The King of Han was granted the title of Zongren by the Zongren Mansion, and Zuo Zongzheng and Wenhua Palace authorized the King of Han to reform the clan and vassal system.
The Zongren Mansion is in charge of the roster of the vassal and vassal, and compiles jade certificates on time, recording the vassal's children's concubines, names, titles, birth and death times, marriages, posthumous titles, and burial matters. It also has the power to record the vassal's crimes and faults.
As usual, the Zongren Mansion had to negotiate with the Ministry of Rites before it could exercise its authority. However, with Zhu Gaojie as the supervisor, the Ministry of Rites gave the green light all the way, and the King of Han was able to make drastic reforms to the vassals.
When the sects and vassals heard about the new policy, they were all dumbfounded. What kind of thing is this?
If the new policy reform is successful, their clan will no longer have such a good thing as the more children they have, the more money they will get, and the court will never let them have prostitution for nothing. Not only will they have to pay for land, but they will also have to
Paying taxes to the court, although the rent collected every year is dozens of times the taxes paid, how can this compare with the previous policy!
In the previous policy, the vassals did not have to do anything. They only had to go to the court to ask for money every year. There was no need to feed the court in return!
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"Beast! This beast, the King of Han, is smashed, and he himself is the vassal king. How did he do such a thing!"
Zhu Yuanzhang's sixth son, Chu King Zhu Zhen, was furious at the palace, "I am the biological son of Grandpa Taizu, and he has to pay taxes to the court, and he has to spend money to buy the land he wants. How can such a thing happen in the world!"
"This world belongs to our Zhu family, why the hell should I pay taxes!"
"The King of Han is a little bastard. If my father were still here, how dare he do this? My father would have to whip him to death with a riding crop!"
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At the palace of Prince Qi in Qingzhou, Prince Zhu Xianchang, the crown prince of Qi, hurriedly found his father and said: "Father, King Chu, King Shu, and several vassal kings on behalf of the king came to us and wanted to jointly submit a letter to your Majesty to impeach the King of Han.
!Should we push?"
King Qi sat on a wicker chair and drank tea leisurely: "Send someone to chime in, don't push me, just play with them."
The prince quickly said: "Dad, I think this matter is not simple. The failure to protect everything is because of that person's plan. If we go to follow the vassal kings to cause trouble at this time, aren't we jumping into a pit of fire?"
King Qi did not answer in a hurry, but took a leisurely sip of tea and sighed: "Good tea."
More than ten years ago, the King of Qi did not like drinking tea. He loved drinking alcohol the most in his life. After drinking too much, he beat and scolded the sergeants and was rampant. But when he was imprisoned in Jinling City for several years and returned to the vassal state, the King of Qi stopped drinking.
No more.
King Qi said slowly: "Do you really think that those vassal kings really want to impeach the King of Han? They know that they are doing useless things, and they just want to take the opportunity to vent their anger. At this time, we ran over to join in the fun."
The prince was a little surprised: "Father, what do you mean?"
"Sometimes, don't think of yourself as too smart, acting like everyone else is drunk and I am sober. Do you think the King of Chu, the King of Shu, and the King of Dai are all fools?"
King Qi chuckled and said, "King of Han, who is he? He is a fool who was captured for rebellion. He is brave and foolhardy. He is just like me when I was young. He is too impetuous, so it is easy for him to be used as a swordsman. King of Han
He is not qualified to attack the sects. If nothing else happens, he should be imprisoned in Jinling City now, but he has been released, and he has been given the power to attack us sects. Which vassal king has such a strong balance in his heart?
Is there something fishy inside if you don’t come out?”
"It's just that the King of Han promised to be a scapegoat for the guy above. The one who really wants to attack us is either King Qi or my fourth brother. Maybe the father and son teamed up to plan this.
"
Prince Qi said: "Father, since you can see it so clearly, why bother to follow those vassal kings to make trouble? Our family has suffered enough in the past two years. If we make trouble again now, that is
If you add guilt to crime, if you make that person unhappy, we, Prince Qi, cannot afford it."
"You are young and the situation is small. You still don't have a long-term perspective."
King Qi sighed, "Do you really think that we vassal kings are uniting to make trouble? This is to submit a certificate to the emperor."
Prince Qi was confused: "We are clearly trying to mess up that big deal. Isn't this considered making trouble?"
These gentlemen have made things so fussy. Isn’t this called making trouble?
Is it possible that one has to raise the banner of appeasement and shout slogans of rebellion to be called a riot?
Also, what kind of certificate is this?
"The one who pushed the King of Han out just wanted to keep the King of Han in the limelight. It was the King of Han that we caused trouble, not that one."
King Qi taught him earnestly and sincerely, "First of all, when other princes make trouble and I don't make trouble, doesn't this make our Prince Qi's Mansion stand out from the rest? Your Majesty is a family, and the vassals are one family. If we want to live a good life in the future, Prince Qi's Mansion will inevitably
We have to deal with other sects. If we get involved now, we are actually hinting to other sects that our sects are a family. We are all members of the Zhu family, and we all work for the person above us. We should stand in line and make mistakes.
No, no matter whose team you are on, of course you are on the team of the sects and vassals."
"Secondly, when we make trouble with the King of Han, are there any words that criticize the imperial court?"
"This is to tell His Majesty the Emperor that although we know what this is about, we are giving in. The vassals will only burn the King of Han and will not involve others."
"Pretending to be stupid is sometimes a skill, but you can't be really stupid. If the emperor sees that our sect has suffered such a big loss and doesn't say anything, he will doubt the biting dog without barking and our sect."
Fan is holding back a big one."
"Now we jointly go to scold the King of Han. As long as nothing else is involved, it will make the emperor feel at ease. Didn't he push the King of Han out just to let us scold him? If he can feel at ease, our sect can live a peaceful life.
Be comfortable."
"Although the new policy of the imperial court is to cut off the flesh of us sects and vassals, at least there is still flesh, right? Just be content. The Ming Dynasty will still be around one day, and we, Prince Qi's bastards, can live as long as the country."
Only then did the prince suddenly realize how stupid he looked in front of his father for being so smart.
He thought he had seen through the truth of the matter, but little did he know that the smarter and more ostentatious a vassal king was, the sooner he would die.
These vassal kings were pretending to be stupid, but they were not really stupid. By pretending to be stupid to show the emperor that they had no objections, they were actually obeying the emperor's wishes.
Don't look at these vassals lying around in the palace every day like trash. In fact, each one is smarter than the other. They are all human beings. Anyone picked out at random has eight hundred tricks.
King Qi originally thought that he was the best in the world. Who is he? King Qi, Taizu's biological son, who dares to touch me?
The new emperor is not used to your bad habits. First, Emperor Jianwen imprisoned King Qi. After he was released, he was imprisoned by Emperor Yongle. The two imprisonments made King Qi completely honest and made him
A smart brain has grown.
The prince asked: "Father, my son understands, then I will write a handwritten letter in the name of Prince Qi's palace and submit it to your majesty jointly with the vassal princes?"
King Qi nodded slightly: "Go ahead. Remember, in this handwritten letter, you only need to catch and scold the King of Han alone. The harsher the scolding, the more relieved the person above you will be. But you must not write to other people.
Don't involve that person or King Qi. Although the Ministry of Rites is also involved, don't mention the Ministry of Rites. The Ministry of Rites is also from that person. We only criticize the King of Han."
"Father, don't worry, my son understands."
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The handwritten letters from the vassal kings of each province were divided into two parts, one was sent to the Zongren Mansion, and the other was sent to the Wenhua Palace.
It is a rule to send it to the clan mansion, and it is sincerity to send it to Wenhua Palace.
"Isn't this fucking disgusting person!"
The King of Han, who was nominally the leader of the clan government, casually read a page of handwriting and became furious.
Although he didn't know much about literacy, he could still understand the meaning of what was written on it. It was all in vernacular. After all, the other vassal kings were not very educated people, and they were all using all kinds of curse words to angrily criticize the King of Han.
"It's not my idea. What are you going to do if you catch me alone and scold me? Go scold King Qi and the old man!"
"Don't scold me in front of me. You know that I am the sect's order, and you sent the letter to the sect's mansion for me to read. You all signed the letter, so why don't you just send a letter to Wenhua Palace?
Really? Why are you here to make me feel disgusted like this!"
"Beasts, a bunch of beasts! I will have to kill all of you beasts sooner or later!"
The King of Han also knew in his heart that he was doing the dirty work that was criticized by others, and was pushed out by King Qi and the old man to take the blame.
But he still couldn't help being angry. Some of these sects were his uncles, some were his cousins, and some were his nephews. They were scolding each and every one of them so harshly. They were all members of the same family. How could they save some face for me!
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In the Wenhua Hall, Zhu Gaojie flipped through the letters sent by the vassals from various provinces and nodded slightly: "Well, not bad, it seems that although these vassals have been lying at home for so many years and their limbs have degenerated, their minds are getting better and better.
Already."
"Know what to say and what not to say."
Yang Rong asked: "Your Majesty, do we need to reply to the letter to appease these sects?"
Zhu Gaojie shook his head and said: "No need, just press down all these documents. These sects and vassals have worked hard to write letters just for us to see. As long as we press down these documents, we will be the greatest to them."
Appease. If you reply, it will surprise them. The chaos is already big enough. If you add more firewood, don't you want to burn people to death?"
Yang Rong nodded: "I understand, what about King Han?"
"King of Han?"
Zhu Gaojie smiled, "No matter what he does, do you really think he and I are good brothers?"
"Why, after you kill someone with a knife, you still have to keep the knife as an offering and offer incense every day?"