The Suzerain-vassal During Ming And Qing Dynasties And The Policies On Their Descendants In Early Qing Dynasty

The issue of suzerain-vassal of Ming dynasty has been aroused a series of debates and attracted more and more scholars to focus on it by its very important significant on politics, economy and military in Ming dynasty. This kind of system of enfeoffment was established during the ruling of the emperor Ming Tai Zu and the titled kings were conferred the great powers in polities and military in their own areas, they also owned lots of privileges in living.After the emperor Jianwen, the scale of seignior started to be small and the military power of the king was also limited, and with the great increasing of population, the position of suzerain-vassal in politics and economy has been changed apparently. The seignior was more and more controlled in politics and the less and less supply was provided for their living.On the end of Ming dynasty, the number of imperial clan was so large and the members were scattered on a very wide scale. But by the heavy strike of the peasant uprising army, the Ming imperial clan members, some of them were killed and some of them fled to remote places for hiding, they had lost their privileges in the living and politics.After the military of Qing conquered China, the Ming emperor clan was treated by different way in different period by different political reasons. In anyway, the Qing imperial court took advantage of the Ming imperial clan to deal with the military of peasant of Zhicheng Li, but after the peasant military was defeated, Qing imperial court changed their policies on Ming emperor clan from use to crackdown. During the emperor Sunzhi, the whole country of China was almost unified. Based on this situation, the Qing court didn't cut down Ming imperial clan any more by their very weak and only few of members'survival but adopted the preferential policies on the noble of them. The others of this clan have been became ordinary people and were not be concerned till they disappeared in the history.In a brief summary, Ming imperial clam had a very strong influence on early Qing dynasty. The exist of the power of Southern Ming was a big threaten on Qing dynasty, because the kinds of uprising army of peasant revolted almost by the name of the Ming imperial clan after Qing first came to take the power of China. In addition to, the policies on Ming imperial clan also had a profound influence on Qing society.