Daming: I can’t kill such a greedy prince-in-law?

Chapter 337 Ouyang Lun’s plan is finally here! (Please subscribe!!)

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Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed!

"Wang Zhong, why are you still standing there? Hurry up and get me the memorial!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said hurriedly.

"Yes!"

Wang Zhong nodded and ran out quickly.

"Your Majesty, will you go to the clan's mansion to get someone in the future?" Ji Gang asked with some embarrassment.

"Don't be impatient. You can wait here until I finish reading the memorial written by Ouyang Lun." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand.

"Yes!" Ji Gang handed over his hand, then consciously stepped aside and stood there.

Soon, Wang Zhong presented a memorial.

"Your Majesty, please take a look."

Zhu Yuanzhang took the memorial and opened it to read.

Zhu Yuanzhang has been intrigued by this memorial these days. Zhu Yuanzhang wants to know what kind of method can solve the problem of salary and treatment of the clan members without affecting the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang himself also thought of many methods. , but none of them can be solved.

When Zhu Yuanzhang began to read the contents of the memorial, the entire Hall of Supreme Harmony became quiet.

As Zhu Yuanzhang's face became more and more solemn, Wang Zhong and Ji Gang stood by and did not even dare to breathe.

Be nice!

This Ouyang consort must have written some shocking remarks again.

If your Majesty gets angry, be sure not to bring disaster to Chiyu!

Just when Wang Zhong and Ji Gang were worried, Zhu Yuanzhang was already immersed in the content of this memorial.

The memorial is indeed a solution written by Ouyang Lun. It mainly contains three points. The first point is that the salary and treatment of the clan members will be halved year by year until they are equal to the income of the common people. This has been said a long time ago, and Zhu Yuanzhang also knows it. The second point is established. The clan fund is under the unified investment and management of the clan government. As for the source of funds, it mainly comes from the original salary and salary conversion of the clan children and the investment of other clans. This is something Zhu Yuanzhang has never heard of in the past. It is given to Zhu Yuanzhang His eyes lit up.

"The clan fund and the clan government's unified investment are only used for the life, pension, treatment and security of the clan children. Money begets money. I only need to continue to provide it for twenty years, or provide 10 million at a time, to completely solve this problem. This business is not a loss!”

Zhu Yuanzhang made a mental calculation and continued reading!

The third point in the content of the memorial is that the children of the clan must be screened and assessed, with the emperor as the core. Those who have not graduated from the fifth server can be exempted from screening, but they still need to be assessed to qualify for salary benefits, and the clan children who have passed the fifth server need to After some screening, you can be granted clan status, and only by passing the assessment can you be qualified to receive salary benefits, so that you can control the total population!

The fourth point is to support the descendants of the clan to enter the government, engage in business, agriculture, etc., and encourage the descendants of the clan to hand over half of the money they earn every month to the clan government for the operation of the clan fund. If they have paid continuously for 25 years, they can earn money every month. Receive twice the amount of money every month.

The fifth point is that the vassal king no longer receives salary and benefits, but also has to hand over 80% of the profits to the clan government for overall planning and control of clan construction.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, his expression became more solemn, and his mind was full of thoughts, constantly running, and he even read these points written by Ouyang Lun repeatedly.

This clan management reform plan can be said to be unprecedented and unheard of!

Once implemented, it will inevitably cause an uproar and there will be many unforeseen changes, but if it can be done well, it may really be able to eliminate a big hidden danger for the future of Ming Dynasty!

It's just that the plan proposed by Ouyang Lun is so novel that no one has thought of it at all. I don't know if the clan members and civil and military officials can accept it, especially the vassal kings. They came back this time to ask for money and took the money. I didn’t ask for it, and now I have to hand over 80% of it. How cruel!

Although there are differences in the management of clan children in the past dynasties, they are generally consistent. The imperial court provides money to support these clan children, and these clan children can live a good life even if they do nothing!

If you are born into a royal family or a noble family, then you are a master, and you can live a good life. This is the consensus of everyone!

The plan proposed by Ouyang Lun now indeed requires screening and assessment in addition to family background. Once you fail the screening and assessment, you can only live an ordinary life. I am afraid many people will object to this!

There is also support for the clan children to engage in politics, business, and even farming. This is equivalent to asking the clan children to enter all walks of life. Zhu Yuanzhang has no opinion on this. If the talents in all walks of life are from the old Zhu family, then the Ming Dynasty will be prosperous. It must be stable, but the descendants of the clan are pampered, are you willing to go?

