Please compile the Hongwu Grand Ceremony at the beginning, Lao Zhu Le collapsed

Chapter 156: The method of destroying a noble family, the Ming Dynasty version of the grace order

Xiao Han followed Zhu Biao into the prince's exclusive chariot and headed all the way to Kunning Palace.

"Dad...I'm back."

In Kunning Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang was leaning on a deck chair in the yard, leisurely basking in the sun. Although Zhu Yuanzhang had returned to Yingtian Mansion during this period, basically all the people who went to court were contracted by Zhu Biao. Zhu Yuanzhang only used it when needed. Showing up to support Zhu Biao and not even hosting the court meeting was extremely relaxing.

"Hey! Fengxue, you're back. We heard what they said about these battles. They were so beautiful."

"Say, why don't we just transfer you to the title of King of England after a while?"

"Anyway, you have been included in our family tree, and it is legal."

"We don't believe it. Even if Zhu Yuanzhang speaks in person, there are still people who dare to say anything."

Seeing Xiao Han and Zhu Biao walking in, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up immediately, he stood up and stepped forward to take Xiao Han's hand.

"This is unnecessary."

"Being a British Duke is already a great honor for Feng Xue. If I am granted the title of king, I will have to go to Fan. I will not be able to stay here in Yingtian Mansion to help the boss. I am afraid the boss will cry by then."

Xiao Han smiled and shook his head.

He thought to himself, if he became the King of England, ancient Britain belonged to the hinterland of the Han Dynasty and was not suitable for letting the vassal king, then would he have to sail across the ocean to live in the Breton Islands?

If the local people don't agree, he will have to conquer the place, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. It is better to continue to be the British Duke in Yingtian Mansion and help Zhu Biao plan the development after the Ming Dynasty.

Before traveling through time, Xiao Han also dreamed of coming to this era to dominate the world, and with just a few words of advice, he could directly revolutionize the achievements of the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, Xiao Han had only completed less than one-tenth of the actual progress after traveling for such a long time.

This situation in the Ming Dynasty and the stubbornness of the powerful family made even Xiao Han feel tired when facing it.

The real ancient times were never the kind where reforms could be carried out with just one sentence. Every small step was subject to great resistance.

Because every change affects the interests of the old vested interests. If the steps are even slightly bigger, it will be a predetermination of the country's subjugation.

"Blizzard!"

Zhu Biao glared at Xiao Han. Wasn't he just robbing him of a piece of Ming Pao's business? As for being so shady on him?

Zhu Biao, the majestic Ming prince, can cry?

Ok…

Wait, it seems that if this guy suddenly disappears, there is a high probability that he will collapse from exhaustion due to the current situation of Ming Dynasty's changes.

Xiao Han would feel tired every time there was a change, and Zhu Biao would naturally feel even more strenuous. He would always encounter countless problems, but Xiao Han always seemed to know the answer to the problem and could always give him the optimal solution.

If Zhu Biao had to solve all these problems by himself, even Zhu Biao couldn't help but feel numb after thinking about it.

"Well, that's true. The Ming Dynasty is indeed inseparable from you."

Zhu Yuanzhang also nodded with deep understanding.

"Biao'er, has the Spring Festival gone smoothly recently?"

Zhu Yuanzhang turned to Zhu Biao and asked.

"Returning to Dad, it's going well so far. The restless powerful families from all sides have been suppressed by the children."

Zhu Biao said.

"Well done. These scholar-bureaucrats have the best resources under the imperial court, but they only care about expanding their own interests and don't care about the lives of the people at the bottom. We should attack them hard."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded. He had always held a suppressive attitude towards the scholar-bureaucrats, which was why he strongly supported the reform of the imperial examination.

In addition to the reform of the imperial examination, Zhu Yuanzhang was naturally happy to see the hope of effectively improving the rights of the people and weakening the clan of scholar-bureaucrats.

"Feng Xue, in fact, we have always wanted to weaken the power of these powerful families, but we can't find a reasonable way."

"After all, we can't just start killing on a large scale, can we?"

