Chapter 5 Three, blocked

On the seventh day of April in the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the grand ceremony for the canonization of the prince was being held in the palace.In Fengxian Hall, there was no sound, five treasure book tables were placed upright, on the Danbi in front of the hall, and ten treasure book pavilions were placed in the east.All the personnel participating in the ceremony have already stood in place.Amidst the sound of deep drums, the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang dressed in a crown and ascended the throne of the Fengtian Hall. When the firecrackers rang, the time officer announced that the time for the ceremony had come. Enter Fengtian East Gate.When the music sounded, the crown prince and other princes boarded the east side of Fengtian Hall, and the crown prince was led into the east gate of Fengtian Hall and stood beside the emperor.The princes were ushered in to pay respects to Bi Dan, and saluted the emperor amidst music.The Chengzhi official took out the book from the hall, walked out from the middle door of the hall, stood still, and said "You Zhi", all the kings knelt down, and the Chengzhi official loudly announced: "The prince is named the king of Qin, and Guo is the king of Jin. Di is the king of Yan, ■ is the king of Zhou, Zhen is the king of Chu, Yu is the king of Qi, Zi is the king of Tan, Qi is the king of Zhao, Tan is the king of Lu, and Cong Sun Shouqian is the king of Jingjiang." After Xuanbi, all the kings fell on their faces.The successor entered the hall through the west gate, knelt down to the emperor and played the transmission, and the kings saluted to the throne amidst the music.Then the kings took turns entering the palace to accept the treasures.First came the King of Qin, and then the King of Jin.Zhu Di got impatient with the monotonous and lengthy ceremony.He was twelve years old this year, and he hoped to be the first to accept the book treasure like King Qin, but he was even more envious of being crowned prince two years ago like his elder brother.The emperor and all the officials held the ceremony for him alone.Moreover, the crown prince will be the emperor in the future.A prince is just a prince.He was daydreaming, and the etiquette officer had already walked in front of him.Now it's his turn to enter the hall to receive the treasure. He followed the court official and entered the Fengtian Hall through the east gate. He was led to the seat of worship in front of the throne and knelt down in front of the case amidst the music. Give it to the reader, who knelt down and handed it over to the prime minister.The prime minister took the book and handed it to Zhu Di on his knees, and Zhu Di handed it to the envoy who was kneeling beside him.Then take the treasures in this order again, and hand them over to another emissary beside him to receive the treasure book. With the loud shout of the praise officer, Zhu Di saluted the emperor again. In the middle, the ceremony official led out of Fengtian Hall, and two envoys each held a treasure book as a guide to bring Zhu Di back to his original place.The inner emissary put the book treasure in the box of the book treasure pavilion, and stood back to the east of Danbi.Although Zhu Di was unwilling to be a prince, he still felt its heavy weight when he took over the treasure.How many treasures!Standing in front of the palace, he couldn't tell what his mood was at the moment. Several days ago, they had repeatedly practiced the ceremony to be held today. Before dawn today, they were led to wait outside the palace wall.Now he felt a little tired, how much he wanted to relax his muscles and bones, even if he could look up at the endless sky above the hall, but he couldn't, because that would be accused of being rude.Suddenly he heard a shout from the ceremonial officer. It was the end of the ceremony for King Wu and King Chu to accept the treasure.He and all the princes bowed to the emperor four more times in the music, and then the inner emissary carried the five princes' book treasure pavilions in front, and they followed behind, from the East Hall of His Majesty, and sent them out of the east gate of Fengtian with music .King Qi, King Tan, King Zhao, and King Lu did not attend this ceremony because they were young.Zhu Yuanzhang sent the prime minister to carry the book treasures, and awarded them to them respectively, and the youngest was hugged by the nanny to salute. The ceremony was also very solemn and complicated, so I don't need to go into details.