And this so-called clan fund can really make money, and can it allow the Ming Dynasty clan to always have money? However, Ouyang Lun is still somewhat capable when it comes to making money.

After reading the entire reform plan, Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked in his heart. It was really hard for him to imagine how Ouyang Lun came up with such a method. If everything was really as what Ouyang Lun wrote, he would not have thought that this would be the solution to the Ming Dynasty. The best way to solve the issue of clan salary and remuneration.

The answer Ouyang Lun gave this time far exceeded Zhu Yuanzhang's expectations!

In fact, at the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang gave Ouyang Lun the solution to the problem of the salary and remuneration of the clan children. He just wanted Ouyang Lun to give the clan children a beating and make them restrain themselves. Don't just look at the situation in the Ming Dynasty and start asking for an increase in salary. At the same time, he also wanted the clan members to face off against Ouyang Lun, so that Zhu Yuanzhang, as the emperor, could use the art of balance!

In Zhu Yuanzhang's expectation, the clan children would definitely have the upper hand in the end due to the large number of people, but Ouyang Lun spent money to eliminate the disaster, the clan children got the benefits, and he, Zhu Yuanzhang, vented his anger, and the matter ended like this.

But I never expected that the clan members would be so vulnerable, or that they would be simply crushed when facing Ouyang Lun, and Ouyang Lun came up with the best solution!

This made Zhu Yuanzhang feel like he had been punched on cotton. He was shocked, helpless and a little bit impressed.

"Although those clan children who have emerged from the fifth server are far from me, they are still my relatives. If they fail to pass the screening and assessment, won't they not be able to live a good life? There will be no guarantee of life?"

Zhu Yuanzhang can also be considered a nostalgic person, especially when it comes to treating relatives.

Ouyang Lun's words made him give up taking care of these distant relatives. For a while, Zhu Yuanzhang found it difficult to accept it.

Zhu Yuanzhang conquered the Ming Dynasty from a beggar. To put it bluntly, it was not just to make a good life for himself and his relatives and friends. Now that the entire country belongs to the old Zhu family, he naturally has to let future generations enjoy the fruits of this victory. Thinking of his descendants Zhu Yuanzhang felt a little uncomfortable that he might be reduced to ordinary people and even live less well than ordinary people, and embark on the old path of being a beggar.

"This Ouyang Lun is obviously forcing me to make up my mind!"

Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a long time and sighed.

I have to say that the solution written by Ouyang Lun is quite good. Even if this problem is announced to the whole world, it is estimated that no one can come up with a better solution than this. "There seems to be a message on the back."

Zhu Yuanzhang opened the paper and found that there was writing on the back, so he started reading again.

The content behind it is mainly a specific elaboration of the fifth point. The general content is that the vassal kings are different from ordinary clan members. Each of them is a branch of the old Zhu family. Since they are branches, they should bear the responsibility of the branch. The responsibility comes.

A branch clan house can be established, and all systems will be copied from the capital clan mansion. The branch clan mansion will be responsible for the salary and treatment of the children of the branch clan clan. It will accept the dual leadership of the clan clan mansion and the vassal king, and encourage the branch clan clan mansion to operate branch clan clan funds, etc. wait.

In this way, the work pressure of the clan mansion can be reduced, and the children of the branch clan clan can be better taken care of!

The feudal king was able to obtain one percent of the tax revenue from the fiefdom.

Read what follows.

Zhu Yuanzhang's pupils shrank.

Be nice!

Ouyang Lun, you really dare to think!

It doesn't matter if you directly cancel the salary and benefits of the vassal king. You also have to let the vassal king punish the descendants of the clan below. If I were still alive and your plan was sent out, it is estimated that all the vassal princes would rebel.

Too bad!

Zhu Yuanzhang has begun to worry. Even if he is still there, some vassal kings will not be able to resist rebellion. In the name of clearing the emperor, you, Ouyang Lun, will be cleared!

Regarding Ouyang Lun's arrangements for the feudal kings, Zhu Yuanzhang also understood his intention. This was to force the feudal kings to manage their respective fiefs well and improve the economy and taxation of the fiefdoms, thus binding the feudal kings to the fiefdoms.

But one percent is a bit too little, and half of the one percent has to be handed over to the clan government.

It’s better to have less, lest the vassal king’s strength grows too fast and affect the court!

"Now let's see how the clan members react!"

"But letting the vassal kings control taxation, even if the tax revenue is a small proportion, can make the vassal kings bigger and stronger as time goes by. What if these vassal kings are not willing to just be kings? Will it happen in the future? Will there be rebellion among the feudal lords?”

"The previous dynasties all had bloody examples!"

