Chapter 633: The Vassal States [2 More]
One is to be monitored by the imperial court and unable to leave the fiefdom one step, just like captivity, with the name of the prince, but there is not much freedom at all, and the other is to divide the overseas and become the head of a country, but anyone who has a little ambition knows what to choose.
Of course, Zhu Houzhao is really amazing, the territory that the Ming can rule is limited after all, and those territories that are thousands of miles away, even if the Ming can occupy it, it can't rule.
In this case, Zhu Houzhao simply gave birth to the royal princes and nobles who were lying on Da Ming's body and sucking blood crazily.
In this way, these vampires will be sent out in disguise, and at the same time they will receive the land in the hands of these royal relatives and nobles, and of course, more importantly, occupy overseas lands in this way.
As for whether there will be any hidden dangers in this way, Zhu Houzhao is really not worried.
Even if there is really any royal bloodline that really rises from overseas in the future, even if it is to return to the Central Plains and the throne is replaced, it is still their Zhu family's bloodline that sits on the throne, isn't it?
Secretly glanced at the Son of Heaven, Yang Yiqing said: "Your Majesty, although this move is wonderful, but the future trouble is not small, he will be in the future."
Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and smiled slightly, and said domineeringly: "On the day I am here, who dares to disobey, the day I go, it is all the blood of Taizu, the capable are up, the weak are down, but I can't control it!" ”
Yang Yiqing and the others were stunned, but having said that, they could also imagine that even if those royal princes were divided overseas, if they wanted to develop and grow to the extent that they could compete with the Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains, I am afraid that it will not happen overnight, I am afraid that it will be at least a hundred years later.
If it really comes to that time, I'm afraid that these people will have already turned into white bones, and they will still do that kind of thing.
In one breath, Wang Yangming and Yang Yiqing glanced at each other, and saluted Zhu Houzhao in unison: "The ministers respectfully obey Your Majesty's orders." ”
Yang Yiqing and a few people withdrew from the imperial study, all the way out of the Forbidden City, standing outside the palace gate, and several people couldn't help but look back at the palace.
Their trip to the palace today is like a big dream, how can they not see the changes of the Son of Heaven, and at the same time, the courage of the Son of Heaven to restart the division is also shocking to them.
I heard Chen Ding sigh: "In my opinion, Your Majesty's desire to seek immortal ascension is not reduced, this is a big hidden danger after all."
Yang Yiqing shook his head and said: "Lord Chen is worried about the sky, looking at His Majesty's words and deeds today, it is obvious that His Majesty is not a dumb lord, and he has not neglected government affairs because of his desire to seek immortals. ”
Wang Yangming said with a smile on his face of excitement: "Everyone, restart the separation, the world is the same, if this matter can really be realized in our hands, such a great cause of transcending the ancestors will definitely make our name go down in history and shine through the ages." ”
Hearing Wang Yangming say this, several pavilion elders couldn't help but have their eyes shining, thinking that they might be famous through the ages and admired by future generations, for a while, several pavilion elders couldn't help but tremble slightly with excitement.
The Son of Heaven did not mean to hide the news, and after several elders went back, the news spread quickly.
It is conceivable that as soon as the news of the Son of Heaven's intention to restart the feudal system came out, the entire capital was in an uproar.
The history of the sub-feudal system can be said even if it is a peddler and a pawn, in the past, the Great Zhou Dynasty was divided into the world, and the Great Zhou was divided into eight hundred vassal states.
When the first emperor ruled the world, although the feudal system appeared for a short time, it was gradually abandoned by the rulers.
But now the Son of Heaven has made it clear that he wants to implement the real feudalization, that is, once he is divided, he can take charge of the military and political power of a place, and in addition to paying tribute to the imperial court on time, it is basically an independent kingdom.
The most excited are the princes who are divided into the same lineage as the Taizu, these princes have been passed down from generation to generation, and they are all the heirs of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang in the past.
How vast the overseas land is, but anyone who moves his mind a little can find out one or two.
Not to mention how much overseas land the Ming can occupy, even if it only occupies a fraction, it is equivalent to the size of several Ming Dynasty.
When the time comes, he will be divided and rule a country, and he will have great power, how can he be compared with such an aggrieved prince.
The royal family was shaken, and the world was shaken.
But all the royal princes who are so ambitious are looking forward to it one by one, watching every move of the imperial court, and only hope that it is not Zhu Houzhao's temporary joke.
In the winter of the fifteenth year of Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty, with Zhu Houzhao's will finally in the hands of several overseas fleets, the Ming Dynasty finally showed its fangs.
Pieces of land were occupied by the Ming Dynasty, and one country after another was destroyed, under the strong ships and cannons of the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that the world can stop the Ming fleet's faux pas.
It was also in this year that Zhu Houzhao personally enshrined the King of Qin of the Ming Dynasty and established a feudal state overseas.
