Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

After the matter was settled in the court, Li Yuanji left the court and called Cen Benwen and others over.

"See Your Majesty."

"Okay, sit down. I didn't tell you about this matter in advance. Now tell me what you think?"

Cen Benwen, Wang Xuance, Ning Chun and others all twitched their lips when they heard what Li Yuanji said. The matter had been decided, and now he was asking them what they thought. Perhaps only Li Yuanji could do this.

At this time, what ideas can they have? They can't have any other ideas, and they can't say them smoothly. If they say them smoothly, they need to find some reasons.

However, these thoughts only existed in the minds of the few people for a moment, and then they stopped thinking about them and began to think seriously.

When they were in the court, several people had already thought about this matter, but because Li Yuanji decided it directly, they did not think too much about it. Now they must think about it carefully.

Li Yuanji did not urge him, but drank tea leisurely and waited slowly.

After a while, Wang Xuance spoke first.

“Your Majesty, in fact, letting the King of Chu and his men go out is a good idea. If it were within the Tang Dynasty, the Crown Prince is wise and has a good relationship with the King of Chu and his men, so these wouldn’t be a problem.

But he was afraid that someone would instigate the Crown Prince or the King of Chu and others, which would cause civil strife again in the Tang Dynasty, which would be extremely bad for the Tang Dynasty.

If they go outside, if the King of Chu and his men are in a bad mood and want to go to war, they can also expand their fiefdoms, which can be regarded as expanding the territory for the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, when they go outside, the King of Chu and others will be able to protect themselves. At least, there will not be any quarrels among brothers easily. This is a very good thing for Your Majesty and for the Tang Dynasty.

Even if the King of Chu and his men had some ideas, the Tang Dynasty was now powerful and unprecedentedly strong. Using fiefdoms to fight against the Tang Dynasty would be an unwise choice, and there would be no chance of winning.

As for replicating your Majesty's path, I dare to say that there is only one Majesty in the world, and not everyone can do what your Majesty does."

Li Yuanji listened and nodded, agreeing in his heart. The reason why he asked Cen Benwen and the others was to know from them if there was anything missing in what he had thought of. He had thought of this, and he felt relieved after hearing it.

Ning Chun then spoke up.

"Your Majesty, there is one more thing you need to pay attention to. If the King of Chu and his people want to expand their fiefdoms and expand the territory for the Tang Dynasty, they must completely control the vast territory in their hands, just like Your Majesty did before, and carry out governance and development.

Only in this way will the opened up territory truly belong to the Tang Dynasty, and only in this way will a sense of belonging and identity be generated, and people will gradually become citizens of the Tang Dynasty.

To do this, the Tang people must be the dominant force. This is a must. Therefore, even if the King of Chu and others want to expand their territory, they must first develop the initial fiefdom given by Your Majesty, especially the people, the population must grow and develop.

Only in this way can we expand the territory. Once we have conquered a place, we can migrate people from the fiefdom there, reclaim wasteland, develop and manage people's livelihood, absorb willing natives, and kill those bad natives directly to prevent future troubles.

Only by taking steady steps like this can the expanded fiefdom become a real fiefdom and truly belong to the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, doing so would also limit the King of Chu and his men from being ambitious and making reckless military attacks as soon as they arrived at their fiefdoms. The King of Chu and his men must be made aware of the importance of governance and the importance of the Tang Dynasty as the absolute core.

If someone behaves recklessly after leaving the country, certain punishments should be established, such as being recalled to Chang'an, and waiting for the eldest son to reach adulthood, and then having the eldest son go to the fiefdom to be a vassal.

I think it is a good idea for the King of Chu and his men to go out, but correspondingly, there should be certain restrictions and they should not be allowed to do whatever they want outside. "

Li Yuanji's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard what Ning Chun said. The restriction that Ning Chun mentioned was something he had not fully thought of. He thought this suggestion was very good.

In fact, he is also feeling his way forward in implementing these policies now, but because of what he saw in his previous life, he is relatively confident. However, due to the different historical background, every step he takes now is actually very cautious.

Now the kings are enfeoffed by dividing their fiefdoms, and his model is the first to be implemented. Throughout the dynasties, who has ever implemented a model like his?
Because no dynasty in history had a territory as vast as the Tang Dynasty today, but the Tang Dynasty had to continue to expand outward. With so many resources to occupy, it had no choice but to expand.

