The First Emperor was suddenly shocked, and even put aside the matter of the Xiongnu invasion for the time being.
His brother's thoughts were too terrible for the First Emperor to understand and accept.
The First Emperor has been working hard to unify the world, but he is still only halfway done.
If the enfeoffment system is restarted now, thousands of years later, wouldn’t it be another chaotic era of the Warring States Period?
"Your words will bring disaster to the Xiongnu."
"Brother, you might as well listen to my words before making a final decision."
The First Emperor was definitely a top person in his understanding of the four words "listen and listen simultaneously".
No matter how ridiculous or bizarre the words were, the First Emperor didn't mind hearing them.
What if it really makes sense?
"You are waiting here."
Throwing the few ministers who had been summoned urgently outside, the First Emperor took his younger brother Ying Chengyu into the side hall of the Council of Government Hall.
Several people in the main hall looked at the background of the First Emperor and Ying Chengyu, and their thoughts were different.
Li Mu, Fu Zikang, and Li Si were not surprised by this scene, and their faces were calm.
Wang Wan was a little worried - has your Majesty forgotten the power that Lord Chang'an had?
Ren Xiao, Tu Sui, and Zhao Tuo were filled with doubts and confusion written on their faces.
Although Ying Chengyu's position is consistent with that of the three, the three still look down on Ying Chengyu.
Your Majesty doesn't want to discuss with us at this time, but wants to talk to that guy alone?
From the conversation between Na Shuzi and Li Mu, we can know that he knows nothing about current affairs, but he only has courage.
How much does this guy know about military and state affairs?
Inside the side hall.
The First Emperor patiently waited for Ying Chengyu to speak.
Ying Chengyu thought carefully, combined the deeds that had happened in history with the knowledge learned in modern times, and tried to sort out a set of plans that could be implemented practically.
The idea of destroying the Huns was initially stimulated, but once it was implemented, it could no longer be thought of again and again.
Because a simple decision by a superior may have a major impact on the entire world.
"The emperor's brother is worried that the enfeoffment will cause turmoil and make our Qin State unstable. Now that our Qin State has occupied the world, it has also established a parallel system of prefectures and states, and the current territory has been determined by grace orders. In a few decades, the world will surely be divided.
It will be concentrated in the hands of the emperor's brother or the eldest nephew. If it is restructured at this time, it will be harmful and useless."
This guy understands it very well.
The First Emperor nodded, this was exactly what he was worried about.
"Then why did the Zhou Dynasty enfeoff 800 princes instead of letting the emperor himself rule the world? Have you ever thought about this problem?"
This issue was an old tune for the First Emperor.
As early as before he became king, Ying Zheng had thought deeply about this issue.
When he reformed the national system some time ago, abolished feudalism, and established counties and counties, Ying Zheng devoted a lot of time and energy to this issue. After some deductions, he finally concluded that the Zhou system was not in line with the Qin system.
The First Emperor said: "The land entrusted by the Zhou Dynasty does not belong to the territory of Zhou. The emperor of Zhou is limited in strength and cannot defeat the eight hundred princes. The current situation is such that it is a last resort."
King Wu of Zhou Jifa divided the world among eight hundred princes. This was not what King Wu of Zhou wanted to do, but what he had to do.
When Zhou destroyed Shang, it only destroyed the area directly under Shang, excluding the princes who were enfeoffed by the Shang Dynasty.
In other words, the Zhou Dynasty did not conquer most of the territory at that time, but only a small part of the world.
The First Emperor divided the world among meritorious officials and generals, holding the whole world in his hands, and then asked everyone to sit in a row and eat fruits.
The Zhou Dynasty was different. Most of the eight hundred vassal fiefdoms entrusted by the Zhou Dynasty were not given by the Zhou Dynasty, but were held in their own hands.
The Zhou Dynasty united many tribes from other countries to jointly destroy the Shang Dynasty. In the battle to destroy the Shang Dynasty and in the process of consolidating the newly established Western Zhou regime, there were a large number of allies present and participating.
At the same time, we must also acknowledge the existing status quo of a large number of states at that time - a large part of the enfeoffment system was the re-recognition of the existing vassal states.
If Shang is compared to the chairman of the board, Zhou is the second largest shareholder who challenges the chairman, while other princes are shareholders who hold shares.
Zhou united with many princes to drive Chairman Shang out of the company and became the new chairman himself, but Zhou still did not have the final say in the company.