After receiving the decree of the Son of Heaven, the King of Qin was overjoyed and inexplicable, and he cooperated with the delivery of millions of acres of fertile land occupied by the Qin Palace, and with the help of the imperial court, he took hundreds of thousands of slaves and tenants who were attached to the Qin Palace.
For this reason, the Ming court even dispatched thousands of large ships, and the freight alone squeezed out the savings of the Qin Wangfu for hundreds of years, and even owed millions of taels of property to the imperial court for this.
According to Zhu Houzhao, since it is divided into feudal kings, then it should be self-reliant, and the imperial court can fund some materials, but more needs to find their own way.
The King of Qin had no choice, he had exhausted the savings of the Qin Palace's hundreds of years, and he had to deal with the huge loan agreement of millions of taels owed by the imperial court, and finally made up enough of all the things needed to establish an overseas state.
Although the imperial court has the intention of taking advantage of the fire to rob, but one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, even if he is emptied of his family, but King Qin is extremely excited.
Hundreds of thousands of people who followed him overseas, plus thousands of royal guards expanded by the military department, were enough for him to gain a foothold overseas.
The king of Qin successfully listed the land and sealed the state, and the court made it clear that it was not as simple as saying it, and Zhu Houzhao really wanted to divide the feud.
With the division of the Qin Palace's overseas and becoming a nominal and real prince, the royal princes of other branches were anxious one by one.
Although overseas is vast, but no matter how large the territory is, it is also limited, if the Son of Heaven suddenly rests the idea of dividing the seal one day, or if the overseas land is divided, won't they, the princes who have not been able to get out of the Ming Dynasty, cry to death?
All of a sudden, the envoys of the various royal palaces gathered in Beijing, and the mansions of the cabinet elders were almost flattened by these people.
That is, Zhu Houzhao is in power, and he has no need to worry about the princes in the world having any disobedience.
If this is replaced by other emperors, if the princes in those places dare to send people to Beijing to contact the important ministers of the court, they will be impeached by the imperial history of the court and the central government, and they will be jealous of the emperor and end up with a knight.
But this time, Zhu Houzhao deliberately connived and even promoted, and several pavilion elders even got the will of the Son of Heaven in advance, so they did not refuse the envoys of the princes in these places, and screened out the candidates for the Son of Heaven.
After all, the Ming royal family has been inherited for hundreds of years, and to this day, there are no less than dozens of princes alone, and there are hundreds of county kings, among which there are people who are content with the status quo, and there are also people who are quite ambitious, so Zhu Houzhao can't divide everyone out at once, so he can only select some of these princes first.
Overseas good news is frequent, it can be said that in addition to the existence of Portugal, Spain, England, these maritime powers, the Ming fleet has no key strategy, as for other places, all have become the focus of the Ming strategy.
Everywhere is knocked down, and then there will be princes who migrated from the Ming Dynasty.
Tens of thousands of square miles or even hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of territory were enshrined as a country, and tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Ming people dragged their families out of the Ming Dynasty to take root overseas and spread out.
In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the situation of land annexation was already very serious, and I don't know how many people had already lost their land and became tenants and slaves of those wealthy families.
These people who lost their land were not allowed to do so in the Taiping years, and once they reached the famine years, they were the easiest to become part of the hidden dangers of the Ming Dynasty.
I have to say that Zhu Houzhao's restart of the sub-sealing system is, to a certain extent, definitely a win.
Emperor Taizu's imperial family feudal system is definitely very harmful to the Ming Dynasty, according to the expansion rate of the Ming clan, even if the Ming Dynasty is not destroyed by natural disasters, I am afraid it will be dragged down by the increasingly huge Ming clan system.
Even in the end, the Ming Dynasty's finances may not be enough to support the Ming clan, so you can imagine how big the disadvantages of the Ming royal family vassal system are.
Zhu Houzhao restarted the feudal system, not only occupied the huge overseas land, that is, solved the harm brought to the Ming Dynasty by the feudal system of the Ming royal family, and smoothly recovered a large amount of land from these princes, but also moved a considerable number of people overseas, alleviating the population crisis to a certain extent.
In the eighteenth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, in the past few years, the Ming Dynasty was like a clockwork machine, and in these years, in addition to normal affairs, the Ming Dynasty's energy was focused on overseas sealing.
Dozens of princes were completely divided, and even the county kings were moved, and hundreds of vassal states were divided by the imperial court.
In the imperial study, Zhu Houzhao, who was dressed in regular clothes, sat there, looking at Chen Ding, who had white sideburns and an old face, and only listened to Chen Ding: "Your Majesty, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, in the past few years, my Ming Dynasty has divided a total of 128 large and small vassal states, recovered 8.9 million mu of land, 48 million taels of gold and silver, moved out of the people more than 5.3 million, and the vassal states owe the court a total of 130,000 taels of gold and silver."
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