At first, Wang Yuanzhi and Zhang Zhixiang also talked about the issue of the royal family when they were in Nanjing.

Wang Yuanzhi naturally knew that the essence of the royal family was the emperor's rescue method for the weakening of the imperial power, but he understood even more what consequences would be brought about by drinking poison to quench thirst.

In the eighth year of Jiajing, the royal family population was investigated at 8,203.

Now in the 17th year of Jiajing, although it is not as necessary to quench thirst as in history, the population of the royal family has maintained a steady growth without changing the system.

Before the reform, there was no need for Jiajing to abandon the power of the royal family.

Note.

The taxes of the Ming Dynasty were just a confusing account. Before Zhang Zhixiang entered Beijing, the finances during the Jiajing period were only 2 million taels of cash and 25 million stones of grain each year.

The annual expenditure of the royal family is four million stones of rice and grain. Judging from these two data alone, the royal family can be said to be a vampire of the empire.

In fact, this is not the case.

Because a considerable portion of the 25 million stones of grain tax was paid by the royal family themselves.

The title system of the Ming Dynasty was inherited by the royal family, and the branches were inherited by the descendants, and then the inheritance was inherited by the descendants.

At the lowest, they are all lieutenants of the fifth rank of Fengguo.

A large amount of land was given to the royal family. In addition to paying land taxes normally, the royal family also charges an extremely high share of royal taxes, which are directly paid to the emperor.

Because the fields of the royal family belong to the imperial village.

This also caused the literati to restrict the imperial power through finances, while the emperor emptied the finances and sufficient treasury to implement the imperial power. In order to prevent the emperor from having power, the literati began to release the emperor's blood.

For example, the palaces of the Ming Dynasty often caught fire.

Do you have money in Jiajing? Do you still want to build the outer wall of the capital? Then set a fire for you and burn all three halls. Okay, go build the palace, see if you still have the ability to bypass the finances of the Ministry of Accounts.

What? The Ministry of Revenue has no money either?

That doesn't matter. If you have to use money, your majesty will be paid? Your treasury has no money, so let's increase taxes. For example, Liao pay, Liao pay, for example Liao pay.

People are living in trouble?

Then it will be a hard time for the people. Anyway, we are in full swing and have a clean and honest attitude. As for a garden built by the head of the Ministry of Works after retirement, it can become one of the four major gardens in the future. That is not something you need to worry about.

Anyway.

The emperor worked hard to save some treasury and wanted to do practical things. In the end, although they were thrown into state affairs, disaster relief, and military pay, after layers of exploitation, there were no ten real ten things used for practical things.

And in order to do this.

Including drinking poison to quench thirst, the number of 200,000 royal families soared to the end of the Ming Dynasty, or the mining supervision and tax supervision in the Wanli period, these are all inferior strategies that were forced to be unable to do so.

For example, the small treasury that Emperor Wanli had accumulated for his whole life was waiting for his death.

Zhu Changluo, the emperor who was nominally the last month, may have been sent away by the Hongwan case when he ascended the throne. In just one month, he "promulgated" countless benevolent policies, so that the vault of Wanli was directly taken away.

Wanli saved about 16 million taels, and a month later, there were still four million taels left.

I can only say that it is gratifying.

These are all things that happened in the late Ming Dynasty and the late Ming Dynasty, but the context has been around for a long time, and Jiajing was even more awake. Therefore, from the sixth year of Jiajing to the sixth year of Jiajing, he not only did not weaken the royal family, but also reused the royal family.

But this does not mean that Jiajing can only rely on the royal family.

Because of Zhang Zhixiang's appearance, in the sixth year of Jiajing, Zhang Zhixiang not only sent the Dengwen Gu to Jiajing, but more importantly, he defeated Yang Tinghe and forced Yang Tinghe to surrender, thus allowing Jiajing to gain a firm foothold in the court.

And because Zhang Zhixiang informed everyone of everything in the future.

Only then can Jiajing solve the court easily and gradually truly grasp the imperial power, thus doing all kinds of practical things.

And the real emperor.

When the royal family was to reform the royal family, the royal family did not have much ability to resist. At least, when Zhu Yunwen wanted to reduce the vassal states, the vassal kings were not able to resist normally, but whoever made the civil servant group not behaved and did not leave any room for the military general group, the military general group could only help King Yan Jingnan.

Zhu Yunwen had this ability at the beginning, let alone today's Jiajing.

So when I was equalizing the fields.

In the civil direction, the Wang family was the first to respond and donate their own land. In the official position, Jiajing directly ordered the royal family to donate all the land. Although some turmoil occurred during this period, they were all relieved by Jiajing.

Just like when the Qin Dynasty unified the six kingdoms, the old Ying family was always suffering from the royal family.

The royal family supports imperial power, because only the emperor is better can they be better.

Therefore, most of the royal family are willing to endure, while a small number of people are unwilling to endure, so I will send them to see Taizu. Jiajing has never been a kind emperor, and the scholars and officials have mostly said that he is cold and cold.

