The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty.

Chapter 40: When it comes to rules, let’s talk about Sanyang!

The direct eldest son Xijue!

This is indeed the rule!

But the first people who failed to follow the rules were you civil servants and gentry!

The old Tang family has always kept the hereditary title, and has never violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty, unlike other founding fathers who used crimes to seize titles.

If that's the case, why didn't the imperial court restore the title of the old Tang family, or even directly abolished it by making it a hereditary duke?
In the final analysis, it was just some tricks used by civil servants and gentry.

In the imperial edict of Duke Tang and Xin, it is clearly stated that "Eating a salary of three thousand stones will forever be a source of wealth for the descendants."

What is the concept of earning three thousand shi of food and salary?

One stone of Lumi in the Ming Dynasty is equal to about 120 kilograms, that is, three thousand stones is 360,000 kilograms, and 360,000 kilograms is 180 tons!

The official price is that one stone of rice is worth one tael of silver. In fact, one stone of rice is worth two to three taels in the private market, so three thousand stone lumi is converted into six thousand to ten thousand taels of snowflake silver.

This is the annual salary of a hereditary Duke!

The imperial court had to distribute three thousand shilumi, about ten thousand taels of silver, to these hereditary princes every year.

This ten thousand taels of silver may not seem like much, but because of the shortage of silver in the Ming Dynasty, the value of silver is very high, and its purchasing power is terrifying!
In the Ming Dynasty, an ordinary civilian only needed one tael and a half of silver for a year's living expenses. For example, Qi Jiguang's soldiers of the Qi family were only paid three cents of silver a day, and they fought desperately and bloody battles and received less than one tael in a month.

Ordinary people use copper coins. Many people live their entire lives without ever seeing any silver. If you have a hundred taels of silver, you are a wealthy person. You can buy more than ten acres of fertile land and marry hundreds of beautiful women. Jade's concubine.

Because of this, there is no need to pass on the title of Lao Tang family.

After all, there is a sentence at the end of it, "Forever for the descendants of the family", which means that the descendants of the Tang family can always enjoy the annual salary of three thousand dan. Doesn't this bring a heavy financial burden to the court?
Therefore, when Sanyang Bingzheng was in power, he didn't care about inheriting the title of Duke after the founding heroes of the country. Just dream, orthodoxy will be abolished in just three years!
In other words, the person who really started to disobey the rules was not Tang Hao, but San Yang, the "Three Yang Xianxiang" who single-handedly created the power to vote in the cabinet!
At this moment, facing Tang Hao's questioning, the ministers and ministers looked at each other in confusion, not knowing what to say.

The old chief assistant Liu Jian sighed secretly.

This Tang Hao is indeed too difficult to deal with!
Sanyang has now become a weapon that Tang Hao uses to criticize civil servants and gentry!
As long as the civil servants and gentry mentioned "ancestral laws" or "patriarchal rituals", Tang Hao would use Sanyang to fight back!

But Liu Jian couldn't say anything. After all, during Sanyang Bingzheng's reign, he did a lot of things that arrogated artifacts!

Seeing no one answered, Tang Hao immediately laughed.

"how?"

"Speechless?"

"Tang Hao!" Li Dongyang spoke again, saying: "The Tang family failed to attack the lord. This was an imperial edict issued by His Majesty Emperor Yingzong himself. Since the attack has not been allowed for more than 40 years, it was abandoned; the late emperor also said, Duke Xinguo has been ennobled for a long time, and since the emperor has the decree, he is not allowed to take the title!"

"This matter has been settled for a long time. It was because of old age that I lost my title. Now that you, Tang Hao, are bringing up the old matter, are you questioning Emperor Yingzong and the late Emperor?"

I have to admit that Li Dongyang is indeed very resourceful.

He was too lazy to argue with Tang Hao about why the Tang family could not be reinstated.

There is no point in arguing like this, because there are too many reasons why the Tang family cannot be reinstated.

In fact, after the Battle of Jingnan, Emperor Yongle, who changed dynasties, adopted extremely severe measures to suppress the nobles of the Hongwu Dynasty, including Wei Guogong Xu Huizu, Cao Guogong Li Jinglong, Changxing Marquis Geng Bingwen, Wuding Marquis Guo Ying, Fengxiang Marquis Zhang Long and others. All were lost at that stage.

As for the lineage of Duke Xin, no one has ever mentioned Xijue because of the early deaths of his eldest descendants. If you dare to mention Xijue during the Yongle period, you are simply making yourself unhappy!

Therefore, as soon as the Zhengtong period came, Sanyang did not hesitate to abolish the dukedom of Xinguo to save money for the court. But no matter what, the Tang family's loss of title was the intention of the two emperors, the Orthodox Emperor and the Hongzhi Emperor. They issued an imperial edict to announce it to the world. Why did Tang Hao dare to question it at this moment?
This is disrespectful to the two emperors!

Tang Hao glanced at Li Dongyang coldly, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"In the third year of Zhengtong, His Majesty Yingzong was not able to care about politics at that time. All major military and state affairs were done by San Yang. Mr. Li Ge was so far-fetched that he could accuse me, Tang Hao, of being disrespectful to His Majesty Zhengtong. This ability to confuse right and wrong is really disappointing. It’s so scary!”

Since you are shameless, let’s break up!

Anyway, those Sanyangs are the ancestors of you civil servants and gentry, not the ancestors of me, Tang Hao!
Tang Hao just wants to hold on to these three members of the cabinet, and he will be known as the "Using the Artifact" of the civil servants and gentry!
The person who breaks the rules is San Yang, you civil servants and gentry!

Duke Tang Jiashi should have been passed down, but he was abolished by Sanyang!
Since you are unwilling to give the title to me, Tang Hao, then give me a prince to restore the title to the old Tang family!

If there are rules, then everyone should follow them!

Tang Hao didn't believe that civil servants and gentry dared to do this!
Because Li Dongyang himself said that this was the decision of the Orthodox Emperor and Emperor Hongzhi. If they dared to do this, they would be disobedient and unfilial!
Li Dongyang still wanted to speak, but Zhang Mao beat him to it.

"Speaking of which, I'm afraid you have almost forgotten that Tang Shaozong is only Tang Jie's heir, not a direct descendant of the same lineage!"

As soon as these words came out, the whole place was in an uproar.

Is Tang Shaozong the heir of Tang Jie?
Then this is interesting!
An heir is an adopted son.

Because Tang Jie had no children, he adopted a son from his younger brother Tang Lun, inheriting the direct lineage.

To put it bluntly, Tang Shaozong was not a direct descendant of the Eight Classics, he was just a sideline concubine!
As soon as he heard this, the little emperor suddenly became excited.

"Do you really mean what the Governor said?"

"Then Tang Shaozong is just a bastard?"

"That's right!" Zhang Mao smiled and nodded, "Tang Shaozong is the son of Tang Jie's second brother Tang Lun, so he can't be considered a direct descendant!"

"What the Governor said is wrong!" As soon as Zhang Mao finished speaking, the old chief assistant Liu Jian spoke.

"Since Tang Shaozong has been adopted by Tang Jie, he is Tang Jie's son, and his heir is the eldest son with the right to inherit. Doesn't the Governor understand such a simple truth?"

The heir is the heir, and he inherits the family property and title through adoption, so once he adopts the title, he has the right of inheritance.

To put it simply, the people most qualified to inherit the title of the Tang family are Tang, the king of Dongou, and Tang Jie, the fourth generation grandson. Then the next generation successor is naturally Tang Shaozong, Tang Jie's heir.

Zhang Mao tried to confuse the public, but Liu Jian rejected him directly.

At this point, Zhang Mao couldn't help but sigh and nod.

This title of Marquis must be given to Tang Hao!
Because he couldn't afford to wait, neither could the noble military officials, so no matter what today, he had to win this prince for Tang Hao!

As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Mao took out his final trump card!

This is the result of yesterday's discussion between Zhang Mao and Tang Yan, and it is also their last trump card.

In order to help Tang Hao obtain this title of Marquis, the Tang family really paid too much!
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