Shanxi, Binh Duong.

I don't know when it started, but this winter came earlier and earlier, and the weather became colder and colder.

Compared to Taiyuan Province in the north, the snow in Binh Duong Province has always been slightly later, and it usually starts to snow after the frost falls.

But just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, snowflakes fell intermittently in the sky, and the temperature dropped all of a sudden.

Zhu Shencone was walking in the direction of his home with one foot high and one foot low, because of the first snow, the snowflakes on the road that were not very good soon turned into snow water, and the ground became muddy.

As the sky gets darker, there are fewer pedestrians on the streets, and the excitement of the day is coming to an end.

In inconspicuous places, ragged homeless people and beggars snuggled up against the corner of the wall to hide, just like today's Ming Dynasty, it looks so prosperous and powerful, but in fact it has long been riddled with holes.

Zhu Shencone has been in this world for several years.

The Ming clan, the second generation of Jin King Zhu Jixishu's second son, Jiaocheng King Zhu Meiyuan, the second son, the lieutenant of Jue Fuguo, is the same generation as the current emperor, that is, the Wanli Emperor.

This is Zhu Shencone's current identity, compared with his previous life, this identity can not be described as noble, but it is a pity that when Zhu Shencone understood this era, he was completely speechless for his identity.

It stands to reason that as a member of the clan, Zhu Shencone has been a master since he was born, and according to the title of the clan, even if he is only a low-level auxiliary lieutenant, the grade also ranges from the fifth grade.

People often say that the county order of the seven products, but in fact, in the Ming Dynasty, the county order can be made from the seven products, so what is the concept of the five products? According to the level, it is equivalent to the deputy department level.

When Zhu Shencheng was working in the agency, the director of their county bureau was only a regular department, and he was still two levels away from the county magistrate's department, not to mention the high-ranking deputy hall.

It's good now, Zhu Shencong, who didn't even have a deputy department in his previous life, became a deputy hall in a blink of an eye, isn't this a good thing? But this is not the case at all, being a clan in the Ming Dynasty is the most unlucky thing for the entire feudal dynasty.

In Lao Zhu, that is, in the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, the days of the Ming clan were the best, and the vassal kings and ordinary clans at that time had a really good life, with soldiers and territory in their hands, as well as the preferential treatment of the clan given by Lao Zhu, and it was almost the existence of the emperor of the soil in the place.

It's a pity that not long after the good days, Lao Zhu Yiga, stunned Qing Jianwen came to power and became the emperor, and this day changed.

Jianwen's gang of big fools around him can only brag and say big things, why can't they do it, but Jianwen likes to listen to these, Jianwen, who was fooled and abducted, wanted to be a saint, and he patted his head and started cutting the domain, sharpening his knife Huo Huo to his uncle.

In just one year, the kings of Zhou, Qi, Xiang, Dai, and Min, the kings of the domains, were imprisoned by their eldest nephews, and they died.

Then, Jianwen prepared to attack Zhu Di, the most powerful Yan King.

Zhu Laosi is also a ruthless person, he pretended to be crazy before Jianwen started, his hair was scattered, he talked nonsense, burned the stove and covered the quilt in summer, and grabbed food with people on the street...... Heard that people have eaten dog shit?

To put it bluntly, this set is not unusual, Zhu Laosi is not the first, and definitely not the last.

Sun Bin is the one whose knee was cut off, and he did it. Song Jiang and Song Gongming's brother also did this, after Zhu Laosi, Tang Bohu, who painted the picture of the Spring Palace, and even Wu Sangui, who is only seven years old now, did the same before he fell out with Kang Mazi decades later.

The trick is an old trick, but the effect is good, and this trick actually fooled the young Jianwen.

Just when Jianwen felt that Zhu Laosi was crazy and was screaming madly, who thought that Zhu Laosi would take advantage of Jianwen's carelessness to find an opportunity to suddenly raise troops to rebel, and played the banner of Jingnan, and directly rolled up his sleeves and prepared to fight with his eldest nephew.

As soon as Jianwen heard Zhu Laosi raise his army, he was stunned for a moment, and then laughed happily, leaning forward and leaning back and applauding.

Rebel? Hey, Uncle Four, you made it well! I was still thinking about how to start when you were crazy, how to buckle your hat, but now I jumped out? Isn't this rushing to bring about your own destruction?

How many people do you Zhu Laosi have? It's just 100,000, how many soldiers and horses do I have, nephew? That's 600,000! 600,000 against 100,000, the advantage is mine!

Jianwen immediately ordered to send troops to quell the chaos, planning to take this opportunity to directly kill his disobedient iron-headed uncle.

didn't think that Li Jinglong, the first god of war chosen by Jianwen, led his troops to the battle, not only did not take Zhu Di, but was defeated again and again, and the 600,000 army was wiped out in a blink of an eye, and Zhu Di's men and horses fought more and more, and they actually hit Nanjing City from north to south in one breath.

When Zhu Di's soldiers and horses entered the city, Jianwen still didn't come back to his senses, he couldn't figure out how his 600,000 army was defeated by Zhu Laosi's 100,000 people, and how it could be broken by the other party.

But at this time, it was too late to think about it, Jianwen had no chance to run, Zhu Laosi's soldiers and horses had already entered the city to drain the water around Nanjing, and he Jianwen had no special plane to run from the sky, so Jianwen, who was helpless and angry, could only pull his wife and children and the family to self-immolate.

