Chapter 697: An Immutable Edict
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"Huanyu Investment ......" Grandmaster and Fang Zhengying glanced at each other, and both found the helplessness hidden in each other's eyes.
Dahua is a country with a history of more than 400 years, although this constitutional monarchy is the most populous, the largest land area, the most powerful country on the planet, and the most sound legal system, but there are still some dark sides in this country.
There is no way to do this, as long as human society develops, such a situation will inevitably occur, just as there will inevitably be darkness behind the light.
After more than 400 years of development, Dahua also has such and such dark sides.
For example, the royal family of Dahua.
When it comes to the royal family, the first impression in the hearts of ordinary people is that they are high, they have endless money in their hands, they have endless power, and they are the handful of people standing at the top of the pyramid.
But in reality, this perception is wrong.
The Grandmaster suspected that Dahua's Great Grandfather was a traverser, and in addition to the reasons that came to mind before, there was a more important reason, that is, Dahua's Great Grandfather's way of dealing with the royal family.
That's right, theoretically, all the royal families now, including the previous royal families, are the descendants of the great grandfather, and the blood of the great grandfather is flowing in the bodies of these royal families.
However, as the founding leader, Grandpa Tai's treatment of the children of the imperial family is different from that of the emperors of the previous dynasties in China for 5,000 years.
In the history of China, before the birth of Dahua, there were 23 centralized unified regimes, which is no different from the previous life, but in this world, because of the rise of Dahua's grandfather, Dahua replaced the Qing Dynasty in the previous life and became a huge empire that has continued to this day.
Also like in previous lives, in those dynasties before Dahua, the people of the royal family were treated specially. Although there is also a saying among the people that "the prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people", in fact, the people of the royal family in the past dynasties, the law did not restrict them much, and it was another institution beyond the law that managed these royal family figures, and this institution was usually named "Zongrenfu".
Counting the royal families of the previous dynasties, they are actually the biggest cancer in each dynasty. These royal figures have the same blood as the emperor in their bodies, and they can enjoy all kinds of privileges, they don't have to pay taxes, they don't have to do military service, they don't have to obey all kinds of laws and regulations, they don't have to ......
Anyway, as long as it is not beneficial to the members of the royal family, they can use their special status to evade or directly ignore it.
This is a group of people who have been called special in all dynasties.
If the number of such special people is smaller, then it will not have any impact on the dynasty, after all, it is not a problem for a huge empire to feed hundreds or even thousands of such special people.
But the key is that the imperial dynasties of the Chinese dynasties, in addition to those with a history of less than 100 years, as long as they are dynasties with a history of more than 100 years or even 200 years, the number of these special people will eventually form an incredibly large number at the end of the dynasty because of the accumulation of the dynasty's long time.
Again, there is no way around it. The ancient emperors of China paid attention to one of the seventy-two concubines of three palaces and six courts, this number may be a bit exaggerated, but it is very normal for each generation of emperors to have more than ten concubines. As a result, almost every emperor would have many children.
For example, if the founding emperor of a dynasty had five sons, and then each of those five sons would have five sons, then the founding emperor had only five sons, but he had 125 grandchildren. If each of these 125 grandchildren had five more sons, the Founding Emperor would have as many as 625 great-grandchildren......
According to the calculation of the ancient twenty-year generation, a hundred years of dynasty can give birth to at least five generations, according to the above ratio, when the fifth generation is born, the founding emperor will have 3,125 gray grandchildren, if this dynasty continues for another hundred years, according to this ratio, then by the time the two hundred years of the dynasty collapses, theoretically the founding emperor alone will have nearly two million gray grandsons......
This is just the male members of the royal family, and what about the female members?
Therefore, among the dynasties of ancient China, as long as the imperial dynasty lasted long enough, then the final special group of people with royal blood would be a terrifying number.
Dahua has lasted for more than 400 years, and if Dahua is about to fall now, then Dahua's people with royal blood are also a shocking number. After all, the implementation of monogamy in Dahua began with the implementation of a constitutional monarchy in Dahua, and this time has only passed less than a hundred years.
In other words, the emperor of Dahua has a history of seventy-two concubines in three palaces and six courts, more than three hundred years.
According to normal experience, how many royal families will appear after more than 300 years of accumulation?
That's definitely an unimaginable number.
In those dynasties before Dahua, the people of the imperial family were supported by the imperial court, and although these people had the blood of the royal family in their bodies, they were out-and-out moths. They are not engaged in production, they will only lie at home and suck blood, from the common people, from the court.
Again, if there are fewer such people, then the court will also be able to afford it. But once the number of such people is too large, then for a dynasty, it will be fatal.
In fact, the collapse of many dynasties in Chinese history is also directly related to the existence of a large number of such people.
The Qing Dynasty in the previous life, which finally became like that, also had a direct relationship with the hundreds of thousands of royal families in Sijiu City.
Dahua's grandfather was very far-sighted, and at the beginning of the establishment of Dahua, he issued an edict that will never change, that is, "The relatives within the emperor's five suits can be supported by the state, but the relatives outside the five suits, except for the emperor's elders, the state will not support them!"
That is to say, the relatives within the emperor's five suits are supported by the state, but out of the five suits, I'm sorry, you need to support yourself. Of course, those high-ranking royal figures are still supported by the emperor, but how many of those people can there be?
This edict seems to be cruel, but in fact, it is the existence of this edict that allows Dahua's royal family to continue, and Dahua has not weakened.
If there was no such edict, then the Dahua Dynasty, which had developed for 400 years, would not know how many children of the royal family would lie on Dahua and suck blood. These people alone are enough to suck the huge and powerful Dahua into a skeleton shelf in the end......
It is this edict of the grandfather of Dahua that each generation of emperors needs to support the children of the imperial family, that is, there are only thousands of people. The other children of the royal family need to be self-reliant and support themselves......
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