Pei should show the words "Han, Yue, and Xia", which naturally means that he wants to seal the three kings.

When Pei Wei and Pei Xuan saw the words, they couldn't help frowning and groaning; Pei Cui's mind was relatively shallow, and he hurriedly dissuaded: "This is a place of ointment, how can you be crowned the king of the domain?" Your Majesty thinks twice, Jin Zhi's Yin Jian is not far away, don't make the same mistakes! ”

Pei Gai smiled slightly and said, "This is a place of ointment? ”

When Pei Cui heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned - theoretically speaking, the Korean land is in Henan, even if the scope is expanded, the south is not outside Yan and Henan, and the north is not from the party; And the birthplace of Xia is in Yangcheng of Yin, Henan Province, or Yangzhai (that is, Yuzhou City in later generations, which was once the capital of Yu), even according to Shang and Zhou Feng Xia Hou Yu Qi, it is also in Yongqiu of Chenliu County; Isn't this a place of ointment?

Even if Yuedi, that is, Huiji County, although remote, in recent years, because of the development of maritime trade, it is said that there is also a prosperous household registration, rich families, and almost the crown of Yangzhou - how can the Son of Heaven say that it belongs to the "Far Frontier", and it is not a place of ointment?

By the way, the Son of Heaven also said, "Although I have not been able to get the land for a while, I have promised and will never regret it", I originally thought that I was only referring to the land, but now it seems that it may not be......

Although it has been determined that after the world is decided, Chang'an will be the capital, Luoyang is just to accompany the capital, after all, it is still very unreasonable to build a feudal country within a few days of Luoyang's surroundings, and it is completely unnecessary. And the prince is at least a county, if Chen Liu is sealed out, it can still be said, and Henan is sealed, there is no reason for this! Where is the seal of Han and Xia?

Pei Cui realized that he was probably thinking crookedly, and hurriedly arched his hand: "The minister is stupid, and I hope that Your Majesty will make it clear - where do you plan to canonize the three kingdoms?" ”

Pei Gai couldn't help but laugh out loud, and then he took out a map from the bamboo basket beside him, spread it on the desk, and pointed it out to everyone—but the places he pointed to were all in the margins of the blank space.

First refers to the east of Liaodong, the south of Lelang and the Belt Fang: "This is South Korea." ”

That place, which was indeed called "Korea" in later generations, or "Republic of Korea" as its full name, was the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. Pei Gai explained: "This place is where Bendongyi lives, there are three divisions of Chenhan, Mahan, and Benhan, which are far away, and they are not subject to Wanghua, that is, when the Han Dynasty was strong and prosperous, it cannot be determined. It is possible to bring the two counties of Haiming and Tixi to the feudal state, so that the king and Pingzhou can work together, and the east will be set and the south will be taken from the three Koreas, and the inch of land obtained can be inherited forever.

"Although there are many mountains and little arable land, there are 500 miles and tens of thousands of households, if you can get it and keep it, isn't it a big country?"

When Zhu Pei heard this, he was dumbfounded-I relied on the fact that it was such a "Han", and it was thousands of miles away from Han in the Central Plains!

However, there was only further - Pei Gai's fingers left Sanhan, pointed all the way to the west, and actually crossed Liangzhou and stabbed to the Western Regions. He said:

"I established Liangzhou, that is, I ordered Song to be the chief of the Western Regions and unify the countries. During the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Changshi Mansion controlled the Tianshan Mountains in the north and reached the Green Mountains in the west, and the hundreds of countries under its jurisdiction had no less than 100,000 household registrations. And further west, the "Historical Records" contains, there is the ...... of the Great Xia Kingdom"

"Historical Records: The Biography of Dawan" records: "Daxia is more than 2,000 miles southwest of Dawan and ...... south of Fushui", and the so-called "Fushui" refers to the Amu Darya River, so Daxia should be in the northeastern region of Afghanistan in the later generations, which is a country established by the Serbs after the destruction of Hellenistic Baktria.

Theoretically, this Great Xia kingdom no longer exists, and the Kushan Empire dominates Central Asia. However, according to the knowledge of Pei Gai's previous life, the Kushan Empire should have passed its heyday and was in a period of decline, and the Western merchants who came to Liangzhou also introduced that west of the Green Ridge, the countries stood side by side and attacked endlessly...... It should be used as an entry point for colonization of Central Asia.

Of course, although the Western Regions were rebuilt, in fact, the entire Western Regions had not yet been governed by one-third, and even in the original history, the Tang Dynasty occupied the Western Regions for a long time, and in the end it was not able to run far from the Green Mountains, and it was beaten back - unfortunately, it was just in time for the rise of the Abbasid Dynasty, which was also an important reason. Now, it is a bit of a fool's dream to march into Central Asia hundreds of years in advance.

Therefore, Pei Gai's plan was: "If he is powerful, he can call on the soldiers and horses of all the countries, and ask the capital to help, and go west beyond the green mountains, and the inch of land obtained will be inherited forever." ”

This means that as long as the land that Xia Guo has beaten down, it is Xia Guo's, and the central government will never covet it and never make it a county.

