Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

When Wang An saw that Xinjun appointed a teacher for himself, he warned himself to hold back. It was really an eye-opener to choose the emperor's family hastily.But the emperor signaled him to help the Minister of Rites, so he had to obediently execute it immediately.No matter how much he slandered the new king for being unreliable, he would not dare to show off Zhu Youxiao's face in front of the Minister of Rites.

This big man is more ruthless than the young master he has served for more than 20 years. Just look at him coming out of the mourning hall to sweep those kneeling princes. After King Fu, it is definitely these princes who are unlucky.

After Sun Ruyou finished reading the temple name and posthumous title he proposed for the late emperor in Wang An, he wanted to explain further to the new emperor.

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, "I support whoever Mr. Sun chooses. It's just that I didn't expect my father to succeed to the throne for less than a month, and he can still get the same posthumous title as the emperor's grandfather."

Sun Ruyou had no choice but to explain, "This has nothing to do with the length of time you have been enthroned."

Zhu Youxiao shrugged, "The temple name and so on will be based on what you have drawn up. You can make a book list for me to read. All the ceremonial supervisors can read. I want to take advantage of these days to learn more."

Xinjun was self-motivated, and Sun Ruyou immediately picked up a pen and opened a series of book lists, all of which were elementary school content.

Wang An took the book list and read it to Xinjun.

""Hundred Surnames", "Thousand-Character Classic", "Children's Learning Qionglin", "Zengguang Xianwen", "Three-Character Classic"."

Zhu Youxiao nodded, it seems that Sun Ruyou is a very pragmatic person.

Sun Ruyou continued to explain, "After memorizing these few books, you can almost recognize most of the characters. In the future, you will learn the sage's language, and you will have a foundation. I will return to the mansion in a few days and prepare some copybooks for Your Majesty."

Seeing that Sun Shangshu was serious about enlightening himself, Zhu Youxiao stopped him and said, "Sun Qing, you are still busy with the funeral of your grandfather and father. The matter will be handed over to the inner minister Wang An to choose. He was the first emperor's companion, and later he will be the eunuch in charge of the etiquette supervisor and the person in charge of the East Factory, and he is also a person I can trust."

Sun Ruyou hurriedly saluted Wang An, saying that he would have to trouble the inner minister in the future.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the dignified Minister of Rites and saluted the eunuch first, and sighed in his heart that the eunuch of the Ming Dynasty should also clean up.

In the night, I got up again to kneel down and offer incense three times. At dawn, all the guards sent by the clan had dark circles under their eyes, and Zhu Youxiao couldn't avoid it.

But when others can go back to rest, he still has to hold on to meet the minister in the inner study.

The British Duke Zhang Weixian went to the palace to return to the new king after his eldest son left the capital with the noble sons of the capital.

"Your Majesty, there are many noble children who don't want to go to Luoyang, but they heard that if they don't go, they will be bound to the military camp. They all left Beijing this morning."

Zhu Youxiao sneered, "It's good to be afraid. Please send some personal guards to the Luoyang city gate to wait for the British government. Anyone who fails to keep up with the prince and arrives in Luoyang in time will go to the barracks to serve as a soldier for half a year."

"According to the order."

"The nobles in Jingzhong can still ride horses to lead the army, and please ask the Duke to train them. Sarhu was defeated, and Jiannu won the military funds of Ming Dynasty. There will be no peace next year. There are not many generals left in the army. Now, if the new generation of supplements is activated, we must prepare early, I don’t know if Jiannu will let us have a peaceful year.”

Zhang Weixian knew that what Zhu Youxiao said was not scaremongering, that Jiannu would definitely use troops against Guangning this winter, and if the Beijing camp could be handed over, he was ready to go into battle by himself.

"Your Majesty, I request you to lead the army to help Guangning."

Zhu Youxiao shook his head and signaled Wang An to guard the door of the study.

"My lord, I won't hide it from you. I'm prepared to lose Guangning in my heart. It doesn't matter if I lose Guangning, and Shanhaiguan will serve as a barrier for the capital. But if the Duke makes any mistakes, the capital will immediately fall into chaos."

Zhang Weixian was stunned for a moment, and got up to salute, "Your Majesty, He De, how can you value him so much. Yichen sees that the soldiers at the border are well paid and their armaments can keep up. They can still fight Jiannu again."

Zhu Youxiao shook his head again, "It doesn't matter if you lose Guangning, I will take it back later. But whether Guangning can hold on, what I am most worried about is that there will be traitors who are afraid of building slaves as internal responses, which will make the defenders The soldiers are under the enemy. Yesterday I ordered Cui Shangshu of the Ministry of War and Yang Lian to sort out the military situation in Liaodong Town. The results will be reported within three days, and you can come over to see who is suitable for adding Liaodong. The other is to avoid traitors and gangsters To make trouble in the city."

Zhang Weixian nodded.He looked at the new monarch in front of him, he really didn't look like someone who had never been in contact with foreign affairs and government affairs.

Zhu Youxiao continued: "As for the military salary, don't worry, there is only more and no less. There are so many county kings in the royal family, and the imperial censor is not impeached once or twice. "Punish instead of killing". paid enough for his actions.”

Looking at the confident Xinjun in front of him, Zhang Weixian reminded, "I'm afraid the clan will have opinions at that time."

"Da Ming is about to die, and they still have opinions? Then they go outside Shanhaiguan, to the front line of Guangning to serve as troops."

