After the vassal king became a vassal domain, he could only stay in the palace for the rest of his life, and if he and his descendants wanted to go out of the palace for a walk, they had to write a note to ask the emperor for approval, and they could not go out of the palace without permission to conspire against him!

By this time, the charge of rebellion against King Fu was already an ironclad fact. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Under the leadership of Du Sibing, the Jinyi guard went straight to the Ying'en Temple outside the city, but there was nothing there except a bunch of monks, and the relevant people were detained and interrogated on the spot, and order was quickly restored.

The subordinate officials of the palace were also killed by the dead soldiers of King Fu, and it is a good thing that those petty officials died, otherwise the charge of lax supervision will definitely not be able to escape, and imprisonment and exile are indispensable things that affect wives and daughters, and the court will give a pension for this death.

Chang Wei sent 800 miles to rush to the capital overnight to report the news to the emperor, what is the aftermath of King Fu, how to pursue it, how to bury it, etc., have their own Zongren Mansion and Ministry of Rites to handle, so he doesn't have to worry about it.

After a rough cleanup, the property of the palace exceeded seven million taels of silver, which was almost as high as the financial revenue of the imperial court for more than half a year. And Zhu Changxun's wives and concubines are even more terrifying, there are a total of thirty-two famous wives and concubines in the palace, not counting the eldest son Zhu Yousong who ran away, and there are sixty-five children, and the eldest twenty and younger ones are still in infancy.

There are hundreds of authentic owners of a royal mansion, and these people have to be supported by the imperial court finances, which is simply a big moth.

However, these things are not Chang Wei's turn to worry about, he wants to move all the things in the palace back to Jingshi, but when he was thinking, the entire Luoyang City firecrackers rang out, gongs and drums shook the sky, and it was lively like the New Year.

"What kind of customs is Henan? It's still so lively after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. ”

As soon as Chang Wei finished muttering, Lian Zhen rushed in from outside and said, "My lord, Luoyang officials, gentlemen, fathers and villagers, gathered outside the palace to ask for a meeting. ”

Chang Wei stood up suddenly, "What do they want to do? King Fu is plotting against the ironclad evidence, do they want to overturn the case and fail to do so?"

"My lord, you misunderstood, people are here to thank us. Lian Zhen interrupted him with tears and laughter, "King Fu has been in the domain for seventeen years, and the scourge of Luoyang City and Henan Province is miserable, and now that King Fu is dead, the whole Luoyang City is full of joy, and I am afraid that in two days the whole of Henan will have to run to tell each other." ”

Chang Wei flew up and scolded with a smile: "You guy, next time you speak in one breath, I will be blind and nervous." ”

After changing into a python dragon robe, he followed Lian Zhen to the south gate of the palace, and the officials headed by the three divisions saluted separately, and the gentry and the people knelt down in a large area, and praised Chang Wei as "the master of the blue sky", Jin Yiwei was dumbfounded, and said that he had handled the case for so many years, and he was afraid of himself, and he had never seen the people praise Jin Yiwei.

Chang Wei hurriedly called everyone up and said some official words of "King Fu rebelled and was ordered to do an errand".

When everyone dispersed, the officials of the Third Division and the gentry and township elders held a banquet to entertain Chang Wei and a group of senior officers, and the people also gave wine and meat to reward more than 1,000 brocade clothes and guards.

At the banquet, Chang Wei asked why the people were so excited, and how King Fu harmed the place, and the political envoys and scholars of Henan Province told the reason in one go, and Chang Wei checked the information of the political secretary to know that the Ming clan was the biggest cancer in the country!

For more than 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there has always been an unavoidable problem - the vassal king!

After Zhu Yuanzhang opened the country, he divided the foreign feudal domains and used the vassal king to defend the imperial court. During the Hongwu period, the feudal kings were not only well treated, but also had great military power. In particular, the king of Ning, the king of Yan, the king of Gu, the king of Liao, etc., in the north, have the most elite armed forces of the Ming Dynasty, and each of them looks at the world.

Zhu Yuanzhang had a prejudgment of the danger of this system, so he was very strict in the management of the vassal king: there were so many rules that things such as wearing wrong clothes, building a house out of line, and going out to perform a ceremony might be charged with "violating the system" and dealt with as rebellion.