Zhou's enfeoffment is not so much enfeoffment as recognition, because the shares enfeoffed are held by the shareholders themselves, and Zhou, as the chairman, only gave them a legal status.
The Zhou Dynasty did not choose the enfeoffment system when there were two options: the prefecture and county system or the enfeoffment system.
Zhou's two options are:
First, with one enemy against many, the eight hundred princes were defeated.
Second, enfeoffment and recognition of the legal status of the eight hundred princes.
Zhou is indeed the most powerful country in the world, but Zhou is not strong enough to defeat eight hundred.
The reason why Zhou implemented the enfeoffment system was determined by the social and historical development at that time.
Enfeoffment is inevitable.
Ying Chengyu clapped his hands hard, his eyes shining brightly.
"That's it! What Ji Fa enfeoffed was territory that was not in Ji Fa's hands. We will not make any adjustments to the territories that have been conquered.
"Those areas that were not conquered include the Xiongnu, Donghu, and Qiang lands. These territories are not in our hands, so why not enfeoff them?
"The imperial brother gave the land of the Huns to the second brother and asked him to open up and expand the territory. Whatever he conquered was his. The second brother would definitely work hard to conquer the land for himself, so that the Huns would have no time to invade.
"At first, our ancestor Qin Feizi only obtained fifty miles of Qin land, but in the hands of the emperor's brother, it became half a million miles, which was expanded ten thousand times. Moreover, the more land the second son acquired, the more he would support Qin. What does the emperor think?
"
Qin Feizi, the ancestor of the Ying clan in the Qin State, originally raised horses for King Xiao of Zhou.
Because he raised horses well, King Xiao of Zhou granted Qin Feizi the land of Qin in recognition of his achievements.
At first, Qin was just a small fiefdom of less than fifty miles, and it was still surrounded by barbarians such as Hu Di and Xirong.
Later generations of Qin monarchs relied on their own efforts to continuously encroach and annex barbarian lands, and gradually expanded Qin to become the hegemon in the west. This is a living example.
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"Incredibly stupid."
"What's wrong with that?"
"Now that we only see Qin but not Zhou, we can see that the plan of enfeoffment is actually a plan of self-destruction. If King Xiao of Zhou had not given fifty li to his ancestors, today the emperor would still have the surname Ji."
The First Emperor said - I am the First Emperor, and my descendants will be counted, and my second and third generations will be counted for all generations, and my legacy will be endless.
Separate territory that is not under your own control.
This kind of generosity to others and trying to spread the pie, in Ying Chengyun's mind, is a behavior that has no disadvantages and is a waste of money.
In the eyes of the First Emperor, profits lasted for a while, but disadvantages lasted a lifetime.
As long as a local autonomous fiefdom exists, it will sooner or later pose a threat to the central government, even if the fiefdom is only fifty miles away at first.
The First Emperor wanted the Qin Kingdom to be passed down through the ages, not just eight hundred years like the Zhou Dynasty.
"What's Fusu's surname? Ying. What's the surname of the second child? Or Ying. The emperor is afraid that the second child's descendants will take over the country. This is indeed possible. But since the people with the surname Ying are the ones who win the world, then regardless of whether they are Fusu's descendants
, or the descendants of the second child, they are all descendants of you, the emperor brother, so what’s the difference?”
Ying Chengqiu said with a smile.
The First Emperor's expression moved slightly.
What this Zhuzi said seems to make some sense and is not nonsense, but it is still inappropriate.
"As for the troubles caused by the Xiongnu, I will be able to seize the land and occupy the people when the world is under great control in three to five years. I can bring peace to the world, so why should I leave others alone? Why should I leave trouble to Fusu?
"Fusu is resolute, benevolent and brave, and is suitable for governing the country. The more land he is given, the more he can develop his abilities. Conferring high land to the Xiongnu will only be convenient for three to five years, but it will ruin decades of planning by you and me."
Prince Ying Fusu is Ying Chengyu. Ying Zheng had already decided internally to train Qin II according to the principles of governing the country, and the training has been basically completed by now.
The plan the two discussed was to fight all the wars they could before Ying Fusu succeeded to the throne and leave a large territory for Ying Fusu.
Now, if the land of the Xiongnu is granted to Yinggao, and Yinggao stands between the Xiongnu and Qin, peace on Qin's border can be guaranteed in these three to five years.
But after three or five years, the heroes who had been enfeoffed had managed their respective fiefdoms well, the Qin State had regained its composure, and the First Emperor wanted to expand his territory.