The books and treasures that the prince got are all made of gold, very delicate. The treasures, that is, the gold seal, are square, five inches and two cents long on each side, and one inch and five cents high, all calculated according to the weekly ruler.The front is engraved with "a certain king's treasure" in seal script.It is decorated with turtle nubs.The treasure pool is also made of gold, and its size is just enough to accommodate gold treasures.There are two sets of treasure chests, one for Shengbao and the other for Shengbaochi.Each pair has three layers, the outer box is made of wood, painted with gold and powder pan dragons, the red silk lining is used, the middle box is made of gold pan dragons, the inner small box is decorated like the outer box, and there is a throne inside, and the four corners are carved. There is a panlong, and then it is painted with muddy gold.There is a brocade mattress on the seat.Jinbao wrapped it with a small bundle of gold and red Luo, and covered the outside of the box with a large bundle of red and gold.The book consists of two gold leaves, each of which is one foot two inches long, five inches wide, and two centimeters five centimeters thick, also calculated according to the weekly ruler.There are holes on the top and bottom of the gold pages, which are connected in series with red ribbons.Open and close like a book.There is a red brocade mattress under the book.The book is made of wood, and the dragon is depicted on it with muddy gold and powder.Lined with red silk.The booklet is wrapped with a small burden of red Luopin gold, and the outside is covered with a red Luopin gold burden.

The prince's gold book is engraved with the inscription in regular script.Zhu Di's book is: In the past, those who ruled the world must build Pinghan, but they will be blessed in the position, the country will be on one side, and the simplicity will be in the heart of the emperor.The fourth son, Di, now orders you to be the king of Yan, and stay in Peiping forever, how easy it is!I started as a farmer, fought alongside the heroes, endured all kinds of hardships, and aspired to serve the heaven and the earth and enjoy the gods.Zhang Huang's division travels, punishes crimes and punishes the people, always spare no time to accomplish great things, now that you have a country, you should respect and observe rituals, worship the mountains and rivers of your ancestors, guard your soldiers, and care for the people, you must do your best, embody my teachings In other words, be cautious.

After the kings got the book treasure, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to announce the canonization of the prince as prince to the world.The Minister of Rites asked the emperor to print the edict on the emperor's seal, and then came outside the Meridian Gate to read it for all civil and military officials.The imperial edict reads: I am only the emperor and the son of heaven, and the elders who live in the lineage must be the heirs; the sons should be named kings, divide the land, and use the vassals to screen the country.I now have ten sons. At the beginning of my accession to the throne, the eldest son was designated as the eldest son of the emperor. The titles of the kings are to be rewarded to the meritorious officials. However, the distinction between superiority and inferiority should be determined early.On the 7th day of the fourth month, Zixu was appointed King of Qin, Guo was King of Jin, Di was King of Yan, King Zhou, King Zhen, King Qi, King Zi was King Tan, Qi was King Zhao, and Tan was King The king of Lu, from Sun Shouqian to the king of Jingjiang; all of them were given book treasures, set up ministers, officials, officials and various instruments, which have been customized.Therefore, this is an edict, and the salty envoys will know it.

After the edict was read out, the emperor returned to the palace, and the prince retreated, the whole ceremony was considered complete. On this day, the princes who have been canonized will thank the queen and the prince in turn, and the princes will congratulate each other, and the prime minister will lead all the officials to congratulate the prince.The next day, the crown prince would also like to congratulate the emperor and queen, and all the officials would also enter a form to congratulate the emperor, queen, and crown prince.The wives inside and outside the capital wanted to congratulate the queen, and they still bowed and kowtowed endlessly, beating drums and playing music.The wives of all officials will be entertained with a banquet, and there are congratulatory voices from all over the palace.

The emperor ruled the world, claiming to be "by the order of heaven, relying on the spirit of the ancestors".Of course, the sons canonized as princes must inform the ancestors of heaven and earth.After accepting the canonization, the prince should choose a good day to go to the Taimiao to offer sacrifices, so as to inform the ancestors of their spirits in heaven.In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang had already gone to the Taimiao to worship before he was canonized.That is the third day of this month.After Zhu Yuanzhang paid homage to the Ancestral Temple, he held a banquet for his ministers in Fengtian Hall and Wenhua Hall.Zhu Yuanzhang said to his courtiers:

In the past, the Yuan lost its control, and all the heroes rose together, the four directions were full of chaos, and the people suffered.I bow to lead the master and apprentice to calm the catastrophe, the emperor is blessed, and the sea is peaceful.However, the world is so big that it is necessary to build a feudal screen to defend the country on the top and live in peace and prosperity on the bottom.Now that all the sons are old, they should each have a title and divide the town into various countries.I am not a private relative, but follow the system of ancient sages and kings, for the sake of long-term stability and long-term governance.

