The ministers continued to speak. Although the issue of imperial reunification is a royal family matter, it is also the most important official and important event of a country. In particular, the battle for the national capital of the Wanli Dynasty, which is fierce and cruel, now makes many people feel uneasy. The ministers were already officials in the Wanli Dynasty, and they had personally experienced it, and they understood the consumption of national strength in the struggle for the national capital, so they naturally didn't want the Apocalypse Dynasty to have such a national capital struggle again.

Zhu Youxiao has not encountered the opposition of the ministers for a long time. Now even Sun Chuanting is silent, which shows that everyone is very concerned about this primogeniture inheritance system, and he wants to use the selection of the Confucian family enshrinement officials to get everyone used to the future imperial succession law and abandon the primogeniture inheritance system, but I am afraid that it is very difficult.

He thought about it and solved them one by one to see if it would work. So he asked, "Sir, do you also think this matter is inappropriate?" ”

Xu Guangqi arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the primogeniture inheritance system is stipulated by law. The "Da Ming Decree and Household Order" stipulates: All sons and daughters, in addition to official shadows, must first be the eldest descendants. Now Your Majesty wants to change the inheritance law of the Dacheng Most Holy Ancestor Enshrined Official, so what about the inheritance of the people? There is also the inheritance of the throne that will make the world hesitate, please think deeply. ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "However, there are regulations behind the "Da Ming Order: It analyzes the wealth and property of the family, regardless of the wife, concubine, and maidservant, and divides it equally according to the number of children." It can be seen that property can be divided equally, and there is no difference between descendants and descendants. ”

Xu Guangqi said: "Your Majesty, it is true. The reason for this is that the throne, title, official position, and clan are indivisible, but property can be divided. This avoids sibling rivalry for power, but also allows future generations to have a property to live on. ”

Zhu Youxiao asked again: "Back then, because I didn't stand up, I had the king of Shang. And Tang Taizong was not the eldest son, and as a result, he had the rule of Zhenguan. It is the ancestor, although it is not for the long, but there is the rule of eternal happiness. In this way, the results of the primogeniture system are not very good, so why can't it be slightly modified? ”

The faces of the ministers changed, and King Taizong said that of course there was no problem, but Chengzu was not something that the courtiers dared to discuss. And the ministers know that there are still doubts about saying that Chengzu is a son-in-law, but everyone doesn't dare to say it.

Xu Guangqi's face was ugly, but he had to answer: "Your Majesty, there are indeed some problems with the primogeniture system, but before we can't find a better way, it is the best system." Your Majesty is now directly abandoned, but there is no corresponding way to replace it, and the minister feels that it is inappropriate. ”

Zhu Youxiao believes that Xu Guangqi should be the minister who knows what he wants to do best, and he is also the minister and teacher he trusts the most. Since he felt that it was not feasible to abolish the primogeniture inheritance system now, he was afraid that it would be really difficult to succeed.

He smiled and said, "Since all Aiqing are against it, and there is no better way to replace it now, then let's put aside the matter of the primogeniture inheritance system first." However, in the matter of the Kong family, I think there is an alternative. After the first generation of Dacheng Most Holy Ancestors enshrined the official immortals, the imperial court summoned the next generation of disciples of the Confucian family, regardless of their descendants, to examine their conduct and knowledge, and to establish a new Dacheng Most Holy Ancestor Enshrined Officials. ”

The ministers felt that this was not bad, as long as the enshrined official of the Dacheng Holy Ancestor was not a hereditary official, then the method of examination and selection would not damage the primogeniture inheritance system. Everyone will not think of other aspects, so the ministers are naturally "Emperor Shengming" and decided the matter.

Zhu Youxiao said: "Back then, Taizu gave the Confucian family 2,000 hectares of land, and now the Confucian family's land has reached 20,000 hectares. I don't believe it, so I want to send Jinyiwei and the Economic Investigation Bureau to find out about this matter, and tell Wu Mengming that this matter is done, forget the leak that I stabbed last time, but there is still a Mongolian lady in the palace. ”

Zhu Youxiao's attack on the primogeniture system was completely defeated, and he was a little frustrated, but he also understood that the patriarchal system that had been inherited for thousands of years, and he wanted to change it without changing the dynasty, which was originally an extremely difficult thing to succeed. Moreover, the selection method of the Confucian family enshrinement officials is at least a little bit of iron sheet in this iron bucket-like system, as long as you pry slowly and constantly, you can still succeed in the end. I just don't know if I'll ever see that day.

After Wu Mengming received the holy message from Wei Zhongxian, he geared up and came to Qufu with Jinyiwei and people from the Economic Investigation Bureau. He wants to perform well in this battle and let the emperor know that he, Wu Mengming, is not only a sycophant, but also has real talents.

After coming to Qufu, he realized that the situation was far worse than he imagined. Qufu County was actually renamed Confucius County in order to live up to its name, this county from the county order to the government service, all surnamed Kong, most of the fields in Qufu are Confucius, and the fields of Confucius also continue to the neighboring Surabaya County.

All the tenant farmers in Qufu farmed for the Confucian Mansion, and looking at their clothes, they were basically in tatters, so you can know that their lives were not good.

Wu Mengming rejected the Qufu County Order's request that he first go to the Confucian Mansion to meet him, and also refused to follow the officials, separated the Jinyi Guards, and asked the tenants one by one to see how their fields had been lost, how much land rent the Confucian Mansion had collected, and whether there were other lawless things on weekdays.

The Economic Investigation Bureau began to investigate the specific number of acres of land in Confucius, the origin of each field, the number of tenants renting seeds, and the payment of taxes.

Maybe the Confucian Mansion was too harsh on the tenants on weekdays, so as soon as Jin Yiwei asked, the tenants talked about the situation endlessly. When it was first summarized, although the total number of acres of land had not yet been counted, it was already known that in order to occupy Qufu's fields, the Confucian government used all kinds of methods, either to induce gambling and finally force people to sell land, or to cut off water so that people would not be able to harvest, or to falsely accuse people of innocence and make them bankrupt through lawsuits and then buy their fields...... In the process, at least five people were killed in the last ten years, as is now known.

Wu Mengming was very excited, he found out so many things in only five days, it seems that there are still a lot of things to dig in this Confucian Mansion. He sent people to recruit all the nearby Jinyi guards to Qufu, preparing to make this case an iron case.

At this time, the Qufu County Commander came to see Kong Zhengqi, the chief housekeeper of the Confucian Mansion. Wu Mengming thought about it for a while, and then asked people to bring them in.

Kong Zhengqi came in and arched his hand and said: "Yan Shenggong said that Jinyi Wei is working hard in Qufu, and he specially asked him to come down to see the commander and treat everyone." With that, he took out a gift slip from his sleeve and handed it over.