Today's territory of Shenzhou began because King Wu divided the world.

The countries it enclosed together form the future Shenzhou, and all other than this, they are all barbarian lands, and they are not of Chinese Miao descent.

It's just that since the Han Dynasty, the emperors of the Central Plains Dynasty have been more and more wary of the clan, and the centralization of the great unification has gradually formed, and in the Song and Ming dynasties, lest the princes be strong and strong against the center, they simply raised the prince of the clan as a pig, the more nonsense, the more incompetent, the more the emperor treated.

You just need to be a waste, silverfish, talent and ability, you don't need it at all......

As a result, a lot of money and materials have to be spent every year to feed and appease those insatiable and useless dregs, which overwhelms the empire's finances. Even so, the princes of those clans were still angry and resentful.

In a sense, the collapse of the empire, these clans that have spent a lot of national strength have contributed......

"Your Majesty, the more peaceful the empire is, the more prosperous the clan will be, and one day it will form a huge scale, which will make the empire's finances unable to afford it, and the consequences will be unspeakable! can be the same royal bloodline, if it is treated a little, it will inevitably give people a mean and unkind mouth, which is really a dilemma. Why follow the example of King Wu and seal the children of the clan in the newly attached land, so that they can recuperate and recuperate as the empire, and make great efforts to expand the territory? No matter what the future holds, the meat will rot in the pot......"

Fang Jun's bitter persuasion.

Since the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty has not regained the domineering spirit of the Qin and Han dynasties, what is the reason?

It's simple, no ambition!

The Song Dynasty suppressed the military with literature, and the Ming Dynasty was involved by the party and government. In the end, at the end of the dynasty, the country was cut off, and there were no more eggs under the nest, and they were invaded by foreign races, and Chixian County in Shenzhou became a grassland of foreign races, and the Chinese people became slaves of foreign races......

If the dynasty is surrounded by feudal states controlled by clans with the same surname, even if the central government falls, there must be one or two people who are promising, thinking about restoring the foundation of the temple, making great efforts, driving out the Tartars, supporting the building to fall in general, and turning the tide in the fall!

To put it bluntly, don't put all your eggs in one basket......

Fang Jun advocates the Tang Dynasty and respects His Majesty Li Er, but in his bones, there is not much difference between the emperor's surname Li and Zhao or Zhu, as long as he is surnamed Xiao'er or Aixin Jueluo, the two families entered the Central Plains, because of the identity problem, they wanted to consolidate their rule, so they could only carry out inter-ethnic slaughter and cultural suppression.

It would be hellish darkness......

His Majesty Li Er was silent, but in fact he was quite moved.

He was a decisive emperor, and even when he launched the Xuanwumen Rebellion, he never hesitated as much as he did in this matter.

Because it's too far-reaching.

It seems to be a decision on whether to entitle the royal children in the newly attached land, but in fact it represents whether the overall national policy and strategy of the Tang Dynasty will undergo a huge reversal from now on, and no one knows whether the effect of this reversal is good or bad......

His Majesty Li Er said in a deep voice: "Let me think about this matter." ”

Fang Jun bowed silently.

The stakes are very high, and even His Majesty Li Er, who is an arbitrary cadre, must have a thorough consideration and trade-off.

But Fang Jun knew that according to the emperor's fierce and heroic character, as long as a decision was made, it would inevitably be carried out to the end, and no matter what turmoil he encountered along the way, he would not change easily.

And this is the necessary condition for an excellent emperor to be able to make some achievements that shake the past and the present.

Those emperors who wanted to change the status quo and make contributions, but were also afraid of the turbulence of the masses and hesitated to change the order of the day, were all embarrassed in front of His Majesty Li Er......

In fact, not only the emperor, but also those who have achieved great things in ancient and modern China and abroad are not only superb, but also have perseverance and ambition!

Even if tens of millions of people don't have the determination to do it, what can they do?

This topic was too heavy, and His Majesty Li Er put it aside for the time being, took a sip of tea, and asked, "Where is the Queen of Silla?" ”

Fang Jun said: "I will enter Beijing tomorrow, and the Honglu Temple has already made a careful reception plan, and there will be no mistakes, Your Majesty is relieved." ”

His Majesty Li Er nodded.

Li Xiaoyou, the secretary of Honglu Temple, was ordered to resign after the court meeting that day, and returned to the house to think about it behind closed doors. In the past two days, the emperor was pondering whether to be ruthless to Li Xiaoyou, a child of the imperial family, next time, and ruthlessly check whether this guy's remarks about confronting him in front of the Manchu civil and military forces were instructed behind his back......

