Chapter 367 The Emperor Zhenguan Wants to Divide the Title
Chapter 367 Emperor Zhenguan wants to enfeoff
Author: Muzi Blue
Chapter 367 Emperor Zhenguan wants to enfeoff
In the palace.
The emperor finished reading the ten-thousand-character opening chapter of the novel Pipa Xing, and then took the half-faced portrait of Pei Yunu holding a pipa that Huaiyu had painted on the road this morning, and was fascinated by it.
Every time he saw Wu Huaiyu's portraits, the emperor would be amazed.
This is not just a portrait, it is as if a real person has been captured in the painting. It is a completely different genre from the portraits of brothers Yan Lide and Yan Liben.
"Is it okay to have her at your place?" The emperor still couldn't forget Pipa Girl. However, as the emperor, Li Shimin also knew the importance and was able to restrain himself. He just felt a little regretful.
"I took her back to Xuanyangfang yesterday. She is familiar with it there and everything is fine."
The emperor looked at Huaiyu and smiled, "Were you satisfied last night?"
He could tell by looking at Huaiyu's eyebrows that Wu Huaiyu must have taken her in last night. Of course, the dark circles under Wu Huaiyu's eyes gave him away.
How many people would reject such a beauty?
Now he regretted why he had not used this beauty before, and even more regretted bringing her to the palace to play for the prime ministers, so that all the meat in his mouth flew off.
Huaiyu chuckled.
"This story is well written. It can be published in the Beijing News. Do you want to print this portrait on it?"
Huaiyu said: "I have an idea, which is to add a cover picture to the cover of the next issue of the Beijing News. The plan is to draw the scene in the Golden Palace yesterday and print it on the Beijing News, and add an illustration inside, using this picture in your Majesty's hand.
Deputy Pei Xingnu’s portrait.”
The cover depicts the scene at the Golden Palace yesterday, with Pipa Girl playing, Wang Gui and Wei Zheng admonishing her, and the emperor finally restoring Pipa Girl to her husband status. Pipa Girl asked to stay in the Yiguo Palace, and the Emperor gave her to Huaiyu as his concubine.
This is a painting method commonly used in ancient times. It can be unfolded in a scroll style and can tell a story, such as the famous Night Banquet of Han Xizai, the Eighteen Bachelors of the Qin Dynasty, the Walking Chariot, and even the Along the River During the Qingming Festival.
This kind of magazine cover idea is quite advanced. Although the cover of Beijing News is not big, there is still a lot of room for development.
Coupled with the addition of illustrations, the Beijing News will become more colorful.
"Is it possible to add cover pictures and illustrations to every Beijing News?" Li Shimin often reads the Beijing News now. He is still very satisfied with the Beijing News produced by the East Palace. He even often regards it as a piece of work for Prince Li Chengqian.
Although the prince is young, he is still a product of the East Palace.
"I'll just make the painting, then engrave it, and then print it."
In the past year, the Beijing News has made great progress from being purely hand-copied to the current woodblock printing. The main reason is that Huaiyu was willing to spend money and give out high bounties to let the craftsmen research new technologies, especially his
The research direction was pointed out.
The main problem with engraving is the ink problem. Once this is solved, everything else will be easy.
Now the Beijing News has even begun to study the problem of movable type typesetting and printing.
Today's Beijing News is supported by very mature technology. It not only has its own ink workshop, but also an engraving workshop. It has many craftsmen hired with a lot of money, and there are also smart people chosen by themselves to study.
The number of workers is large, the funds are sufficient, and the energy is very high.
From writing to typesetting, then writing to engraving, and then papermaking, cooked paper, printing, binding, and distribution, the entire process has become more and more mature.
From the beginning, it was published every ten days, and now it is published every five days.
The content has also increased, the layout has increased, and the number of words has also increased. Now an issue has at least 10,000 words, and sometimes additional issues are added.
The Emperor is a must-read in every issue.
From Chang'an to Luoyang, and even through the post station to more than 300 states in the world, the coverage is getting wider and wider, and the influence is naturally getting bigger and bigger.
