When Wang Dazhuang and Shi Kefa's letters were placed on Chongzhen's desk, at this time, Emperor Chongzhen was implementing a subversive reform for the entire imperial family, that is, allowing the imperial family surnamed Zhu to participate in this year's autumn imperial examination.
The impact of this move on Daming was absolutely shocking.
After the "big victory" of the Lu Movement, Chongzhen was full of spirit and felt free from the shackles of difficulty, but at the same time, he also discovered a crucial problem, that is, the crisis of imperial power.
There is Zhang Juzheng in the front, and Lu Hanqiang in the back, which almost overthrew the emperor and became the emperor other than the emperor, and the Manchu Dynasty was civil and military, there were few loyal people, and few people could use it, how could this be done So, Chongzhen set his sights on the largest royal family in the Ming Dynasty.
The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty should be the most transcendent group in the Ming Empire.
You don't have to bear any major responsibilities, but you can live in peace and enjoy the glory and wealth of the palace.
Returning to the Ming Dynasty to be a prince is also the dream of many people.
But do you think that if you become a prince in the Ming Dynasty, you can run rampant, and no one can cure you In fact, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, countless nobles in the Ming Dynasty lived a life similar to that of a high-level prisoner, and the management was quite strict.
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di himself was a feudal king who rebelled against the throne, of course, he was very wary of other feudal kings, so after he ascended the throne, he quickly began a new round of cutting the feudal work, and the guards of the feudal king were cut away.
In the Jiajing period, the regulations issued by Emperor Jiajing compressed the power of the prince to the limit.
The vassal king can't leave the fief and go out of the city without authorization, the royal officials are all sent by the imperial court, the local prefect has the right to monitor the prince, and he can't lend money privately, and he can't buy the most ruthless one of the people's daughters is "the two kings must not meet", what does it mean to say so, if you are crowned the prince and your brother is the prince of the county, then I'm sorry, your brothers can't meet casually in the future.
As a result, the scope of the vassal king's activities was confined to the fiefdom city, and there was no other place to go except to stay in the palace. has been tossed for so long, what else can the princes do, forget it, let's get married and have a few children to play And slow marriage is not something that can be married casually, and there are also rules for marriage First of all, you must first go to the Zongren Mansion to complete the registration procedures.
Secondly, there is a restriction on marrying a daughter-in-law, and the in-laws of the royal palace will not be able to be a Beijing official in the future.
Not being able to be an official in the capital means that you can't enter the center of power and basically lose your future.
Therefore, all families with a little culture in the Shili heirloom are unwilling to marry their daughters into the palace.
Okay, Lord Wang, don't be sad, no matter what, the common people are still willing to marry their daughters to Wang Jiadi, it is better to have a sister than to beat a single, marry a daughter-in-law, and you can start the vigorous "making people" movement.
According to the detailed statistics of Wei Zhongxian, who wanted money from the apocalypse, there were 157,000 names on the register, and those who were not on the register and needed to supply the royal family members had reached as many as 600,000. 600,000 pigs that need to be eaten and drunk for nothing, how can this be obtained Not to mention that they occupy nearly half of the fields in the Ming Dynasty, so that the imperial court has no land rent tax, and the cost of a reward and rice is really unbearable.
In the seven years of Jiajing, the country's annual fiscal revenue was only 1.3 million gold, but the annual financial expenditure was as high as 2.41 million gold, accounting for the first place in the expenditure item, that is, the clan expenditure, accounting for the second place, the beautiful name of the military expenditure, is to supply the royal role below the vassal king, such as the general of the town state, the general of the auxiliary state, etc., all to feed these people.
At that time, the vassal royal clan not only had a large population, but also overspent the state finances more seriously, and asked the court for rewards, and often opened their mouths.
Not only the vassal king wants to raise, but the children under the vassal king, and even the relatives of the children, the seven aunts and eight aunts, and the relatives who can't be beaten by the eight poles, dare to set up a name to be rewarded.
