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How many clans does Daming have?

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were 130,000 clans. Of course, these clans cannot all be princes. As for these clan treatments, there is also a serious polarization. Above the county king, he lives a life that is rich and rivals the country. Below the county king, compared with the common people, they are just barely living.

In fact, the history of the Ming Dynasty is nearly 300 years, and there are a total of eighty-three princes with titles. Among them, there are 63 princes and 20 princes. By the time Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, there were still twenty-nine princes with fiefdoms. Coupled with the two princes of Chongzhen, there are a total of thirty-one people with the title of prince.

In the process of the Liukou uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the clans that were divided into various places were the first to be slaughtered. Zhang Xianzhong trapped Wuchang Mansion, and more than 2,000 people of Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, were killed. After fleeing to Sichuan, he slaughtered the entire clan of Zhu Changhao, the king of Shu. Compared with it, Li Zicheng is not inferior. In Henan, the entire family of King Fu of Luoyang was slaughtered by him, and so was the King of Zhou in Kaifeng, and only a few members of the lineage escaped. In Shanxi, more than 4,000 people of the two major vassal kings of Dai Wang and Jin Wang were also killed, and only a few survivors remained.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Kou, among those clans who surrendered, those with remote bloodlines may still be able to save a life, and those whose bloodlines were close to the royal family were basically killed by the Qing army.

Now, how many clans are there in the Ming Dynasty?

However, there are only 36 people, including those who have been sheltered by Zheng Chenggong, and those who have been displaced with the Yongli Dynasty, as well as the scattered folk clans found by Zhang Huangyan and Li Ziyuan, and even if there are still some survivors who live incognito in some corners, so that local governments always keep finding "scattered" Ming Dynasty clans.

But now, there are only thirty-six people who really attack the knighthood. On the issue of dealing with scattered folk clans, Zhu Mingzhong did not take into account the friendship of relatives, unless it was a close branch of each domain, other people with remote bloodlines often issued a hundred taels of silver and hundreds of acres of official land for them to live, except for their names, they were no different from ordinary people.

Even when it comes to his nominal "younger brother", Zhu Mingzhong seems a little hesitant, after all, according to his thoughts, except for fleeing from the clan with the Ming army and having a knight, he has no interest in the life or death of other clans at all.

But, no, at least nominally, he is the son of Zhu Youzhen. Inheriting the royal name, it is natural to inherit the responsibilities of the royal family.

It is naturally his responsibility to raise his clan relatives, a hundred taels of silver and a hundred acres of land, in fact, it is to allow those remote clans to be able to support themselves. But what about the other thirty-six knights?

What do they do?

Naturally, the imperial court issued silver and rice according to the prince and the prince of the county. And among these princes and princes, who has the most honorable status?

Has Wang Shiyuan changed his name back to Zhu Cihuan, the king of Zhejiang in the Ming Dynasty? Although he and the emperor are both the bloodlines of Emperor Xiaolie, they are also similar in blood. The really most honorable is probably Zhu Cixuan, the king of Gui, after all, he is the son of Emperor Xiaokuang and was once the heir to the throne of the Ming Dynasty.

Because of this, among all the clans, he is the only prince who has a palace in the middle, of course, this prince's mansion is naturally not as good as the old Guiwang Mansion, and even not as good as those palace-like palaces in Nanjing. But for Zhu Cixuan, he didn't think about these things at all, for him, even until now, he still remembers how frightened he was when he left the palace that day, and remembers the fear of his underwear being soaked in cold sweat.

"For example, if Your Majesty kills Lone, what should Lone do?"

Again, Zhu Cixuan looked at Pan Renyuan and asked with some trepidation.

As the vassal king, Zhu Cixuan may be the real loner, three years ago, when he left Wannian to go to Beijing to guard his father's rule, he thought that he would die, so he dismissed the old ministers who were willing to follow him, he was not willing to delay their future and future, only a few eunuchs and palace maids accompanied him.

Although Zhu Cixuan had worried about his life and death, although he knew that sooner or later there would be such a day, but when everything came, he still seemed extremely panicked. He didn't even know who to say to him, and it was only Pan Renyuan, after all, Pan Renyuan owed him a favor.

Because it is precisely because he issued a document to the Ministry of Punishment in the name of the vassal king, with Pan Renyuan as a retainer, so that he does not have to go to the northeast to settle down, this is the prerogative of the vassal king, of course, there is a limit, the prince can pardon the sins of the four people, but even so, he must wait until the other party has served the exile.

By chance, after getting acquainted with Pan Renyuan on the way, Zhu Cixuan, who thought that his time was short, wanted to help him, so he would take him as a retainer, so as not to return to the Northeast. Now, as his only "retainer", he naturally turned to Pan Renyuan for help.

"Your Majesty didn't kill the king yesterday, and there is no reason to kill the king today, besides, since Your Majesty has promised to crown the king in Xuannan, the king naturally doesn't need to worry so much."