"The woodblock printing should not be so exquisite, right?"
"There are some differences."
Because of the quantity, cost and technology, the cover and illustrations can only be in ordinary black and white and not in color. Even woodblock printing will definitely be different from the direct painting, but it can still have a good effect.
"Then after you print it, bring it to me for a look."
Li Shimin attaches great importance to this matter, because now the Beijing News has a lot of circulation. Not only Chang'an and Luoyang publish more, but also remote border states will send some through the post station, and almost all state and county government offices and officials can see it.
Beijing News, it’s just a matter of speed.
There is a picture of the Saint's Palace on the cover, and there will be an image of the emperor for the world to see. This must be carefully controlled, and your image must be majestic and sage.
Under normal circumstances, not many people in the world can see the emperor.
Even among the officials in the capital, some of the lower ranks may not be able to see the emperor all year round, let alone the people from other places.
Huaiyu responded to the decree.
Li Shimin was reluctant to let go of the portrait of Pei Yunu, "Huaiyu, I want to give you a task, to make me a real meritorious official, and to draw a life-size portrait of them. I want it to be the same as the Qin Qiong, Wei Chigong and the others you painted before.
The same, it must be powerful and realistic.
At that time, I plan to place the portraits of these heroes in the Chongxian Hall, and then ask the bachelors to write a biography of them under each portrait to record their great achievements, so that the prince can see it every day.
,"
Huaiyu was inexplicably reminded of the portraits hanging on the classroom walls when he was in middle school. But at that time, the portraits hanging in his school classroom were all people such as Einstein, Qu Yuan, Lu Xun, and Confucius. There was a sentence under each portrait.
Quotations from famous people, such as standing on the shoulders of giants, the road ahead is long and arduous, reviewing past experiences and practicing, etc.
Imagine hanging dozens of portraits of meritorious officials in the Chongxian Hall, with a personal biography on one side and one or two famous quotes, such as one for Qin Qiong, horse riding on both sides of the Yellow River, beating the six states of Shandong with his mace, or coming to
Sentence: Whenever the Emperor Zhenguan approaches the battle and sees a brave general among thieves showing off his men and horses, who is coming and going, he orders Qin Shubao to take it. Shubao responds to the order and leaps on his horse, carries a spear and goes in. He will stab him in the crowd, and both men and horses will fall.
.
Among all the armies, taking the head of a general is like searching a bag for something!
How exciting that is.
It was a big project to give life-size portraits to dozens of meritorious officials, but since the emperor had an order, Huaiyu had no choice but to accept it.
Ever since he painted a portrait of Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong and became the door god at Zhenyu East Palace Gate, there have been people who wanted to ask Huaiyu to paint his portrait, but Huaiyu always refused, and he only gave it to a few people such as Cheng Yao, Jin Fan Xing and so on.
Painted.
Although many princes are willing to spend huge sums of money to reward him, Huaiyu will not agree easily. He is not a painter. Just like it is difficult to find Wu Huaiyu for diagnosis and prescription now, he will not take action easily.
Otherwise, it will be endless and there will be nothing left to do.
"Your bond idea is quite good. You can draw up a detailed plan first, and then I will discuss it with the prime ministers."
"Xiao Yu has written several times before, talking about feudal matters. You can also write about it when you go back."
Originally, the main topics of today's discussion were relief to the victims and feudal matters.
Xiao Yu is a strong enfeoffmentist. He believes that the death of Qin II means that the enfeoffment system was not implemented, and the prefectures and states in the Han Dynasty were in parallel, so the state of the two Han Dynasties continued for hundreds of years.
He advocated a feudal system for the emperor's younger brothers and princes, enfeoffing and enfeoffing titles, splitting the land and enclosing territories, just like the Han Dynasty, allowing the kings to defend the court and guard the place.
Three generations of feudalism lasted for a long time, while Qin was isolated and perished quickly. These words moved Li Shimin a little.
However, there were actually more voices of opposition to the feudal system in the court. Both Fang Mou and Du Duan believed that Qin politics and laws had been followed for all generations, which refers to the prefecture and county system that the Qin Dynasty began to implement, which represented the system of the central government.
