"Conspiracy?" Zhu Yunxi smiled, "Old love, I just say it doesn't matter!"
Ling Han put down the teacup, stood up and said seriously, "In the past, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty extended orders of favor and made great plans. Why didn't the emperor follow suit?" Then he took two steps forward and said, "If I, the son of the Prince of Ming Dynasty, canonize a county prince, the court will no longer give him land.
The population is divided from the original prince's fiefdom. If a prince has three sons, the three sons will equally share the prince's fiefdom and his subjects!"
As he spoke, Ling Han said with a smile, "In less than ten years, the vassals of the kings will exist in name only. It will be easy for the imperial court to cut them down, and they will no longer pose a threat!"
Zhu Yunxi paced several times in the Nuan Pavilion, frowning and thinking.
"Actually, someone told me about this conspiracy you mentioned before."
"who?"
"The late Liu Sanwu, a great scholar and a member of Zhongshushe!" Zhu Yunxi sighed and said, "When I was young, I once chatted with Grandpa Huang. Grandpa Huang said that the purpose of conferring a vassal king was to protect the central government and resist the invaders. I
At that time, I asked, if the kings are restless, who will resist?"
As he said that, Zhu Yunxi smiled bitterly again, "The emperor was silent for a long time, looking at me with a complicated look that was hard to describe. Then he asked me, if there is really something wrong with the vassal king, what should I do? I can only say that I should be virtuous and treat him with courtesy.
If any vassal king misbehaves, I will not kill him, and replace him with someone else to inherit the clan title. When the emperor heard this, he was very happy. Liu Sanwu happened to be by his side, and he told me this secret plan to extend his favor to me alone.
."
"Liu Zhongshu is indeed far-sighted!" Ling Han nodded.
"But after much thought, I found that some of the medicines used by the former Han Dynasty were not right for me! Treating the symptoms but not the root cause!"
"How could it happen?" Ling Han asked doubtfully, "This is a conspiracy..."
"Listen to me first!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "First of all, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty succeeded in extending the order because after the Rebellion of the Seven Kings, all the vassal kings headed by Wu King Liu Bi were executed by the central government.
.The vassal states in the world no longer have military power, and the kingdoms are no different from prefectures and counties."
"Under such circumstances, the kings of the Han Dynasty could only hold their noses and accept the order of favor. They had to obey even if they didn't obey!"
"But what about my Ming Dynasty? You also said that the emperor's uncles can make strong soldiers and horses. My favor has made them go in one ear and out the other. What will the court do? What about the final result? I'm afraid it will still be a big war, with soldiers on all sides!
"
Speaking of this, Zhu Yunxi said with a sneer, "If it comes to that point, I will naturally not be afraid, and the imperial court will not be defeated. But after all, it is not the people who will suffer? Once the war breaks out, thirty years of hard work will be reduced to ruins, and we will have to start all over again.
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"Furthermore, I don't have ten years to slowly weaken them. There are several decades in a person's life, and I can do more with these ten years. I don't think it's worth wasting it on the kings.
worth!"
"It is good to push the favor order, but it is difficult to do it in the face of my uncles who hold real power. Moreover, in the favor order, although the vassal kings lost their real power and were divided like ordinary families, they still enjoyed the glory and wealth.
The people support you!"
Speaking of this, Zhu Yunxi looked at Ling Han sternly, "I have always kept some words in my heart, so I will tell you today, Lao Aiqing!"
Ling Han knew in his heart that if he hadn't left, the emperor would not have said these words to him.
"In my heart, don't say that the vassal king of my Zhu family will be supported by the people of the world. Even my biological son will not rest on his merits." Zhu Yunxi said solemnly, "The title of the imperial dynasty will never be lost again.
If we follow the old path of hereditary inheritance and nobility, the prince will be awarded the title of king, and if the prince’s son has no great contribution to the country, then the rule of the country will come to an end!”
"And there will no longer be actual fiefdoms and vassals, let alone military power. If they want to take power, the only way out is to seal them off."
"How to seal it out? The descendants of the Zhu family should set an example for the world and join the army to expand the territory. If he is capable, the territory he has conquered will be given to him. If he is not capable, he will live in the capital and wait for death for the rest of his life."
"The 21st uncle, King Han's fiefdom is in Goryeo. The fourth uncle's son, the former King of Gaoyang County, went to Burma. In the future, more royal children will do the same. The Ming Dynasty is not the only country in the world. There is plenty of land. Let's see if they have the ability.
!”
"This..." Zhu Yunxi's words made Ling Han stunned.
