stjorthotic Chapter 294: The Vassal Kings: Damn It, It’S Unkind For The Fourth Child To Cross The River And Tear
Chapter 294: The Vassal Kings: Damn It, It’S Unkind For The Fourth Child To Cross The River And Tear
After "Zhu Di" ascended the throne as the emperor, all the vassal kings who had been deposed by "Zhu Yunwen" were restored to the throne and given a large number of rewards.
And Prince Ning, who had been robbed of Duoyan's three guards by "Zhu Di" before, also came to "Zhu Di" to fulfill the promise he made when "Fengtian Jingnan" to divide the world equally.
However, "Zhu Di" directly turned his back and refused to admit it. Not to mention dividing the world equally, even King Ning's begging for Suzhou and Qiantang was not allowed, and finally changed the seal to Nanchang.
Moreover, he rebelled because of the reduction of the vassal. After the rebellion was successful, "Zhu Di" was also worried that other vassal kings would follow his example and rebel in the future.
Therefore, in order to prevent other vassal kings from rebelling, Zhu Di found reasons to deprive the kings of their actual power and military power.
Among them, the guards of King Dai, King Min, and King Qi were successively eliminated, and they were forced to hand over the guards of their mother and brother, King Zhou, which would make them unable to fight against a town.
In exchange, "Zhu Di" greatly improved the vassal king's welfare and salary in other areas.
Anyway, if you want money and rewards, you can get them all in terms of glory and wealth, but if you want any actual power or military power, I'm sorry, my brothers don't have the kindness to do so!!!
Seeing this scene in the stage play, King Zhu Bo of Qi looked at Zhu Di with his mouth agape and said:
"Fourth brother, you are crossing the river and demolishing the bridge too fast, aren't you?!!"
"After all, Xiao Qi has helped you so much. It's understandable if you don't share the world with him, but even begging for Suzhou and Qiantang is not allowed, which is a bit chilling!!!"
The little seventeen Zhu Bo mentioned was Ning Wang Zhu Quan, but Ning Wang Zhu Quan was born in May of the tenth year of Hongwu (May 1378), and he is only two years old now.
"The second nephew wanted to cut down the feudal vassalage, but I didn't expect that after the fourth brother came to power, he would also do the same thing!!!"
Chu King Zhu Zhen shook his head and sighed. 217 Zhu Di himself rebelled because his vassal state was cut off. Now that the rebellion was successful, the first thing he thought about was "Dongshi also had his vassal removed."
This more or less made these vassal kings feel a little worried.
"If it were the original story, I would definitely think that the Fourth Brother was unkind, but with the deeds of the second nephew in front of me, I think it's okay. At least the Fourth Brother gave him the face and treatment that the princes and vassals deserved."
The King of Qin, Zhu Xi, rarely agreed with Zhu Di's approach.
Everything is afraid of comparison. If "Zhu Yunwen" did not have the deeds of driving uncles like them to a dead end, then he must have thought that Zhu Di was unkind when he crossed the river and burned the bridge.
But with the comparison of "Zhu Yunwen" in front of him, although Zhu Ping still finds it difficult to accept, at least it is not really unacceptable.
"Fourth, are you raising all the feudal lords like pigs?!"
"Take away all their power and prevent them from participating in any affairs. In this way, they, the vassal kings, have nothing else to do except eat, drink, have fun, and keep spreading their branches."
"As a result, the number of clan members of the Ming Dynasty royal family will inevitably increase!"
"In addition, the royal family salary system originally set by my father is inherently problematic. Now you have greatly increased the family salary system of the vassals and do not allow them to participate in any affairs."
"It won't take two or three hundred years, or even less than a hundred years."
"I'm afraid that the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue will be overwhelmed by the huge increase in the number of royal family members and the huge royal family members' salaries, right?!!"
Prince Zhu Biao looked at Zhu Di with a frown and asked a series of questions.
In his opinion, there are too many and too big problems with "Zhu Di's" approach in future deductions.
Especially the issue of royal family salaries (bhdh). When Yan Changqing taught "Dragon Slaying Technique" before, he once said that the original royal family salary system of the Ming Dynasty would crush the future fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty.
That's why they later came up with the reform of the "Ming Dynasty Royal Family Salary System" to eliminate the hidden dangers behind the Ming Dynasty Royal Family Salary System.
The "Zhu Di" currently being deduced in the future uses the method of increasing the salary and treatment of the royal family members in exchange for cutting off and taking back the actual power and military power of the vassal kings.
It is obviously exacerbating the hidden dangers behind the salary of the Ming royal family.
Hearing the words of his brothers, Zhu Di half laughed and half said helplessly:
"The 'I' in this future deduction is not unaware of the hidden dangers behind the royal family's salary system."