When mentioning "Xuannan", Pan Renyuan's heart couldn't help but feel bitter, is this fate? Originally, he was "pardoned" by the king, thinking that as a retainer of King Gui, he could at least stay in Nanjing, or Beijing, and did not need to go to the northeast with his wife, but who would have thought that His Majesty would seal the king in "Xuannan", which was undoubtedly equivalent to exile him in Nanyang again, and that place was farther away from the mainland, and as a retainer of King Gui, of course, he had to go with him.

However, Pan Renyuan did not have the slightest complaint about this, after all, King Gui wanted to help him avoid the pain of exile, but who would have thought that there would be such a change, who would have thought that His Majesty would actually exile King Gui...... Divided to Xuannan, such a land at the ends of the earth.

Sometimes, a lot of things are beyond their control. Whether it is for King Gui or Pan Renyuan, they are just pawns of fate, at the mercy of others.

"Xuannan, Xuannan, that kind of place, I heard that the local natives are all barbarians and believe in barbarian religion, so I went there...... In case of rebellion among the natives, I am afraid that my life will not be guaranteed! ”

King Gui muttered to himself, his expression was full of panic, and he vaguely felt that His Majesty must have wanted to kill someone with a knife. Or rather, his "imperial brother" wanted to borrow a knife to kill people.

"The king is worried...... Borrowing a knife to kill? ”

Even in King Gui's mansion, when he said this, Pan Renyuan still looked left and right, lest someone hear his conversation with King Gui, after all, the Zhu family had a Jinyiwei back then, although there is no Jinyiwei now, but who knows if there is a similar organization?

Maybe there is a spy hiding that person in this palace, and if the words of the two reach the ears of that person, I am afraid that these words alone can punish him for a capital crime, but as a minister, he must be loyal to the king. He was a retainer of King Gui, so he had to do his duty.

"The local people have a stubborn temperament, when they were alone with the emperor and left Burma, there were local people who made trouble, if it wasn't for His Majesty to send people to rescue me, I am afraid that they would have already fallen into the hands of the local people, and their lives are not known, this local people ...... No, you can't. ”

Zhu Cixuan, who was born in the emperor's family, knows very well what to say and what not to say, and now on the surface, it seems that he is mentioning the natives, but the last few words are the key.

Is it possible for His Majesty to borrow a knife to kill someone?

Of course, there is a possibility.

Moreover, what happened to Zhu Cixuan told Zhu Cixuan that those natives could not be trusted.

"This ......"

Pan Renyuan was silent, but he couldn't speak for a while.

The vassal king of the Ming Dynasty looks noble, but in fact, it is just a group of prisoners who are imprisoned in the palace, and they can still leave the palace when they are not yet the lords, but once they become the vassal kings, they can't go out of the palace for half a step, although now the Ming Dynasty has canceled the "feudal ban", but that is because the feudal king has not been in the country, once the country is in the country, there will inevitably be a feudal ban again. With the "ban of the domain", then the king trapped in the palace is probably like a prisoner, if it is in the Ming Dynasty, there is naturally no need to worry about safety, but in the kind of Xuannan that kind of foreign land, if there are local people to make trouble, wouldn't it be certain death?

After pondering for a long time, Pan Renyuan looked at Zhu Cixuan and said.

"The king, if this is the case, I'm afraid the king really can't find a way, in the opinion of the ministers, you might as well equip Yizhengwei with firearms, in this way, even if there are local people to make a rebellion, with the strong walls of the palace, it should be able to resist for a while."

The Yizhengwei in Pan Renyuan's mouth is the only "force" around the vassal king, but they are often responsible for fighting honor guards and protecting the palace, and the number of honor soldiers is only a thousand.

"Firearms?"

Zhu Cixuan immediately said,

"If Yi Zhengwei is equipped with firearms, will there be anyone in the court who will be impeached at that time?"

The reason why this vassal king was reduced to a prisoner had a lot to do with the fact that those ministers impeached the vassal king one after another in order to vote for the emperor's favor, and it was in their impeachment that the vassal king became a prisoner in the high wall.

With a firearm, if someone says that he has a heart of disobedience, wouldn't this be equivalent to giving a knife to His Majesty?

"Don't forget, the king, this firearm can be sold freely, and when the minister is in the northeast, although he is serving the punishment of exiles, he also needs to match his own firearms and swords according to the regulations to prevent the natives from attacking. Whether in the Northeast or in the South Seas, it is stipulated that every adult man must have a firearm, a sword, two catties of gunpowder and ten catties of bullets. The people are still like this, is it true that the vassal king is equipped with a few firearms, and he is causing chaos? ”

Whether it is the Northeast or the South Seas, the principle of governing the local area is to arm the largest number of free Han people possible and be ready to fight at any time, so they are required to be equipped with weapons in case of an attack by the natives, quickly assemble and mobilize to resist the invasion of the enemy.

"Yes, can it work?"

Looking at Pan Renyuan, Zhu Cixuan said that after arriving in Nanyang, the most worrying thing is probably "borrowing a knife to kill people", if he can protect himself with Yizhengwei, of course he is willing.

"The key depends on the candidate of this Yizhengwei, I wonder if the king has a suitable candidate?"