As soon as Jianwen died like this, Zhu Laosi came to power and became the emperor.

originally thought that after Zhu Laosi became the emperor, he would treat his uncles better than his stunned nephew, after all, we are brothers, and the reason why you Zhu Laosi is difficult is because the eldest nephew persecuted something? Compare your heart to your heart, now that you are the emperor, you have to set things right, right?

It's a pity that the ideal is beautiful, and the reality is skinny.

In one sentence, it is that these vassal clans are really thinking too much, why don't you just think about how he Zhu Laosi came to power? How did Jing Nan succeed?

The most fearful thing about rebellion and coming to power is that others will follow suit, and Zhu Laosi is naturally no exception.

After ascending to the throne, Zhu Laosi dealt with his brothers and nephews more ruthlessly than Jianwen's methods, not only did he cut all the real power of the vassal king by dividing it by two, but also the control of the clan was the most severe in all dynasties.

In order to prevent the clan from succeeding in rebellion in the future, Zhu Laosi directly raised all the clans in captivity, and also let the local government, Jinyi Wei and other institutions supervise each other and closely monitor each other.

In this way, since the year of Yongle, the Ming clan has become a group of "pigs" in captivity, and they can't do anything else except have the name of a clan on their heads and live with the supplies of the imperial court.

It's okay if it's just like this, after all, just get a salary and don't work, just lie down and lie down, eat and drink, hug the beauty and concentrate on making a villain. But as time goes by, the clan has been born more and more from generation to generation, and the amount of money given by the imperial court to the clan has been for a long time, and this expenditure is getting bigger and bigger every year.

The landlord's family has no surplus food! The same is true of the old Zhu family.

Therefore, from the year of Hongzhi, Emperor Hongzhi, who is known as Renjun, opened a knife on the clan and announced that the clan would be half of the book, and the so-called half of the book was a salary discount in popular terms.

At the earliest, Lao Zhu set the rule that the clan was distributed with Lu rice, and since the original fold was halved, only half of the Lu rice that should have been distributed was in hand, and the other half was sent out. Treasure money!

The treasure banknote was still quite valuable in the early days of Lao Zhu, but later the value of the treasure banknote fell by elevator after the indiscriminate issuance, and by the time of the old Zhu Ga, the credit of the treasure banknote had reached the verge of bankruptcy.

Zhu Lao Siga went to the back of Zhu Fatpang, the Cricket Son of Heaven, the second generation of the God of War Castle Sect, and the good man Hongzhi came to power, and decades have passed in a blink of an eye, and the treasure money has become a complete waste of paper.

The so-called half of the book is equivalent to a "fracture" of Yu Lu, and the other half of the treasure money is useless, and it is too hard to take this thing back to wipe its buttocks. And according to the regulations, each half refers only to the prince, if it is a county king and a clan below the county king, you can't even get half of it, and you will be cut to four folds directly.

This is not counting, when the Jiajing Taoist who is keen on cultivating the truth came to power, it was even more excessive, and first carried out the reform of the clan system of silver distribution, because of the high price of grain and the low actual purchasing power of silver, according to the proportion of silver discount stipulated by the imperial court, it is equivalent to another discount on wages on the original basis.

This discount is not large, although there is a loss, but the clan is barely acceptable. But who wants the Taoist chief to calculate his own family background, feel that this is not enough, just a year before the most famous Hai Rui in Chinese history was written, in order to solve the serious problem of the imperial court not being able to pay salaries, the Taoist chief once again attacked the clans, this time it was even more ruthless.

Two policies were directly introduced, the first of which was that the age of treatment for the clan was directly raised from the initial 10 years old to 15 years old. The second policy is to divide money into three parts and seven cents.

These two policies directly allowed the clan's Yulu to be discounted again on the original basis, from four to three folds, and the increase in age also saved a lot of time for the young clan to receive the Yulu, thus once again peeling off a layer of skin from the clan.

The two hands played by the Taoist chief can be said to make the clan complain, the life of the big guy is not easy, you old boy still come to such a hand? Do you want us to live?

Thanks to Hai Rui's second year, he scolded the dog bloody, maybe the scolding was too strong, which made the mood shattered and went crazy, and finally failed to succeed in cultivating, and finally survived until the end of the year.

The Taoist chief gag, the clan members clapped their hands secretly in grief on the surface, thanks to Hai Rui scolding this old boy to death, if he is really allowed to continue to do this, the big guy will not live.

But who wants to live a stable life in a few years, and when the little fat man Wanli came to power, he began to toss the clan again.

In the eleventh year of Wanli, the little fat man issued an edict announcing the clan quota system, which is called "Yongwei quota", that is to say, after the feudal clans, the imperial court will no longer issue the money according to the capitation, and directly distribute it to the total amount limited by each domain, regardless of the increase or decrease in the clan population of each domain, and give money according to the limited quota every year.

As a result, the life of the Ming clan became more and more difficult.

High-level clans, such as princes and county kings, have different statuses after all, plus they have the right to distribute real estate and clans, so they have little impact, but ordinary clans are not as good as Wang Xiaoer's New Year, especially low-level clans like Zhu Shencone, who are not as good as ordinary people in this life!