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Chapter 498 498 The Writer and the Emperor 8

Starting from Emperor Taizu, the Ming Dynasty gave preferential treatment to the clan, and his old man set the rules, the clan did not take the imperial examination, did not do business, and did not work for generations, anyway, there was a treasury to support.

But his old man didn't think that after hundreds of years, the clan has multiplied, the population is hundreds of thousands, and the fief has long been unsealed. Elsewhere is no exception, the king of Huguang Domain occupies one-twentieth of the fertile land in Huguang, and seventy percent of the land around Chengdu Mansion belongs to the royal mansion.

The clan does not produce, it all depends on the support of the imperial court, and it only does not enter or exit. For the Emperor of the Apocalypse, these distant relatives who were indifferent in blood were parasites lying on the dying body of the Ming Dynasty to suck blood.

Rao is like this, the vassal king's descendants are okay, and those distant relatives who can't branch to the emperor and can't inherit the title of land will slowly fall.

Some Zongfan desperately gave birth in order to ask for silver from the imperial court, and these side branches lived a bleak life in the future, and some people received some Lu rice and silver all year round, and the family was not enough, but they had to abide by the rules of the clan and not look for a livelihood, wasting these personal resources in vain.

Another incident, the affairs of the clan's fish and meat places are endless, such as the grandfather of Zhang Taiyue, the first assistant of Wanli, who died tragically at the hands of the vassal king as a guard of the Liao Wang's Mansion that day. Zhang Zhen still has a head and a face of the palace guards, if you talk about the people, how many people have been forcibly occupied by the clan, humiliated their wives and daughters, and even ruined their families?

The place where the clan gathers is the most erosive place for displaced people to rise in the future.

Not to mention the clan, they have been supported by the people for generations, and when their families and countries are in danger, they don't even have a person who dares to resist, or flee from the wind, or surrender to the thieves, losing the face of their ancestors. The vassal king sat on a mountain of gold and silver, but he would rather have the city broken than donate a penny as a military salary.

As long as they are willing to contribute to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will not be defeated so quickly and so miserably.

The Daming Sect is not only the heaviest and most useless burden, but also a fatal abscess!

Some of these things are happening now, and some have not happened yet, but the emperor knows them very well, and every time he thinks of the clan, he hates the roots of his teeth, and he can't wait to send all these unscrupulous descendants to accompany Emperor Taizu.

But people have the righteousness of kinship, and the kinship is there, no matter how much the emperor doesn't regard the clan as a relative in his heart, he has to make a gesture to the outside world.

Fortunately, the court has its own clan's house, the affairs of the clan are family affairs, the emperor wants to rectify the clan, and the courtiers will only support it with both hands - the conscience of heaven and earth, the courtiers are not used to the absurdity of the emperor, and they are not used to the unscrupulous of the clan earlier, if it were not for the protection of the ancestral rules, they would have rolled up their sleeves and cleaned up the clan!

Don't look at the arrogance of the King of Liao that day, after Zhang Taiyue gained power, he didn't let the King of Liao have a good time. These old foxes dealt with the clan that had been raised by pigs for 200 years, and the victory or defeat was clear at a glance, if it wasn't for the emperor's protection, how many times would their skin have been scraped off.

Seven years after the Emperor of the Apocalypse ascended the throne, for the first time, there was a decision that was supported by the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty, and it went exceptionally smoothly.

The first thing is to abolish the rice and silver of the clan, and order the Zongren Mansion to revise the jade, and each domain only retains the descendants and close branches, and those distant branches only retain the name of the clan, and no longer distribute Lu rice money and grain.

Then again, most of these people don't have the means to make a living, so does the court let them die?

Not really, the emperor has already prepared a way to live, arranged by the local government, those who can read and write will go to sort out the documents, those who can settle the accounts will go to calculate the money and grain accounts, those who can draw a bow and shoot arrows will enter the guard, and the children will be sent to study, and the imperial examination will be allowed in the future......

At the beginning, the clan blew up, and he wanted to go to Xiaoling to cry Emperor Tai Zu, but his old man Chrysostom said that Grandmaster Xu would not work. After a few days, there were more people who went out to work than the court in the past, and those who were still watching hurriedly followed, for fear that they would miss the benefits if they went late.

As for those who are young and strong, but who refuse to work and want to slander the government, there are naturally brocade guards waiting for prison.

The Yuanzhi clan said that the great clan did not do it, and before waiting for the New Year's court, they gathered in the capital to discuss with the emperor: the ancestors have such rules, and the ancestors and ancestors have never treated them badly, why does the emperor risk the disapproval of the world and treat the clan relatives harshly?

The emperor didn't say much, and directly ordered someone to put out the accounts: "The world pays tribute to the Jingshi Lu rice for 4 million stones, but the annual distribution of Lu rice to the clan costs 9 million stones, and the imperial court has long been unable to support it! Everyone is the descendants of Emperor Taizu, is it really better than those peddlers and pawns outside? They can support themselves with their hands, and the clan can't live without Lu Mi?"

What's more, the treatment of the feudal lords has not been too bad, and without the distant branch clans fighting the autumn wind, even the palaces of the feudal kings will be much easier.

However, the fear of the vassal kings was not the abolition of the rice, but the fear that this would be another strategy to cut the feudal domain and further reduce their privileges. They are all the descendants of Emperor Taizu, the proud son of the sky, and the vassal king regards himself as superior, if there is no preferential treatment from the court, will he not be bullied by those poor people?

