My Daming New Empire

Although Kong Gongzhuo bullied others and had a lot of bad deeds, but because there were no Confucian scholars to teach there, letting him be a teacher in the past could be regarded as giving full play to his talents.

Ma Dezhong was already very satisfied with this kind of treatment, his parents' bones were no longer found, and it was already an unexpected joy to be able to sue the Confucian family.

And Kong Yanjin couldn't tell whether he was happy or sad, because in this way, Zhu Zhanji had completely cleared his constraints. In the future, as long as there is no worry of extinction for the eldest son and grandson, the other branches will not intervene Confucian opportunity.

But the huge Confucian family fell apart all of a sudden. Except for the main branch, the other branches can only be ordinary people in the future. It is impossible for them to be tax-free.

Unless, they also start to get fame.

Of course, everyone's privileges will be canceled in the future, and everyone will have to pay taxes. Zhu Zhanji is not in a hurry to take this step.

In the future, everyone's privileges will be cancelled, including the royal family and clan.

But the road has to be taken step by step. Now, the main energy is still to be put on prohibiting the circulation of gold and silver.

On the fifth day of May, the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhu Zhanji received several servants who returned from Linzhou, and they brought letters from Liu Wan.

Seeing Liu Wan's letter, Zhu Zhanji became more and more satisfied with him.

From this matter, Liu Wan can think of some of his current plans for the clan, which shows that he has a brain.

Although this case is not big, it is indeed a very representative case. This is a collision between the clan law and the court law.

Although this case happened when Zhu Di first came to the throne, it is not out of date for this era.

Today's imperial court's management of the world is basically only at the county level. Basically, when it comes to townships, it is the implementation of village self-government.

During the period of Zhu Yuanzhang, countless old people's associations were established in the countryside of Daming. Most of these old people were composed of patriarchs and veterans who had returned to the fields.

They have the power to discuss and deal with affairs, and they can even refuse to worship officials.

The power of village elders is basically related to their own prestige. When they deal with many affairs, they mostly rely on past experience or local customs.

This way of dealing with affairs does play a role in linking civil conflicts and becomes an effective supplement to the court's laws and regulations.

However, there are of course many collisions and contradictions in this process.

Moreover, many patriarchs have become domineering because of this, and have become a local evil.

At this time, the imperial court did not have a complete set of solutions, and even if there were unjust or wrong cases, they could not be amended.

It is very difficult for today's productivity to send imperial power to the countryside.

If the imperial court wants to let the imperial power go to the countryside, the cost will definitely be astonishing, and it may not necessarily achieve good results.

First of all, there are insufficient officials in the court.If you want to increase the number of officials in charge, instead of doubling, you need to increase the number of low-level officials several times.

Secondly, the development of people's wisdom is not enough. Most of the people are illiterate and have never been out of the county in their life. What kind of knowledge can they have?

It took an astonishing amount of energy to get them to accept the court's approach.

Therefore, sending imperial power to the countryside is not just a system issue, nor is it just a cost issue, but also involves an education issue.

However, through this case, although Zhu Zhanji did not see an opportunity to change all this, he could at least formulate a law to restrain the power of the clan and legalize everything instead of relying on human feelings.

The clan power has a long history, far surpassing the existence of the country.Before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, clan power was given priority over imperial power.Officials who want to become officials do not rely on imperial examinations, but on recommendation.

Because the Sui Dynasty wanted to reform, Emperor Sui Yang took too big a step, and he was kicked out of power, and he became notorious through the ages.

During Wu Zetian's period in the Tang Dynasty, the power of the clan really suffered a huge blow. Since then, the imperial examination has become the main promotion channel for officialdom.

After that, clan power was gradually standardized and institutionalized.

Fan Zhongyan in the Song Dynasty first created Yitian.

At that time, although Fan Zhongyan was in a high position and his life was becoming more and more prosperous, he was very frugal and spent the money on what he thought was the most important.He saved some money to set up Yizhuang.

