Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 189
"If that's the case, why do I need them?" Emperor Chongzhen said angrily after hearing this.

When Du Yinxi heard his words, he hesitated a little, and then asked: "What does Your Majesty want?"

After saying this, he felt a little inappropriate, and added: "Your Majesty, they have been around for hundreds of years, and there are many old disciples. If you only move one or two of them, it's okay. But if you move all of them People, I'm afraid it will cause unpredictable consequences!"

For example, the former Cheng Guogong just moved him, as long as he was well prepared, there would be no problem.

However, since the founding of the country, so many Wuxun Groups have been sealed off, including the northern and southern capitals, so the number is definitely quite a lot.

If you really want to do something to them, the so-called cutting off people's money is like killing their parents, it is a mortal enmity.If two or three out of ten people want to resist, it will really become very serious in terms of the current situation in Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, the reason why people desire to be knighted is because they can rest with the country.Just like the emperor, he can earn a fortune for his descendants.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen frowned upon hearing Du Yinxi's explanation, and asked a little dissatisfied: "They were honored with martial arts, but they were not good at military affairs. They lost their duty. I supported them." What's the use? You can't always be the moth of the country, right?"

After hearing this, Du Yinxi admitted that what Emperor Chongzhen said was reasonable.As far as he himself is concerned, or as far as the civil official group is concerned, he is actually in favor of Emperor Chongzhen's action against the Wuxun Group.

Because civil servants and military generals are in themselves opposites.

However, in the current situation where wars are raging everywhere, Du Yinxi came from the local government. He knew that the situation was critical and there should be no more major turmoil, so he persuaded him.

After discussing with Du Yinxi for a while, Emperor Chongzhen and Du Yinxi did not come to any conclusion. He felt a little irritable, so he went to contact Liu Weichao.

He wants to hear what future generations think about this?
After the video was connected, Emperor Chongzhen told Liu Weichao about the matter, and then asked with a little expectation: "What do you think is the best way to do this matter? Anyway, I don't want them to eat and not work for nothing!"

When Liu Weichao heard it, he replied without thinking: "Of course, the hereditary system is actually the biggest injustice, and it will cause many social problems, such as land annexation, wealth concentration, and the widening gap between rich and poor. The root cause of social instability. The so-called 300-year rule of feudal dynasties, I think this is one of the important reasons.”

"That's right, I think so too!" Emperor Chongzhen said angrily after hearing this, "They should be abolished!"

After hearing this, Liu Weichao was a little speechless. He originally wanted to say, isn't your emperor also hereditary, don't you know?

But after thinking about it, this sentence still didn't come out.After all, if the emperor was not hereditary, then the system would have changed too much, and the ancients would definitely not be able to adapt.

He was thinking about this when he heard Emperor Chongzhen ask him: "What do you think I should do?"

Liu Weichao listened, thought for a while, and then answered Emperor Chongzhen: "Actually, your Ming Dynasty still has a very big problem, which is bigger than the Wuxun Group, and it needs to be solved!"

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he was very curious and asked in surprise, "What's the problem?"

He understood that the very big problem that Liu Weichao mentioned must have something to do with heredity, but he couldn't figure it out, what could be bigger than being in the Wuxun Group?
After hearing this, Liu Weichao immediately answered him, "The clan of the vassal king!"

Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but suddenly realized.

In fact, they themselves have long been aware of the issue of the vassal clan in the Ming Dynasty.

For no other reason, starting from the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court was simply unable to afford the salary of the vassal king's clan.

However, under the constraints of their time, this kind of matter involving the vassal king's clan could not carry out fundamental reforms, so they began to play tricks.

First of all, the birth of those vassal kings and clans must be certified by the court.Only those who have been certified by the imperial court can be regarded as serious vassal princes and clans, and will have a salary.

Therefore, those clans that are far away from the current emperor's relatives are often not recognized by the court, become clans that are not clans, and do not receive salary.

Later, even those clans that were certified by the imperial court could hardly get a salary, because the imperial court had no money.

With all these things, the Ming Dynasty clan and those who were collaterals were really miserable, and they couldn't study and become officials. In the end, they could only beg for food and do what Zhu Yuanzhang did back then.

After this situation lasted for a long time, the imperial court finally had an innovation, which was to allow these collateral clans to participate in the scientific examination, and if they passed the examination, they could become officials.

However, this system has not improved much for the vassal clans of the entire Ming Dynasty, and most of the collateral clans are still very miserable.