Ying Gao will change from a barrier blocking the Xiongnu to an obstacle blocking Qin's expansion.
With Ying Gao here, in the northwest direction of Qin State, Qin State's territory will be determined.
In the vision of the First Emperor, he would definitely conquer the Xiongnu territory and turn it into Qin territory, which would be passed to Fusu.
Banishing the second young master Ying Gao did not reduce Qin's current strength, but it reduced Qin's future strength.
When Ying Fusu succeeded to the throne, the larger the area of the Qin State, the more prosperous the Qin State became.
Ying Chengyu thought to himself.
Who dared the Huns to not follow the script, dare to attack, and dare to make me work overtime? I need to kill Ya first.
"It's okay, brother. The second brother is reckless and values friendship. If it doesn't work, in three to five years, you can take back his fiefdom and pass it on to Fusu together."
First Emperor:……
Is this guy human?
How could you say such a thing?
I really should call my second son here and show him how vicious his beloved uncle is!
"Tiger poison cannot eat its seeds. I cannot do such shameless things."
"Brother Emperor, you can do it. For the development of the Qin Dynasty and for the sake of great love, why not sacrifice small loves?"
"If you have no other excuses, I will send more troops and horses to restore Yanmen and Jiuyuan counties."
"Etc., etc."
Ying Chengyu frowned, thinking hard in order to continue to show off.
"We, the Qin Dynasty, have been victorious in all battles. Now the Huns have defeated two counties in a row, and their morale has been greatly reduced. How can we do this without chasing and killing them? Brother Emperor, you don't want the border troops to lose their morale?"
This guy is speechless.
The First Emperor stood up and said: "Li Xin attacked Chu and lost 200,000 troops. The morale of the Qin army has not been lost. Everyone is depressed and wants to take revenge on Chu. Great Qin warriors are not as fragile as you think."
Ying Chengyu stood up and grabbed the sleeve of the First Emperor's crown and said, "Brother, wait a minute, let me think about it again."
The First Emperor shook off Ying Cheng and walked quickly towards the main hall of the Political Affairs Hall.
"Soldiers are so quick that I don't have time to listen to your nonsense."
At the moment when the First Emperor was about to open the door and go out.
"Brother, have you never thought about taking a break? You are a human being, not a god. You can fight for ten years, twenty years, or a hundred years? "The Tao Te Ching" says: It is better to teach a man a fish than to give him a fish.
Fishing, teaching a man to fish can only save him for a short time, but teaching a man to fish can save him for a lifetime.
"The Zhou Dynasty could only build China for a million miles. By the time of the Qin Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty, the land of China had reached 3.4 million miles. These lands were limited to the eight hundred princes at the beginning, and were not cultivated by the emperor of Zhou. We will win high.
Seal the land of the Huns and allow them to expand their territory.
"The general Ying will be granted the territory of Donghu, so that he can fully display his talents. Fusu will be the center of the formation, and the brothers will all be granted the lands of foreign tribes. The imperial brother is already in his thirties, and he can expand the territory for up to thirty years. And enfeoff all the lands.
Young master, you can expand the land for thousands of years.
"In terms of three to five years, the benefits of enfeoffment are great. In terms of thirty-fifty years, the disadvantages of enfeoffment are great. But in terms of thousands or ten thousand years, the benefits of enfeoffment are great! As long as the person who enfeoffs is named Ying, then it doesn't matter who has it for thousands or ten thousand years.
The master's ups and downs, the whole world is in the hands of the emperor's brother in future generations."
The First Emperor held his hand on the door of the side hall.
"If I do more things, future generations will be able to do less. I can't stop doing it just because I feel I haven't done much, and leave everything to future generations. The establishment of the Qin Dynasty was not easy, and I can't let it be divided.
"
Ying Zheng opened the door to the side hall, and through the crack in the door, he could see the waiting faces of Li Si, Wang Wan and others.
Bang~
The side hall door was closed again, everyone's faces disappeared, and everyone was locked out.
Ying Chengyu came to Ying Zheng at some point and pressed hard on the side hall door, preventing Ying Zheng from opening it.
"Brother, you are confused! The Qin State is not yours alone, but the Qin State of the whole world! The Qin State does not need you to carry it forward. Without you, the Qin State will still be the Qin State! The power of one person is limited, and the world's Qin State is
Infinite power.
