Chapter 832 The Pillar of the Chen Han Dynasty

Looking at the surprised, absurd, and incredible expression on Li Xiaomei's face, Chen Ming laughed and then told her in detail about the plan he had just made.

"I wanted to talk about it on my 40th birthday, but I will talk to the queen today."

Chen Ming, he plans to introduce a policy in the future. Although the descendants of the royal family hold shares in the Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce or its affiliated companies, they can only enjoy dividends and cannot interfere in the operation of the company, so as to avoid the emergence of prodigals. If you want to get in touch with the power of the company, you must be able to get into the board of directors of the company group or the board of directors of the Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce at a higher level.

Otherwise, you should take your own start-up capital and start your own business.

Moreover, the shares held by the descendants are not allowed to be sold to the outside world, unless no one in the entire royal family is willing to pay for it, or the Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce wants to make a cut with a certain corporate group.

This is a bit like the original time and space, some big family consortiums in Europe and the United States used effective methods to maintain family assets. In order to prevent the property in the hands of the younger generation from being diluted and taken away by outsiders, these people even played close relatives marriage.

Chen Ming does not need to worry about this yet. In Chinese society, divorce is still a very taboo topic, especially for the upper-class powerful families. If it really comes to the point of divorce, it means the division and confrontation of the two families.

These days, there is no such thing as being friends after divorce. That is, enemies, big enemies.

So, at present, this "property liquidation" is also in accordance with the old rules that have been passed down in China for thousands of years, that is, the daughter-in-law takes her dowry and personal money and returns to her parents' home to settle the matter.

In the future, Chen Ming will issue a "Marriage Law" to give an extra layer of protection to women's rights, but it is impossible to divide the family property equally with men. At most, it is to divide the property after marriage equally, and the property before marriage does not need to be taken out. This can also be regarded as a selfish protection.

Therefore, the property of Chinese men is still quite safe according to the law.

However, Europe is a monogamous society, and the illegitimate children of lovers may not have the right of inheritance. Unlike China, when a man has money, he will inevitably find three wives and four concubines, and it is even more impossible for the royal family to have only one woman in their lifetime.

Looking through the thousands of years of Chinese history, there is only one infatuated seed, Emperor Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youtang. Regardless of whether he really had only one woman, Empress Zhang, in his life, at least in the history books, he only had one empress, and no concubines. He only had two sons and one daughter, and one son and one daughter died young, leaving behind a thing like "Emperor Zhengde".

The difference in marriage system has caused a qualitative difference in the inheritance law and expansion speed of Eastern and Western families.

When Zhu Yuanzhang first founded the country, he divided his descendants in various places, and only 49 of them were initially conferred as princes and generals. There were a total of 58 clan members.

By the Wanli period, there were more than 150,000 members of the Ming royal family. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, if the lowest-ranking lieutenant of Fengguo was included, there were at least more than 200,000 members of the Ming royal family.

This number and expansion speed are simply incomparable to European families.

When Chen Han started, he was not as poor as Zhu Baba back then. The entire Chen family that survived to the establishment of the Chen and Han dynasties had a population of at least 300, if not 500, and they were all close blood relatives, just like the red belts of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty. Many of them were not out of the fifth mourning period, so they were all considered royal family members.

So, in this way, the population of the Chen Han royal family will definitely be larger than that of the Ming royal family in 200 years.

Chen Ming has to come up with a way to prevent the unlimited expansion of the "royal family", so he will set a line. Except for the hereditary royal palace, the others are out of the fifth mourning period. As for those who were moved out, anyway, they have more or less capital in their hands, and their worth is much better than that of ordinary people. If they still live like Liu Paopao, weaving mats and selling shoes, it is their own fault.

If these people don't want to be removed from the royal jade book, then they should work hard. Whether they are in politics, in the military, or in business and learning, as long as they are recognized by certain social organizations, they can keep their names in the royal family tree.

For the sake of future generations, Chen Ming also took great pains.

But his painstaking efforts may not be understood by the people around him and his children and grandchildren.

Chen Ming can say with certainty that these powerful ministers and sons around him still think more or less that the imperial power is supreme.

However, with the independence of the United States and the outbreak of the French Revolution, although Chen Ming still cannot know whether the 1848 European Revolution in the original time and space will break out, he believes that this trend is destined to surge.

In history, most European dynasties were shaky under the impact of this trend! The current time and space will also be strong and not weak.

And this storm will sooner or later blow to China. Around the world, with the rapid expansion of the capital economy and the beginning of the first industrial revolution, the monarchy is about to come to an end. Chen Ming does not want the empire he built to become the "mainstay" to block this trend, and become the Five Fingers Mountain to suppress this trend. He thinks that social change has been irreversible since the day the practical steam engine was invented. Everything is just a matter of time. He does not want China to be in turmoil again a hundred years after him. Therefore, the Chen Han Dynasty cannot have only the imperial power as a pillar.

The Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce, charity funds, and the vassal kings who were granted fiefdoms in America will all become the pillars of the Chen Han Dynasty.

If Chen Ming had a better impression of the Han Dynasty, as long as he publicly established a constitution and then established a parliament, even if it was just a fake one, these would all become the pillars of Chen Han. But his impression of the multi-party system and the Han Dynasty was too bad.

Chen Ming revived the Han Dynasty. He would not only be a great leader, but also a wise ruler who would go down in history and be the only emperor in history. As long as he was there, Chen Han would be safe. This is the same as when Zulong was alive, all the heroes in the world were helpless. But if he was gone, the imperial power would immediately become fragile.

Look at the dynasties of China, the descendants of Liu Bang and Liu Xiu, the descendants of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, whether they secured the throne or lost it, the gap between the second generation and the first generation is obvious to all.

Yang Guang, Li Shimin, Zhao Guangyi, and Zhu Di are not considered as the second generation, because when the first generation was fighting for the country, they also participated in it, or they earned the throne under their buttocks.

But Chen Ming's son does not have this "advantage", so after Chen Ming's death, the royal majesty is destined to decline. Then, after the development and growth of the Chinese bourgeoisie in a few decades, the national situation will become unstable.

Although John Bull is the first constitutional monarchy in the world, Charles I, who was beheaded, was also the first king in Europe to be executed as a king. During social changes, the dignity of the royal family will become insignificant.

The inner treasury was burned to ashes, and the bones of the nobles were trampled on the streets!

It's shocking. When the tide of social change surges, the first to suffer and the most serious harm are the vested interests of the old system in the past.

Chen Ming does not want his descendants to suffer such misery! Just like Louis XVI, Nicholas II, and Emperor Chongzhen...

Chen Ming was not simply worried that China would have civil unrest, which would allow European wolves and tigers to take advantage of the situation. His heart was not that broad, Chen Ming simply did not want to see his descendants suffer.

Of course, deep in his heart, he also deeply believed that China's stability was the most important factor for China to remain powerful in suppressing the world during the future social transformation period.

Chen Ming did not dare to guarantee that he could arrange all this before he died, but he really had been preparing for that day.