"Your Highness, I believe that since the founding of the Ming Dynasty by Taizu more than 280 years ago, many of the old systems have become outdated and should be changed, such as the vassal system of the Ming Dynasty, the guard military household system, etc."
After entering Jingjiang City, the old bachelor Xu Shiqi said to Zhu Yihai.
Finally someone is talking about this.
In fact, anyone with a little bit of knowledge in the Ming Dynasty would not know that those ancestral systems are already out of date. But the problem is that this is the ancestral system set by Taizu, who dares to change it lightly. What's more, behind these ancestral systems is
Countless vested interest groups are desperately defending it.
The vassal vassal of the Ming Dynasty was said to guard various places and screen the vassal court.
But in fact, from the beginning of Jianwen, there was no room for these vassal kings who led troops to occupy the territory. They violently cut down the vassal vassal, forced several vassal queens to death, and also forced Zhu Di to rebel, and then Jingnan.
After the Jing Dynasty, his uncle Zhu Di seized the throne of his nephew Emperor Jianwen. He himself was the one who raised the army to seize the throne, so he could not tolerate the feudal princes to continue to have strong power. Therefore, various policies such as reducing the number of guards were introduced, but in fact
It followed Jianwen's path of reducing vassal vassals, but no one dared to go against it this time.
After all this twists and turns, Zhu Yuanzhang originally planned for the descendants of the old Zhu family to guard various places and screen the center of the vassal, but in the end, the vassal princes raised pigs everywhere.
He could no longer shield the vassal court, but he gradually became a huge burden to the court.
After every emperor came to the throne, he always had to entrust his own princes and grandsons, so more and more vassals were enfeoffed. These vassal kings were restricted in various ways. They could not leave their fiefdoms without authorization, and they could not manage local civil and military affairs. Apart from giving birth to children, they could not do anything but give birth to children.
The only thing left to do is to make money.
Emperors also liked to grant land rewards to their sons lavishly. For example, Emperor Jiajing awarded his son King Jing four million acres of land at one time. King Fu Zhu Changxun was also given 40,000 acres of farmland by an edict at first, but he later declined and it was reduced by half, which was also the case twice.
Million acres.
Over the past few hundred years, vassals in various places have occupied a large amount of land. Later, some princes had no land to enclose, so they directly asked the local government to allocate land and pay rent. Many of the lumi of the vassal were also directly allocated to some prefectures.
The county is responsible for turning over supplies.
It is said that most of the land in Henan is occupied by clans.
Not to mention that the sects also enjoyed many privileges. Their farmland did not receive food or service, and they even had to send labor to the tenants. Sometimes the local government had to give them reduced labor and silver.
In short, the Ming dynasty had long since become an important burden to the imperial court, and at the local level, it had greatly encroached on the interests of the people and became a huge malignant tumor.
It's just that this issue has been mentioned before, but it was not taken seriously by the emperors, or was deliberately ignored.
Now Zhu Yihai has been supervising the country for more than two months. With his Northern Expedition, he has finally established a firm foothold. When the problem of survival has been partially solved, he has finally begun to deal with other problems.
Xu Shiqi is senior and has high prestige. He is very responsible for taking on such a profound issue.
If he doesn't mention this kind of thing, it won't have any influence if others mention it.
"Sir, sit down."
After two months of June, it is now July. Although the weather in Liuhuo is getting cooler in July, the current weather has no intention of getting cooler at all. It is still extremely hot.
As a time traveler, Zhu Yihai actually knows better than anyone else the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty. After all, so many people in later generations have summarized it countless times, and he can find out any problem for you.
But the problem is that he knows this, but now he is temporarily unavailable, or cannot touch it for the time being.
It's like he knows that the Zheng family in Fujian is ambitious and wants to be the king of Fujian and has no loyalty to the Nanming court. But can he accuse the Zheng family of treason now? It's not that they haven't rebelled yet, even if they did, now this is
Under such circumstances, the main contradiction must also be divided into secondary contradictions, and they must be resolved one by one.
