After calming Liu Heng's emotions, Liu Hong will no longer beat around the bush.

Get straight to the point - the Liu clan, who else can be used now?

This question really made Liu Hong very sad.

Compared with other emperors in history, Liu Hong's biggest disadvantage is that he does not have a maternal family to stand up, that is, he has no relatives.

Although the appearance of Uncle Tian made Liu Hong have some expectations for his relatives, this matter is not something that can be done for a while.

Externally, Liu Hong has no relatives to be placed in the court; Internally, Liu Hong is most distressed that there are not enough adult royals to suppress the border land for him.

As a traverser, Liu Hong certainly knows that the feudal system of princes is not beneficial to the centralization of power at all, and the best for the feudal era is the county system.

However, the quality of a system must not be viewed one-sidedly from the results, and the background of the times is equally important.

For example, in later generations, in the Sui, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, when the central power reached a certain height and the bureaucratic class had sufficient manpower, it was natural for the state to fully implement the county system, and the central government was the best.

However, in the Western Han Dynasty, there was no basis for the implementation of the county system at all - at least until Liu Hong implemented the examination and obtained a sufficient number of bureaucrats, the centralization of power and the full implementation of the county system were simply empty talk.

In order to achieve the full implementation of the county system, Liu Hong had to have at least 100,000 civil servants in the system with a rank of 100 or more, as well as a 'no rank' with a rank of 100,000 or less, that is, temporary workers outside the establishment.

For example, today, not to mention officials, counting the whole world, how many people can read and write?

- There may not be 100,000!

In order to implement the county system throughout the country, the first thing Liu Hong had to do was to develop culture and education, so that the number of scholars could reach a certain base, and to cultivate usable talents for those tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of official positions.

Then, in order to feed these hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats, Liu Hong also had to make the central government's financial revenue increase by a large margin, to the point where it was enough to feed these bureaucrats.

- Today, the annual financial income of the Han family is only 300,000 yuan; , excluding the government's daily expenses, road repairs, flood relief, and military spending, the rest is only 30,000 yuan.

Even if you take out all the 30,000 yuan according to the calculation of the 100-stone officials, it is only enough to support tens of thousands of low-level officials at the 100-stone level.

In this context, it is simply empty talk to fully implement the county system and achieve effective control over the localities!

The only way to do this is to share the administrative pressure on the central government by dividing the clan.

Therefore, even if he was unwilling in his heart, Liu Hong had to endure his unhappiness and send his relatives surnamed Liu to Yanzhao to guard the frontier for him.

The range of Liu Hong's choices is limited to the sons of his grandfather Liu Bang, as well as those brothers who have not been crowned kings.

As for Liu Hong's own brothers...

Please, among the sons of Emperor Hui who are still alive, Liu Hong, the eldest, is now less than fourteen years old!

Those younger brothers who haven't finished changing their baby teeth, what can Liu Hong expect them to do?

Liu Bang, Emperor Taizu Gao, is the third oldest in the family, and has two brothers and one brother.

The eldest brother Liu Bo died as early as the fifth year of Emperor Gao, and was posthumously honored as King Wuai by Empress Lu.

And the lineage of Taizu Liu Bang's eldest brother, who is still alive, is only Liu Bo's son, the Marquis of Jiá: Liu Xin.

At this time, Liu Xin, the Marquis of Tangjie, was nearly thirty (1) years old, and he was also considered in the prime of life in the clan; But if you want to use it, this makes Liu Hong a little entangled...

Under normal circumstances, the titles of the Western Han Dynasty are all named after fiefs - such as Zhou Bo, the Marquis of Jiang, whose fief is Jiangxian County; Ruyin Hou Xiahou Ying, its fief is Ruyin County.

Only the Marquis of Guan Nei like Wang Ling will be named after a similar honorary title: Marquis of Anguo.

Since the Han Dynasty, there has never been a place called 'Tangjie' in the territory of the Han Dynasty!

So what is the reason why Liu Xin, who is like a fake waiter, does not take the fief as the name of the marquis?

The answer is: the Marquis of Tangjie is itself a humiliating title given by Liu Bang!

When Liu Bangshang was the chief of the Qin Surabaya Pavilion, he often took Fan Hao ~ Xiahou Ying these fox friends to the eldest brother's house to eat; The eldest brother Liu Bo loves his younger brother Liu Bang very much, and he has no opinion on this.

Later, Uncle Liu died early of illness, and Liu Bang continued to take his friends to his eldest brother's house to eat and drink; Uncle Liu's widow, Liu Bang's eldest sister-in-law, was very disgusted by this, so whenever Liu Bang brought someone to rub rice, he scraped the bottom of the pot to show that there was no food.

