First Prince of Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 41 Donggong Team

  Zhu Biao stood quietly outside, and could vaguely hear the voices of the conferring officials inside. They are still conferring official positions, and the titles have not yet been conferred. After all, Xu Da is still leading a large group of generals in the Northern Expedition...

   After a while, a **** came out respectfully and said, "The Holy One ordered that Prince Xuan enter the palace!"

Zhu Biao stretched out his hand and tightened the yellow ribbon around his chin. He wore a crown on his head, with two filigree golden dragons on it. The two dragons were inlaid with four pieces of opal, four pieces of topaz, and ten pieces of ruby. Ten sapphires and nine pearls.

Zhu Biao walked into the Fengtian Hall with a solemn face, and under the bowing and retreating of all the officials, he walked slowly from the middle of the civil and military officials to the front, and knelt down respectfully, "My son sees the father, long live the father Long live!"

  Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his prince and laughed, "Get up!"

   Then he signaled the Minister of Rites to read out the imperial decree he had drawn up a long time ago. The Minister of Rites bowed out of the line, then walked to the front, bowed to the emperor, and faced the ministers, "Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the imperial edict said:

"My eldest son, Zhu Biao, was born of the empress. He is the first heir of the clan. He is endowed with beautiful talents and noble character. I hereby abide by the first imperial edict, carry out the ceremony, and obey the public opinion. Established as the crown prince, right in the East Palace, with the ten thousand-year rule, with the heart of the world."

   Announce to the world, let the salty hear it!

  After Zhu Biao knelt three times and kowtowed nine times to receive the canonized edict and the crown prince’s golden book and seal, all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty knelt down and shouted in unison: "The foundation of the country has been established. Congratulations to Your Majesty, the great Ming Dynasty will last forever!"

Afterwards, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites held up another imperial edict: Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, said: "My eldest son, Zhu Biao, is talented and beautiful. He is my prince of Ming Dynasty and the heir of the country. I ordered Zhan Tong to examine the official system of the East Palace in the past dynasties, and select meritorious and moral seniors. He is also in charge of the East Palace and counsels the prince."

   "I order Li Shanchang, the left prime minister, to serve as the prince's Shaoshi, Xu Da, the right prime minister, and the prince's Shaofu, and the Zhongshu Pingzhang to record important military affairs, Chang Yuchun, and the prince's Shaobao!"

"Feng Sheng, the governor of the right, and the affairs of the right Zhan, the political affairs of Zhongshu Pingzhang, Hu Mei, Liao Yongzhong, Li Bosheng, and the affairs of Tongzhi Zhan, the left and right ministers of the Zhongshu, Zhao Yong, Wang Pu and the deputy Zhan, Zhongshu participated in politics, Yang Xian and the affairs of Zhan Cheng, Fu Yu and Zhan Shi."

"Tongzhi Metropolitan Governor Kang Maocai, Zhang Xingzu and Zuo Zuo led the government's envoys, the Metropolitan Governor's Deputy Gu Shi and Sun Xingzu Tongzhi led the government's affairs, the Metropolitan Governor's Minister Wu Zhen, Geng Bingwen and the Zuo Zuo led the government's deputy envoys, the Yushi doctor Deng Yu , Tang He and Yude, Yushi Zhongcheng Liu Ji, Zhang Yi and Zanshan doctor, Shushi Yushi Wen Yuanji, Fan Xianzu and the prince's guests!"

  Zhu Biao led a group of ministers to kneel down to thank them, and these people above were stamped with his mark after this decree.

   This is the most luxurious Donggong Group in history, because this is Zhu Yuanzhang's own team, the founding ancestor's civil and military team!

  After Zhu Yuanzhang asked them to get up, Li Shanchang led the officials of the East Palace to salute Zhu Biao: "Your Majesty, the Crown Prince."

  Zhu Biao asked them to stand up by raising his hand, and then stepped aside respectfully, Zhu Yuanzhang began to subdivide the duties.

   Zhu Biao had time to think about his subordinates at this time. Needless to say, Li Shanchang, Xu Da was named the right prime minister! It seems that this is why the father wants to use military officials to check and balance the civil officials headed by Li Shanchang, but there must also be civil officials to check and balance the military officials. Zhu Biao glanced at Liu Bowen behind Li Shanchang...

  Zhu Biao shook his head, he didn't need to care about these things, but although his team was luxurious, they were all arrogant soldiers.

   Not long after, Zhu Yuanzhang's first court meeting ended. In fact, it was just a formality, and the official business should be handled in the next court meeting.