"Your imperial examination reform is indeed a good method, but this method can only improve the common people, but it cannot effectively weaken the scholar-bureaucrats."

"During this period, we thought carefully and came up with a good idea."

Zhu Yuanzhang put his hands behind his back with a profound expression on his face, just waiting for Xiao Han and Zhu Biao to ask questions.

"I wonder what clever idea dad has come up with?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's behavior made Xiao Han and Zhu Biao slightly stunned.

The two looked at each other, and they seemed to see something in each other's eyes.

Do you even have a plan?

"hey-hey!"

"You young people are indeed powerful, but we old men also have our own wisdom."

"Feng Xue, you gave us inspiration from the Ming Dynasty's Agricultural Science. This is how we think about it. Link the imperial examination to agricultural production. If you want to participate in the imperial examination, you must participate in agricultural labor. Only those who work hard every year are eligible to participate. With the imperial examination, a large number of people from aristocratic families who only know how to study and do not know how to farm will be directly excluded from the imperial examination and weaken the power of powerful families. What do you think?"

Zhu Yuanzhang chuckled, quite proud.

After listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Zhu Biao fell into thinking and began to think about the feasibility of this method. Starting from Zhu Yuanzhang's thinking, it could indeed be a way to weaken the powerful family. Zhu Biao thought so anyway.

"father."

"My son thought that this would not work."

Xiao Han frowned directly and said to Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Oh?"

"how do I say this?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Xiao Han.

He knew that Xiao Han would most likely have other opinions, but he didn't expect to deny him so simply.

"First, this method stimulates the powerful families too much, and the impact is too severe. Naturally, no one can shake the Ming Dynasty when you are here, but once you leave, the kings of future generations may not be able to suppress those greedy and ambitious families. You are so powerful, I am afraid that Ming Dynasty will be in trouble because of this method."

"Secondly, with all due respect to my son, your method is to weaken the aristocratic family in order to weaken the aristocratic family. In the process, it will shut out many talents, and it will not be of any benefit to our Ming Dynasty. It belongs to the powerful and powerful aristocratic family. Both sides suffer.”

At this time, Xiao Han became Zhu Yuanzhang's son. He no longer had the mentality of saving his life in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, so he spoke out directly.

"Ok?"

"What kind of talents can be wasted? Great talents like Zhuge Wuhou can still cultivate Nanyang. Can they be stronger than Zhuge Wuhou?"

"As for the aristocratic family's backlash, this is indeed a problem. Feng Xue, you can help us think about how to make them more obedient."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned.

"Dad, from my perspective, although the powerful family is not a good bird, they are not our enemies after all, but they are also members of our Han family. What we should do is to use them and make them become a powerful force in our Ming Dynasty. A powerful force, rather than simply weakening them to defend against them."

Xiao Han rubbed his eyebrows. To be honest, Lao Zhu's political ability was not low, but sometimes he was too direct in doing things and relied on his own strength to go straight.

"Then it looks like you have a good idea, Feng Xue. Why don't you tell me about it?"

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly smiled, raised the corners of his mouth, and showed a successful smile to Xiao Han.

"No...Dad...you have been waiting here for me?"

Xiao Han was slightly startled at first, and then looked at Zhu Yuanzhang in realization.

"Ha ha!"

"Actually, I'm not lying to you. This is indeed a solution that we have thought about for several days, but we actually feel that it is not feasible to do this. Just like you said, after leaving our first few generations, the following generations I’m afraid the Zhu family’s children won’t be able to suppress it.”

"So, let's just say it and see if we can get some practical solutions from Feng Xue."

"Tell me how to turn a powerful family into a powerful force that makes our Ming Dynasty strong."

Zhu Yuanzhang rarely smiled like a child who had succeeded in his scheme. I wonder if it was because of the relaxation during this period. Zhu Yuanzhang's mentality changed and he even felt a lot younger.

Xiao Han:…

I really owe you and my son. Forget it, this pirate ship has come up. I still have to help.

"Actually, it's not difficult to weaken the aristocratic family. I've really thought about this, but I haven't completely perfected it yet."

"Looking at the idea, do you know the order of favor promotion implemented by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty?"

