After Zhou Shaofan left with the map in his arms, within half an hour, the emperor directly sent Zhang Ananda to take him into the palace.
Xiande Hall of the East Palace.
Li Shimin stared at the map, his eyes sparkling.
Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and other prime ministers were also there.
Huaiyu also saw a familiar face, the former prime minister Xiao Yu, and the minister of Zhongshu Yan Sigu. As soon as he saw these two people, Huaiyu looked at his hand-drawn map hanging on the screen in the palace and guessed the emperor.
What to say today.
Sure enough, Li Shimin hurriedly summoned so many important ministers, and when they came up, they pointed at the map.
Share with everyone his new treasure.
"This picture was passed down from senior Zhongnan Yinxian Xiaoyaozi,"
Everyone was shocked by this map. In fact, there were many unknown places in this map.
Even Wei Zheng discovered for the first time that the Central Plains of China was actually so small.
I originally thought that the Central Plains was the heart of the world, the central country. How could it be so big?
There are even so many large islands in the South China Sea, several giant islands as big as the Central Plains, and even one much larger than the Central Plains.
But how come the four countries of Haedong are so big? Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, and Wa are so small.
On the other hand, big ones like Mohe and Shiwei are boundless.
As for the Haidong Continent, they had never heard of it before. They only knew about the Divine Continent and the Immortal Mountains in the sea. They never expected that it would be across the sea so far away. But at the far north, the two continents are actually connected by a hundred-mile strait, but they are separated in the middle.
Tens of thousands of miles.
When Li Shimin saw everyone so shocked, he actually had a look in his eyes that you didn't understand.
He forgot how shocked he was when he saw Zhou Shaofan take out this picture.
"My lords, I have seen that there is no Haidong Continent. In the middle and north of the Haidong Continent, there are five great lakes. In the Five Great Lakes Plain area on the east coast, there is the Ming Dynasty established by the descendants of the ancient Yin Shang.
It has been a thousand and forty-six years, and it has gone through thirteen dynasties, and they are all descendants of the founder of the country..."
"It is said that the Ming Empire was able to extend as long as it did because of the enfeoffment system established by the founder of the country. The Zhou Dynasty enfeoffed the world for eight hundred years. The Han Dynasty enfeoffed the princes and the world lasted for more than four hundred years."
"I want to ensure that my descendants will last for a long time and the country will be stable, and I also want to implement the system of enfeoffment. What do you think?"
Xiao Yu, the prince's young master, immediately stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I have looked at the ups and downs of the past dynasties and found that an important reason for the country's longevity is to enfeoff the children of the clan and protect the center.
After the King of Qin annexed the six kingdoms, he deposed the princes and set up county guards. By the end of the second period, the country was destroyed.
After Liu Bang, the king of the Han Dynasty, unified the world, he learned from the lessons of the Qin Dynasty's fall and developed prefectures, counties and feudal states simultaneously. As a result, the Han Dynasty had the world for more than 400 years.
After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the feudal system was completely abolished, and no generation could last long.
Historically, promoting feudalism has great benefits."
Li Shimin stroked his beard and smiled. Xiao Yu had always been a supporter of the feudal system and had always suggested that Li Shimin implement the feudal system as soon as possible. He often used the Sui Dynasty as an example. At that time, Yang Jian's five sons were all from the same mother, and they ended up on death row.
It is very regrettable that the Sui Dynasty died in its second generation.
Yan Shigu, the minister of Zhongshu, also stood up. He asked the emperor, if the Haidong Ming Dynasty really survived for thousands of years, could it still rise thirteen times in succession?
"Excuse me, Your Majesty, what is the feudal system of the Haidong Ming Dynasty like? Can it be used as a reference for our Tang Dynasty?"
"You have to ask Yinxian's disciple Wu Qingyang about this. This map was passed down to him by Yinxian. It includes auspicious symbols such as corn and potatoes. It was also passed on to him by the Haidong divine objects obtained by Yinxian. Wu Huaiyu knows about Haidong.
most."
"Please also ask Duke Yi to clarify my doubts." Yan Shigu asked.
"Shilang Yan, I don't know much. I just heard from hearsay. I heard that after the founding of the Ming Dynasty in Haidong, Taizu established a system of enfeoffment, enfeoffing twenty-five sons as vassal kings to guard the borders.
