The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty sealed the country small, and the princes of the vassal had man

Impossible, in order to maintain the nobility (financial resources) of the nobility in the West, about 50% of the children and grandchildren will not marry for life, but the Ming Dynasty did not pay so much attention to it. Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid of begging for food, and his children and grandchildren, whether they had land or not, had special benefits, which was also one of the reasons for the bloated institutions in the late Ming Dynasty. Therefore, some of the royal descendants in the middle and late Ming Dynasty basically became fertility machines, and when the Ming Dynasty fell, Zhu Yuanzhang's direct descendants, not counting the men, were nearly 100,000.

Of course, the fiefdom is still the primogeniture inheritance system, and the others are divided into princes layer by layer. The king of the county.

In the Ming Dynasty, the prince was exclusive to the royal family (after the death of the founding generals, there were posthumously crowned county kings), and the royal titles were hereditary: the eldest son of the prince was ten years old and established the prince's son, and the eldest grandson was established as the grandson; When the sons were ten years old, they were named the kings of the county; The eldest son of the county king is the prince of the county;

Prince: The eldest son of the emperor was established as the crown prince, and the emperor's sons were established as princes at the age of ten, with fiefs, so they were also called vassal kings, and the official name of the prince was king, and his fief was called the country, and the king seal was called "the treasure of a certain country", and he became a vassal at the age of twenty.

County king: The eldest son of the prince was ten years old and became the king's son, and the eldest grandson was established as the grandson; When the prince's sons are ten years old, they are named county kings; All titles are hereditary, and they are always different from Qi Min.

From the prince onwards, they no longer eat the rent tax and receive the annual branch rice.

Prince: The eldest son of the emperor was established as the crown prince, and the emperor's sons were established as princes at the age of ten, with fiefs, so they were also called vassal kings, and the official name of the prince was king, and his fief was called the country, and the king seal was called "the treasure of a certain country", and he became a vassal at the age of twenty.

County king: The eldest son of the prince was ten years old and became the king's son, and the eldest grandson was established as the grandson; When the prince's sons are ten years old, they are named county kings;

General Zhenguo: The eldest son of the county king is the eldest son of the county king; The eldest grandson is awarded to the eldest grandson; The princes of the county were awarded the generals of the town state;

Auxiliary General: The eldest son of the Zhenguo General is the Zhenguo General, and the sons are the auxiliary generals;

General Fengguo; The eldest son of the auxiliary general took the position of auxiliary general, and the sons were the generals of Fengguo;

Lieutenant Zhenguo; The eldest son of General Fengguo took the position of General Fengguo, and the sons were lieutenants of Zhenguo;

Lieutenant of the Auxiliary State; The eldest son of the lieutenant of Zhenguo is the lieutenant of Zhenguo, and the sons are lieutenants of the auxiliary state;

Lieutenant of Fengguo, the eldest son of the lieutenant of the auxiliary state took the position of lieutenant of the auxiliary state, and the sons were lieutenants of the state of Fengguo.

Since Zhu Di in the Ming Dynasty, the vassal king has no real power in his hands, not even a guard, so the vassal king was born only to get an iron rice bowl, and did not seal the country.

Nothing is not excessive. Generally, the eldest son ascends the throne, and there is no eldest grandson or eldest son. The other sons have to fend for themselves (of course, they will share some land, property, houses, etc.).

The Ming Dynasty is a centralized country, as far as the ruling class is concerned, they also want to see such a situation, the fief is small, and the weak power is more conducive to the ownership of power**; As far as the vassal kings themselves are concerned, they can let their descendants obtain fiefs based on their strength... But in this way, the two are contradictory...

They are all divided into the eldest sons, and the emperor's sons are assigned to other places to be vassal kings. The prince's son, except for the eldest son who inherited the title, stayed where it was cool.

What you said is that there was a Tui En order in the Han Dynasty, and there was no such thing as a division in the Ming Dynasty, and only the eldest son could inherit it.

The eldest son inherits the inheritance, and the other sons have to find their own way out.

The smaller it is, the less power there is underground, which is more conducive to the centralization of power.

It's like the crown prince ascending the throne, what should be done with the rest! No need to score! Let's divide your life in the end!

Those who do not have a feudal country are also subject to local moderation, and basically only enjoy free food and drink (commonly known as "iron rice bowl").

Similar to the Tui En Order, the eldest son inherits the other feudal generals, and so on.

Generally, the prince and the concubine are crowned the king of the county, and the king of the county is the general.

Cut the domain, like Zhu Yunwen.

The Ming Dynasty did not implement the Tui En Order, which was inherited by the eldest son.

The ** who answered the Lu answer are all independent, if there is something serious in Lu Wei, they must report to their superiors, and then hand it over to the emperor, and many ** they will protect each other in private.

The relationship is particularly good, because this person is a very kind person in life, and he is also a very kind person.

Most are subordinate. These ** will obey the dispatch of the vassal king, and the power of the vassal king will become greater and greater in the later period.

The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty had real power in their fiefs, and they also held military power in their hands.

There is a certain amount of real power, and at that time, in order to prevent people with different surnames from seizing power, Zhu Yuanzhang gave the vassal king a relatively large amount of real power and let them take charge of the army alone.

Yes, Zhu Yuanzhang gave his son the right to serve as the king, so there was a later incident of Zhu Yunwen cutting the domain.

It is said that there were about 26 vassal kings, and the descendants of these 26 vassal kings later became a huge group by the end of the Ming Dynasty.

As long as it is the son of the prince, except for the eldest son to inherit the title of prince, the other sons can basically be crowned county kings, so by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the scale of county kings exceeded 600.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there were probably dozens of vassal kings, all of whom were fighting for the world for their own interests.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were 27 vassal kings, but there were tens of thousands of county kings and members of the imperial family, so the annual expenses of the imperial court were very high.

