Zichen Palace.

The emperor took off his court clothes and changed into relaxed civilian clothes and stood at the door, and saw Chen Xu coming in a hurry with the palace people, so he greeted him with a smile.

"Your Majesty, I don't know what your orders are for summoning your ministers into the palace?" Chen Xu asked after saluting.

Qin Shi Huang took Chen Xu's hand and entered the main hall and sat down, and instructed the palace maid to make fragrant tea before saying with a smile: "Removing and relocating the Northwest Army, Aiqing gave me a huge surprise, if it weren't for Aiqing's good strategy, this matter may have dragged on for several years, but unfortunately the Manchu Dynasty civil and military can afford to drag it out, but I can't afford to drag it off, the way of using soldiers is not much more expensive, I finally understand the meaning of this sentence now, 40,000 horses, sweep away hundreds of years of disasters in one year, even I think about it now like a dream!" ”

"Hun Hu, little troubled ear, Your Majesty should think more about the West now!" Chen Xu said with a smile as he drank tea.

"Yes, I also have this worry, the last time Aiqing entered the palace to offer a globe, so that I suddenly opened my eyes, this half a month I have been thinking about disarmament, I didn't chat with Aiqing, so today I specially asked Aiqing to talk, to discuss the affairs of the Western Regions, although Aiqing said last time that the conquest of the Western Regions should not be rushed, but I still need Aiqing to give me some advice, so that I can be prepared in my heart, after all, I am not familiar with all the places in the Western Regions!"

"Regarding the affairs of the Western Regions, the minister has also had some thoughts recently, but guessed that His Majesty may need some time to make up his mind about disarmament, so he did not enter the palace to speak to His Majesty, I didn't expect His Majesty to be so resolute, and he decided to disarm in just half a month. After this disarmament, the bloated army in the northwest will be refined into tens of thousands of elite horses, and it will be easy to deploy lightly, which will not only save the rationing and transportation of ordnance, grain and grass, but also greatly enhance Your Majesty's control over the army. ”

Chen Xu patted the horses, Qin Shi Huang's face smiled even more, and the little mustard he had for Chen Xu seemed to disappear in an instant, put down the teacup and said happily: "The Northwest Army was originally prepared by me to crusade against Huhu, and now Hun and Hu are all peaceful, and it is useless to stay, Li Xin, Jiang Hu and Jiang Bu The three generals jointly played disarmament and deeply agreed with me, the reason why I hesitated for a long time was only because of the evacuation and resettlement of the ear, today Aiqing used three strategies to solve this matter, I naturally want to arrange this matter with the momentum of a thunder storm, and one more day of delay will cost an extra day of money and food." Therefore, Aiqing should make the first contribution to the matter of disarmament! ”

"Your Majesty's words are serious, this is a national policy, and it is within your Majesty's responsibility to share your worries!" Chen Xu thanked him and then said, "For the matter of passing through the Western Regions, the minister thinks that he can slowly draw it with Lingnan, the Western Regions is a place where Qiangrong and Hu barbarians live together, located in the desert, although there are also abundant water and grass, and there are also special products that I have not had in the Central Plains, but after all, it is too far away from my Great Qin and the territory is vast, so the conquest of the Western Regions countries cannot adopt the same countermeasures as the Xiongnu Donghu, mainly to subjugate, and it is not very appropriate to set up counties and arrange Daqin officials to manage, Therefore, the minister suggested that he could be deterred by a large army to make them submit, and authorize those Qiangrong tribes to be autonomous, but the leader must obtain the approval and permission of the Great Qin, and must obtain a personal decree from His Majesty before he can be called a king and a marquis......"

"Didn't Aiqing say that the Western Regions should adopt the strategy of dividing the princes?" Qin Shi Huang suddenly looked up at Chen Xu.