Cover the dangerous passes, control the fortress, and support the Yuanrong generals. They have the power to control orders and the strength to support the army.
Each vassal king set up a prince's guard and command department, and each prince's palace had three guards. Each guard had as few as 3,000 soldiers and as many as 19,000 soldiers. The prince had the power to charge, but it was under the control of the Ministry of War.
The vassal kings divided the land among themselves, and the princes came to the people."
Everyone knows this sentence.
The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty in Haidong divided themselves into vassals and guarded the border areas. They had great power. They had three guards, ranging from nine thousand to more than fifty thousand. However, these soldiers were not their private soldiers. They were just with the governors of the Tang Dynasty.
They still have the right to command, but the power to command and deploy troops lies with the Ministry of War and the emperor.
The vassal kings also managed farmland, were in charge of military affairs, defended against foreign enemies, and were also responsible for local civil affairs, finance and taxation.
In short, the military and civil affairs, finance and taxation were all under control. They had much more power than the governors who held the banner during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the vassal state was hereditary.
But what Wu Huaiyu said next made them a little confused.
"Although Taizu of the Ming Dynasty granted twenty-five sons as vassal kings and gave them three bodyguards, allowing the vassal kings to integrate military, civilian, financial, and political affairs into one body, he also established the ancestral system. Later emperors would only entrust the princes to the wild frontiers.
It must not be sealed in the heart of the heart,
At the same time, customization was made, and the prince and his sons were granted the title of county prince from generation to generation. The prince's kingdom was divided into county kingdoms, and the prince's three bodyguards were also divided among the princes. After the prince's death, the princes inherited the title, and they were granted the title of Duke of the country.
If a person is granted a favor and demoted to a higher rank, his fiefdom will not increase or decrease unless he has achieved military merit, and it will be passed on to his descendants."
Wu Huaiyu did not copy Zhu Yuanzhang's tactics, nor did he use the tactics that Zhu Di later weakened. The vassal kings and kingdoms he mentioned were actually equivalent to the Jiedushi vassal towns in the late Tang Dynasty, and their power was definitely greater than that of the Ming Dynasty, especially after Zhu Di.
of big.
However, he added a key condition, that is, it should not be enfeoffed within the territory, but could only be enfeoffed to the border areas, and there was also the matter of extending grace from generation to generation.
In this way, even if the border areas are enfeoffed and have feudal states with the same power as vassal towns and military envoys, they will weaken with each passing generation. A princely kingdom may have more than ten or twenty prefectures and kingdoms in the next generation. The territory will still be so large and the army will still be so large.
That force is naturally much smaller.
In the second generation, they are all brothers, and they may be relatively united, but after two or three generations, they will all have their own agendas.
If Li Shimin could not break through these two restrictions, then if Li Shimin really wanted to implement the enfeoffment system, it would actually not pose any threat to Datang.
Of course, we are not afraid that the policy will be bad, but we are afraid that the policy will be distorted.
If things really change in the future, there's nothing we can do about it.
"What do you think?" Li Shimin asked. In his heart, he was actually very dissatisfied with the restriction that he could only be entrusted to the wild frontiers.
The emperor's real intention was to gradually change the current governor's palace into a princely state, and implement the same parallel system of prefectures and states as in the Han Dynasty.
But he was in no hurry to express his position.
We must first win over the ministers' support for feudalism, and then discuss the details.
But Prime Minister Wei Zheng stood up and opposed it as always.
"Your Majesty, there was great chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and people's livelihood was in decline. Now that the Tang Dynasty has just been established, hundreds of industries are waiting to be prospered. If feudalism is implemented again and the world is divided, it is difficult to predict what will happen to the country."
Li Baiyao, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, was even less polite. He directly said that whether the emperor has the world and how long he can stay with the world are all determined by fate and have nothing to do with whether he is a feudal or not.
Destiny is destined to be the emperor, even Liu Bang, who was born as a pavilion chief, can still become the emperor. If destiny is destined to destroy the country, then no matter how hard it is, the second generation of Qin, Emperor Yang of Sui, etc. will not be able to escape the second generation and perish.
It was destiny that the Tang Dynasty was destined to rise, so in the late Sui Dynasty so many heroes raised their armies, but in the end it was the Tang Dynasty that won the world.