The ministers agreed and said: Your Majesty, the feudal kings, worshiped by Wei Zong, is the public discussion of all generations in the world. Zhu Yuanzhang went on to say: The former kings were feudal, so they sheltered the people. Zhou traveled for a long time, and Qin abolished it and died quickly.Since the Han and Jin Dynasties, everything has been the same.In the meantime, the order and chaos are uneven, so why is Shi Shi so special?If anything, for a long-term solution, there is nothing better than this. The argument made by Zhu Yuanzhang seems to be based on summarizing historical experience in order to achieve long-term peace and stability in the Zhu family.Zhu Yuanzhang's worries were not unreasonable. At this time, the Ming Dynasty had just been established, and there were dangers both inside and outside.

At this time, the main enemy of the Ming Dynasty was still the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty. After the 20th year of the Yuan Dynasty (the sixth year of Song Longfeng, 1360), Zhu Yuanzhang's power grew rapidly. He successively annexed the regimes of Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen, and then In the first year of Wu (1367), Xu Da and others were ordered to make a northern expedition to the Central Plains and seize the Shandong counties of the Yuan Dynasty.In the second year, the Ming Dynasty was established, and the Ming army continued to march northward and captured Bianliang.In August, it approached Dadu, forcing Emperor Yuan Shun to open the Jiande Gate and flee north to the desert.At this time, the royal family of the Yuan Dynasty, centered on Helin, still had considerable strength. The so-called "restore the old capital without losing the old things. The Yuan Dynasty is dead but not dead."Historically, the Yuan regime in this period was called the Northern Yuan.The forces of the Northern Yuan Dynasty stretched from the Tianshan Mountains in the west, to Hulunbuir Lake in the east, to the upper reaches of the Irtysh River and the Yenisei River in the north, and to the vast area of ​​the Great Wall.There are two main forces in the Northern Yuan Dynasty. One is Wang Kuokuo Timur of Henan, who occupies Shaanxi and Gansu, namely Wang Baobao. He has about 400,000 horses.One is Naha Chu, who controls Liaodong. He has about 200,000 people.In addition, Yunnan was still in the hands of King Liang, the clan of the Yuan Dynasty.Throughout the Northern Yuan Dynasty, "the number of men who draw bows is no less than a million, and the number of tribes attached to them is no less than thousands of miles.Not only that, the Jurchen in Liaodong, Xifan in Shaanxi and Gansu, as well as the Western Regions and Goryeo are still the wings of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.Faced with such a situation, Zhu Yuanzhang had to take it seriously. For the time being, he could only adopt the policy of "sticking to the frontier and preventing its invasion". Far from being cleared.Just the day before Zhu Yuanzhang canonized the kings, he ordered to "prohibit Mongolian Semu people from changing their names". On the surface, it was for the purpose of "don't get married, focus on the beginning" and "thick folk customs", but in fact it implied supervision and control .One of the purposes of canonizing the prince to shield the imperial family is to target these internal and external enemies of the Ming Dynasty.Zhu Yuanzhang gave birth to twenty-six sons successively. Later, those who were crowned kings and placed in the frontier included King Qin of Xi'an, King Jin of Taiyuan, King Yan of Beiping, King Ning of Daning, King Liao of Northeast, King Gu of Xuanfu, Datong's Dai Wang, Ningxia's Qing Wang, and Lanzhou's Su Wang, these nine kings are all called Sai Wang, "all of them are not enough to control the key points."