"Your Majesty understands it this way, my Central Plains has a population of only 20 million, the land is vast and sparsely populated, if you continue to use the county system, you will inevitably immigrate and naturalize, but the land of the Western Regions is wider than my Great Qin, and the Qiangrong and Hu barbarians are all barbaric and do not obey the king, and it is not appropriate to implement the same strategy as the Central Plains, on the contrary, a large number of immigrants will also cause the underpopulation of our Central Plains to lead to various livelihood problems, not to mention that the homeland is difficult to leave, and the migrating people are mainly prisoners, these people once they have a grudge against Your Majesty, kill officials and rebel to support Qiang Hu self-reliance, It will inevitably cause even greater turmoil, which will be very detrimental to the future conquest of Western countries. ”

"Well, Aiqing is right!" Qin Shi Huang nodded slightly.

"The outside must first settle the inside, the country is stable, the people's livelihood is rich, the soldiers are full of food and food, and the foreign country is invincible, the Western Regions tribes are the ancestors of China, if you want to naturalize them, you must first accept their hearts, and use the feudal system to accept the rule of my Great Qin, and at the same time divide the princes, these princes will inevitably disobey the rule and be enemies of each other, just like the original Great Zhou, the princes are independent of each other, and they will hinder each other, and they will inevitably be scattered for more than ten years, such as the Yue clan, and now the Yue clan is the king of the unified tribe, and the army is more powerful than the Hun Hu, But if my Great Qin presses the realm with troops, the Yue clan will inevitably panic and bow down to the vassals, and His Majesty has specially gifted a group of sons of the Yue clan king to be canonized as marquises, allowing them to establish themselves as kings, and the Yue clan will fall apart in an instant......"

Qin Shi Huang picked up the teacup and drank the tea, and while drinking tea, he glanced at Chen Xu with a strange face.

This ploy is poisonous.

Just like the original Jin Kingdom.

The Jin State dominated the Central Plains for hundreds of years, Qin, Chu, Song and Qi and other neighboring countries were beaten and almost knelt down and shouted Dad, and then the Liuqing fought endlessly, and the Jin royal family declined, and the King of Zhou was afraid of the strength of the Jin State and the bastard attribute of seeing who beat whom, so he deliberately showed weakness and named Han Zhao Wei Sanqing as the princes, Xu Zhi called the king, and a country that dominated the Central Plains fell apart.

Although the Zhou royal family had begun to decline at that time, it had not yet reached the point where the vassal states were completely disobedient, at least on the surface, they still respected the Zhou royal family very much, although Han Zhao Wei Sanqing was suspected of persecuting the king of Zhou, but if the king of Zhou did not agree to divide the three surnames as princes, Han Zhaowei did not dare to do anything to the Zhou royal family, after all, there were also Qin, Qi, Chu and Song and other princes who had the ability to dominate on the side.

In fact, the division of the three Jin families is not only the chaos in the Jin State, but also the unanimous wish of the rest of the vassal states that were beaten all over by the Jin State, and the Zhou royal family is also happy to see the fall of the Jin State, so under the push of the boat, the Jin State, which almost dominated the history of the Spring and Autumn Period, collapsed.

Under the feudal system, the best way to deal with disobedient vassal states is to constantly divide the nobles in their own country, so that their domestic chaos, this strategy was implemented in the later Han Dynasty, that is, the famous Tui En Order, the court continued to crown the sons and grandsons of the princes, because each king must have his own fief, so these vassal states are more and more, each other's territory is getting smaller and smaller, and finally slowly disintegrate.

In the name of tuien, in fact it is the most vicious means of dismantling the opposition.

"It is not impossible to canonize the tribes of the Western Regions, but this is not a long-term strategy, it can cause chaos for a while, and if a man of great talent suddenly appears among them, it will inevitably cause trouble again......," Qin Shi Huang said after pondering.

"What Your Majesty said is, after all, the Western Regions are vast, and after the partition, my Great Qin cannot directly manage it, and it will indeed bury some hidden dangers, in fact, the minister has a more ingenious method, but it may cause misunderstanding among many colleagues when it is implemented...... Chen Xu thought for a while and said.

