Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di: Dad, why are you not dead?!

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly realized: "What you mean is that every generation of emperors ascends the throne, except for a very few emperors, they will seal a few or even a dozen princes, plus the original accumulation of princes, passed down from generation to generation, bringing a great financial burden to the imperial court." "

"Not bad."

"What can you do about it?"

Zhu Yijun muttered: "Naturally, there is a way, in the case of Yongle Ye, it is necessary to cut the feudal domain, and the method of depriving the vassal king at the cost of raising the Yulu is the best, but you can make a fuss about it." "

"A prince's salary is 10,000 stones, and if he has two sons who inherit the king, then each son's salary is set at 5,000 stones, and if four sons inherit the king, each son's salary is 2,500 stones."

"For example, the two sons each gave birth to two grandsons, and these four grandsons inherited the general of Zhenguo, and the sum of them was 2,500 stones."

The third generation, the fourth and 21st generations, and so on, of course, the normal situation is also divided into descendants, and the Lu is also different, but the truth is a truth. "

"If this system continues, by the time the third or fourth generation comes, the first generation has already passed away."

"According to this policy, the annual payment of the imperial court for each prince is only 30,000 or 40,000 stones, as much as 50,000 or 60,000 stones."

"The total amount of each generation is 10,000 stone every year, and it will not change."

"This is the Yulu version of the Grace Order!"

Zhu Di calculated in his heart: Assuming thirty princes, even if there are 40,000 stones, it is only 1.2 million stones.

In the four years of Jianwen, not counting gold, silver, copper coins, silk, etc., the entire Daming Dynasty had 20 million stones in grain taxes alone, and it was completely acceptable to take out 1.2 million stones from it to support the clan.

Compared to the terrifying number of the original million clans, it can be said to be a drop in the bucket.

Hiss~~ Not right.

Zhu Di suddenly thought of a question, and asked: "Every time an emperor ascends the throne, a new prince will be produced, which will still cause great pressure on the imperial court's finances." "

"Then reduce the rank of knighthood." Zhu Yijun shrugged.

In the Wanli Dynasty, he had already begun to implement it.

"Hong Wuye, to be honest, there are too many eighth-level titles in Daming, and the last level of Fengguo Lieutenant can no longer be lowered, and he relies on the imperial court to raise it. In my opinion, it is better to reduce it from the eighth level to the fifth level, and to the sixth generation is an idle clan, and the court no longer supports it. "

"According to this policy, the fifth generation of a prince will become an idle clan in no more than a hundred years at most, without a title, and the court will no longer provide for it."

"When the fifth generation of emperors reaches the limit, they will not increase, this is the approximate limit, because by the time the sixth emperor ascends the throne, the descendants of the princes canonized by the first emperor have become idle clans that do not need to be supported by the imperial court."

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were shocked when they heard this, this policy has indeed been optimized a lot, so that no matter how the princes are born, there is a limit to the financial burden on the imperial court, and there is no possibility of exceeding.

"In the end, when it comes to the sixth generation of idle clans, the imperial court can no longer restrict them, and they can also conduct scientific research and business like normal people."

Zhu Yuanzhang made a lot of restrictions on the clan, such as not allowing the disciples of the clan to enter politics, and after Zhu Di, many vassal kings did not even dare to go out of the palace.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the imperial court's finances could not make ends meet, and they could not support the disciples of the clan, and some of the disciples of the clan were waiting for the arrival of the imperial court's Yulu but did not wait, and they could not do business, and they were not allowed to engage in politics, and they were starved to death by starvation.

Under such circumstances, the hearts of the lower-level sect disciples were full of resentment, and some chose to go astray in order to survive or take revenge. They deliberately commit crimes, rob, kill, rebel.

Among them, there are also individual wonderful births,

For example, Zhu Qinxi, the sixth grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang's fifth son, wrote a note to Emperor Jiajing in order to recover the rice owed by the local government.

Anyway, the tone was not very polite, and Emperor Jiajing was angry and immediately sat down to slander, descended to the people, You Fengyang, and went down three times, and successfully put Zhu Qinren in prison.

His son also did the same, seeing that he was about to starve to death, he followed his father's example to put forward his opinions on the government at that time, and was successfully punished to house arrest within the high walls of Fengyang, and he was always served an iron rice bowl.

Although he was not free, he could eat a full meal, and this prison meal was not released until the Longqing period. (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）

Inspector Zhu You sighed: "If only the Ming Dynasty had this kind of policy from the beginning, those vassal kings... Alas, it's hard to put into words..."

"If you want to say it, don't be in this branch!" Zhu Yuanzhang glared at him dissatisfied,

Zhu Yijun did not hesitate to unravel the poisonous sores of the Ming Dynasty: "In the late Ming Dynasty, the vassal kings frantically amassed wealth and embezzled land, and the lower-level clan disciples were poor and destitute because they could not get the court's money, and there were not a few people who died of starvation. "

"And the land in the hands of the princes at the top is often thousands of hectares, or even tens of thousands of hectares, and the most terrifying one is to occupy 40,000 hectares of land, and the nine vassal kings headed by him occupy one-tenth of Henan, and Henan is not enough to supplement from the neighboring Shandong and Huguang provinces."

What Zhu Yijun said was Fuwang Zhu Chang 073 Xun, who was the son of Wanli in history, but this house ended up very miserably, and was cooked and eaten by Li Zicheng's anti-thief army.

Zhu Yijun sighed: "At the end of the Ming Dynasty, I fell into such a situation because of natural disasters and man-made disasters, and these moth-like vassal kings are also a major reason for the financial difficulties of the imperial court, just like a bloodsucking worm lying on the huge host of the Ming Dynasty. "

To tell the truth, when he ascended the throne, he lost a lot of hair in the face of the huge number of sect disciples, and later after grasping the military power, he began to reduce the title and reduce the restrictions on the clan.

After five generations, the disciples of the clan can choose to give up their clan identity and not receive money from now on, but they can go to business, engage in politics, and find their own way to live.

In the future, if they embark on the path of colonization, they can be separated and banned.

But this policy has just been implemented, and there is great resistance, and those princes, county kings, and generals of the town state live very comfortably by relying on the court's fortune and land embezzlement, and they are willing to give up vested interests.

And a sentence that is often used as a shield by them is: the law of the ancestors is immutable.

This sentence makes Zhu Yijun extremely angry, and sometimes he really wants to hack them all to death.