One thousand and fifteen eldest son

Hsiao saw the establishment of regular military academies as a sign that the military would not once again become a political tool for fighting at the hands of civilian officials.

In the past, the reason why the army was always easy to be controlled and suppressed by civilian officials was nothing more than the lack of culture and inheritance, but the civilian officials determined a steady stream of civilian officials because of the establishment of the imperial examination system.

To put it bluntly, the right to vote, the right to advance, the right to transport and supply are all in the hands of the civilian officials, and the governor's mansion of the five armies in the hands of the nobles and nobles is just an empty shelf, and it has long been no longer able to compete with the military department.

Zhu Yuanzhang's establishment of the five military governors and the military department of mutual restraint and competition system was destroyed, the civilian officials comprehensively encroached on the military power of the nobles, and the introduction of border generals into the capital further weakened the nobles' right to speak, and finally made the nobles completely become pigs under the captivity of civilian officials, and they would do nothing but make money.

At the time of the death of the Ming Dynasty, there was not one in a hundred nobles who died for the Ming Dynasty.

They also surrendered to Li Zicheng and the Manchus in order to ask for "favor", and a group of people who did not even have the ability to make a living on their own were in waste, and actually counted on the "favor" of the enemy.

It can be seen what kind of group of pigs were raised in the Ming Dynasty.

Xiao Ruxun hated such a system very much, so he repeatedly issued edicts instructing that the gentleman's Ze would be beheaded in the fifth generation, and the Great Qin Dynasty would not have the same honors and nobles for all ages, no eternal military merits, only the eternal military soul.

For this reason, he asked the royal family to set an example, stating that there are only four kings in Great Qin from now on, and the three kings represented by the three Xiao brothers in addition to Xiao Ruxun, the king of Chu, the king of Zhao, the king of Wei, and then the crown prince of the king of the dynasty, can be crowned the king of Qin, and will no longer be crowned king.

All the children of the royal family have to enroll in school to learn cultural knowledge, and the best children of the three kings can inherit the king, and the rest will be assigned different official positions according to the level of performance.

In this way, Xiao Ruxun restricted the development of the imperial family, minimized the impact of the imperial family on finances, and looked forward to the possibility of turning waste into treasure, and at the same time, in the eyes of the outside world, this was the emperor's improvement of the disadvantages brought about by the former Ming clan system.

The emperor realized what kind of harm the former Ming clan system had brought to the former Ming dynasty, so he decided not to allow the royal family to leave the capital, not to allow the royal family to have a fifth king, not to allow the royal children to eat and wait for death, and not to allow the royal children to commit crimes.

Such a restriction on the royal family is not insignificant, it is comparable to the former Song Dynasty, and it is more severe than the former Song Dynasty.

The royal family has made such an attitude, and the ministers below are naturally embarrassed to ask the emperor for hereditary treatment.

So Xiao Ruxun ordered, the children of each noble family follow the example of the royal family, only one child can inherit the father's title, each generation will be lowered by one grade, and the order of the prince and the prince will be lowered, if it is a duke, after five generations without meritorious service, it will become a white body, if it is a baron, it will become a white body after one generation without meritorious service.

Except for the children who inherit the title, the remaining children do not have the title, and can only inherit the shadow into the official body, all in accordance with such rules.

As for who the inherited children are, whether they are long or virtuous, Xiao Ruxun has been thinking about it for a long time.

The internal affairs of the imperial family, because the emperor can control it, especially the inheritance of the three princes, there is no big problem for the country, Xiao Ruxun said that it is judged by the excellence of the child, then it is judged like this, anyway, the three princes have no power, and their inheritance does not matter.

More importantly, in this way, Xiao Ruxun strengthened the emperor's control over the inheritance of the imperial family, and through this, the imperial family was controlled by the emperor, so that the collateral royal family could never threaten the imperial succession of the descendant royal family, which was a means.

However, between the emperor and the family of the world, the issue of establishing a long and virtuous person is directly related to the inheritance of state power and family property, which is very important for the country and the family.

The primogeniture inheritance system is to determine a name, so that the eldest son has a natural right to inherit, which seems to be very beautiful, but since the collapse of the Zhou Dynasty, the primogeniture inheritance system has been mentioned many times, but it has also been repeatedly destroyed, and there are not too many eldest sons who have successfully inherited the throne of the family business.

Even under the primogeniture system, it is still inevitable that the descendants of the great family will compete with each other, and the problem of establishing a long and virtuous family has been plaguing people for thousands of years, and no one has ever solved it.

In fact, there is no better way, Xiao Ruxun understood a truth after reading a lot of historical materials.

The so-called primogeniture system is a rule, a rule set for the sake of a square circle, an objective fact, and a fact that cannot be changed.

The eldest son is objective, not subject to human will, and cannot be manipulated, but if you follow the rules of establishing a virtuous person and not establishing a long one, a very vague concept will arise, that is, what is the so-called "virtuous"?

Wise is liked by everyone, but what is virtuous?

Virtuous is a vague concept, which can be transferred by human will, loving the people like a son but indecisive, decisive and far-sighted but bloodthirsty killing, how to choose?

The more important it is, the more it needs to be judged by clear, clear and broad criteria.

Compared with the vague so-called virtuous, it is much easier to operate, and if the virtuous is taken as the standard, then as long as this kind of sign appears, some people will soon start to take advantage of this loophole, support the abolition of the establishment, speculate and drill camps, and create the illusion of virtuousness to fight for interests.

Wisdom can be disguised, and it can be obtained through the exchange of benefits.

A prince who cares about the world, treats officials mercilessly, is willing to take action against bureaucrats in order to protect the fundamental interests of the country, and cleanses blood-sucking bureaucrats after taking the throne, such a person naturally has a bad reputation among the bureaucrats, and everyone thinks that he is bloodthirsty and cruel and cannot be an emperor.

And the other prince is good at winning people's hearts and protecting the interests of the bureaucracy, will the bureaucrats say that he is not good?

The people are illiterate and have no right to speak.

So the "world" must say that another prince is virtuous, the first virtuous person in ancient and modern times, then after he ascends the throne, the interests of the country will be eaten up by the bureaucracy, and the foundation of the country will be damaged.

At this time, if the virtuous does not stand up, it will be the prince who protects the interests of the bureaucracy to ascend the throne, the country will wait for the end, the imperial power will wait to be weakened, and the big government will wait to become a small government and lose the world.

Once it is established that the virtuous will not be established, the center of the government will change, and what will counter the rebellion and stabilize the people and the stability of the frontier will no longer be important.

The only important thing in the court is who will be the prince and who will inherit the huge family property, and everyone's energy is on this, and no one pays attention to national affairs.

Historically, the history of such disputes is endless, once such disputes occur, then in the end, the so-called "virtuous" is actually not very important, the key problem is that the world has formed a faction that is incompatible, the ministers have their own positions, right and wrong become unimportant, interests first.

Everyone fought for the final victory, and they had already armed themselves with bayonets, and they couldn't wait to kill the other party directly to prove that they were right.

Compared with the establishment of virtue and the establishment of elders, the primogeniture inheritance system is not operable, unquestionable, and does not depend on the will of the people.