In the imperial edict telling the world to canonize the kings, Zhu Yuanzhang first stated that he won the world "depending on the strength of the general", so he should "discuss martial arts first to reward the princes", and then took the trouble to explain why "the ceremony of rewarding merits has not And held", it has already feudalized the kings first.Its intention was to appease people's hearts, but it did not provide a satisfactory explanation. It first said that "the territory of Tubo has not entered the territory", and then said that "the distinction between superiority and inferiority should be determined early."His explanation has actually clearly and unmistakably placed the kings in the opposite position to the generals.He canonized the kings first in order to avoid the dissatisfaction of the veteran generals who had shed blood and sacrificed for the establishment of the Zhu Ming Dynasty.Therefore, another purpose of Zhu Yuanzhang's entrusting the princes was not only to deal with possible people's rebellions in the country, but more importantly, to try to use the princes to compete with these generals to strengthen the status of the royal family.The kings of Zhou, Qi, Chu, Tan, Lu, and Shu in the interior are all in the fortress.

The prince not only enjoys such generous material treatment as Sui Lu Wan Shi, but also has a high political status.They have a set of officials in their own palace, and the system of wearing clothes, riding cars and riding palaces is second only to the emperor, and princes and ministers are not allowed to give them a ceremony.More importantly, the prince holds the army.In the fifth year of Hongwu, an institution such as the Prince's Guard Command and Envoy Division was established.There are three guards in each palace, ranging from 3,000 soldiers to as many as 19,000. More importantly, in the prince's fiefdom, the guards sent by the central government are often dispatched by the prince.The "Zu Xun Lu" compiled in the second year of Hongwu stipulates: Fan Kingdom has guards and guards.The soldiers guarding the town are under the command of often elected commanders.Its guards were dispatched from the king.If the country is a fortress, in case of emergency, the guards and guards will be dispatched from the king. To mobilize the guards, only the emperor's imperial treasure document is not enough, and the order of the prince is also required: Where the imperial court dispatches troops, there must be imperial treasure documents and kings, as well as imperial treasure documents and town officials.The guardian of the town has not only the imperial treasure document, but also the king's decree, so he can send troops.Without the king's decree, no troops can be sent. In the early Ming Dynasty, the only restrictions on the power of the prince were "dividing the princes but not tin land, ranking nobles but not facing the people, eating salary but not governing affairs."The prince does not have his own independent territory, nor can he interfere with local administrative affairs. The purpose of enfeoffing the princes is to ensure the long-term stability of the Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Yuanzhang still has a lot of brains to ensure this. He believes that in addition to educating and training the kings, he requires the kings not to deviate from the norms he established and cannot change the rules. own system. In order to institutionalize and legalize the educational constraints on the philosophers, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the compilation of "Zu Xun Lu" on April 11 of the second year of Hongwu, and later ordered the compilation of "Zhao Jian Lu".On the first day of March in the sixth year of Hongwu, "Zhaojianlu" was completed. This is a book specially written for you.It was successively compiled by Tao Kai, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Zhang Choi, King Fu Wenyuanji of Qin Dynasty, and Wang Zhuan, editor of Hanlin Academy.The content includes the good and evil done by the vassal kings since the Han and Tang Dynasties, and is used to exhort the kings.Song Lian wrote a preface for this, and Zhu Yuanzhang gave the title to the book.Zhu Yuanzhang said to Wen Yuanji and others: "I have always told all the masters to guard against their lightness in every action, to denounce their arrogance in a word of laughter, to teach the festival of diet, and to teach frugality in taking food. I am afraid that they will not know the hunger and cold of the people. To make them suffer from hunger and cold less, fearing that they will not know the hard work of the people, and try to make them do less work. But human emotions are easy to indulge, so Ling Qing and others must edit this book from time to time, so that they can be warned. Jian and Han Huainan's invitations to guests are too much, and they are not what I expected." In order to educate the scholars, let them try to suffer from starvation, and their intentions are also good. By the first day of May, "Ancestral Precepts" had also