Liu Bang could detect Sister-in-law Zhang's disappointment, so he no longer waited for the eldest brother's door.

Unexpectedly, a few years later, Liu Bang, the head of the Qin Surabaya Pavilion, became the founding emperor of the Han family after defeating Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu!

The Liu family can be described as a chicken dog ascending to heaven, but all those who are related to each other have been rewarded with different degrees of titles; But only the eldest brother Liu Bo, Liu Bangzhi posthumously respected him as the Marquis of Wuai, but did not make Uncle Liu's son Liu Xin the Marquis as usual.

Emperor Liu Xuan, the prince of the emperor, called Liu Bang to his side and asked, "Why don't you crown your eldest brother's son Liu Xin as the marquis?"

Liu Bang was full of resentment, and expressed his eldest sister-in-law's unkindness to him back then.

Liu Taigong thought about it, but he still couldn't bear to be the only son of his late eldest son, and his eldest grandson was snubbed, so he tried hard to persuade him; In the end, Liu Bang had no choice but to make Liu Bo's only son Liu Xin the marquis.

However, even when it was time to seal the marquis, Liu Bang still couldn't forgive his eldest sister-in-law for his kindness, and with a stroke of the pen, he set Liu Xin's position as 'Marquis of Tangjie'.

颉, pronounced Tongtong, '羹颉' means: scrape the bottom of the pot containing the meat soup with a spoon, making a harsh grinding sound.

It can also be seen from this: the eye of the needle of Emperor Liu of the Western Han Dynasty is the most intuitive proof of the bloodline - all of them are Liu Bang's species!

In the original history, Liu Xin, the Marquis of Tangjie, was reduced to the Marquis of Guannei in the first year of Gaohou, or the first year of the former Shaodi.

In this life, the situation is different - Liu Hong is now lacking people almost to the point where he thinks about whether to use it as long as he has the surname Liu!

As for Liu Bang's resentment against the Marquis of Tangjie...

As a later generation, Liu Hong doesn't think there is anything Liu Bang did this: he was bullied when he was poor, and he didn't take you to play when he was rich, which was reasonable.

The problem is: it is not Uncle Liu or Liu Xin who scrapes the bottom of the pot to drive the guests, but the wife left by Uncle Liu after his death!

What does this have to do with Liu Xin?

Therefore, the only thing Liu Hong needs to consider about the use of Liu Xin, the Marquis of Tangjie, is that if this is done, will it be a bit against Liu Bang's last wishes...

After thinking about it carefully, Liu Hong felt that it was not a big problem to do so.

- Don't talk about Liu Bang, even the eldest sister-in-law who didn't want to see Liu Bang has passed away for almost ten years...

Dust to dust, soil to soil, Liu surnamed has been carrying the name of 'Tangjie Marquis' for more than 20 years, even if Liu Bangzhen has any grievances against his eldest brother, it should be gone.

In the final analysis, blood is thicker than water; In this era where bloodline is the primary reference for trust, Liu Xin's blood flowing in Liu Taigong is enough to make Liu Hong initially trust.

Not to mention anything else, just for Liu Hong to save Liu Xin from the generational shame of the 'Marquis of Tangjie', and tear the soil to seal the king, the feudal country, and make him the ancestor of the same line, it is enough for Liu Xin to be grateful to Liu Hong and offer all his loyalty - if not, in the moral outlook at this time, Liu Xin will become a villain who will take revenge!

Liu Hong also has only one requirement for Liu Xin: loyalty.

As for Liu Xin's ability, this is not within Liu Hongdi's consideration; As long as this goods is not like Liu Bang's second brother Liu Xi, seeing the shadow of the Huns, it is enough to throw the feudal country there and run away, and disgrace Liu Hong!

Even, Liu Hong wished that Liu Xin was a second generation who was eating and waiting for death!

In that way, Liu Hong could logically send a powerful prince, prince, lieutenant, and internal history to the past, and then bring this vassal state into the state of 'directly under the central government'.

As for Liu Xin, he can be called a lonely widow, a wine pond and a meat forest; As long as you don't go too far and play the trick of stepping on the bottom line, Liu Hong doesn't bother to care about him.

Of course, if Liu Xin can have a little brains and even a little ability on the premise of ensuring loyalty, it would be better - Liu Hong can rest assured that a certain section of the northern defense line will be handed over to Liu Xin, and Chen Ping and Zhou Bo and his party can be solved without worries.

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PS: Liu Xin, the Marquis of Tangjie, the specific year of birth and death cannot be examined, but there is a point for reference in the history books: Liu Bang took his fox friends and dog friends to eat, and when he was disgusted by his sister-in-law, Liu Bang's eldest brother Liu Bo had already died.

Liu Xin is since it is