"The grace of the Son of Heaven, cut down after five lifetimes!"
"In other words, the imperial family members after the fifth generation are all mortals.”
"According to our previous settings, a royal relative will have five descendants.”
"In the fifth generation, the number of imperial relatives is ten thousand.”
"This number may fluctuate, but generally speaking, there won't be any obvious changes.”
"It won't be like the eighth or ninth generation, where the number of relatives in the royal family will reach millions, or even millions!”
After hearing Wei Zixian's revised system of imperial relatives, the number of fifth generation imperial relatives was after the number of 10,000.
Whether it was Crown Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Bi, Zhu Bi, Zhu Di, or Zhu Yuanzhang in the secret room, they were all thinking about the gains and losses.
Although the number of millions of royal family members supporting him sounded terrifying.
However, from another perspective, this also showed that the descendants of Old Zhu's family were thriving and flourishing!
Compared to the millions of members of the royal family, there were only about 10,000 members of the royal family now. It was inexplicably much, much less!
After all, in this era, from the emperor to the common people, all of them thought about having more children and more blessings!
This was especially so when Zhu Xi, Zhu Xi, Zhu Di, and the other Princes calculated that there were seventeen Princes in Great Ming, including Zhu Biao.
If these 17 princes were to divide the 10,000 descendants of the royal family equally, they would be able to obtain a huge amount of wealth.
In that case, the total number of descendants of each prince for five generations was less than 600!
Zhu Biao could accept such a large number of descendants if he were to see it from the perspective of the future emperor.
After all, he only had one position as the Son of Heaven in the future, and he could only pass it on to one eldest son.
Therefore, he did not need too many descendants. He only needed to ensure the stable inheritance of the throne.
If there were too many descendants of the Son of Heaven, it would cause unnecessary trouble.
However, the vassal kings such as Zhu Xi, Zhu Xi, and Zhu Di, who would be fiefdoms in the future, felt that the number of such descendants was too small.
After all, they were not destined to be the Son of Heaven.
The simplest way was to have more children and grandchildren, so that his royal family would prosper!
Thinking of this, Zhu Rong, as the leader of the vassal kings, could not help but stand up and say,
"Scholar Yan, according to what you said,'the grace of the Son of Heaven is cut down after five lifetimes.”
"If we calculate it, we, a prince, have less than six hundred descendants for five generations. Isn't this a little too few?!!”
Even though they were only discussing the revised imperial clan relative system given by Scholar Yan, they might not necessarily use it as an example.
However, it was also related to the future interests of these vassal kings!
If he didn't take advantage of this moment to fight for more benefits for himself and his descendants, he would be able to do so.
Once their eldest brother, the Crown Prince Zhu Biao, thought that Scholar Yan's royal family system was not bad, they would be able to get a better understanding of it.
At that time, if they directly submitted it to their father, it would be troublesome for them to open their mouths and change it.
Wei Zixian looked up at Zhu Rong and said calmly,"
"10,000 people are the number of royal family members that are recorded in the imperial family jade disc.”
What he meant was that those who had been expelled from the imperial family were also descendants of the royal family. The descendants of the vassal kings were still thriving.
It was just that these descendants were not recognized by the Ming Imperial Family. As for whether they themselves recognized it or not, that would depend on themselves.
Anyway, whoever admitted it would provide for it!
Zhu Rong's words stopped. After a moment, he sat down helplessly.
The entire Great Ming Dynasty could not afford to support the number of descendants. He was just a mere vassal king who did not have a physical crack in the soil and was only a nominal king. What could he provide for?!!
After Wei Zixian took a sip of tea, he turned around and wrote on the blackboard as he continued,
"As mentioned earlier, there are ten thousand clansmen of the Great Ming Imperial Family.”
"Among them, there are sixteen Imperial Princes, eighty Commandery Princes, four hundred Defender Generals, two thousand Assistant Generals, and ten thousand Prefecture-guarding Generals.”
"Assuming that the princes have an annual salary of fifty thousand stones, then the total annual salary of the sixteen princes is eight hundred thousand stones.”
"The Junwang's annual salary is six thousand dans, so the total annual salary of the eighty Junwang is four hundred and eighty thousand dans.”
"The Guardian Generals have a salary of 1,000 dans per year, so the total annual salary of the 400 Guardian Generals is 400,000 dans.”
"The auxiliary generals have an annual salary of five hundred dans, so the total annual salary of the two thousand auxiliary generals is one million dans.”
"The Zhenzhou Generals receive three hundred dan of salary every year, so the total annual salary of the ten thousand auxiliary generals is three million dan.”
"In the end, the annual salary of all the princes, county kings, country guarding generals, auxiliary country generals, and prefecture guarding generals will be 5.68 million stones!”
After hearing the revised system of the Ming Imperial family, the total annual salary of the imperial family was 5.68 million stones.
Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Xi, Zhu Di, and the other princes, as well as Zhu Yuanzhang, who was in a secret room, could not help but heave a sigh of relief.
Now, the salary of the royal family was close to six million dans.
When he first heard that the salary of the royal family would skyrocket to 500 to 600 million dans in 200 to 300 years, he was shocked.
It was clear that the current five or six million dans of salary was more acceptable.
At the very least, this kind of salary for the Imperial Family and the clansmen would not crush the annual income of Great Ming in two or three hundred years, compared to the current annual income of Great Ming that was close to twenty million stones.
"Close to six million dans of salary for the Imperial family, it probably accounts for a third of Great Ming's current annual income.”
"This annual income ratio is actually still too high.”
"Although it won't be the main reason for the collapse of Great Ming in the future, such a proportion will also bring a lot of financial pressure to the country.”
"The country needs to rely on the remaining two-thirds of the total annual income to complete the support for the officials of the court, the petty officials of the world, the Ming army, as well as the expenses when encountering natural disasters and man-made disasters.”
"It might be fine in a good year, but if there's a disaster, you might not be able to spend money at any time.”
"Therefore, I personally suggest that if we want the finances of the Imperial Court to run smoothly, we should be careful.”
"Then the support salary of the Great Ming Imperial Family's clansmen should not exceed one fifth or one sixth of the country's annual income.”
"Otherwise, even if the imperial family's support system will not become the main reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty in the future, it will become a secondary reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.”
Wei Zixian put down the chalk and turned around to look at Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Xi, Zhu Di, and the other princes.
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