Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 1014 Chapter 4-[-] New Dynasty Weather [-]
The reform of the civil service system is much more complicated than the reform of the military system.There is no way, this reform is directly related to the interests of millions of scholars, and any change will affect the fate of countless scholars, and a little carelessness may lead to disastrous consequences.How did the Yuan Dynasty end?There are many reasons, the most important of which is to lower the status of scholars.Those scholars had no way out, so they would naturally rebel, but the Yuan Dynasty was very capable of killing, so this superpower was killed in one fell swoop, and there was no scum left.So in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, everyone knew that the existing system had serious problems and did not dare to change it. They would rather stick to the old system than reform it, for fear of repeating the mistakes of the Yuan Dynasty.

However, Zhu Yujian had no worries in this regard.This battle destroyed most of the Ming Dynasty. Without so many altars, he might be able to free up his hands and carry out drastic reforms, but Chongzhen would never be able to do that.The advantage he has over Chongzhen is that he has lived among the people for a long time and has a clear view of the weaknesses of the Ming Dynasty's current system, while Chongzhen can only see the Forbidden City. He knows there are problems, but he doesn't. where is the problem.

With regard to the reform of the civil service system, it came very quickly. It can be said that it is a medicine for tigers and wolves. The effect of the medicine is extremely violent.If you can withstand the side effects of this powerful medicine, your future will undoubtedly be very bright, but if you can't, you will be completely doomed.Fortunately, now that Daming has been smashed, and someone intentionally smashed the pots and pans even worse, tore up the smudged paper and replaced it with a blank paper to paint again, so I'm not afraid What a strong medicine.

Again, Yang Menglong——or in other words, the word "failure" does not exist in the dictionary of the Heluo Group headed by Yang Menglong. There are only successes earlier and successes later. For them, failure is just late. Just a little bit of success.They are not afraid of the turmoil caused by this earth-shaking reform at all. With 10,000+ new troops in hand, whoever feels itchy can just jump out!
After a round of fierce verbal exchanges, the framework for the reform of the official system was basically finalized. Next, it was the turn of the feudal system to be reformed.

The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty had two characteristics:

The first is so many, so many that the emperor didn’t know how many relatives he had, and so many vassals that they didn’t know how many children they had. This is no joke. Such a thing really happened. In history, more than one vassal prince asked the court for help. Send officials to their houses to register their households and help them find out how many people there are in their family.

The second is greed, insatiable greed.Those vassal kings who were not favored by favors were fine. It was amazing that 10,000+ taels of silver could be paid out for a fiefdom. It was not a big deal. However, vassal kings like King Fu who were favored by favors were about to die. When he was a vassal, Wanli gave it to him in one breath. He received 200 hectares of fertile farmland, [-] hectares of salt imports, and the privilege of taxing mountains, forests, rivers, and swamps. As for the amount of gold, silver, and jewelry given as a gift, even Wanli himself may not know.Forget about salt introduction, tax collection, etc. The key point is that the [-] hectares of fertile land is really scary. The officials in Henan have been working on it for several months. They told the court with mournful faces that the entire Henan Province does not have [-] hectares of fertile land. With so much, Wanli had no choice but to give him a [-]% discount, so [-] hectares was enough. But even so, Henan was still not enough. He had no choice but to allocate some fertile land from Shandong to King Fu to make up the amount of [-] hectares.Even so, these worms are still not satisfied. They have been deprived of the power to engage in politics and business. All they have to do all day long is to fuck women and risk their lives to create humans.The sport of creating children is good, it can not only make you happy physically and mentally, but also increase your income. Every time you have more children, the court will give you an extra amount of money. This is not about having children, it is clearly about making money!Everyone in the old Zhu family was able to have children. When Zhu Yuanzhang was still there, there were only a dozen children who were granted vassal status. More than [-] years later, the number was already more than a million. The Ming Dynasty simply could not afford to support so many royal relatives!

