During the emperor's wedding, the vassal kings of various places prepared congratulatory gifts early.

There are also some princes of the vassal kings who were killed by Li Zicheng, and they also took the opportunity of giving gifts to frequently ask the Zongren Mansion when the imperial court would announce the succession to the prince.

It's okay to have a son, but the vassal king who was slaughtered together with the son, and several direct lines of the clan are waiting to succeed to the throne.

They look forward to the stars and the moon all day long, and they wait for a year or two, and every once in a while, they send gifts to Zhu Yujian, the sect of the Zongren Mansion, to inquire.

The management of the Ming royal family is called the Zongren Mansion, responsible for the clan roster genealogy, writing the imperial genealogy on time, and recording the descendants, names and titles, heirs, births and deaths, marriages, funeral titles and other matters of the children of the clan members.

Zongrenfu used to be called Dazong Zhengyuan, Hongwu 22 years, Lao Zhu changed to Zongrenfu, and ordered the prince to be in charge, Qin King Zhu Fan as the first Zongren order.

I don't know if King Qin was tired of this work, but later the work of the Zongren Mansion was transferred to the Ministry of Rites.

Zhu Cihong took out the right to manage the clan from the Ministry of Rites, reclassified it into the Zongren Mansion, and appointed Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, to take charge of the Zongren Order.

Zhu Yujian was released from the high wall of Fengyang by Zhu Cihong two years ago, and he has been on vacation in Fengyang, and only came to Nanjing at the beginning of the year.

Originally, Zhu Yujian was dismissed from the prince by Chongzhen and demoted to a concubine, and the title of King of Tang was sealed by his younger brother Zhu Yujian.

However, within a few years, the later Tang King was killed by Li Zicheng, and Zhu Cihong justifiably restored his title of Tang King, but did not let him go to the fief.

In the past, the criminals of the clan who were imprisoned in the high wall were not tried for a long time, but now Zhu Cihong has set a rule, according to the practice of prisoners in the world, the high wall crime sect will be recorded in five years, and the Zongren Mansion will try it in conjunction with the Criminal Department, except for those who have conspired against the real hammer, and will not be pardoned if they are not retried!

Zhu Cihong has delayed the matter of attacking the lord for so long, the meaning is very clear, don't expect to inherit the throne!

The issue of the vassal king is not simply an internal problem of the imperial family, but a political issue that has been implemented throughout the Ming Dynasty for nearly 300 years.

After Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, killed the Yuan Dynasty with a bowl, he was not worried about his generals, and he was afraid that future generations would not have enough to eat, so he used the power of the vassal king to defend the central government, which is what Lao Zhu said, "the imperial family of the feudal screen".

His own children and grandchildren, no matter how much he tosses, is it not the world of the old Zhu family? In line with this kind of thinking, Lao Zhu divided his sons and called them generous, not only with good treatment, but also with great military power.

Especially in military power, several vassal kings in the northern border towns, such as King Yan, King Ning, King Gu, King Liao and other princes, are in control of the elite army of the Ming Dynasty, each of them looks at the world.

When Lao Zhu was growing up, it was not that he had not read history books, and he knew about the Eight Kings Rebellion in the Western Jin Dynasty, and he also predicted this potential threat and managed it by formulating various strict vassal systems.

Lao Zhu also became a great educator and compiled a lot of educational materials, such as "Yongjianlu" and "Imperial Ji Feilu", which were used to record the evil lessons of the vassal kings of the past dynasties, and sent them to the vassal kings in various places to study, warning them to be loyal to the country and avoid mistakes.

For example, if a vassal king does not pay attention to his clothes, the palace is out of line, and the pomp and circumstance when he goes out to hang out, he may be recorded in a small book, and even be labeled as "violated" and dealt with as a rebellion.

Lao Zhu has been busy all his life, and he has come up with all kinds of systems that he thinks are perfect.

But he forgot that the one who has soldiers in his hands is the uncle, he can control the field, but the people behind him can't.

