A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 396

After Zhou Shaofan left with the map in his arms, within half an hour, the emperor directly sent Zhang Anan to pick him up into the palace.

East Palace Xiande Hall.

Li Shimin stared at the map, his eyes shining brightly.

Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and other prime ministers were also there.

Huaiyu also saw a familiar face, the former prime minister Xiao Yu, and Zhongshu servant Yan Sigu. When he saw these two people, Huaiyu saw the hand-painted map hanging on the screen in the palace, and guessed the emperor. What to say today.

Sure enough, Li Shimin hastily summoned so many ministers and pointed to the map when he came up.

Share with you a new treasure he got.

"This picture is passed down from Zhongnan Yinxian Xiaoyaozi senior,"

Everyone was shocked by this map, because there are many places they don't know about this map.

Even Wei Zheng discovered for the first time that the Central Plains Huaxia is so small.

I originally thought that the Central Plains is the heart of the world, the central country, why is it so big?
There are even so many big islands in the South China Sea, several giant islands are as big as the center, and one is even bigger than the Central Plains.

But why are the four countries of Haidong so big? Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, and Wa are so small.

But the big ones like Mohe and Shiwei have no boundaries.

As for the Haidong Continent, they had never heard of it before. They only knew about the Shenzhou and Xianshan in the sea, and they never expected that it would be across such a distant sea. Tens of thousands of miles.

Li Shimin saw that everyone was shocked, and there was a look in his eyes that you didn't know.

He forgot how shocked he was when he saw Zhou Shaofan take out the picture just now.

"Masters, have you seen this Haidong Continent? In the north of the middle of this Haidong Continent, there are five great lakes. On the five great lakes plain on the east coast, it is the Ming Dynasty that was established by the descendants of my ancient Yin Shang. It has gone through 46 years, and has gone through thirteen dynasties, all descendants of the founding king..."

"It is said that the Ming Empire was able to extend the country like this because of the enfeoffment system established by the founding ancestor Taizu. The enfeoffment of the Zhou Dynasty lasted for 800 years. The feudal lords of the Han Dynasty also lasted for more than 400 years."

"I want to make my children and grandchildren last long, and the country is stable, and I also want to implement a system of enfeoffment. What do you think?"

Xiao Yu, the young master of the crown prince, stood up immediately, "Your Majesty, looking at the rise and fall of the past dynasties, I found that an important reason why the country can last for a long time is to entrust the children of the clan and protect the central government.

After the King of Qin merged the six countries, he dismissed the princes and set up county guards, and the country perished in the second generation.

After Han Wang Liu Bang unified the world, he learned the lessons from the death of Qin Dynasty and established prefectures and feudal states simultaneously, so the Han Dynasty ruled the world for more than [-] years.

Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the feudal system has been completely abolished, and no generation can last long.

From a historical point of view, the promotion of feudalism is of great benefit. "

Li Shimin stroked his beard and smiled. Xiao Yu has always been a supporter of the feudal system. He has always advised Li Shimin to implement the enfeoffment system as soon as possible. It is very regrettable that the Sui Dynasty died in the second generation.

Zhongshu's servant Yan Shigu also stood up, and he asked the emperor, the Haidong Ming Dynasty has survived for thousands of years, and can it rise for thirteen times?

"May I ask your Majesty, what is the feudal system of Haidong Daming? Can it be used as a reference for my Tang Dynasty?"

"You have to ask Yinxian's disciple Wu Qingyang about this. This map was passed on to him by Yinxian, including corn, potatoes and other auspicious signs. It was also given to him by the Haidong fetish obtained by Yinxian. Wu Huaiyu knows about Haidong. most."

"I also ask Lord Yi to clarify the confusion." Yan Shigu asked.

"Yan Shilang, I don't know much about it. It's just hearsay. I heard that after the founding of the Haidong Ming Dynasty, the Taizu set up a system of enfeoffment. He entrusted 25 sons as vassal kings to guard the frontier.
Conquering dangerous passes, controlling fortresses, accompanied by Yuan Rong veteran generals, Quan Chong commanded orders, and he was as powerful as Fujun.

