After the first day of the first lunar month, the mansion closed its doors to express their guests, but they were silent and did not have time to rest, because the trouble would not take a holiday, but would be more dazzling in this atmosphere of celebrating the Spring Festival.
First of all, it was the issue of vassalism. King Yi Zhu Dian'o did not live until the 43rd year of Jiajing. Before the New Year, he was hanged and hung out of the West Gate for nine major crimes, including treason and tyrannical crimes. More than 200 royal people were also executed. One of the kings enfeoffed by Taizu, who withdrew from the stage of the Ming Dynasty in this tragic way.
The death of King Yi brought great shock to the vassals and the royal family in the capital. After seeing the court executing the prince without caring about his blood, they were indeed afraid, but their behavior when they were afraid gave the court a headache.
After all, he is a nobleman who has been arrogant for several lifetimes and cannot easily admit defeat. The court dares to kill King Yi because of his rebellion, but we don’t have it. Could it be that if we make a little trouble, we will kill us all?
So some bold vassal kings connected together to make trouble in the local area, supporting more than 200 royal families who were imprisoned in the imperial prison. This was expected by Xu Jie. The experienced chief minister ordered the officials not to conflict with him, but secretly dispatched troops to deal with unexpected problems at any time.
Among the most tyrants, the most terrifying things are the Han Palace and the Dai Palace. The Han Palace is in Pingliang and the Dai Palace is in Datong. Both the kings enfeoffed by Emperor Taizu in the border areas. The original intention was to let them guard the border for the Ming Dynasty, but these wastes were unable to govern the country and control the border, and were also contaminated with tyrannical and cruel habits, which brought endless disasters to the people on the border.
The prince of the Han Dynasty and the prince of Dai, as well as several of his direct descendants, were the prince of the Han Dynasty and the prince of Dai, because the court refused to let them go home for the New Year, the royal family in the two prefectures in Gansu, Shanxi and Gansu led thousands of personal guards... The former crossed the pass and entered Xi'an, Shaanxi, and surrounded the residence of the governor of Shaanxi Chen Qixue, and insulted them, making several saying that they did not dare to open the door; the latter even drove the prefect Ma Bo from Datong out of the city. In the first month of the year, he had a home that could not go back, so he could only go to the capital overnight to cry.
The court issued a series of orders to order the royal families of the two governments to restrain their atrocities. However, these bold and courageous children of the royal family were publicly snatched in the city on the grounds that the court refused to let go and never left, resulting in no one on the streets and the merchants sacked the market, which made the people of Xi'an and Datong unable to bear it and could not celebrate the New Year at all.
The report from Chen Qixue and Ma Bo quickly arrived at the court. Jiajing was furious and ordered Xu Jie to deal with the matter immediately. Xu Jie ordered the clan mansion to investigate and deal with the two vassals according to the law, and to prevent the spread of the situation.
Li Chunfang and Shen Mo, who were on vacation, immediately appeared at Yanbutang's home. Regarding this situation, Yan Ne and Li Chunfang believed that they should be gentle and calm down. But Chen Mo said to them: "Since you have set a tough tone, you should be tough to the end. If you are halfway through the softness, wouldn't it help them to increase their arrogance?"
"Ah, as the saying goes, 'Slap a slap, give a sweet date'," Yan Ne said: "After all, you are a royal nobleman, what can you do with them? Just be sure to do it."
"The prerequisite for slapping a slap and giving a sweet date is to slap this slap firmly and hurt them." Silently said patiently: "At least you have to conquer the Han Palace, the Dai Palace, which is leading the trouble, otherwise who will take the imperial edict seriously?"
"Isn't there a gentle way?" Li Chunfang asked softly.
"How can you be gentle when you lose your job?" Chen Jing smiled bitterly: "It is for your vital interests, and the royal family must have a strong backlash. There is no other way except to suppress it."
"Oh, it's too intense," Li Chunfang sighed and said, "If you don't do it well, you will be unable to clean up."