Standing at the door of the inner study, Wang An could still clearly hear the conversation between the new monarch and the Duke of England.Thinking of what happened to King Fu yesterday for his birth mother, and thinking of those clans who were impeached by the imperial censor in the past, is it really the retribution for their misconduct?

Zhou Jiamo, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, came to the inner study with his notebook.According to the procedure, he should first send the papers to the cabinet, and then wait for the cabinet to "draft the draft" before sending it to the inspector of ceremonies. The emperor can either read it himself or return it if the inspector of ceremonies "approves the red".However, there is too much shortage of manpower in various places. If some people can be filled one day earlier, the imperial court can be returned to the government earlier.

But Fang Congzhe, the chief assistant of the cabinet, told him he was sick and had to rest for a day, Han Yu was sick, and Liu Yixiu was busy with the funeral of the late emperor.I sent the booklet to the cabinet to wait for the bill to be drafted. I don't know how long it will take before it can be sent to the imperial court.Simply send it to Yuqian and Xinjun to have a look.

He saw Wang An guarding the door of the inner study from a distance, so he stopped immediately and did not move forward.After Wang An also saw him, he nodded slightly to signal him to wait.

Zhou Jiamo wondered in his heart, who is Xin Jun seeing?Wang An must also be sent out to guard the gate.

When Zhang Weixian saw that the new king had already made up his mind, he immediately expressed his opinion.

"I am willing to follow His Majesty, even if it means another disaster."

Zhu Youxiao immediately understood that not only himself, but also Zhang Weixian had a thorough understanding of Daming's finances, and that he could no longer afford the burden of supporting Zhu's clan.

These are all the evil consequences of Zhu Yuanzhang's clan support regulations.

He treated the officials of Ming Dynasty as long-term workers and set the minimum salary.But the salary set for his children and grandchildren is staggering.For example, after an adult prince is named a prince, his annual salary is ten thousand stones, which is nearly seven times that of the highest official.

Not only that, each member of the royal family is also responsible for the expenses of allocating various servants according to their status from birth, and the court is also responsible.Men can enjoy salary at the age of ten. When they are adults and want to get married, the court will bear all the housing and marriage expenses, and even the funeral expenses will be borne by the court.

The royal family doesn't care about giving birth, the only thing they can do is give birth!born!born!

The eldest son of the prince is hereditary, and the rest of the sons are the county kings; the eldest son of the county king is hereditary, and the rest are the generals of the town.The annual salary of a town general is only one thousand shi.

Under General Zhen Guo, there are General Fu Guo, General Feng Guo, Lieutenant Zhen Guo, Lieutenant Fu Guo, and finally the hereditary Lieutenant Feng Guo, which is no longer decreasing.

As long as the Ming Dynasty is in existence, the descendants of the Zhu family can receive a salary from the court forever.

But Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think about it. When the Ming Dynasty was established, there were only 58 clans in the Hongwu period, and there were 120 seven people in the Yongle period. This is still normal.In Jiajing 180 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 32, the number increased to 19611.But only after 53 years, the number surged to more than 32 in the 8nd year of Wanli.And this number still does not include the clan children of the hereditary lieutenant title.

With so many princes, county kings and generals, after more than 250 years, it has become the biggest burden that the court has increased every year.

What's worse is that once the vassals cry poor to the emperor, they can get extra subsidies.The small one is the one-year commercial tax of the location, and the large one is the permanent commercial tax of one place.

Like the ones that Fu Wang got extra, it involved the source of military pay from the Nine Sides, which shook the foundation of the court.The decline of the Ming Dynasty actually began with the Wanli Emperor who did not go to court for 30 years and turned state-owned assets into private wealth.

Fortunately, Emperor Wanli remembers to reduce the salary of other palaces before giving additional subsidies to his beloved son, King Fu. Otherwise, Daming's broken carriage might have fallen apart because it couldn't carry the huge Zhu family's descendants.

"What is Your Majesty going to do?" Zhang Weixian began to actively pay attention to the government affairs for the first time.

"As long as the impeachment is true, the prince's mansion will be reduced to the county king's mansion, and the eldest son will inherit the county king unchanged, and the concubine's children will all lose their titles and salaries. Generals of the country, those who come from the concubine have no title and salary. Those hereditary lieutenants who have violated the law will directly cancel the hereditary line."

Zhang Weixian's eyes widened, "Your Majesty, this change is quite big."

"Of course, they can also pay fines for crimes. One hundred thousand or two hundred thousand taels of silver is worth an impeachment. This is a slow cut. It can always raise millions of military salaries for the army every year. Without hereditary constraints, the town Lieutenant Guo, Lieutenant Fuguo, and Lieutenant Fengguo can be exempted from the 20 taboos of all industries. Those who engage in business in feudal lands will not be exempted from tax in the future, and those who violate it will be dealt with according to the decree of resistance. This matter will be left to the prince when he comes back .”

Zhang Weixian smiled wryly, "Your Majesty, if you do this, you will be the master of the British government in the future."

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "If the British government is the prince's natal family, would you want him to bear such a heavy burden?"

Zhang Weixian said seriously: "Your Majesty can't make fun of this matter. The matter of the Guo family is not far behind."

"If you are afraid, how about watching it for two years?"

"Your Majesty should get married next year. The little girl is not yet ready."

Zhu Youxiao shook his head, "Should be filial piety for the father and emperor for three years is the manifestation of filial piety. Besides, I am weak, and I have to reach the crown to get married."