Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 435 Sealing the vassal overseas, the four kings meet

Lu Zhenfei was quite surprised when he saw the reform measure of "no longer enfeoffing feudal vassals in the territory of Ming Dynasty", and immediately looked at the detailed explanation below.

It turned out that the new system gave princes and county kings two choices.

One is to stay in Daming, but not to go out of the jurisdiction of the southern and northern Zhili, and not to be in politics, army or business, and basically can only live on the annual salary and rewards from the emperor.

The second is to choose to confine the vassal to the "birth place" overseas of the Ming Dynasty, and only the prince can make this choice.

If this option is selected, the imperial court will settle the prince's 20-year salary at one time, so that the prince can use the money as capital to become a feudal prince overseas.

As for where to live, the vassal is generally given several places by the court for the prince to choose.It is not ruled out that there is only one place, or there is no place to choose for the time being.

If there is no place to choose, the prince can only wait.

Generally speaking, the prince's territory will not be as small as a hundred miles.

And after becoming a vassal, the vassal king has administrative powers such as personnel rights and financial rights in the place, and can form a pro-military force. The number of pro-military forces cannot exceed [-] (the limited number of pro-military forces can be changed by the emperor of Ming Dynasty).

In addition, the imperial court has the power to garrison troops and conduct military operations in the prince's fief.

Seeing this, Lu Zhenfei couldn't help sighing: In this way, the prince's power in the fief is even greater than when the country was founded, even catching up with the princes in Zhou Dynasty.

But Lu Zhenfei didn't have any doubts - they all learned about the overseas situation from Aimee Zhu, and they also knew about Aimee Zhu's ambitions.

The current reform, in the final analysis, is to make the vassal kings become pawns for the imperial court to open up overseas.

Withdrawing his thoughts, he continued to look at the part about the county king.

The county king cannot obtain overseas fiefdoms like the prince, but he can choose to invest in the prince and develop overseas fiefdoms in partnership with the prince.

Or emigrate overseas, obtain money through business and other means, and buy overseas land.

You can also serve in overseas princes' fiefdoms or sites managed by the imperial court to make meritorious service, increase the number of succession times of titles, or promote titles.

But it should be noted that, no matter what kind, the imperial court will only settle the ten-year-old salary to the county king at one time, and will not issue the annual salary after that.

Lu Zhenfei could imagine that with these various measures, the county kings with hundreds of people will either choose to go overseas to make a fortune, or they can only stay in the country and wait for the third king to be expelled.

In the first generation of county kings who accepted the reform, there may still be many who choose to live in the country and wait to die, but when it comes to the second and third generations, most of them will choose to go to sea.

In fact, after the annual salary was reduced to one thousand shi, even the first generation of county kings may not have the conditions to eat and wait to die.

It should be noted that the county kings also have family members, and they were even used to living a luxurious life before.And one thousand shi rice, even if converted into silver at today's expensive grain prices, is only 3000 taels of silver, which may not be enough for a county king and his family to spend for a year.

Not to mention, all feudal kings and princes need to pass the exam.

Lu Zhenfei, who has been in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty for many years, thought of a bad move when he saw this - if the court felt that there were too many vassal kings one day, and wanted to cut down the vassals, there was no need to go to war, and the difficulty of the vassal exams for several years would be increased immediately. Can.

Speaking of exams, although the princes and county kings registered in the Zhaowu Dynasty did not need to take exams, they had to accept several years of vassal training.

Train them how to be a vassal king, manage the vassal palace well, and maintain the reputation of Zhu Ming's royal family.In addition, you can also take courses related to "Feng Fan Overseas".

After reading the white paper, Lu Zhenfei couldn't help but smile.

'I don't know what thoughts and expressions the feudal kings who have already arrived in Nanjing will have when they learn about the clan reform that His Majesty will implement. '

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Under the special instruction of Aimee Zhu, after this meeting, the content of the "First Draft of the Reform of the Daming Suzerainty and Vassal System" quickly spread to the circle of vassal princes.

Lord Lane.

This is the new name of Zheliu Lane, because the imperial court spent money to relocate all the original residents of this alley, and sent in the 27 princes and their immediate family members who came to Nanjing, so it got its name.

Although the imperial court did not put these princes under house arrest, they sent a thousand guards to garrison near this alley.Not only are there guards guarding each intersection, but there are also guards at the gates of each prince's house.

If the prince himself goes out, there will be five garrisons following him for "protection".

The princes are currently allowed to move around in Nanjing City, but they are not allowed to go out of the outer city.

In the end, the garrison stationed in Zheliu Lane was on shifts, and the rotation was indefinite, even if the princes wanted to buy it, they couldn't help it.

In fact, under the coercion of Empress Zhaowu, none of these princes dared to disagree, and they were all ready to be imprisoned in Nanjing for life, eating together and waiting to die.

However, when the white paper pamphlets of "The First Draft of the Reform of the Great Ming Suzerainty System" flowed into Zheliu Lane, many people's minds changed.

Lu Wangfu.

"Oh, it's not good for you to go to a party, why do you have to come to my place? I don't know that I have made a big mistake, and now I am being monitored by that person?"

Zhu Changhao looked at Tang Wang, Lu Wang, and Gui Wang, and deeply regretted letting them in.

These three came to visit one by one, and they all brought his favorite music score, piano and other gifts, and the life under house arrest was extremely boring, so he was really embarrassed to turn them away.

Unexpectedly, the three of them came in without chatting, and King Lu took out a white paper booklet.

Zhu Changhao flipped through a few pages, his face turned pale with fright, and he wished he could drive some people away immediately.

It was only after seeing that he managed to grow his nails half an inch long again that he didn't really do anything.

Lu Wang Zhu Yihai said: "Lu Wang, among us, you are the one who has the most dealings with the imperial court. When something like this happens, of course we have to ask your opinion?"

"My opinion?" Zhu Changhao frowned tightly, "Is my opinion important?"

Tang Wang Zhu Yujian, the oldest among them, said: "Prince Lu, you are the most honorable among the kings, your opinion is of course important."

After experiencing Chen Hongfan's incident in Hangzhou, Zhu Changhao became a little smarter, and he became more vigilant in this regard.

Hearing this, he sneered and said: "Well, if you insist on asking, my opinion is that everything is according to His Majesty's will!"

The three kings couldn't help but be astonished when they heard this.

Immediately, Zhu Yujian smiled wryly and said, "The problem is that His Majesty has given us a chance to choose now. Please read this page."

As Zhu Yujian said, he directly flipped the white paper to the section "Relevant Reform Measures for the Domain King".

"You said that the imperial court allowed us to choose to seal off the vassal overseas. Is it sincere or tentative? How should we choose?"

Lu Wang really read it carefully, and then said: "It doesn't matter whether the court is sincere or not, anyway, we can only follow the above. If I had to choose, I would definitely choose to stay in Daming.

As for feudal vassal overseas, it looks good, but who knows what will happen when you go overseas?Maybe they capsized the boat halfway and fell into the sea to die. "

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　　
　
(End of this chapter)