"What sin I have to do, I will be cast away thousands of miles away."

This sentence is the second year of Yongle, Chengzu set Zhu Gaochi as the crown prince, named Zhu Gaochu as the king of Han, and the vassal state of Yunnan. Zhu Gaoxu replied.

"What sin I have to do, I will be cast away thousands of miles away."

Now the reason why Zhu Yijun will say this sentence is because he knows what the vassal kings of the world will say. Shi Yiwen, who has a certain understanding of this allusion, of course knows the emperor's thoughts, so he continued.

"Yi Feng Nanyang is not the crime of the vassal king, but the grace of His Majesty!"

Seeing Zhu Yijun's suspicious face, Shi Yiwen continued.

"And throughout the ages, the feudal system has the Zhou system, the Han system, the Wei system, and then the system of our dynasty. With my Ming Dynasty's "feudal ban", the vassal king is just a high-ranking prisoner with fine clothes and food. And so sealed but not built, there is no "Zongguo Screen" at all, and in the special form of Nanyang, if it is easy to seal Nanyang, you can use the weekly system! ”

"Use the weekly system!"

Zhu Yijun almost exclaimed. Although the restoration of the Zhou system is the dream of countless Confucian scholars, as an emperor, he does not have such an idea, but he knows what the "Zhou system" is.

"You mean to divide the princes!"

"Yes, Yi Feng Nanyang can use the feudal system of the Western Zhou Dynasty to seal the feudal domains as princes!"

Because of the excitement, Shi Yiwen's face turned faintly red.

"Easy to seal Nanyang, you can solve the clan problem once and for all."

Facing the dumbfounded little emperor, Shi Yiwen continued.

"The feudal domains are easy to seal Nanyang as princes, and the imperial court can no longer bear the burden of Zonglu Zonglu, and in terms of the imperial court, Zonglu can save five or six million stones every year, and tens of millions of banknotes. As far as the vassal king is concerned, he is no longer a high-ranking prisoner of fine clothes and food, but the king of a country! Isn't this the emperor's grace? ”

This is not only the emperor's grace, but also the simple ...... Absurd! Just when this thought popped up in Zhu Yijun's heart, he listened to Shi Yiwen continue.

"And this is the best solution to the current crisis!"

The little emperor who was sneering face-to-face, Shi Yiwen said seriously and seriously.

"Just like the feudal princes of Zhou Tianzi back then, after the feudal lords changed to seal Nanyang, if the land that these princes were feudal belonged to them really belonged to, they had to seize it again. Because my Daming is at most just to help him build a city, outside the city, there are still tubangs, tuguo, and Rongdi barbarians, not to say that it is yours to give you, in the end, they still have to rely on the sword in their hands to farm. How could the princes, who were so focused on their own development, cause civil strife and fratricide? Of course, it is not necessary to hurt the fundamental identity of the country, after all, it is thousands of miles away from Daming. ”

Frowning slightly, Zhu Yijun's heart also agreed with this. ，

"And there are dozens of princes and kings of Nanyang with three guards, even if there are traitors and ministers in the court, he will never dare to act rashly, even if the princes are thousands of miles away in Nanyang, it is still a deterrent to them, so that they will never dare to act rashly. It can be said that it is easy to seal Nanyang, and I have taken the benefits of feudalism in the Ming Dynasty, but there is no harm of feudalism. ”

Then a smile appeared on Shi Yiwen's face.

"Therefore, it is not the crime of the vassal king to seal Nanyang, but the grace of His Majesty!"

Facing the silent emperor, Shi Yiwen said again.

"The Han and Tang dynasties managed the Western Regions, without feudal policies, just like Qin ran the counties of the hometown of the Six Kingdoms, before and after hundreds of years, China was strong, and China was weak, so repeated management, not only now the Western Regions have long since returned to China, and even the Western Regions have not seen the Han people. What is the reason for this? Isn't it worth pondering? And when Zheng He went to the West, although it was vast, but my Ming Dynasty still failed to set foot in the South Seas after all, and Yi Feng was the king of the South Seas, which could make the land of the South Seas return to China......"

Again, Shi Yiwen replaced the Ming Dynasty with "Huaxia", in his opinion, it was not the expansion of the Ming Dynasty that divided the Nanyang, and the re-expansion of the Chinese civilization, after the expansion of the Chinese civilization stagnated for a thousand years, once again sounded the horn of expansion, and this is not just territorial expansion, but civilization expansion. From then on, a new era will be ushered in—an era of internal competition within Chinese civilization. At that time, it is bound to reproduce the cultural prosperity of "a hundred schools of thought", after all, it is bound to reproduce the "not only the monarch chooses the minister, but also the minister." This will be an internal competition, not a crusade in troubled times.

Throughout the ages, every time the country is unified, people talk about loyalty to the monarch, "learn to become a literary and martial arts, and the goods are with the emperor's family", but there is only one emperor in the world, and I don't know how many people are buried. And in troubled times, people pay attention to "in today's world, not only the monarch chooses the minister, but also the minister chooses the king." ”。

In the turbulent times, the emergence of a large number of talents, but the price of not burying is the price of the regression of the entire society. However, if the vassals are changed to Nanyang, this problem can be fundamentally solved, and the Chinese civilization no longer has only one emperor, just like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, scholars traveled around the world to realize their ideals and ambitions. In such an era, scholars have the right to choose, their status will be qualitatively changed, they are no longer slaves of the imperial power, but scholars with independent personality, perhaps at that time, the style of "scholars" in ancient books is bound to reappear again in the land of China.

Of course, the princes will unanimously expand to the "non-our" barbarians, and in the process, they will do their best to recruit talents, and these people will continue to implement reforms in their own ideas, or implement heavy merchant, or implement heavy army, or continent, or sea, but there is no doubt that in the continuous "change", Chinese civilization will be full of vitality again in the future.

Of course, these are Shi Yiwen's inner thoughts, he has never and does not need to show people, with the development of time, all this is a matter of course, but the question is whether Zhu Yijun will agree?

On the way back from Nanjing, Shi Yiwen thought about various possibilities, and although he considered that Zhu Yijun might oppose it, he would still agree in the end, because it was the most advantageous choice for him.

Not only can the threat of the vassal king be removed, but also the threat of the powerful ministers, for Zhu Yijun, this may even be his only choice.

The current situation is Shi Yiwen's biggest bargaining chip.

"Mingzhi, you asked me what to do earlier? That's my way! It is also the only way to solve the problem at the root! ”

Shi Yiwen's words were not loud, but the moment they came into his ears, although he wanted to refute them, Zhu Yijun opened his mouth but couldn't say anything, and once again he seemed to see the nightmare he had had. Looking at Shi Yiwen, he asked with some uncertainty.

"This ...... Will the imperial court agree? ”