Chapter 41: Cutting the Roots!
Contribution?
That's a real thing!
All the content of the feudal reduction policy is the work of these three people!
Zhu Di gritted his teeth hatefully, eager to chop Qi and Huangfang and the three of them now!
Storm Zhao glanced at Su Yang deeply, he had always been very clear that Su Yang was quite hostile to the imperial court.
At first, Storm Zhao mistakenly thought that Su Yang was a poor child of his family, so he was like this, but now it seems that the truth is not the case.
"Su Yang, if you have anything to say, just say it!"
"Yes, good son-in-law, just say anything directly."
Tyrant Zhao and Zhu Di opened their mouths one after another, both wanting to see Su Yang's understanding of the imperial court's cutting of the domain.
After all, the imperial court's cutting of the feudal domain involved both of them, and it was impossible to really talk about right and wrong.
It's just that the two sides have different positions.
Su Yang looked at Bang Zhao and Zhu Di, and secretly muttered in his heart.
Neither of these two is a good stubble!
One is the interview envoy of Beiping, the secretary of the criminal department, who was ordered to investigate the rebellion of Zhu Di, the king of Yan!
Although the origin of one is unknown, it can be known from speculation that he must be the henchman of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and should be a family general or something.
The two of them are not fighting directly now, which can be regarded as a very face-saving thing.
Su Yang thought for a moment, sorted out the wording, and tried to dissect Zhu Yunwen's action of cutting the feudal domain, so that the two of them could think of themselves.
After all, whether it is cutting the feudal domain or appeasement, in the final analysis, this is a game between the big guys.
And he, Su Yang, Violent Zhao, and Su Yang, the bastard father-in-law, are just pawn tool people who were forced to get involved.
"First of all, we need to figure out one thing, why does Zhu Yunwen have to cut the domain, and he is still so urgent, he can't even wait for him to change the yuan and build a new one next year?"
Hearing Su Yang call His Majesty the Emperor by his name, Tyrant Zhao and Ye Xixian both frowned, but they had also understood before, Su Yang's kid was so virtuous, so he endured it without having a seizure.
On the contrary, Zhu Di heard that Su Yang opened and closed his mouth to Zhu Yunwen, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that Su Yang was pleasing to the eye.
The son-in-law of my Yan King Zhu Di should have such courage to call the name of the dog emperor!
"This is also the question raised by Fang Cai Yuezhang, the bones of the first emperor are not cold, Zhu Yunwen will implement the reduction of the feudal domain now, it will only cause criticism in vain, in this case, then why can't he Zhu Yunwen even wait for these few months?"
Hearing Su Yang's question, both Storm Zhao and Zhu Di fell into deep thought.
In fact, they have always wondered why the new emperor Zhu Yunwen did this, and he told the truth!
It is still the thirty-first year of Hongwu, and it still belongs to the period of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, as soon as the new emperor Fu ascended the throne, he immediately cut the feudal domain, and the cuts were all the sons of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, what do you make the people of the world think?
In just a few months, when it comes to your new emperor's own time, can't you wait?
"Su boy, what do you mean ......"
Zhu Di looked at Su Yang, his face full of encouragement and recognition.
Rest assured!
Say it boldly!
Uncle Yue is here to support you!
Lao Tzu just wants the world to know the true face of Zhu Yunwen's little bastard!
Storm Zhao also looked at Su Yang, with a little doubt in his eyes.
Su Yang smiled slightly, and lined up the three tea bowls on the table.
"Before we can figure out this problem, we first have to know the forces above the court after the new emperor ascends the throne!"
"One is the power of the vassal kings, represented by Zhu Di, King of Yan, Zhu Di, King of Zhou, Zhu Zhen, King of Chu and other sons of Taizu, most of them are arrogant and lawless, and they have heavy troops, and their fiefs are also in the key places of border defense, so the new emperor Zhu Yunwen is extremely jealous of this force!"
