Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 362 The True Essence of Enfeoffment and Centralization
"Who taught you what you said to Lan Yu and the others that day."

In the study, Chen Yunfu looked at his eldest son, Chen Jinghe, in front of him, and asked with a smile.

The little guy was a little nervous. Facing his father, he couldn't help but feel a little lacking in confidence, and he didn't dare to hide it.

"Yes, it's mother."

"Ah."

Chen Yunfu had guessed the result a long time ago, so there was no surprise at all, but he smiled more happily: "Then did your mother tell you, why did you say that?"

"My mother said that my father's great achievements cannot be accomplished in one generation. Lan Yu and Chang Mao will all be emperors in the future. If they feel that their father does not have a good successor, they will lose confidence in our Chen family and give birth to children who should not be born. thoughts."

"Your mother is right." Chen Yunfu nodded, and then sighed: "Kyushu may take 50 years, or even 100 years to realize it. I can't live for that time as a father, so I need you, and I need you more. Children and grandchildren do it one generation after another.

Your mother's worry is also right. Our Chen family needs to give them confidence. Only when they have confidence in us can they support us forever. Only by working together can such a great achievement be realized. "

Chen Jinghe breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that his father didn't blame him, he became more at ease, and became more courageous, and asked cautiously: "Father, mother said that you have never thought about Tianxia Zongzhou, but, but The six kingdoms returned to Qin."

Chen Yunfu's hand that was about to pour tea was hanging in the air. Although he recovered quickly, Chen Jinghe caught the moment of absent-mindedness, and he knew what his father was thinking in an instant.

"Is that what your mother told you?"

"Yes, but I think so myself."

Chen Yunfu smiled: "Nonsense, do you, a child, know what is Tianxia Zongzhou and what is Six Kingdoms Returning to Qin?"

"Back then, King Wu Jifa distributed the titles to the kings, and divided the Kyushu of Nuoda into 71 vassal states. All these vassal states respected the Zhou royal family. This is Tianxia Zongzhou.

After hundreds of years of conquest in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, they were finally classified as the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period. The First Emperor Fen VI and the survivors swept the six kingdoms and unified them. This is the return of the six kingdoms to Qin. "

"What you're talking about is just a historical allusion. What about essence? Do you understand what essence means?"

Chen Jinghe expressed his own opinion: "The clan and Zhou of the world are enfeoffment, and the return of the six kingdoms to Qin is the centralization of power."

"Father, resetting Kyushu means enfeoffment, and the unification of Kyushu in the future means centralization."

Chen Yunfu chuckled, and then asked: "Then do you think that when Emperor Taizu assigned his son to be a vassal king, it was considered a feudal enfeoffment?"

"of course."

"madness!"

Chen Yunfu directly reprimanded: "If your knowledge is only so shallow, how can you inherit the great cause of being a father?"

"Back then, King Wu Jifa defeated Yin and Shang. In essence, it was the same as usurping the imperial power for his father today. He swallowed the big with the small, and he didn't destroy one country by one country.

Even though the Yin and Shang were subjugated, Ji Fa still respected the Yin and Shang as a big merchant, and called Zhou a small country. He didn't even dare to give his father Ji Chang a posthumous title, and called himself Prince Fa, never called a king.

In the name of Prince Fa, he enfeoffed all the princes who came to help him destroy the Yin and Shang to various places to build a country, such as Song Dynasty, Wei Dynasty, and Chen Dynasty. These places were densely populated places in the Central Plains back then. Jiang Ziya, Zhou Gongdan and other meritorious ministers and brothers were entrusted to Qilu, Chukui and other places, which are now Shandong, Huguang, Sichuan and Shu.

You know, at the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, Shandong was still called Dongyi, and it was the place where the Yin and Shang dynasties captured slaves.

The royal family of Ji and Zhou couldn't even get their hands on the most affluent place, and King Zhou's brothers Weizi and Jizi were assigned to be kings in Dayi, the most populous city in the Central Plains.

Enfeoffment, not so much a system, is more like a compromise.

After all the princes who joined forces to destroy the Shang left satisfied, Ji Facai gave his father Ji Chang the posthumous title of Wen, and called him King Wen. At that time, more than ten years had passed since Ji Chang's death.

It was only after the world was pacified that Ji Fa dared to change the name of the crown prince that he had held for more than ten years to the king. Remember, it is the king, not the emperor.

