How about the royal family issues in the Ming Dynasty?

This is a problem that Zhu Guoqiang has been working hard to solve since he ascended the top.

Unlike the problems faced by the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, who were either worried about their rebellion or worried about how to support these people to eat, Zhu Guoqiang thought about how to maximize the role of the vassal kings.

Before returning to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Guoqiang really thought that the biggest trouble of the vassal king system was that there were too many people.

I even believed that there were as many as millions of royal families in the Ming Dynasty. But in fact, the peak of the royal family population was only about 200,000.

According to the "Records of the Emperor Shenzong of Ming Dynasty", in the 23rd year of Wanli, the total population of the royal family was 157,000, which also included women. According to the "Wuzazu", in the end of Wanli, the population of the royal family was more than 200,000. Because the jade butterfly during the Chongzhen period in history, that is, the royal family genealogy was burned out by the Qing Dynasty and other Ming Dynasty archives, so it gave the Ming and black men a "basis" to undermine the Ming Dynasty.

Those who promote millions of members of the Ming Dynasty on the Internet, and even have many descendants that have brought down the country, are completely nonsense and have ulterior motives!

According to the financial statements of the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period, royal consumption accounted for 30% of the national fiscal expenditure, officials' salaries accounted for 20%, and military expenditure accounted for 50%.

Among them, the royal expenditures include the treatment of the royal family of the vassal kings, the maintenance of the palace, the court gatherings, the rewards of ministers and the salaries of military officers in the capital, etc., which do not refer to the personal consumption of the royal family. In the Ming Dynasty, not only did the emperor travel, rewards of concubines, expenses of internal officials, but even the salaries of military officers in the capital were the emperor who paid the silver from the inner treasury. There was no way, this was customization.

The salary of the royal family of the vassal kings seems to be quite large, but in fact only about 20% of the salary paid to the royal family. It is not uncommon for the lower-level royal family to die of hunger and coldness all year round.

In the Ming Dynasty, after Yongle, with the support of the royal family, civil officials suppressed the royal family as much as possible. Civil officials were in power, and the clan mansion was replaced by the Ministry of Rites. The lower class of the Ming Dynasty's royal family lived a hard life, and even the upper class was also miserable.

According to the rules, all members of the royal family must be given instructions from asking for names to marry and then inheriting titles. Not only did they take the opportunity to set up checkpoints to threaten bribes and accumulate memorials. Many members of the royal family did not "ask for names" until they died. Without names, they naturally had no descendants. Some people had white hair and were still unmarried. If they took wives and concubines privately, their sons and grandsons would be "nameless clans" from then on, and from then on, they would be no descendants for generations.

Don't think that this is targeting the lower-class royal family. The status of the Jiajing Emperor, who was in power with the throne of the foreign vassals, is that the grandson of Emperor Xianzong Zhu Jianshen, the nephew of Emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youzang, and the cousin of Emperor Wuzong Zhu Houzhao. The King of Xingxian Zhu Youzhao only has this son.

But even if it was such a royal blood relative who had not yet made three robes, his name was stuck until he was eight or nine years old before he handed the letter to the emperor, and the emperor gave it a name. Zhu Houzhao asked why he handed it so late, and the Ministry of Rites answered dignifiedly.

"The country is in short supply, and you can give your name one day later and you can get one less Zong Lu."

The emperor had nothing to say, but he was devoted to the public!

Since the Jiajing Dynasty reduced the vassal states, a series of evil consequences have been brought. The descendants of the vassal kings asked for titles and gifts, and the Ministry of Rites had to make a decision. As the Ming Dynasty's finances became increasingly tight, the Ministry of Rites' card became more and more strict. The royal family who could not get a title had no national support, nor could they become a national citizen. They could support themselves, let alone the court was not allowed to do it, and there was no way out.

During the Chongzhen period, many royal families starved to death because they were not allowed to go out to work because they were not allowed to get the title. These systems are nonsense!

Even the Qing Dynasty could not even be able to see the life of the royal family. The Qing Dynasty's "History of Ming Dynasty" clearly recorded what their lives were: "Therefore, the princes and princes still enjoyed a lot, but the generals were mostly unable to survive. They were hungry, cold and humiliated, and they were bound to come. They often called the road, and there were officials who were guarding the territory, and they were afraid of changes."