In addition, the system set by Lao Zhu is not perfect, for example, one of the provisions stipulates that if the court is a traitor to gain power, the vassal king has the right to raise troops to defend the royal family and eliminate the traitorous ministers.

As a result, after his death, Emperor Jianwen couldn't grasp the situation, and began to cut the domain, such as the king of Zhou, the king of Dai, and the king of Qi, who were either stripped of their king's name or imprisoned.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, took advantage of this loophole, saying that there were traitorous ministers in the court, and the widow was difficult to clear the side of the monarch in Fengtianjing, and raised troops to clear Emperor Jianwen.

As the emperor of the vassal king, Zhu Di empathized with the harm of the vassal king's army.

When he entered the city of Nanjing and just ascended the throne, in order to win the hearts of the people, Zhu Di vigorously appeased those unlucky princes, rehabilitated, restored the title, improved economic treatment, and rewarded them during the New Year's holidays.

After the spring breeze blows, the next thing is lightning and thunder.

After Zhu Di sat on the throne, he immediately inherited the legacy of Emperor Jianwen and began to cut the domain.

The eyes of the vassal kings are densely covered with brocade guards, eating, drinking, and Lazar are all monitored, and Zhu Quan, the first unlucky king of Ning, was coerced by Zhu Di to rebel, and said that after the good thing is done, the world will be divided equally, and the economically rich territory will be picked by my brothers, and the result will be given to Nanchang, Jiangxi? And took Lao Tzu's military power?

Because of this, King Ning often complained, and soon after, a brocade guard knocked on the door and searched, which scared King Ning a lot, and since then he has been obsessed with drums, pianos, poems and books, never mentioning political affairs, and finally escaped.

King Ning's experience is not bad, the unlucky king has just recovered the title, and before it is hot, he was cured of thirty-two major sins by Zhu Di, and he barely kept the title in the spirit of kissing, but the military power was basically cut off and became a tiger without claws.

King Qi is not as cowardly as other brothers, he is very arrogant! After restoring the title, he did not change his malice, and even killed the magistrate, and the result was also tragic, he was imprisoned in Nanjing, and his descendants were deposed as commoners.

Similar to the unlucky ones are King Min and King Su, both of whom were exposed to their faults, and then dealt with seriously, and the king's title was cut off.

Some other princes who were lucky enough to meet each other went to Beijing to cry and beg for forgiveness, but they were stripped of their guard rights and lived honestly in their fiefdoms.

After Zhu Di's reduction of the feudal domain, the first generation of powerful feudal kings were all cut to heavy losses, and most of the feudal kings who guarded the nine borders were moved into the interior.

For example, the princes of Liaodong, Xuanfu and other border areas are almost all spared, even if they retain their titles, they must cut off their military power and guard, and move places to enter.

Even so, Zhu Di was still not at ease, and he tried his best to reduce the strength of the surviving vassal kings, and the armament of the vassal kings in various places was cut by all means, and a prince could have tens of thousands of protectors, but it was reduced to a few hundred.

The phenomenon of vassal kings interfering in military affairs and even local government affairs was expressly forbidden, and as long as they were discovered, they were arrested and tried.

After Ming Chengzu cut the domain, the effect was very good, but this was only the beginning, the Ming Dynasty nearly three hundred years, a total of three times to cut the domain, and once in the Jiajing Dynasty.

Jiajing was originally a vassal king, and his cousin Emperor Zhengde had no heirs, so he was lucky to be on top.

Jiajing directly promulgated the "Zong Fan Regulations", and the ban on the vassal king became more and more stringent, directly stipulating that the vassal king could not make friends with the government, let alone engage in industries such as agriculture and industry, and even outings out of the city had to be monitored.

Even marrying more wives and concubines, and having more children are strictly restricted.

Since the Jiajing Dynasty, those high-ranking vassal kings have really become a group of high-ranking prisoners with fine clothes and food.

They are destined from birth, as long as they don't talk nonsense, life is still beautiful.