"Hey, looking at your expression, you seem unhappy. What happened?"
As soon as the video was connected, Liu Weichao asked out of curiosity before Emperor Chongzhen could speak.
Judging from Liu Weichao's expression, it seems that he is in a good mood.
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen nodded with a cold face and said: "I am indeed very angry now. This is what happened..."
Having said this, he roughly described the news coming from Nanjing.
Liu Weichao had been in contact with Emperor Chongzhen before. Knowing that the Liaodong War was won one after another, he was sure that Jianlu could not come back. Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen's unhappiness definitely did not come from the Liaodong battlefield.
When I heard this, my guess was indeed correct. It turned out that something had happened somewhere else.
At this time, Emperor Chongzhen had already finished speaking, but he still said angrily: "Most of the nobles in Nanjing were granted the title of Founder, and they followed Emperor Taizu to conquer the Ming Dynasty and expel the Tartars. As long as the Ming Dynasty exists for one day, they can
Enjoying a day of glory and wealth, logically speaking, they should support the Ming Dynasty and be of the same mind as the Ming Emperor. But look at these white-eyed wolves, they actually did so many treasonous things for their own selfish interests.
Do you think I'm going to be pissed off?"
After he finished speaking, he stared at Liu Weichao, hoping that Liu Weichao could echo him and understand his anger.
Unexpectedly, Liu Weichao actually smiled, so happily that he was puzzled.
Emperor Chongzhen was very unhappy and said to Liu Weichao angrily: "You are still laughing, I am serious, I am really angry now!"
"What are you so angry about?" Liu Weichao finally stopped laughing when he heard what he said, but still said to him with a smile on his face, "I think you should be happy too!"
As soon as he said these words, Emperor Chongzhen was confused and asked a little suspiciously: "Should I still be happy?"
How can you still be happy after raising such a group of white-eyed wolves?
"Of course!" After hearing this, Liu Weichao replied to Emperor Chongzhen without thinking, "The honorable noble is actually a low-end version of the vassal king. Now you want to entrust the vassal king overseas, but what about the honorable noble? This is not easy to entrust.
Right? If it has been hereditary in the country, it will be like a parasite on Ming Dynasty, which will also make Ming Dynasty sick. But if you want to touch the nobles, the impact will not be comparable to that of a vassal king who raises pigs. You are now in the military
Lieutenant generals are all distinguished, right?"
Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen turned from anger to joy and nodded immediately. He wished Liu Weichao could finish his thoughts in one breath, and quickly urged Liu Weichao: "Yes, yes, yes, you continue, I will listen!"
If the Ming Dynasty wants to last for a long time, not to mention the future, for more than 270 years before the Ming Dynasty, the vassal kings were already overwhelmed from the beginning of the founding of the country to the Chongzhen period.
This overwhelming situation is not just talk, it has already reached the point where the court has cheated on the family, refused to enter the family tree, defaulted on salary, and other things that ordinary people would find shameful.
After listening to Liu Weichao's suggestion, Emperor Chongzhen made up his mind to seal all the vassal kings overseas.
Regarding this matter, as long as the royal family is willing to lose face, it is actually not too difficult.
Because the vassal king is like a fish on the knife board, he has no power to resist and can only be slaughtered by the court.
But it is similar to the hereditary feudal kingship. If you want to disturb the hereditary nobles, it is definitely not that easy.
Honor, after all, is the highest goal pursued by a warrior. When fighting in the army, joining the army, isn't it because you want to be granted the title of Marquis Yinzi?
If this honor system is to be touched, it will not only involve the existing honors, but also those generals in the army who hope to become honors. Generally speaking, these generals are generals with real power and hold military power in their hands.
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In the past, when Emperor Chongzhen knew that the Ming Dynasty had fallen, most of the nobles surrendered, and he was dissatisfied with the nobles. Later, after the case of Cheng Guogong, he became even more dissatisfied with the nobles.
However, at that time, he could only think about it and there was no better way.
At this time, according to Liu Weichao, it seemed that the honor system could be touched, and Emperor Chongzhen was of course happy.
No, just listen to Liu Weichao say to him: "If only one or two nobles make mistakes, it doesn't mean anything; but if many nobles have problems, it can explain that the system of honors
In itself, there is actually a problem. So many distinguished people in Nanjing got into trouble together, and so many white-eyed wolves, didn’t they just give you such an opportunity to change this distinguished system?"
"Yes, yes!" Emperor Chongzhen said happily after hearing this, "I was so angry for a moment that I didn't think about it!"
If we say that according to the original history, the performance of honors and nobles when the Ming Dynasty fell, it can actually show that there is a problem with the honors and nobles system and needs to be changed.