These two people took the lead in opposing feudalism, and many people immediately seconded the idea. They felt that it was best to implement the state and county system at the moment. If feudalism were to continue, it would undoubtedly be a step backwards.
Yan Sigu, the minister of Zhongshu, stood up to support feudalism, "Your Majesty, I thought that the feudal system of the Zhou Dynasty was parallel to the feudal system of the Han Dynasty prefectures. In fact, it gave too much power to the vassal states.
On the contrary, the feudal system formulated by Taizu of Haidong Ming Dynasty is quite good. The princes seal vassals, guard the borders, inherit them from generation to generation, extend favors from generation to generation, entrust tin soil, and have nobles and people. It can stabilize the borders and protect the center.
If there is chaos in the central government, the vassal kings in the border towns can also be diligent and protect them."
Xiao Yu believed that enfeoffment should be carried out in one step. Just like the Han Dynasty, vassal states must be directly established and given the right to truly enfeoff. Moreover, the vassal states should be the same as the imperial court. The imperial court canonized their eldest son as the prince of the vassal state.
The eldest son inherits the vassal state and passes it on from generation to generation.
However, the main state officials in the vassal states should be selected and appointed by the imperial court.
There was a dispute in the palace for a while.
As usual, Xuanling Du Ruhui, the left and right servant of Shefang, did not express his position immediately, but Xiao Yu, Wei Zheng and others kept arguing.
Li Shimin remained silent.
It was obvious that things did not develop as he expected, which made the emperor a little disappointed, and he did not speak out his thoughts again.
But Li Shimin was a very powerful king.
When everyone got into an argument, he stopped them.
Then don't discuss the matter again.
"The post of Zhongshu Ling has been vacant for some time. It is not appropriate to do so. I have thought about it for a long time and decided to appoint Wen Yanbo as Zhongshu Ling. He will no longer serve as the imperial censor and concentrate on presiding over the affairs of the Zhongshu Province.
The post of imperial censor was taken over by Xiao Yu, Duke of Song Dynasty, the prince's young master, and he was given the title of Councilor for the government."
This was the third time Xiao Yu paid homage to the prime minister in the Zhenguan Dynasty.
This man served in the Wude Dynasty for six years as a secretary, and for three years as a right servant, and then as a left servant for one year in the Zhenguan Dynasty, still two up and two down.
Now it is the third time that he has returned to the imperial court.
Liu Linfu, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was promoted to the Minister of Zhongshu.
The Duke of Rui, Doulu Kuan, and the Duke of Li, Wen Daya, paid homage to the Huangmen Minister.
Give it to Ma Zhou who is in trouble, and turn it to the person who is in the book house.
The governor of Puzhou, Yingguo Gongyu, a scholar, was awarded the title of General Youwei and was appointed the governor of Liangzhou.
Tang Jian, Duke of Ju State, the governor of Suizhou, recalled him to pay homage to the Minister of Rites.
Chai Shao, the consort, was appointed as the governor of Puzhou and became the general of the left-wing army.
Wei Ting moved to serve as a scholar and censor.
Li Shimin did not talk about enfeoffment, but instead made major personal adjustments.
Xiao Yuzhenguan, a staunch supporter of the enfeoffment system in the DPRK, paid homage to the prime minister for the third time. Doulu Kuan and Wen Daya, who also supported feudalism, also entered Menxia Province and became Huangmen Ministers. Wen Daya's brother Wen Yanbo, who also supported feudalism, also
It is the order of worshiping Zhongshu.
Even Tang Jian, a hero of military virtues, recalled the Minister of Rites in the DPRK.
Yuwenshiji and Chai Shao were also reused. These two people actually supported enfeoffment.
Among the people, Liu Linfu and Ma Zhou were the two who clearly opposed the enfeoffment system.
Wu Huaiyu remembered that Doulu Kuan and Wen Daya were the first two ministers of the Ministry of Rites. They resigned due to business reasons and now became the Huangmen Minister.
Although the rank of Huangmen Shilang is not as good as that of the Minister of Rites, in terms of actual power, it is not lower than that of the Minister of Rites. Huangmen Shilang is a deputy minister of one of the three provinces, and has extremely powerful powers.
For example, Wang Gui was directly worshiped by the Huangmen Shilang.