It took him a long time to come back to his senses, "This will mean continuous conquests and the use of foreign troops year after year."
"What are you afraid of in the war? Isn't it the result of our Zhu family's world and the glorious Ming Dynasty?" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "Prisoners and guilty people who commit crimes every year can enrich the army."
"In this way, wouldn't there be more countries within countries?" Ling Han said, "If the children of the royal family are sealed outside the Ming Dynasty, it will be easier for them to alienate me from the Ming Dynasty?"
"Haha!" Zhu Yunxi laughed, "A country within a country? You also said that the descendants of the royal family are endless. How could I allow them to expand outside, and how could the territories they conquered be advantageous to them?"
"The military expenditures for the war were lent to them in the name of the treasury. The imperial court sent officials to manage their fiefdoms, business immigrants cultivated the fields, and used tax revenue to pay debts. Every time a territory was conquered, the imperial court established counties and counties, separated military and political affairs, and only a small number of fiefdoms were allocated.
.Besides, in this barbaric land, supply will have to depend on the Ming Dynasty for decades.”
"In the final analysis, the children of the royal family who have been sealed off are all rootless people. How can they become a country within a country?"
Ling Han was silent again, his heart in a mess.
"The reform of royal titles and the expansion of external affairs are two-pronged." Zhu Yunxi continued, "My benevolence is internal, and I use it to dominate externally. The royal family is the pioneer of the Ming Dynasty in opening up territory."
Ling Han continued to be silent for a while, then raised his head and said, "I'm not pedantic, but in war, people will die after all!"
"The ones who died are all outsiders, so why be afraid!" Zhu Yunxi sneered, "It is better for outsiders to cry than for us Ming people to cry." He said, sighing, "Actually, this is a stupid way for me. There is only so much land in the world, even if there is no
The feudal kings occupied it, and even after decades of peace, land annexation was inevitable. The stubborn problem of past dynasties was land. If we want long-term peace and stability in the world, we must allow the people to have their own land."
"Fighting out is not only a way out for the royal family's children, but also a last resort protection for the people who will lose their land in the future."
Yes, land is the fundamental issue.
Without land, there is no hope. As long as there are people in the wild land, everything will become rich and abundant.
Although Ling Han didn't understand Zhu Yunxi's most fundamental thoughts, he understood the most important point.
That is to cope with the transfer of future contradictions, transfer the empire's contradictions outside the empire's homeland, and alleviate the empire's pain and pressure through expansion and immigration.
Compared with the various consequences caused by land annexation, fighting it out is actually the most time-saving, labor-saving, and the least expensive. He is a person who has experienced the war years, and knows how terrifying the wave that sweeps everything is.
The rebellion of tens of thousands of people can sweep thousands of miles and turn fertile soil into white land. Careful calculation shows that the cost of fighting out is less than one-tenth of the damage.
After a long time, Ling Han sighed, "I am old and can't keep up with the emperor's ideas. The emperor still sees things far away, and I am unreasonable to worry about things!" He said with a smile, "Don't worry, your emperor, these words today will rot in my stomach. "
"Since I told you, I can trust you!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile.
"If the emperor really trusts me, can the royal guards in my home be removed?" Ling Han suddenly asked, "I will become a commoner in the future. Isn't it inappropriate to have a few more royal guards at home?"
"You..." Zhu Yunxi paused, but he didn't expect this old killer to say such a word.
Seeing that Zhu Yunxi was choked, old man Ling Han seemed to be in a good mood. He stood up and saluted, "Your Majesty, I leave!"
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"This old man still wanted to talk to me a few words before he left!"
Zhu Yunxi looked at Ling Han's back outside the window and smiled secretly in his heart.
Then, his eyes became a little sad.
He watched the old man walk outside the Qianqing Palace and looked at everything around him carefully as if he was quite nostalgic.
His eyes swept over the roof of the palace, scanning the red walls and golden tiles.
“I have traveled more than fifty years from a commoner to a prominent minister of the country!”
Ling Han sighed in his heart and looked at the surrounding scene again, "Fifty years!"
Then, he turned towards Qianqing Palace and kowtowed solemnly again.
Then he stood up, his beard and hair flying in the wind, and walked out with meteoric strides.
His pace was so fast that he didn't look like a waning old man at all.
"Come here!" Zhu Yunxi said in the Nuan Pavilion.
The bastard came in from outside and said, "Long live the Lord!"
"I will be rewarded with a Linghan python robe and return to his hometown for retirement. He will be escorted and received along the way in accordance with the regulations of the first-rank ministers." Zhu Yunxi said, "The salary will still be paid according to the rank."