Dahan first prince

Chapter 265 Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish
"Oh?"

"The Marquis of An Guo and the Marquis of Beiping came hand in hand..."

"But what's the important thing, do you want to discuss with the lonely?"

After finally finishing the matters in hand, Liu Ying welcomed Wang Ling and Zhang Cang before she had time to go out for a walk.

Smiling stiffly, Liu Ying met the two of them, but Liu Ying lost the patience to beat around the bush, and just got straight to the point.

——Come on, what's the matter?
Sensing the trace of tiredness in Liu Ying's tone, Wang Ling was not very polite, and only looked at Zhang Cang for a while, then sat down with a smile.

"His Highness is busy with government affairs, ministers, etc., it is not appropriate to bother."

"However, the day before yesterday, His Highness seemed to say by chance that in the future, the government of the Guandong princes should be done..."

As he said that, Wang Ling looked at Liu Ying meaningfully, then turned to smile at Zhang Cang, and immediately bowed his hands to Liu Ying.

"The minister and the Marquis of Beiping came here to ask His Royal Highness to enlighten you on the law of Tweeting Grace, Zuoguan Order, Subsidy Law, A Party Law, etc. that were said in the family a few days ago..."

After saying these words with a tentative face, Wang Ling once again made eye contact with Zhang Cang, and then bowed his hands to Liu Ying with a hey smile.

But in front of Wang Ling and Zhang Cang, Liu Ying, who heard Zhang Cang's intention of coming, suddenly showed a little embarrassment on her face.

——Tweeting Order, Zuoguan Order, Subsidy Law, A Party Law and other restrictive plans against the separatist forces of the princes, Liu Ying did not intend to come up with it so early!

Speaking of this matter, Liu Ying is also to blame, not others.

More than ten years ago, when Yongcheng was confronting the rebels under Yingbo's command, seeing the increasing casualties of the Guanzhong soldiers in the city and the Huainan rebels outside the city, Liu Ying couldn't help feeling a little bit like "fighting, fighting, dying!" All of them are Han people' exclamation.

With such sentimentality, Liu Ying couldn't help but blurt out this series of legal regulations, hoping that Lu Shizhi would write them down for herself, and investigate and investigate the feasibility after the war.

But it was a coincidence that when Liu Ying uttered this series of legal regulations that were written down in history with heartache, Lu Shizhi, who was always behind Liu Ying, who was afraid that something might happen to Liu Ying, was not behind Liu Ying.

What's more coincidental is that Liu Ying's half-annoyed, half-probing words were heard by Wang Ling and Zhang Cang who came to report the battle situation...
Now it's all right, the war is over, people came to the door, wanting Liu Ying to explain what these things are.

"Ugh······"

"Sickness enters through the mouth, misfortune comes out through the mouth..."

"In the future, pay more attention..."

Secretly making up her mind to 'keep your mouth shut in the future', Liu Ying adjusted her sitting posture a bit, and immediately began to speak in a deep voice.

——Liu Ying said these legal regulations to Lu Shizhi, originally with a little meaning of "testing the courtiers and the reactions of noble relatives".

Although things backfired, Uncle Lu Shizhi did not hear about this matter, but Wang Ling and Zhang Cang heard about it, but judging from the results, it cannot be said that Liu Ying's goal was not achieved.

Taking the opportunity of explaining these legal regulations and seeing the reactions of Wang Ling and Zhang Cang, they can barely accept it.

Thinking so, Liu Ying raised her head with a light smile, reorganized the few words in her memory, and immediately said to Wang Ling and Zhang Cang.

"The decree of Tweeting En is something I came across in my spare time. Those who want to explain it by this are because the princes are powerful, but it is not beneficial to the society."

"——Since the Han Dynasty, the world has been plagued by wars. Since the father and the emperor have established the Han Zuo, he has been out of the customs every year to suppress the rebellion, and he can't rest for half a year."

"I just think that the cause of the rebellion of the princes is only that the princes have a large land and a strong army, and they have the ability to cause disasters, so they will create disasters of their own accord!"

"However, if the princes' lands become smaller and their soldiers want to be less, and lose the ability to cause disasters, will their thoughts of disasters and chaos disappear by themselves?"

"However, it is not easy to make the land of the princes smaller and their soldiers less desirable."

"In the past few years, the Chang'an court was let go by the princes of the Guandong, and they hardly heard of the affairs of the princes, but the chaos of the princes continued to occur repeatedly;"

"If you use laws and decrees to seize the land and armor of the princes, you may even those who have no intention of causing chaos, and beware of resentment and misconduct."

"As well as "Tweeting Order", it is the "gentle and good" prescription that I have thought about alone."