Obviously, the Longwu Dynasty, which was waiting to be rejuvenated, could not afford to support so many royal relatives, so Zhu Yujian did not intend to continue to support them at all.

"When slaves were established and invaded by invaders, the vassal kings not only didn't think about defending the country from the enemy, but also took the initiative to come to Beijing to flatter and invite officials. Daming raised them for more than 200 years. It is really chilling for them to repay the country like this!" Long Emperor Wu did not save any face for his family's unworthy relatives. He was very angry, looked around the group of officials, and said loudly: "What is this? Daming has fed them with the blood of the people for more than 200 years, and it has ended up like this. What! Even raising a white-eyed wolf is better than raising them, at least this wolf can kill and eat meat!"

"I think that there is no need to continue to support these ungrateful things anymore! I will abolish the vassals of the world and turn them all into commoners. From now on, they will never get a penny from the treasury!"

All civil and military officials gasped.My dear, an imperial decree to turn millions of vassals into commoners, what a bold and crazy approach!But they all agree with this, as long as they are not mentally handicapped, they will know that the set set by Lao Zhu can no longer be played, otherwise, within a hundred years, millions of vassal kings will become tens of millions. No matter how rich Daming's family background is, it will ruin them alive!
The newly promoted governor of Henan Province, Fan Jingwen, was a little worried: "In order to reduce the burden on the country, the emperor did not hesitate to exterminate relatives, and cut down all the vassal kings in the world. It is a great achievement, but... the vassal kings are more than a million people, and they are all civilians. They have no life. I'm afraid they won't accept it!"

Zhu Yujian said: "Whoever refuses to accept can imitate Chengzu and rebel! Seriously, I really hope to see this kind of blood in them. If they still have this kind of blood, the imperial court did not raise them for more than 200 years in vain!"

Now the ministers had nothing to say.Emperor Boss Dalian even dropped the harsh words "You can rebel if you don't accept it", what else do they have to say?rebel?Don't be ridiculous, don't you know that the vassal kings of Ming Dynasty have been raised as pigs, if they are asked to rebel, I'm afraid they don't need to send out new troops to fight, and if they make way for them to kill them in Beijing, they will exhaust them to death by [-]% or [-]% !

After more than 200 years of extravagance and lust, the special group of Daming Fanwang Group finally ushered in its own doomsday.Emperor Longwu didn't want to be taken advantage of, and the Heluo Group also didn't want to be taken advantage of. They were about to be deprived of all their rights and turned into ordinary people.However, no matter how you put it, blood is thicker than water. Although Emperor Longwu hated those unsatisfactory feudal lords, he did not force them to death.While ordering to cut down all the vassal kings in the world, he also ordered to investigate the income of the vassal kings in each province. The vassal kings can keep all their property except the fields, and those poor beggars can receive it from the government every month. Two silver dollars for living expenses, this money will be distributed for three years, they had better learn a skill within three years, otherwise they will starve to death.In addition, he also abolished the outdated rules and allowed the vassals to practice martial arts, study, and do business. If they think they have the ability, they can even try to join politics or the army. high subsidies.As for those vassals who came to Beijing to kneel and lick, he was not so polite. They were all exiled to Australia, and all their children were exiled to Hainan. As for how many survived, it depends on fate. Personnel guys pay enough!
This reform set off another storm.Surprisingly, not many people came out to object.Those vassal kings who came to Beijing to kneel and lick their slaves, or went to Nanjing to seek death were not qualified to express their opinions. However, a vassal king with a huge fortune like King Fu did not care about being deprived of his status as a vassal king, because with this family fortune They can live a good life. If they don't serve as vassal kings, they will enjoy greater freedom when doing business. Why should they cherish this false name?And those vassal kings who were so poor that they almost starved to death also welcomed this one-sidedly. They had no family fortune, but were forced by life and learned some skills to make a living early. However, they suffered from the ancestral system and could not go out to make a living openly. Now That’s it, they’re happy!In the final analysis, only those vassal princes whose families were relatively well-off but who were not as wealthy as their superiors were opposed. They did not have as rich a family as King Fu, and they did not have the ability to make a living. Once the imperial court stopped disbursing favors, they would be left with nothing. , It’s like seeing a ghost if you don’t blow up your hair.These guys all jumped out, and letters flew to Beijing like a snowflake, protesting against the reduction of the vassal state. In just a few days, the imperial study room was filled with such letters.Of course, these letters found their home in the dining room, saving the royal family a lot of money on coal.

