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Chapter 325 Zihe: I know you are in a hurry, but——

"Suggestion box? Do they have more opinions! Or do I have more opinions? Xun! Can't you come up with some useful ideas?"

Zihe, who is busy asking the princes around Wangji to come to Yanshang to pay homage, has been in a bad temper recently.

These princes did not take him seriously at all, and all used the excuse that the plague was rampant.

Even the sacrifices were done in a perfunctory manner, and the old slaves in their fiefdom were sent to them. Each of them had missing arms, broken legs, or was unkempt and dying.

In a sense, this was a slap in Zihe's face. How could Zihe not be angry?
Now, Zixun has created a suggestion box. What does it mean?
He is the king!These princes should listen to him!Do you really not take him seriously?Do you really think he doesn't dare to lift the table?
But Zixun said helplessly: "He, there are times when we can't do things ourselves. You are the king, and your orders are true, but they are not beneficial. Who is willing to listen to us?"

Zixun hesitated for a few days, then went to Lu's father to ask for an oracle bone script copy of "The Book of Life".

After studying it for a while, he agreed with Xinqu's idea that the people should be driven out for profit. This is because religion is currently in the age of ghosts and gods, animistic and complicated. You want to use a unified religion to drive everyone. ,Very difficult.

If you are not careful, there will be conflict and internal friction.

Therefore, religious beliefs should be left aside, used when they are useful, and ignored when not. First, give enough "profit" so that the people below can believe that you can bring benefits to them by following you. .

As for how to drive "drive profit", Xin Qu answered a lot of riddles, and what he kept reminding Lu's father was: "In this world, we don't suffer from scarcity, but from inequality.

Natural endowments are limited. If there are many people, everyone will have less. If there are few people, everyone will have more.

Therefore, if a small clan looks at the big mountains, they can sleep peacefully for a while, but if there are many people, it will lead to chaos.

As big families come from all over the country, they should establish hierarchies and divide them into different categories. Those who excel in learning will be promoted to official positions, and those who excel in their studies will be promoted. Those who have meritorious service should be rewarded, those who are guilty should be punished, and those who are incompetent should be subordinated. They should not be selfish and should not be in vain.A king should be close to the wise, not to sycophants. "

After Zixun read this paragraph and a certain explanation, he was immediately enlightened and understood why Zihe's attitude towards him had changed so much.

Because Zihe seized the throne by luck and Zigeng is still lying in the side hall, Zihe does not dare to kill him and can only hope that he will die of illness.

Therefore, Zihe replaced key positions with his own people as soon as he came up, but it was still not enough.

However, all the princes who hold important positions are now hiding in their own fiefdoms. If they don't come out, they can't hand over their functions. Zihe can't grab them directly. If he can't grab them, he can't appease his subordinates, so Zixun proposed The various opinions and related directions that come out are easily dismissed and rejected.

Because what Zihe wants is to reserve more positions for his own people and stabilize his basic base, rather than helping his younger brother to cause trouble.

My younger brother already has his own territory, and he has robbed a lot of it recently. If he is given another son, the interests of his subordinates will be damaged.

Therefore, in the face of Jun and Wu, Zihe chose to have only one brother and all his subordinates. In this way, his subordinates could be loyal to him, and his brothers would still have the security. At most, if they were dissatisfied now, they could be compensated appropriately in the future.

Zixun calculated this and knew that if he said it directly in person, it would definitely cause unnecessary impact, so he had to take a roundabout way.

"He, the role of the suggestion box is not to make us listen to the nobles, but to let us use one group of nobles to fight another group of nobles.

You are the king!By controlling the sacrifices and letting the nobles give their opinions, you can have people secretly tell them to make suggestions on the addition of official posts, land adjustments, and reward specifications.

But if we want to pass it, we need to discuss it. After discussing a suitable plan, we can then perform sacrifices and ask the emperor to make a decision for us. "

When Zixun said this, Zihe's eyes flashed: "You mean..."

"Well, as you think, you hold the final decision. We want the nobles to discuss it. There must be many details. If there are many, then they will be displayed on the tortoise shell to predict good and bad luck. Several of them will be put together, and finally it will become a book. As everyone knows, as long as the majority of people agree, plus the emperor agrees, then haven’t you succeeded in getting most of the nobles to obey your orders?”

Seeing Zihe's excitement as he paced and thought, Zixun knew that this guy basically agreed with his idea.Next…

"Okay! I'll do as you say! But...how to get all these nobles to come and participate?"

"It's very simple, Dingjue." Zixun raised his head and said in a calm voice, "Over the years, the titles of relatives at home and abroad, such as Houwei, Zi, Nandian, Bo, Fangbo, etc. have been very messy. We should sort this out. The title rules then stipulate how much land and population each title level is allowed to possess. Once this amount of land and population is exceeded, the title needs to be allocated to other grown-up sons.

We use our status as king to stipulate whether the sons of the guards have inheritance rights and how they should be divided, including how those who work hard for the king should allocate titles.

In this way, all civil service nobles must come, because this is really related to their interests. "

"This..." Zihe frowned, "Is there any other way?"

Zixun was stunned. He originally thought that Zihe would...how...

"Forget it, go down and I'll think about it." Zihe waved his hand and drove Zi Xun away, and then went to find someone to think about it.

Zixun walked out of the palace numbly. Ziyu saw his expression and knew that something was not going well.

After they quickly left the palace and arrived at the platform where Zi Xun lived, Zi Yu said, "Has the matter of the appointment been rejected?"

"Yes." Zixun was not surprised that Ziyu would know, because Ziyu had advised him that the title system of the Xin family was not suitable for the current Dayi merchants, and told him not to say it so early.

Ziyu sighed slightly and said: "As expected, you still said it. I said that with Dingjue, you can see the road construction. If it passes, then whose territory will benefit and can collect taxes.

In this way, the tribes on both sides of the road will develop quickly, while other places will be weak.

What we have to do now is to provoke confrontation among the nobles as soon as possible, divide them, and let some people side with us.

Instead of using the title system to confront all nobles!
Now it is obvious that the nobles here are powerful, but you are still proposing a nobility. Are you really a worthy person and don't you think that you have been bribed by the nobles of Amami?

The people who benefit the most from Dingjue are not us nor the nobles of Hebei, but the nobles of Amadi.

They had a large population, a lot of granaries, and a lot of bronzes, so they were really divided into fiefs. They hid in the fiefs, and no one could conquer them once they were built. But they really didn't listen to the instructions.

When the Xin family had a population as small as the Xin family, Xin Qu was trying to find ways to split up the clans that might cause big problems. Otherwise, you would think that with a population like the Xin family, there were two counties and several townships. What is the purpose of cutting up each household's territory?
Isn't it to prevent the rise of local nobles and affect the display of overall strength?

So, you are too hasty. "

Zixun paused for a while and sighed: "Yes, it's too urgent. Is there any way to remedy it?"

"It can't happen now. You don't have to do anything. I'll find a way. If it doesn't work, I'll ask Feng." After Ziyu finished speaking, he got out of the car and left first.

Only then did Zixun remember that Ziyu had an eldest brother named Zhuofeng. His surname was Zhuo, and he belonged to the Gong clan.

Now that Zhuofeng is working under Zihe, it seems that Ziyu is ready to let Zhuofeng go to the muddy water.

However, Zixun did not stop him. It was not appropriate for him to make this suggestion now.

(End of this chapter)