"This Yang Rong is quite knowledgeable. How is Your Majesty thinking about this?" Li Jie put down Yang Rong's memorial, then asked Zhu Yunsheng with a smile.

When Li Jie made this suggestion to Zhu Yunyu, it was not convenient to attack the vassal kings who remained in China because they had just begun to reduce the vassal states. After all, they stayed there for comfort. If the court deprived them of their original rights, it would probably cause a lot of trouble.

Zhu Yunxiu hesitated for a moment, then said: "Compared to the time, the current time is much more ripe. However, I still have no idea how to control the number of royal families. Yang Rong's memorial only pointed out the problem and did not propose a solution."

"This is easy to deal with. Why don't you call Yang Rong here and let's discuss it together." Li Jie suggested with a smile.

Zhu Yunxiu felt it made sense when he heard this, so he immediately issued an order and sent someone to summon Yang Rong into the palace.

Yang Rong passed the Jinshi exam in the first year after Zhu Yunyu ascended the throne, and he was also the third place in the imperial examination and the second place in the palace examination. Therefore, he also successfully entered the Hanlin Academy as an editor. He was a very noble official position. As long as his performance was not bad, he would probably join the cabinet and participate in politics in the future.

Yang Rong quickly rushed to the palace, then entered the warm pavilion and saluted Zhu Yunxi: "My minister Yang Rong greets Your Majesty!"

"No need to be polite. I have read your memorial and my husband. I'm going to tell you that the husband has made the same suggestions before, but you have not proposed a solution, so I want to call you to discuss it." Zhu Yunxiu said directly.

When Yang Rong heard this, he couldn't help but look at Li Jie next to him in surprise. Li Jie smiled kindly, which made Yang Rong smile at Li Jie. Then he said to Zhu Yunxi again: "Report to Your Majesty, I think Emperor Taizu's reward to the royal family too much. The rewards from generation to generation have led to a sharp increase in the number of royal family. Now that the royal family has been passed down to five generations, the number of personnel has reached several thousand. If this continues, it is probably a big burden for the royal family's expenses!"

Starting from the beginning of Zhu, Zhu Biao and Zhu Di are the second generation, Zhu Yunqi is the third generation, and Zhu Wenqi is the fourth generation. However, Zhu Yunqi is already late in the royal family. He is a bit unruly royal family. He gets along with the maids around him at the age of 11 or 2, and there are many fathers, so there are already some people in Zhu Yunqi's generation who are grandfathers.

"What do you mean?" Zhu Yunxiu pondered for a moment before asking.

Lao Zhu treated his descendants very favorably. His son was the prince and his grandson was the prince. There were also generals of Zhenguo, generals of the auxiliary state, etc. Until the sixth generation, they were all granted the title of Lieutenant of Fengguo and enjoyed the treatment of the sixth rank. In other words, the minimum royal family of the Ming Dynasty was also the sixth rank, and the annual salary was not a small amount.

When Yang Rong heard Zhu Yunxi ask about his opinion on this matter, he couldn't help but hesitate for a moment, and even secretly looked at Li Jie, but Li Jie still smiled and answered, which made Yang Rong finally pluck up the courage to say: "The greed of a gentleman will be killed for five generations, so I think that after the royal family is born in the fifth generation, they should no longer be rewarded for titles!"

The opinion put forward by Yang Rong is still very conservative. The fifth generation has reached several thousand people. Even if the reward will not be given after the fifth generation, the number of people will definitely increase in the future, and may even reach tens of thousands. You should know that there are not so many officials above the sixth rank of the Ming Dynasty, so the expenses of the royal family alone exceed the expenses of the official group.

"What do you think of the prince consort?" Zhu Yunxi turned his head and asked Li Jie. Li Jie had not spoken just now.

"I think it's been a bit long since the fifth generation. It's understandable that the princes and grandchildren enjoy the titles, but there's no need to go back in the future. Of course, the court can also give some preferential treatment to these royal families, such as opening a royal school so that they can learn a skill and make their own contributions to the Ming Dynasty." Li Jie finally spoke.

Yang Rong next to him was shocked when he heard this. He thought his idea was already very radical, but he didn't expect that Li Jie's idea was even more radical. He only rewarded the previous two generations, and the other royal families behind him had to make a living. If this was spread, those royal families might rebel.

However, Zhu Yunxiu showed a thoughtful look after hearing this. After a while, he spoke: "It is too inhumane to only be granted the emperor's grandson. And now it has reached the fifth generation, that is, the general of the Fuguo State. It is better to use this as the boundary and only be granted the general of the Fuguo State in the future. The rest of the royal family will no longer be granted!"

"Your Majesty is wise!" Yang Rong immediately agreed when he heard this. His suggestion to be assigned to the fifth generation was consistent with Zhu Yunxi's idea. Although the number of people before the fifth generation may be higher, the court can still afford it. At least after the number of royal families with titles reaches a certain number, they will not increase infinitely.

Li Jie did not object either. In fact, he deliberately mentioned it more radically just now, so that Zhu Yunyu could make a decision earlier. Now he is only enthroned to the fifth generation. In fact, there are only four generations of people except Lao Zhu. Many of the princes have gone out to sea, and there are only a dozen people left. Although there may be new princes in the future, such as Zhu Yunyu's younger brother and others, as long as the lower limit is tightened, the number of people can still be controlled.

Next, Zhu Yunxiu discussed other details with Li Jie and the others, such as those royal families that had exceeded five generations, and the court could not ignore them. As Li Jie said just now, a royal family school could be opened to let them learn some skills. Of course, if possible, they could also enter the court to become officials, and there would be no restrictions on the value of the royal family.

Of course, Li Jie and the other three could only discuss an outline. For more details, Zhu Yunyu needed to discuss with the ministers. Yang Rong's performance also aroused Zhu Yunyu's interest, so he finally decided to promote Yang Rong to a bachelor's degree in the cabinet, and then he would discuss a specific charter with the cabinet.

In fact, in the original history, Yang Rong was one of the earliest members of the cabinet, but he was able to enter the cabinet because of Zhu Di's appreciation. Now history has changed, but gold will shine wherever he goes. Now he has been appreciated by Zhu Yunyu and has entered the cabinet again.

The cabinet is now relatively mature. Although the cabinet is nominally just the emperor's private staff, it has begun to control some real power and gradually transition to the prime minister. After all, Lao Zhu can abolish the position of prime minister, but he cannot abolish the power of the prime minister. It is impossible to manage such a large empire, relying on the emperor alone. It is necessary to have a group of assistants, and the cabinet is the assistant selected by Zhu Yunyu for himself.
Chapter completed!