During the reign of Emperor Wen of Han, it was stipulated that when offering oxen and drinking oxen in the capital Chang'an in August every year, the princes and princes and marquises would offer gold to provide sacrifices according to the number of people in the country. Each thousand people had a salary of four taels, and the remaining number was more than five hundred people. The Shaofu accepted it, and the system of oxen was born.

In addition, if there are fiefs in southern places such as Jiuzhen, Jiaozhi, and Rinan, they will use rhinoceros horns, tortoiseshell, ivory, jade, etc. instead of gold. When the princes offer gold, the emperor will personally receive gold. If the gold offered by the princes is not sufficient in size or the quality is insufficient, the king will cut the county and the marquis will be exempted from the country.

In the fifth year of Yuanding of Emperor Wu of Han, no one responded to the call to join the army to Nanyue. Emperor Wu of Han was furious and in September he borrowed money and took away the titles of 106 Marquis. Prime Minister Zhao Zhou was also imprisoned for not knowing the truth and was forced to commit suicide. Similar incidents occurred afterwards. This kind of incident is called "losing the Marquis of Remuneration" in history books.

Wei Qing's son Yin'an Hou Wei, who was not suspected of losing the marquis with Fagan Hou Wei Deng, and Gongsun He, who made contributions to attack the Huns, Han Shuo, and others also lost the marquis because of the marquis.

This is actually a brilliant means for the Han court to weaken and attack the power of princes and princes. Anyone who has given the honorable gold and gold is not in harmony and the quality is insufficient, the vassal state will be eliminated, and the king will cut off the county and the marquis will cut off the title. In this way, the local vassal power will be effectively weakened, thus maintaining the authority and rule of the central court.

Chen Long also learned from Liu Che's advanced experience this time and used similar means to solve the problems of the Ming Dynasty royal family. As mentioned earlier, the Ming Dynasty royal family has now become a heavy burden for the court, but it is not so convenient for the court to deal with them, because treating the royal family will make the king not be kind and filial enough. This is a major crime in feudal society. The emperor is unwilling to bear it easily, so he can only continue to endure those royal families lying on the Ming Dynasty's body to suck blood.

However, the system of remuneration gave Chen Long a perfect solution. If he rashly reduced the vassal states, he would definitely be labeled as being not kind and filial enough. But what if these royal families themselves were unfilial? Then this hat would not be labeled as my head! So this trip to Jiangnan, Chen Long did not just want to show Zhu Yuanzhang the imperial seal.

More importantly, I use this opportunity to dig a hole for the Ming Dynasty royal family and bury them. If you don’t even care enough about the offerings dedicated to Emperor Taizu, it will be a great unfilial situation. In this case, I should punish you, let alone, don’t you see it now? Are Emperor Taizu’s spirit in heaven angry?

So it is not me who wants to punish you, but even Emperor Taizu Gao was completely disappointed with you unfilial descendants! He was not even willing to accept your offerings! Needless to say, this strong wind was of course also caused by Shenlong, and the offerings given to his ancestors by his descendants were blown away. What this means is simply clear.

Moreover, the reputation of the Ming Dynasty royal family was so bad. If Zhu Yuanzhang first established the Nine Kings of Sui, he had the slightest desire to ask the vassal kings to help guard the border of the Ming Dynasty, then after Zhu Di's stern battle to seize the throne, those vassal kings began to be raised by the Ming Dynasty as pigs, and these people were almost allowed to do nothing and could only stay in their fiefdom and wait for death.

After more than two hundred years, most of the royal family have long become waste. If it were just a waste, it would be better if they were just a waste, but some people always felt that they had few things and tried every means to exploit the people under their rule. The people had long complained about these vassal kings, and the large amount of land wealth they occupied was also coveted by others for a long time.

In the past, due to benevolence and filial piety, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to touch them, and the civil officials were worried that this level could not be completely cleaned up the Ming royal family. Even Zhang Juzheng, who was famous, wanted to avenge his grandfather's grievances to death by the King of Liao, could only let the Huguang inspector impeach the King of Liao first, forcing the King of Liao to make mistakes, and even raised flags at home to shout for justice. Zhang Juzheng found an opportunity to explain this behavior as a rise and then abolish the title of King of Liao.

But this method is okay to deal with one or two vassal kings, and it is not enough to completely solve the problem of vassal kings; and Zhang Juzheng did this without any sequelae. When Zhang Juzheng fell in the future, one of the charges was to disrespect the vassal kings.

But now, the measures Chen Long took were different. Everyone saw it. This was not what I wanted to deal with those vassal kings, but they were too unfilial. Even Emperor Taizu Gao was angry. I dealt with them in order to follow Emperor Taizu Gao's will and deal with unfilial descendants for Emperor Taizu Gao.

This behavior of my behavior is not only not unfilial, but also great filial piety! After all, most of the vassal kings are just distant relatives who are not close to each other. Emperor Taizu Gao is the direct ancestor of our Zhu family. All the ancestors have spoken. How can I, as a junior, not obey?

And have you seen that almost all the civil and military ministers have condemned your behavior! Even if I wiped out your titles, it would be the best to meet the will of our ancestors and follow the will of the people. If you don’t believe it, then wait and see how many people in the world will be injustice for you?

Chen Long knew what the Ming royal family looked like in the hearts of the people now. It would be strange if they could have a good reputation. When they saw their collapse, the people would only be happy. Moreover, those civil servants had long focused on your property. Now they have the right to speak with them. I guess they would not speak for the Ming royal family.

Chen Long was not worried about how much resistance this incident would cause. If the Nine Kings of Sui were still holding heavy troops at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he would definitely not be so reckless. However, those royal families have been raised as pigs for more than two hundred years and have long been raised as waste that they can do nothing. How big a storm can they cause?

"Your Majesty, the sacrifices offered by King Xiang... the sacrifices offered by King Gu..." The civil servants who checked the sacrifices kept reporting the names of the vassal kings one by one, and quickly found out the problems with these sacrifices. Our Ming officials may not do anything else well, but the ability to find fault is definitely the first-class.

Besides, there are too many statements about etiquette. Not to mention that there are problems, even if there is no problem, they can find out the problem. In the words of Chen Qingquan, the right to interpret the etiquette system is in our hands. If we say that your sacrifices are not in line with the etiquette system, then it is absolutely in line with the etiquette system!

"Your Majesty, my prince is wronged!" The envoys from various vassal kings knelt down one after another and begged, how could it turn out like this! Is my prince really over?

"Hmph! Whoever feels wronged can come here to seek justice with Emperor Taizu Gao?" Chen Long sneered.
Chapter completed!