Speaking of the emperor's privileges, it can be described as infinitely great, "Under the pu heavens, there can be no royal land; the coast of the land, can not be the king's subjects." ”
The emperor enjoyed supreme power, and together with his own princes, princesses, concubines, relatives, as well as eunuchs and palace women around him, they formed the most authoritative and largest family in the country.
Therefore, since ancient times, no one does not want to be an emperor, in the feudal society, the court is infighting, fathers and sons and brothers are killing each other, and the grass people occupy the mountains for the king in an endless stream.
Because, when you become emperor, you have everything, the supreme power, the possession of the wealth of the whole country and the beautiful women.
Political privileges were naturally boundless, almost unlimited, and the other classes were completely subordinate to the emperor. Successive feudal legislation can hardly find a legal provision restricting the emperor, but the legal provisions to protect the emperor are strict to the extreme, and the "ten evils" are legal protection provisions specifically formulated for the emperor.
Politically, the emperor has boundless power, so in the economy, what power does the emperor have?
As the saying goes: "A lifetime, a bed, a room!?"
"Cultivating a thousand acres of land is only three meals a day, and there are 10,000 rooms in Guangsha that only sleep on three feet."
It was as if this was said to the Emperor.
Of course, there are also feelings and vinegars that can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour.
Let's take the Northern Song Dynasty, the richest of China's feudal dynasties, as an example, to see what privileges the emperor enjoyed economically.
No matter how privileged the property owned by the emperor himself, it is impossible to take all the property under the world as his own, and after all, there must be a boundary.
First of all, the emperor has his own single house, of course, the emperor's house is naturally the largest house in the country, the song emperor owned the house called The Royal Village, which is more than 30 miles wide, at the same time, there are imperial tea gardens, horse farms and so on. Compared with the Yuanmingyuan of the Qing Dynasty, there is still a gap.
Secondly, because of the unlimited privileges in politics, the mountains and rivers of the country, and the treasures and wealth, the emperor could use various names to take for himself, or give them to others in his own name. Come to think of it, how human this is, no wonder the position of emperor is so likable.
The third is the tribute from various places, and the local local specialties are supplied to the emperor, and the number is even more objective. The Song Hui Zhi Manuscript records that during the reign of Emperor Shenzong of Song, he ordered the exemption of some tributes, some of which are as follows:
1, Xijing cherry 800 trees, purple cherry 30 pounds......,
2, Yunzhou Ejiao a pound...,
3, Daimyo goose pear 1,000, Tang pear 2,000 ...,
4, into the German army chestnut 15 stones...,
5, Taiyuan province grapes three times, a total of 130 luo...,
6, Zezhou ginseng 18 Jane...,
7, Yongxingjun new shoots 100 pounds......,
Musk, new tea, black snake, white sugar, Xuanzhou flower papaya, etc...
These are only part of the tribute, and there are too many tributes everywhere, and the emperor's house has no empty place to store, so it has to be exempted.
The emperor had his own mansion and paid tribute everywhere, which was the enjoyment he deserved.
In addition, it is the ministers who pay tribute to the emperor's property, which is equivalent to today's "gift-giving", and many ministers corrupt the emperor in this way.
In order to curry favor with Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, Cai Jing, the chancellor of the Southern Song Dynasty, collected tea profits on a large scale and paid a million yuan (min) to the emperor every year. It is a string of copper coins, each string of 1000 texts.
Emperor Gaozong of Song visited the home of the general Zhang Jun, not to mention the treasures, jade veils, and calligraphy and paintings given to Emperor Gaozong of Song.
Guess how much material and financial resources were used to reward the officials and guards accompanying Emperor Gaozong of Song alone?
Thirty thousand dollars, twenty thousand burnt cakes, three thousand pounds of cooked pork, two thousand bottles of wine...