Zhu Zhang, King of Qin: The ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, established a vassal state in Xi'an, Shaanxi.

Jin King Zhu Li: The ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, he established a vassal state in Taiyuan Mansion, Shanxi.

Zhu Di, King of Yan: The son of the Ming Taizu, the feudal state was established in Beiping, and later the imperial lineage, which was the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Hu, King of Zhou: The ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, he was first named King Wu, founded in Qiantang Mansion, Zhejiang, and later changed his title to King Zhou, and founded in Kaifeng Mansion, Henan, the former capital of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Zhu Zhen, King of Chu: The ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, he built a vassal state in Wuchang Mansion, Huguang.

Zhu Rong, King of Qi: The ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, established a vassal state in Qingzhou, was imprisoned in Beijing for his crimes, and was soon officially deposed as a concubine, canceled the title of King of Qi, and the vassal state was also abolished.

Tan Wang Zhu Zi: Ming Taizuzi. The vassal state was established in Changsha, Hunan.

Zhu Tan, King of Lu: The ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, established a vassal state in Yanzhou, Shandong.

Zhu Chun, King of Shu: The ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, established a vassal state in Chengdu, Sichuan.

Zhu Bai, King of Xiang: The ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, established a vassal state in Jingzhou Mansion, Huguang, and was later convicted of cutting off the title of King of Xiang and abolishing the feudal state.

Acting King Zhu Gui: The ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, he was first named the King of Yu, and later changed his title to the Acting King, and established a vassal state in Taiyuan, Shanxi.

Su Wang Zhu Ao: Ming Taizu, first named the King of Han, later renamed the King of Su, the first establishment of the vassal state in Pingliang Mansion, and then the Ganzhou Mansion, and later the establishment of the vassal state in Gansu Lanzhou Mansion.

Zhu Zhi, King of Liao: The ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, was first named the King of Wei, and was first established in Guangning Mansion, Liaoning, and later established a feudal state in Jingzhou Mansion, Huguang.

Qing Wang Zhu Chang: The ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, he established a vassal state in Ningxia Wei (now Yinchuan City, Ningxia).

Zhu Quan, King of Ning: The son of the Ming Dynasty, he first established a vassal state in Daningwei, and later established a vassal state in Nanchang Mansion, Jiangxi.

Minwang Zhu Ling: The ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, he first established a vassal state in Minzhou Mansion in Gansu Province, and later established a vassal state in Wugang Mansion in Huguang.

Gu Wang Zhu Lu: The ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, the first feudal state was established in Shanggu Xuanfu (now Xuanhua County, Hebei), and later rebuilt the feudal state in Changsha. After a coup d'état, he was convicted of stripping the title of King Gu and abolishing the feudal state.

Han Wang Zhu Song: The ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, he first established the vassal state in Kaiyuan, and later rebuilt the vassal state in Pingliang Mansion (now Pingliang County, Gansu).

Shen Wang Zhumo: The son of the Ming Dynasty, he established a vassal state in the open source Luzhou Mansion (now Changzhi City, Shanxi).

Anwang Zhu Ying: The son of the Ming Dynasty, he established a vassal state in Pingliang Mansion (now Pingliang City, Gansu).

Tang King Zhu Huan: The ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, he established a vassal state in Nanyang Mansion, Henan.

Yingwang Zhu Dong: The ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, he built a vassal state in Huguang'an Lufu.

Yiwang Zhu Yi: The son of the Ming Taizu, built a vassal state in Luoyangfu, Henan, and cut off the title of King Yi during the Ming Dynasty and abolished the feudal state.

Zhu Shouqian, King of Jingjiang (nephew of Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty): The feudal state was established in Guilin, Guangxi.

Zhu Yunxi, King of Wu: The third son of Prince Yiwen, he was feudal in Hangzhou, and he was not a vassal domain;

Hengwang Zhu Yunxi: the fourth son of Prince Yiwen;

Xu Wang Zhu Yun (Huo Xi): The fifth son of Prince Yiwen.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, whose fief is Beiping; King of Qi, fief for Qingzhou; There are also King Zhou, King Ning, King Liao, King Gu, etc., Zhu Yuanzhang's sons are basically vassal kings and have fiefs.

Because Zhu Di himself won the throne as a vassal king.

Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne as the emperor's grandson after the death of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and was Emperor Jianwen. In the first year of Jianwen (1399), in order to seize the throne as the eldest prince of Zhu Yuanzhang alive (the eldest son of the emperor is the crown prince Zhu Biao, the second son of the emperor is the king of Qin, Zhu Zhang, and the third son of the emperor is the king of Jin, all died in the Hongwu period of Zhu Yuanzhang), Zhu Di, the king of Yan, launched the famous "Battle of Jingyan" in history from Beijing, the imperial city of Nanjing, which lasted four years and ended in the fourth year of Jianwen (1403), Emperor Jianwen disappeared, the imperial city was captured, and King Yan ascended the throne for Ming Taizong (note: the temple number of Zhu Di we see now " Ming Chengzu" was later changed by Ming Shizong).

In order to prevent such incidents from happening again in the future, Ming Taizong killed the northern feudal kings and moved them immediately, so that there were no more feudal kings in the north who posed a threat to them, and at the same time set a precedent for the subsequent reduction of feudal domains.

Of course, he was afraid that other princes would draw gourds in the same way, and he would also learn from him to make a difficult change, just like Zhao Dalang's yellow robe, and he was afraid that his subordinates would be the same, so he had a glass of wine to release the truth of military power.