The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

First the country and then private. Zhao Jie, with the assistance of everyone, made the state affairs stabilize and family affairs on the agenda. Now is not the time for him to be the prince, he only needs to take charge of the affairs of the mansion.

He has to worry about the affairs of the four or five generations of the royal family. In addition to food, drink, accommodation and transportation, he also has to care about their birth, old age, sickness and death. Even the naming is something he has to worry about.

But this matter cannot be escaped, and it must be handled no matter how difficult it is. No matter how you say, everyone is a relative, breaking the bones and connecting the tendons. No matter how you say, there are clans and close branches. However, after the founding of the Song Dynasty, the clan family was

The matter was put on the agenda. While sharing wealth and glory, it also caused a lot of trouble to each emperor because the royal family still had his own special characteristics...

Emperors and ministers of the Song Dynasty reviewed the experiences and lessons of the previous generations in treating the royal family with a keen eye and learned from them. The Zhou, Han and Tang dynasties were three recognized great dynasties, and it is particularly worthy of attention that the time span of these three dynasties was enough to make the royal family.

Become a problem.

During the Zhou Dynasty, the royal family played a central role in the political order. After the destruction of the Shang Dynasty, Zhou suddenly changed from a small state in the Wei River Valley to a vast empire with a region spanning the plains of northern China. In order to rule this empire, Zhou invented it.

The so-called "garrison system" enfeoffed a large number of princes, clans and allies outside the royal family as feudal lords, allowing them to rule various parts of the country. The Zhou king directly ruled only the areas around the western capital of the empire.

Through mechanisms such as the enfeoffment ceremony of the father's death and the son's succession, and the launch of war to fight against the rebellious lords, Zhou successfully maintained its rule for a considerable period. This political structure produced by the patriarchal system of enfeoffment was carried out throughout the entire layer of enfeoffment.

History of the whole week.

This is a linear inheritance system, according to the patriarchal system. The relative political status of family members depends on the elders and the younger, the elders and the illegitimate children. The eldest sons enjoy a high status in terms of religious status and political power. The eldest sons of each generation constitute the lineage and

The main trunk of the inheritance of political authority is to establish a new secondary authority by establishing a new secondary authority. The further away from the main trunk, the weaker the political authority.

In the Han Dynasty, members of the royal family had a title and title, which formed the central feature of the royal family in the Han Dynasty. According to the Han Dynasty laws: only the son of the emperor was worthy of being called the royal family and was able to split the land and be named king; the son of the king, one of the legitimate sons inherited the throne, and the other sons were all

The title of marquis; the legitimate son of the marquis succeeds to become marquis, and the rest of the marquis will not be given titles. After such generations, everyone will become the same as ordinary people. If they cannot gain power, they will inevitably have to work hard to survive.

Liu Bei, who we are familiar with, is one of the famous members.

For the Han royal family, this means an isolated **, and generally speaking, they cannot hold any practical political role. Although there are no shortage of examples of royal family members as officials in the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, their number is very limited. Even if the Han Dynasty is revived, it is revived.

Emperor Guangwu of the dynasty realized that his relatives made a lot of contributions to him, so he generously granted them various official titles, but did not use them in the government.

Since the Han Dynasty royal family did not live in the capital, they had few opportunities to participate in "inner court" politics. In Chinese history, the inner court group had the most direct connection with the emperor himself, and was the force used by the emperor to compete with the formal bureaucracy. Therefore,

In several bloody struggles in the history of the Han Dynasty to fight for the throne. Although members of the royal family participated, their role was insignificant, far less than that of the two most active Han Dynasty inner court groups, the foreign relatives and eunuchs.

By the Tang Dynasty, their royal family was very different from the Han Dynasty in many important aspects. Although the princes were enfeoffed to various places in the Tang Dynasty as in the Han Dynasty, in the middle, the kings and their descendants were moved to the capital.

In ten royal houses and one hundred grand courtyards. However, the practice of resettling royal families in the capital in the Tang Dynasty set an important example for future generations.

However, the Tang Dynasty was different from the Han Dynasty. Not only were they willing to widely use royal families in the government, but the emperors of the Tang Dynasty could also leave the towns. Many royal families were also appointed as senior officials, and more than ten people served as prime ministers, which was unique in China's history.

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Against this background, the Song Dynasty began to manage the royal family. Taizu and Taizong dynasties did not care about the royal family at this time, but only the close relatives of the two emperors and their younger brother King Wei. Taizu believed that the royal family should include three brothers

The broad clan of descendants sets the boundaries of future clans.

The royal family in the first hundred years of the Song Dynasty can be said to be more like a transaction between the emperor and his relatives. The imperial power gave them privileges and funding, and the state set up laws to manage them. All the royal family lived a prosperous life in the capital, but could not have any politics.

Power is the most important and fundamental transaction. In addition to worshiping ancestors, the national ceremony is to develop personal hobbies.