King Fu and his family made a particularly fierce fuss: "Long live wants to reduce our treatment, we don't have much to say, but Your Majesty shouldn't treat the same people the same, and the life of King Xin is much better than ours!"

The emperor was eccentric, and they were not convinced.

The emperor glared at him: "If you stay in Beijing, you will be treated the same as King Xin." ”

The prince of King Fu did not dare to speak up, the battle of the country's capital that day, Emperor Shenzong pushed King Fu to fight with Xianguang Temple, Guangmiao ascended the throne, King Fu went away to the fiefdom, and he was afraid of the revenge of the Guangmiao family.

In the fiefdom Tiangao Emperor is far away, the vassal king can also be a soil emperor, stay in the capital like the king of letters, either read or write all day long, and spin under the emperor's nose every day, and there will be a group of civil officials impeached at every turn, what else is interesting?

King Shin enjoyed it, he was an outlier in the clan, he was close to the emperor, and would rather stay in the capital and be taught by the emperor's brother than go to the domain.

On that day, the emperor wanted to cut the clan Lumi, and King Xin was the first to stand up, willing to start with him, starting with King Xin, the emperor's younger brother, so that the clan did not rebound too much.

Later, King Xin and the emperor said: "Anyway, the palace is just me and the princess, no matter how much we cut, the imperial brother can't wronged us." ”

The emperor laughed: "You only think about you and the princess, but you don't think about your children?"

King Xin was stunned for a moment, his ears were crimson, and he said for a long time: "When you have children, you will come to ask the royal brother for the seal." ”

Folk say that no matter how suspicious the emperor is of believing in the king, it is this brother who can help him at a critical time.

For example, at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Liu Wu, the king of Liang, intended to be a brother and a brother, and wanted Emperor Jing of Han to make him the emperor's younger brother, which could not be said to be without ambition, but during the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, the princes were all opposed, and only King Liang withstood the vanguard of Wu Chu, so that the Han Dynasty could earn a respite, and finally put down the rebellion in three months.

In the eighth year of the Apocalypse, the emperor sent his nursing mother, Keshi, who had taken care of him for many years, out of the palace and made her go to the place to be raised. The Hakka had tears in his eyes, and he looked back many times, but the emperor was unmoved. The power of the harem returned to the queen, and there was a deep blood feud between the queen and the Hakka family, so naturally there was a move to expel the Hakka cronies or put them in idle positions.

As soon as the Hakka family left, Wei Zhongxian lost an arm to help, and felt that he was constrained everywhere, and it was inevitable to complain to the emperor: "In the past two years, long live the old slave who is getting farther and farther away." ”

The emperor was almost happy, the harem palace power should have been in the hands of the queen, Wei Zhongxian united with the Hakka family to set up the queen, and he also complained about his grievances!

The Emperor sighed and said, "I thought that my companion could understand my mind best......

Wei Zhongxian's heart trembled, and he quickly knelt down: "The slave and maid are not smart, only loyalty can be learned, what do you want the slave and maid to do, just one sentence of command, the slave and maid are broken, and the heart is also happy." ”

The emperor stared at Wei Zhongxian's eyes and said, "I don't need a big companion to break my bones, big companion, you should understand that civil officials are not reliable." ”

Wei Zhongxian's party is known as the eunuch party, and Qingliu has never been accustomed to each other, Wei Zhongxian can't wait to chew his tongue in front of the emperor every day and say that Qingliu is a traitor, and he does not hesitate to trap the monarch in injustice for the sake of Bo Qingming.

The emperor just mentioned this, and Wei Zhongxian immediately said: "Long live the wise, those who are scholars, to say the least, have 10,000 hearts, neither compare to our loyalty, but also see our loyalty." ”

The emperor smiled and said, "Big companion, you get up and speak." I can't trust them, but I can trust you, your service by my side is just a trivial matter, and it is the most important thing to be able to clean them up for me. ”

Wei Zhongxian's back straightened: "There is the phrase long live, even if the slave maid is worth death!"

This is what you said, the emperor said in his heart, but he made a sad look on his face: "Hugh said such things, no matter when, I can always protect you." ”

The master and slave then made a plan to make Wei Zhongxian deal with the Donglin Party, but they were not allowed to bite indiscriminately, if there were officials in the Donglin Party who were really capable and practical, they must also be saved, Wei Zhongxian claimed to be loyal to the country, and naturally agreed.

Donglin was originally just a society of scholars, but it has become more and more uncontrolled over the years, if it is okay in peacetime, seeing that the country is about to die, and then let them mess around, how can the emperor gather the strength of the whole country to protect the Ming Dynasty?

Besides, Donglin is not only a sage, Donglin is a genius, but the sentence "the water is too cold" has made future generations laugh for hundreds of years!

To deal with the Donglin Party, the emperor did not have the slightest burden.

As for Wei Zhongxian's indiscriminate climbing, the emperor was not afraid, his purpose was to disperse the prestige of Donglin, so as not to fight with the imperial power, but he did not intend to let their family be ruined. At most, scatter some wealth, Donglin is mostly a wealthy gentry, how much blood they have sucked from the Ming Dynasty, they should also spit it out, so that the empty inner bag of the imperial court can be relieved.

The group of young eunuchs in the West Garden, seeing that the training was quite effective, the emperor simply assigned all the people to the East Factory, and asked Jinyi Wei to select young people to practice.

Jinyi Wei is already a hereditary position, many people lead the title but do not have enough positions to share with them, the emperor ordered, the capital and the north Zhili hundreds of teenagers gathered in one place, according to the law training - even the little eunuchs can train the appearance, if these hereditary Jinyi guards have no effect, it is better to take office.