"It is a once-and-for-all move to enfeoff foreign lands to the princes. It is a matter of transforming one person into several people, and after thousands of years, it will eventually become the world's best. What are you worried about, brother Huang? Is he worried that there will be people with foreign surnames in the future?
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This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Brother, the emperor can summon all the princes and establish the ancestral motto of 'Anyone who is not the Ying family but has a fiefdom will be attacked by the whole world.' No matter how many years later, this world will
It doesn't matter whether the title is Qin, Gao, General, or Wisdom. It is human nature to seek strength and expansion.
"You and I think Fusu is a wise king now, but who knows whether Fusu's temperament will change drastically in a hundred years? By then Fusu will no longer be suitable to control the world, and you and I may come up and replace him under Jiuquan?
"No. But you and I cannot predict who among the nephews will be a wise king. This system of enfeoffment can be used to survive the fittest. The weak will eat the strong. The person who can destroy Fusu will definitely be stronger than Fusu and will definitely be more suitable to control the world than Fusu.
"Brother, you don't have to worry about doing this. After the world is divided, it will never be reunited. The system of prefectures and counties is a curse, a curse that no one who is aspiring to be in power can escape.
"Everyone will want to unify the world, seize all the world's fiefdoms for their own use, and monopolize power. From now on, the flesh will only rot in the cauldron. The world may not be Qin, but it must be named Ying. Every time the world divides and unites, it will be more...
The last expansion too!
"When a country has been free from foreign aggression for a long time and has an unprecedented concentration of power, corruption will inevitably breed and lead to civil strife. Only when local forces continue to pressure the central government can the Ying family survive for generations to come."
The more Ying Cheng said, the brighter his eyes became, the more upright his expression became, and his chest and heart beat violently.
He seemed to have found a way to save the Chinese nation from disaster and continue to forge ahead.
Ying Chengyu, who is familiar with history, knows very well that there is a three-hundred-year curse on the county system dynasty.
Except for the birth of the great magician Liu Xiu, the Han Dynasty lasted four hundred years.
Of all the dynasties in China, only the Song Dynasty, which suppressed military force and emphasized civility, survived for three hundred years.
The 45th year of Cao Wei.
Sima Jin 155th year.
Yang Sui 37 years.
Li Tang 289 years.
Zhu Ming 276 years.
The main reason why the county system lasted only three hundred years was the disadvantages caused by centralization of power.
Centralization of power is equivalent to pinning the fate of the entire country on the leadership team with the emperor as the core.
Once this leadership team becomes dim and decadent, the fate of the entire dynasty will also become short-lived.
How many people can stick to their hearts amidst overwhelming power, beauty, glory and wealth?
Without external force or crisis.
A dynasty can produce one generation of heroes, two generations of heroes, three generations of heroes, but it is impossible to produce more than ten generations of heroes.
Every dynasty change is a reshuffle and a reform.
If it is an internal dispute in China, such as Cao Wei dynasty Liu Han, Li Tang dynasty Yang Sui, Zhao Song dynasty Li Tang, this would be easy to say.
It's just a change of leadership team. The inheritance will not be broken, the development will not change, and it will not cause too much trauma to the Chinese nation.
But if foreigners invade, it will be a national disaster and the land of China will sink.
The rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty and the chaos of the Five Husbands in China.
The Han people were regarded as slaves and food by the Hu people. They treated the Han people as military rations that were no different from livestock, and called the Han people two-legged sheep.
How miserable was China at that time? Give me an example.
Shihu, a member of the Jie tribe, established Hou Zhao. He took pleasure in killing people and was extravagant.
Every time a city was captured, Shihu would massacre all the men and women in the city.
In order to build palaces, build forests and gardens, build armor and ships.
He brutally conscripted Han men and women many times, and died of illness, starvation, and torture to the death of hundreds of thousands on the way.
Fifty thousand Han women were taken from the people and put into the harem, where they were humiliated, tortured and killed. The women's husbands organized voluntary soldiers to resist, but they were suppressed and countless people died.
Stone tigers love hunting and have enclosed tens of thousands of kilometers of land in the southern Central Plains as hunting grounds.
Han people were not allowed to throw a stone, otherwise they would be punished with death for "violating an animal".
Wherever the barbarians went, they slaughtered everyone.
After his son Shi Sui succeeded to the throne, he inherited his father Shi Hu's cruel temperament.
Every night, he would go to the palace officials' homes and rape their wives and concubines at will.
Sometimes the heads of beautiful palace maids would be cut off and placed on jade plates to make handicrafts for people to take turns to admire.