Xiao Han touched his chin and asked Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao.

"Of course we know this. In order to weaken the princes in various places, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty announced that the eldest son of the princes could inherit the title of the princes, and the other sons could allocate a piece of the princes' fiefdoms for inheritance."

"In this way, the princes will regenerate into small princes, but the land will not increase. As time goes by, under the succession of successive generations of princes, the power of the princes will become more fragmented and weak, and finally they will no longer threaten Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It can be recovered directly.”

"But...the princes are different from the powerful families, right?"

"The aristocratic family is powerful but has no fiefdom..." At this point, Zhu Biao suddenly paused. He suddenly realized that although the aristocratic family did not have land, it seemed to be suitable for the method of extending the grace order.

"Feng Xue, what you mean is that although the powerful family does not have fiefdom, it does have land. We can formulate inheritance rules so that the descendants of the family can inherit the land in a divided manner, thus interrupting the accumulation of land from generation to generation."

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up slightly and he spoke.

"More than that, in addition to land, there is other wealth. We need to quantify all their wealth and support other descendants of the family to carry out divided inheritance."

"Otherwise, if we only divide the land, then the direct descendants who have inherited the main body of the family will soon be able to annex a large amount of land back through redemption, which will not shake the foundation of the family."

"Only by dividing everything, including the books they inherited, among each generation can we interrupt their expansion trend of annexing land in the prosperous times and accepting tenants in the troubled times."

Xiao Han added.

In Xiao Han's eyes, there is actually no essential difference between powerful families and princes. They both have gathered too much wealth and population, which makes them capable of resisting centralized power.

Therefore, if you want to differentiate them, you need to push back everything they control when inheriting. Only in this way can you truly continuously differentiate the power of this class of aristocratic families, and achieve the Ming Dynasty's purpose of weakening them.

"Or, we can do something even more extreme. In order to prevent powerful families from resisting us and only giving birth to one or two legitimate sons in each generation, we directly stipulate that bastards also have certain inheritance rights and can divide the family's property and speed up the process of dividing the family's property. The power of the aristocratic family is divided by the speed at which it is pushed.”

Xiao Han thought for a while and spoke again.

"What a clever plan. In just a few generations, those powerful families will collapse on their own. Moreover, because many people who are not qualified to inherit the property of the family have inherited the property due to my intervention, they will not be too hostile to my Ming Dynasty. "

"This has further contributed to the internal divisions among the powerful families, making it difficult for them to unite together. It will naturally become more difficult to fight against the Ming Dynasty. At this time, how to deal with these powerful families is all up to me, the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Biao narrowed his eyes and praised sincerely.

"Any more?"

Zhu Yuanzhang seemed a little dissatisfied and asked again.

"father?"

"Isn't this method already very clear?"

Zhu Biao looked at Zhu Yuanzhang in surprise. He felt that this plan was already perfect.

"Cough cough!"

"This method is good, but the results are a bit too slow. We want to see if Feng Xue has any other methods that can take effect in the near future to weaken those powerful families and open the way for the reform of the imperial examination."

"But after thinking about it, we are too greedy. The thought of using this eternal conspiracy on the powerful people of aristocratic families is already a fantastic idea. How could there be a second one?"

Zhu Yuanzhang coughed twice and said.

"Dad, in that case, the boss and I will go to Mom's place to see if we can help cook two dishes and discuss the specific implementation."

Xiao Han opened his mouth and finally said this.

"Go ahead, your mother hasn't seen you for a while, and she's been talking about it a lot."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said.

"Fengxue, you seem...to have nothing to say."

Zhu Biao and Xiao Han walked some distance away and asked Xiao Han in a low voice.

"Well, it does exist, but for this method, I still think it would be more appropriate to wait until our Ming Dynasty version of the push order has been implemented for a period of time before using it."

"Especially now that we are in the period of Ming Dynasty's imperial examination reform. If we stimulate those powerful families and wealthy businessmen, it is easy to cause a backlash."

Xiao Han nodded slightly.