When you come up, you don't care about anything, and you chop at random with axes, that is to demolish the house. In the end, the beams are broken, the columns are broken, and the house collapses, and you have to bury yourself in it. Even if you know that the pillars are crooked and the beams are not straight, you still have to carefully straighten or even reinforce them first.
The house must be repaired first, not demolished.
Don't say that Zheng Zhilong didn't rebel. Even if he rebelled, he still had to be comforted, eat one meal at a time and do everything one by one.
When he first raised the flag, he demolished the house even before his identity as a prisoner was recognized. Wouldn't that lead to his own death?
Even now, it is actually not easy to get involved in these deep-water areas. After all, no matter how poisonous these sects are, they are still our own people when facing the Tatars.
"Do you have any good suggestions, sir?" Zhu Yihai asked.
Xu Shiqi said, "In the more than 280 years of the Ming Dynasty, I have created a total of eighty-three princes. Except for those who died young and whose fiefdoms have not been determined, a total of fifty princely kingdoms have been established in various parts of the world.
By the end of Chongzhen's reign, there were still more than 30 countries that had seized vassal status due to crimes. In more than 200 years, a total of 289 princes and 11 kings of Jingjiang were established..."
The eldest son of the Ming Emperor was made the crown prince, the remaining sons were granted the title of prince at the age of ten, and the vassal and fiefdom at the age of twenty.
The eldest son of the prince is named the Crown Prince, and the remaining son is granted the title of Prince of the County at the age of ten. The eldest son of the Prince of the County is granted the title of Crown Prince, and the remaining son is granted the title of General of the Kingdom.
Then there are the generals of Fuguo, generals of Fengguo, lieutenants of Zhenguo, lieutenants of Auxiliary China, and lieutenants of Fengguo.
It was passed to Lieutenant Fengguo and no longer surrendered.
All titles are hereditary and will always be different from those of the people of Qi.
Those below the prince will receive Lumi.
The prince has 10,000 shi, the prince has 2,000 shi, the general of the country has 1,000 shi, the general of the auxiliary country has 800 shi, the general of the country has 600 shi, the lieutenant of the country has 400 shi, the lieutenant of the auxiliary country has 300 shi, and the lieutenant of Fengguo has 200 shi.
stone.
To sum up in one sentence, the vassals of the Ming Dynasty distributed feudal vassals but did not pay tribute to the land, gave nobility but did not come to the people, took salary but did not manage affairs, and could not participate in the business of the four people, and could be hereditary and neglectful.
As a result, the situation of raising Zhu (pig) in the world was formed.
Even in addition to men, princesses and consorts, princesses and honored guests are also supported by salaries.
In the Wanli period alone, the clan's population exceeded 157,000. In the Wanli period, the total national talent was 23 million dan, and the clan salary required more than 8 million dan. Shanxi and Henan, as major grain-producing provinces,
The grain taxes from the two provinces are not enough to support half of the clan.
Many princes and princes also occupied a large amount of farmland, and even annexed and occupied people's land, which also caused the local people to suffer misery.
By this time, although after many years of peasant army uprisings and the Qing army's entry into the customs, the population of the Ming clan had dropped sharply, but there were still many.
It's tight at the front now, but some clans in the back are still tight.
Just like today's Yiyang King Zhu Chaoyang, he is as fat as a ball.
Xu Shiqi really couldn't stand it anymore, couldn't bear it anymore, and didn't care whether it was made by his ancestors or not.
In addition to the Northern Expeditionary Army on the front line, which was able to defeat traitors, confiscate homes and siege cities, and gain a lot of money and food supplements, so it was not short of food and pay for the time being, the armies in the rear were very short of pay, and many soldiers were quarreling over pay.
Now that Lu Jianguo has reestablished the imperial court, sects and vassals from all over the country have gathered here, or have gone south to the rear. How to resettle these people is also a big problem.