Fan Zhongyan and his elder brother Fan Zhongwen "discussed to set up ten hectares of Shangtian in the middle, and give it to the clan at the age of one year, so that even the poorest people will no longer have to worry about being cold and discouraged."They donated these fields to their clan and established thirteen rules so that even the poor of their clan could survive.

Since then, there has been not only Yitian, but also Yixue.The production of the world donated by the rich people of the clan can be used for education of poor children.

In addition to Yitian and Yixue, there is even a Yizhong, which is used to bury the poor people of the clan, so that they can't even afford funerals after death.

The development of this kind of Yitian has reinflated the power of the clan, and the power of the clan has become an extension and supplement of the imperial court's management.

However, in this era, the clan forces did not have the power to judge life and death.Even if the imperial court wanted to report the death penalty, it had to be at least above the chief secretary level to determine the sentence, and the capital had to report it to Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment.

Therefore, it is completely illegal for the head of the Liu clan to sink the Mao clan into a pig cage, and it is only in remote areas that such things can happen.

The real patriarch can judge life and death, which is a system that only existed in the Yongzheng period hundreds of years later.

During the Yongzheng period, all provinces were required to implement the Baojia Law.

The Baojia Law requires each clan to select one person to be the head of the clan, that is, the person who actually manages the clan's affairs. In the second year, another rule and system was formulated-"Wicked people respect the patriarch and the death of the patriarch is exempted from credit."

That is to say, the patriarchs and elders of the clan can kill bad people in the clan without bearing "legal responsibility" and without paying compensation with death.This gave the patriarch great power of life and death, and the power of the clan expanded rapidly.

So there were many things like sinking pig cages in the Qing Dynasty, but they were rare in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Zhanji was not in a hurry to reply. Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, and the ministers are going to celebrate the festival, and he will also celebrate the festival.

Today he invited Zhang Guifei, who was autistic from the harem, to come out and celebrate in the palace.A group of children like to celebrate the festival the most, because the festival means that they can play as much as they want.

Since Liu Wan said that he would wait in Linzhou for a while, it would not be a day or two too late.

Although he knew which direction to adjust this matter, he didn't understand the details of the law enough.Wait until tomorrow to summon Gu Zuo, Zhao Yan, Li Qing and other officials who are proficient in the law, and then ask them for advice.

Having arranged these matters, he was about to go out.Zhu Xue led Zhu Shuang, and the two little men were lying on the threshold. "Father, you promised us to go boating."

Looking at the two daughters, Zhu Zhanji felt happy immediately. He stepped out, only to find that the other children were also looking at him eagerly. This meant that Zhu Xue and Zhu Shuang had been sent as representatives.

There is a river in the Yingtianfu Imperial Palace. This small river is a tributary of the Qinhuai River, and there are three entrances and exits. The southeast comes in from the ancient and modern classics library, forming a north-south direction, and then turning into an east-west direction.

A water outlet is in the north of Xihua Gate, leading to the Neiku.The other outlet goes northward, flows through most of the palace, exits the palace at the imperial garden, and flows to Yanque Lake.

Although the river in the palace is neither big nor long, the total distance is two miles long.

But the children in the palace are not allowed to swim. They usually can't go to the river for practice, and they rarely row boats.

So the festival is coming, Zhu Zhanji, in order to make the children happy, promised that they would arrange a few boats and take the children to row.

They all looked forward to it very much.

Zhu Zhanji hugged Zhu Xue with his right hand, and Zhu Shuang who was half a year younger with his left hand, and said with a smile: "Okay, my father will take you to go boating now."

The two daughters tied with beards laughed coquettishly, and he quickly let them go.He has many children, so one should not favor one over the other, especially when they are all present, one must pay special attention to not let the children feel that they are close or distant.

I brought a group of happy children to the small river at the Wenhua Palace. Several small boats have been prepared here. It can add some fun to play.