been completed. "Zu Xunlu" has thirteen items, including admonishment, observance, strict sacrifice, careful entry and exit, cautious state affairs, etiquette, law, internal orders, internal officials, job system, military guards, camp repairs, and supplies.Zhu Yuanzhang personally wrote a preface for it: From my point of view, the establishment of the legal system in a country since ancient times begins with the king who was ordered. At that time, the law has been established for a long time, and people have kept it.Weijia is in the country, and it is used by civilians in Pingkang. At the beginning of its business, it was prepared for hardships.I have read many people and I am familiar with the history.Compared with the lord who grows up in the deep palace, who is not familiar with the world, and the scholar who lives in the remote mountains and forests, he is very far away. I was young and lonely and poor, and I was in the army for a long time. At the age of twenty-four, I committed myself to the army, and I was called by others for three years.Then take over handsome.The way to train soldiers is to seek to fight with the heroes, to worry about troubles, and to take precautions. In the past twenty years, they have been able to wipe out powerful enemies and unify the sea. The ministers set it as the law of the country.Overthrow the customs of Yuan and Hu, get rid of the palliative government, and punish the people who are accustomed to the old habits, and the strength and deceitfulness of the heroes are hard to accept, but I have already accepted it.The people are going through the chaos of the world, wanting to survive the famine, preparing for treachery and cunning, it is extremely difficult to get them together, and I have got them all together.Since Gai Ping Wuchang, laws and decrees have been negotiated, and profit and loss changes have not been counted. After this decade, achievements have been made, and the promulgation and implementation have gradually made the people aware of the prohibition.As for enlightening future generations, it is the first edition of "Zu Xun Lu", which is established as a law, and the big book is published in the west, and it is read day and night, in order to achieve it.The first and last six years are the seven manuscripts, and it has only been decided so far. Isn't it difficult! Gai vulgar Confucianism is mostly ancient but not modern, and treacherous officials often play tricks.If you don't learn from others' strengths, if you are decisive, you will be dazzled by them, and you will not be able to achieve anything.Today, the Ministry of Rites published it as a book to pass on forever.All my children and grandchildren who want to inherit my life will not be smart enough to mess with my established law, and a single word cannot be changed.Woohoo, it's a warning. Zhu Yuanzhang awarded the "Zu Xun Lu" to the kings, and copied it on the east wall of the Jinshen Hall and the east wall of the Qianqing Palace, and asked the prince to copy it on the east wall of the main hall of the palace and the inner palace, and read it at any time.Then he said to his ministers: I wrote "Ancestral Precepts", so I have taught my children and grandchildren. I have experienced the world, and it is difficult to start a business. I often worry that my children and grandchildren will not know what to keep. Therefore, for this book, I think about it day and night. The descendants of future generations will keep Tianlu forever.Gou Zuo is clever, messing up the old rules, which is contrary to the precepts of the ancestors. What Zhu Yuanzhang thought of was Huangtu Yonggu. He thought that as long as his descendants kept the law he set, they could make Zhu Minglong go down for a long time.The attendants found a theoretical basis for Zhu Yuanzhang's understanding.They replied: "Since ancient times, the lords of entrepreneurship have considered things carefully, and made laws and regulations. ) Old Chapter. Of course Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy with this kind of flattery. He went on to say: The sun and the moon can shine for a long time, and the light will not be changed forever.The profit and loss of the three generations due to time is too small.If there is a generation of fixed laws that cannot be changed lightly, then the desolation will fall, almost like the end of Xia, and the overthrow of the code of punishment is almost like the end of Shang.The descendants of future generations should think about respecting the ancestors' law. Zhu Yuanzhang believes that princes are more reliable than generals, and Zhu's surname is more reliable than other surnames.He affirmed that enfeoffing the prince and abiding by the precepts of the ancestors would make the Zhu Ming court long-term and stable.However, the gains and losses of "feudalism" have been debated endlessly for more than a thousand years since the Qin Dynasty.What kind of results the Ming Dynasty's implementation of the enfeoffment system would bring was still a mystery at that