According to Hubu Shangshu Liang Cai, in the early Ming Dynasty, if 10,000 stone of grain was needed to feed the vassal king of a mansion, then the same palace now needs at least 130,000 stone.
Liang Cai also issued an astonishing prediction: the people's taxes and grain are limited, and the vassal kings will reproduce endlessly, and if this continues, the consequences will be unimaginable.
According to Uncle Ben's own research, when the Ming Dynasty arrived in the year of Chongzhen, because the apocalypse was such a younger brother, there were no other princes, and there were a total of 98 princes.
If you add Chongzhen's three sons to the king, after deducting a prince who can become the emperor in the future, it will be rounded up, a full hundred.
This is all a reinforced company, and the county king has a reinforced regiment, if it is the back, it is simply the establishment of a super group army.
Therefore, the later emperors of the Ming Dynasty strictly followed the method of demotion in order to reduce the worship of the prince, that is, the prince Feng Prince, his first son Raid Jue, is still the prince, the other feudal kings, and so on, the remaining Feng Zhenguo generals, and auxiliary generals, Fengguo generals Zhenguo lieutenants, auxiliary lieutenants, Fengguo lieutenants, and then can't then, because if it goes down again, it will be the common people, and then it will lose the royal face.
But this thing is here again, since they are demoted in turn, but it must be the emperor's lineage, for the sake of royal decency, they are strictly required to not do business, not to farm, not to work, as for studying and being admitted to the sergeant and becoming an official, it is too late to prevent you, no.
As a result, there is no state to support them, and they cannot raise them, let alone become citizens.
Self-supporting work, not to mention that it can't be done, and the court is not allowed to do it, so there is no way to live.
In the Chongzhen period, many descendants of vassal kings, because they could not get their names and were not allowed to go out to work, held the title of lieutenant of Fengguo, and starved to death.
So, in the lack of intimate people, and the huge royal family has no way to live, this time Chongzhen decided to open the restrictions on the royal family for nearly three hundred years, allow them to work in agriculture, and the most important thing is to allow them to participate in scientific examinations, so that people with blood ties can go to the court to help them stabilize the Ming Dynasty.
As soon as this proposal came out, it was immediately supported by all the officials and the people, and it was because in this way it was possible to justifiably cut and eliminate the supply of those pigs, save a huge amount of expenditure for the household every year, and let the limited financial revenue do what it should do.
In the people, let everyone feel the psychological balance, everyone is a head and two thighs, why do you eat and drink for nothing, but I work hard And the royal family is really grateful to Chongzhen, because everyone can finally do something to support themselves, and finally don't starve to death.
As a result, after Chongzhen was supported by 600,000 royal families, he was once again respected by all the people as the lord of Zhongxing.
In this way, Chongzhen was secretly happy, in addition to mastering the original post pawn, he once again mastered a trump card, if there is another traitor, as long as he ascends to the heights, the 600,000 royal family is an army that must not be ignored, which really played a role in the future, but that is all later.
But there is also a key here, that is, these generations of pigs have been desperate, the theory of the uselessness of reading has long become a consensus in the royal family, the royal family is equivalent to illiteracy, it is already the most appropriate label, now you allow the imperial examination, this is not in a hurry no matter what, so, Chongzhen once again generously decided to open Enke, and admit the children of the royal family, as long as you can write your name, then you are a jinshi, and you can write a sentence, then you are the top three, if you can drum up an article, even if it is bullshit, then congratulations, You are the champion Tanhua, and then you don't need to be embarrassed in front of those Confucians or anything, you will be awarded the actual official position immediately, and you will take office immediately.
This completely stabbed the hornet's nest of the world's scholars.
What kind of era is this, this is the era of 300 years of raising scholars, this is the era when children are everywhere, there are many talents like dogs, and people are walking all over the place, and everyone is idle and has no official position, you get an Enko to take care of your family, and directly award the official, which is equivalent to snatching the job of the world's scholars again, so all kinds of opposition voices are noisy, and the reasons are varied, it doesn't matter if you can't beat the eight poles, let's go around for you, until you oppose it.
As a result, the current Chongzhen is really Alexander. t1706231537: