At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang divided his descendants in various places.

These princes are like seeds, after one or two hundred years have passed, they continue to take root and sprout, mature and bear fruit, and the number of reproduction is very amazing.

In Shanxi Province alone, there was only one Jin king during the Hongwu period, but in the Jiajing period, the number of royal descendants with knighthoods has increased to 1851.

During the Hongwu period, there was only one king of Zhou in Henan, but in the Wanli period, there were more than 5,000 descendants of the royal family.

Because of the ancestral system, these descendants of the royal family could not engage in other occupations, and could only rely on the income of the imperial court to live.

At first, it was indeed not a big problem, but as time went by, these people continued to multiply, and the geometric growth of the royal population meant that the financial expenditure increased dozens or hundreds of times.

During the Jiajing period, there was an imperial history named Lin Run, who listed a set of data:

Every year, there are 4 million stone of grain shipped to the capital, but the royal family has 8,530,000 stone per year.

Shanxi has 1.52 million stones of rice every year, and 3.12 million stones of the royal family.

Henan has 843,000 stones, and the royal family has 1,920,000 stones.

That is to say, even if all the grain retained in the two provinces is paid to the royal family, there is still more than half of the difference.

In this way, where does the officials' salaries come from, and where does the military pay come from?

The output in the field is limited, but the reproduction of the clan is unlimited

Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants gradually became a heavy burden for the Ming Empire.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't find this problem at the beginning, and even if the emperor in the back had discovered it, because of various factors, he could only turn a blind eye to it and choose to suffer the people again.

In addition to these lulu, because of the particularity of their status, the royal family also extended their hands to many profitable areas.

Through all kinds of tricks and plunders, the royal clans have hoarded countless wealth.

These powerful royal clans, in collusion with local wealthy businessmen and officials, can even take and embezzle the same descendants of the royal family for the sake of profit, resulting in the poor clans who are also descendants of the royal family starving to death.

History has reincarnation, and the carnival banquet for so many years is not free after all.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, after Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other "seventy-two" rebels at the end of the Ming Dynasty ruled the world, the carnival feast of the Ming royal family finally came to settle the bill.

These princes, county kings, and generals surnamed Zhu became the most interesting prey of the peasant army.

Wherever peasant armies of all sizes passed, all the royal families and wealthy clans were in danger.

The most magnificent palaces in all parts of the country were almost all wiped out in the continuous wars across the country.

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng waved his army into Shanxi, and whenever he went to a place, he first hunted and killed the royal family.

After Chongzhen conquered Taiyuan at the beginning of the seventeenth year, Li Zicheng's army "captured more than 400 people from the Jin clan, sent them to Xi'an, and killed them".

In March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's army captured Datong again.

Within six days, more than 4,000 royal clans under Acting King Zhu Chuanqi were killed.

The other county kings were hardly spared.

Shanxi alone is only a microcosm.

In fact, although Li Zicheng is famous for "not thirsty for killing", he has fought everywhere, and almost none of those princes surnamed Zhu survived.

And Zhang Xianzhong's army originally took the burning of jade as its specialty, and everywhere he went, the kings swept away and everything was burned.

Zhu Yuanzhang's original idea was to let his son guard the world.

No matter who rebels in the future, it will be the Zhu family who will be the emperor.

However, the development of reality always backfires and is diametrically opposed.

These people have not become the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty.

Instead, they all lay on the merits of their ancestors and became the bloodsuckers of the empire.

For these descendants of the royal family, they lie justifiably and justifiably...... When my ancestors conquered the world, they finished the work of my life, why should I work?

Even in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, when Chongzhen was the poorest and most destitute, these wealthy royal clans didn't think of reaching out and took the initiative to give some money Chongzhen, but they had to reach out to Chongzhen to ask for money - why hasn't this year's Yulu been sent yet? How long do you want to put it off? Even the prince's family has no surplus food!

This directly accelerated the demise of the Ming Dynasty and dealt a devastating blow to their interests.

When the mountains and rivers were about to be broken, when the building of Daming was about to collapse, this group of people did not help in the slightest, but tightened their pockets one by one, for fear that Chongzhen would take away a penny from them.

Faced with this desperate situation, Chongzhen didn't care: Lao Tzu hanged himself!

After the death of the emperor, the royal clans of the Ming Dynasty either made the last resistance, or committed suicide and martyrdom, of course, more of them surrendered to the thieves and surrendered to the Manchus.

When these people first surrendered, the Qing court treated them well, not only giving money and food, but even giving it to officials.

But when it was three years of Shunzhi, the Qing court did not give money and grain. When Lec Dehun marched south, he directly ordered his subordinates:

"As for those who have the surname of the Ming Dynasty and abolished the feudal clan, they all have to avoid death and bring them to Beijing. Poor and forced to surrender, or rebel and return, and those who are sacrificed, all of them will be destroyed! ”

In other words, the Qing Dynasty not only stopped giving money, but also did not treat the descendants of the old Zhu family as nobles, but also completely slaughtered the Ming Dynasty clan.

