The ministers continued to remain silent.
Although the issue of imperial unification is a royal family matter, it is also the most important official matter and major event of a country.
In particular, the fierce and cruel struggle over the country in the Wanli Dynasty has left many people with lingering fears.
The cabinet ministers had already been officials during the Wanli Dynasty.
They had experienced it personally and understood the drain on national power caused by national disputes.
Naturally, they did not want such a national dispute to happen again in the Tianqi Dynasty.
It has been a long time since Zhu Youxiao encountered any opposition from cabinet ministers.
Even Sun Chuanting is silent now, which shows that everyone is very concerned about the eldest son inheritance system.
He wants to use the selection of the Confucius family priests to get everyone used to the future succession law and abandon the eldest son inheritance system.
I am afraid it will be very difficult. .
He thought for a while and decided to solve them one by one first to see if it would work.
So he asked: "Sir, do you also think this is inappropriate?"
Xu Guangqi cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, the inheritance system of the eldest son is stipulated by law.
The household order of the Ming Dynasty stipulates: Unless there is an official, the eldest son will be killed first.
Now your Majesty wants to be the most holy teacher in Dacheng.
The changes in the inheritance law of the sacrificial officials, what about the inheritance among the people, and the inheritance of the throne will also make people in the world hesitant, your Majesty, please think deeply. " Zhu Youxiao said: "But there is a stipulation at the end of the household order of the Ming Dynasty: it analyzes family property and land, regardless of wives, concubines, and maids, but only according to the number of children.
It can be seen that property can be divided equally, and there is no The difference between concubines and concubines."
Xu Guangqi said: "Your Majesty, it is indeed the case.
The reason why it is stipulated in this way is because the throne, title, official position and ancestral lineage are indivisible, but property can be divided.
This can avoid brothers fighting for power and position, but also allows future generations to have the same rights.
The property of life.”
Zhu Youxiao asked again: "In those days, King Zhou of Shang was born because he was not the eldest son, but Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty was not the eldest son, so the rule of Zhenguan was established.
It was Chengzu.
Although he was the eldest son, he was not the eldest son, but he had Yongle Reign.
From this point of view, the results of the primogeniture system are not very good.
Why can't it be slightly modified?"
The faces of the ministers changed color.
Of course it was okay for King Zhou Taizong to talk about it, but Chengzu was not something the ministers dared to discuss.
Moreover, all the ministers knew that it was doubtful to say that Cheng Zu was his legitimate son, but they did not dare to say it.
Xu Guangqi looked ugly, but he had to answer: "Your Majesty, the eldest son inheritance system does have some problems, but until a better way can be found, it is the best system.
Your Majesty is directly abandoning it now, but there is no corresponding way.
I don’t think it’s appropriate to replace him.”
Zhu Youxiao believed that Xu Guangqi should be the minister who knew best what he wanted to do, and he was also the minister and teacher he trusted most.
Since he feels that it is not feasible to abandon the primogeniture system now, then I am afraid that it will really be difficult to succeed.
He smiled and said: "Since all the beloved ministers are against it, and there is no better way to replace it, let's put aside the issue of eldest son inheritance for now.
But regarding the Kong family, I think there is an alternative way.
After the first generation of Dacheng’s Most Holy Master passed away, the imperial court summoned the next generation of disciples of the Confucius family, regardless of their direct descendants, to examine their character and knowledge, and select the best among them to establish the new Dacheng’s Most Holy Master’s enshrinement officer.”
The ministers felt that this was not a bad idea.
As long as the enshrining officer of the Dacheng Holy Master was not a hereditary official, then the method of examination and selection would not damage the eldest son inheritance system.
No one would think of other aspects, so the ministers were naturally the "Emperor's Holy Might" and settled the matter.
Zhu Youxiao said: "In the past, Taizu gave the Confucius family two thousand hectares of land, and now the Confucius family's land has reached 20,000 hectares.
The source of this additional land is reasonable and legal.
I don't believe there is no robbery of land, so I want to send Jin Yiwei and the Economic Investigation Bureau went to find out the matter.
The factory minister told Wu Mengming that the matter was settled and the leak he made last time was forgotten, but there is still a Mongolian girl in the palace. " Zhu Youxiao's attack on the eldest son inheritance system failed completely.
He was a little frustrated, but he also understood that it was extremely difficult to succeed if he wanted to change the patriarchal system that had been passed down for thousands of years without changing dynasties. thing.
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Moreover, the current method of selecting priests of the Confucius family can at least pry a little bit of the iron sheet out of this iron barrel-like system.
As long as you pry slowly and continuously, you can still succeed in the end.
I just don’t know if I can see that day.
After receiving the edict from Wei Zhongxian, Wu Mengming was gearing up and brought the Jin Yiwei and people from the Economic Investigation Bureau to Qufu.
He wanted to perform well in this battle and let the emperor know that Wu Mengming, besides being a flatterer, actually had real talents.
After arriving in Qufu, he realized that the situation was far worse than he imagined.
In fact, Qufu County needs to be renamed Kong County in order to be worthy of its name.
Everyone in this county, from the county magistrate to the government officials, has the surname Kong.
Most of the fields in Qufu belong to the Kong family, and the fields of the Kong family are also extended to the neighboring Surabaya. county.
All the tenant farmers in Qufu farmed the land for the Confucius family.
Judging from their attire, they were basically in rags, and we could tell that their lives were not good.
Wu Mengming refused the request of the Qufu County Magistrate to go to the Confucius Mansion to see him first, and also refused to follow the government officials.
He separated the Jinyi Guards and asked the tenants one by one to see how their fields were lost.
The land rent collected by the Confucius Mansion was How many, there may be other illegal things on weekdays.
The Economic Survey Bureau began to investigate the specific acres of fields in the Kong Mansion, the source of each field, the number of tenants renting the fields and the payment of taxes.
Five days later, the two parties will summarize the preliminary situation together.
Perhaps the Kong family was usually too harsh on the tenants, so when Jin Yiwei asked, the tenants told the situation in detail.
At the time of the first compilation, although the total number of acres of land had not yet been calculated, it was already known that the Confucius government used all kinds of methods to occupy the fields in Qufu, either by luring people into gambling and eventually forcing the land to be sold, or by cutting off the water supply and leaving people without grains.
There are various methods of confiscating the person, or falsely accusing the person of innocence, filing a lawsuit to make him bankrupt and then buying his land.
In this process, it is now known that at least five people were forced to death in the past ten years.
Wu Mengming was very excited.
He had found so many things in just five days.
It seemed that there was still a lot of things to dig out in the Kong Mansion.
He sent people to call all the nearby Jinyi Guards to Qufu, preparing to make this case a solid case.
At this time, the Qufu County Magistrate came with Kong Zhengqi, the chief steward of the Kong Mansion, to ask for an audience.
Wu Mengming thought for a moment and asked someone to bring them in.
Kong Zhengqi came in and cupped his hands and said: "Dong Yansheng said that the Jinyi Guards are working hard in Qufu, so he specially asked me to come down to see the commander and reward you all."
After saying that, he took out a gift list from his sleeve and handed it over
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