"Brother Shi Lu said." Chen Si said softly: "I will be careful."
"You can just let go of this." Yan Ne coughed gently and said, "I will bear the fault. Anyway, I am not in good health and I am not so passionate about the career."
"It won't affect the ministry." Chen Si said quickly.
The Ministry of Rites came up with a solution, and quietly rushed to the cabinet to report to Mr. Xu.
While looking through the handling opinions of the Ministry of Rites, Xu Jie whispered: "There is a department that strictly investigates and deals with the crimes of King Han Zhu Rongsui and King Dai Zhu Tingsa, all those who are guilty of the royal family will be deposed as commoners."
"Yes." Silence whispered.
Xu Jie raised his head without comment, put Wen Jian aside, and said to him with a sad face: "Clean words, we underestimate the arrogance of these royal families, and they are not so easy to surrender." At first, he and Shen Mo expected, killing Zhu Dian'o and arresting one or two hundred royal families could shock the vassals in the world and let them beg for forgiveness. Unexpectedly, they overestimated the IQ of these people and underestimated their arrogance. Not only did they not come to ask for help, they started making a big fuss.
However, Xu Jie was also very troubled. After all, these royal families have special identities, so it is really difficult to cure them if they are in trouble.
"These vassal kings are distributed in more than a dozen provinces in the north, south, east and west," Chen Si said softly: "After operating in his fiefdom for a long time, there are still some forces in secret. Although they dare not act randomly, if they really touch their fundamental interests, they would not take risks and form an alliance against the court."
"Well... this is exactly what I'm worried about," Xu Jie said with concern: "If the Ming Dynasty is strong, I will have no worries, but in this situation, I really don't have the capital to stand up."
‘If you don’t have the capital, you should have your tail...’ Chen Si secretly complained. From the very beginning, he was not very cold about Lin Run’s “Speak of the Relationship of the Religious Religion” and the “Regulations on the Religion of the Religion” proposed by the court. It was just that when he was forced into this trouble, he fell deeper and deeper.
Now he could finally say his heart and said to Mr. Xu: "Actually, the matter has a direct relationship with the court's pace to the point where it is too fast and too big. I wish my students bluntly that any reform should touch people's vested interests as little as possible. If it is really to be touched, the scope of the enemy should be narrowed down. If you want to kill everyone with one blow, the result will often go against your wishes and the worst result will be the result."
Xu Jie listened to him silently and continued: "Whether Lin Run wrote a letter or the court discussions later, they did not analyze the interests of the royal family and the vassal kings, but simply regarded it as a whole. Therefore, they chose the simplest, most direct and most capable of making the royal family share the same hatred of the enemy to govern the vassal, and as a result, a wave of conflict broke out."
Xu Jie nodded when he heard this, looking at the silence with a look of inquiry, as if he was saying, since he understood so much, why did he only talk about it now?
"Teacher, please come." Chen Si quickly said, "In fact, although the students did not agree at the beginning, they were not opposed at this time. Because in the foolish opinion, the positions of the vassal kings were already extremely rich. What if they were enemies with the court? They just wanted to be emperors, but a single vassal king did not have this power. The fool also knew that only one emperor could be, and the others were still just vassal kings. So why should these people use their own family and surnames as bets and make wedding clothes for others? So the students felt that the vassal kings could not be connected in one go, nor could they become climate... The situation we face today is essentially different from the time of Emperor Jing of Han. The difficulties faced the most difficult, but they will not be fatal, so it is good to test it. If you don't test it, you will never find a solution."
"You guy..." Xu Jie couldn't help but shake his head and smiled, "Where are so many ghost tricks?" Then he looked at him with a smile and said, "Tell me about your solution."
"In the humble opinion of students, the most successful reform is to satisfy everyone, but this is basically impossible to achieve; because the motivation for reform is that the existing distribution of interests has affected the peace of the country and the stability of the regime, so it is necessary to change and redistribute interests." After a pause, he said silently: "Under the premise that it is impossible to make a big pie, the interests of some people will inevitably be harmed."