This has also been the standard practice of all dynasties.

Beginning with Liu Yu of the Southern Dynasty, each new dynasty began to massacre and persecute the royal nobles of the previous dynasty.

When he became an emperor and became a nobleman, his fate was bound to the country, and he lived and died with the country.

It's a pity...... In this world, people who only focus on their own immediate interests occupy the majority after all.

This ending has proved that Lao Zhu's approach is a big mistake.

In this case, of course, Su Che has no psychological burden at all when he changes.

The most important thing is that it's too late to change!

This point in time is also very early.

If you wait until the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the wood has been completed, the disadvantages have been deep, and then you want to change it, it is really too difficult.

Su Che didn't hesitate, and directly made drastic changes!

The first thing to be abolished was Lao Zhu's stipulation that the royal family could not engage in any profession.

The second is the endless offering.

Prior to this, the system of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that the prince should be made a prince.

Awarded the Golden Book of Jinbao, ten thousand stones, can open a government and build teeth, have military power, and have a small number of three thousand guards, and many can reach nineteen thousand.

The degree of food and clothing and various etiquette are only one level inferior to the emperor.

Once the prince's concubine reaches the age of ten, he is awarded the golden book and golden treasure, and is established as the king's son, and the eldest grandson is established as the grandson, and the crown is regarded as a product.

The rest of the prince's sons were awarded gold and silver books and silver treasures at the age of one to ten, and were named county kings.

The eldest son of the county king was established as the prince of the county, and the eldest grandson was awarded the eldest grandson, and the crown was regarded as the second grade.

The other descendants below are the general of Zhenguo, the general of the auxiliary state, the general of Fengguo, the lieutenant of Zhenguo, the lieutenant of the auxiliary country, and the lieutenant of Fengguo, and they descended step by step.

When he was younger than the sixth generation, he was unified as a lieutenant of Fengguo and no longer surrendered.

Under Su Che's changes, the original system, the treatment of the prince was temporarily unchanged, and the treatment of the county king was directly cut by half.

After descending gradually, the Seventh Imperial Family was directly reduced to ordinary commoners, who could engage in any occupation and earn a living.

Furthermore.

Su Che also developed an incentive standard as well as a punishment mechanism!

Those who have merit will be rewarded, and those who have done so will be punished!

Previously, Zhu Yuanzhang treated his children and grandchildren, which was unconditional doting, and he lacked something in his early years, so he gave his son everything he could.

Although most of Zhu Yuanzhang's sons are still very normal, the king of Chu loves to do business, the king of Yan likes to fight, the king of Zhou loves to study medicine, and he likes to study mathematics, and even likes to farm.

Of course, there will be some muddles.

These people do whatever they want by virtue of their status.

For example, Zhu Yuanzhang's tenth son is called Zhu Tan.

This person is good at writing and poetry, humble corporal, Lao Zhu originally liked him very much, and he was named King Lu soon after he was born.

And his marriage with the daughter of the founding father Tang He, it can be said that at a very young age, Zhu Tan's life reached its peak.

At the age of sixteen, Zhu Tan took his wife to his fiefdom Ludi.

The emperor is far away, and without the constraints of the royal family, he can do whatever he wants in the fiefdom.

Without constraints, this is often a disaster for immature people.

Zhu Tan fantasized about becoming an immortal, he raised a lot of Taoist priests and was obsessed with the art of elixir.

His wife, Tang, not only did not persuade and stop her, but on the contrary, she always encouraged her husband's great cause of cultivating immortals.

Later, the Taoist priest beside Zhu Tan lied to him and said that conventional cultivation was too time-consuming, and if he used a hundred eight-year-old eunuchs to perform the exercises, he could speed up his immortalization.

Tang personally led people to search for the eight-year-old boy everywhere in the fiefdom, and after the child was arrested, he was immediately castrated and detained in the palace, and the public resentment boiled for a while.

Later, they extended their claws into the barracks, and many of the children in the barracks were taken away by them.

After someone reported to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and immediately arrested King Lu and his wife into Beijing.

Zhu Yuanzhang first killed his daughter-in-law Tang, and then tortured his son Zhu Tan, the king of Lu, and humiliated Zhu Tan's hair.

The following year, Zhu Tan was poisoned and died.

Lao Zhu was very disgusted, and named him "Waste", known as the King of Luhuang.

Zhu Yuanzhang recorded these absurd things about his son quite clearly, recorded all the mistakes, and made them public, trying to warn other princes.

However, without a proper reward and punishment mechanism, it is unlikely to have much of a deterrent effect.

In addition to the new policy, Su Che also allowed these princes of the Zhu family to develop in an all-round way according to their own preferences.