Eventually, he moved his finger to the southernmost part of the territory (including the Jin Dynasty), pointed to the northern region of Vietnam in later generations, and said: "This is the southern frontier of the Nanyue Kingdom in the early Han Dynasty, and now it is the Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, Jiude, and Rinan counties of Jiaozhou. And after pacifying Jiangnan, you can be crowned king here, and the three counties of Jiuzhen, Jiude, and Rinan ......"

The reason why it came up to the three counties of the envisioned Yue Kingdom is because these three counties are too poor...... According to the statistics of the early Jin Dynasty, there were seven counties in Jiuzhen County, but there were only 3,000 households; There are eight counties in Jiude County, but there are "no households", and they are all fetters and forces; There are only 600 households in the five counties of Ninan County.

"It can join forces with Jiaozhou, or in the south or west, and the inch of soil obtained will be inherited forever."

With the strength of his own power, Pei Gai's ambition will inevitably rise - when he first crossed the river with Zu Ti, he only hoped to drive out Hu Han and restore peace in the Central Plains; When he entered the Guanzhong, Hu and Han also declined, and began to consider the issue of restoring the old frontier of the old Han Dynasty.

When the Western Han Dynasty was at its peak, four counties of Lelang, Xuansu, Zhenfan and Lintun were built in the northeast, and their land reached Changbai Mountain in the north and the Hanjiang River in the south, until the corner of the sea; The northern frontier dominates the Hetao until the surrendered city; The western regions are dying in the northwest, as far as Lake Balkhash; In the south, there is the northern and eastern parts of Vietnam, that is, the coastal area of the Indochina Peninsula; Advance southwest to Zhoushui (Nu River) and Cangshui (Lancang River).

- Of course, this is what Pei Gai's later generations saw from the "Historical Atlas", in fact, it is impossible to reach the extreme in all directions at the same time.

In contrast, the territory of the Eastern Han Dynasty shrank, mainly due to the rise of Goguryeo in the northeast, which made the Han land only include the Liaodong Peninsula and the northwestern part of Korea, and lost the access to the sea in Jilin and eastern Korea, which led to the only way to connect from the southeast of Liao, and it was difficult to maintain its rule on the Korean Peninsula for a long time. In addition, Wusun Xiongqi in the northwest of the Western Regions rose up, and the Changshi Mansion retreated to Beishan (Tianshan).

At the same time, however, the southwestern frontier of the Eastern Han Dynasty protruded from the northern part of Burma and Thailand to the Ayrrawaddy and Salween rivers – of course, mostly fetters such as the Pu tribe, the Liyue tribe, and the Min Pu tribe.

After that, although the late Han Dynasty was in turmoil, the Three Kingdoms were established, but the Wei and Jin dynasties have been set up in the west along the Western Regions Protectorate, in the east of Lelang, with two counties, Shu also set up Yongchang County to govern the southwest Yi, Wu extinguished the Shi clan, and then got Jiaozhi. The only big retreat was in the north, where the entire Hetao region was completely lost, and even northern Shaanxi could not hold it, and the northern borders of Youzhou and Pingzhou to the east also shrank. After the rebellion at the end of the Jin Dynasty, Qianghu and Xianbei flourished from this.

Therefore, Pei's plan to restore the territory of the old Han Dynasty was to find an opportunity to completely defeat or at least drive away Xianbei, and re-advance the territory to the line of the Great Wall of Han and Yinshan.

He did catch up with a good time, just in time for the Tuoba civil strife and the two divisions, Goguryeo is also like a candle in the wind, the only thing to worry about is the Murong Department, but if you rely on the expansion trend of the early rise of the dynasty, if you want to solve this problem, it should not be too difficult. As for the Bayi regime in the southwest and the Jiankang regime in the south, Pei Gai did not take it into account, and since the two countries were merged, the southern Xinjiang could be determined.

As a result, he couldn't help but look forward to Shu, and looked forward to going further.

So where to go? First, in the northeast, even if it cannot advance to the weak water (Heilongjiang), it is hoped that it can destroy Goguryeo, subdue Fuyu, and include the two provinces of Liao and Ji in later generations. It is best to bring down the three Koreas and completely control the Imperial Peninsula, so as to save the appearance of one or two semi-independent states on the side of the couch in the future.

In the northwest, it is best to cross the green ridge and take a few more steps to completely open up the communication line with the countries of Central Asia, West Asia and even Rome. The goal of the south was the whole of Vietnam in later generations.

However, such a vast territory has never been seen in history, and even when the Tang, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties were at their peak, it was impossible to achieve such an ambition hundreds or thousands of years in advance, which was not only very unlikely, but also easy to make the Chinese army mired in the distant region, which in turn affected the financial and situation stability of the interior.

- Didn't Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty go on an expedition to Goguryeo without any strategy, and as a result, completely ruined a thriving and nascent dynasty? In this year, Pei should be able to learn this lesson.

