Chapter 8 Zhu Yunwen cut down the vassal clan because it was Zhu Yuanzhang who forced him to do so. After hearing this, Ling Han also asked: "Emperor Hongwu is so talented and resourceful. He has arranged everything so well. Why does he still have to bear so much responsibility?"
Chen Han explained: "Village chief, please listen to me and tell you in detail."
"Well, please explain it carefully. This is the first time I have heard such a fresh conclusion. You should explain it carefully." This is not the first time for Ling Han to hear such a conclusion.
This blame was placed directly on Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned dark.
Zhu Yuanzhang had 1 unconvinced people in his heart.
He is absolutely not responsible for this matter.
He has great talents and plans, and everything has been arranged properly. The responsibility is also due to the instigation of corrupt scholars like Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng.
"Village Chief, I didn't sum this up by myself. I made this with reference to many historical documents. If you think it's right, believe it. If you don't believe it, just think I'm farting."
Ling Han said hurriedly: "You are a talent sent from above. What you say must be right."
Chen Han was very modest, "That's not necessarily the case, okay, let's get back to the topic.
Zhu Yuanzhang made three major mistakes in the matter of Zhu Yunwen's reduction of vassal status. "
hiss……
Ling Han gasped.
Good Guys is not only at fault, but has three major faults.
Jiang Wei was gnashing his teeth as he listened. You are really getting more and more arrogant.
This is slandering the king and will result in beheading.
Zhu Biao stood next to Zhu Yuanzhang and whispered comfort: "Father, we are calm. After all, he doesn't know where this is!"
Zhu Yuanzhang tried his best to hold back his anger, nodded heavily, and said in his heart: If you don't tell me the reason, we will definitely remember you as a serious crime, and we will count it together at that time.
Chen Han stretched out a finger: "The first mistake is that I am too selfish.
This is mainly reflected in two aspects. On the one hand, he is too kind to his son. Each prince's salary is [-] dan, which is ten times higher than that of a first-rank official in the imperial court. This makes many civil servants dissatisfied.
They even let the princes gather troops and let them continuously accumulate military merits, which led to the king of Qin, the king of Jin, the king of Yan, and the king of Ning having too much military power and too high prestige;
On the other hand, after the eldest son Zhu Biao passed away, it stands to reason that King Qin should be made the crown prince. After all, King Qin is the direct son of Queen Ma. After the eldest son passed away, the second son took the throne, so he had to do his job.
However, because Zhu Yuanzhang spent too much effort on Zhu Biao, he loved Zhu Yunwen as much as he loved him, so he became the emperor's grandson.
He had no idea that his move had greatly offended the prince's family.
It is true that Zhu Yuanzhang's sons did not dare to assassinate him when he was alive, but a hundred years after Zhu Yuanzhang, who among these princes will obey Zhu Yunwen? "
This……
After hearing this, Ling Han felt that this was reasonable.
In fact, the royal family is, to put it bluntly, the largest landlord's family in the world.
When the landlord was alive, he took the property he built with his sons. When the old man is gone, the eldest son inherits the property. The second and third sons are given a certain amount of assets and can each work out their own business, no problem.
And if there is an accident in the family and the eldest eldest dies, then the corresponding second eldest child will become the eldest son and be eligible to inherit most of the family's property. The third child will feel uncomfortable in his heart, but he will also feel that he is the elder brother and has no choice but to live the same life. Pass.
But if the old man directly gave all his property to the eldest son because he liked the eldest son too much at this time, the nature would be completely different.
All brothers will say at this time, why?
How can a little brat like him be the master of the family?
Is he more capable than us?Pay more for this family than us?
Not at all.
Just because he is the boss's son, he is entitled to divide the entire property? Why? You must know that this foundation was built by us and the old man together, and it contains our hard work.
Old man, if you like this grandson, you can give him more things, but you can't give him the entire property. That would be too much.
This was the case when Zhu Yunwen was established as the emperor's grandson.
Zhu Biao thought about it and felt that although his father was taking care of him, it would really be inappropriate to do so.
Zhu Yuanzhang stared and snorted in his heart. He agreed with himself admitted that he was indeed a little bit nice to his sons.
I like the boss's lineage a little bit more.
Chen Han continued: "The second mistake is to suppress civil servants too much.