"So in order to take back the power and military power of the princes and vassals, we must not let them have excessive resistance reactions."
"Then the 'I' in the future deduction can only alleviate the resistance of the princes and princes by increasing their salary and treatment."
"And the princes and vassals have to be cut down. Today I can raise an army to rebel with the strength of the vassal king. If the other princes and vassals will also rebel in the future because of this."
"Then when the Ming Dynasty comes, princes and vassals from all over the country will rebel every day because of their temporary mood. How can there be peace in this Ming Dynasty for a day?!!
"Moreover, when Mr. Yan taught "Dragon Slaying Technique" before, he also said that strengthening centralization is itself a general trend of historical development for thousands of years.
"The reduction of vassal status can be regarded as following the general trend of historical development over the past thousand years.
After hearing Zhu Di's last words, Jin King Zhu Fan said in a faint tone:
"According to this, which of our brothers will have to cut down the vassal vassal as the final choice after becoming the emperor in the future?!!"
As soon as Zhu Fan said these words, all the princes fell into silence.
How could they not know the hidden dangers behind the Ming vassal system?!!
Even if they didn't know it originally, Yan Changqing had discussed this issue with them in detail when he taught "Dragon Slaying Technique" before.
It’s just that the only solution to this problem currently seems to be to cut down the feudal lordship!!!
But the choice of reducing the vassal status was something that no vassal king was willing to accept.
Zhou Wang Zhu Ju sighed quietly and said:
"If I have to cut him off, I at least hope to leave him a wealthy person like my fourth brother. If I am like my second nephew, then I don't know if I will imitate Xiao Twelve."
When he said this, Zhu Xi looked at his emperor Zhu Yuanzhang as if nothing had happened.
To be honest, Zhu Ju doesn't care much about power, military strength, etc.
In the stage play that will be deduced below, in the end "he" also took the initiative to return his three bodyguards to the court.
So if there was really no choice but to cut it off, then he would have no choice but to agree.
I just hope that when the time comes, these brothers here can take into account a little bit of brotherly love and not force them to die like the second nephew did.
As for imitating the twelve-year-old Zhu Bai, who set himself on fire to prove his innocence, he only told it specifically to his father, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.
After all, in Zhu Xi's view, the only one who can restrain the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, so that when they cut down the vassal in the future, they will have a trace of brotherhood and not do things too badly. His father, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, died.
Sure enough, as soon as Zhu Xi said these words, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately focused his eyes, and his stern eyes swept across the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes present, and said with a serious face:
"If the only option in the future is to cut down the vassal clan, then I don't care which of you becomes emperor and wants to cut down the vassalage, but you can't force your brothers to die or die!!!"
"They are your biological brothers, no matter what happens, nothing will happen!!!"
"If you really don't care about brotherhood and go to the point of forcing your own brothers to death."
"Then, then, old man, what can I do except die with my eyes in peace?!!"
At the end, Zhu Yuanzhang let out a long sigh, with a rare look of helplessness on his face.
When he is still alive, it is estimated that there is a high probability that he will not reduce the vassal status.
And after he dies, even if the emperor in the future really wants to cut down the feudal clan, he will even force other brothers to a dead end.
At that time, he might have become the stuffing of steamed buns in the imperial mausoleum, so what can he do?!!
Unless he can still fake the corpse and stop them from killing each other.
Otherwise, even if the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes really wanted to kill each other, he would not be able to stop them.
Queen Ma on the side couldn't help but take Zhu Biao's hand and put it on the back of her hand at this moment. Then she looked at Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, and said gently but firmly:
"You all put your hands up!"
Although Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes were puzzled, not all of them sent their relatives to the doctor.
"Promise me, no matter what happens in the future, I will never kill my brother!!!"
"If any brother really threatens your emperor's power, and you must kill him."
"Then just kill him in name and prevent him from continuing to exist as a descendant of the Zhu family. Just become a wealthy private citizen."
"If you can't do this, then your father and I will not be able to rest in peace even if we die."
"If we meet again under Jiuquan one day, we will never recognize this son who killed our brothers again!!!"
"Can you promise and do it?!!"
Queen Ma looked at the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, with a little prayer in her eyes and a sad tone.
Prince Zhu Biao nodded solemnly and said:
"Yes, mother, I promise you!!!"
Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes also replied one after another:
"Don't worry, mother, we won't kill each other."
"Mom, I promise you that I will never force my brother to die."
Empress Ma and Zhu Yuanzhang's expressions softened a bit after receiving the consent of Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes.
Both Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma knew that while they were still alive, the ten princes including Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Nan, and Zhu Di would definitely not kill each other.
At least Zhu Yuanzhang was able to suppress them, and Queen Ma was able to make them obey.
But after the two of them are gone, everything will be hard to say.
So now we can only use this method to try our best to prevent brothers from killing each other in the future.
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