But even so, it is common for local officials to deduct Zonglu. In the Wanli period, there were hundreds of clans in the Qin Palace, which surrounded the governor of Shaanxi and asked for Zonglu that had been owed since the Jiajing period for decades! It took several generations of emperors to delay!

In the end, the clan members who caused trouble were demoted to common people and were imprisoned in Zhongdu high walls. Faced with Emperor Wanli's questioning why he had owed so long Zonglu, how did the Ministry of Revenue answer that the people had owed food and taxes, and the government had no food to pay.

What was the food tax in the Ming Dynasty?

The people dragged the court, the court dragged the military officers and soldiers, and the royal family, but the only ones did not dragged the civil servants.

It is this group of princes who seem to be raised as pigs, but are actually suppressed and imprisoned. How do they perform when facing the decline of the world? During the Southern Ming Dynasty, many royal princes raised their troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Some were defeated and killed, some committed suicide, some went on hunger strike, and some jumped into the river to commit suicide, with hundreds of people.

Even in the end, after Zheng's family surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Shugui, the Prince of Ningjing who had been living in Taiwan with Zheng's family, faced Zheng's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Shugui resolutely committed suicide with five concubines to the country.

Throughout the dynasties, the Zhu family's royal family was the worst one. They were kept as pigs for so many years and faced the situation of the country's destruction and family destruction. They wanted to do their best but they were unable to do so. These people usually practice martial arts and love weapons. They could be impeached by civil officials as "the intention of rebellion", and then locked up in the high walls of Zhongdu. As for being a wise king, it is even more a sin. If you want to survive, you can only study a person who is a piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. What can you do in such a situation?

The only thing I can do is keep the bloody nature of the old Zhu family in its bones!

But this even left the infamous reputation in later generations.

However, their lives are not bad now. After all, Zhu Guoqiang was born in a foreign vassal state, so he used the banner of "restore the Taizu system" to correct his reputation. Of course, he should treat the royal family differently from the past.

Not only did the bans be abolished, but they were also allowed to restore the palace guards. They even issued the Zonglu in full. This is not because the Ming Dynasty is now financially relaxed and does not care about that little money. Now the court can support these royal families, but what about the future?

After several generations of emperors, if the economic development does not develop, there will always be two problems that must be faced.

One is whether the vassal kings will rebel, and the other is whether they can afford them.

If you want to fundamentally solve these two problems, in fact, the Zhu family’s royal family has so many bloody men, so why should they be raised as pigpens?

The easiest way is to "induce the disaster to the west" to enfeoff these vassal kings to India.

Let them all be released and use the royal family of the Ming Dynasty to benefit the Indian people and the people of the world.

Moreover, Zhu Guoqiang has been implementing this policy over the years.

He was granted the vassal kings as princes.

It is a good thing to turn a vassal king into a prince!

Even if it is the king of the vassal state, it is also the king of a country, the real king, unlike in the Ming Dynasty, it is just the king in the palace. At most, it is the "king and domineering" in the pool.

However, even if it is such a good thing, not everyone is willing to do it. After all, it is necessary to go overseas! Even if it is the 14th year of the saint, not all the royal families of the vassal kings are willing to go. Many of them would rather enjoy peace in the Ming Dynasty than expand their territory overseas and be the king of a country.

I have to say that everyone really loves daily life, and some people really want comfort and don’t love power!

No matter how good it is overseas, it is comparable to the Ming Dynasty.

No matter how good a king is, he still has to work hard. He is comparable to the Ming Dynasty. He holds Zonglu, listens to music, watches singing brother operas, studies piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and cultivates his sentiment.

They are willing to live such a comfortable life, but Zhu Guoqiang is not happy!

What he cared about was not the annual Zonglu expenses, but his "world empire". For the sake of the Ming world, naturally they could not let them continue to make any Prince Taiping!

But he cannot make people say that he is "harmed to the royal family". After all, we are the Holy Emperor who has obtained the throne by "restoring the ancestral system".

They have to be willing to go out to sea.

Don't you want to? Then you have to think of a solution!

To kill the chicken and show the monkey, you must tell them that you must go out. If you don’t go out, be careful that the Holy Emperor will get angry.

But who is the knife going to slash?

Who are we?
Chapter completed!