History has fully demonstrated that using foreign ministers is definitely not feasible, as it is easy for them to establish their own court outside the Tang Dynasty and break away from the Tang Dynasty. This is not what Li Yuanji wants. Only the current method has relatively theoretical feasibility.

In fact, Li Yuanji didn’t know whether it would work in the end, but this was the only thing he could do now.

Li Yuanji believed that the point raised by Ning Chun could be implemented more effectively.

After Ning Chun finished speaking, Cen Wenben also stood up.

“Your Majesty, I think that in addition to these two points, the Tang Dynasty, that is, the imperial court, must also maintain an absolute advantage in strength. Only when the center is strong can it control the four directions and prevent the vassal kings from having other ideas, thus maintaining stability.

In addition to strength, science and technology must also remain ahead. A certain scientific and technological barrier should be maintained for the various vassal kings, and control over the outflow of talents should be strengthened. The various vassal kings cannot have too many talents, and they cannot have scientific and technological knowledge close to the center.

Only in this way, with the all-round leadership of the Tang Dynasty, can the ideas of the vassal kings be eliminated.

If the power of the vassal kings catches up with the imperial court and the central government, and their own fiefdoms continue to expand, perhaps after many generations, some of them will begin to show ambitions.

Of course, if the King of Chu has descendants in the future, the fiefdom will probably be divided among each of them. This must be done to prevent any one person from becoming too powerful.

But even so, once their technology and other strengths become too close to the imperial court, let alone surpass it, although their war potential is not great and they cannot attack the Tang Dynasty, it will be easy for them to establish an imperial court independently.

After all, they are all your Majesty's descendants and crown princes. If they really do that, even if the imperial court sends troops, it will not be too easy to attack.

However, I believe that it would be best to require the princes to hand over their fiefdoms to all their descendants after their death. This way, a large fiefdom can be divided into many small pieces. After their strength is dispersed, they will be even less able to confront the imperial court, which will also be more effective in maintaining the stability of the Tang Dynasty.

And when they continue to expand their fiefdom, it will not be a problem. When the fiefdom is expanded again, it will be divided again, and they will never be able to concentrate all their forces together. In this way, stability can be greatly guaranteed. "

Li Yuanji's eyes lit up again as he listened to Cen Wenben's words. This time he really thought it was possible. There was no need to block too much science and technology. As long as the loss of talent was prevented, it would be very difficult for the princes to surpass the technology of the Tang Dynasty.

This is the most important point in Li Yuanji's view, that is, after Li Chengping and his people expanded their fiefdoms, they all gave them to their descendants, dividing a large fiefdom into several small pieces, and as time passed, the number of descendants increased, and these fiefdoms would gradually be broken down again. Even if a lot of places were conquered by expanding the territory, they would eventually be broken down again, making it impossible for the vassal kings to have the strength to confront the court. After all, after being divided into several pieces, several people have different ideas, and not everyone is ambitious.

However, there is a big disadvantage to this. After dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of years, the Earth will probably be the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Because the Earth is so big, there will inevitably be rich and poor, because the resources of the Earth are different in every place.

By that time, the last princes of the fiefdoms will inevitably have ideas, and attacking each other will become an absolute necessity. Once the fighting starts, I am afraid no one can avoid it, because it is inevitable that a chosen person will appear and gradually unify the scattered fiefdoms.

At that time, there were too many fiefs, and the imperial court probably couldn't manage them all. They probably didn't pay enough attention to some wars. If one or several chosen people really appeared, would all the fiefs break out into wars? Would the whole planet be at war? And in the end, they would compete again to determine who would be the emperor of the Tang Dynasty?
Li Yuanji didn't know, but he suddenly wanted to see that kind of scene. Although such a scene would take a very long time, did he lack time?

As for the tube?
Li Yuanji had never thought about it at all. He had done everything he should do and had reached his limit. He didn't care about the future at all. What happened next was up to his descendants.

Li Yuanji thought about those scenes and pictures, and he suddenly felt a little excited and expectant. He really wanted to see how the fiefdoms would fight against each other.

Li Yuanji stopped thinking about it and looked at Cen Wenben, Wang Xuance and Ning Chun. Fortunately, he asked a few people this time. There were indeed some things he had not thought of, and they were also explained very comprehensively.

