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    Zhu Youxiao sighed and said: "Third uncle, this year the imperial court has an annual income of 4.8 million taels, and the salary for the clan alone is 2 million taels. The rest, not to mention the use of troops and disaster relief, even the court's daily income  It¡¯s not commonly used enough. If this continues, how long will this Ming Dynasty last?¡±

    King Fu hesitated for a moment and said: "Long live the Ming Dynasty, this Ming Dynasty was conquered by my ancestors of the Zhu family. It is also necessary to use the power of the world to support the clan. If the court does not support the clan, then the clan will be displaced among the people. Wouldn't it be a loss of the royal family and the court?"  Face?"

    Zhu Youxiao did not expect that Prince Fu would be at this time. He thought that it was right to use the whole country to support his family. When he was thinking about future generations, he understood that few of the princes of the Ming Dynasty contributed money and effort to the country!

    But Zhu Youxiao also knew that Prince Fu would not be alert if the knife was not placed on his neck. If he told Prince Fu now that one of his father and son died in the hands of Li Zicheng and the other died in the hands of the Manchus, Prince Fu would probably also  Just a joke!

    Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not intend to show affection towards King Fu, but instead used reason. Anyway, given the current situation, whether it was emotion or reason, he could not explain clearly in front of King Fu!

    Seeing Zhu Youxiao¡¯s face gradually becoming serious, King Fu knew that he had said the wrong thing, and naturally he felt extremely regretful!

    Mrs. Zheng also complained about her son in her heart: "It's time now. Whatever the emperor says is whatever it is. Why are you trying to refute it?"

    Zhu Youxiao also noticed that the expressions of Concubine Zheng and Prince Fu's family had changed. Knowing that they were frightened, he smiled and said, "Third uncle, there is no need to think too much. My nephew said that he will not hurt your family's lives, so he will not break his promise, and  This time, more than five million taels of silver, hundreds of thousands of shi of grain, and more than 100,000 acres of land were obtained from the third uncle's house. This solved the urgent need of the nephew and the court, so the nephew will naturally not treat the third uncle badly.  !¡±

    Hearing these figures, King Fu's expression was not distressed but shocked. In fact, as a prince, he only had a general understanding of his family's property, but he did not know that there were so many!

    When he thought that Zhu Youxiao had just said that the Ming Dynasty's annual income was only 4.8 million taels, King Fu became even more frightened. This was like a horse thief meeting a rich man. It would be unreasonable for Zhu Youxiao not to take advantage of him.  And now Zhu Youxiao is Daozu, and his Fu Wang family is fish and meat, what else is there to compete with?

    After thinking about this, King Fu quickly bowed and saluted in fear: "I didn't expect that my family would have so much wealth. Since they were all confiscated and brought to the capital this time, I sincerely ask Long Live to take back these money, grain, and land."  State-owned, to atone for the sins of sinners!¡±

    Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied with Prince Fu's understanding of current affairs. He waved his hand and said with a smile: "Didn't my nephew say that now we are talking to our own family, so we don't have to be so reserved. However, since my third uncle understands the righteousness, my nephew will naturally not do it either."  If you are stingy, please ask your third uncle to take over the affairs of the clan mansion. In addition, your third uncle¡¯s royal title will remain unchanged. The palace will give your third uncle¡¯s family 10,000 taels of silver every year. However, after a hundred years, your third uncle¡¯s title will be reduced.  Wait, if the descendants of Third Uncle still do nothing, they will be commoners in five generations!"

    King Fu was happy and surprised when he heard this. What he was happy about was that he got accurate words from Zhu Youxiao, and this disaster was finally over.  What is shocking is that Zhu Youxiao actually plans to downgrade the clan title and even end up being demoted to a commoner!

    According to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, titles were divided into two types: clan members and relatives of meritorious officials.  Among them, the title of the clan is the most noble. Lao Zhu made all his sons princes!

    That is to say, starting from Lao Zhu, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty would designate their sons who were not emperors as princes, and these princely titles were hereditary and irreplaceable, that is, princes and princes would not be downgraded along with inheritance!

    Not only that, after the prince¡¯s eldest son inherited the title of king, all other sons were named county princes. Although the title was one level lower than that of the prince, their crowns and uniforms were all regarded as first-class!