But as soon as Lao Zhu left on the front foot, Zhu Yunwen, the grandson of Zhu Yunwen, who wanted to cut the feudal domain on the back foot, was ousted by Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and was ousted by the 'Qingjun side Jingjing'. As the victor of the rebellion of the vassal king, Zhu Di, the emperor of Yongle, immediately carried out his nephew's uncontested career - cutting the feudal domain after sitting on the throne.

Among Zhu Di's brothers, except for the King of Qin, who died early, a few people such as the King of Shu and the King of Zhou, who are known as virtuous people, most of them have bad deeds. It's easy to find Mingmu, the first unlucky is Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, in the early years, King Ning sat in the northern Xinjiang, holding heavy troops, but was seized by Zhu Di and kidnapped to rebel.

Zhu Di once said that he wanted to share the world with King Ning, but instead of mentioning this matter, he seized King Ning's military power and sealed it in Jiangxi. King Ning saw that the big thing was not good, so he simply attached himself to the landscape, devoted himself to learning, and finally became a university scholar; another Zhou king, Zhu Hu, also became a university scholar after being beaten several times. These two are interesting.

Some other restless prisoners who killed prisoners, with the eloquence of Emperor Yongle, finally managed to get the brothers of the vassal king. The power of the imperial court was guaranteed, but in this way, the defense of Liaodong, Xuanfu and other border areas was greatly weakened, and they could only rely on local tribes to defend them.

Zhu Di also stipulated that the vassal kings could not make friends with the government, were not allowed to engage in various industries of agriculture and commerce, and even went out of the palace to play.

After the Yongle Dynasty severely cut down the feudal domains, the political future of the feudal kings was ruined, and they could only pursue the enjoyment of life. The biggest trouble with the division of the Ming Dynasty is the continuous division of the past dynasties, as long as it is a child of the royal family, it is necessary to divide the title, and it is necessary to use the court finance to support it.

The other sons of the Ming Emperor were crowned princes, and the princes were lords, and the other sons were all county kings. The eldest son of the king of the county is the lord, his son is the general of Zhenguo, his son is the general of the auxiliary state, his son is the general of Fengguo, and his son is the lieutenant of Zhenguo.

The expenses of these people were an incomparably headache for the imperial court: the prince had an annual salary of 10,000 stones, the prince of the county had 2,000 stones, the general of the town state had 1,000 stones, and the general of the auxiliary state had 800 stones; and the other titles of various titles decreased in turn, and the accumulation became an astronomical amount; in addition, there were various rewards that were not fixed every year, and in many cases were more than the annual salary.

In this way, the feudal kings were still full of complaints, because they were originally emperors and nobles, but they had no political future, and their food, clothing, words and deeds were restricted, and their only freedom was to play with women and have children!

The vassal kings seized this only opportunity to give birth, and when they were born, they were given generous treatment, and the clan relatives had a young man from the age of ten, and the fool did not have many children, and after the generations were reproduced, the clan became a disaster.

In the fifth year of Hongzhi, the governor of Shanxi reported that Zhu Zhongyi, the king of Qingcheng in Shanxi, had a total of 94 children, 70 eldest sons and 163 grandsons, and 510 great-grandchildren. Only one direct descendant of King Qingcheng reached seven or eight hundred people one hundred and thirty years ago, plus many wives and concubines, in the entire Qingcheng Palace, there are more than 1,000 "genuine masters".

There are more than 100 sons of Qingcheng Wang Guang in later generations, so that every time a family dinner is celebrated, the siblings and brothers must be introduced first, otherwise they don't know each other. As the saying goes, "every meeting, Ziyuying sits, until you can't get acquainted". In the early years of Zhengde, the Qingcheng palace finally couldn't figure out the population of his family, and anxiously asked the emperor to ask the Zongren Mansion to help check the number of people...... It's a ridiculous joke!

In the face of this unimaginable reproductive speed, the vassal kings grew from more than a dozen families of 100 people in the early Ming Dynasty to 300,000 in the early Jiajing period, 600,000 in the Wanli period, and even more million in the Apocalypse period.

