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Chapter 146
Beiping, Prince Yan's Mansion.

Just when King Jin received the military letter from the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

King Yan, who was far away in Beiping, also received the military letter.

The content is similar to that of the King of Jin, and it is nothing more than telling him to organize the army and prepare for the Northern Expedition next year.

However, compared with King Jin's big moves, King Yan's side is just a partial division, and there are not many troops that need to be mobilized, only more than 2.

The soldiers were all seasoned old frontier soldiers, but most of the generals were young generals who had only been transferred to the Peking capital in the last three years.

This is also one of Emperor Hongwu's good calculations.

With the help of this Northern Expedition, some outstanding young generals were selected for the dynasty.

Not only King Yan's side, King Jin's side also has a large number of young generals who have been transferred to the border guards from Datong, Xuanfu to Beiping in the past few years to serve as mid-level generals.

At that time, these young generals will participate in the big battle to regain Hetao.

If there are excellent generals, they will naturally stand out, be promoted and cultivated by the center, and transferred back to the inland for promotion.

This is also what Emperor Hongwu was teaching his grandson how to maintain the central government's combat power.

First, the outstanding graduates of the Central Military Academy are sent to the frontier army for training for a few years, and then they are trained to become talents, and then transferred back to the inland for training for a few years, so that a qualified senior general can be trained.

And Nine Sides is just an incubator for the center to cultivate excellent generals!

The armaments of the Central Committee, because of the existence of the Mo Academy, all weapons are the most advanced and used first.

Coupled with these elite generals who have played on the battlefield.

The central government will be able to maintain its advantage over King Sai!

It's not that Emperor Hongwu couldn't see that the kings of Sai were a great threat to the grandson, especially the fourth king of Yan.

Otherwise, he would not have arranged for King Jin to check and balance King Yan.

But his psychology is very contradictory.

He really didn't want to cut down the feudal clan, and he didn't want to raise the descendants of the clan as pigs. The frontier system of Saiwang Town was the most suitable for Daming!

But the emperor cannot tolerate any risk of destabilizing the throne!
So he has been preparing for the possible rebellion of the kings after the grandson ascended the throne.

The Northern Expedition was also to move the kings of Sai to move further away to Mobei.

When they arrived in Mobei, without the support of the central government, it was difficult for these kings of Sai to gain a firm foothold, let alone reverse.

For at least one or two hundred years, King Sai, who guards Mobei, has to submit to the central government. Only with the support of the central government can he defend his Mobei feudal kingdom.

In this way, the clan went out of the town to protect the safety of the Central Plains.

Not only can the nomads in Lingbei Province no longer threaten the hinterland of Ming Dynasty, but they must always face the threat of the princes encroaching on the pasture territory.

With these Sai kings standing out for the court, the Ming Dynasty was also stabilized.

The kings of Mobei have to focus on defending against the enemies further north, and they don't have to worry about any princes' rebellion.

This is the most secure and the best policy for Daming.

It is easy to cut down the vassal, but if the vassal is cut off, the northern barbarians in Lingbei need the emperor himself to take over.

And it will become very difficult to expand the land, after all, Mobei is too far away, and government orders are difficult to pass.

If you seal a Mobei Protectorate similar to the Protectorate of the Western Regions, which the military and government seized, and send the Governor of Mobei to take care of it, what is the difference from enforcing the King of Sai?
King Sai is at least from his own family, all surnamed Zhu.

The courtier's surname is not Zhu!

Even if this kind of governor of Mobei can be changed every three to five years, once the central government declines, I am afraid that Mobei will lose its soil immediately, just like the Tang Dynasty back then.

But if the kings of the feudal towns build a feudal country, even if the central government is weakened, even the main line will be subverted.

At least it can guarantee that the old Zhu's family has other Guozuo outside, and the Ming Dynasty is not dead yet.

At worst, the kings of Mobei will fight and compete for a new emperor, who will ascend the throne in Mobei and proclaim himself emperor, and then continue the Ming dynasty.

For public and private purposes, for the country and for the Zhu family, these are all good things!
In his left hand he held the military order of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion, and in his right hand he held a secret letter that only he knew the code of.

After reading the two telegrams, King Yan's expression was very complicated.

The military order of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion is not bad, it is nothing more than making him prepare for the next year's expedition.

But the secret letter from his father, emperor Hong Wudi, made him feel very complicated.

In this secret letter that only the King of Yan could understand, Emperor Hongwu told King Yan of his thoughts unabashedly.

He even directly promised him that in the future, all of Mobei will be taken, and King Yan will at least get a large feudal country with a length and width of more than a thousand miles!

And it's sealed!
You can manage the army as well as the people, you are allowed to recruit officials yourself, and you can create a country!
The only requirement is only one point, the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" must be followed in the country, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty should be the main one.

Moreover, it is not an external domain, but an internal domain, and must obey the command of the central government!

In addition, the king of Yan can decide the affairs of the middle school with one word!

This authority is almost the same as that of the princes in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties!

Except that the place is really too far away from the hometown of Ming Dynasty, the straight-line distance is more than [-] miles, and in addition to the remote places in Mobei, it is even [-] miles away from the Central Plains.

Everything else is fine.

As an uncle, he doesn't have to face his nephew, the emperor, in the country.

You can build a national temple by yourself, set up the ancestral temple of the Yan Kingdom, and call yourself the king and ancestor!

Maybe I won't be able to return to the Central Plains once in my life, and I don't even have the chance to kneel down to worship my nephew the emperor.

The treatment is much better than Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue who surrendered his dignity, professed his minister to Emperor Wen of Han, and lived his own life behind closed doors!

After staring at the secret letter for a long time, King Yan let out a long sigh.

The throne is really getting farther and farther away from him.

Compared with when he first became a grandson, now he has gradually accepted the fact that the next successor of this huge empire will not be him, but that nephew.

Emperor Hongwu took general measures to prevent the possibility of King Yan's rebellion after he came to heaven.

King Yan also saw all this.

He also knew in his heart that it was unrealistic to overthrow the new emperor of Yingtian Mansion Zheng Er Ba who had been edicted to the throne just by relying on more than 1 guards in the palace.

If he dared to raise an army, he would definitely end up with a decapitated body and no place to bury him.

Compared to the fate of having to kneel down and beg his nephew to survive.

Now the treatment proposed by Emperor Hongwu to enfeoff Mobei is really very good.

It also shows that the father does still have a few of their children in his heart.

Although it is said that the throne of the emperor is gone, it is not bad to have a sealed kingdom.

To be honest, King Yan, who has been weighing in his heart for several years, is already very satisfied with Emperor Hongwu's arrangement.

Before reaching a dead end, no one wants to take risks and gamble on the road to rebellion that only has a one-in-a-thousand chance of success.

There is a more secure and fairly bright road to choose, what more is there to ask for?

After being silent in the hall for a long time, King Yan put away the two telegrams and shouted out in a deep voice, "Come here!"

"Choose one hundred and twenty of the best pearls presented by Liaodong in the mansion, and send them back to the capital, seventy to His Majesty, and fifty to the grandson!"

"In addition, send the son to bring the orphan's memorial to the capital to meet His Majesty."

"After the audience, the son will stay in the capital."

After thinking about it, maybe because he felt that this was not enough, King Yan added: "Let the son and the concubine return to Beijing together!"

"If there is no order from His Majesty, you will not be allowed to return to Beiping!"

The guards in the mansion who had been guarding outside the door immediately took orders respectfully and went to look for the crown prince.

(End of this chapter)