No matter how many letters were sent, nothing came of it in the past, and the work of reducing the vassals was carried out in full swing, and the vassal kings panicked completely, ignoring the prohibition that the vassal kings were not allowed to leave the fief without the government's consent, and ran away in groups Going to Beijing, crying, making trouble, and hanged yourself. You can cut down the feudal clan, but you must not cut off my head!

As a result, they were all thrown into the prison and fed to mosquitoes. They were accused of violating the ancestral system.The vassal kings were so angry that they vomited blood. We went to Beijing to seek mercy from you, which was against the ancestral system. Why didn't you tell us that you had taken away all our birthright status and property with an imperial edict?This is also against the ancestral system, okay? ?After those vassal kings who came to Beijing were confiscated of all their property and exiled to Hainan for violating the ancestral system, all the vassal kings finally saw clearly that Zhu Yujian wanted to punish them to death!It's useless to cry and plead with him. If they have the guts, they will rebel. If they don't have the guts, they'd better accept the facts and stop being annoying!After all, the vassal kings who dared to jump out and rebel were a minority, and the vast majority of vassal kings accepted the fact—at least in this way, they could still keep their existing property.After this imperial decree, all the millions of vassal kings were beaten into civilians. The people and local officials all over the world cheered. These moths were their heaviest burden, and now they have finally shaken off this burden.In just one month, the cabinet and the emperor's study received more than 10,000 letters of thanks, many of which were written with blood on bitten fingers.

Most of the vassal kings did not miss their noble status as relatives of the emperor. After the vassal elimination, they cheered up and started a new life. Some did business, some joined the army, some went to school, and some were more ambitious. He even tried to find an official position.This category belongs to those who are quite courageous and talented. The Longwu Dynasty almost wiped out the officials of Chongzhen Dynasty. No matter how many talents the Heluo Group has, they can't take care of such a big stall. They are in need of manpower, and they have found the right one. The time has come.Quite a few people relied on their talents and some preferential policies of the court to quickly become famous in the business and political circles. They told everyone with facts that the descendants of the old Zhu family are not bad. As long as they are given a chance, they will always succeed. Someone who can make a name for himself.But it was Chongzhen's precious son and Yang Menglong's apprentice, Zhu Cixiang, who achieved the greatest fame.After the vassaling, this boy continued to study and live in Nanyang, just like ordinary civilians. Similarly, like most children from ordinary families, he enlisted in the army. He started as a soldier, worked step by step, and finally became a soldier. Governor Markand brought the entire Central Asia region into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and from time to time he led his troops to the Yenisei River Basin to kill people, which made the Cossacks living there become angry.Although he failed to become emperor, he got an honor that no Ming emperor could get: conqueror of Central Asia!
The Kazakhs, Turkmens, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Cossacks, Kalmyks and many other powerful ethnic groups who gathered under his command to fight for him gave him a more resounding nickname:

Conquer the king!
There are many vassal princes like Zhu Cixiang who have given up their noble status and joined the army like ordinary people. They fight everywhere under the guidance of the black tiger flag. They train and fight like ordinary soldiers, and they are injured and even fall on the battlefield like ordinary soldiers. on, there is no difference.Emperor Longwu's reform of the vassal king was so thorough that after only ten years, no one remembered what the vassal king looked like.

Including those feudal kings.

(End of this chapter)