Each vassal prince has a prince guard commanding division, and each palace has three guards. Each guard has as few as 9000 soldiers and as many as [-] people. The prince has the right to accuse, but it is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War.

The vassal kings entrusted Xitu, and the nobles came to the people. "

Everyone understands this sentence.

The vassal kings of Daming in the East of Haidong, who were divided into vassals and guarded the border areas, had great power and had three guards, ranging from 5 to [-], but these soldiers were not their private soldiers, they were just with the governors of the Tang Dynasty. They also have the right to command, but the power to command and deploy troops rests with the Ministry of War and the emperor.

At the same time, the vassal kings also managed the farmland, took charge of the military, defended against foreign enemies, and also took care of the local civil affairs and taxation.

In short, the military, civil administration, finance and taxation are more powerful than the festival-holding governors in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and this vassal state is hereditary.

But Wu Huaiyu's next words made them a little confused.

"Although Taizu of the Ming Dynasty entrusted 25 sons as vassal kings and gave them three guards, so that the vassal kings could gather military, civilian and financial affairs in one body, but at the same time established the ancestral system. The descendants of emperors divided the titles of princes, and they could only be sealed in the wilderness of the frontier. in the belly,

At the same time, it is customized, and the princes and sons are all crowned as county kings, and the prince's kingdom is divided into county kingdoms, and the prince's three guards are also divided into the county kings.After the death of the county king, it will be inherited by the sons, and the favor will be granted to the Duke of the country. "

Wu Huaiyu did not copy Zhu Yuanzhang's set, nor did he use the set that Zhu Di later weakened. The vassal king he said was actually equivalent to the Jiedushi vassal town at the end of the Tang Dynasty. The power must be greater than that of the Ming Dynasty, especially after Zhu Di. big.

However, he added a key condition, that is, not to be enfeoffed, but only to the frontier, and there is also the provision of Tweeting favors from generation to generation.

In this way, even if the frontiers are divided into feudal states with the same power as feudal towns and governors, they will weaken every generation. A princely kingdom may have a dozen or twenty counties and kingdoms in the next generation. The territory is still so large and the army is still so many. That power is naturally much smaller.

In the second generation, they were all brothers, and they might still be relatively united, but after two or three generations, they would have their own calculations.

If you can avoid breaking through these two restrictions, then Li Shimin really wants to implement a system of enfeoffment, but in fact there is no threat to Datang.

Of course, we are not afraid of bad policies, we are afraid of bad policies.

If it really gets out of shape in the future, there's nothing I can do about it.

"What do you think?" Li Shimin asked, in fact, he was very dissatisfied with the restriction that it could only be entrusted to the wild frontier.

The emperor's real intention was to gradually change the current Dudu's Mansion into a prince's feudal 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 opinion.

We must first win the support of the ministers for feudalism, and then discuss the details.

But Prime Minister Wei Zheng stood up and opposed it as always.

"Your Majesty, there was chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and the people's livelihood was in decline. Now that the Tang Dynasty has just been established, all industries are waiting to be prosperous. If feudalism is implemented and the world is divided, it is difficult to predict what will happen to the country."

Li Baiyao, Minister of Rituals, was even more impolite. He directly said that whether the emperor has the world and how long it will last is determined by the destiny, and it has nothing to do with whether it is feudal or not.

The destiny is destined to be the emperor, even Liu Bang, who was born as a pavilion chief, can still become the emperor.If the fate is destined to subjugate the country, no matter how hard Qin II, Sui Yangdi, etc. try, it is not impossible to escape the death of the second emperor.

It was fate that the Great Tang would prosper, so at the end of the Sui Dynasty so many heroes raised their troops, but in the end it was the Great Tang that won the world.

These two people took the lead in opposing feudalism, and many people immediately supported it, thinking that it is best to implement the state and county system at the moment. If feudalism continues, it will undoubtedly be a step backward.

