"Your Majesty, I rule the country with benevolence and filial piety, and treating the clan favorably is the ancestral system set by Taizu, how can I move lightly?" At this time, the matter was very high, and as soon as Li You's voice fell, someone came out to persuade him, because he still remembered the fate of those officials who were involved in the Jin Shang and Liao Yan cases before, so the words were quite tactful, and they were not as direct as the previous Da Ming Yan officials. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"I have enjoyed the country for more than two hundred years, and the clan has increased from dozens of people at the beginning of the founding of the country to 200,000, and the annual expenses required to support these clans alone account for forty percent of the imperial court's income, and most of these clans rely on their own identities to act arbitrarily, I'm afraid that even the spirit of Taizu in the sky can't bear them, right?" Li You retorted, if the current clan only has the twenty-six vassal kings that Zhu Yuanzhang canonized back then, Li You doesn't have to worry about these at all, but the number of the current clan is 200,000, and it is terrible to feed 200,000 clans, this cost is even higher than the annual military salary of the Ming Dynasty, and these people are still growing, even if the 200,000 imperial court can support them, what should they do when they are 300,000, 400,000 or even 1 million? I'm afraid that all the annual income of the Ming Dynasty is not enough to use here, right?

The figure of 200,000 really frightened those ministers who still didn't know the situation, even if these 200,000 people were all the lowest-level lieutenants of Zhenguo, the annual salary would be 400 stones, and the sum of 200,000 people would be 80 million stones. What's more, there are many princes, county kings, Zhenguo generals, auxiliary generals, Fengguo generals, Zhenguo lieutenants, auxiliary lieutenants, and Fengguo lieutenants above the lieutenant of Zhenguo.

"Your Majesty, according to the ancestral system, the Ming clan is divided into feuds and does not tin soil, the lords are not in the people, the food is not governed by affairs, they are not allowed to do business, they are not allowed to take the imperial examination, and they are not allowed to make friends with officials...... Li Biao came out and raised another question, "After more than two hundred years, I am afraid that the children of these clans... I'm afraid I'm already clumsy at making a living. After thinking for a long time, Li Biao used such a vague word to describe this group of waste snacks, "If Your Majesty immediately cuts off their money, how can these people make a living?" ”

Li Biao's questions are much more realistic than these people said, yes, you can't let these royal nobles live on the streets begging, and then they will lose the face of the Ming Emperor.

"It didn't happen overnight, and I'm going to give them some time to learn the skills to make a living." Immediately, Li You came up with the solution proposed by himself and Xu Guangqi and other cronies, first of all, strictly investigate the illegal things of each branch of the clan, to see if they are not strict with the law like King Fu, and violate the clan system set by Taizu, if they are found, they will be dealt with strictly, and their clan identities will be removed and demoted to commoners.

As long as the scrutiny is strong enough, a large number of clans can definitely be reduced to commoners, greatly reducing the burden on the imperial court, and can also calm the resentment of the people in various places, return the industries and fields they have seized, so that the people under their rule can have a way to live, and greatly alleviate the increasingly fierce local contradictions.

"Your Majesty, these are the children of my Zhu family, and I hope Your Majesty will be more lenient." The sect man who was in charge of the Zongren Mansion came out tremblingly and persuaded him, he thought that the court today had nothing to do with him as usual, but who expected that it would usher in such a sunny day, and now he had to come out to speak for these clans.

"According to the guilt they have committed, it is already very lenient to be reduced to the common people." Li You said lightly, "This matter is so decided, summon the three law divisions, Jinyiwei and the Zongren Mansion to jointly find out the lawlessness of the clans in various places, since this matter is caused by King Fu, then let's start from Luoyang!" ”

In this way, King Fu may have a high probability of being reduced to a knighthood, or even a commoner, but it is much stronger than being killed by the rebels in the original history and making a "Fu Lu Banquet".

Then Li You announced the second regulation, there is a way to "the gentleman's Ze V and behead", once the descendants of each branch of the clan out of the five suits, they no longer enjoy the right to inherit the title, and all become commoners, of course, they also automatically enjoy many rights such as doing business and taking examinations, and are no longer restricted by the ancestral system, so that the number of a large number of clans can be reduced.

Of course, in view of the fact that this policy has just begun to be implemented, it can give them a few years of buffer time, during which the imperial court will reduce the distribution of stipends, leaving time for them to learn various skills to earn a living, so as not to let these people die without food and clothing, but once this period is passed, the court will not pay attention to them no matter how miserable they are.

Then Li You gave a series of measures, including the abolition of hereditary replacement, the reduction of the rank of the clan heirs, the amount of rich distribution, and the limitation of the number of each clan lord, etc., if these policies can be strictly implemented, then the number of the Ming clan will drop to an acceptable range.

In the end, Li You also left a way out for those clans who did not want to be raised as pigs, as long as they were willing to go to Liuqiu and other places to pioneer, then the imperial court would provide them with support, depriving the clan of many prohibitions such as not holding power and doing business, so that they could display their talents overseas; Of course, in Li You's view, these 200,000 pigs... Oh no, among the 200,000 clans, I'm afraid there are very few people who can make such a decision.

As soon as this decree was announced, the clans everywhere were like a thunderbolt from the sky, and they were all stunned; After they reacted, those clans in the capital hurriedly tried to enter the palace and beg Li You to retract his will, but Li You's attitude was very resolute and unmoved.

In addition, the reputation of the clan has been ruined beyond the years, and they have no actual power and not many connections with officials, and they do not have much actual power in politics, so those gentry naturally refuse to speak up for them, and even wish that the clan would be punished so that they can benefit from it.

Therefore, although those clans knelt at the gate of the palace and wept, this policy was unswervingly issued to the world, and the joint investigation agency composed of the Three Sects of the Sorrowful Division, Jinyiwei, Dongchang and Zongren Mansion also immediately went to Luoyang to thoroughly investigate the lawlessness of the clan from King Fu.

Soon, due to the active denunciation of the gentry and the efficient work of the investigation agency in Luoyang, the wrongdoing of the Fuwang family was immediately investigated, and they were either demoted to knighthood or demoted to commoners, and the property in the palace was taken out to compensate the people, and the excess land was also recovered, and the Fuwang family was duly punished.