What did Ye Boju advocate? Enfeoffment is too extravagant! It is necessary to limit the power of the vassal kings, divide their fiefs, and deprive them of their troops to prevent them from becoming too big and threatening the imperial power.
The brothers had just returned from the front line, and they thought they would be welcomed as heroes. Unexpectedly, they became public enemies of the government and the public, and some people even colluded with thieves to ambush them. Of course they felt aggrieved.
"It's just that the military generals are afraid that we will take away military power." Lao San also said angrily: "Why do those civilian officials deal with us?"
"To prevent the Seven Kings' Rebellion and the Eight Kings' Rebellion." Lao Liu shrugged his shoulders and continued to rinse his camel meat.
"It's not good to have the Seven Kings' Rebellion in the Western Han Dynasty. How about letting the eunuchs, relatives, and ministers take turns to take over power in the Eastern Han Dynasty? How about Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao?" Lao San drank a glass of soju, wiped his mouth carelessly and said, "There is the Eight Kings' Rebellion in the Western Jin Dynasty.
No, how about the Eastern Jin Dynasty when the aristocratic families took turns taking the throne? What about the likes of Huan Wen and Huan Xuan?"
"Isn't this obvious?" Lao Si sneered: "They can't be the Seven Kings and Eight Kings, but there is still hope for them to become powerful ministers."
Zhu Zhen nodded and kept showing off his meat, and in the blink of an eye he emptied the plate.
"What did eldest brother say?" The third child suddenly asked.
"Third brother, don't worry about eldest brother." Zhu Zhen swallowed the meat in his mouth, picked up the handkerchief and wiped his mouth and said: "He will not be suspicious of us, let alone allow others to bully us."
"That's for sure." The third child nodded and said with a smile, "I'm afraid that the people around him will talk too much nonsense and make eldest brother alienated from us."
"That's impossible!" The second brother said flatly: "I guarantee it!"
"Okay, let's just trust the second brother's judgment!" Zhu Di slapped the table, picked up the wine bowl and said, "Do it!"
"Do it!" The two brothers clinked a glass and finally experienced the feeling of worry, slander and ridicule.
The third child drank all the wine in his glass, twirled the empty wine cup, and couldn't help but sigh: "I used to read history books, and I saw that the princes of the past dynasties all lived extremely miserable lives. They either crossed the river with eggs in their hands, trembling with fear; or they just drank and drank and muddle along.
; Or you can talk sweetly and hide your sword, and make calculated plans to treat your father, emperor, and brothers as enemies.
"When I look at it, I feel sad for them, but at the same time I am extremely lucky. Our family is not like that..." As he spoke, tears welled up in the corners of his eyes and he said: "Now I know that those imperial families are not like that. They were forced to
It became like that.”
"Don't talk nonsense!" The fourth child glared at the third child and said, "Our family will never become like that. With our father and elder brother here, we don't have to think about anything!"
"You are throwing all the problems to the elder brother!" Lao San shook his finger and said: "I won't, I will take the initiative to share the worries for my father and brother. After returning to Beijing, I will write to my father and ask for the fief to be transferred to Liaodong.
Is the head office okay now?”
"You are just out of anger. I'm sure my father will not agree." Zhu Di said in a dull voice: "Besides, my fiefdom is in Beiping. What do you mean by going to Liaodong? Are you going to guard the outside of the pass for me?"
"I will ask my father to send you to Mobei." The third child said angrily.
"Actually, what Third Brother said makes sense." At this time, Lao Liu was finally seventy full, put down his chopsticks and said, "There is something wrong with the location of our fiefdom."
"Let's just talk about me. My fiefdom is in Wuchang. In addition to the three guards in my hand, it is said that the entire Huguang army will be under my control in the future." Zhu Zhen said lightly: "Father, of course the eldest brother will not doubt me, but in the future
Where is the eldest nephew? Are you worried about me or my son? Are you worried that the King of Chu will lead his troops down the river and invade Nanjing?"
These words made the brothers suddenly sober up, especially the extremely smart people like the third and fourth brothers, and they immediately understood that this was almost inevitable.
"If you think about it from their perspective, I really don't blame them. Our identity, power, army, and position are all too suspicious." Lao Liu took out his God Master card and said:
"My master also said that the future emperor will definitely be wary of the vassal king, so he will definitely cut down the vassalage in the future. Once the reduction of vassalage begins, no one will have a way out."
After a pause, he said slowly and heavily: "At that time, the Heavenly Family will be the Shura Field, and there will be no exceptions."
"..." Hearing Liu Bowen say such words, the faces of the brothers immediately became several times uglier.
If they were just complaining before, now they really have a sense of crisis.
"Then...your master didn't say anything, how should we resolve it?" The brothers looked at Lao Liu eagerly and asked.
"He gave us a few words..." Zhu Zhen paused deliberately, and then said after a long pause: "Shen Sheng died inside, but Chong'er was born outside?"
"What, what do you mean?" This was a bit difficult for the second child.
"This quote comes from "Three Kingdoms, Book of Shu, Biography of Zhuge Liang"." The third brother, the top student, explained to the second brother:
"It is said that after Liu Biao married his younger wife, he doted on his younger son Liu Cong and disliked his eldest son Liu Qi. Liu Qi was very worried that he would be killed, so he begged Zhuge Liang to help him find a way. Zhuge Liang said these two sentences to him. Liu Qi said
As requested, he left Xiangyang and became the governor of Jiangxia, successfully escaping the persecution of his stepmother and Cai Mao."
"You still didn't, didn't say, what do these two sentences mean?" The second child still didn't understand.
"The Shen Sheng and Chong'er mentioned in these two sentences were both sons of Duke Xiang of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period. Their situation was similar to that of Liu Qi, both of whom were fathers who favored their young wives. The young wives wanted to eradicate them and let their sons take over. But the eldest son Shen Sheng refused to listen.
He insisted on staying in the country and was killed; but the second son Chong'er finally survived because he left the Jin Kingdom early." Lao San explained again.
"We are all sealed off to Xi'an, Taiyuan, Beiping, Wuchang, Su... Uh, isn't that enough?" Lao Si said in a dull voice.
"Of course it's not enough. To the emperor, the thirteen provinces of Han are all domestic!" Lao Liu said solemnly: "For us, they are not foreign enough."
As he spoke, he gave an example: "What is outside? Goryeo is called outside! If any of us were sealed in Goryeo, think about it, would it be very different from being in China?"
"Hmm." The brothers couldn't help but nodded. They had all been to Goryeo. They knew that it was separated from the Ming Dynasty by mountains and seas, and it was beyond the reach of the imperial court. It was difficult to directly govern it like inland provinces. So Goryeo has always had a strong independence, and the Yuan Dynasty used it
After decades of hard work, it has not been digested.
When the two brothers were chatting, they couldn't help but worry about their father and brother. How should the imperial court govern this "Goryeo Administrative Envoy" in the future? Don't let it become a heavy burden that the Ming Dynasty cannot carry or leave behind.
But my mind suddenly opened up, and my perspective on the problem also changed. Goryeo, who had a hateful face and was annoying to people, suddenly became more beautiful and attractive.
"That is the independent kingdom." The third child touched his blue chin and said in fascination: "It is only there that you can be powerful and independent and become a real king."
"That's the feudalism of the land." The fourth child also murmured: "Our kind of feudal country is just a city. It's not even the city lord, it's just a big military commander."
"It's too far, too far..." Even the second child judged this way.
ps. Sorry, there is no one to help at home today. I have to pick up the children, cook and train them. I am exhausted, so only two updates.