Tired of all this, Shi Hu selected beautiful nuns from the palace, raped them first and then killed them.
Then cook their meat together with beef and mutton, and share it with the ministers to taste, so that the ministers can identify the taste.
The Jie tribe is like this, as are the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Qiang, Di and many other Hu tribes.
It is a history of blood and tears of the Chinese nation that even history books are unwilling to mention too much.
It was not until Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty that the world, which was bleaker than hell, gradually regained its color.
But the suffering of the Chinese nation is not over.
At the end of the Song Dynasty, the Jin invaded.
Wherever the captives arrived, their only purpose was to kill living creatures, plunder property, drive away women, and burn down warehouses and properties.
The second emperor of Jingkang was kidnapped, and the queen and concubines were raped in the palace. Han women were used as prostitutes and Han men were made into slaves.
The Jin Dynasty was destroyed, and the Mongolian cavalry trampled across the Central Plains.
In the late Southern Song Dynasty, there were 140 million Han people.
When the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was established, there were only 70 million Han people, half of whom were killed.
In the late Ming Dynasty, Qing troops entered the pass.
Ten days in Yangzhou.
When the Qing troops entered Yangzhou, they did not seal their swords for ten days.
In Yangzhou, which has been prosperous for several generations, corpses are piled up, hands and feet are pillowed on each other, blood enters the water, turning it into five colors, and the pond becomes flat.
Burning was everywhere, and corpses were piled up in the city like a mess. The monks alone collected more than 800,000 corpses for burial.
Jiading Three Massacres.
The city of Jiading was destroyed. Among the citizens, there were those who were hung from beams, those who threw themselves into wells, those who threw themselves into rivers, those with bloody faces, those with broken limbs, those who were chopped to death but whose limbs were still moving, their flesh and bones were in disarray, and the rivers were clogged with corpses.
The women were brutally raped. If they encountered resistance, the army used long nails to nail the resisting women's hands to the door panels, and then committed rape.
With every foreign invasion, the Chinese national culture will regress, and the Chinese population will decline significantly.
Many years ago, Ying Chengyu thought about how to break the three-hundred-year curse of the county-based dynasty and how to save the Chinese nation from being massacred by foreigners, but he never expected.
He is an ordinary person, not a god. Time travel only gives him more knowledge than people in this world.
What Ying Chengyu can do is to make strategies that are beneficial to the current life based on what he has learned in his previous life and combined with the current situation.
Try your best in your lifetime to prevent Qin from taking detours and embark on the road of rapid development.
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But today, he discovered it by accident.
He seems to have solved the eternal problem that he couldn't figure out before. He can change the fate of China forever!
He could not break the three-hundred-year dynasty curse of the county system, but he could keep this dynasty changing within the Chinese nation.
The greatest advantage of the Chinese nation is that it has a strong ability to integrate and introduce culture to foreign nations, thereby assimilating them.
The State of Qin was the seat of barbarians from the beginning, and was ruled by successive Qin kings.
By the time of the First Emperor, all the local barbarians had been assimilated, and they considered themselves Qin people, and began to regard the Xiongnu as barbarians.
There is no external force to force me.
Then create an external force.
Let the Qin State be surrounded by feudal states established by the Qin people, which will allow the rulers of the Qin State to reflect on themselves.
It can also ensure that the people who destroy Qin are Qin people when the rulers of Qin are ignorant and unworthy of controlling the world.
As dynasties change within China, culture will not break, development will not stagnate, and civilization will not regress.
Previously, Ying Chengyu had an all-or-nothing attitude towards enfeoffing the princes.
Now, he has made up his mind to persuade the First Emperor to entrust foreign lands to the princes.
He wanted to change the fate of Qin I.
We also want to change the destiny of China for all generations.
The First Emperor was aware of Ying Cheng's determination to win, and felt his overwhelming momentum.
Sighing lightly, the First Emperor said warmly: "You can always say things that I can't think of, and tell truths that are not in the books of hundreds of schools of thought. I admit that what you say is right, but I cannot allow you."
"Why?!"
On the door of the side hall, Ying Chengyu dug out five fingerprints.
Although the emperor's brother does not know what will happen in future generations, with his great talent and broad strategy, he will surely be able to see how much benefit this matter will bring to Qin! How much benefit it will bring to future generations. This is something that will benefit generations to come.
In this case, why does the emperor disagree with what I say? Is it because of the word "Qin" in the country's name?