Dahan first prince

Chapter 266 Oh~ I'm young...
Hearing Wang Ling's meaningful reminder, Liu Ying's eyes suddenly became complicated.

Governing a big country is like cooking small fish, which comes from Chapter 60 of Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching", which can be regarded as a very representative value embodiment in Lao Tzu, and even the entire Huang-Lao theory.

As for the political wisdom implied in this sentence, it is actually not too deep and difficult to understand.

——Governing a large country is like cooking delicious dishes. It seems that every step is ordinary, and there is no special point that needs special attention, but in fact, it is each of these seemingly ordinary steps that makes the most of the food. The end result is a delicious dish.

To put it more simply, it is 'no small matter above the court', but all state affairs should be treated with caution regardless of size.

And now, in the Han Dynasty, where Huang-Lao School is the ruling school, the saying "governing a big country is like cooking a small fish" has a deeper and more philosophical interpretation.

And the core of this new interpretation is to proceed step by step and control the 'fire' of the dishes.

——Is it a question of right and wrong when the first emperor won the government and abolished the enfeoffment, or is it a question of "heat"?
In later generations, the answer to this question may not be absolute, but in today's Han Dynasty, it is unanimous.

In the eyes of the high-ranking officials and courtiers of the Han Dynasty today, Shihuang's abolition of enfeoffment is a very typical case of "wanting to cook well, but because he didn't control the heat well, the whole kitchen was burned down".

In this way, it is self-evident that Wang Ling gave a suggestion to Liu Ying's series of legal regulations that "governing a big country is like cooking a small fish".
"Whoo~"

Wanting to understand this point, Liu Ying only exhaled a breath of foul air, and bowed solemnly to Wang Ling with sincerity.

"Wang An Guohou will not hesitate to enlighten me!"

——As early as the day before yesterday, when she exported the decree of Tweeting Entitlement and the Law of Subsidy, Liu Ying already had the plan of "testing the reaction of the court" and made all psychological preparations.

But now, Wang Ling is willing to point out that these legal regulations, which have been proven by history, may cause "fire" problems in today's Han Dynasty. Liu Ying is also happy to hear it.

After all, it is better to be educated by a founding father than to blindly introduce laws and regulations in the future, which will lead to some unacceptable consequences...
"Chen, be bold..."

Seeing that Liu Ying's expression did not show any displeasure, Wang Ling secretly heaved a sigh of relief, and his evaluation of Liu Ying could not help but rise to a higher level.

——Regardless of temperament and ability, being able to listen to advice, especially advice pointing out one's own shortcomings, alone, Liu Ying is enough to become a qualified heir to the regime in Wangling Yangli!

With this level of evaluation in mind, Wang Ling no longer had any reservations, and put all his opinions in front of Liu Ying.

"A while ago, His Highness occasionally pointed out that the princes caused chaos, which caused the disadvantages of Han Zuo's self-depletion, and also mentioned various methods such as twittering, seconding, and so on. The minister and the Marquis of Beiping have already guessed one or two of His Highness's intentions."

As he spoke, Wang Ling did not forget to smile and look at Zhang Cang, before turning his face slightly serious.

"The "Tweeting Order" drafted by His Highness seems to make the court effortless, and eliminate the danger of the Kwantung princes being invincible."

"However, the truth is, firstly, the results cannot be seen quickly, secondly, it will not be popular in the world, and thirdly, it is even more harmful to the world, especially the defense of the North Wall!"

The tone of voice was full of solemnity, and there was no trace of relaxation on Wang Ling's face.

"Eight of the people with different surnames from the establishment of the Han Dynasty, but now Yingbu is in rebellion and collapsed. In the future, the Han family will be in the Kanto, and only the Wu family of Changsha Wang will be left to the princes with different surnames."

"Therefore, His Highness's "Tweeting Order" must be the master of the clan princes."

"This is why the minister said that 'the results cannot be seen quickly'..."

"—Today those who are clan vassals in the Guandong will win the three kings of Chu, Qi, and Zhao, and the fourth son of the emperor Heng will be named the acting king soon."

"In addition to these four, Liang Wang Pengyue has been awarded the head, Jing Wang Liu Jia died in battle, Huainan Wang Yingbu was defeated and fled Yongcheng, Yan Wang Lu Wan has also turned against him, and the removal of his prince is only a matter of ten months. "

"When His Majesty arrives at Fengfei and worships the ancestors, and returns to Chang'an together with His Highness, the first ones to discuss in the court will be His Majesty's sons, Wang Liang, Yan, Jing, and Huainan and other places."

After saying these words with a serious expression, Wang Ling looked at Liu Ying with more warning.

"Think about it, Your Highness."

"Chu Wangjiao is His Majesty's half-brother, and he is over sixty years old. He used the "Tweeting Order" to pass on the "Tweet En Order" to the princes of the Chu king, and he can still divide the Chu country into princes."

