Chapter 870: The Pillar Stone of the Chen Han Dynasty
Looking at Li Xiaomei's face suddenly popping up with shock, absurdity, and incredible emotions intertwined, Chen Ming laughed, and then talked about the plan he had just calculated for her.
"I originally wanted to talk about it on my fortieth birthday, so I'll talk to the queen about it today."
Chen Ming, is planning to introduce a policy in the future, although the descendants of the clan hold the shares of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce or its subordinate companies, but they only enjoy dividends, and cannot interfere with the operation of the enterprise, and the province will be a loser. And if you want to get in touch with the power of the company, unless you have the ability to blend in with the board of directors of the company group, or the board of directors of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce at a higher level.
Otherwise, let's take your share of the start-up capital and start your own business.
Moreover, the shares in the hands of the descendants are not allowed to be bought and sold to the outside world, unless no one in the entire imperial family is willing to pay for it, or the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce wants to make a cut with a certain enterprise group.
This is a bit like the original time and space, some big family consortia in Europe and the United States used methods to maintain family assets, and even these people played close relatives to marry in order to keep the property in the hands of future generations from being diluted and not being obtained by outsiders.
Chen Ming didn't need to worry about this yet. In Chinese society, divorce is still a very taboo topic, especially in the upper-class elite families, which really makes trouble to the point of divorce, which means that the two families are divided and confronted.
In these years, if you don't make friends after the divorce, you are an enemy, a big enemy.
Therefore, at present, this 'property liquidation' is also according to the old rules that have been passed down in China for thousands of years, that is, the daughter-in-law takes her dowry and her own money and returns to her parents' house.
In the future, Chen Ming will introduce a "Marriage Law" to give women an extra layer of protection, but it is impossible to divide the entire family property with men. At most, the property after marriage is divided equally, and the property before marriage does not need to be taken out. This can be regarded as a selfish protection.
Therefore, now the Chinese man's family property is still quite safe and secure according to the law.
However, Europe is monogamous, and the illegitimate children of lovers may not have the right to inherit. Unlike China, when a man has money in his hands, he will inevitably find three wives and four concubines, and it is impossible for a person in the royal family to have only one woman in his life.
Going through thousands of years of China's history, there is only such a seed of infatuation as Emperor Zhu Youzhi of Ming Hongzhi, regardless of whether people really have only one woman in their lives, at least in the history books, there is only one queen, and no concubines. There were only two sons and one daughter, and one son and one daughter died, leaving behind a thing like 'Emperor Zhengde'.
The difference in the marriage system makes a qualitative difference between the inheritance laws and the speed of expansion between the Eastern and Western families.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang divided his descendants into various places, and there were only 49 princes and generals at the beginning. The total number of members of the clan is fifty-eight.
In the Wanli period, there were more than 150,000 large and small Zhu Ming clans, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, if the Ming Dynasty clans counted the lowest-ranking Fengguo lieutenants, there would be at least 200,000 people.
This number and the speed of expansion are simply not comparable to that of European families.
When Chen Han started his family, he was not as poor as Zhu Baba back then, and the entire Chen family lived to the population after Chen Han Ding's establishment, not five hundred but also three hundred, and they were all relatively close in blood, just like the red belt of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, many of them have not yet come out of the five suits, so they are all considered clans.
Therefore, in this way, the population of the Chen Han royal family will definitely be more than that of the Zhu Ming clan in two hundred years.
Chen Ming had to come up with a way to not allow the population of the 'royal family' to expand indefinitely, so he would set a line, except for the hereditary palace, the others would be out of the five suits. As for those who were removed, they have more or less a sum of capital in their hands anyway, and their worth is much stronger than that of ordinary people. If they still weave mats and sell shoes like Liu Ranran, they will also do it themselves.
And if these people don't want to remove themselves from the royal jade, then work hard. Whether it is in politics, the military, or business and learning, as long as it is recognized by a certain social organization, it can keep its name on the royal family tree.
For the sake of future generations, Chen Ming also took great pains.
But his hard work may not be understood by the people around him, as well as his children and grandchildren.
Chen Ming can say with certainty that these powerful ministers and these sons around him are more or less the supremacy of imperial power in their hearts.
However, with the independence of the United States and the outbreak of the French Revolution, although Chen Ming does not know whether the 1848 European Revolution will break out in the original time and space, he believes that this trend is destined to surge.
Historically, the vast majority of European dynasties have been crumbling under the impact of this trend! At present, time and space will also strengthen themselves.
And sooner or later, this storm will blow to China. All over the world, with the expansion of the capitalist economy and the beginning of the first industrial revolution, the monarchy's rule of poisonous vegetables has come to an end. Chen Ming didn't want the empire he had built to become the 'mainstay' of blocking this trend, and becoming the five-finger mountain that suppressed it. He felt that social change could not be changed from the day the practical steam engine was invented. It's just a matter of time or time. He didn't want China to be in turmoil again a hundred years from now. Therefore, the Chen Han Dynasty could not only have the pillar of imperial power.
The Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, charitable funds, and the vassal kings who were divided into the Americas will all become the pillars of the maintenance of the Chen Han Dynasty.
If Chen Ming can have a better impression of the dishes, as long as he openly establishes the constitution and then establishes a parliament that is even a good thing, these will become the pillars of Chen Han. But his impression of the multi-party system and the dish cooking was too bad.
Chen Ming revived the Han family, that is not only a generation of heroes, but also a generation of Ming monarchs who will go down in history, an emperor of all ages, as long as he is in one day, Chen Han will have a day of peace. This is the same as when Zulong was alive, the world's heroes were tied up. But if he is gone, then the imperial power will immediately become fragile.
Looking at the successive dynasties of China, the descendants of Liu Bang and Liu Xiu, and the descendants of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, regardless of whether they sat firmly on the country or defeated the country, the gap between the two generations and the first generation is obvious to all.
Yang Guang, Li Shimin, Zhao Guangyi, and Zhu Di are not the second generation of the Eight Classics, because when the first generation of people fought the country, people also participated in it, or the dragon chair under their butts was earned by themselves.
But Chen Ming's son does not have this 'advantage', so after Chen Ming's death, the royal majesty is destined to decline, so it is not certain that after the Chinese bourgeoisie grows and grows decades later, the national situation will begin to be unstable.
Don't look at John Bull as the world's first constitutional monarchy, Charles I, whose head was cut off, was also the first king in Europe to be executed as a king. During times of social change, the dignity of the royal family will also become insignificant.
The inner library is burned into splendid ash, and the heavenly street is full of public bones!
It's shocking. When the tide of social change surges, the first to suffer, and the most suffered, are the vested interests of the old system.
Chen Ming didn't want his children and grandchildren to suffer this kind of misery! Like Louis XVI, like Nicholas II, like Emperor Chongzhen......
Chen Ming: This is not purely worried that there is a civil unrest in China, which will allow European jackals, tigers and leopards to take advantage of the situation. His heart is not so lenient, Chen Ming simply does not want to see future generations suffer.
Of course, deep down, he also deeply believes that China's stability is the most important factor for China to remain strong in suppressing the world in the future period of social transformation.
Chen Ming didn't dare to guarantee that he would be able to arrange all this before he died, but he really kept preparing for that day.