Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 575 The disadvantages of enfeoffment in the Ming Dynasty

"At first my grandson thought, leave the people behind and leave the people behind."

"However, we also consider that the land of Goryeo is quite large. If people leave the land, they will have to migrate to fill this gap before they can use it."

"It didn't seem appropriate to move the Ming Dynasty's population there, so I thought about keeping the Koreans."

"My grandson did it, right?"

At the end of Zhu Xuan's words, he asked Lao Zhu again.

According to Zhu Xuan's original idea, no Koreans could be retained, but after serious consideration, he still wanted to use assimilation methods to keep people. As for the future, it will be decided in the future.

The most important benefit of assimilation is to let the Korean people see hope and give them the feeling that the people of Korea can be treated equally with the people of the Ming Dynasty. This kind of benefit is to open the Encore and take the imperial examination.

It gave the Korean people hope that they could quickly forget the Lee Dynasty and the previous Korean Dynasty. Everyone wanted to serve as an official in the more prosperous and lively Ming Dynasty.

For many Koreans, Daming is an extremely good place.

"You're right!"

After hearing Zhu Xuan's description, Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and agreed: "Guaisun's proposal of opening Enke is a good idea. We should use our Confucianism to educate the barbarians and make them submit to the Ming Dynasty. We also agree!"

In fact, he was asked to lead other civil servants to discuss, and the results they came to were similar to Zhu Xuan's.

"It'll be fine if Grandpa Huang thinks there's no problem."

Zhu Xuan thought for a while and then said: "But Sun'er feels that this kind of control over Goryeo is not enough. Setting up a Chief Secretary and arranging for Ming officials to be stationed there still feel like there is something missing."

Zhu Yuanzhang asked: "My dear grandson, what do you think is missing?"

Zhu Xuan said: "My grandson has a bold idea. Can other emperor uncles be enfeoffed to Goryeo?"

"Partition?"

Zhu Yuanzhang listened and waved his hand.

Where is Goryeo?
  It’s too far away from Yingtian!

Although Goryeo is a country and has a certain degree of prosperity, no matter how prosperous it is, such a barbarian land is also a bitter cold place. It is the maximum limit to enfeoff King Liao and King Ning to the capital of Liaodong.

Although King Han and King Shen were also entrusted to places farther east in Liaodong, they did not need to go to those places to establish vassal status for the time being. Even in Mubang, he felt that it was better than those bitter and cold places.

Zhu Xuan rolled his eyes and explained: "Grandpa Huang, my grandson has something to say. I don't know whether I should say it or not. I'm afraid you will be angry if I say it."

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang understood what a good grandson could do, an insight beyond his own knowledge.

This opinion, after speaking it out, can subvert his own thoughts and even contradict what he thought.

"Whatever comes to your mind, dear grandson, just say it!"

Zhu Yuanzhang did not object and allowed Zhu Xuan to speak.

“The emperor’s grandfather assigned the emperor’s uncles to various parts of the Ming Dynasty. Firstly, he wanted the emperor’s uncles to guard the mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty together with the emperor in Yingtian. Secondly, the emperor’s uncle was afraid of poverty and hardship before, so he sent the emperor’s uncles to the Ming Dynasty. Seal them out, give them land and salary, and let them live a good life." Zhu Xuan said slowly.

I heard my good grandson mention that he was afraid of being poor.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not object and nodded in agreement. He was indeed afraid of poverty.

Back then, he worked as a beggar and a monk. In the end, he was so poor that he couldn't even survive, so he joined the rebel army to rebel against the Yuan Dynasty. He accidentally got into this position.

Zhu Xuan continued and said: "Grandpa Huang has a total of twenty-six sons. In addition to some young and unfortunate emperor's uncles, there are also more than twenty people who can go to the vassal. Each emperor's uncle is assigned a place to enfeoff. A portion of the land.”

"Every imperial uncle has at least five sons who will receive rewards in the future."

"And it is impossible for these five sons not to have children."       "They may have at least five children alone."

"In total, the number of princes and grandsons of our Ming Dynasty princes is extremely huge."

"The system established by Grandpa Huang is that the Ming Dynasty uses the national treasury to support those children and all the princes and grandchildren."

"If it was only the early years of the Ming Dynasty and there were not many princes and grandsons, it would actually be okay and the expenses would not be too big. But as time goes by, what about a hundred years later, or two hundred years later?"

"The number of descendants of our old Zhu family is so huge, has Grandpa Huang considered it?"

At this time, Zhu Xuan couldn't help but ask this question.

Originally, he wanted to wait until he had the opportunity to ascend the throne as the second emperor, and then solve the problem of the court supporting the princes and grandchildren.

The people in Lao Zhu's family are all very talented like Lao Zhu.

The five children he proposed were still the minimum estimate, not including other bastards.

With so many imperial uncles, the number of descendants a hundred years later is terrifying and growing exponentially.

These people are the vampires dormant in Ming Dynasty. They can drain Ming Dynasty's blood, so that in the later period, all of Ming Dynasty's finances had to be used to support these people.

According to Zhu Xuan's idea, even if he was reprimanded by the entire court for changing his ancestral precepts, he would have to change this when he ascended the throne in the future.

"My grandson will give Grandpa Huang another example."

"If it is on a chessboard, put one grain of rice on the first square, two grains of rice on the second square, and so on."

"When all the grids on the chessboard are filled with corresponding grains of rice, how many stones of grain will be needed?"

Zhu Xuan said again.

As an emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang still had some knowledge and ideas.

After listening to Zhu Xuan's words, he thought deeply for a moment, and his body trembled slightly. The blood of the old Zhu family is just like the grains of rice on the chessboard, accumulating more and more, and there will be more and more in the future.

No matter how rich the imperial court is, and how much money it can collect from government-run commerce, external taxes, etc., it may not be able to support so many blood members of the Zhu family.

Zhu Xuan stated what Lao Zhu was thinking directly, saying: "According to the present ancestral precepts of Grandpa Huang, in a hundred years, most of our Ming Dynasty's fiscal money will be used to support the royal bloodline."

"The more people in the Zhu family bloodline, the more land they have to occupy in the Ming Dynasty. Although the emperor now implements the unified payment of grain by officials and gentry, and the emperor's uncles also need to pay taxes, they have many ways to evade taxes and occupy more land. "

"There is only so much land in the Ming Dynasty."

"The royal bloodline has privileges, and the people dare not resist the privileges. As long as they are enfeoffed, they can take advantage of the privileges and occupy more land."

"Our Zhu family has a lot of land, but the common people have less land."

"Although there are high-yielding crops for our grandchildren and increased production through chemical fertilizers, there may be situations where people are unable to make ends meet."

Zhu Xuan said and looked at Lao Zhu again.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face darkened.

He can think of all the disadvantages.

If on the premise of having high-yielding crops, there is still a famine situation that makes people unable to make a living, and land annexation and other matters occur, it is not an exaggeration to think that the Zhu family will be punished by God in the future.

Land annexation has always been a problem in ancient society. When this problem reaches its peak, the dynasty will almost be replaced.

The entire process of mergers usually lasts for more than three hundred years before reaching its peak, and some even take less.

(End of this chapter)