Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Sister, it's difficult to treat everyone equally in this matter!”
"After all, it's not the lack of people that worries, but the imbalance!"
"If we really only support the eldest son, then does Great Ming still support the current second, third, and fourth vassals?!!”
"If you really want to say it, they are also not the eldest sons of the direct heir.”
"If we don't provide for them, then are they still the vassal kings of Great Ming?!!”
"In the future, can we still count on them and Biao 'er to protect the Ming Dynasty?!!”
"Even if the second, third, and fourth generation of vassal kings are exceptions, only the second generation of vassal kings are supported by the eldest son.”
"Then what about Biao 'er's children in the future?!!”
"Let's not talk about the future. If Xiong Ying becomes the imperial grandson, then what about Yunwen and the other children?!!”
"In the future, will Biao 'er be lenient to his own child?!! Or was the Tian family heartless and directly chased him away?!!”
"If Biao 'er is lenient to his own children, but is cold and heartless to the descendants of the vassal kings, then how can his brothers submit to him?!!”
"If Biao 'er doesn't show mercy to his own child, then I'm afraid that the battle for the throne after Biao' er will see blood!!!”
"Because if they don't fight, they won't even have the fortune of being an idle prince!”
"If you fight for it, you might even have a chance to sit on that seat!”
"What do you think those imperial guests and imperial grandchildren in Biao 'er Palace will think?!!”
Hearing this, Empress Ma could not help but frown.
If Zhu Biao really treated everyone equally after inheriting the throne in the future and did not even give his own prince the treatment of an idle and wealthy prince…
One could imagine how cruel and fierce the fight for the position of the third generation of the Ming Dynasty's Son of Heaven would be.
Because if he did not fight, he would have nothing.
If they fought, even if the result was very likely to be death, there was still a slight chance of ascending to the throne.
With such an extreme result, even if the imperial grandchildren didn't want to fight, the imperial concubines behind them wouldn't give up the chance to fight.
After all, the mother was noble because of her son. Those concubines married to the crown prince and the emperor in order to cling to the honor of the Tian family.
If she married the Crown Prince or the Son of Heaven, she wouldn't even be able to obtain the honor of the Tian family.
Then they might as well marry a high official in the court. At least, the honor they gave themselves and their children was better than being the emperor's concubine or concubine.
"If, if it really becomes like that.”
"Then even if I leave behind the ancestral system of appointing the eldest son as the crown prince and the grand grandson, I'm afraid it won't be able to suppress those princes and imperial grandchildren who have no way out.”
"The Crown Prince and Grand Sun aren't the real Son of Heaven!”
"As long as the Crown Prince and the Grand Sun are dead, then the chance for the other princes and royal descendants will come!”
"No matter how big the risk is, they will be willing to take it!”
"At that time, the future Great Ming will inevitably have a great dispute over which prince will inherit the throne.”
"At the very least, the court will be in turmoil. At the very least, there will be internal friction in the country, and the Great Ming will be weak.!!”
Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were solemn, as if he could already see the fierce battle for the throne once he chose to treat everyone equally and no longer provide for the other princes and grandchildren.
"Moreover, this is also contrary to our original intention of setting up the vassal king system.”
"We set up the vassal king system in the hope that the descendants of the Zhu family would work together to govern and protect the Ming Dynasty.”
"After all, a large part of the reason why the previous dynasty was defeated was because the ruler was weak and the subjects were strong. The emperor did not have the help of the Fan screen, and the civil and military officials were disloyal and disloyal. Once they encountered a rebellion, they would collapse in one blow, which led to the final destruction of the Mengyuan.”
This was because he had witnessed the incompetence of many Mengyuan civil and military officials during the Red Scarves Uprising, as well as his distrust of the officials.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang had a certain degree of resistance and resistance to handing over a huge country to outsiders like civil officials and generals.
In his opinion, once the country encountered major events, disasters, or disasters, those officials might not be reliable, and they might not be willing to do their best for the country.
However, it would be different if it was the descendants of the Zhu family. After all, the descendants of the Zhu family had a share in this country. It was truly the Zhu family's own country.
Then, when the country encountered major events, disasters, and disasters, what reason did the descendants of the Zhu family not do their best and work hard?!!
This was actually the difference between the chairman of a company, a senior employee with a share bonus, and an employee without a share bonus.
Tian Zi was naturally the chairman of the company and had all the power to make decisions.
Civil and military officials, workers without shares, to them, even if the company went bankrupt, it didn't matter. The boss didn't fight the other side. Anyway, they were all working, so it didn't matter which company they worked for.
Whether or not he would do his best for the company depended on his personal thoughts.
A group of vassal kings, high-level workers who had some shares and decision-making power.
For them, once the company went bankrupt, even if they didn't play with the company, their own interests would also suffer a great loss.
Once the company made a profit, they would be able to get more benefits when the year-end dividends were distributed.
In this way, not only for the sake of the company, but also for the sake of their own self-interest and power, these senior employees with shares would also desperately protect the company and constantly work hard to create results for the company.
This was also the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang enfeoffed the various sons and established the system of vassal kings.
In addition to the feudal system of Zhu Yuanzhang's era, although there was no land splitting king on the surface, there was only the name of the feudal king.
However, in reality, a vassal king would have three guards at most, and one at least.
One of the guards had at least four to five thousand men, and at most five to six thousand.
A high-level vassal king had nearly 20,000 guards.
Even if he didn't have the title of Earth Splitting King, he more or less had the title of Earth Splitting King. What he lacked was just a righteous title.
Such a system of vassal kings was still very tempting to those vassal kings.
After all, even if he couldn't be the emperor, it was still not bad to be a proper local emperor with military power in his own fief!
So from this point of view, if Ming really encountered any natural or man-made disasters and rebellions.
Then these vassal kings were indeed willing to do their best for Great Ming.
After all, if Da Ming became more and more powerful because of them, the authority in their hands would also rise.
The relationship between the two was truly one of prosperity and destruction.
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