Zhu Di and Bang Zhao both nodded, there is nothing to say, if the new emperor Zhu Yunwen is not afraid of the vassal king, where will he impatiently implement the policy of cutting the domain.
To put it bluntly, Zhu Yunwen is not afraid, his ass of the dragon chair has not yet been hot, and he was directly robbed!
"The second is the power of honorable and noble military ministers, represented by Li Jinglong, Duke of Cao, Xu Huizu, Duke of Wei, Geng Bingwen, Marquis of Changxing, and Mujia of Yunnan."
"Although in the last years of Hongwu, they were bloodily purged by Emperor Taizu Gao, but the hundred-legged insects died but did not stiffen, and there were still a large number of noble and military ministers sitting in various places holding great power, and the power of these founding nobles should not be underestimated!"
Everyone nodded again, the founding lord is still a behemoth, even if he suffered the bloody purge of Emperor Taizu Gao, he still controls the right to speak in the court.
After all, Emperor Taizu Gao has always promoted "emphasizing military force and ignoring literature", and the strength of the noble and military ministers has comprehensively crushed the civil officials and gentry.
"The third is the civil official force, represented by Zhu Yunwen's imperial grandson Donggong team, Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai, and Fang Xiaoru, and then the auxiliary ministers left by Emperor Taizu Gao to Zhu Yunwen, forming a third-party force above the court, and the problem is precisely this third-party force!"
The problem, is it the civilian power?
Hearing Su Yang's words, Storm Zhao's face became a little solemn slightly!
"During the Hongwu period, the imperial court fought in the south and the north, and it was very busy, and the entire imperial court also put the military first, and the status of civil officials was not high."
"Until Zhu Yunwen was canonized as the emperor's grandson, Emperor Taizu Gao consciously increased the voice of civil officials in the court, which was also to prepare for the smooth transfer of the throne."
"And after the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne and became emperor, the civil and military affairs of the court were completely unbalanced, and the civil official group completely controlled the right to speak in the court, especially the Jiangnan civil official group represented by Qi and Huangfang quickly grasped the power of the imperial court!"
"Out of their own class demands, they can't wait to reform the Taizu Law, and abolish all the systems that harm their interests, such as the heavy tax problem in Jiangnan, all of which are reduced or exempted, and there is no more than one fight per mu, and the Su and Song people still have to be officials and households, ignoring the ancestral training of Taizu!"
"The Jiangnan region is the most prosperous and stable place in the entire Ming Dynasty, and it is also a well-known land of fish and rice, Jiangnan is not unique to the Ming Dynasty, it is the case in all dynasties, but now the imperial court has reduced the taxes in Jiangnan on a large scale, and it is as low as the sparsely populated provinces such as Yunnan and Shaanxi, is this reasonable?"
"The densely populated and fertile Jiangnan region, as well as the sparsely populated and sparsely populated Yunnan, Shaanxi, Yunnan, who does the court expect to pay taxes? If the imperial court's tax revenue is insufficient, it will be evenly distributed among the major provinces, anyway, the heavy taxes in Jiangnan are solved, and they don't care about other problems. ”
After a pause, Su Yang took a sip of tea.
"The same is true for the reduction of feudal domains, the strong reform of civil officials will inevitably have an impact on the old order, and the first to bear the brunt is naturally the vassal power and noble forces of the Hongwu Dynasty who have enjoyed the dividends, after all, the civil official group has suffered from these two forces in the Hongwu Dynasty."
"But the founding lords have been in decline so far, and it is difficult to compete with the civil official group at all, so there is only one vassal king with a heavy army left, and cutting off all these vassal kings can not only strengthen the centralization of power, but also a merit, Qi Huangfang and others can take this to go further and truly take charge of the central power of the court!"
"The new emperor Zhu Yunwen originally intended to cut the domain, and the civil official group was also happy to push the boat down the river, so he couldn't wait to make suggestions, and a vigorous action to cut the feudal domain began!"
"The real driving force behind the scenes is not the new emperor Zhu Yunwen, but his civil official group!"
"Scholars rule the country, show the talent court!"