Chapter 398: Empress Changsun
Chapter 398 Empress Changsun
In the Lizheng Hall.
Eldest Sun Wuji sat in front of his younger sister, sighing and whimpering non-stop.
"I don't know who your majesty was bewitched by, and suddenly came up with a plan to seal the world, and that Qin Sanlang thought he was still a young hero before, who would have thought that this time his mind was filled with shit, Not only are you in favor of the system of secular feudalism, but you are even adding value to the cost, and you want to change the policy of secular feudalism in the Central Plains to border secular feudalism, isn't that playing the piano indiscriminately?"
Empress Changsun is making tea.
The small red clay charcoal stove is very small, and it looks very tasteful when paired with a purple sand teapot. The queen took out small knocked charcoal lumps from the charcoal bucket and added them to the stove.
Compared to noble families who like to use expensive charcoal, Empress Changsun doesn’t even use walnut charcoal, let alone black olive charcoal or red sandalwood charcoal. She only uses Poussin’s charcoal. She has always been frugal and doesn’t like extravagance.
Just like the clothes on her body, those gorgeous and luxurious queens don't wear them, but they usually wear clothes that they sew and sew by themselves.
The water for making tea is just ordinary well water, and I don’t pay attention to any spiritual spring water without root water.
Boil the water, rinse the green tea, and then add the boiling water.
When the boiling water is stirred, the fragrance of tea overflows.
There is no need to add any extra milk, salt, sugar, ginger, onion, pepper, orange peel, etc. The pure tea fragrance is enough to intoxicate people.
"Your Majesty seems to have made a lot of determination this time to implement the feudal system!"
Empress Changsun poured a cup of tea for her brother, pushed it in front of him, and said something lightly.
Wuji frowned even tighter. He knew that his sister would not interfere in government affairs easily, so it was not easy for him to say these words to him.
"Do you know who exactly mentioned the world feudal system to His Majesty?"
"As far as I know, it was His Majesty who first approached Mr. Xiao and Mr. Chen to talk about the distribution of feudal titles. The two old ministers both mentioned that the distribution of feudal titles is a long-term solution, and His Majesty has strengthened his heart for the distribution of titles. The governor of the world is indeed from the Your Majesty's own intention. Just being pushed by Qin Sanlang like this, it has become a new policy of sealing the frontier for the world."
The eldest grandson sighed.
The queen asked her elder brother, "Do you think this policy of sealing the world is not good?"
"What's so good, how can it be any good?"
The Queen picked up the teacup and turned it lightly, "I think Your Majesty has a long-term consideration, and Qin Lang's strategy actually corrected the shortcomings in His Majesty's thinking, which is already very good."
Changsun Wuji looked at his sister in surprise, not understanding why he had such thoughts.
"Aren't you worried about the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in the Han Dynasty and the rebellion of the Eight Kings in the Western Jin Dynasty?" Wuji asked.
"But the four hundred years of the Han family is the longest since Zhou."
"Jin can be very short-lived." Changsun Wuji said bluntly.
"Cao Wei's state policy also led to Sima's usurping the throne. Not to mention Cao Wei, but modern times. How did the Yuwen family usurp the Western Wei Dynasty, and how did the Yang family usurp the Yuwen family's Northern Zhou Dynasty? How was Yang Guang killed by his officials back then? You have to guard against these things!" Although Empress Changsun usually does not intervene in state affairs, she is a smart woman who also has her own understanding of major events in the world.
The one who knows is like a father, and the one who knows a husband is like a wife.
Empress Changsun could clearly feel her husband's thoughts and know his original intention.
Although the Tang Dynasty was only established for more than ten years, it has already experienced a court mutiny in which brothers killed each other and a son usurped the throne of his father.
"Sister, some things are too deeply involved and cannot be decided lightly. The emperor wanted to entrust the world, and Qin Lang contributed to the flames, but do you know? Your majesty's enfeoffment was against the trend. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the enfeoffment system has changed from generation to generation. It’s all because the power of feudal lords is getting smaller and the centralization of power is getting stronger and stronger, so how can it go back?”
Changsun Wuji reminded his sister that the crown prince Chengqian is the Queen's son and nephew, and that the Great Tang will be inherited by Chengqian in the future, so of course what Chengqian will inherit in the future is the good of the entire Tang Dynasty.
If the Great Tang is divided into the east and the west, then Cheng Qian will inherit the complete Datang no longer.
The enfeoffment system that the emperor planned to implement at the beginning was the enfeoffment system of the king of Zhou, which not only enshrined the close branches of the clan, but also conferred meritorious officials with different surnames. Qin Lang has now gone a step further. Divide the vassals to the frontier.
It sounds like it is very good.
But Changsun Wuji has a lot of worries.
Firstly, it was Qin Lang's enfeoffment system, but it was actually closer to the enfeoffment system of the King of Zhou. Back then, the King of Zhou was enfeoffed by the fifth-class nobles, and the sons of princes and uncles enfeoffed the country. But now Qin Lang is enfeoffing the ninth-class nobles, princes, princes, kingdoms, princes, counties, princes, princes, males, ninth-class nobles, and the feudal state is also divided into nine classes. Kingdom County, Kingdom Principality, County Principality, etc.
It seems that it has been sealed to a wild frontier and cannot threaten the imperial court. But in the long run, this is the one that is most likely to threaten the court. Thinking about the enfeoffment of the Zhou Dynasty, wouldn't it become the Spring and Autumn and Warring States in the end?
Two weeks and eight hundred years, how many years have countries fought?
How many years will it take for the Son of Zhou to truly be the lord of the world?
Qin Lang’s enfeoffment system, although the enfeoffment is remote, it is possible to command the army, govern the people, collect taxes, and arrange officials. Isn’t this the ancient feudal founding of the country?
