"Father, don't worry. I know that brothers working together can break gold. In the future, I will definitely work together with the second and third sons to make the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia and Japan a country of brothers."
Zhu Cixiang said something that he didn't even believe. He didn't believe that Zhu Cixuan and Zhu Cijong, two good brothers, could be of the same mind as him! Moreover, both Great Mongolia and Little Japan are sinkholes that cannot be filled. How much money do they have to spend to level them?
Zhu Youjian also believed in Zhu Cixiang's guarantee, but he was not worried that Zhu Cixiang would attack his two brothers a hundred years later... because Zhu Cixiang himself was already over 70 years old at that time, so how could he still have that energy?
"It's right for brothers to work together to cut through gold," Zhu Youjian said with a smile, "but you can't just work together with the second and third children... I have many sons, and now I'm thirty-six. !”
"Ah, two more? I congratulate my father." Zhu Cixiang quickly congratulated Zhu Youjian.
Zhu Youjian ordered the eunuch beside him: "Go and call Concubine Hui and the thirty-sixth prince."
Zhu Cixiang was stunned and thought to himself: Who is Concubine Hui? Why do you want me to see her and Lao Thirty-Six? Is there anything special?
Zhu Youjian explained: "Concubine Hui is Wei Qinghui, your Aunt Wei... I took her in last year, and two months ago she gave birth to the thirty-sixth prince Cibing for me, so I made her a concubine. "
The charter king is finally here... He was originally the sixth, but now he is the thirty-sixth, and his ranking has dropped by thirty places, but he still has to be the charter king!
"Ah, it turns out to be Aunt Wei!" Zhu Cixiang laughed immediately when he heard the word "Aunt Wei" - he was brought up by Wei Qinghui, and Wei Qinghui and Wei Qinghui share the same mother-son relationship. Now he heard that Wei Qinghui was adopted as a concubine by Chongzhen. , and also has his own son, of course he is very happy.
After a while, Zhu Cihong saw "Aunt Wei" who had brought him up, holding a baby, and entered the Xinuan Pavilion of Wansheng Palace, served by two palace maids.
"Aunt Wei, Cixi wishes you congratulations." Zhu Cixi hurriedly stepped forward to greet her. He also took out a stack of banknotes and stuffed them into the old palace maid next to Wei Qinghui.
Wei Qinghui also seemed very happy. She entered Prince Xin's Mansion with Queen Zhou, Concubine Tian, and Concubine Yuan. Naturally, she had long expected Zhu Youjian to pamper her and love her. But this hope lasted for eighteen years, until the 17th day of Chongzhen Emperor's reign. She got her wish when she was young and was favored by Chongzhen. Now she has given birth to Zhu Cibing. It seems that she will be depended on for life.
When Zhu Youjian saw Zhu Cixiang generously handing out the banknote, he smiled and said to Wei Qinghui: "Concubine Hui, let Cixiang give Cibing a hug as well."
Wei Qinghui agreed and put the son she had finally obtained with great difficulty into the hands of Zhu Cihong, who she had brought up.
Zhu Cixiang hugged the "little charter king" who was sleeping soundly, and he liked it very much. At this time, Chongzhen struck while the iron was hot: "Boss, it will be difficult for Lao Thirty-Six to become the king of the vassal state... Why don't you let him be a minister to assist you!"
Zhu Cixiang was a little surprised when he heard what Chongzhen said, so he asked: "Father, why do you say it is difficult for Old Thirty-Six to become the king of a vassal state?"
Zhu Youjian smiled and explained: "I have so many sons, how can I give everyone a country? Even if I have one earth, it is not enough!"
Zhu Cihong said to himself: One earth is not enough? How many more babies do you want?
Zhu Youjian glanced at his son's complicated expression, and asked Zhu Cihong to return Zhu Cibing in his arms to Wei Qinghui to take away, and then said to Zhu Cihong: "I now have more than thirty sons, but I can't treat them equally, otherwise I will lose the respect of my superiors and inferiors." Inferiority. Without the respect of superiors and inferiors, fighting and fighting among the princes will inevitably occur. The seven kingdoms of Han and the eight kings of Jin are inevitable."