  After Zhu Yuanzhang left, a group of ministers moved to his side in an instant: "Your Highness is Donggong Zhongshu Zuo Cheng, and Your Highness is Donggong Tongzhi...

  Zhu Biao communicated with his future subordinates in a friendly manner. When the crowd dispersed, Zhu Biao thought about it, and there was no one who came just now.

  Li Shanchang was the first one, but Zhu Biao had already expected that the prince Shaoshi, the prince Shaofu, and the prince Shaobao were all officials in the East Palace, and they were all in charge of teaching the prince.

   But it is more in name, after all, it is impossible for the young prince Li Shanchang to teach him knowledge, the young prince Fu Xu Da to teach him military law, and the young prince Chang Yuchun to protect his safety.

  Zhu Biao walked out of Fengtian Palace and walked towards Kunning Palace, thinking where his father must be.

  Just halfway through, a court lady came to invite him. When Zhu Biao entered the Kunning Palace, he saw Zhu Yuanzhang arguing with Empress Ma, and Zhu Biao waved his hand. Liu Jin led the maid down.

  When Zhu Biao stepped forward, he heard Zhu Yuanzhang say loudly: "Isn't the world I have worked so hard to build for the benefit of future generations?"

  Empress Ma said: "That shouldn't be such a national policy. Your Majesty, Chonghachi, you can't just focus on what's in front of you."

  Zhu Yuanzhang was still unconvinced: "How much can they eat to death."

  Empress Ma was still persuading him, and Zhu Biao understood after listening for a while. Zhu Yuanzhang was lonely since he was a child, and especially longed for family affection, so he planned to set a national policy and gave the royal family generous treatment.

  The first one is that the royal family will not have to go to work in the future, and these people will be supported by the state finance, and the local royal family will be paid by the local finance. For the royal family who do not go to work, the salary level set by Zhu Yuanzhang is generally about 8 times that of ordinary officials! Moreover, there is no limit on the number of people. As long as they are royal family members, they will receive salary according to their level, starting from the age of 10 until death.

In addition to the high salary, Zhu Yuanzhang also thought about life, old age, sickness and death. He stipulated that if the royal family is sick, medical treatment will be provided at public expense, and the imperial physician will serve them. When the royal family grows up and marries a wife, the state will allocate funds for them to allocate houses, fields, dowries, services, etc. .

  When the descendants of the royal family die, they will receive a very generous funeral fee, which is enough for a luxurious funeral.

Therefore, without going to work, relying on the head to receive wages, and everything can be reimbursed, there is only one thing left for the royal family in the end, that is to keep marrying wives, concubines have children, and even have children in competitions. According to records, At that time, the highest record for sons was Yuncheng Wangfu, which gave birth to more than 100 children, and his sons were also particularly able to give birth, with dozens of births.

Zhu Biao knew that in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the financial revenue of many provinces for a year could no longer support the royal family in the province. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population of the royal family exceeded 1 million. The huge expenditure was the most important reason for crushing the Ming Dynasty's finances. There is also a reason for the demise of the last year because the cost of raising the royal family is too high.

  Zhu Biao walked behind Zhu Yuanzhang, pressed his shoulder and said, "Father, my son understands that you want my Zhu family's descendants to live well, but Father, do you still remember what you taught me when I was young?"

  Zhu Yuanzhang frowned when he heard that his son was also on his wife's side: "We are also planning for your children and grandchildren! How do you want to talk to your mother!"

  Zhu Biao replied with a smile: "Father is the most respected person in the world, he has the constitution of heaven in his mouth, and he follows the law! If what the mother says is unreasonable, how can you argue with the mother here?"

  Empress Ma saw that her son was on her side, so she took a sip of tea calmly: "Your father is like this! You know it's wrong, but you still do it."

  Zhu Biao hurriedly said: "My mother, my father naturally has my father's consideration, but my father is grateful for the difficulty of starting a business, and he is not willing to let his children and grandchildren suffer."

   Seeing that the two bosses have calmed down. Zhu Biaocai opened his mouth to express his point of view: "My father always taught my sons and ministers when they were young, not to learn the style of the noble children of the previous dynasty. They did evil, occupied people's fields, raped prostitutes, colluded with the government, and amassed money."

  Zhu Yuanzhang whispered: "Our sons are not here."

  Zhu Biao nodded: "They are naturally just sons in front of the father, but when they go out, they are the sons of Tianhuang nobles."

  Zhu Biao continued: "Even if it is the generation of the son, including the next generation, the father can discipline him, but what about the future?

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