time. There has never been a shortage of smart and insightful people in history.These people will make incisive and correct conclusions about complex realities based on historical experience.But their opinions are often not taken seriously, and even suffered misfortune for expressing them, even if they are expressed at the request of the ruler.Only when their assertions were ruthlessly confirmed by history did people discover its true value.At this time, a large number of people will come out to praise him for his brilliance, and teach him a painful lesson if he doesn't listen to his words.It stands to reason that in this way, similar mistakes will not be made again in the future.However, in fact, later generations still often have to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors, and of course the failures are often equally miserable.Can't people accept the lessons of history?no. "Mouth and taste share the same addiction", people from all over the ages have the same heart, people's desires are roughly the same, and the laws of history are also the same from ancient times and will never change.When the two meet, it depends on who can succumb to whom.In the ninth year of Hongwu (1376), since the beginning of the year, Qin Tianjian has continuously reported that the astrology is abnormal: in February, the year star retrogrades into Taiwei; Another guest star was as big as a projectile, white, and ended in Tiancang. It became brighter and brighter within a few days, and finally entered Ziweiyuan, which lasted for more than forty days.This incident of "five-star turbulence, sun and moon phase punishment" caused uneasiness throughout the country.The emperor is not only the son of heaven, but also has the mandate of heaven, so the five-star turbulence is naturally a commandment from heaven.There must be something wrong with the emperor.On the ninth day of September, the emperor issued an imperial edict, requesting his ministers to speak out in order to rectify their mistakes.It is said that "living quietly in Japan and the province, the ancient and modern roads have changed, and the blame lies with the king. Thinking about it so far, the emperor is at a loss, but he hopes that his subjects will say what I have done", and it is said that "the king's way is only loyal and benevolent. Can learn from it."Ye Bochen, a native of Ninghai, was selected as a teacher of Confucianism in Pingyao County as a son of Guozisheng.I have long seen the mistakes of Zhu Yuanzhang's policy.I plan to write a letter and make a statement.When he heard that the emperor had an imperial edict, he wrote a letter pointing out three problems in today's politics: enfeoffment is too extravagant, punishment is too complicated, and seeking governance is too fast.Regarding enfeoffment, he said: Most of the systems of the former kings were no more than one of the three kingdoms. The upper and lower levels were equally divided, and each had its own fixed points. Therefore, the weak branches were strong, and the source of chaos was curbed.Today, the splitting of the soil and enfeoffment allows the kings to have their own land, and punishes the isolation of the Song and Yuan Dynasties and the lack of confidence in the clan.And the Qin, Jin, Yan, Qi, Liang, Chu, Wu, and Shu countries all have dozens of towns connected to each other. The city walls and palaces are inferior to the capital of the emperor, and they are superior to the prosperity of armored soldiers and guards.I am afraid that after a few generations, the tail will not be lost, and then the land will be cut and the power will be seized, and there will be hopelessness, and what is more, it will arise by chance, and it will be impossible to prevent it. The discussant said, all the kings are the flesh and blood of the son of heaven, although the land is divided widely, and the legislation is extravagant, how can there be any reason to contend?The minister thought otherwise, why not look at the affairs of the Han and Jin Dynasties?Xiaojing, the grandson of Emperor Gao, and the kings of the Seven Kingdoms are all grandparents, brothers and grandchildren of Emperor Jing.The kings of the Jin Dynasty were all descendants of Emperor Wu. After the Yi Dynasty, they attacked each other one after another, and they became the troubles of Liu and Shi.From this point of view, it is obvious that enfeoffment exceeds the system, disasters arise, and aiding the past proves the present.The reason why this minister is too much.In the past, Jia Yi advised Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty to divide the land of the various countries as much as possible, and leave it vacant for the princes and grandchildren.If Emperor Xiang Shiwen obeys the words of friendship, there will be no disaster for the Seven Kingdoms.I hope that before the kingdom of the kings, the system of their capitals will be reduced, their guards will be reduced, their borders will be limited, and the descendants of the kings will be entrusted.For the rest of his life, he was a