Chapter 240: The Last Thing I Do for You
Fu Wang is a fat man who needs to be supported when walking, if a person grows to three hundred pounds, then no matter how noble this person is, I am afraid that he will not be able to do it fresh and not greasy, to put it intuitively, this is a pig.
But did King Fu really become a pig of his own volition? I'm afraid it's not necessarily, they all say that Wanli is mediocre, but this is mainly about his laziness, and the level of people's governance is step by step on par with his grandfather Jiajing, and the superb wrist is rare in history, and this vision is actually not bad at all.
Would such a person be crazy about making his youngest son emperor just because he was doting? Will the burden of the Ming Dynasty be pressed on the body of a pig? I'm afraid not, I'm afraid that the ability of this blessed king is far above his eldest brother.
The reason why he became a pig is more for the world to see, for his brother and two nephews.
You see, I've become a pig, so don't you see a pig like me, okay?
Facts have proved that King Fu's method is quite effective, and I am afraid that it is only by relying on this body of fat that this King Fu can live until now.
And now it's different, Chongzhen was still young, and he didn't know how much dirt his father and his uncle had in order to inherit the family property, and how many grievances his father had suffered, which had nothing to do with him, so although he didn't have a good impression of the uncle of King Fu, he couldn't talk about much disgust, until the performance of King Fu during the Southeast Incident, and his good impression increased greatly at once.
Is such a character really willing to be raised as a pig and eat and die for the rest of his life? The answer is no, when Qin Hao came to the door and slapped Chongzhen's reform plan in front of him, King Fu was shaken.
He knows too well what this means, if he doesn't agree, I'm afraid his best outcome is to continue to return to Luo-Yang to be raised as pigs, and once he agrees, as the first prince who voluntarily donated his family property in the reform of the vassal king, plus the chief judge of the case of the cannon of the Ministry of Works, from now on he will shine on the political stage and almost achieve a position under one person, think about a few years later, the people of the world and even the history books will have to call themselves King Fuxian, of course, he agreed without saying a word.
In September of the fifth year of Chongzhen, King Fu actively responded to Chongzhen's reform, donated all his family property, distributed the land to tenants and refugees on the spot, and sold all the property into the treasury.
And the matter of King Fu has become an excellent introduction, giving a beautiful start to the reform of the clan.
Chongzhen's attitude is very clear, the imperial court will refuse to raise pigs in the future, and all the white hair and silk for you will be canceled from now on.
And where these clansmen who have been raised into pigs, Chongzhen gave two ways: first, the mining tax department was established by King Fu, and the world's minerals and even commerce were all handed over to this department for management, it turned out that this was the main focus of the struggle between the Ming Emperor and the Donglin Party in the past dynasties, and he had always sent his trusted eunuchs to do it, and now he simply didn't need eunuchs, after all, the eunuchs had no brothers, and all the officials in the department appointed the clan.
As for who is a big official in the yamen, hehe, it depends on how much you donate, Chongzhen not only cut off their financial routes in the future, but even your current property is also worried.
This is now Chongzhen's prestige, the army is loyal and strong, and the Donglin Party is weak, otherwise this policy is said to be the government of the country and not wronged him, but now because of so many foreshadowing before and quite smooth, it is considered to kill two birds with one stone, these princes all have a lot of energy and the righteous advantage of identity, but also let the establishment of this department have a lot of obstacles, since then the focus of the struggle between the imperial power and the vassal power is not to use eunuchs, but to use the vassal royal family, these princes have noble status, and have received a good education since childhood, It's not as easy as a eunuch.
As the saying goes, a big husband can't be without power for a day, in our national culture, money is important, but it can never be more important, how many people want to be raised like pigs every day and can't do anything? As a result of this order, the clans' hatred for Chongzhen for cutting off their financial routes suddenly decreased a lot, and the backlash was not too strong, and even many clans with a heavy desire for power were eager to smash pots and sell iron to donate their family property to the country.
In this way, the problem of mining tax and commercial tax, which had been a headache for a long time, was finally solved, although Qin Hao almost offended the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, but who can have a temper? People are immortals, and they quickly say goods bye.
And the second way is even more thorny, but it is also more for those ambitious clans, that is: overseas!
From now on, the country is no longer allowed to be crowned king, if you have to be sealed, then seal it overseas, the court can contribute money and troops to help you fight, but don't think about it in the future, if you have the ability to lay down a territory larger than the Ming Dynasty overseas and come out to be the emperor yourself, then you can bear it, and from then on the Ming Dynasty will be called a minister and a tribute.
And those who want to leave now, welcome welcome, but now the country has no money to help you, you need to raise money to build ships and recruit people, and the army can also rent it to you, as long as you can afford it, you want to rent it to you if you want the new white horse, so the vassal kings sold land for a while, and Zheng Zhilong also made a lot of money, he was born as a pirate, and now when he goes out to the toilet, he can meet seven or eight Tianhuang nobles and sycophants, I don't know if I woke up with a smile in my dream.
Create a land of your own! O Founding Emperor! You can do whatever you want in the future! What kind of person who asks himself, who has ambition and ability, can resist this temptation? Especially for these patients who have been raised as pigs since they were children, they don't know what hardships are, so Daming suddenly set off a frenzy of going to sea, and the price of shipwrights rose for a while.
The tumor of the vassal king that has not been cut off for many generations was easily cut by Chongzhen, and there was not much chaos, and even solved two almost equally thorny problems with his hands, and even solved the problem of the empty treasury in his hands, and for a while Chongzhen's prestige rose sharply.
The feudal king went to sea, this is the best solution that everyone has come up with after discussion, and it is of far-reaching significance.
The Ming Dynasty needs the sea, but the navy is huge and very difficult to control, and the most tricky thing is that the current navy is all Zheng Zhilong, a pirate, has the final say, even if he behaves no matter how well-behaved and obedient, how can he make the imperial court truly and completely rest assured?
The vassal kings are different, they not only have money, people and soldiers, but the most important thing is that they are all surnamed Zhu, even if it is inevitable that overseas will be split in the future, but at least they will always be the fence of the Ming Dynasty, and there will always be a brotherly state between countries that break bones and tendons.
Since then, the number one feudal prince who spends money has become the largest source of tax revenue for the Ming court, and at the same time, he has also strangled the possibility of Zheng Zhilong's self-reliance from the root.
This is the last thing Qin Hao did for Chongzhen, and since then, Qin Hao's own prestige has been as high as Mount Tai, and Qin Hao knows very clearly that it is time for him to go.