The Ming Dynasty is poor, and the reason why it is poor is because the palace from the concubines to the eunuchs and palace maids need to come out of the inner treasury, and it is not uncommon for the eunuchs to have their hands black the emperor's silver, plus rewards, temple repairs, etc., the inner treasury has long been beyond its means for the royal family.

There is no silver in the inner treasury, the emperor can only reach out to the household, the household department does not care whether there is silver, in short, as long as the emperor wants to cry poor, there is really no way to allocate a little, this is also no way, otherwise the emperor will be in a hurry, what if he is determined to compete with the people?

Of course, in the eyes of the officials, this people are not ordinary people, this people refer to the businessmen and wealthy families who are closely related to them.

The biggest difference between the Ming Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty is that the poor and the rich, the Song Dynasty royal wealth, the officials were high, and the business atmosphere in the society was strong, as for the small people at any time were wrapped in harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, there was nothing to say.

The Ming Dynasty was poor in the royal family, poor in the treasury, and poor in the people.

To put it bluntly, the silver that should have been the emperor or the tax income of the inner treasury was swallowed by the officials for various reasons, and the emperor knew it, but he had no way to solve it.

Because as long as the emperor wants to generate income, then he will inevitably be blocked, and then there will be one big hat after another, and the emperor will be annoyed, but he is helpless.

Therefore, even if there is no problem with Emperor Taizu's feudal system, the division of feudal domains after Emperor Yongle has changed is typical nonsense.

Dividing the kings, Taizu's original intention was to let the descendants of the Zhu family defend the Ming Dynasty, after all, they are all his descendants, and it is understandable to protect the Ming Dynasty itself.

It's a pity that Zhu Biao died early, and Zhu Yunwen, who succeeded to the throne, was very talented, and when he was not yet on the throne, he yelled to cut the domain, and finally Zhu Di, who was forced to helpless, could only raise troops and make it difficult.

Zhu Di, who succeeded in appeasement, naturally realized that the vassal king with military power in his hand was the biggest threat to the royal family, so he ......

Since Yongle, Taizu's feudal feudal system has completely existed in name only, and the Zhu Emperor started because his ancestor Yongle Emperor rebelled, so the royal defense against the vassal king is almost deep in the bone marrow.

Because no one wanted to be the emperor himself, there was another Zhu Di among the vassal kings, and the courtiers of the Manchu Dynasty did not want the Golden Palace to be stained with blood.

The emperor defends the royal family like a thief, and the minister defends the vassal king like a villain, in this environment, the situation of the vassal kings can be imagined, belonging to the civil system of the feudal officials headed by Changshi, as well as local officials from all over the country, and the brocade guards belonging to the royal family are staring at the vassal king all the time.

For example, Emperor Zhengde, who doesn't want to be an emperor and just wants to be a general, can still seize the opportunity to run away and give up the throne to his younger brother, there is really no way to describe it in words.

The civil bureaucracy was happy to see the royal policy toward the feudal kings, but if we look at the problem from a relative perspective, there is no doubt that the more favorable it is to the civilian government, the more unfavorable it is to the royal family.

As long as the royal descendants are not princes, they will be divided out once they reach adulthood, in short, in the capital, only the royal family faces the officials all over the world with their bare hands!

Two fists are still difficult to defeat four hands, not to mention that even if the emperor has learned the way of being a king, it is also taught by Confucianism, even if he knows the emperor's mental skills, he has not really practiced it, it is just on paper.

can rank in the court, which is not an old fox who has experienced cruel political struggles and climbed up step by step, who can fight with ministers at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, and is known as the smartest Jiajing Emperor in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

And at the beginning, Jiajing could only rely on playing scoundrels, and with the help of foreign ministers, he had to fight with the ministers, and before that, Jiajing was suppressed by Yang Tinghe to death, and he wanted to die.

Therefore, Zhu Di's strategy of raising the vassal king as a pig actually benefited the most from the civil officials, and the emperor had no helper, so he was alone in the court.

Why did Zhu Houwei bring all the vassal kings into Beijing?

Is he so short-sighted? Is it really just for the silver, so regardless of it, I'd rather be infamous on the back of the clan?

Of course, Zhu Houwei is indeed short of silver, but as a modern person, he has so many means to get silver that he doesn't know which one to use, and even as long as he is willing, even if he doesn't move the salt government and doesn't levy commercial taxes, he can build a huge business empire!

This is confidence and self-confidence, in the final analysis, Zhu Houwei's main purpose of tossing the vassal king is two.

One is that the vassal king has indeed become a local cancer, if he doesn't pull out this cancer, the days when the place suffers from it don't know when it will be a head, and the preferential treatment policy of the grass egg clan has indeed brought a serious economic burden to the Ming Dynasty's finances, he does not change, and future generations will be forced to change, so why doesn't he do it first, why leave the problem to the children and grandchildren?

The second is that he needs to cultivate royal forces, to put it bluntly, he wants to add sand to the civil official system, and there will be more descendants of the Zhu family in the court, at least he can play balance, after all, no matter what, the surname Zhu is good, the royal family is good, the surname Zhu is good, and the officials of the Zhu family are his natural allies.

As for whether the descendants of the Zhu family will sit big, such as controlling the army and threatening the imperial rule, these are not within Zhu Houwei's consideration at all.

Zhu Houwei reorganized the army from Huzhou, and everything he did was to make the object of the army's allegiance always be the royal family, and then the Chinese nation, so he improved the treatment of soldiers, made them literate and reasonable, improved the sense of honor of soldiers, and the pension policy.

In addition, a series of measures such as eliminating the family and cutting off the loyalty of a small number of soldiers to the generals will be cut off, and a series of measures will be carried out in the future, such as the change of generals, and finally firmly control the army in the world in the hands of the royal family, so no matter how the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty jump around, they will not be able to jump out of the emperor's palm.

To get back to the point, I said earlier that the royal family is poor, but the royal family is not poor!

Every feudal king became a feudal lord, and the royal family would give a large amount of land and a large amount of gold and silver, which could be regarded as a disguised compensation from the royal family to the feudal king.

In addition, the royal family has royal estates, shops, and embezzled industries, such as mines, etc., and the royal family's expenses are not the same as those of the royal family.

The royal family has no money to spend, but the royal family has no place to use it, and then it is accumulated for dozens or hundreds of years, and this wealth is like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger, rolling more and more......

has grown a thick body of wool, and still expects Zhu Houwei not to do it?

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