fan screen and rested with the country.To reap the benefits of a moment, to control the benefits of all ages, to eliminate the changes of the sky and stabilize the country, nothing comes first. Ye Boju was also summarizing historical experience, but the conclusion he drew was completely opposite to that of Zhu Yuanzhang.He dissected this problem in detail with the examples of the Han and Jin dynasties.In the early years of the Han Dynasty, the great ancestor Liu Bang, in view of the isolation and helplessness of the Qin family, still practiced the enfeoffment system, and later stipulated that "no Liu is not king" to ensure the Liu family.However, the feudal vassals in the world are becoming stronger and stronger day by day, and they are doing their own thing, forming a trend that cannot be lost.Jia Yi suggested to Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty to build up the princes to weaken the power of the princes, but it was not adopted.During the reign of Emperor Jing, the seven kingdoms of Wu and Chu were even more arrogant, and they were bound to rebel. Chao Cuo then proposed to cut down the vassals, saying: "If it is cut now, it will be reversed, and if it is not cut, it will be reversed. If it is cut, it will be urgent. The disaster will be small, and if it is not cut, it will be delayed." It’s a big disaster.” So the lands of King Zhao, King Jiaoxi, and King Chu were cut one after another, and King Wu made an appointment with the six kings and turned against them.When the order of the Seven Kingdoms was settled down, the imperial court transferred the power of local employment to the central government.Although the power of the kings was reduced afterwards, their fiefdoms were still very large.Emperor Wu also used the suggestion of the master father Yan to implement the decree of favor, ordering the prince to enfeoff all the children in his fiefdom as lords, so as to divide the princes' territories into pieces, avoid the name of cutting down the land, and implement the government of weak vassal, so that the enfeoffment can be divided into pieces. The system is in name only.Since then, all local power has been controlled by the imperial court, and the Han Dynasty has been peaceful.One hundred and fifty years later, Emperor Wu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty once again repeated the mistakes of the early Han Dynasty, trying to establish princes to wing the royal family.He appointed more than 20 of his children as kings and gave him military power. The military strength of large and small countries ranged from 5,000 to 1,500.After the death of Emperor Wu, the eight kings of Runan, Chu, Zhao, Qi, Changsha, Chengdu, Hejian, and Donghai were in chaos one after another. From the first year of Emperor Hui Yuankang (291) to the first year of Guangxi ( 306 years) lasted for sixteen years.The country was majestic and the place was in chaos, so the Liu family of the Xiongnu went south to attack Luoyang, and Emperor Huai was captured. Ye Boju was worried that the Ming Dynasty would follow the old path of history and cause chaos because the tail was too big to lose. He suggested that before the kings came to the country, they should "reduce the system of their cities and reduce their guards" to strengthen the weak and restrict their skills. The king's territory is also used to feudalize the descendants of the kings to disperse the power of the kings.His strategy is exactly the same as that of Jia Yi and Zhu Fuyan, his loyalty is commendable, and his earnest proposals are feasible, so he can be regarded as a "loyal and benevolent man", right?However, the heart of heaven is unpredictable. Zhu Yuanzhang had long forgotten what he had said, "I only want the subjects, and I promise to pass", so he insisted on his own opinion and wanted to try again on the old road that did not pass.When he read Ye Boju's memorial, he was very angry, and shouted: "My son is my flesh and blood, catch him quickly, and I will shoot him!" He loved the princes too deeply, so he believed too much in the bond of flesh and blood between them. , he was too jealous of heroes with different surnames, so he thought that there was no other way but to rely on kinship.In the great Ming Dynasty, the emperor's picture will last forever, how can the flesh and blood be separated from each other!Ye Boju's words made him restless, and he must shoot Ye Boju himself to relieve the hatred in his heart.It seems that once Ye Boju died, Jiangshan Zhu surnamed would be at peace from now on.Ye Boju was captured and taken to the capital, but the officials of the Ministry of Education could not bear his immediate punishment. Maybe they and Ye Boju had the same view on the situation, maybe it was just out of limited sympathy.Zhongshu Sheng waited for Zhu Yuanzhang's anger to subside a little, and asked him to deal with Ye Boju.As a result, Ye Boju was sent to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, where he was locked up to death.It was finally much better than Xiaoshou Lingchi.