Li Shimin wanted to establish a feudal system, mainly because he wanted the Tang Dynasty to last for a long time. After the death of the second emperor of Qin, the Sui Dynasty, which also died after the second emperor of Qin, did not implement a real feudal system. Instead, the prince was appointed as the local general manager. This was just a division of towns.
, it is not about establishing a feudal country.
After the Qin Dynasty, the only dynasty that could last for more than a hundred years except the Han Dynasty was the Jin Dynasty. In addition, no other dynasty could last for more than a hundred years, especially the Sixteen Kingdoms since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
Very short.
It is precisely because of these histories that Li Shimin wanted to make the Tang Dynasty long-term, so he agreed with Xiao Yu's enfeoffment system.
Before the Qin Dynasty implemented the system of prefectures and counties, it was all a feudal system. Each dynasty was very long ago, such as the Zhou Dynasty that lasted eight hundred years, and the Xia, Shang and Zuo Dynasties.
This year, the imperial court implemented the plan to divide the world into ten provinces and merge provinces with prefectures and counties. So far, many prefectures and counties have been merged, but there are still more than 300 prefectures and more than 1,500 counties, which is a lot.
The imperial court has direct jurisdiction over these prefectures and counties, and it is true that some of them cannot be managed. However, the merger and reduction of power of the Dudu Mansion is inevitable. With the unification of the world and the end of the war, a special institution like the Dudu Mansion, which controls both the military and the government, will inevitably
A large number of people must be abolished and even their powers reduced.
The retained governor's office was unable to undertake too many responsibilities and could not help the central government to directly govern these hundreds of states.
Although the imperial court has newly designated ten roads, these roads are only supervisory roads, not administrative divisions. The imperial court does not care at all about dividing the world into ten administrative roads. That is too dangerous.
There are now more than 300 states in the world, and Li Shimin can't even remember the names of these governors.
Yan Shigu, the minister of Zhongshu, strongly supported Xiao Yu's proposal of enfeoffment, but Li Baiyao, the minister of rites, opposed it the most fiercely, believing that feudalism was the source of unrest.
The same was true for the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in the Western Han Dynasty, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, and the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods since the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. He also concluded:
The kings of all countries forget the hardships of their ancestors, and will inevitably increase the number of sexual abuses and arrogance.
But Li Shimin did not give up. He wanted to make the Tang Dynasty last for hundreds of generations and let his descendants feudalize the central government. He thought about the death of the Qin II and the Sui II. Although the Han and Jin Dynasties had the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms and the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, it still continued.
Later, even after the Western Han Dynasty was usurped by Wang Mang, Liu Xiu later established the Han Dynasty again, which lasted for nearly two hundred years.
Similarly, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, although the rebellion of the Eight Kings led to the destruction of the country, there were still white horses crossing the river to re-establish the Jin Dynasty.
Wu Huaiyu certainly had some views on feudalism. He felt that in the unified dynasties in Chinese history, such as the Han, Jin, Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, centralized power was generally the mainstream.
Like Zhu Yuanzhang, he enfeoffed his descendants, and then died due to civil strife due to the reduction of the vassal. When Zhu Di, who succeeded in seizing the throne from Jingnan, came to power, he immediately turned the enfeoffment into pig raising. Pigs were raised all over the world. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of clan wastes were raised and they could do anything.
If it doesn't work, it has no effect. Apart from consuming food and invading the local area, it really does nothing.
In the Western Han Dynasty and the Western Jin Dynasty, when the feudal kings had too much power, they caused great troubles.
But it is true that the Qin, Sui, and even Wei states perished quickly because they did not engage in enfeoffment and restricted clans too much, without any chance of rescue.
Wu Huaiyu felt that centralization of power was the mainstream of historical trends, and enfeoffment could be an appropriate supplement.
He even thought of Liu Zongyuan's later masterpiece "On Feudalism". This article ended the debate between the feudal system and the county system. It was very reasonable and he thought he could write it to the emperor.