Brother-in-law Ma Zhouyou was transferred to Zhongshu Shilang, and they all had the same rank. One was responsible for drafting edicts, and the other was responsible for deliberation. Relatively speaking, Zhongshu Sheren had the power of Wuhua to judge matters, and he was also responsible for drafting edicts, which showed his ability.
If you complete the important positions in the two provinces under Zhongshu's sect, you can successfully become the Minister of Zhongshu or the Minister of Huangmen in a few years.
However, Xiao Yu became the imperial censor and Huaiyu's immediate boss, which was not a good thing. Old Xiao was famous for his bad temper, and there was an extremely stubborn old man who was notoriously difficult to get along with.
If you get anxious, I'll just roll up your sleeves and start having sex with you. Who wouldn't be afraid of a prime minister like this?
Fortunately, he is a part-time official, and the other new official, Shi Wei Ting, may suffer a lot in the future.
The court meeting is over.
Li Shimin kept Wu Huaiyu and took out a lot of bullets, all about Wu Huaiyu taking a concubine yesterday and doing it in a high-profile manner.
Now that Wu Huaiyu's reputation is well-known, there are more officials who want to step on him and rise to the top.
Although Wu Huaiyu is the deputy minister of the Censor and the Censor, there are still many admonishers in Zhongshu and Menxia provinces, and those are not under his control.
Even the censors at the Yushitai wanted to impeach Wu Huaiyu.
Not to mention that some officials who have no authority to report matters still want to impeach him.
Li Shimin placed the pile of bullets there, but did not show it to Huaiyu. He simply explained the situation.
Wu Huaiyu explained briefly.
He only invited some close relatives and friends, but many people came uninvited, which surprised him.
"I also know that you have always been cautious in your actions, and you are not a high-profile person. However, now that you hold many important positions, you should act more cautiously."
After the emperor said something, he directly asked the chamberlain to throw all the magazines into the brazier and burn them.
"In the Department of Criminal Justice, you won't have to work part-time in the future. There are too many things to do and you will be too busy. You can just take care of the affairs of Yongzhou Yamen. In addition, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Yushitai will also have to worry about it."
"I have summoned Duan Lun back to the court to serve as Minister of Works, and I have also given him the responsibility for the construction of Da'an Palace."
Get rid of the six doctors, and get rid of the Da'an Palace Supervisor.
Then he removed the prince from the post of washing horses.
Wu Huaiyu didn't care very much. Now he only had the three duties of Yongzhou Biejia, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Judgment of Branches, Administrative Secretary and Censor, and the title of Bachelor of Chongxian Pavilion.
Retaining this bachelor's title can be regarded as retaining the identity of Prince Li Chengqian's teacher, and he can still be regarded as half an official of the East Palace.
"What do you think if I entrust the prince and the emperor's younger brother to the governor's offices, and also take charge of the governor's office and the governor's office?"
the emperor asked.
Wu Huaiyu said bluntly, "When Your Majesty is here, the kings will definitely be loyal to Your Majesty and guard the center of the vassal state. However, from a historical perspective, after three or five generations, I am afraid that there will be chaos. The Han Dynasty had the chaos of the Seven Kingdoms, and the Jin Dynasty had the chaos of the Eight Kings. They were all caused by this."
rise.
If you want to keep the princes from chaos, you can only maintain a sufficient force to suppress them.
This is the best way to maintain balance by enfeoffing counties within the state and enfeoffing the outside."
But when Li Shimin thought about enfeoffing his favorite little fat Prince Wei to Jiaozhi, Liaodong, Dunhuang, Western Sichuan, Qinghai and other places in the future, he found it difficult to accept it. Even Queen Changsun would not be willing to part with it. It was not enfeoffment.
, that is exile.
"Instead of sealing Guanzhong and Henan, what if we seal it to Hedong, Shannan, Hexi, Hebei, Jianghuai, and Jiangnan?" Li Shimin asked again.
Keep the two core areas of Guanzhong and Henan and seal them off to other places.
Huaiyu did not answer the emperor's words. The thoughts in Li Shimin's mind were not really asking him for his opinion at all. He just wanted an approval and support.
"Your Majesty, the places where prefectures and counties are officially established, and where there are unified military offices and government soldiers, are not suitable for feudalism and the establishment of a country."
Seeing that the emperor kept staring at him, Huaiyu finally said something.