According to Qin Lang's proposal, the feudal vassals are not only the world's governors, but they will also be able to establish a country and a government, that is, they can establish a system of feudal officials and a government. For example, Qin Langshi was named the governor of Wu'an Prefecture, so Qin Lang also got the right to found the country and the mansion.
Zewu Anzhou Yawai, Qin Lang is also qualified to open the shogunate of the Duke of Wei, and the shogunate of the Duke of Wei. The founding of the country and the government can set up two sets of official systems.
These two systems are different from the governor’s yamen. That is Qin Lang’s private shogunate. The shogunate officials are court officials in name, but in fact they are Qin Lang’s retainers.
Back then, Yang Jian wasted countless scheming efforts to completely abolish the power of local state and county officials to set up subordinate officials, revoked the power of the prime ministers and the three princes to found the mansion, and even revoked the power of founding the country and founding the mansion below the king. All rights.
Now Qin Lang is driving in reverse.
State officials, magistrates, and Qin Lang also proposed that the feudal lords support the army according to their ranks. A big country has three armies, a small country has an army, and an army has a thousand people. In addition to the guard system, the vassals can have tents, From nine hundred to a hundred people in the two houses of marriage.
In fact, these feudal countries are a real vassal state, which requires land to have land, soldiers and horses to have soldiers and horses, officials to have officials, and even tax rights, the right to govern the people, and so on.
How could Changsun Wuji not worry.
But Empress Changsun was not too worried, she drank tea very relaxedly.
"Brother, you are overthinking. What you said is indeed correct, but the problem is that Qin Sanlang's enfeoffment is in remote places in southern Xinjiang. In fact, these places are now under the imperial court's control, and they are all barbarian territories. The imperial court It can’t be actually controlled. Instead of continuing to be imprisoned as before, allowing those barbarians to do anything wrong and rebel at every turn, it’s better to try Qin Sanlang’s method, entrusting the clan’s heroes to build a country and build a mansion in a barren land, so as to defend the border and open up the border. .”
"Whether it's the founding of the government or the founding of the country, even the rights of bodyguards, military power, taxation rights, and civil rights, etc., are actually outside the actual control of the imperial court. Those wild lands have difficult conditions. Even if the imperial court gives this It is a fief, but the imperial court does not give money or give others, and it is not easy to develop it, not to mention facing the native barbarians all the time, so for the imperial court, these will not be a problem."
In fact, why did Empress Changsun and Li Shimin accept Qin Lang's proposal?
Because in their view, this proposal actually has ready-made results placed there. Feng An, Ning Changzhen, Chen Shulong, Chen Shilue and other people in Lingnan are actually equivalent to Qin Lang's proposal to seal the history of the governor in the future of the frontier. situation.
The Feng family has been operating in Lingnan for two hundred years. It has taken root in Lingnan and has a strong influence. It can mobilize 100,000 people, and the family has 10,000 to 20,000 servants. Never rebelled.
On the contrary, for several dynasties in the Central Plains, when they were unable to intervene in Lingnan, it was Feng Ning and other Han chieftains who helped stabilize the Central Plains. When the imperial court needed it, it obeyed the edict and sent troops to help quell the chaos and conquer the four places.
It was originally a place outside of China. To be able to achieve this level of control, without causing chaos to the court, and still be able to make a difference, the court was actually very satisfied.
The clans and heroes of the Great Tang Shifeng will gradually become local emperors like Feng An in remote places in the future. In fact, Li Shimin has foreseen it, but he doesn't care.
If the vassals can control Guizhou, Yunnan, Jiaozhi and other places without adding chaos to the court, and can further obey the central court, that is enough.
No matter what, these vassals in southern Xinjiang are always better than those Turks, Tieles, Khitans and other capricious Hu people in the northern part of the border, right?
It can be said that Qin Lang's enfeoffment method actually made Li Shimin overjoyed, and it was better than what he initially imagined.
The only shortcoming is that this kind of enfeoffment method, the conditions are a bit too harsh. Many people think that this is the practice of the imperial court killing donkeys and hiding all birds. It is not enfeoffment but exorcism. The way to get out.
The vast majority of people are unwilling to accept this kind of enfeoffment in exile.
The heroes believe that this is not as good as Cao Wei's vain feudal title, which is not cracked.
"King Wu is already ten years old, and he will be an adult in a few years, and His Majesty's brothers will also be adults. At that time, we can't let these princes stay in Beijing, right?" Empress Changsun said to her elder brother, " In fact, when they become adults, letting them leave Chang'an as a vassal state is also a long-term stability strategy."
It is a good thing for an adult prince to leave the capital in the vassal state, at least it can avoid the situation where the prince and the king of Qin were fighting with each other.
In case the fight goes too far and gets out of control, the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan can be a lesson for the past, let alone the tragedy of Jiancheng Yuanji's tragic death at the hands of his brother.
Li Shimin doesn't want this kind of thing to happen again, and empress Changsun certainly doesn't want Chengqian to be threatened by Li Ke or Li Tai in the future, and she doesn't want their brothers to kill each other, and even father and son are jealous.
Princes leave the capital when they become adults, and this possibility will be eliminated.
"Brother, instead of complaining, why not, like Qin Sanlang, think carefully about the pros and cons of this system for His Majesty, the court, and Chengqian, and fill in the gaps? If Brother, as the uncle of the country, can also express his support for enfeoffment, then this matter The implementation will be much smoother, and I believe that His Majesty will definitely consider my brother's achievements at that time, and when granting fiefs, he will also choose a better fief, and even let my brother choose by himself like Qin Sanlang What about the fiefdom?"
(end of this chapter)