Seeing that Lao Zhu's mood was almost collapsing, Li Qing hurriedly spoke to appease him.

"Brother Chong, I know you're in a hurry, but don't worry about it first."

Li Shimin: Why do I seem to have heard this somewhere? Yes, I want us to ...... Bah bah bah was crooked by his old zhu he thought that when i first met my virtuous brother and i put the sword on his neck, he said this sentence.

"You can't look at it that way, although the low-level clans don't have anything to eat, but as the saying goes, as long as the mind doesn't slip, there are always more ways than difficulties, this is not ...... Our Daming has a rule that after the clan makes a mistake, it will be thrown into Fengyang and imprisoned. Li Qing began to find real examples from history: "Many clans who have no food to eat often choose to dispatch small problems that do not cause death in order to make a living, so that they can be sent to Fengyang to eat in prison." ”

"Never underestimate the flexibility of the hungry people, such as Zhu Qiniron, the grandson of the fifth Zhu Hu, because the court owed him Lu rice, so he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and directly wrote a recital to the Jiajing Emperor at that time, the words in it are not very good anyway, in short, it is a convincing scolding to Jiajing."

Of course, he thought better, this letter was changed by Emperor Jiajing, and it was not a loss; If you get angry and throw me into the high wall of Fengyang, we will also have food, no matter what, it will be a profitable business - of course, he also got what he wanted, Jiajing didn't say a word after reading it, and directly stuffed him in Fengyang. ”

He went in and served an iron rice bowl, but his son Zhu Chaogao was gone, so poor that he was so angry that he couldn't wait to pay in installments when he bought a crotch cloth. In the case of no choice, he thought about it and finally learned that his father also gave Jiajing a lesson, and Emperor Jiajing didn't think much about it, and also threw him into the father-son reunion, enjoying the days of being supported and relied on in prison. ”

"In the high wall of Fengyang, you don't have to worry about wind and rain, you don't have to worry about the cold and summer, and you don't have to worry about food and clothing, the father and son are quite comfortable, and they don't want to go out at all."

Speaking of which, Li Qing is really a turtle running a day school - he couldn't hold back his laughter, he was happy for a long time, and even brought Li Shimin on the side to laugh together.

I have to say that my Ming clan does have a life, and I can't find such a group of ruthless people in the abstract for thousands of years.

Not alive? Who is surnamed Zhu if he doesn't live......

After laughing for a while, he wiped his tears and asked, "Brother Chong, Xiaobiao, guess what?" ”

"How?" The two asked in unison.

As a result, he didn't stay for a few years, and Jiajing ...... Dead~! After the new emperor ascended the throne, he granted amnesty to the world, and released it to the grandfather and son! ”

Li Qing could even imagine what the mood of Zhu Qin's father and son was at that time - our meal!!

"This, this, this...... Our children and grandchildren, it's too hard......" Zhu Yuanzhang felt his heart twitching, but he believed that men had tears and did not flick lightly, and he did not have developed tear ducts like Li Shimin.

He no longer dared to think about the life of his children and grandchildren in the future, and he felt worried when he thought about it.

In fact, this mood is also understandable, after all, what Li Qing just said was just the group of clans who were not doing well.

"Hey, this is still relatively legal, they can't do it, after talking about the big hungry people, we have to talk about the big evil people." Li Qing said with a smile: "It's the Zhu Gui who was just given birth two months ago...... Well, he should be the acting king, and his sixth grandson, Zhu Chongzhuo, relied on his clan identity to gather a group of lawbreakers in Datong to bully and dominate the market, and there was no evil in the fish and meat township, and even the prefect of Datong dared to rob ......"

*Rage from Zhu Yuanzhang +5000

"What?! How dare he do such a thing! Lao Zhu's blood pressure went up all of a sudden.

Li Qing didn't answer, but continued to tell Lao Zhu about Zhu Chongzhuo's great lack of virtue.

"For having such a younger brother, the then acting king Zhu Chongyi was very happy, with such a brother as you, I really cultivated eight lifetimes of blood blessings, and I was moved, he and the governor of Datong joined forces to report Zhu Chongzhuo to the imperial court."

"Emperor Jiajing immediately fined Zhu Chongzhuo and others for one year to set an example, but for them, the rice given by the imperial court is the foundation of their lives, and this time the root of their lives is broken, which is fatal."

So, Zhu Chongzhuo gathered a group of clans who were also owed money by the imperial court, and decided to ask for wages from the imperial court. They planned to collude with the White Lotus Sect internally and the Tatars externally, and the plan was quite good, but the messenger was arrested as soon as he left Datong. ”

"In this way, Zhu Chongzhuo's armed salary plan went bankrupt ahead of schedule, and Jiajing, who learned of this, was furious, if you dare to break ground on my head, then I will physically send you to the ground. After the trial of Yousi, Zhu Chongzhuo and others were given to commit suicide and crematory. ”

*Rage from Zhu Yuanzhang +10000

"Brute! Brute! Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, he never expected that the children and grandchildren of his descendants would give him such a big eye.

