Chapter 1580 Have the Ability to Avenge Grievances

Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty stipulated that every August when offering wine and wine to the Gaozu Temple in Chang'an, the capital, the princes, kings and lieutenants should offer gold as assistant sacrifices according to the population of the feudal country. It is also four liang, which is checked and accepted by the Shaofu, and the system of gold is born from this.

In addition, in Jiuzhen, Jiaozhi, Nichinan and other southern places, there are food towns, and rhino horn, tortoiseshell, ivory, jadeite, etc. are used instead of gold; when the princes offer gold, the emperor comes to receive the gold. If the amount or fineness of the gold offered is not enough, Wang will cut down the county and Hou Mianguo.

In the fifth year of Yuanding Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, because no one of the princes responded to the call to join the army and went to South Vietnam, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious. In September, he took away the titles of 106 princes by virtue of the law, and the prime minister Zhao Zhou also said that He was imprisoned for the crime of knowing but not reporting, and was forced to commit suicide. There were many similar incidents after that.

Wei Qing's son Yin'an Hou Weibuyi and Fagan Hou Weideng lost their princes because of the gold, and Gongsun He and Han Shuo, who had contributed to Wei Qing's attack on the Huns, also lost their princes because of the gold.

This is actually a clever method used by the Han court to weaken and attack the power of princes, kings and princes. If the offerings of gold and gold are inconsistent with the regulations and are not of good quality, the princes will be wiped out, the king will cut down his counties, and the princes will cut down their titles; thus, the power of local princes It was effectively weakened, thus maintaining the authority and rule of the central court.

Shen Long also learned from Liu Che's advanced experience this time, and used similar methods to solve the problem of the Ming clan. As mentioned earlier, the Ming clan has now become a heavy burden for the court, but the court wants to deal with them. It is not so convenient, because harsh treatment of the clan will make the king not benevolent and filial, which is a big crime in feudal society, and the emperor is not willing to take it easily, so he can only continue to endure those clans lying on Daming's body to suck blood.

However, the reward system gave Shen Long a perfect solution. If he cut down the vassal clan rashly, he would definitely be labeled as not benevolent and filial, but what if these clans themselves were not filial? Then this hat can't be put on my head! So with this trip to the south of the Yangtze River, Shen Long didn't just want to show Zhu Yuanzhang the Jade Seal of Chuanguo.

What's more important is to use this opportunity to dig a hole for the Ming clan and bury them in it. If you don't pay enough attention to the offerings to Emperor Taizu, then it is a big disobedience. In this case, I should punish you no matter what, What's more, don't you see it now? Is Emperor Taizu's spirit in heaven angry?

So it's not me who wants to punish you, but even Emperor Taizu Gao is completely disappointed in you unfilial descendants! He is not even willing to accept your sacrifices! Needless to say, this gale was of course caused by Shen Long. The sacrifices offered by the descendants to the ancestors were all blown away, and what this meant could not be more clear.

Moreover, the reputation of the Ming clan is really stink. If it is said that Zhu Yuanzhang first set up the Nine Great Sailors, there was a hint of wanting the vassal kings to help guard the frontiers of the Ming Dynasty. Started to be raised by Daming as pigs, these people are almost not allowed to do anything, they can only nest in their own fief and wait to die.

After more than two hundred years, the vast majority of clans have long since become trash. It would be better to just be trash, but there are always some people who feel that they get less and try to squeeze the people under their rule. The vassal kings complained a lot, and the large amount of land and wealth they occupied had been coveted for a long time.

In the past, due to benevolence and filial piety, the emperor of Ming Dynasty did not dare to touch them, and those civil officials also worried that this level could not completely clean up the Ming clan; We can only let Huguang Xun impeach the Liao king according to the censor first, forcing the Liao king to make mistakes in his busy schedule, and he even raised a banner at home to call for grievances.

Only then did Zhang Juzheng find an opportunity to interpret this behavior as an uprising, and then abolished the title of King Liao.

But this method is not enough to deal with one or two vassal kings, and it is not enough to completely solve the problem of the vassal kings; and Zhang Juzheng's doing so is not without sequelae. When Zhang Juzheng falls in the future, one of the charges is disrespect to the vassal king. .

But now, Shen Long's method is different. Everyone has seen it. It's not that I want to deal with those vassal kings. It's because they are too unfilial. They followed the wishes of Emperor Taizu Gao and cleaned up the unfilial descendants for Emperor Taizu Gao.

This kind of behavior of mine is not only not unfilial, but rather filial piety! After all, those feudal kings are mostly distant relatives who cannot be reached. Emperor Taizu Gao is the direct ancestor of our old Zhu family, and the ancestors have spoken. How can I disobey as a younger generation?

And have you seen that almost all civil and military ministers condemned your actions! Even if I erase all your titles, it is in line with the wishes of the ancestors and the hearts of the people; if you don't believe it, wait and see how many people in the world will call for your grievances?

Shen Long is very clear about what the Ming clan is like in the hearts of the common people. It would be strange if they had a good reputation; the common people will only be happy to see their downfall, and those civil servants have long been eyeing your family property , now the right to speak is with them, and it is expected that they will not speak for the Ming clan.

Shen Long is not worried about how much resistance this matter will cause. If you were at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, when the Nine Great Sailors were still holding heavy soldiers, he would definitely not be so reckless, but those clans were all raised as pigs for two hundred After many years, they have already grown up to be useless trash, how much trouble can they cause?

"Your Majesty, the sacrifices offered by the King of Xiang...the sacrifices offered by the King of Gu..." The civil servants who checked the sacrifices kept reporting the names of the vassal kings one by one, and quickly found out the problems with these sacrifices. The officials of Ming Dynasty may not be very good at other things, but their ability to find faults is definitely first-class.

Besides, there are too many sayings about etiquette, not to mention that there are problems in the first place, even if there is no problem, they can find the problem; in the words of Chen Qingquan, who loves to learn foreign languages, the right to interpret the etiquette system rests with the In our hands, if we say that your sacrifice is not in accordance with the etiquette system, then it is definitely not in accordance with the etiquette system!

"Your Majesty, my lord has been wronged!" The envoys of various feudal lords fell to their knees and pleaded bitterly, how could this happen! Is my prince really going to die?

"Hmph! Anyone who feels they have been wronged can come here to seek justice from Emperor Taizu Gao!" Shen Long sneered.

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