Ming Dynasty: Teaching The Prince Dragon-Slaying Skills At The Beginning

"The Emperor's Zeal, beheaded in five lifetimes!"

"In other words, the royal family members after the fifth generation are all common people."

"According to our previous setting, a royal family member will have five descendants."

"The number of royal clan members in the fifth generation is 10,000."

"This number may fluctuate, but generally it won't change too significantly."

"It's not like the eighth and ninth generations, where the number of royal family members reaches millions or even millions of people!"

After hearing the revised Ming Dynasty royal clan system given by Yan Changqing, the number of fifth-generation royal clan members is 10,000.

Whether it is Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, or Zhu Yuanzhang in the dark room on the other side, they are all thinking about the gains and losses, and the stakes at this moment.

Although the amount of support from royal family members in the millions before sounded terrifying.

But from another perspective, this also shows that the descendants of the old Zhu family are prosperous and luxuriant!

Compared to the millions of royal family members, there are now only about 10,000 royal family members, which is inexplicably much, much less!

After all, in this era, everyone from the emperor and princes to ordinary people think about having more children and more happiness!

Especially when the princes Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, and Zhu Di further calculated and found that there are now a total of seventeen princes in the Ming Dynasty, including Zhu Biao.

If these seventeen princes were divided equally among the ten thousand royal family descendants.

Then the number of descendants of each prince over the five generations combined is less than 600!

Such a number of descendants would be acceptable to Zhu Biao from the perspective of the future emperor.

After all, there will only be one emperor in his future, and he can only pass it on to one eldest son.

Therefore, the number of his descendants does not need to be too large, as long as they can ensure the stable inheritance of the throne.

If there are too many descendants of the emperor, it will cause other unnecessary troubles.

However, vassal kings such as Zhu Fang, Zhu Fan, and Zhu Di, who would become vassal fiefs in the future, felt that the number of such descendants was a bit too small.

After all, they have no chance of becoming emperor, if they want to further expand their influence.

Then the easiest way is to have more children and grandchildren, so that your royal family can prosper!

Thinking of this, Zhu Xi, as the leader of the feudal lord, couldn't help but stand up and said:

"Scholar Yan, if I follow what you said, 'the emperor's beauty will be killed in five generations'."

"Then after all calculations, the five generations of descendants of our prince are less than 600 in total. Isn't this too thin of royal descendants? !!"

Although what is being discussed now is only the revised royal kinship system given by Scholar Yan, it is not necessarily an example.

But it is also related to the future interests of these vassal kings!

If you don't take advantage of this moment to strive for more benefits for yourself and future generations.

Once their eldest brother, Prince Zhu Biao, thought that Yan Xueshi's royal clan system was good.

If it were submitted directly to their father, they would be in trouble if they wanted to modify it.

Yan Changqing raised his eyes and glanced at Zhu Xi, and said calmly:

"Ten thousand people is the number of royal family members recognized in the jade album of royal family members."

The implication is that those who have been expelled from the royal clan's Jade Disk Register are also descendants of their bloodline. These descendants of the vassal kings are still prosperous.

It's just that the Ming royal family does not recognize these descendants. As for whether they recognize it or not, it depends on themselves.

Anyway, whoever admits it will support it!

Zhu Feng was choked for words, and after a moment, he sat down helplessly.

The entire Ming Dynasty cannot afford to support the number of descendants. He is a mere vassal king who has no real substance and is only king in name. What can he use to support him? ! !

After Yan Changqing took a sip of tea, he turned around and wrote on the blackboard while continuing:

"As I said just now, the number of clan members of the Ming Dynasty royal family is 10,000."

"Among them are 16 princes, 80 county princes, 400 generals who govern the country, 2,000 generals who assist the country, and 10,000 generals who govern the state."

"Assuming that the prince's annual salary is 50,000 dan, then the total annual salary of the sixteen princes is 800,000 dan."

"The county prince's annual salary is six thousand dan, so the total annual salary of the eighty princes is 480,000 dan."

"The general's annual salary is one thousand dan, so the total annual salary of the four hundred generals is 400,000 dan."

"The generals of the auxiliary state have an annual salary of five hundred dan, so the total annual salary of the two thousand generals of the auxiliary state is one million dan."

"The Zhenzhou general's annual salary is three hundred dan, so the total annual salary of the ten thousand auxiliary generals is three million dan."

"In the end, the total annual salary of all princes, county princes, generals who govern the country, generals who support the country, generals who govern the state, and these royal family members is 5.68 million shi!"

After hearing about the revised Ming Dynasty royal clan system, the total annual salary of all royal clan members is [five million six hundred and eighty thousand shi].

The princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes below, as well as Zhu Yuanzhang in the dark room on the other side, could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The royal family's salary now exceeds 5 million and is close to 6 million dan.

Compared to the first time I heard that the salary of the royal family would skyrocket to 500 to 600 million stone in two or three hundred years, or the salary of the royal family of 20 to 30 million stone.

Obviously, the current royal family salary of five to six million dan is more acceptable.

At least this kind of royal family salary, compared with the current total annual income of the Ming Dynasty, which is close to 20 million dan, will not crush the total annual income of the Ming Dynasty in two or three hundred years.

"The royal family's salary, which is close to six million dan, probably accounts for one-third of the total annual income of the Ming Dynasty today."

"This ratio of annual income is actually too high."

"Although it will not become the main reason for crushing Ming Dynasty again in the future, such a proportion will also bring great financial pressure to the country."

"The country needs only the remaining two-thirds of the total annual revenue to support the court officials, subordinate officials, and the Ming army, as well as to pay for natural and man-made disasters and people's livelihood issues."

“It may be fine in a good year, but if there is a bad year, you may not be able to make ends meet at any time.”

"So my personal suggestion is that if you want the government's finances to run more smoothly."

"Then the salary for the royal family members of the Ming Dynasty should not exceed one-fifth or one-sixth of the country's total annual income."

"Otherwise, the royal family support system, even if it will not become the main reason for the collapse of the Ming Dynasty in the future, will become a secondary reason for the collapse of the Ming Dynasty."

Yan Changqing put down the chalk, turned around and looked at Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Chong, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, and said calmly.

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