But the key issue is that no one except Emperor Chongzhen knew what happened in history in this time and space.
Nowadays, the Nanjing nobles are violating laws and disciplines on a large scale, which is still very serious, and it is just the reason to come to their door.
At this time, Emperor Chongzhen asked Liu Weichao with expectation: "Based on the experience summarized by your later generations, how should I reform this honorary system?"
"It's very simple!" Liu Weichao said without thinking after hearing this, "Change the hereditary system to a descending one. For example, the first generation can be named a duke, and the second generation can only be a marquis. Unless he has made great contributions, otherwise the third generation will be awarded the title of marquis.
Every generation is an earl, just like this. If the descendants of heroes want to continue to enjoy the glory and wealth, they must work hard to make contributions to the country, otherwise, it will be reduced step by step. For this innovation, you can just rely on the performance of Nanjing nobles.
Let’s explain the necessity.”
The system of honors and nobles cannot exist; otherwise warriors will not be able to see the future and have no goal to strive for; at least in the environment like ancient times, it is impossible to say that it will be abolished directly.
And if hereditary inheritance is directly cancelled, there is actually a problem. Not to mention why the emperor can be hereditary, military commanders fight life and death, don't they just want to bring glory and wealth to the family! If it is said that he just granted a title, the son will
There is nothing, which will definitely make most people who have received titles think of ways to provide for their descendants, thus causing more troubles.
As a "keyboard warrior" of later generations, Liu Weichao has certainly participated in debates on common problems like this in ancient times and remembers various solutions.
Those things that are not practical, such as establishing a republic in ancient times and abolishing things, etc., anyway, I don’t know what others think, but he thinks it is unreasonable.
There is no corresponding development of productive forces and changes in production relations. In other words, without that social foundation, this is Wang Mang's end!
Therefore, in the honor system, he is more in favor of this method of decreasing from generation to generation.
It can even be said that the same can be done for the feudal king.
However, today's era is an era of great navigation. The Ming Dynasty needs to go to sea to compete with the Western Yi for the world. Therefore, it is more reasonable for the vassal king level to entrust overseas.
In fact, when dealing with the vassal kings, at the suggestion of Liu Weichao, Emperor Chongzhen threatened the vassal kings and refused to entrust overseas enfeoffments, so he would use this generation-by-generation reduction system.
It was also because of this method that he had talked about before. Therefore, when Liu Weichao mentioned it at this time, Emperor Chongzhen immediately understood what to do. He nodded with a smile and said: "Yes, yes, this method can indeed be used instead!"
Liu Weichao listened and continued to say to him: "Actually, you are a very suitable emperor to make this change. Because people of your time thought that you could contact Emperor Taizu. Therefore, these nobles were punished,
No matter how the punishment is imposed, changes in the system, etc., it can make them misunderstand that Emperor Taizu means the same thing!"
Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen smiled proudly.
That's right, pretending to be Emperor Taizu's will is the most powerful support for his arbitrariness! Other emperors simply did not have this advantage and would often suffer resistance on the pretext of "ancestral system."
Thinking about this matter, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to have thought of something, and he showed his strong interest and said to Liu Weichao: "How about using this matter to let Emperor Taizu show his spirit again and shock those who have no knowledge?"
When he said this, he thought of the last time he played a short video in the Jinluan Hall. Seeing those Jinshi who usually read poetry and books, and were full of knowledge, were shocked like that, he couldn't bear it.
I just want to laugh.
Emperor Chongzhen was really looking forward to seeing these people again and was shocked.
However, his request was rejected by Liu Weichao: "If it's not necessary, let's not do this!"
Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen was a little strange, so he asked Liu Weichao: "Didn't you set up a film and television company to make videos? Why, isn't it going well?"
After Liu Weichao heard this, he immediately shook his head and said: "That's not what I meant. There is actually no problem in making another video, but do you want to live in the shadow of Emperor Taizu all your life? If you always move Emperor Taizu out, the world will
The one who will be remembered will only be Emperor Taizu, not you!"
After finishing speaking, he added in his mind: "My wife is about to give birth to a baby, and I have "Yongle Dadian" to be busy with, so I don't want to make such a deceptive short video!"
Emperor Chongzhen didn't know what he was thinking. After hearing his words, he was very grateful for his reminder.
No one is willing to live in the shadow of others. Not to mention the emperor, ordinary people are not willing to live.
You see, so-and-so is better than you, or so-and-so, this is very jarring.
And Emperor Chongzhen worked hard to revive the Ming Dynasty, even to the point of 997, he was still voluntary. As a result, others said that it was all the credit of Emperor Taizu, and Emperor Chongzhen was not happy!