When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Moving the capital cannot be accomplished with just a few words.

There are so many things going on.

Zixun took the map and found Ziping, Lufu and others who had hurried back.

Especially Zi Ping and Lu Fu, when Zi Xun saw them, his expression changed obviously.

He frowned when he saw Zi Ping, because Zi Ping looked so miserable now, his left ear was missing and there were many scars on his face.

I heard that Danshanrong reported him.

Gaomai means to inform the ancestors through sacrifice that the enemy country's wheat is ripe. Should we steal it?

Ever since the Ji-surnamed Zhou clan in the Guanlong area cooperated with the Dayi Shang, the Danshan Rong have been beaten every day and have been forced to farm and hunt in the mountains. As a result, there was not enough food and many people died.

In order to survive, the Danshan Rong plundered along the upper reaches of the Luo River.

Zi Ping's fiefdom was in the later counties of Luoning and Yiyang. The Danshan Rong rushed out of the mountains just to rob them.

Then Zi Ping fought more than ten battles with the Danshan Rong, with both sides winning and losing.

But in one battle, the Danshan Rong pretended to be defeated and lured the enemy deep into their territory. Zi Ping didn't think much about it and was ambushed.

If Lu's father had not been taking him to deliver tribute to Liang Xiao at that time, on the way back, he would have wanted to visit Ziping, and would have turned to Ziping's territory and brought people to assist in the rescue.

Zi Ping had already lost his life by the Luo River.

In short, Zi Ping has a bad image nowadays.

Zi Ping didn't care either.

It's just an ear missing, it's not like he's dead.

Such was the case on the western front.

If you want to live a good life, you can't avoid fighting with the barbarians in the mountains.

After relaxing his expression a little, Zixun looked at Lu's father. This time, Lu's father's attire was more like the costume of Yan State.

"I summoned you two here because I intend to transfer you two to the royal capital to help me. Your hard work will not be in vain. I will arrange a fief for you, and you will be the royal family of my Great City Shang in the future."

Upon hearing this, Zi Ping was visibly stunned: "Migrate again?"

"No, only the two of you will come with the elite troops, and the rest will continue to stay in your fiefdoms. The royal family is not hereditary. The fiefdom is still yours, but the fiefdom is to allow you to live a decent life while living in the royal capital."

Zixun said something.

"Just like the State of Yan? We serve as officials in the capital, and the governance of the local areas is left to our descendants or retainers?"

"That's right." Zixun nodded. "Moving the capital is not just a simple move. I still have to solve some problems. Especially the problems of the nobles."

Zixun's tone became a little colder.

He gets angry when he mentions the nobility.

Even though this group of nobles openly agreed to his plan to move the capital, they were still making small moves behind the scenes.

And it's becoming more and more obvious.

Seeing their unrestrained behavior, Zixun decided that since the other party wanted to make trouble, it would depend on who was faster.

"Although the system of Yan State is not completely suitable for us, there are some things that can be modified and imitated, such as salaries and officials. To govern a country, you still need a complete team of retainers. I have many people I can use, but you are the only ones I really like.

Therefore, I have to transfer you back.

If you are worried that the fiefdom is too far forward and dangerous, I can rearrange it for you."

"That's not necessary. We have built it well, and we have to start all over again after the migration. It's too troublesome."

Father Lu shook his head slightly to deny the idea.

"Yes, that's right." Zi Ping also had the same attitude.

Although the Danshan Rong were annoying, he later joined forces with Lu Fu and Liang Xiao and plowed them several times. The Danshan Rong have now been driven away, and the west can be guaranteed to be stable for at least a decade.

In this way, there would not be any major problems for them to come to the royal capital to take up public office.

"Okay, if you have any questions, you can always tell me." Zixun did not force them, but handed them a map and said, "Choose a piece of land on it as a fiefdom."

The map is spread out.

When Lu Fu and Zi Ping came over, they saw on the map that "Wang Ji" was written on the triangular area of ​​Bo Yi (Shangqiu) - Luo Yi (Luoyang) - Yin Yi (Anyang). And two hundred miles outside Wang Ji, there was another big triangle at Peng Shi (Xuzhou) - Anyi (Yuncheng) - Bi Yi (Xingtai), with the word "Bian Bi" written in the middle of the big and small triangles.

Zixun saw them looking at each other in bewilderment, and explained, "The royal capital and the border together constitute the inner territories. All the fiefdoms here will be unified into fiefdoms, and the local Zi surnamed nobles and common people, as well as the relatives and people of the court officials, will have the privilege of going to the battlefield. As you can see, although I cannot learn from Xin Qu and recruit all the slaves to join the battlefield, even if I delegate the privilege to the common people, it will be enough to mobilize warriors of the same scale as Yan State."

This sentence is full of heroism.

Xin Qu had been struggling for more than ten years, but the total population of Yan State he managed to create could be of the same size as a war population that could be mobilized with just a few words from others.

The difference in size between the two is extremely large.

Father Lu was silent.

Zi Ping nodded in understanding and said, "But will the nobles agree?"