Speaking of this, Liu Ying smiled shyly, and looked at Wang Ling and Zhang Cang with a little confidence.

"—Those who tweeted grace said: All the sons of princes are princes!"

"Nai said: If a feudal lord dies and has many sons, he will divide his country and seal all his sons, and each of them will be a feudal lord."

"In this way, even if the land of the princes is divided into three or four, they are all shared with the sons of the princes. The court can easily eliminate the worries of the princes' power, and there is no suspicion of 'taking the princes' land'."

"Even if the princes are unwilling to make this order, the princes' sons, concubines and concubines will also fight, so the court does not have to worry about the failure of this order. It only needs to pass the decree to the princes, and that's it..."

Indifferently telling the main content of the "Tweeting Order", Liu Ying did not forget to add with a smile: "This strategy is based on the idea that all the princes are kings."

"—Son of the Son of Heaven, when everyone splits the soil and becomes a prince, why not the son of a prince?"

"Even if you can't split the land of the princes and kings and princes, can you split a county and marquis its sons, so as to divide its power and weaken the princes?"

"And the princes should be the kings of the earth, which is the kindness of the father and the emperor, and the sons of the princes, kings and lords, are also the kindness of the emperor."

"According to this strategy, the lands of the princes were divided into kings and marquises from generation to generation, in order to extend the favor of the emperor to the princes' heirs, so the lonely name is: "Decree of Pushing Grace"..."

Following Liu Ying's last words, the side hall fell into a long silence.

Even Wang Ling and Zhang Cang, two veterans who were over sixty years old, froze in place for a rare sight, quickly absorbing the information revealed by Liu Ying's words!

——After the death of the princes and kings, divide the land of the princes into several parts, and let the sons of the princes and kings become princes and kings?
It has to be said that this unprecedented plan was somewhat beyond the expectations of Wang Ling and Zhang Cang.

The problem that the princes and kings are powerful, or that the tail is too big and threatens the central government, is not a new problem at all.

As early as the last years of the Zhou Dynasty, the princes of the world no longer respected the emperor of Zhou, but called them lonely in their respective fiefs, and fought against each other in order to expand the territory. From the initial hundreds of princes, it developed to the seven heroes at the end of the Warring States period. , this problem has already appeared on the land of China.

The enfeoffment system that had supported the Zhou Dynasty's external expansion for hundreds of years, and even brought Ji Zhou back from the brink of collapse several times, also encountered an unprecedented major test.

Enfeoffment system, is it good or not?
For the people of the world, the answer to this question can be said to be that the public says the public is right, and the mother-in-law says that the woman is right.

But if we only look at it from the perspective of "development", which has never changed through the ages, the enfeoffment system is indeed the most efficient way of development among the policies that an agricultural society can adopt.

The reason is also very simple: only one's own business can allow human beings to do their best.

Take a very simple example.

One day, Zhou Tianzi found a courtier, appointed him as the chief official of a place, asked him to be in charge of the development of the area, and gave him a reward, that is, a salary.

But for this courtier, the area he is in charge of is not his own at all.

Whether the governance is good or not, salaries are issued as usual, and it is difficult to cause direct benefits or losses to this courtier.

Go to heaven, that is, good governance will be rewarded, and poor governance will be criticized.

Therefore, this courtier only needs to ensure the governance of this area, and don't be so bad that people and gods are indignant that it will cause him to lose his official position.

This is the mentality that human beings generally have when they only have the right to use a certain item, but not the right to own it: they don’t cherish, don’t care, don’t fear losing, and don’t desire to get more.

——In later generations, the landlord will always cherish the house more than the tenant. This is the reason: only when it is your own, you will know how to cherish and love it.

But what if Zhou Tianzi bestowed not the right to govern this area, but the right to own it?

If this area is enfeoffed by the Emperor Zhou himself, and the land can be passed on to future generations, then the situation will undergo earth-shaking changes.

In order to build the fiefdom better, the person who is entrusted with the land will inevitably exert all his subjective initiative, in order to build his fiefdom to the best in the shortest possible time!
In order to have the right to own the land for a long time, the lord even accepted the rule that 'not only he does not need to pay himself a salary from the court, but he also has to pay tribute to the court'!

A minister with a salary, because he does not have the right to own the land, will ring the bell for a day like a monk, preferring to do nothing rather than make mistakes;

However, the lord who obtained the right to own the land obviously had no salary, and even had to pay tribute to the court, but he could exert all his strength and only wanted his land to develop faster and better.

Such a contrast may seem strange at first glance.

But in fact, this is the most simple and easy-to-understand point of human nature: only what is your own is worth putting in 100% of your energy; but what is for others, you only need [-]% or even [-]%, so don’t make the scene too ugly can.

