One is to be monitored by the court and unable to leave the fiefdom. It is like being kept in captivity. It has the title of prince, but there is not much freedom at all. The other is to enfeoff overseas and become the master of a country. As long as there is such a thing,
Every ambitious person knows what choice to make.
Of course, Zhu Houzhao was really courageous. After all, the area that the Ming Dynasty could rule was limited. Even if the Ming Dynasty could occupy those territories thousands of miles away, it would not be able to rule them.
In this case, Zhu Houzhao simply gave birth to the idea of enfeoffing the royal family and nobles who were lying on Daming's body and sucking blood crazily.
In this way, these vampires are sent out in disguised form, and at the same time, they receive the land from the hands of these royal family members. Of course, more importantly, they occupy overseas lands in this way.
As for whether there are any hidden dangers in this method, Zhu Houzhao is really not worried.
Even if any royal bloodline really rises from overseas in the future, even if it returns to the Central Plains and the throne changes, the one sitting on the throne will still be the bloodline of their Zhu family, right?
Looking at the emperor secretly, Yang Yiqing said: "Your Majesty, although this move is wonderful, it will cause serious troubles in the future..."
Zhu Houzhao waved his hand, smiled slightly, and said domineeringly: "When I am here, who dares to disobey? When I am gone, everyone is of Taizu's blood. The capable ones are superior and the weak are inferior, but I can't control them!"
Yang Yiqing and others were shocked, but having said that, they could also imagine that even if the royal princes were enfeoffed overseas, if they wanted to develop and grow to the extent that they could compete with the Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains, it would not happen overnight. I'm afraid
At least it was hundreds of years later.
If that time really comes, these people will probably have turned into bones long ago, and they still worry about it.
After breathing a sigh of relief, Wang Yangming, Yang Yiqing and others looked at each other, saluted Zhu Houzhao and said, "I will obey your Majesty's order."
Yang Yiqing and others exited the imperial study, walked all the way out of the Forbidden City, and stood outside the palace gate. They couldn't help but look back towards the palace.
Today, they and the others in the imperial palace were as if they had had a big dream. They could not see the changes in the emperor, and at the same time, they were shocked by the emperor's courage to restart the enfeoffment.
Chen Ding was heard sighing: "From what I see, His Majesty's desire to seek immortality and ascension has not diminished. This is a big hidden danger after all..."
Yang Yiqing shook his head and said: "Master Chen is unfounded. Looking at His Majesty's words and deeds today, it is obvious that Your Majesty is not a foolish person, and has not neglected government affairs because of his desire to seek immortality."
Wang Yangming smiled with excitement on his face and said: "Everyone, restart the feudal system and the world will be unified. If this matter can really be realized by our hands, this great achievement of transcending ancestors will definitely make us famous.
Leave a lasting legacy and shine through the ages.”
Hearing what Wang Yangming said, the eyes of several pavilion elders couldn't help but shine. When they thought that they might be famous throughout the ages and be admired by future generations, for a moment, several pavilion elders couldn't help but tremble slightly with excitement.
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The emperor had no intention of concealing the news, and after several pavilion elders returned, the news spread quickly.
It can be imagined that once the news came out that the emperor intended to restart the enfeoffment system, the entire capital was in an uproar.
The history of the enfeoffment system can be recounted by traders and footmen. In the past, the Great Zhou Dynasty enfeoffed the world and enfeoffed eight hundred vassal states.
When the First Emperor unified the world, although the feudal system briefly appeared, it was gradually abandoned by the rulers. Even if the Ming Dynasty granted him the title of king, it was just in name only.
But now the emperor has made it clear that he wants to implement real enfeoffment, which means that once he is enfeoffed, he can take charge of the military and political power of a place. In addition to paying tribute to the court on time, it is basically an independent kingdom.
The most exciting ones are the princes who were entrusted by the Taizu lineage. These princes have been passed down from generation to generation, and they are all the descendants of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.
Just how vast the overseas land is, you can find out with just a little thought.
Not to mention how much overseas land the Ming Dynasty could occupy, even if it only occupied a fraction, it would be equivalent to the size of several Ming Dynasties.
When the time comes to enfeoff and rule a country, with great power in hand, how can such an aggrieved prince be compared?
The royal family was shocked by it, and the whole world was shocked by it.
However, all the princes and princes in the royal family who had some ambitions looked forward to it one by one, watching every move of the court, hoping that it was not Zhu Houzhao's temporary joke.
In the winter of the fifteenth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, as Zhu Houzhao's decree finally reached the hands of several overseas fleets, the Ming Dynasty finally showed its fangs.
Pieces of land were occupied by the Ming Dynasty, and countries were destroyed one after another. Under the Ming Dynasty's powerful ships and cannons, it can be said that the whole world can stop the Ming Dynasty's fleet with very little disrespect.
It was also in this year that Zhu Houzhao personally granted the title of King Qin of the Ming Dynasty to establish a kingdom overseas.
When the King of Qin received the emperor's order, he was overjoyed. He cooperated extremely well and handed over millions of acres of fertile land occupied by the Qin Palace to the government. With the help of the imperial court, he brought hundreds of thousands of slaves and tenants who were attached to the Qin Palace.