"You all said very well, I will pay attention to these, this matter is beneficial to the Tang Dynasty, the court, and the world, it must be implemented.

As for the details, we have to wait and see if there are any differences in the implementation process. I am still young and have time to see. "

Li Yuanji sighed and said that he had not taken too many longevity pills, otherwise he would be even younger.

Even Cen Benwen and his companions took some of his longevity pills, otherwise how could they be as young as they are now?

However, he would not give longevity pills to Cen Wenben and the others anymore. According to Li Yuanji's plan, as long as he stabilized America, he would find a place to live in seclusion and lead a leisurely life.

Li Yuanji had no idea of ​​being emperor for a hundred years, or even for several hundred years or several thousand years. He just wanted to finish the basic things and then he would not care about anything else.

After chatting with Cen Benwen and others for a while and finding that they had no other ideas or opinions, I let them leave.

Li Yuanji sorted things out for a while, then called Li Chengye over. He still had to ask Li Chengye, the prince, what he thought.

"See Father."

"Da Lang is here, please sit down."

Li Yuanji watched Li Chengye sit down, and calmly took the teapot beside him and poured a cup of tea and started drinking. Li Yuanji smiled and came to sit beside Li Chengye, and Li Chengye quickly poured Li Yuanji a cup.

Seeing this, Li Yuanji picked up the wine and started drinking.

"This tea is more fragrant than usual."

"Father, if you keep praising me in different ways like this, I will feel flattered."

"Haha, you little brat, you kicked me when I praised you a few times."

Li Yuanji was all smiles, and his father-son relationship with Li Chengye seemed particularly close. They did not become tense or reserved just because one was the emperor and the other was the prince.

He has been teaching Li Chengye all the time, and he is also afraid that the kind of relationship that Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng and Li Er had in the past would occur again, which would be really dangerous.

Fortunately, after his teaching, Li Chengye has become a different person. At least he doesn’t have to worry about bad things happening.

Li Chengye looked at Li Yuanji with not only a smile on his face but also great respect in his heart. This was not only because Li Yuanji was his father, but also because of everything Li Yuanji had done. Li Chengye also respected him particularly.

Li Chengye has always taken Li Yuanji as his role model. He does not seek to do better than Li Yuanji, but at least he cannot be too bad and cannot embarrass Li Yuanji. This is what he has always pursued.

Li Chengye immediately put away his smile. He knew why Li Yuanji had asked him to come this time, and he spoke slowly.

“Father, what I said in the court just now is what I want to say. Although I will treat my second brother well even if he is in the court, I will agree if they can go to the fiefdom outside.

In the fiefdom, at least the second brother and his brothers can make their own decisions. Not only can they realize their ambitions, but they can also make great contributions to the Tang Dynasty without bringing shame to their father and his descendants.

As for the growth and development of my second brother and his men, this is inevitable. To expand the territory, they must be governed and developed. This will not only temper their military strategies, but also their literary skills, which is a good thing for them.

It can also prove to the world that every one of my father's descendants is very outstanding, with both literary and military skills, and possesses great talents.

As for worrying about my second brother and his group becoming more powerful, to be honest, I am not worried at all, because I believe in myself and believe that the Tang Dynasty will become even stronger in the future.

If I am not even as good as my younger brothers, it would be a real disgrace to my father. Even if I am replaced by them, it would be a good thing. It would be a very good thing for the Tang Dynasty.

But I believe that this will not happen, because the Tang Dynasty will always be strong, and I also believe in my second brother and his friends, because we are brothers. "

Li Yuanji listened to Li Chengye's words and felt the strong self-confidence that Li Chengye exuded. Li Yuanji believed what Li Chengye said. The relationship between Li Chengye and Li Chengping was indeed very good. This was not just superficial, but came from the heart.

More importantly, Li Yuanji believed that Li Chengye could do a good job. As long as Li Chengye could do well, no one else would have a chance.

Just like what Cen Wenben and others said, as long as the Tang Dynasty remains strong and powerful and always maintains its lead, no one else will have those thoughts even if it takes a long time.

It's not just because Li Chengye is capable, but also because the powerful Tang Dynasty will not give them any hope.

Without hope, there will be no ambition, and the brotherhood between Li Chengye and Li Chengping will be strengthened.

Looking at Li Chengye, Li Yuanji was particularly pleased. (End of this chapter)