Zhu Yuanzhang knew very well that the impression of feudal kings' rebellion can be said to be as dangerous as the people's uprising, both of which represent the decline of the central court's control over the country!

For example, the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion in the Han Dynasty and the Eight Kings Rebellion in the Western Jin Dynasty were all caused by the vassal kings having the power to cause rebellion.

It is precisely because of these precedents that Zhu Yuanzhang set many restrictions on the power of the vassal king.

Restrictions on political rights. In order to prevent the vassal kings from usurping power, Zhu Yuanzhang imposed strict restrictions on the political rights of the vassal kings. For example, it was stipulated that the vassal kings could mourn in their own country and did not have to go to Beijing; the vassal kings were prohibited from attending funerals for the queen and the empress dowager; The king's regular annual pilgrimages in the past, even non-essential pilgrimages, must be carried out in a certain order, and multiple kings cannot perform the pilgrimage at the same time.

Restrictions on economic rights: Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated that the prince's economic income could only receive a fixed salary, so that the prince could not accumulate too much wealth.

Restrictions on regional freedom: Zhu Yuanzhang also limited the activities of the vassal king to a smaller area. For example, it was stipulated that the vassal king enjoyed the highest authority in his own territory, but in other areas he needed to abide by the court's regulations and could not appear rashly. within other areas.

Restrictions on social behavior: There were also restrictions on the social behavior of the vassal king, such as prohibiting the vassal king from leaving the city privately to prevent the vassal king from gathering strength to fight against the court.

Restrictions on foreign exchanges: For those border lords who were originally responsible for the Ping vass imperial family, the Ming government prohibited contacts with foreign vassals.

Medical resource restrictions: The vassal king also needed to apply to the court when seeking medical services, which reflected the Ming government's strict control over the vassal's medical resources.

Personal privacy restrictions: The private life of the feudal prince is also monitored to a certain extent. The local supervisory censor will monitor the status of the feudal prince's palace.

Of course, even though Zhu Yuanzhang put so many restrictions on the vassal kings, the power of the Ming vassal kings was still relatively large in the past dynasties.

The vassal system of the Ming Dynasty had its own characteristics, which were different from those of the Han and Jin Dynasties, as well as those of the Tang and Song Dynasties.

The clans of the Han and Jin Dynasties split the land and came to the people and had too much power. The clans of the Tang and Song dynasties were not familiar with the land and had too little power. The Ming Dynasty took a lesson from history and adopted a compromise approach to learn from the strong points of the policies of the past dynasties. The specific manifestation is the Ming Dynasty. The vassal kings enfeoffed the feudal lords but did not pay tribute to the land, gave titles to the nobles but did not visit the people, took salary but did not manage affairs, and were not allowed to participate in the four industries of agriculture, industry and commerce.

In other words, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty only had titles, no land, only titles, and no power to govern the people. They only had salary and no power to govern the place. They could not participate in the affairs of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce like the people.

The only advantage is that the title of the vassal king in the Ming Dynasty can be hereditary and replaceable, and the power of the border vassal king will be greater, because there will be some military power to guard the border, but the vassal king himself does not have the power to recruit troops and only has a certain number of guards.

Generally speaking, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty had great rights. They could lead the army, receive lifelong salaries, and have management rights in the land under their jurisdiction.

They have their own palace and army. Each king has three guards, but it is worth noting that these three guards do not refer to three people. The so-called guard is a general term, and the number of guards ranges from 3,000 to 19,000. According to this regulation, the military strength that the feudal king can possess is from 9,000 to 57,000 men.

Economically, the feudal king not only had a lifelong salary, but also received very generous treatment. The annual salary alone is 5 dan in meters, which is 50 times that of a first-class minister. In addition, there are also expenses for canonization, palace, marriage, funeral, etc., and are given to kitchen servants, vegetarians, laymen and other handymen.

If Ouyang Lun's reform method is followed, it will be equivalent to breaking many of the restrictions Zhu Yuanzhang set for the vassal kings. For the vassal kings, although their salary and treatment have been reduced, they themselves are freer.

With tax revenue, they can do business and farm land, and they also have certain military strength.

Once it is not done well, it is likely to put Ming Dynasty into greater danger.

After thinking about this clearly, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly felt dizzy and the corners of his mouth twitched.

"Ouyang Lun, you did this on purpose!"

Maybe he was depressed, or maybe he couldn't think of a better way, or maybe he was angry with Ouyang Lun, so Zhu Yuanzhang slapped the dragon case fiercely!

This scared Wang Zhong and Ji Gang quite a lot!

(End of this chapter)