Ming Dynasty: My father Yongle, Forever Reigns Over Mountains and Rivers

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Who provides checks and balances?

No one can check and balance!

Zhu Di naturally understands this truth!

When the power of the prime minister completely disappears and the imperial power is highly concentrated, the emperor and the emperor will become the supreme existence!

But once a dark king appears, it will be a devastating disaster for the Ming Dynasty!

What would an unchecked and dark king do?

Excessive levies and expropriations have brought chaos to the government, and the people have been deprived of their livelihood, and the heaven is angry and the people are resentful!

Not long after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di directly saw the scene of the collapse of the Ming Dynasty!

He seemed to have seen the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty sitting high on the dragon throne, enjoying himself and playing with the beauties, while hungry people in ragged clothes and skinny bones were everywhere in the world, wandering in the fields of the Ming Dynasty!

He seemed to have seen the scene where the Ming Dynasty was finally overthrown and started over again, and was overthrown again!

This feeling is simply too uncomfortable!

It was enough to make Emperor Yongle feel suffocated!

Zhu Di did not want to see, and would never allow, his family or his descendants to end like this.

However, who can guarantee that there will not be a dark king or a dark king in the Ming Dynasty?

This is simply impossible!

As strong as the Han Dynasty, as prosperous as the Tang Dynasty, there are also many dim and dark kings!

Will the Ming Dynasty escape this disaster?

Absolutely impossible!

Zhu Di woke up suddenly. He felt a chill running down his spine and his clothes had been soaked in cold sweat.

If you blindly strengthen the imperial power without taking any checks and balances, the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed sooner or later!

So, something must be done now!

But what can be done now?

Delegate power to civil servants and gentry, resurrect the power of the prime minister, and form a pattern of emperor and scholar-bureaucrats co-ruling the world like the former Song Dynasty, thereby forming checks and balances on imperial power?

But the former Song Dynasty has proved that this road will not work!

Zhu Di looked pale and thought hard about the solution.

However, he thought hard for a long time, and finally collapsed on the chair in despair.

He couldn't think of any solution!

But just because he couldn't think of it, it didn't mean that this traitor couldn't think of it.

Zhu Di knew that this traitor had taken the initiative to propose this matter, so he would definitely have an idea.

Second brother, what do you want to do?

Simple! Zhu Gaoxu licked his dry lips, put a layer of shackles on the imperial power!

Put... shackles on the imperial power?

Zhu Di stood up suddenly and looked at Zhu Gaoxu in disbelief. He felt a chill coming from the bottom of his heart!

This rebellious son is the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, and he is the next emperor of the Ming Dynasty!

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu Gao has been strengthening the imperial power, and he did not hesitate to fish for law enforcement and abolished the prime minister system that has been passed down for thousands of years in one fell swoop!

Even that idiot Zhu Yunwen knew how to strengthen the imperial power. After he ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he couldn't wait to carry out reforms and flatten the world's feudal kings!

And Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor, was no exception. He adopted gentle means to defeat all the vassal kings, and firmly controlled the power through cultural relics checks and balances!

But after him, the Crown Prince in front of him actually wanted to put a layer of shackles on the imperial power!

This was simply a huge shock that shattered Zhu Di's worldview!

But Zhu Di couldn't refute it yet!

Because of the previous conversation, he already understood the huge hidden dangers of imperial power without checks and balances!

So even if he is as wise and powerful as Zhu Di, he has to admit that Prince Zhu Gaoxu's concept is right!

It's just that for Zhu Di, this was a little unacceptable for a while.

how do you want to do it?

I haven't thought about the details yet, I just have some immature ideas.

Zhu Gaoxu spoke calmly, For example, the court's taxation should be separated, and the royal family is strictly prohibited from getting involved!

Is the royal family strictly prohibited from intervening in taxation?

As the lord of the world, the Ming Emperor couldn't interfere in taxation?

What kind of truth is this?

Zhu Di was shocked and looked at Zhu Gaoxu blankly.

Dad, where do the royal taxes come from? They are collected from the people of the world!

Then what you take from the people should be used for the people. You can put it into the court's tax revenue. A large amount is used to support the royal family and the vassal. Why?

Are the people in my Lao Zhu family without hands or feet? Don't they have to work if they want to live? If this expenditure is used to develop people's livelihood, then I don't know how many people will not starve to death and freeze to death!

Zhu Di was dumbfounded and instinctively opened his mouth to refute, but he was shocked and his mind was confused.

Second brother, wait a minute and let me take care of you.

The royal family doesn't want taxes, so where can they work?

It's okay for the clan and vassal kings. They have all been sent overseas to foreign lands, but the royal family is the heavenly family after all!

You can't let the royal family farm the fields to be self-sufficient, can you? Do you still want the Tian family's face?

What's more, if this is the case, people in the world will only think that the royal family and the Tian family are no different from themselves. Why should they obey the orders of my old Zhu family? Why can my old Zhu family live in the palace and give orders? This will The world is in chaos!

Zhu Gaoxu smiled when he heard this and did not refute.

Of course he knew that it was impossible to really let the royal family plow the fields!

Because the foundation of a dynasty's stable rule lies in order!

Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang used a strict social order to form the major strata of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and the emperor was above these four people, and his status was unbreakable!

Once this order is destroyed, the Ming Dynasty will instantly be in chaos!

To put it bluntly, it is just like the Southern and Northern Dynasties. During that period of chaos, there was no order at all. So whoever had the bigger fists and the more troops could seize the land and live like an emperor!

Dad, you misunderstood.

The imperial court's current tax revenue, UU Reading www.uｋｋａ.net, mainly relies on agricultural tax and salt tax, and then miscellaneous taxes such as commercial tax.

What I mean is that the Ministry of Household Affairs is responsible for collecting agricultural taxes and salt taxes, while the royal family is responsible for collecting miscellaneous taxes!

All agricultural taxes and salt taxes are used to develop people's livelihood. We no longer have to bear the support of the royal family and vassals, as well as various military expenditures!

And these two items fall on the royal family, using commercial taxes to support the royal family and vassalage and to bear military expenses!

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Di's eyes suddenly lit up.

He knows how terrible the Ming Dynasty's business tax is now!

This is also thanks to Lao Er's vigorous development of industry and commerce in Beizhili, which increased the commercial tax more than a thousand times, which is comparable to the agricultural tax and salt tax!

If it is really separated like this, it is not unacceptable.

After all, with the horror of commercial taxes, supporting the royal family and vassals is only a small problem, and it is completely enough to cover the court's military expenses!

Moreover, after such separation, it means that the army has become the private armed force of the royal family. No civil servants and gentry are allowed to interfere, and they have no reason to interfere.

After all, all military expenditures are borne by the royal family. It is equivalent to the royal family raising these soldiers without spending a penny from the court. Why do you have to intervene?

The only problem is that once a war is launched, the military expenditure will be an astronomical figure!

With today's commercial tax amount, can it really be afforded?

Zhu Di raised his question, and Zhu Gaoxu smiled confidently.

Dad, you underestimate the charm of industry and commerce!

This is only the commercial tax in Beizhili, which is comparable to the agricultural tax and salt tax.

When the entire Ming Dynasty enters the era of industrial and commercial development, the commercial tax will be more than a hundred times higher than the combined agricultural tax and salt tax. That is the real economic lifeline of the Ming Dynasty!

Zhu Di: !!!

More than a hundred times!

How can this be?

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