"After the capital is moved, I will issue an order that all forces living in the inner court must submit their population registers. Ten households form a li, ten li form a jia, and ten jia form a township. These lijia need to be supervised by someone. Noble families have nothing else but a bunch of concubines. For every additional township, a hereditary township chief position can be arranged under the noble of the fief. The noble who holds the position of township chief can serve as a baizhang after going to the battlefield. And the jiazhang can serve as a shizhang, and the lizhang can serve as a wuzhang."

As soon as Zixun said this, Ziping's expression immediately became serious.

Doing so would be tantamount to cutting off the nobles. Zi Ping hesitated for a while before saying, "Is there really no one who objects?"

"We won't give them a chance to object." Zixun glanced around and confirmed that there were only three of them before he said, "Move the capital to one place, and all the nobles will mobilize their core forces to Bo.

At this time, they had no foundation and nowhere to retreat.

As long as they give an order, the people under their command will have ideas. Especially those followers. "

"..."

Zi Ping nodded and looked at Lu's father: "Yan State is more familiar with this matter. What do you think?"

Upon hearing this, Father Lu looked at the map again, strengthened his memory, and then raised his head and said, "Prince, it is definitely impossible to learn from Yan State completely. However, there is an item in the clan system implemented by Qu in Yan State called the inheritance order.

When parents die, half of the family property will be taken by the major part and the other half by the minor part.

You can learn big and small sects.”

"Express favor?" Zixun thought for a moment and nodded: "Xin Qu has walked a path before, and it's a useful method, so I naturally won't refuse it. And this thing really has little resistance.

But I can’t do this.

Because it involves inheritance rights. "

Father Lu curled his lips and pretended not to say anything.

The system of Dayi Shang meant that inheritance rights must be passed on to the younger brother after the elder brother's death, and it was not normal for the son to inherit the father's place.

The system of clan sons and daughters created by Xinqu was implemented in conjunction with the system of primogeniture, especially the complete set of "Clan Law" created by Xinqu, which included a complete set of procedures to help the next generation of heirs become adopted sons.

Dayi Shang does not have this foundation.

Under the fiefdom system, Zixun could give up part of his interests so that more noble descendants could benefit from it, and in this way unite the people.

But he could not really enforce the patriarchal system, otherwise the first ones to rebel would be his two younger brothers.

By then, the situation that was hard to unify will be torn apart.

"From now on, officials with the surname Zi in the royal capital will be called Gong.

Officials with other surnames are collectively called Qing.

Outside the royal capital, the descendants of the princes with the surname Zi will be the heirs to the princes, and the rest of the descendants will not become commoners as before, but will be able to obtain a new identity, which I call - doctors.

The rest of Fangbo's descendants can obtain the status of scholars.

With these identities, one can make a petition and move to the royal territory to settle down.

After settling down, they have the privilege of going to the battlefield whenever troops are sent out to fight.

I will also reward those who have made contributions with population and land."

Zixun finally told about his system.

Zi Ping looked at Lu's father again.

Father Lu did not respond to his expression, but looked at Zixun and said, "There are ten suns in the sky, and ten kinds of people. Your arrangement is still a bit vague."

Zixun paused, then laughed and said, "I can't help it. I'm not Xin Qu. He can rely entirely on his mind, but I can't be like him. This is my limit."

Father Lu smiled again and said, "But, your arrangement is not too bad for the nobles. At least the country that was bound to be divided before now has a chance to be whole. The heir will not refuse."

"That's right. I thought so too." Zixun smiled.

In this era, it is normal to be named after the land.

In order to prevent their children and grandchildren from becoming commoners, local princes always have various ways to do it, and dividing the family is one of them.

However, this method will always cause heavy losses to the heirs.

Now, the heirs have a new way out, which is to send their brothers to the royal capital to work as farmers.

In this way, the heirs obtained complete land inheritance rights, Dayi Shang obtained a steady supply of high-quality population, and even had reasons and excuses for foreign wars.

Get more in one fell swoop.

As for the division of the family? It depends on the ability of each noble family.

Zi Ping saw the two of them laughing and scratched his head.

To be honest, he doesn't really understand.

But at least it doesn't seem like a bad thing now.

Order is the foundation of a country's development, but it can also be a shackle.

But before productivity reached its peak at this stage, the core rule in the Central Plains was still the division of power.

The same goes for Xin Qu.

Don't think he seems to be centralized.

But in fact, the core of his concentrated power was only the Haihe River Basin, Yanshan Mountain and Datong, which was only about 500 miles away and could be reached quickly by chariots within three days.

The land beyond three days is completely divided between the prefectures and counties. Xin Qu can only control the local area with passes and granaries. The rest depends entirely on local development and efforts.

Therefore, Xinqu did not centralize power, but decentralized it instead.

Although Zixun seemed to be decentralizing power, he was actually carving out a royal territory to centralize power.

In this era, nobles and their descendants are the high-quality population. If Zixun successfully completes the new system of internal submission, Dayi Shang may really have a chance to firmly establish its position in the Central Plains.

Complete the great feat that only Zhou Gongdan could accomplish ahead of time.

But after seeing the two off, Zixun looked at the map and moved his gaze to the north - Yan State.

"Xin Qu will definitely not watch me implement this system. But how will he do it? Father Lu didn't get the answer I wanted."

Zixun muttered to himself: "It seems that I have to counter his moves." (End of this chapter)