Chapter 399 Zhu Di: The Ming Dynasty can no longer afford to support the clan
Ming Dynasty: Living in Beiping County as Magistrate Chapter 399 Zhu Di: Ming Dynasty can no longer afford to support the clan. Zhu Di said to Erhu on the side: "Please ask Commander Zhao to get a basin of rice!"
However, Erhu did not move at all, but looked at Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang had a dark face and nodded slightly.
He wanted to see what tricks Zhu Di, a scoundrel, could play on him?
Just one Japanese country could dig out tens of millions of taels of silver for the Ming Dynasty every year. How come it couldn't afford to support those feudal kings?
Erhu turned around and walked out.
Soon.
Then he walked in with a basin of rice.
Seeing this, Zhu Di looked happy and quickly took the rice.
Then, place it on an empty table aside.
"Dad, in the 28th year of Hongwu's reign, you updated your salary. The prince's salary will be 10,000 shi, the prince's salary will be 2,000 shi, the general of the country will be 1,000 shi, the general of the auxiliary country, the general of the country, and the lieutenant of the country will be reduced by 200 shi.
Lieutenant of Fuguo and Lieutenant of Fengguo are reduced by one hundred stones.
The princess and her consort are worth 2,000 shi, the prince and his ceremonial guests are worth 800 shi, the county lord, the county lord and his ceremonial guests are worth 200 shi in descending order, and the county lord, township lord and their honorable guests are worth 100 shi in descending order.
It will be an eternal system from now on."
On the side, Zhu Yuanzhang still had a dark face and said nothing.
They are all his children. He handed over the Ming Dynasty to the emperor's lineage. Can't the rest of the vassal princes enjoy some glory and wealth?
Zhu Di also understood his father's thoughts and directly picked up the forty-two grains of rice: "Dad, we have twenty-six brothers and sixteen sisters. This is their salary."
Zhu Yuanzhang still looked at Zhu Di with a sullen face.
Zhu Di added: "Dad, I have three sons and four daughters. The eldest brother has four sons and two daughters, the second brother Qin Wang has six sons and two daughters, the third brother Jin Wang has seven sons and three daughters..."
As he said that, Zhu Di couldn't help but be stunned and calculated carefully.
"Dad, I only have forty-two brothers and sisters in my generation, but the third generation of our old Zhu family has at least six times more, that is... two hundred and fifty-two princes, princes, princesses, and consorts...
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"And these royal family members are not allowed to engage in agriculture, industry, and commerce, and their family income can only come from the salary given by the court.
The more children they have, the more salary they receive.
Therefore, when they receive more salary and have nothing to do every day, they will have more children.
Now, the third generation of our old Zhu family may only have 252 princes, princes, princesses, and princesses...
But according to the rate at which they have babies, the fourth generation of our old Zhu family may have 2,500 babies...
By the fifth generation, there are more than 20,000,000, or even 40,000 or 50,000...
The sixth generation is three to four hundred thousand..."
As he said this, Zhu Di no longer counted the grains one by one, but relied on his feeling to grab them one by one.
However, only this, there are already four more millet mountains with huge differences on the table.
"Dad, what I'm also worried about is that the descendants of our old Zhu family are not living one generation after another, but three generations are receiving their salaries together...
So many people need court salary to support them, even if they open up the Maritime Silk Road and find three or four silver mountains as big as Japan in foreign countries overseas.
We can only support them for a hundred years. After a hundred years, we will definitely not be able to support them!"
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Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the piles of rice grains on the table, and his heart was shocked. He was stunned for a long time, and then subconsciously murmured to himself, "Can a country as big as ours really not be able to support future generations?"
Zhu Di nodded repeatedly at the side, "Dad, if each of them only has three or four children, our Ming Dynasty can still support them.
However, according to their idea of having more children and more happiness, if a family has more than a dozen children, then within five or six generations, the descendants of our old Zhu family will already be hundreds of thousands..."
However, Zhu Di has forgotten that the father in front of him is the most likely to have children in Ming Dynasty Zhu's family!
"You evil son, our old Zhu family is a powerful one and can afford to raise so many sons, why can't we have more children?
Isn’t it good to have more descendants?”
Zhu Yuanzhang glared at Zhu Di with an angry face.
Zhu Di was stunned for a moment, then suddenly smiled apologetically.
"Dad said that's true. If there weren't those brothers guarding the frontiers, I wouldn't be worried!"
"Humph!"
Zhu Yuanzhang snorted angrily and began to think deeply.
Although he is old, he is not confused.
At the beginning, he set higher salaries for his sons and daughters.
Later, considering the large number of princes and grandsons and the heavy financial burden on the court, in the 28th year of Hongwu, an order was issued to reduce his salary.
However, he did not calculate as carefully as Zhu Di at that time. After several generations, how many more princes and grandsons will there be in the old Zhu family?
The sixth generation is three to four hundred million...
The more he thought about it, the more worried Zhu Yuanzhang became.
He thinks more clearly than Zhu Di. When he was a child, he also saw how many children the landlords and gentry families could have.
I'm afraid that after six generations, the clan members of his old Zhu family will have more than 500,000 members!
That will be.
Even if those clan members are a group of county kings, the generals who control the country Qian Shi, the generals who assist the country, and the generals who serve the country...
However, with so many clan members added up, half of the Ming Dynasty’s tax revenue might not be enough.
Is it possible that he should issue a decree to restrain the various vassal princes' palaces so that they all have fewer children?
Zhu Yuanzhang's brows couldn't help but frown.
On the side, Zhu Gaochi was also shocked, and when he looked at his father, he was even more respectful.
He suddenly felt that he was the stupidest person.
In the past, he actually thought that his father could only fight and kill all day long, and study how to conquer Beiyuan? He could not handle government affairs! If the Yan Palace did not have his mother to help manage the affairs of the palace, and no teachers to make money, the Yan Palace would probably be in chaos.
Make a group!
Unexpectedly, his father actually hides his secrets!