It's just that it's about the internal stability of the royal family, and His Majesty Li Er plans to figure it out slowly, and he can't be in a hurry.

Without Li Xiaoyou's opposition, Honglu Temple naturally went all out to do a good job in the reception of Queen Silla, after all, the more the Tang Dynasty expanded, the busier the affairs of Honglu Temple, the more huge the power in his hands, and no one would refuse this.

"Recently, many scholars in Longxi have united to organize a business, which is roughly the same as the 'Eastern Tang Dynasty', and many goods are unified by its prices, and all traders on the market who are below this price have been suppressed. I have already ordered the 'Hundred Horsemen' to investigate this matter, and if there is evidence, I will definitely punish him severely. ”

His Majesty Li Er changed the topic again, which made Fang Jun a little unable to keep up with the rhythm.

However, after thinking about it carefully, he advised: "In fact, Your Majesty can rest assured that as long as the imperial court collects commercial taxes and encourages business, monopoly will inevitably appear, which is driven by interests and has nothing to do with political positions." ”

In order to put gold on their faces, the Li royal family climbed the high branch of the Li family in Longxi, and attributed their ancestors to the genealogy of the Li family in Longxi, so as to show that they are noble in height and are not hybrids of Han and Hu hybrids and mixed Chinese and foreign blood......

In fact, Longxi Li did not catch a cold.

In their eyes, the inheritance of the family is much more valuable than any royal bloodline, but they were frightened by the decisiveness of the six relatives who did not recognize the Xuanwu Gate incident after His Majesty Li Er, so they had to pinch their noses and recognize this relative.

However, in essence, he has always been not close to the Li royal family, and even repeatedly contradicted.

Now that the Li clan in Longxi has monopolized the place where the Silk Road must pass in the upper reaches of Weishui, which is a huge area that is extremely important both economically and militarily, it is no wonder that His Majesty Li Er is worried, lest the Li clan in Longxi do something uncontrollable......

His Majesty Li Er frowned, and when he heard Fang Jun say this, he didn't have the slightest sense of forgiveness, but asked: "In that case, why did you advise Yan Yan to collect commercial taxes and establish the 'Dongda Tang Firm' to encourage Chinese people to do business?" ”

Merchants are lowly professions, and no matter how much money they make, they will not improve their social status.

For the emperor, it is a good thing to have sufficient internal funds, but if it is related to the stability of the domestic political situation, it must not even be a fart......

The emperor's throne is gone, what is the use of gold and silver?

Fang Jun owed half of his buttocks, thought for a while, and said: "Your Majesty's atonement is because Wei Chen did not deeply analyze the impact of business opening in the first place. Your Majesty, Wei Chen dares to ask what is the reason for the final collapse of an empire as strong as the Qin and Han dynasties since ancient times? ”

His Majesty Li Er is not a wine bag and rice bag, not "born in the deep palace, grown in the hands of a woman", and not an ignorant fool like "why not eat minced meat", he assisted his father and brother to conquer the world, charged into battle and laid down this splendid country, accustomed to the suffering of the people, and has a sober and profound understanding of the whole society.

Wen Yan, His Majesty Li Er said: "The world is slab, one is land, and the other is alien, that's all." ”

The reason for the collapse of an empire is either that land annexation has reached the extreme, a large number of peasants lose their land and lose their source of livelihood, and they can only starve to death if they don't have enough to eat, then they can only rebel, and then a strong empire, in the face of the anger of the people in the world, can only fall and collapse. However, since ancient times, there are countless alien races that have been strong for a while, whether it is the dog Rong who broke through the pickaxe capital and plundered the king of Zhou You, or the Xiongnu ravaged Yanmen, crisscrossed the Western Regions, or even the "Yongjia disaster" The northern Hu clan occupied the Central Plains, all of which failed to really make the Central Plains Empire perish.

His Majesty Li Er believed that the kind of thing that had not happened before and could not happen in the future......

Therefore, there was only one reason for the fall of the empire, land annexation.

Fang Jun bowed his head slowly.

Although this emperor has such and such shortcomings in history, there is one thing that the vast majority of emperors do not have, that is, political vision.

He said: "The annexation of land is the cancer of the empire, but it is also the inevitability of social development, and the rise of each dynasty represents the beginning of a new land annexation, and the demise of every dynasty means the arrival of a new land redistribution." ”

His Majesty Li Er was stunned......

Boy, are you saying the opposite?

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