Zhongshu servant Yan Sigu stood up to support feudalism, "Your Majesty, I think that the feudal system of the Zhou Dynasty was parallel to the feudal system of the Han Dynasty. In fact, it gave too much power to the vassal states.
On the contrary, the feudal system formulated by the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty in Haidong is quite good. The prince enfeoffs the vassal, guards the frontier, inherits it from generation to generation, grants favor from generation to generation, entrusts Xitu, and ranks the people. It can stabilize the frontier and protect the center.

When there is chaos in the central government, the vassal kings of border towns can also serve as escorts. "

Xiao Yu believes that if you want to enfeoff, you can do it in one step. Like the Han Dynasty, you must directly establish a vassal state and give it the real right to enfeoff the state. Moreover, the vassal state should be the same as the imperial court. The imperial court canonize the eldest son of the vassal state. The eldest son inherits the vassal state and passes it down from generation to generation.

However, the main state officials in the vassal states should be selected by the court.

There was a dispute in the palace for a while.

As usual, the left and right servants, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, didn't express their opinions immediately, but Xiao Yu, Wei Zheng and others kept arguing.

Li Shimin remained silent.

It can be seen that things did not develop as he expected, which disappointed the emperor, and he did not express his thoughts again.

But Li Shimin is a very powerful king.

When everyone was arguing, he uttered a voice to stop it.

Then don't discuss the matter any more.

"The post of Zhongshu Ling has been vacant for a while, and it is not appropriate to do so. After thinking about it for a long time, I have decided to worship Wen Yanbo as Zhongshuling, no longer serve as the imperial censor, and concentrate on presiding over the affairs of the Zhongshu Province.

The post of Yushi doctor was taken over by Song Guogong Xiaoyu, a young teacher of the prince, and added the title of participating in the government. "

This is Xiao Yu's third chancellor visit in the Zhenguan Dynasty.

This man has been doing Zhongshuling for six years in Wude Dynasty, right servant shooting for three years, and then left servant shooting for one year in Zhenguan Dynasty, still going up and down twice.

Now, for the third time, I will change to Doctor Yushi.

Liu Linfu, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, moved to the Minister of Zhongshu.

Dou Lukuan, Duke of Rui, and Wen Daya, Duke of Li, paid homage to the servant of Huangmen.

Give it to Ma Zhou in the matter, and transfer to Zhongshu Sheren.

Yu Wenshiji, the governor of Puzhou, Ying Guogong, was appointed General Youwei and served as the governor of Liangzhou.

Tang Jian, the governor of Suizhou, recalled the Minister of Rites.

The son-in-law Chai Shao served as the governor of Puzhou, and Jiazuo led the general.

Wei Ting moved to Zhishu to serve as the censor.

Li Shimin didn't talk about enfeoffment, but changed to a major adjustment of personal affairs.

Xiao Yu Zhenguan, a staunch supporter of the feudal system in the central court, paid homage to the prime minister for the third time, and Dou Lukuan and Wen Daya, who also supported feudalism, also entered the province as servants of the Huangmen. It is the order of worshiping Zhongshu.

Even Tang Jian, a hero of martial arts, recalled the minister of the Ministry of Rites in the court.

And Yuwen Shiji and Chai Shao also reused them again, and these two people actually supported the separation of feudal titles.

Among them, only Liu Linfu and Ma Zhou clearly opposed the enfeoffment system.

Wu Huaiyu remembered that Dou Lukuan and Wen Daya were the former two Ministers of the Ministry of Rites, who resigned due to some business, and now became servants of the Huangmen.

Although the rank of the Minister of the Huangmen is not as high as that of the Minister of Rites, but in terms of real power, he is no lower than that of the Minister of the Ministry of Rites. The Minister of the Huangmen is the deputy official of one of the three provinces, and he has extremely powerful power.

For example, Wang Gui was directly worshiped by the servant of Huangmen.