Zhu Yuanzhang lived in poverty since he was a child and his parents died. He blamed all the responsibilities on corrupt officials.
Therefore, deep down in his heart, he distrusts and even hates being an official.
After he became emperor, in addition to keeping the salaries of civil servants extremely low, he also stipulated that anyone who embezzled more than 60 taels of silver should be beheaded.
In the Hu Weiyong case, the Guo Huan case, and the Kongyin case, most of the people killed were civil servants.
This approach indeed made civil servants fearful and timid, but it also allowed them to accumulate unlimited resentment.
Take Fang Xiaoru, who advocated the reduction of vassalage, for example. His father, Fang Keqin, the prefect of Jining, was once rated as "the best among the six prefectures in the provincial constitution examination", but he was innocently killed in the Kongyin case; his teacher Song Lian, He also died because he was implicated in the Hu Weiyong case.
The two people he loved and respected the most died at the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang. How could Fang Xiaoru not hate him? As for the civil servants who escaped the three cases of Hu Weiyong, Guo Huan, and Kong Yin, how many family members, close friends, relatives and friends were killed, too many to count. How could they not hate them? After Zhu Biao's death, Zhu Yunwen, who grew up under the influence of Confucian literati, reversed Zhu Yuanzhang's policy strategy and emphasized the use of civil servants.
The anger and resentment that the civil servants had suppressed for many years suddenly rebounded. They changed the policies formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang indiscriminately. They were eager to regain power, improve their treatment, and at the same time control their destiny in their own hands.
The military power in the hands of the vassal king was already coveted by the civil servants. They did not want to wait for a moment, and they did not even hide their selfishness and persecuted Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants.
In other dynasties, the reduction of vassal status at least gave the princes a way to survive and allowed them to become idle princes. Only the Jianwen Dynasty's reduction of vassal status was in the style of confiscation of families.
The person who gave the order was Zhu Yunwen, but the people who carried it out were all civilian officials.
These civil servants were persecuted when Zhu Yuanzhang was alive, and after Zhu Yuanzhang died, they immediately took revenge on his sons.
As a result, the deposed vassal kings either had their homes confiscated and were demoted to common people, or they were forced to die.
The civil servants were out for revenge and to show off the power they already had.
If Zhu Di had not disrupted the process of reducing vassal status, it is estimated that Zhu Yuanzhang's children and grandchildren, except for Zhu Yunwen's lineage, would have died at the hands of civil servants. "
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious after hearing Chen Han's words.
A thought came to my mind, all civil servants in the world should be killed!
He really didn't expect the conclusion Chen Han said.
However, after Chen Han's analysis, he also felt that it made sense.
If you suppress the civil servants so much, once they take over, you still have to think of ways to change your policies? Ling Han nodded silently.
He is a civil servant.
To be honest, which civil servant today does not have opinions about Zhu Yuanzhang? Why do we work so hard but don't get one-tenth of the salary of the feudal princes?
The most important thing is that once he makes a small mistake, he will be severely punished by Zhu Yuanzhang.
All officials live their lives in trepidation.
To be fair, if Zhu Yuanzhang died and Zhu Yunwen became emperor and trusted the civil servants, which civil servant would not want to change the policies formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang? They all think about it.
Zhu Biao also agreed with this mistake. He had seen too many cases of Zhu Yuanzhang killing civil servants all over the world.
He had mentioned to his father many times before that he should not be so harsh on the officials of the world.
But Zhu Yuanzhang's own experience made it impossible for him to have the slightest fondness for civil servants.
To put it bluntly, even if Zhu Biao becomes emperor, many systems will have to be modified. This is not because of unfilial piety, but because it is unreasonable.
Chen Han didn't know that the person standing next to him was Zhu Yuanzhang, and continued: "The third mistake, and the most serious one, was to force Zhu Yunwen to cut down the vassal.
The reason why Zhu Yunwen reduced the vassal status was entirely because Zhu Yuanzhang forced him to do so. It was Zhu Yuanzhang who forced him to reduce the vassal status! ! "
As soon as these words came out, Zhu Yuanzhang almost shouted angrily: This is nonsense!You are talking nonsense!How can we force Yunwen to cut down the feudal vassal!joke! You lawless brat, you are talking nonsense.
Zhu Biao is also very strange...
(End of this chapter)