During the Jiajing period, Lin Run, the imperial history of the imperial history, played the music: the grain supplied by the world to the capital was 4 million stone per year, but the grain consumed by the royal palaces reached 8 million stone per year; Shanxi, an important military town, stored 1.9 million stone of grain every year, and the local royal palace consumed more than 3 million stones; Henan stored 940,000 stones, and the vassal kings consumed more than 1.9 million stones. That is to say, the tax and grain of the whole country combined cannot fill the stomach of the vassal king.

In addition to these fixed financial subsidies, the feudal kings in various places also made money. The most common routine is "Qin Ci", that is, to ask the imperial court for land. The most powerful thing is that Chang Wei cleaned up this blessed king, and Zhu Changxun begged for 40,000 hectares of fertile land when he was in the domain, but only half of the 20,000 hectares were given because the courtiers were too opposed.

But after the Henan gentlemen complained, Chang Wei learned that later Emperor Wanli still gave the blessed king Zhu Changxun enough 40,000 hectares of fertile land through rewards and other means.

The evil consequences of this are self-evident: if the vassal king is fattened, the court finances will be ruined, and as much land as he is given, the court will lose as much income as possible, plus the huge annual reward of the vassal king, even in the peaceful years, the court will be overstretched. As soon as he caught up with the famine and fought the war, he was even more anxious to turn around the household and the emperor.

Even so, the feudal kings still had to encroach on the land. Commonly used routines: First, fraud, colluding with the government to identify the good land as wasteland, asking for the court's gift, and then forcibly occupying it. The second is to make contributions, and many small people who cannot afford to pay taxes voluntarily put their fields in the name of the vassal king in order to evade taxes.

As a result, the land annexation of the Ming Dynasty intensified. Henan is the hardest hit area of land annexation, known as "Zhongzhou land is half into the feudal government", half of the fertile land is occupied by the feudal king, can the people have a good life?

In view of the severity of the situation, the monarchs and ministers of the past dynasties and people of insight also tried their best, the most famous of which was the "Regulations of the Sect and Domain" during the Jiajing period.

In the seventh year of Jiajing's reign, the imperial court received 13 million taels of revenue, but its expenditure was as high as 24 million taels, and the first item of expenditure was the expenses of the clan; the second place was called military expenditure, which was actually to support the town generals and auxiliary generals below the vassal king, and in short, eighty percent of the imperial court's income was to support these people.

Jiajing Junchen found that with the limited tax grain of the people, it was impossible to feed the vassal king who multiplied indefinitely. Therefore, after two years of discussion, the famous "Sectarian Regulations" were promulgated.

There are 67 articles in total, and there are two core ones: first, the number of wives and concubines of the vassal kings is strictly limited, and the number of wives married must be examined by the Ministry of Rites, and the knighthood of their children must be examined; second, the expenses of the vassal kings should be accounted for, and the large useless expenses should be reduced, and the annual income should be reduced.

Because of this regulation, it laid the foundation for the "Longwan Zhongxing" after Jiajing, but this famous regulation is difficult to cure the root cause. Not only is there no limit on the amount of land granted by the imperial court to the vassal king, but the key "fixed children" has not been implemented, and the role of the vassal king's parasite has not changed at all.

For many feudal princes and brothers, the "Regulations of the Clan" also brought a bad result: the descendants of the feudal princes asked for a knighthood and a conferral, and the Ministry of Rites had to make a decision. The vassal kings who did not get the title had no state support, let alone a job to support themselves, so they had no way to live. Even many vassal kings starved to death because they were not allowed to get a name and were not allowed to go out to work.

After understanding the huge problem of the vassal king, Chang Wei wrote a book: only one person will rule the world, not one person in the world...... Therefore, from the king of the county above, you still have to enjoy it, below the general, many can not survive on their own, hunger, cold and humiliation, it is inevitable, often call the road, gather criticism, and defend the land, every fear of change, if you do not get rid of the accumulated evils, it will be a great disaster for the country!

After writing the letter, Chang Wei sighed with his letter: "The vassal king, a parasite who eats the poor world, it's time to make a change!" )