"There are not many people like Zhu Chongzhuo, in addition to plotting rebellion, there are also those who go to the street to smash and loot, and there are those who beat local officials, in short, a master leads into the door and shoots an individual, each with its own criminal law, in addition to the cover of your "Da Ming Law", the descendants of the clan have all committed it."

Li Qing spread his hands and said that this is where it is.

"Of course, it can't be said that the clans have all lived like this, this is just the suffering of the small clans, and the big clans are more nourishing than anyone else. For example, the Qin and Jin dynasties, their descendants annexed land and plundered people's land, and they lived better than anyone else. ”

"Uncle has the best of both worlds?" Zhu Biao immediately asked.

"You are the prince of the Ming Dynasty, your father is the emperor, this kind of thing should be thought of by you, I can only give you a little shallow opinion." Li Qing spread his hands, "So I still suggest that it is better to change it from the root, it is better to descend the title to inheritance, and those who have great merit in the country can be hereditary and replaced, as the so-called gentleman's Ze V is beheaded, and it should be broken." ”

"That's it, you see that my Datang doesn't have a clan problem." Li Shimin interjected on the side.

Zhu Yuanzhang pouted: "You Datang don't have it, because your Datang clan was killed by Wu Zetian!" ”

Li Shimin covered his heart, it hurt, it hurts......

"In fact, these vassal kings, when the Ming Dynasty fell, actually did not contribute much to the imperial court......" Li Qing said this, ready to talk about those vassal kings who lived in poverty and luxury.

Regarding Li Qing's sentence "the Ming Dynasty perished", Lao Zhu was not shocked or angry, after all, how can there be a dynasty in this world for thousands of generations?

"In the forty years of Wanli, the son of Emperor Wanli, King Fu, became a vassal, Zheng Guifei asked for 40,000 hectares of land, and the ministers fought for it, and finally had to change it to 20,000, and put forward a bunch of requirements."

"First, the 40,000 hectares of Zhuangtian are halved, and 20,000 hectares are still required. second, without Zhang Juzheng's wealth, the surviving officials were allocated to Fufu; Third, from Yangzhou to Taiping in Anhui, various miscellaneous taxes along the river were allocated to Fufu; Fourth, part of the proceeds from Sichuan Yanjing were transferred to Fufu; Fifth, please bring 1,300 salt to you. ”

Hearing this, Lao Zhu's hair stood on end.

*Rage from Zhu Yuanzhang +10000

"Extravagance! It's just a luxury! He scolded angrily: "This Wanli Dog Emperor, how fucking is he so doting on King Fu? ”

"This is not the end," Li Qing glanced at Lao Zhu with pity: "After the outbreak of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Quartet conscription team marched through Luoyang, and the soldiers all expressed their indignation. ”

At that time, Lu Weiqi, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, who was retired at home, repeatedly persuaded King Fu that even if he only planned for himself, he should open the treasury and take out some money to help the people. However, King Fu didn't listen, and after the rebel army broke through Luoyang, all his wealth and goods fattened the rebel army......"

"Of course, he is not the only one, like the descendants of your son King Shu, just like him...... It's hard to say in a word, highlighting an iron rooster who doesn't pull out a hair, and he doesn't want to die if he asks for money. ”

*Rage from Zhu Yuanzhang +20000

"Reform! We must reform! These wolf-hearted, white-eyed wolves!! Zhu Yuanzhang was heartbroken.

"It's okay, there's no rush for this kind of thing, there will always be a way anyway, don't rush for a while." Li Qing calmed Lao Zhu's emotions: "After talking about the problem of the vassal king, I have to talk about the problem of the prime minister." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's mood became fast, and he immediately turned his mind from the grief and indignation of his descendants for future generations, and looked like he was listening to his ears.

"In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Prime Minister Hu Weiyong plotted to rebel, and was killed after the matter was leaked." Li Qing continued to narrate: "After killing Hu Weiyong, you have never set up a prime minister, and this official position has been completely abolished. ”

Some people say that Lao Zhu just killed Hu Weiyong in order to cancel the prime minister - but in fact, Hu Weiyong really deserves to die, his death is not a great joy, at least it can be said that the whole world celebrates.

"Since then, the power of the prime minister has been dispersed to six ministries, and the imperial power has been strengthened like never before."