    The county kings and princes are hereditary and will be inherited by the county prince's crown prince. At the same time, the other sons of the county king are awarded the title of general of the country. Once the title reaches this point, they begin to be downgraded. They will be demoted to the rank of general of the auxiliary country and the title of general of the country from generation to generation.  General Guo, Lieutenant Zhenguo, Lieutenant Fuguo, Lieutenant Fengguo, and all subsequent heirs will be Lieutenant Fengguo, but even if they reach Lieutenant Fengguo, they are from the sixth rank official position!

    In other words, as long as you are a member of the Lao Zhu family, no matter how many generations have passed, your lowest official position will be the sixth grade, and these all need to be supported by the Ming Dynasty court!

    The imperial court dared to default on the salaries of officials, but it did not dare to default on the salaries of these people. Therefore, every year in the Ming Dynasty, the royal family¡¯s salary had to be allocated first, and then they could do other things!

    But the princes of Lao Zhu¡¯s family are really raised like pigs. They have nothing to do and can¡¯t run around, so they can only have children, so theyIn the Ming Dynasty, dozens of county princes and hundreds of generals were born every year. As for other clan titles, it is impossible to count them!

    So every year when the cabinet and household divisions allocate annual revenue, the biggest headache is not where there is a war or where there is a disaster, but how many people are filled in the clan roster sent by the Ministry of Rites!

    Why is the Ministry of Rites in charge of clan matters?

    Because according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, in principle, there are basically only two adult royal men who can stay in Beijing, one is the emperor and the other is the prince. All other adult royal men must be sent to other places to join the feudal vassal!

    As for why the emperor¡¯s grandson is not considered an adult royal man, it is because there are basically no three generations of the Ming Dynasty¡¯s emperor and grandson who are in the adult stage, and other situations are special cases!

    For example, King Fu did not join the feudal clan until he was twenty-seven years old, and that was because Emperor Wanli really wanted to be a feudal lord. It was not until he could no longer bear it that he asked King Fu to go to Luoyang to join the feudal clan. In this way, Zhu Youxiao's fifth uncle  Zhu Changhao, sixth uncle Zhu Changrun, and seventh uncle Zhu Changying are still staying in Beijing. This shows that Emperor Wanli actually treated his sons well!

    It is precisely for the reasons mentioned above that the clan of the old Zhu family in the Ming Dynasty was in charge of the Xun Qi, and the Ministry of Rites was responsible for specific affairs, so the roster of the old Zhu family was placed in the Ministry of Rites!

    Every year when the old Zhu family wanted to import a new child, they would first report to the emperor for a reward, and then send the book to the Ministry of Rites. Officials from the Ministry of Rites would record the new descendants of the Zhu family in the family genealogy!

    But what makes people speechless is that the list is growing so fast that every year when the Ministry of Rites reports it, the Cabinet and the Ministry of Revenue feel distressed for a long time!

    After saying this, you should understand that after more than two hundred years of reproduction, how many people in the old Zhu family have received salary!

    To be honest, supporting these clans was a big reason why the Ming Dynasty finally collapsed financially!

    And the most terrible thing is that the clan of the Ming Dynasty not only received a salary, but also owned land. With the increasing number of princes and princes, there was actually not much land that the Ming Dynasty could entrust!

    That¡¯s why Zhu Youxiao framed King Fu. In addition to getting money and land from King Fu, he also wanted to set a precedent for the Ming Dynasty clan to take care of themselves, reduce vassalage, and demote others to attack the nobility!

    For the emperors before the Ming Dynasty, it was actually very troublesome to do this. First of all, they couldn't pass their own test. After all, even though he became the emperor, he only had one son who could inherit the throne!

    The other sons, as well as the sons of his sons, and their descendants are all his descendants. No one wants his descendants to suffer. This situation may be that Lao Zhu has to make a living, so the emperors of the Zhu family are afraid that their children will suffer poverty.  Caused!

    But Zhu Youxiao doesn¡¯t have this psychological burden!

    His soul came from time travel. Not only does he have no feelings for the Phoenix and Dragon grandchildren of Lao Zhu's family, but he also believes that his descendants should learn to be self-reliant, otherwise he will create a bunch of useless descendants who will be killed by who knows who in the end.  It's so embarrassing!

    Therefore, Zhu Youxiao wanted to carry out a major reform of the Ming Dynasty clan starting from King Fu. The ultimate goal of the reform was to get rid of the big burden of the clan.

    The reason why King Fu was given a preferential treatment and let him take charge of the clan mansion was because King Fu paid too much, so he was given a diamond membership!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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