The anti-feudal rule of our country has been performed for more than 2,000 years, under which the center of all power is the emperor. In order to concentrate the entire centralization in their own hands, the rulers of successive dynasties have taken a series of measures.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the feudal system reached its peak, but the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty actually handled the opposite way in policy when placing the prince, the ruler of the Ming Dynasty did not enter Beijing without the prince, but the ruler of the Qing Dynasty did not allow the emperor to leave Beijing, so which one is more useful?
In 1938, after Zhu Yuanzhang declared himself emperor in Nanjing, he immediately divided his sons into border areas, and after that, he re-established a system of dividing the princes.
In the beginning, it was only because the frontier areas at that time had also been invaded by the Mongols, so Zhu Yuanzhang sent his sons to the border areas, which greatly consolidated and strengthened the border defenses at that time. However, because he was worried that leaving his children in Kyoto would cause the division of power between the brothers, Zhu Yuanzhang finally issued an order to divide his sons and exclude them, and did not let them return to the capital, and the weak and weak entered the capital, and they would be treated in the same way as rebellion.
However, in 1644, the Qing army invaded Shanhaiguan and began the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Although the Qing Dynasty at that time inherited many of the legal systems of the Ming Dynasty, it still made great changes in dealing with the issue of the prince.
After some deliberation by the Shunzhi Emperor, it was finally decided that the princes would be left in the capital and not allowed to leave, and for hundreds of years the capital had fallen, and they could only stay in the capital. Finally, throughout the manchu qing dynasty, there were basically no princes who left the capital.
So why did the ruler do this to the prince? In fact, as early as 155 BC, during the reign of the Han Jing Emperor, the rebellion of the princes of the clan led to the "Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms" in history. Therefore, successive rulers have also slowly learned their lessons, and when they rule, they will limit the power of these princes.
However, if we compare the policies of the Ming and Qing dynasties, we will find that in the entire history of the Ming Dynasty, there have been many rebellions, all of which originated from the seizure of power between the princes. For example, the rebellion of Zhu Di, the King of Yan, to seize the power of his nephew, the rebellion of King Pingning and King Anhua during the reign of Emperor Wuzong of Ming, etc., all brought great threats to the rule of the Ming Dynasty. But at the same time, those princes who were released were not useless, in addition to stabilizing the side, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, it was precisely because they were divided out that the bloodline of the clan was continued.
However, if the Qing Dynasty concentrated those princes in the capital, although there was no need to worry about the distant control of the Tiangao Emperor, and the centralized management could reduce financial expenditures, it was still a good way to consolidate the rule of the Qing Dynasty. However, there were more princes who remained in the capital, and if they were very idle, there would be acts such as forming parties for personal gain, which would affect the rule of the imperial court.
Therefore, although the Ming and Qing dynasties adopted opposite policies when facing the problem of the prince, they still had their own advantages and disadvantages, after all, things have two sides, and it is impossible to say which is better and which is worse.