Cannon Fodder Is King

Arc 3.27

"Uncle Huang, how are you, have you seen Master Lu?"

Seeing Lao Fu King coming in, King Rui, King Hui, King Zhao and several other clan members immediately greeted him.

Lao Fu Wang is the direct brother of Emperor Taizu.

King Rui, King Hui, and King Zhao were all heirs of Emperor Guangde, and they were preserved because they did not get involved in the battle for seizure.

Emperor Guangde left a decree and ordered Emperor Ning Wu to arrange them as soon as possible. However, it has been almost four months since Emperor Ning Wu ascended the throne, but there has been no news from the court. They handed over them, and Emperor Ning Wu did not see them either. .

Even the kinsmen who rushed over from the fief to congratulate Emperor Guangde on his birthday were detained in the capital.

They didn't think that Emperor Ning Wu would simply want to keep them in the capital for the New Year.

As for the Lord Lu they said, it was the current Hubu Shangshu, Wenhuadian University Fellow, and the close friend of Emperor Ning Wu, Mr. Lu Zengxiang.

Lao Fu frowned and sighed and said: "I have seen people, and I have said everything that should be said. I asked Lu Zengxiang when we can leave Beijing. Instead, Lu Zengxiang asked me about the Seven Kings Rebellion in the Han Dynasty and the Eight Kingdoms of the Jin Dynasty. What do you think about Wang Zhiluan?"

"Seven Kings' Rebellion?" King Rui muttered to himself, and then sat back on the chair with a thump, with a gray expression on his face: "It seems that Long live really wants to cut the domain."

After the establishment of the Dayang Dynasty, Emperor Taizu and his civil and military officials summed up the historical experience of the rise and fall of chaos and agreed that an important reason for the demise of the Song and Yuan dynasties was that the ruler was weak and the court was strong, and the imperial court could not get the clan screen. , So taking history as a mirror, decided to establish a vassal.

In accordance with the rules set by the Emperor Taizu, apart from the entitlement of the kings from generation to generation (the emperor’s sons are all granted the title of the prince, the prince’s eldest son is hereditary prince, and the rest of the princes, regardless of the concubine's concubine, become the county king...), every year Fifty thousand stones (one stone is about 125 kilograms), twenty thousand silver, three thousand pieces of silk and satin fabrics of various colors, two hundred yuan of salt... In addition to the generous treatment, it also has the right to raise guards ranging from six thousand to ten thousand. The princes can even intervene in local military affairs.

The more heirs, the more treatment they are given. Because of this, the enfeoffed vassal prince is not just stubborn enough to give birth to children. In the Ming Dynasty, which also implemented the enfeoffment system, not to mention Zhu Di, the first vassal king who succeeded in rebellion. Just say that during the Apocalypse years, the total amount of taxes and grains across the country could not fill the mouths of 600,000 families.

But it shows that the dynasty was eaten up by the feudal king.

Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall, and Meng Zezhi is of course more willing to suppress the danger in the bud.

"How dare Gu Wu, this is the rule set by the ancestors!" Zhao Wang looked unwilling, seeing the glory and wealth at his fingertips. At this last juncture before expecting it, Emperor Ning Wu beat them back to their original form with a single thought.

"Sixth, be careful." Wang Hui shouted, he has always been timid and fearful.

"Four brothers, our three brothers have not been fighting or grabbing for so many years. Isn't it just this day? The result is—" Zhao Wang said angrily, "How can you make me reconciled?"