Chapter 168 The beginning shocked Lao Zhu for 800 years (18)

Author: Fast Traveling Maniac

Less than half a month later, Qu Jie met Lao Zhu again, the kind of meeting that a family of three came to visit together.

I am tired of seeing the two father and son of the Zhu family.

Qu Jie had no interest.

Only Queen Ma made Qu Jie pay attention to her, but only for a moment. After all, although she had a reputation as a virtuous person, her contribution was actually relatively limited. Her so-called virtuous reputation was just because it conformed to the rules of daily life that ancient literati had.

The queen who goes beyond just asks for what she gets.

As long as she participates in political affairs.

I'm afraid she is the Demon Queen.

After the meeting, Zhu Yuanzhang still didn't say a word. Zhu Biao asked questions on his behalf and asked for solutions.

The first question asked was about the clan and vassal kings.

“There is no one-and-done solution in this world.

I have never seen an emperor as mean as your father. No matter how much the Song Dynasty was defeated by its military, there was at least one thing they did very well, that is, they constantly suppressed and restricted the clan, local powerful people, and nobles.

There are no officials as mean as your father.

Treat the clan well.

And don’t think that Lao Zhu treated the clan favorably, and the clan’s life was really good. To describe the clan’s life in the middle and late Ming Dynasty in one sentence, it would be death from drought, death from flood, except for the direct descendants of the vassal king.

In addition to those clans that had a closer relationship with the emperor and lived a good life, there were also some clans that had difficulty even eating and drinking.

Does he think only officials can commit corruption?

Who among the clan lords and vassals with real power has not withheld the clan Lumi Lu silver distributed by the imperial court?

Especially the main line responsible for distributing Lumilu Silver.

If it doesn't work, there's nothing you can do about the lower branches.

The most important thing is that the lower-level clans are still restricted from engaging in various industries. They are not allowed to make money to support their families by their own labor. However, those lords do all kinds of evil, buying and selling materials, and even intervening in the food trade to earn the difference.

All very ordinary.

It can be said that most of the clans in the Ming Dynasty were either doing evil, or on the road to doing evil, or were incapable of doing evil, and were in poverty. The Ming Dynasty eventually perished and the people were so miserable. The clan had to bear at least half of the responsibility.

This is the result of your father’s kindness to the clan.”

"As for how to solve it.

Either learn from the Song Dynasty, or learn from the Jin Dynasty who destroyed you later. I don’t need to teach you how the Song Dynasty did it. You can read the history books by yourself.

Hundreds of years later, Hou Jin was concerned about the clan.

It's been handled just fine.

Because they made some modifications after fully absorbing the lessons from your family. It can be said that your family is a set of wrong questions, and they will correct them accordingly.

First of all, it is definitely necessary to reduce the vassal status, but now I also know that the clan policy after the vassal reduction must be greatly changed. For example, since the clan has Lumilu Silver, why does it still have a large amount of land, or even own

The taxation rights of the fiefdom must be recovered.

You can give a mansion, money, and rice, but the land property must be limited, such as within 10,000 acres.

If the punishment exceeds the severe penalty, the rank will be reduced.

Secondly, the clan must have laws to follow. Either clan members who break the law will be punished according to the Ming Law as a deterrent, or a set of clan laws can be specially formulated.

The main method of punishment is to reduce or eliminate nobles.

It can both deter and reduce the burden on the country.

Without legal restrictions, the vast majority of people will not become saints, they will only be lawless, do evil, ride on the heads of the people, and dominate.

The second issue is the number of clans.

In the Ze of Gentlemen, after the fifth generation, the clan can exist, but the number of titles must be limited. Only blood relatives within the fifth generation can be demoted to the title. Blood relatives beyond the fifth generation of the emperor can have their names recorded in the clan genealogy, but they do not enjoy any

Special treatment, or partial funding, will no longer be supported by the state from now on.

But there should be no other restrictions. You can choose your own career normally, even becoming an official in the imperial examination.

In addition, there is the quality issue of the clan.

The clan must participate in the assessment mechanism. The prince of a feudal prince or the prince of a county must pass a special assessment. If he fails the assessment, he will not be allowed to inherit the title.

If you don't care about anything, raising a group of pigs and raising a group of pigs that do all kinds of evil will only do harm to the country.

Don't ask for greatness in literature or martial arts.

But at least you have to be a human being, not an animal."

The problem of clans is actually easy to solve. It is nothing more than limiting the number of clans and restraining their bad behavior. There should not be too many methods to learn from the previous dynasties.

The main reason why Zhu Yuanzhang came up with the set of policies that caused endless harm to the clan was that he was too greedy. He wanted his descendants to live a good life, but he also didn't want them to threaten the imperial power. The key was to raise pigs and not raise them properly, so he gave them to them.

Various privileges that can harm the people in the fiefdom.

Want everything.

But how can it be possible to get everything?

If Qu Jie were to do it on her own, she would definitely do something more ruthless than what she suggested, but now it was actually Zhu Yuanzhang who wanted advice, so Qu Jie could only restrain herself and put forward a few small restrictions and changes.

At least it would allow the Ming Dynasty clan to cause less harm to the people.

It will also cause less harm to some countries and reduce the burden.

"If you want to cut down your feudal clan, why do you have to cut down your feudal clan?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was obviously in a bad mood, especially the words about cutting off the feudal clan, which made him particularly sensitive, because in his view, cutting down the feudal clan meant brothers killing each other, uncles and nephews killing each other.

"If you're not literate, why don't you just study more?

How are those vassal kings who hold large armies to guard the frontiers different from the Tang Dynasty's Jiedu Shi, and how are they different from those who support their own troops in the late Han Dynasty? It's okay that they are your sons while you are alive. There should be few

I dare to learn from Li Shimin, but what will happen after you die?

The relationship between uncle and nephew can be as close as the relationship between father and son.

Can you not be so naive? In the struggle for imperial power, brothers, friends and brothers do not exist. Life and death is the truth. Otherwise, you will be just like Zhu Qiyu.

A kind-hearted emperor will not live long!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was very irritated about the reduction of vassals, and Qu Jie was very annoyed with him. This old guy is stubborn and troublesome. Don't have too many messy problems. If you don't want the country to be better, the people will suffer less.

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Qu Jie really didn't want to waste these words.

Don't worry about these things.

It is easy and simple to directly control Lao Zhu with mental power and let him make himself a national advisor. There is no need to bother so much to help him find and solve the problems in his governance.

The most important thing is that this old guy still doesn’t appreciate it!

So many previous dynasties have been cutting down vassals, either in the process of cutting down vassals or on the way to do so. Isn’t this enough to prove that the vassal king has caused endless harm? He insists on reversing the course of history, claiming that he is inheriting the former Song Dynasty.

The policies we actually learned are all the dregs of Yuan Meng.

Whether it is for burial, or for the name of thousands of households.

It’s not all something started by Qian Yuan.
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