"Hey, that's what we want to do." Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be happy: "It's just that after the abolition of the prime minister, Hu Weiyong, who was originally the prime minister, had no place to replace, so he never moved this position." ”

"Wouldn't it be nice to have the prime minister to help share government affairs?" Li Shimin suddenly said on the side, "The emperor's energy is also limited, and it is impossible to take all the government affairs to himself." ”

"This is the problem of different governing philosophies, one generation has one generation of ideas." Li Qing smiled and said to Li Shimin: "A considerable part of the countless experiences summed up by later generations are drawn from your Datang. ”

Li Shimin took a deep breath.

"But the cabinet that came out in later generations is also quite good, which is equivalent to assuming the obligations of the prime minister, but not having the power of the prime minister." Li Qing continued.

"The Cabinet?" Lao Zhu became interested at once, although he is a workaholic and a person with a strong desire to control, but he also wants to do things that can save his mind without separating the power in his hands.

During the period of Taizong of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor selected the officials of the Hanlin Academy as scholars of the palace, entered the Wenyuan Pavilion in the palace, served the emperor, and began to participate in the decision-making of confidential affairs, and the "cabinet" appeared. ”

When Li Qing said this, Lao Zhu's expression was very interested, and then Li Qing's words changed.

Later, the status of the cabinet increased day by day, and the power gradually expanded. The scholars had the right to draft the emperor's reply to the ministers' recitals, and the first assistant who presided over the affairs of the cabinet was even more powerful to the ministers. When Xia Yan and Yan Song were the first assistants, "they were the real prime ministers and suppressed the six qings". When Zhang Juzheng was the first assistant, all the power was vested in the cabinet, and the six ministries almost became subordinate organs of the cabinet. ”

"There are actually many reasons for the expansion of cabinet power, but the biggest reason may be the emperor's intentional indulgence." Li Qing said and spread his hands.

In fact, this is also the case, the cabinet was still "paper paste three pavilion old" in the Chenghua period, but in the Ming Xiaozong period, he began to deliberately improve the status of the cabinet. Many people mistakenly think that the status of the cabinet has been very high from the beginning, but in fact, the status of the cabinet was originally lower than that of the sixth ministry. At the beginning of the formation of the cabinet, the members of the cabinet were all from other imperial institutions, of course, mainly the backbone henchmen of the "six departments". During the Renxuan period, the auxiliary ministers represented by the "Three Yangs" directly entered the cabinet, and the power of the cabinet was rapidly improved.

After the absence of the prime minister, the official secretary in charge of personnel appointments became a "heavenly official", and his rank was higher than that of the ministers. During the Hongxi period, the scholar Yang Shiqi was added to the title of Sangu and Shangshu, but when he was reinstated, he still lived under the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu Jianyi and Xia Yuanji.

In the fourth year of Hongzhi, Wang Shu, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, was still ranked above Qiu Jun, who had entered the cabinet with the Ministry of Rites at that time; However, in the sixth year of Hongzhi, Zhu Youzhi changed to let Qiu Jun be above Wang Shu. From this time on, the people who entered the cabinet by Shilang and Zhan Shi were all listed above the six books.

If you really want to say that the cabinet has completed the last step of evolution, it will be up to me Zhu Old Taoist Priest Great Fluttering Moth My Qian Houxi.

"Isn't this the reality of a prime minister, but not the position of a prime minister?" Lao Zhu said viciously.

It seems that this prime minister has been canceled in vain, although the descendants have not re-established the prime minister, but this cabinet chief assistant is not the prime minister?

"In the final analysis, the gradual expansion of cabinet power is mainly due to the efforts of later emperors from generation to generation." Li Qingtan spread his hands and said that he could not do anything: "There is no problem with the cabinet itself, the problem lies with your children and grandchildren." ”

"We get it!" Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Biao viciously.

Zhu Biao suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart, and then the ominous came as scheduled, and he was kicked in the ass.

"Bastard! Look at what your descendants have done! ”

Old Zhu roared like thunder.

Li Qing opened his mouth and decided not to say anything.

That's not bad for him...... It's you Zhu Yuanzhang who started too fast, Xiaobiao, if you want to blame, blame your father who beats people indiscriminately.

Zhu Biao had a bitter face, passively bearing his father's big flying feet.

Forget it, kick it twice, kick it twice, if the descendants don't fight, then you have to suffer.

Li Shimin looked at Li Qing with a playful gaze, and now he finally understood why the virtuous brother was always so happy day by day.

Hey, this fun hey, it's not in vain, it does make people happy.

But Lao Zhu and Li Shimin are obviously different, and he is really reluctant to be this good child. If he hadn't been so angry just now, he wouldn't have kicked people.

After kicking twice, Lao Zhu began to feel distressed, he put down his foot, patted his boots and continued to ask Li Qing as if he was fine.

"What about after Hu Weiyong? What's the bigger deal? ”

(End of chapter)