"Except for the king of Chu, how many princes of the Guandong clan will be crowned as adults, and how many will have children when they are young?"

Having said that, Wang Ling couldn't help shaking his head with a serious expression.

"Your Majesty, the king of Qi is the elder, but even the king of Qi is only over twenty years old, and all the sons of the king of Qi are either at the age of Zongjiao or in their infancy."

"If you want to push En Qi's sons and divide the Qi country, even the widows, you should wait for [-] years before you can do it."

"The eldest son of His Majesty the King of Qi is not yet the age to be crowned. King Zhao, Dai Wang, or the princes who have not yet been crowned are even younger."

"If you want to wait for him to die when he is old, and then extend his favor to split the land of the princes, I am afraid that it will not be possible for thirty or fifty years."

"However, where did the disadvantages of the great power of the princes come from for thirty or fifty years, as an opportunity to turn around?"

Having said this, Wang Ling paused abruptly, lowered his head, and let Liu Ying digest the contents.

——There is one last sentence, which Wang Ling did not dare to say.

Today, Liu Bang is over sixty years old, and his health is deteriorating, but among Liu's clan members, there are still many adult royal families who came from side branches...
Even leaving aside Liu Bang's second brother, Liu Xi, who once lost his throne because of "running away in battle", Liu Bi and Liu Xin, two offshoots of the second generation of the Liu family, are definitely not easy to get along with!
Yes.

Now that Liu Bang is still alive, the two nephews Liu Bi and Liu Xin can't afford to make trouble at all.

But don't forget: Yingbo's rebellion, the Han Dynasty also folded in a Jing Wang Liu Jia!
Jingdi was originally entrusted to Liu Jia, an offshoot clan by Liu Bang today. Now that Liu Jia is gone, there is a high probability that Jingdi will still be conferred on offshoot clan.

As for who to give it to, it depends on 'Gengjiehou' and 'Liu Xi's son', who can be less hated by Liu Bang today.

Judging from the past events of "Gengjiehou" and Liu Bi's performance in this counter-insurgency, there is a high probability that Liu Xi's son Liu Bi will win Wang Jingdi in the future.

What kind of person is Liu Bi?

——In history, the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu that occurred in the early years of Emperor Jing was almost caused by Liu Bi!
Such a person, can accept Liu Ying, a fart who is only [-] or [-] years old, what kind of bullshit "Tweeting Order" is launched?
Refusal to obey the edict, it is all light!

I'm afraid that when the time comes, this freshly baked king of Jing will bite his teeth and raise his troops to make trouble again. I'm afraid this matter will not be so easy to deal with...

——The pot of rebellion by the clan princes is definitely not something that the young emperor Liu Ying, who has just ascended the throne, has not yet controlled the court, and has not yet performed the crown ceremony, can easily move it!

The reason is very simple.

Liu Bang is here, and the clan members are not rebellious. How come your relatives rebelled as soon as Liu Ying came to power?
Oh ~
It turned out to be "Tweeting Order"~
Who implemented the "Tweet Order"?
Therefore, what Wang Ling really wants to say is not just the problem of 'the princes of the clan are still too young, and the "Tweeting Order" will not be effective in a short time", but that this obviously implied evil decree may cause some problems. The violent reaction of the clan princes, especially those young and strong clan princes who were born in side branches.

Regarding this point, Liu Ying obviously didn't spend too much effort to understand it, she just lowered her head and thought for a moment, then nodded with a wry smile.

Seeing that Liu Ying was willing to accept her opinion, Wang Ling continued: "Second: It is to make the world dissatisfied, thinking that our Han family is benevolent!"

"Your Highness, you should know that the system of enfeoffment has existed since the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and it has a long history."

"However, looking at the past thousands of years, there has never been a case of 'dividing the clan as king, and using this king's sons to split their soil'."

"Although the "Tui En Order" only splits the land of the princes and kings his sons, the court does not seize half an inch of the land of the princes, but as seen by the people of the world, this is not the same as the death of a farmer, and the princes Split up?"

"Farmers and peasants are divided into different households. Still, the eldest son gets all of the father's field, and the remaining sons only get a little money and food. The other households rely on themselves."

"The people are like this, the princes are the kings, and they are the royal family, how can they share their production equally among the princes?"

"The old minister said that the "Tweeting Order" may make the world dissatisfied. It is because of this, or when the people of the world are divided into different households, the sons will get disputes because of the father's unevenness. do not."

"If this is the case, the national policy of our Han family being strong and weak, and moving to the world to be stronger than Guanzhong will be shaken..."

Hearing this, even though she was unwilling to admit it, Liu Ying could only smile helplessly and nod.

Wang Lingkou said that the strong and the weak, and the tyrants in Guangqian are stronger than Guanzhong, which seems to have nothing to do with the "Tweeting Order".

But Liu Ying was very clear in her heart: Wang Ling's words accurately hit the only key point in "Tweeting Order".

