The next day, Sincerity Bofu.

"Ye Boju's words are actually quite reasonable." Liu Bowen read the manuscript brought by Zhu Zhen and commented.

As the weather cooled and the autumn leaves turned yellow, the master and apprentice had already returned to the room after teaching each other.

"He saw the disaster of the division very thoroughly, and he said it very clearly." Then Lao Liu commented:

"The weak power of the royal family in the Song and Yuan dynasties certainly made the country unstable. But the emperor's 'dividing the seal is too extravagant', which is too much. How are feudal kings who have fiefs and armies different from independent kingdoms? In the future, it will be a big tail. In this way, in the future, the imperial court had to cut down the feudal domain. Once the feudal domain is cut, it will inevitably attract the resentment of the feudal king and cause greater turmoil...... I don't know when the time comes, which of your brothers and nephews will come under the banner of 'Qingjun'. ”

"Hehe......" Zhu Zhen smiled with mixed tastes and did not answer.

Liu Ji suddenly said:

"I can now understand why you're so obsessed with separating overseas. It seems that there will be a rebellion of the vassal kings in the future, and it may be closer than the 'few generations later' predicted by Ye Boju. ”

"How do you see that?" Zhu Zhen was a little stunned.

"It's very simple, Ye Boju's words are a huge threat to your interests. Once the government and the opposition form a consensus, cutting the feudal domain will become an enduring topic in the Ming Dynasty. Liu Ji said lightly:

And even if the emperor is angry for a while, after a long time, he will understand that what Ye Boju said makes sense. I don't think there is a need for the king of the future, in a few years, the emperor will start to reduce your rights - because he will not do this, and you will have to do it when your eldest brother succeeds to the throne! ”

"The hardest thing to do on this issue is your big brother. As an elder brother, he should not prevent his father from giving the family property to his younger brothers; However, as an heir, how generous he is to the vassal king today will be how tricky the situation will be in the future.

"When he succeeds to the throne, the power, fiefdom and army in the hands of the vassal king are all given by the emperor, and if you want to reduce it, you will bear the infamy of unfilial piety and injustice.

"Although with your eldest brother's position, you will not be criticized and scolded. But your father loves your eldest brother so much that he will definitely be reluctant to let him bear this infamy, so he will definitely take action for him. ”

"Hmm." Zhu Zhen nodded, Lao Liu is worthy of Lao Liu, and he is really accurate.

He knew that in fact, the current moment was the peak of the power of the Ming Domain.

At present, although the vassal king has not yet become a country, the official system of each royal palace has long been established.

Take his Chu Mansion as an example. At present, there are five major institutions: the Wangxiang's Mansion, the Wangfu's Mansion, the Military Participation Office, the Protector's Mansion and the Changshi Division.

Among them, the Wangxiang Mansion has one person each of the two military ministers and the literary ministers. He was responsible for the important military and political affairs in Chu, and was concurrently served by the commander of Huguang and the political envoy of Huguangdu.

There is also one person on the left and right Fu, from the second grade, the left Wang Fu Liu Bowen, and the right Wang Fu is temporarily absent. There are also four companions below, who are elected as veterans of the Ming Dynasty and prudent people; There are four attendants, who are responsible for receiving the transfer of the text. Because the king of Chu is still young, these seats are also empty.

Then there is the military palace that is in charge of the matter of the Chu Domain's lawsuit and prison investigation, with one person who is in the fifth grade to join the army, two people who are in the seventh grade, and one person who is Jishan.

Then there is the military palace in charge of the three guards of the palace, each guard has five left, right, front, back, and middle five guards, and there are two people in one thousand households and ten people in one hundred households. There are also two executioners who are responsible for the guards, and one person is set up for one hundred households.

Finally, there is the Changshi Division, which is responsible for the daily affairs of the palace, with two people on the left and right Changshi, and five products.

Through such a complete and high-standard imperial bureaucracy, the feudal lords were able to inquire into the military and political affairs of their provinces, the military deployment of the metropolitan guards, the training and mobilization of the military, and the inspection of local officials.

In particular, the ministers and officials of the royal palace held many official positions, and they could rely on their status and influence to interfere in local administrative affairs and mobilize the army within the country.

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated that the local civil and military governors should visit the prince every month and make a monthly report to him. In special circumstances, the vassal king could summon and control the local civil and military forces at any time.

In Boss Zhu's top-level design, the vassal king is actually the minister sent by the imperial court to the local minister, supervising and having the right to take charge of local military and political affairs.

If this set of rules remains unchanged, after the sixth child becomes a vassal, he will be a veritable king of Huguang.

And he listened to his brothers say that there is no need to wait for the domain, and when the big wedding comes, the local civil and military will come to be courteous and respectful, and offer the 'fist and filial piety' of the local fathers. After three festivals and two birthdays, they also continued to give gifts, otherwise they would not have been so generous as soon as they moved to the palace.

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Although Zhu Zhen couldn't figure out the specific time steps, he knew that when his father was still alive, he began to weaken the power of the vassal king.

Anyway, in the last years of Hongwu, the vassal king had neither a king nor a prince, and he didn't even join the army. Moreover, Boss Zhu also strictly forbade the royal officials to interfere in local affairs, which greatly weakened the political power of the royal government office.

Moreover, at present, all the officials of the royal palace and the vassal king have the power of life and death, and who to appoint and who to depose is decided by the vassal king alone, and the court is not allowed to interfere.

But in the future, the subordinate officials of the royal palace must have been appointed by the imperial court, and the vassal king was no longer allowed to beak.

However, while the political power was restricted, the military power of the vassal kings continued to expand - this was because Zhu Yuanzhang's goal of dividing the feudal kings, especially the feudal kings, was to let them gradually take the place of the border generals and military ministers, and snatch the military power from the military generals.

But the eldest nephew later felt that the military power was in the hands of his uncles, and it was better to be in the hands of the generals. I wanted to change again, but I lost myself...... Of course, that's another story.

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It's hard to say whether the father was touched by Ye Boju's soothing, and began to reflect on whether he gave too much power to the vassal king, and then began the process of weakening the vassal king.

People are selfish, and Zhu Zhen doesn't want to be deprived of his power.

"If you hadn't foreseen the rebellion of the vassal kings, and it was the rebellion of the vassal kings that would occur in your lifetime, with your temper of refusing to suffer, you would have jumped a long time ago." Liu Bowen teased: "How can you still be calm and discuss with the old man what is the disaster of separation?" ”

"Hey, Master's Wisdom." Zhu Zhen smiled, and immediately said: "Yes, I did foresee the rebellion of the future vassal kings. I also knew that my father would begin to weaken the power of the vassal king. A few decades later, the vassal royal clan became a captive piglet. was deprived of military and political power, and only deserved to enjoy and reproduce, and finally became a malignant tumor that dragged down the Ming Dynasty! ”

"People are selfish, and I don't want to let myself and my children and grandchildren accept the fate of being in captivity. But I also know that in the sea, there is no reason for the vassal king to preserve all his rights. If you want to preserve all your rights, you can only do it overseas! After he finished speaking categorically, he asked softly:

"Master, do you think it's appropriate for me to mention the separation of overseas seals with my eldest brother now?"

(End of chapter)