It's not that the emperor doesn't want to solve this matter. After all, the emperor's descendants may end up in such a tragic end after a few years. If it can be solved, they must want to solve it. There is really no way to solve it.

At this time, after hearing Liu Weichao's words, Emperor Chongzhen asked with a little expectation: "Then do you have any suggestions to help me solve this problem?"

"It's very simple!" Liu Weichao heard it, and immediately said, "It's all about entrusting overseas!"

He didn't come up with this idea by himself, but he read it from online articles and thought it made sense, so he told Emperor Chongzhen about it.

"Dividing overseas?" After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen repeated with some doubts.

For him, this idea had never been mentioned before, and it was a bit difficult to understand for a while.

This is actually normal. At that time, most people's eyes were limited to the country, at most those small countries bordering Ming Dynasty, and they still lacked the necessary understanding of the whole world.

No, the Emperor Chongzhen added in doubt: "The overseas is not the territory of the Ming Dynasty, so why divide it?"

When Liu Weichao heard this, he immediately laughed.

Seeing him like this, although Emperor Chongzhen felt that he had made a mistake, he still had no way of knowing what made Liu Weichao laugh so much.
Fortunately, Liu Weichao only laughed for a while, and then quickly stopped laughing. He just asked Emperor Chongzhen with a smile, "Do you know the era you live in, what is it called in our history textbooks?"

"What's it called?" Emperor Chongzhen asked curiously upon hearing this.

Seeing that he listened seriously, Liu Weichao immediately replied: "Great geographical discovery, great age of navigation!"

"Huh?" Emperor Chongzhen still didn't understand what he meant when he heard it. He didn't know what this statement had to do with his handling of the feudal king's clan?
Seeing him, Liu Weichao explained to him: "At this time, there are still many places overseas that are unclaimed lands. The meaning of this unowned land is that the local people are still living a life of slash-and-burn farming in a primitive society. Where there are either The products are rich, or the geographical location is very good. Therefore, after the Xiyi discovered those places through great voyages, they all declared that they were their territories. Your era, in other words, is the era of land grabbing!"

"..." Emperor Chongzhen was speechless when he heard it!

In the era of land grabbing, this statement is really too rude, can't it be said that it is the era of opening up territories?
Thinking of this, he soon had new doubts, and immediately asked: "If you are far away from their court, how can you govern the place?"

After hearing this, Liu Weichao couldn't help feeling the difference between Chinese and Western cultures.No, in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, that is to govern the region!
Thinking of this, he explained to Emperor Chongzhen: "In Xiyi, they didn't think about governing the place at all, but exploited as much as possible, searched the place, and then shipped all valuable things back to their home country. !"

"Ah..." Emperor Chongzhen was a little unbelievable when he heard it, so that he was speechless for a moment.

After a while, he said in surprise: "Aren't they like robbers?"

"That's right!" Liu Weichao nodded after listening, "However, there is a saying that everything within the range of a cannon is the truth. It seems to be so, which means whoever has the hardest fist has the final say! "

"Then what about their etiquette, righteousness and shame?" Emperor Chongzhen asked suspiciously after hearing this.

Upon hearing this, Liu Weichao asked amusedly, "Why do you want to be polite, honest and shameful in front of interests? Besides, you Chongzhen Dynasty, your officials, they worked hard to exploit the people, greedy for military pay, etc., when did you care about etiquette, righteousness and shame?" "

"..." Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen was speechless again.

After a while, Emperor Chongzhen came back to his senses, and said with a little confidence, "You mean to let me learn from Xiyi, but I am the king of a country, after all, I want to save face, right?"

"..." This time, it was Liu Weichao's turn to be speechless.

It seems that Emperor Chongzhen was influenced by Confucian culture, and no one taught him to be flexible, and he still couldn't turn the corner!
Thinking of this, he said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Do you think Xiyi is robbing them nakedly? Of course they also have a reason. They want to bring civilization to their aborigines! You can use this excuse too!"

Speaking of this, he remembered the previous topic, and continued: "No, if you throw away the clan of the feudal king, not only can you solve the problem of the clan of the feudal prince, but it is also more just than Xiyi. You are serious! to benefit the local people!"

"But there must be a wasteland there, and those princes and clans may not want to go there!" Emperor Chongzhen asked again.

Upon hearing this, Liu Weichao said with a smile: "That's not necessarily the case. In some places, the ground is full of gold! Besides, you are the emperor of Ming Dynasty, so you can't find a way to drive them out of you by coercing and luring them together." Otherwise, if they stay in the mainland of Daming, they will only harm you in the end, you know?"

(End of this chapter)