——The genetic model of equal distribution of family property, a blow to the small peasant economy and society!
Strong stems and weak ends, as the name suggests, are strong stems and weak ends.

To put it more clearly, it is the support and protection of the small landlord and self-cultivating peasant class pursued by the Han Dynasty today to consolidate and strengthen the "farm base"; suppress the big landlord and powerful class to weaken and suppress the "Shang Dynasty".

One of the most critical policies in the Han Dynasty to support the small landlord and self-cultivating peasant class and suppress the big landlord and powerful class was the compulsory separation of households.

To put it simply, it is through legal regulations to force folk men to establish their own family after they reach adulthood, so as to avoid the emergence of large clans, even clans, and aristocratic families.

Regarding this policy, the powerful landlord class with "low political background" naturally couldn't resist, so they could only obediently distribute the family property to their sons and let them separate into separate households.

However, in order to ensure the effectiveness of the policy, ordinary small landlords and self-cultivators were also included in the scope of compulsory separation of households by the Han Dynasty.

In this way, in order to ensure the continuation of the family and the preservation of the family wealth to the greatest extent, no matter whether the landlord is powerful or the owner-peasant, the only way is to adopt the method of "the eldest son inherits most of the production tools, and the rest will share some start-up funds".

If the landlord is powerful, he will inevitably pack up all the mansions, shops, and even the fields to the tenants and pass them on to the eldest son, so as to ensure the longevity of the "dimension" as much as possible.

The self-cultivating farmers are similar, leaving all the fields and houses to the eldest son, and then giving the other sons a few stones of grain and thousands of dollars, and let them go out to work hard on their own.

At first glance, compared with the inheritance distribution plan of "the eldest son takes all, and the rest are kicked out", it is obviously an even distribution, which can better serve the purpose of weakening the power of the landlord.

But if this is really done, the power of the landlords will be weakened, but the self-cultivating peasant class, which was still barely surviving, will completely lose the ability to "self-reliance" in just one generation.

This is not difficult to understand.

——The powerful landlord’s family has a big business. Even if they have a few more sons, some of the inheritance will be distributed to the sons.

But the self-cultivating peasant class, especially the self-cultivating peasant class in the Han Dynasty today, is almost invariable with "one hundred mu of land per household"!
In this case, if the family inheritance is not ensured through the "differentiation between the son and the concubine", the tragedy of "one owner farmer being divided into several tenant farmers" or even several tenant slaves is very likely to happen!
It is the same as most of the later generations: as the main contributors to military service, labor service, and taxation, as well as the most solid supporter of Liu Han's society, the self-cultivating peasant class accounts for [-]% or more of the population of the Han Dynasty today.

As for the rich and powerful and the big landlords, like most of the times in the future market, they only account for a very small proportion.

In order to weaken the whole world, which is only a few thousand tyrants, they drag millions of self-cultivating farmers to destruction. This is obviously not something a qualified regime can do.

Therefore, in order not to harm the fragile self-cultivating peasant class, and in order to ensure that the 'distinction between concubine and concubine' and 'inheritance of the eldest son' are widely involved, and even involve the etiquette and legal order of the rules of succession to the throne, the plan of 'equal inheritance' must not be Appear in the Han Dynasty in any form.

At least for a few decades, it cannot appear in the form of a prominent group like the "Princes and Kings" or a national law like the "Tweeting Order".

This is also easy to understand.

— Divide the inheritance equally?
——Then share one with your royal family and let me see!

——A position of emperor, I see how many people you can sit on!
"Ugh·······"

"You're still young..."

"Even in order to protect the eldest son inheritance system, the Tweet Order cannot appear so early..."

While thinking about it, Wang Ling wanted to watch again, but was stopped by Liu Ying raising her hand with a wry smile.

"An Guohou don't need to say any more."

"I know it alone."

"——Thirdly, the current hall is small and the treasury is empty, and the north wall is not enough to protect itself. If you push the favor to weaken the princes such as Yan, Dai, Zhao, etc., the north wall will be useless to the Xiongnu... ···”

Seeing that Liu Ying took the initiative to express her third concern about "Tweeting Order", Wang Ling only smiled in relief, and immediately bowed to Liu Ying.

"His Royal Highness is talented and intelligent, given time, he will surely become another brilliant monarch..."

Hearing Wang Ling's compliment, Liu Ying smiled wryly and shook her head.

"I didn't even expect the disadvantages of the "Tweeting Order" and the possible negative impact on the Han Dynasty today..."

"Gu, can you really become a Mingjun..."

Shaking her head again with a bitter expression, Liu Ying finally stood up in a daze, and bowed to Wang Ling and Zhang Cang.

——Liu Ying benefited a lot from today's meeting.

As for the Zuoguan Order, the Subsidiary Law, the Albanian Party Law and many other legal regulations restricting the separatist forces of the princes, the most moderate "Tweeting Order" has been pointed out as "not applicable to the Han Dynasty today", and there is no more The meaning of continuing to discuss...

(End of this chapter)