Do you remember the name of King Zhou? "

"Zi Shou."

"Yes, his name is Zishou, and Zishou's name is Shou, so what's his father's name?"

"Zi Xian."

"Where's grandfather?"

"Zituo."

"Then do you still remember the calendar year numbers used by their grandfathers three generations after they ascended the throne?"

Chen Jinghe endorsed them one by one: "Zi Shou's calendar year name is Di Xin, Zi Xian's calendar year name is Di Yi, Zi Tuo's year name is Di Tai Ding, and Di Tai Ding's father is Di Wu Yi."

"The kings of the Shang Dynasty, except for the founding monarch Zitang, all the successor kings used the heavenly stems of the year when they ascended the throne as the calendar year names. A, B, C, D, Wuxu, Geng, Xin, Rengui, because they are emperors, they are prefixed with the word emperor. .

Yin and Shang ruled the whole country, so they proclaimed themselves emperors, but in the Zhou Dynasty, they became kings instead. Why, because Ji Zhou was not the co-lord of the world, and Ji Fa himself knew that all the princes in the world respected the Zhou royal family as the co-lords, so there was the world's patriarch Zhou's statement.

If he unified the rivers and mountains, his father would not be called Zhou Wenwang, but Zhou Wendi. "

"The enfeoffment in the early years of the Zhou Dynasty was of the same nature as the enfeoffment after the overlord of Western Chu defeated Qin, and the enfeoffment after Liu Bang destroyed Chu. Didn't Xiang Yu want to centralize power, and didn't Liu Bang want to centralize power?

They all think, but the princes from all walks of life are not their subjects, they just gather together because of common interests and goals to overthrow another regime. Therefore, power must be equally divided, and politics must be compromised.

At this moment, just like at that moment, demarcating Kyushu for my father, and assigning Lan Yu and others to Mengzhou and Liaozhou, this is just a political compromise under the political cloak of the enfeoffment system.

If they can't get these things, they won't support your father and me. Without their support, as a father, you won't be able to drastically promote reforms.

There will never be any enfeoffment system, and there will never be any centralized system. You have to see the essence and the essence of politics through these external things.

The essence of the return of the Six Kingdoms to Qin is that the emperor and the strong soldiers and horses will do it!
Whoever has the biggest fist, the world will listen to whoever.

And if you want to have big fists, you must try your best to master three things: gun barrels, money bags, and official hats.

The barrel of a gun can make others fear you, and the money bag and official hat can make others follow you.

If you grasp these three things, you will automatically realize the centralization of power. Let alone nine states, nine hundred states will still be centralized.

Therefore, even if Taizu entrusted the feudal kings, but he let these feudal lords die at the third watch, these vassal kings would never dare to live to the fifth watch. His decrees go to the vassal kings, and those vassal kings must unconditionally implement and implement them. He didn't even dare to think about why he did this. Even if the Taizu sealed off dozens of countries, it was still centralized! "

Chen Jinghe's small head obviously couldn't hold so many things, but he still expressed his disbelief.

"With dozens of countries drawn out, how could it still be centralized."

"Ha ha ha ha."

Chen Yunfu laughed: "Son, let me tell you a story. There used to be a world with more than 200 national regimes, but there was one country that was particularly powerful. It had the military power to destroy all countries and had the power to impact the economies of more than 200 countries. He has the power to issue currency and has the political power to subvert the power of a small country at will, so he established a joint political organization that he can control in his palm.

Forcing all these countries to join this political organization, he can use this organization to do what he wants at will, and put on the cloak of legality. If other countries do not listen, he will imitate the name and attack that country.

It wasn't until other countries that could compete with this country appeared in that world that he began to gradually restrain his wanton arrogance, so there was a joke in that world.

What seems to be a world of more than 200 countries is actually just three kingdoms. "

"Son, do you think that when his family is dominant, is the whole world divided or centralized?"

Chen Jinghe nodded with a vague understanding.

"Forget enfeoffment and centralization, when you are strong enough to control the entire world in your palm, whether it is enfeoffment or centralization, it is just a political game in your palm.

Zhongzhou is our root, and what your father and I want to do is to lay a solid foundation for you in Zhongzhou and give you an extremely powerful central empire. You don’t need to be an emperor, you only need to control a political organization covering Kyushu. , Which state is disobedient, you will destroy it! "

Which state is disobedient, you will destroy it!

(End of this chapter)