So don't think about flirting with dragon beards.

However, the restructuring of titles involves the foundation of the royal family. Once the title is surrendered, the descendants of the royal family will be no different from the civilians...

Even though Gu Lin knew Jiajing's ability, he felt that this was too much.

The royal family cannot agree.

Although it is not the turn of the royal family to subvert anything in this era, at least it is necessary to cause a storm. No matter whose blood is flowing, it is always necessary to see blood.

If you point the butcher knife at your family, Your Majesty doesn’t consider how to explain it to your ancestors?

"Your Majesty has talked with me in his letter these days."

"It's not just about surrendering the title, but also said... to move out."

Zhang Zhixiang's calm words fell into Gu Lin's ears, as if they were thunder. He was stunned for a while before he was sure that he had heard it correctly, and still asked himself: "Move out? Is it... Move overseas?"

"That's right."

Zhang Zhixiang nodded and said, "Now the population of the royal family is about 10,000, and there are all men, women, old and young. In the past, in China, because women also have titles, the highest is the eldest princess and the lowest is the hometown princess."

"But after the restructuring, there is no salary for the title, and these names have to be demoted to the successor, so women cannot be listed separately."

"As for households, there are only about two thousand households."

"Not only now, from now on, the royal family will not stay in the Ming Dynasty. They will all move out of the country to educate and transform countries, and go to various countries to settle in the name of cultural envoys, and help all countries improve their knowledge, technology, and morality, and achieve the merit of full education."

"From the princes and the lieutenants of Fengguo, they can recruit craftsmen and literati to accompany them."

"There is a fixed upper limit, and the court will also provide a lower limit."

"For example, the lieutenant of Fengguo has two craftsmen, and the number of craftsmen is doubled for each rank of the head of the household. There are 64 generals in the town, 128 princes and 256 princes, and the upper limit is four times the quota."

"The total number of people accompanying people cannot exceed ten times the quota."

"The court has already sorted out overseas maps and national conditions of various countries, and will make detailed regional divisions, and even help them to the tribal level. They will not ignore them after they go out."

"Every cultural envoy is a bridge for local exchanges with the Ming Dynasty. If they want to learn from the Ming Dynasty, they must use cultural envoys."

"In order to ensure the safety of culture."

"The court will take the lead in letting retired old soldiers contact the cultural envoys, and let the cultural envoys recruit guards. They can also recruit people from the people. After reporting to the court, the court will distribute corresponding weapons and equipment."

After hearing this, Gu Lin was not thinking about whether the royal family would agree.

But...

"Sounds like the colonization that the Siro people like to do?"

"It is not colonization, but there are essential differences. Cultural envoys bring knowledge and technology. They are responsible for education, do not rule the local area by force, nor do they directly exploit it from the local area. If cultural envoys can gain a foothold in the local area and have a family business, then it will be fine. The two thousand cultural envoys are not many for the whole world."

"Then, although the prince is only allowed to lead more than 2,000 people on the surface, they can still recruit people through folk channels. Isn't your Majesty afraid that there will be vassal kings who will become independent overseas? Even have the idea of ​​entering the Central Plains?"

"The times are developing, and there is no place that is beyond reach. The fleet is created based on the industrial and financial resources of an entire country. When the Ming Dynasty solves internal problems, the Ming Dynasty's fleet will have no force to resist."

"What if... what if, I mean, what if there is an emperor who will die in the future?"

The issue of extinction cannot be ignored.

Because Your Majesty is now because of the extinction of Emperor Wuzong Zhu Houzhao, he came to the center from the vassal king.

"Among the royal family, the one with the closest bloodline, please go back to the capital to ascend the throne."

"in addition."

"The royal family has few descendants. What is the reason? You and I understand. In the future, the emperor will only leave the power of supervision, patrol the sky on behalf of the people, and withdraw from the stage of power, and will be full of descendants."

"Your Majesty even considered the issue of too many princes and too much title."

"There is another aspect of the title restructuring, which is to target princes. Each emperor is only allowed to be granted one prince, and the rest are princes, and they can only be surrendered to inherit the title."

"Although the prince was inherited, the rest of his sons could only be granted the title of Lieutenant of Zhenguo, and he became a white diary in three generations."

"in addition."

"The quota of kings is 36, with more than 36 people. The assessment is conducted every ten years. The last-place elimination system is used. The eliminated kings are demoted to princes, and they are promoted to surrender."

It can be said that Jiajing blocked the population of the royal family tightly, and the limit on the number of kings even suppressed the possibility of kings' expansion.

Not only will the princes move overseas, but they will also need to evaluate their achievements...

Gu Lin sighed that this Majesty is worthy of being a "lucky" name, and is really cruel to his own royal family.

"How can the royal family really agree?"

Gu Lin sighed. Even though he was an outsider or just a minister, he couldn't help feeling pitiful for the royal family. It has never been like this in all dynasties.

"Why don't you agree?"

"How can we not be satisfied if we are the only ones in the Ming Dynasty who are born with titles?"
To be continued...