Emperor Chongzhen paused and then said: "However, all the sons are my flesh and blood, so how can we distinguish them as superior and inferior? After thinking about it, I feel that we should distinguish the sons' mothers and their age. Determine the hierarchy of superiors and inferiors. And my concubines will be headed by the queen, followed by the eldest concubine, and then by the concubines of Han and Mongolia. Therefore, Cixuan can inherit Mongolia, and Cijiong can plot Japan. And you take my eldest son, Jian Xi, The incense of the temple was thus able to inherit the imperial rule of the Ming Dynasty.
As for the rest of my sons, they are all inferior to you and the other three, but they are not all equal. They have to be divided according to their origins and the dignity of their biological mothers.
Among them, those who are born from our Mongolian noble concubines are the elders of the same mother's compatriots, and can inherit their mother's Ten Thousand Houses of Orduo, and have priority in obtaining a feudal state in the land of Mongol-Wultan. The younger sons of the eldest noble concubines were lower than the eldest sons of the Mongolian noble concubines, and they also had the opportunity to obtain kingdoms. As for the sons of Mongolian noble concubines, they could only rely on their elder brothers as ministers.
As for the sons of empresses and Han noble concubines, they were first distinguished as legitimate concubines. Those who were legitimate descendants were granted as much status as possible. Any concubine who is a concubine will be enfeoffed according to the position of her mother and concubine as well as her own age and talent. The thirty-sixth son, Cibing, was born from a concubine. He was ranked low and was young, so he was not suitable for a feudal state. Therefore, I will give him a false prince in the future and let him serve as a minister in the court and assist you in governing the world. "
Zhu Cixi understood now. It turned out that Zhu Youjian, an old feudal man, was telling him about the problems of the feudal order of the Ming Dynasty... This old feudal man probably also knew that he was too prolific and could not give each of his sons a kingdom. Therefore, it is necessary to classify the sons into categories, some can be sealed, and some cannot be sealed.
The sons born to Chongzhen by those Mongolian female warlords had to be settled because they had their mother's army to inherit. Moreover, Zhu Youjian, an old feudal man, was too militaristic and the land he conquered was too large, so he needed to give it to his sons to guard. These sons who can inherit the army from their mothers can of course get a feudal state.
However, the strength of these Mongolian female warlords is also limited. The most powerful concubine Wu Liangha only has 20,000 households and 20,000 Han households. He was handed over to the great concubine Wu Liangha, who later became Zhu Cixuan's bodyguard Wanhu). The other six Mongolian concubines only had one Mongolian Wanhu. Therefore, we cannot dismantle them too finely, otherwise we will create a large number of "Kings of Thousand Households" and "Kings of Hundred Households" which will not be able to suppress the situation, and they will all have to be annexed by others.
The old feudal Han concubines are not powerful, so it is more difficult for their Han princes to be crowned... A lot of financial resources and energy need to be invested to help them establish thousands of guard households, and these guard households cannot be nomadic, and they cannot be nomadic. It costs a lot to seal it up.
Even if Zhu Cihong could "change money", he would not be able to spend so much money to banish all of Chongzhen's hundreds of sons.
Moreover, the land that Zhu Youjian could get was indeed not enough for so many sons to enfeoff... So he had to take a step back and first give birth to the four sons that Zhou Hou gave to Zhu Youjian (more than in the previous life). (double) were all sealed, and then the first sons born to seven Han noble concubines, including Tian Guifei, Yuan Guifei, Wang Guifei, Mao Guifei, Qin Guifei, Ma Guifei, and Mu Guifei (from the Mu family in Yunnan), were also sealed. .
For other sons, it depends on the situation.
Zhu Cixiang calculated in his mind that his old feudal family now has a queen, seven Han noble concubines, seven Mongolian female warlord concubines... Among them, one Mongolian noble concubine will not have children, but Chongzhen has already said that she will. Let the son of Concubine Wu Liangha inherit it.
Therefore, Zhu Youjian had to grant at least 17 son states... not including the Ming Dynasty itself.
In addition, King Zhu Yujian of Tang Dynasty and Duke Mu Tianbo of Guizhou Province have already obtained their respective feudal kingdoms in the Chu River Basin and Myanmar. Together with them, there are 19 kingdoms!
In addition to these 19 countries, there are several traditional vassal kingdoms such as the Kingdom of Korea, the Kingdom of Annan, the Kingdom of Siam, the Kingdom of Chenla, and the Kingdom of Ryukyu. Added together, there are at least twenty countries... almost a world!
If Zhu Cihong and Zhu Tuhao (He Hao) formed a group of son states like the old feudal Chongzhen, when the United Nations meets in the future, they will be a group of distant relatives...