Although some of them were potential successors to the throne, they all lived basically similar lives, especially when they were involved in politics. With the unprecedented prosperity of the Song Dynasty, the royal family was able to maintain this and this for four to five generations, and a crisis occurred after the crisis occurred after the unprecedented prosperity of the Song Dynasty.

The scale of the royal family is getting bigger and bigger, bringing great pressure in terms of economy, housing, education, and official title.

At the same time, the royal family outside the five servers appeared. According to the precedents of the Tang Dynasty, these remote clans should no longer be considered members of the royal family. Therefore, their status of the royal family was controversial and the royal family control over the royal family members

It also became very difficult, and how to treat these remote clans was quite troublesome. The court once stopped giving names and officials to unswerving relatives, allowing them to obtain official positions through the imperial examination to make a living, and planned to streamline these remote clans.

The clan relatives completely cut off the treatment of the clan members to those distant relatives who are not close to each other.

But soon the problem arose. After losing the treatment of the royal family, they soon fell into depravity and became poor people with no food and clothing and no place to live. This was too harmful to the royal face, so the court had to take back his life and establish a relative without compassion.

The funding system re-recorded their names on the jade letter. This practice actually undermines the practice of confirming clans according to the rules and prefers to establish a clan structure with open genealogy.

The problem is that the number of the fifth and sixth generation royal families has been spreading and has been tens of thousands, which is not counting their wives, sisters, daughters, and son-in-law. To add up these subsidies, for the government

It has become a considerable burden. This expense comes from the Ministry of Revenue rather than the internal treasury. Of course, it costs people's taxes, which has caused a huge burden on the country's finances and has become an important part of the redundant expenses...

By the time Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, due to the increase in population, excessive expenses, and blood-related clan relations became increasingly alienated. The clan was undergoing a complete repositioning, and the clan problem had reached a point that must be solved.

So Zhao Ji ordered Cai Jing and others to find a way to solve the problem. The court officials formulated a plan, which was to terminate the title and the appointment of officials, but did not remove these people from the royal jade certificate, and still recognized their status as a royal family and could enter the sect.

As a transitional step, the Southern Clan Officer of the Shu clan is no longer awarded, but is replaced by a lesser-status officer of the third Clan. The descendants of the descendants can take the imperial examination to obtain fame and honor, find another residence in the capital and purchase land. Those with officials can also do so.

Buy a house and land according to relevant regulations of ordinary officials.

In terms of marriage, the fifth and sixth generation of clan daughters' marriage capital was reduced by half, and the husbands of the sixth generation of clan daughters were no longer granted the title of Nanban official. However, these clan daughters are still not allowed to marry "non-school family". They are granted poverty

The fifth and sixth generation of royal family members who have no official land will be used to support orphans and particularly poor people, regardless of their generation, report their names and give special preferential treatment as appropriate. In Xijing Luoyang and Nanjing Yingtianfu, they will be built separately for the unsuspecting clan relatives.

New residence for moving out.

However, officials are also restricted. There must be no more than one royal family to hold senior civil and military positions in a state; royal officials serve in the same place at the same time, and no more than three in a state and two in a county. This edict does not look like

The act of repairing the problem of losing the sheep is like a measure to prevent problems before it happens. Therefore, the royal family can only serve as inconspicuous small officials and cannot respond if they want to rebel.

All this has been implemented for more than ten years, and although it has been criticized, it has been barely dealt with. After the Jurchen invasion, the situation changed drastically, and Zhao Qiong tried every means to rescue him, but he only cared about his own brothers and sisters. The royal family was almost defeated and was in the capital.

More than 3,000 close clan members were captured, and many people died on the way north, and only a few who followed Zhao Huan all the way north were able to escape. Now that Zhao Qi has ascended the throne, this trouble has also been handed over to him...

Zhao Qi looked at Taizu's "The Great Exercise" with a sad look, and repeatedly reiterated that no matter how distant the blood relationship between descendants becomes, it is very important to maintain the unity of the clan. This old man may also have the ability to predict the future.

, knowing that the social components of the clan in the future may become quite complicated, he set the rules early.

No matter how far the water flows, people must respect the "jade letter"; no matter whether they are officials or businessmen, no matter where they meet each other, they should recognize each other and make friends according to their actions; they should not dislike the poor and love the rich.

, you cannot promote the noble and suppress the lowly. If a poor person or a family that cannot survive, encounters a sudden disaster, the wealthy tribe members should provide help to prevent them from being displaced and humiliating their ancestors!

"It's a good thing, but now I'm making things difficult for me!" Zhao Qi sighed. The Jurchens helped him a lot and wiped out most of his relatives. The deceased could not pose a threat to him. But he was lucky.

Those who escaped the catastrophe also had bad thoughts. The royal family that had been passed down for generations was deprived of everything and their power was infinitely limited. Now these royal families suddenly found that the various restrictions on them in the past were gone, and they only rely on their own identity as a royal family.

You can get things that were previously out of reach... (To be continued...)