Moreover, as far as the discussion between the government and the opposition and the expectations of the scholars are concerned, they do not advocate wanton expansion of territory, at least if they go out for 3,000 miles, no one wants to go there to become an official and herdsman. Pei should collect public opinion through Pei Xu, and the desire of hundreds of officials, including those martial artists, is just to restore the thirteen states of the Eastern Han Dynasty, not only is he not very concerned about the Western Regions, but even Hetao does not want to fight much.

Because of the mixed Qiang and Hu populations in northern Shaanxi, the number of farmers is already very small, and no matter how fertile the Hetao area is, most people will think that the gains outweigh the losses if they want to cross this thousands of miles of grassland.

Therefore, Pei Gai also wants to continue to fight abroad, which not only lacks operability, but will inevitably be unanimously opposed by the government and the opposition - continue to spread Chinese culture to distant places, hoping that after entering the industrial society in the future, China's territory can be larger, perhaps it is just an unrealistic delusion.

It just so happened that at this time, some ministers were on the song of the king of the feudal domain, and Pei Gai had a new idea about it.

If a place that is too far away, if Chinese troops and horses are used to attack, it will inevitably cause strong financial pressure, and it will be difficult to fight for a long time, let alone a long-term basis. Even if it is taken down, no one wants to go over and become an official. Then I can only send a small army to go, and the soldiers and horses in the rear will cooperate and respond, and gradually expand the territory, and the orders of the officials will not be appointed by the central government, but selected on the spot.

This is a bit similar to the colonial governor's palace in later generations, but it is impossible to find too many people who are willing to travel far away to colonize foreign lands in these years, and it is not enough to lure the governor as a lure.

So what if the king is used as bait?

As Pei Gai said today: "In the past, Zhou Feng Qi, Lu Yu Dongyi, Feng Yan, Jin Yu Beidi also." ”

In order to stabilize the Central Plains and expand the territory, the Zhou royal family was a great feudal prince, among which Feng Qi, Lu to Ding Yifang, Feng Yan, Jin to Ding Beidi, is the most successful strategy - to seal the Jiang and Huang twelve kingdoms to collect Jianghuai can be regarded as a failure. This is also armed colonization in another sense, but there is no mature colonial policy, and it is still the old routine of destroying the country and annexing the land in ancient times.

The territories directly under the jurisdiction of Shang and Zhou were actually very small, so they made the princes strong and bullied the royal family. But from another point of view, the coastal areas of Qing and Xu, as well as the northern part of He, You, and Jizhou, were gradually incorporated into the scope of Greater China due to the expansion of the vassal states, and finally the Qin and Han could be unified. If Zhou was also the same as Yin Shang, and only restrained all sides, and did not send clans and heroes to occupy their places and spread the mainstream culture, it is estimated that the so-called China will still be a small area of Henan and Shaanxi to this day.

However, as far as Pei Gai's understanding of the Chinese scholars in these years is concerned, although the overall atmosphere is not as restrained as that of later generations, it may not be able to have the ambition of thousands of miles - the same is true of the Pei family's goods. Therefore, he couldn't make a decision directly, and it was inconvenient to discuss with the courtiers, so he simply took the opportunity of the birthday banquet to half-truthfully propose it to Zhu Pei and probe the wind first.

- If I directly seal someone to the Far Frontier, I would probably rather die than obey my fate. Even if you change yourself, you will feel that this is not much different from exile......

Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, all Pei Wei was stunned, Pei Wei and others simply thought that the emperor was talking drunk, and still bowed their heads, saying that it was not advisable to seal the domain.

In the minds of Pei Wei, Pei Xu, and others, the Son of Heaven is just looking for an excuse to block the public opinion of the feudal domain-it's not that I refuse to seal it, it's that no one dares to accept it. So of course I have to hurry up and express my position, Yu Wangjue has no delusions, and he has to force the emperor to be anxious, and he really does a fake show in anger, then we might as well commit suicide directly with Luoyang, so that the coffin can return to his hometown, and his children and grandchildren will not leave the Central Plains.

Their attitude was also expected by Pei Cai, but more or less, a little disappointed. At this point, there was no need to say more, so he waved his hand and said: "I want to do so, and I also vaculate the position of these three kings, so that I can think about it carefully after the uncles and brothers can return to the house." ”

After saying this, it will be left behind, even this generation has no energy, and it is estimated that the younger generations who grew up in the peaceful years in the future will not be able to do what they want. But then again, if he gets a second son or a third son in the future, Pei should not bear to seal them so far away...... Xun is more likely to directly push himself to the ground, sacrifice the powder fist, and drink the order to take back his life. Comparing his heart to his heart, Pei Gai's anger gradually smoothed out.

After all, it is impossible to go too far beyond the Mai era.

However, he didn't expect that after more than ten days, Pei Tong suddenly asked for advice and proposed in person: "Weichen repeatedly thought about what His Majesty said the day before yesterday, hoping to be crowned King of Han - not greedy for his name, but to protect the distant frontier for His Majesty and open up land for the country!" ”