Go overseas in a mighty way.
For this purpose, the Ming Dynasty even dispatched thousands of large ships. The freight alone drained the savings of the Qin Palace for hundreds of years, and even owed the court millions of taels of property for this purpose.
According to what Zhu Houzhao said, since he was enfeoffed and became the king, he should be self-reliant. The court could fund some supplies, but for the most part he had to find his own way.
The King of Qin had no choice but to waste hundreds of years of savings from the Qin Palace, and had to pay millions of taels of huge loan agreements with the court. Finally, he was able to collect all the things he needed to establish his country overseas.
Although the imperial court had the intention of taking advantage of the situation, if one was willing to fight and the other was willing to suffer, even if his family fortune was emptied, the King of Qin was extremely excited.
The hundreds of thousands of people who followed him overseas, plus the thousands of royal guards expanded by the Ministry of War, were enough for him to gain a foothold overseas.
The King of Qin successfully conquered the land and enfeoffed the state. The court made it clear that it was not just a matter of words. Zhu Houzhao really wanted to enfeoff the state.
As the Qin Palace was entrusted overseas and became a prince in name only, the other branches of the royal family became anxious one by one.
Although overseas is vast, no matter how large the territory is, it is limited. If the emperor suddenly gives up the idea of enfeoffment one day, or if the enfeoffment of overseas lands is completed, won't these princes who have not been able to escape from the Ming Dynasty cry to death?
Suddenly, envoys from various royal palaces gathered in the capital, and the mansions of the cabinet elders were almost destroyed by these people.
That is to say, Zhu Houzhao is in power and has great power. There is no need to worry about any disobedience among the princes in the world.
If other emperors were in power, if the princes in those places dared to send people to the capital to contact the important ministers of the court, they might be seized by the imperial censor and impeached wildly, and they would be feared by the emperor.
, and ended up being expelled.
But this time, Zhu Houzhao deliberately connived and even promoted it. Several cabinet elders even obtained the emperor's will in advance, so they did not refuse the envoys from these local princes, and screened out the candidates for the enfeoffment for the emperor.
After all, the Ming Dynasty royal family has been inherited for hundreds of years, and to this day, there are no less than dozens of princes alone, and there are hundreds of county princes. Among them, there are people who are content with the status quo, and there are also people who are quite ambitious, so Zhu Houzhao is not the same.
Everyone might be enfeoffed at once, so we can only select some of these princes first.
Overseas success stories are spreading frequently. It can be said that except for the presence of maritime powers such as Portugal, Spain, and England in Europe, the Ming fleet has no key strategy. As for other places, they have all become the focus of the Ming strategy.
Every place was conquered, and then the princes who migrated from the Ming Dynasty would be welcomed.
An area of tens of thousands of square miles or even hundreds of thousands of square kilometers was sealed as a country. Tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Ming people left the Ming Dynasty with their families and took root overseas and spread their branches.
In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the situation of land annexation had become very serious. I don't know how many people had already lost their land and became tenants and slaves of those wealthy families.
These people who lost their land were nothing more than a problem during times of peace, but once it came to times of famine, they were most likely to become part of the hidden dangers of the Ming Dynasty.
It has to be said that Zhu Houzhao's restart of the enfeoffment system was definitely a success to a certain extent.
The royal enfeoffment system established by Emperor Taizu was definitely extremely harmful to the Ming Dynasty. According to the expansion rate of the Ming Dynasty clan, even if the Ming Dynasty is not destroyed by natural disasters and man-made disasters, I am afraid it will be destroyed by the increasingly large Ming clan system.
Dragged down every life.
Even in the end, the Ming Dynasty's finances were probably not enough to support the Ming Dynasty clan. One can only imagine how serious the drawbacks of the Ming Dynasty royal vassal system were.
Zhu Houzhao restarted the enfeoffment system, which not only occupied a huge overseas land, but also solved the harm caused by the enfeoffment system of the Ming royal family and vassal kings to the Ming Dynasty, and successfully recovered a large amount of land from these princes. At the same time, a large number of common people were
Moving overseas has alleviated the population crisis to a certain extent.
In the eighteenth year of Ming Dynasty's Zhengde reign, for several years, the Ming Dynasty court was like a clockwork machine. In these years, in addition to normal affairs, Ming Dynasty's energy was focused on overseas enfeoffment.
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Dozens of princes were completely enfeoffed, and even the princes and counties were moved around. Overseas lands were divided into hundreds of vassal states by the imperial court.
In the imperial study room, Zhu Houzhao, who was dressed in regular clothes, sat there, looking at Chen Ding, who had gray temples and an old face. He only heard Chen Ding say: "Your Majesty, according to statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs, in the past few years, our Ming Dynasty has enfeoffed a total of 128 vassal states, large and small.
As many as 8.9 million acres of land, 48 million taels of gold and silver were recovered from these royal clansmen, and more than 5.3 million people were moved out. In addition, the vassal states owed the court a total of 13,000