"As expected, your kid's routines are always combination punches. There is never a time when you only use one move. Let me listen to you. Don't worry, I'm not our father, so I won't be in a hurry."

Zhu Biao chuckled.

"If this method were to become popular in the Ming Dynasty, it would not be possible until the Banking Regulatory Bureau was completely spread throughout the Ming Dynasty. So in fact, even if you want to use it, you won't be able to use it."

"It's simple to say, it's to conduct a thorough investigation of the number of properties such as land and shops owned by each household, and then draw a scale limit. The portion exceeding this scale limit will have to pay more taxes. As for the specific amount, I haven’t figured out how much to pay, and I haven’t figured out the size limit either.”

Xiao Han said to Zhu Biao.

"hiss!"

"It's really exciting. You are cutting your flesh from those powerful families and wealthy businessmen."

"Ordinary people don't have much industry, so it won't be affected at all. This is directly aimed at them."

"It's exciting enough, I like it."

Zhu Biao nodded and said.

"Right, so my dad didn't ask any more questions, so I didn't say anything either."

Xiao Han smiled helplessly. He was really afraid that Lao Zhu would hear it. Lao Zhu just said, "Fuck him!"

"mother!"

At this time, the two of them had walked to the small kitchen of Kunning Palace. At this time, Queen Ma was leading a group of palace maids to prepare meals herself.

"Fengxue, Biao'er, why are you two here?"

When Queen Ma saw Xiao Han and Zhu Biao, a smile suddenly appeared on her face.

"Mom, let's come over and see if we can help. This guy Feng Xue's cooking skills are not bad."

Zhu Biao smiled at Queen Ma.

"Hey! What can I do with your help?"

"Fengxue, you just came back, go ahead and wait to eat. Don't you still believe in my mother's cooking?"

"Xu Da and Chang Yuchun should be arriving soon. Chang Mao and Xu Huizu should also be here. You can pick them up. Young people, let's have a good exchange."

Queen Ma said with a smile, but she directly refused to ask Xiao Han and Zhu Biao to help.

Seeing this, Xiao Han and Zhu Biao had no choice but to leave angrily.

On the surface, you, the old man, are talking about having a good communication with those two boys, Chang Mao and Xu Huizu, but what are you actually thinking? Can we not know?

"Brother Fengxue!"

Xiao Han and Zhu Biao just left Queen Ma's small kitchen in Kunning Palace and came to the main courtyard of Kunning Palace. They heard a cheer from a distance.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Han felt a soft body crash into his arms.

Without looking, Xiao Han knew that this must be Chang Qingling.

Not far away, Chang Yuchun saw Chang Qingling rushing towards Xiao Han as soon as he entered the door, and his face turned a little dark.

"Cough cough!"

"Qing Ling, okay, I can't run away."

Xiao Han coughed twice and said to Chang Qingling in his arms.

"Qing Ling, aren't you coming back yet?"

"What did you say before you came out?"

Chang Yuchun had a fierce expression on his face. If it weren't for the fact that this was Kunning Palace, he would have really wanted to get angry.

"Brother Fengxue! And me!"

Whoosh!

Another figure, Xu Miaoyun, rushed over from the other side.

Xu Da, who was just about to say a few words to make fun of him, immediately lost his temper, and his face darkened along with Chang Yuchun's.

Ever since I met Xiao Han, my daughter who was originally a well-educated and courteous girl has become more and more ridiculous.

Xu Da also felt helpless for a while. Sometimes, at this moment, he could not understand what Chang Yuchun was thinking at the previous moment.

I really want to catch Xiao Han and beat him up.

"Miaoyun, are you also fooling around?"

Xu Da snorted and glanced at Xiao Han.

"Okay, let's go down, there are so many people watching."

Xiao Han also felt helpless for a while. He really had no choice. Although they were both his own wives, they had not yet married each other, especially in front of his two father-in-laws.

"I don't want it. I haven't seen Brother Fengxue for such a long time. I want to be next to Brother Fengxue."

Chang Qingling was extremely direct. She even tightened her words when she said this. As for the agreement with Chang Yuchun, what was it? Have you made an agreement? I do not know.

(End of this chapter)