Ming Wuzong, the fifth and fourth generation Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao and Fen IV finally rebelled and were slapped to death by Wang Yangming. It all happened later.

It can be said that if there is a chance to return to Daning and get back the Duoyan Three Guards, King Ning will definitely be willing to take this bargain, even if he offends other vassal kings in the world because of this bargain, he will not hesitate.

　This policy was a very cruel strategy played by the Tokugawa shogunate in the Edo period of Japan. It played a big role in the Tokugawa shogunate's stability for hundreds of years.

　　The most important point is that the daimyo of each domain must travel from their territory to Edo at their own expense, and they must pay attention to the pomp and circumstance. The cost of a round trip is quite large, which directly drains the economy of the weak domain, so that temporary workers have to be hired to support the scene, even if It's a powerful vassal with money, so it would cost a lot of money to do this once.

　　Moreover, the daimyo's spending on food and drink in Edo also promoted the commercial development of Edo. It is quite useful to apply it to solve the problem of feudal kings.

　　
　
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