Xu Jie nodded and said, "It's true." But he said, a little disappointed, "These guys understand."
"But students believe that it is a big question for who should harm and who should retain the interests of who should be retained." Silently said: "Only reforms that take into account stability can success."
"Then who do you think you should keep and who should you harm?" Xu Jie asked slowly.
"First of all, we need to analyze the different interest relationships under each vassal system." Silently said: "The students divided it into three levels, with more than 40 princes at the core. These people control the army, finance and everything they belong to the royal family. They are undoubtedly the ruling factions in the vassal states. The interests of these people cannot be too damaged, otherwise they will oppose everything they do and can only end in failure. Secondly, the close relatives of the princes such as the princes, princes and princes. They can influence the higher-level leaders of the core factions. The interests of these people cannot be damaged, but they should also benefit from reform. In this way, they can support reform and then persuade the princes not to oppose reform."
"Then there are the generals and lieutenants who have consumed the most Zonglu. Although these people are quite large, they have no power to tie up and cannot make any storms without the support of the prince." The silent expression was hard and without any emotion, and said: "So from any perspective, these people should be sacrificed in exchange for compromise between all parties."
Xu Jie couldn't help but lit up. It was indeed as Chen Si said. When he mentioned the issue of vassals before, like most officials, those arrogant princes would always appear in his mind, believing that these people were the core of the problem. But now when Chen Si reminded him, he realized that in fact, the one who consumed the most money and food in the court was the hereditary generals and lieutenants. Although they received a small number of individuals, they could not resist too many people.
As long as these people can be solved, the pressure from the court will naturally be greatly reduced. Moreover, although they have a large number of people, they are only more than 20,000 people, and only a thousand people are scattered everywhere. They are all incompetent people who cannot hold their hands and shoulders. Without the support of the princes, no storm can be caused.
"I understand what you mean..." Xu Jie said: "The "Region and Vocational Regulations" will be revised. The prince's Zonglu canceled the bill and distributed it with silver and grain in full; the princes, princes, princes..." As he said, he looked silent and said: "What should we do?" This is the art of being a leader. No matter when, you will feel that you are very important, so you can use your brain and make great efforts to make suggestions. As a result, all the achievements and achievements are the leaders.
"For these royal relatives who cannot be inherited, the most tempting one is tantamount to inherited titles." Silent smiled confidently; "If the new "Sections and Vastual Regulations" can ensure that all princes can preserve the throne for their descendants and that the princes can also obtain titles, they will definitely sincerely support the "Regulations" and take the initiative to help the court clear obstacles... Even if they suffer some economic losses, they will not complain."
"You mean... the order to express grace." Xu Jie was also a master, so he naturally knew the meaning of elegance when he heard the string song.
"The teacher is wise." Chen Shu smiled and said, "It is the method of 'responsibility' that the upper class of the clan will no longer object." After a pause, he continued, "Then the middle and lower classes of the clans, the generals and lieutenants." Chen Shu said in a deep voice: "We cannot let them live without a way out. My suggestion is to limit it to a certain year... For example, if the clans born before Jiajing 32 years old were given full amount to Zonglu, and then the 20% reduction will be reduced to 40% every ten years younger, so that the elderly can support themselves, and those who are placed in it will be combined and it will be less difficult to accept; as for those born after Jiajing 32 years old, they will not be given to Zonglu, but the court will allocate funds to build Zonglu, allowing them to enroll for free and study to become successful."
After hearing Chen Si's words, Xu Jie looked worried and said, "You have considered it very comprehensively, and this method is practical," and said sincerely: "The truth is the only thing that is," he said, "I am just talking about it."
Silently said: "The students speak nonsense, which makes the teacher laugh."
Xu Jie shook his head and said, "I never praise others easily. You have taught me a lesson." Zhan Yan laughed and said, "It is a blessing for a young man like you, the emperor's blessing, and the blessing for me!"
Silence hurriedly thanked...
Chapter completed!