"Aiqing said bluntly, there are only two of us today, everything can be discussed, if I feel that it is really inappropriate, it will not be spread!" Qin Shi Huang looked at Chen Xu with interest.

When you are an emperor, you will not be afraid that your courtiers will be unhappy or opposed, and the most important thing is to have sufficient reasons to make the emperor feel that this matter is okay or not.

"After the founding of the Great Qin, the county system was adopted and the sub-feudal system of the previous Zhou was abandoned, this strategy greatly strengthened the court's control over the whole country, but there was also a great hidden danger!"

"Where is the hidden danger?" Qin Shi Huang's face suddenly became serious.

At the beginning, the county system proposed by Li Si was adopted, and now the court and the people are still very opposed, and occasionally the court will be noisy, although this voice is getting smaller and smaller, but the princes who represent an old traditional force are not willing to give up, the court is like this, the people are naturally more turbulent, and the opposition of the hundred schools of life headed by Confucian disciples is more violent, and a large number of Confucian disciples are unwilling to serve Qin, and are unwilling to govern the country as a dog leg for Qin Shi Huang, especially the eighth grandson of Confucius, the contemporary leader of Confucianism. commanded tens of thousands of Confucian disciples in the world, but hid in Ludi and cursed the emperor all day long, but in view of his reputation, Qin Shi Huang had no choice but to plug his ears and pretend not to hear.

The year before last, the emperor toured the southeast of Mount Tai, summoned seventy-two respected Confucian disciples in Ludi, Qin Shi Huang wanted them to write an article praising the emperor's benevolence to worship heaven and earth, but these Confucian students pointed to their noses and scolded, Qin Shi Huang was angry and drove all these Confucian students off Mount Tai, and then let Li Si write a sycophant article engraved on Mount Tai, completed the Zen ceremony.

This matter has been known to the whole world, and the emperor's approach has also been ridiculed by all living beings.

Although the emperor will not surrender his identity to reason with these beings, he must have a fire in his heart.

Otherwise, Li Si proposed to burn books last year, and the emperor almost agreed immediately.

The sentient beings jumped up and down among the people, opposing magic, the county system, mass labor, extravagant mausoleums, and all the court decrees that they thought were not in line with their philosophy of governance.

The existence of these people made the emperor very annoyed, and even embarrassed and angry, and it was best to draw circles in the palace every day and curse these hundred disciples to die completely.

Now Daqin seems to be stable, but in fact, the people are still panicked, and the abandonment of the sub-feudal system is the main reason, because it does not conform to the ancient rites inherited from the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

And judging from the historical trajectory of later generations, the complete abolition of feudal feuds is actually very unfavorable to the rule of feudal dynasties.

Once the emperor dies or the successor has problems and the court is in turmoil, there may be rebellions with different surnames in various places, and the people will be even more panicked.

The only way to achieve the success of the county system is to implement a democratic election system, and the emperor takes turns to sit under the framework of the constitution, but in order to inherit the royal dictatorship for eternity, it is necessary to have a large family power to maintain the cohesion of the empire from the blood relationship.

Although there will be chaos and strife, at least the bloodline will be passed on.

No system or empire can last.

This is the general trend in the world.

However, the Great Zhou Dynasty has been inherited for a full 800 years by virtue of the sub-feudal system, which at least shows one problem, that is, the sub-feud has great appeal and great centripetal force among the people, which is the basis of public opinion.

Great Qin is indeed stable at the moment, but the power of the imperial family is too weak, and it all depends on Qin Shi Huang to support and control it independently, once Qin Shi Huang dies, the imperial family does not have enough strength to maintain the operation of the empire, and then encounters a second lord like Hu Hai, it is a matter of time before it collapses.

And to strengthen the power of the royal family, the best way to divide the princes is to divide them.

At least in times of national turmoil, there is still royal blood to unite the people. (https:)

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