Brother-in-law Ma Zhouyou was transferred to the Minister of Zhongshu, but his grades were the same, one was in charge of drafting edicts, and the other was in charge of deliberation.

If you do all the important positions in the two provinces under Zhongshumen, you will be able to become Zhongshu Shilang or Huangmen Shilang smoothly in a few years.

However, Xiao Yu became the imperial censor and also Huaiyu's immediate boss, which was not a good thing. The old man Xiao was famous for his bad temper, and he had an extremely stubborn old man who was notoriously difficult to get along with.

Get up in a hurry and roll up your sleeves with you, who is not afraid of such a prime minister?
Fortunately, his censor censor is a part-time job, and it is estimated that Wei Ting, another new censor censor, will suffer in the future.

The court meeting is over.

Li Shimin kept Wu Huaiyu, and directly took out a lot of bullets, all about Wu Huaiyu's taking a concubine yesterday, which was too ostentatious.

Now that Wu Huaiyu's name is famous, there are many officials who want to step on him.

Although Wu Huaiyu is the assistant censor who governs the book, and the deputy official of the censor platform, there are still many admonishers in Zhongshu and the two provinces under the door, and those are not under his control.

Even the censors of Yushitai wanted to impeach Wu Huaiyu.

Not to mention some officials who don't have the right to gossip, still want to impeach him.

Li Shimin put the pile of bullets there, but he didn't show it to Huaiyu, he just briefly explained the situation.

Wu Huaiyu explained briefly.

He just invited some close relatives and friends, but many people came uninvited, which surprised him too.

"I also know that you have always acted cautiously, and you are not a high-profile person, but now that you have several important positions, you should act more cautiously."

After the emperor said something, he directly asked the servants to throw all the bullets into the brazier and burn them.

"At the Department of Criminal Constitution, you don't need to work part-time in the future. There are too many things to do, so you can take care of the affairs of the Yongzhou Yamen with peace of mind. In addition, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Yushitai also spend some time."

"I have already summoned Duan Lun back to the court to work as Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and I will also entrust him with the responsibility for the construction of the Da'an Palace."

Get rid of the six-door doctor, and get rid of the Daan palace supervisor,
Then the prince was removed from the post of washing horses.

Wu Huaiyu didn't care much about it. Now there are only three jobs left in Yongzhou Biejia, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Pan Duzhi, and Shushi Yushi, as well as the title of Bachelor of Chongxian Hall.

Retaining this bachelor's title can also be regarded as retaining the teacher status of the prince Li Chengqian, and he is still half of the official of the Eastern Palace.

"What do you think if I entrust the prince and younger brother to each governor's mansion, and also lead the governor and governor?"

asked the emperor.

Wu Huaiyu said bluntly, "When Your Majesty is here, all the kings must be loyal to His Majesty and support the central government. However, from the perspective of history, after three or five generations, I am afraid that there will be chaos. There were seven kingdoms in the Han Dynasty and eight kings in the Jin Dynasty. rise.

If you want the princes to stay in chaos, you have to maintain a sufficient force to suppress them.

Inner states and counties are enfeoffed outside, this is the best way to maintain balance. "

However, when Li Shimin thought of entrusting his favorite little fatty King Wei to Jiaozhi, Liaodong, Dunhuang, Western Sichuan, Qinghai and other places in the future, he couldn't accept it. Even the eldest grandson queen would not be willing to part with it. , that is exile.

"Don't seal Guanzhong and Henan, but seal it to the east, south, west, Hebei, river, Huai, and south of the river?" Li Shimin asked again.

Keep the two core areas of Guanzhong and Henan and seal them to other places.

Huaiyu didn't answer the emperor's words, Li Shimin's mind was full of thoughts now, he didn't really ask his opinion at all, he just wanted an approval and support.

"Your Majesty, places where prefectures and counties are officially established, places where there are military commanders and soldiers, are not suitable for feudalism and founding a country."

Seeing the emperor staring at him, Huaiyu finally said something.

(End of this chapter)