They have a noble status and status, as well as absolute power, which is simply incomparable to others.

Originally, in Lao Zhu's opinion, these sons' other hobbies were crooked and heretical, and governing the country was the way and the right way, so they were not allowed to develop their hobbies at all.

But now, Su Che has not only let go of the restraints imposed on them, but also encouraged them.

If you like farming, let him study farming, how to fertilize to increase soil fertility, and how to select Lingmi seeds to increase more harvests.

Continuous research from this aspect can make the harvest continue to improve, then it will be greatly rewarded, and it can even become the hero of the entire Ming Dynasty.

In any industry, there is infinite potential.

Su Che's attitude is very clear - Confucianism should not be the main theme of society, Confucianism holds power, and it is indeed noble, but if there is no development in other aspects, it is fundamentally self-contained.

Therefore, even if it is farming, someone should study it.

The ancient farmer respected Shennong as a teacher, and took agriculture as the foundation of the country, and its doctrine had a far-reaching influence.

In the pre-Qin period, there was a saying that "agriculture and agriculture speak power, scholars and scholars speak and act, workers and workers speak skillfully, and business and business words are numerous." ”

All Chinese dynasties have attached importance to agriculture and light business, just to recuperate, which is the foundation of strengthening themselves.

But even though agriculture is so important, it is one of the "nine streams" and one of the lowest industries.

This is absolutely not what it should be.

Su Che didn't have so much energy, and while managing so many things, he also had to study agriculture.

He handed it over to Lao Zhu's son to do it, blossomed in another field, broke some Confucian traditions, and opened up some new tracks.

If the research becomes a system, Su Che will also create an "agricultural college" to recruit people from all over the world who are willing to study agriculture, set up agricultural officials, and manage local agriculture.

There is a specialization in the art industry, and professional people are allowed to manage professional things, rather than letting some Confucian scholars who only know how to do these things.

This was Su Che's idea, and this was just the beginning.

In addition to agriculture.

If you like to do business, let it develop business, set up various commercial places, transport materials and sell them everywhere, and even open the sea to do business in the future, the Silk Road, you can let it get involved.

Rather than giving away part of the profits of business to those wealthy merchant families, it is better to let others eat them, or at least it will be relatively simple to collect taxes.

If you like to study medicine, then let them set up a medical school, teach people who are willing to study medicine in the world, let them serve as medical officials in various places, and establish official hospitals.

If the level of medicine can be raised, those bastards who plagued the Ming Dynasty emperor will no longer exist.

In addition, the development of medicine, like agronomy, is also a new track.

The status of doctors in ancient times was not low, but with the exclusive respect for Confucianism, the status of doctors became lower and lower, which is obviously unreasonable.

Su Che not only encouraged others to study agriculture, but also encouraged others to study medicine.

In addition, if you study mathematics, it is even more worthy of vigorous promotion.

Ancient Chinese mathematics developed to a considerable extent in practical mathematics.

However, due to the lack of systematic mathematical ideas and logical ideas, the height and breadth of its development, as well as its role in promoting society as a whole, are limited to a limited scope and cannot be further developed.

To put it simply, the development of mathematics in China tends to solve practical problems -

For example, bookkeeping, construction, field measurement, and calendar calculation, and the relevant knowledge is mainly mastered by practitioners.

At the same time, because this kind of engineering knowledge has always been regarded as "unpopular" in ancient times when Confucianism was admired, this leads to the fact that the best talents will never devote themselves to the research in these fields, and eventually fall into the ceiling after a certain level of development.

It's a shame that for a long time it has been a leader in the world and a leader in the world, but in the end it has achieved limited results.

Su Che naturally wants to change this phenomenon!

Agronomy, medicine, mathematics, these fields, basically have to be cut off from the cake of Confucianism, and they will inevitably be frantically opposed.

Ordinary people in high positions and powers are not qualified to accomplish this, even the emperors of later generations are also not capable of doing this.

But Su Che is different, his identity is the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

He can judge the life and death of tens of thousands of officials in one word, and what is the point of reform?

Reform is your Confucian life!

It's your Confucian cake!

Defy?

Then die!

Besides.

As for Zhu Di, the king of Yan who likes to fight, Su Che also arranged a task for him, asking him to set up a military academy to teach military talents, command, military formation, and tactics in all aspects.

Zhu Di can't complete it alone, but he can also invite those noble generals!

If this thing is done well, then reward him as the general of the expedition to the north, give him the most elite soldiers and horses, let him fight in the north, and seal the wolf Juxu!

This condition is very tempting, Su Che is not worried that Zhu Di will not agree at all, on the contrary, he will be very happy to do this.

After formulating the relevant policies, Su Che released them.

It's like a bombshell, thrown out one by one, and all of them explode!

Those important ministers of the Ming court were all blown up!

(End of chapter)