From this perspective, enfeoffment is undoubtedly the best option for an emerging regime that wants to implement effective principles for a vast territory, or wants to quickly develop the land acquired by expansion.

But the enfeoffment system is also the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of every feudal dynasty.

If one is not careful, this weapon of development will ring the death knell of the dynasty.

Therefore, the discussion on the enfeoffment system has never stopped since its appearance in the early Spring and Autumn Period.

——If the enfeoffment system is good, how to explain the collapse of the Zhou Dynasty?

How can we explain the hundreds of years of Spring and Autumn and Warring States and the humiliation suffered by Emperor Zhou?

But if it is not good, how can the Zhou Dynasty be explained from the place that was as big as a slap in the beginning to the wealth of Shenzhou thousands of miles later?

To this question, Shihuang Yingzheng's answer was obviously 'I don't need it! '

However, the lessons learned from the death of Qin II also prove that even if the enfeoffment system should be abolished, it is not a good time to abolish the enfeoffment system in a short time.

Therefore, after the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, threw off his arms without any surprise, and pushed the wheel of history back half a step, so that the enfeoffment system and the system of prefectures and counties paralleled the emperor.

And in this way, the problem that had caused Ji Zhou's demise was placed in front of the Liu Han Dynasty again.

——The central government is not strong enough, and the county system cannot effectively govern the local area; but the enfeoffment system will pose a threat to the central government...
How to do?
In the past ten years, in order to find out a feasible path, the Han family took the heads of seven princes with different surnames and the lives of hundreds of thousands of Han family soldiers, and finally came to an accurate conclusion.

——Even if the enfeoffment system can be used, it cannot be used to entrust princes with different surnames!
Wang Ling and Zhang Cang also understood in their hearts: now that the princes with different surnames are about to disappear, and all the princes with different surnames in the Han Dynasty are on the verge of "extinction" except for the lineage of King Changsha, Liu Ying's "Tweeting Order" is obviously not for Prepared by princes with different surnames.

And this is exactly the reason why the two came here to carefully understand these unheard of legal regulations.

"The sons of princes are all kings and lords..."

"Um······"

He groaned and turned his head to the side, and when he saw Zhang Cang's face with the same loneliness as his own, Wang Ling's face finally showed a hint of worry.

But Wang Ling was not in a hurry to interrupt Liu Ying, but nodded slightly at Liu Ying, signaling Liu Ying to continue talking.

——Wang Ling has a premonition.

Compared with the seemingly impeccable "Tweeting Order", which is actually quite dangerous, the other laws proposed by Liu Ying may be more dangerous...
Seeing Wang Ling's calm expression indicating that he should continue, the relaxed look on Liu Ying's face was also quietly replaced by a touch of hesitation.

But Liu Ying didn't get too entangled, she just pondered for a while, and then briefly outlined the core content of the remaining laws and regulations.

""The Law of Zuo Guan" is because my Han Zuo respects the right, so it says: All the princes and ministers sent by the court are right officials, and the ministers appointed by the princes themselves are left officials."

"The left officials and the right officials have the same rank, and the right officials are respected, and the left officials are not allowed to enter the court as ministers, not to live in Guanzhong for a long time, and not to be promoted; if the princes are guilty, all the left officials in the country will sit together..."

"The "Further Benefits Law" states that princes bribe courtiers, or courtiers collude with princes to benefit princes, all of which say: attaching benefits to courtiers, and prohibiting it; ..."

""A Party Law", it is said: The two thousand stones of the princes, such as the Taifu, the state minister, and the internal history, should be appointed by the court, and the princes are not allowed to hire themselves; Same crime..."

As Liu Ying explained the content of these legal regulations in sequence, Wang Ling and Zhang Cang frowned a little bit in unison.

When he heard the last sentence, "The two thousand stones of princes are appointed by the court, and princes and kings cannot be appointed or dismissed privately", Wang Ling finally frowned tightly.

Seeing that the two seemed to have negotiated, and they were wearing pain masks at the same time, Liu Ying's words could not help but froze, and there was no trace of confidence in the eyes of the two.

"An Guohou thinks..."

"What's wrong?"

Asking with a suspicious tone, Wang Ling finally recovered from his contemplation, stared at Liu Ying with a strange expression for a long time, and then shook his head to himself.

"If all the strategies His Highness said are feasible, they will be of great benefit to the court."

"Of course..."

Unsurprisingly, after saying a 'but', Zhang Cang looked at Liu Ying, and became more cautious.

"Have you ever heard at home: Governing a big country is like cooking small fish?"

(End of this chapter)