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"The western capital is Jiangcheng, which is in charge of the eight counties of Taiyuan, Dai, Shangjun, Sanchuan, Shangdang, Hedong, and Zuo Fengyi."

In fact, in Zhao Wuxian's view, Xinjiang is not the best choice as the western capital, although the Hedong region has been developed by Tang Yu, Xia, Shang, Zhou and Jin for two thousand years, and its population and civilization are second to none in the world.

Jinyang controls the mountains and rivers, standing on the shoulders of the world, but in addition to the danger, the huge territory is sparsely populated, Dong Anyu and Yin Duo have worked hard for decades, and Zhao Wuxian has immigrated several times, but it is still not very good. In addition, it is located in the north of the country and the transportation is inconvenient, so it is really not a good place as a western capital. He also understood a little now, why Zhao didn't stay in Jinyang in history, and had to go to Zhongmu and Handan to build the capital, it was really because the location of Taiyuan in the Spring and Autumn Period was too remote and the population was too small.

What's more, in Zhao Wuxian's view, in the two capital systems, the companion can be moved with the situation, and the most suitable place for him to be the western capital is on the bank of Weishui, in the territory of Qin, which was called Xianyang and Chang'an in later generations......

In addition to the fifteen counties, Zhao also had four more feudal administrative districts: Langya, Xu, Donghai, Shangluo, and two enclaves as military strongholds: Pi County and Jimo County, which were all the territory of Zhao State, and the Xuanniao Banner occupied almost two-thirds of the Central Plains.

After establishing the two-capital system of Zhao's "double-headed eagle strategy", Zhao Wuxian and Zhang Mengtan divided the boundaries of Lu.

"Xilu, west of Jishui and Onozawa, is under the jurisdiction of Zhao Guodong County (formerly Weiguo)."

Next, the Zou and Lu regions were divided into four counties: Taishan County, Lu County, Zou County, and Linyi County, and the county guards were Zaiyu, Kan Zhi, Xiang Lu, and Zifu He, all of whom were Lu people, and Kan Zhi served as the prime minister of Lu in Qufu.

Zhao Wuxian asked Kan Zhilai to contact Zhang Mengtan about government affairs, and encouraged him to do so: "Meng Tan should cooperate with Zi I (Kan Zhi) to complete the integration of Zhao and Lu within three years, move Lu Hou to Kanyi, and turn Lu into Zhao's county!" ”

The two agreed, and after a while, they saw that it was getting dark, and they retired together.

However, not long after, Kan Zhi went and returned, asked to see Zhao Wuxian, and said with a serious expression: "Your Majesty, the minister has a matter, I don't know whether to say it or not. ”

Kan Zhi is the closest to the "Legalist" among Zhao Wuxian's ministers, although he is a native of the Lu State, but he is vigorous and resolute, and the administration is violent, when governing Feng Yi, he vigorously cracked down on the old customs of the Qin State, and forcibly implemented the system and rails and writing of the Zhao State, with remarkable results.

Today, Zhang Mengtan visited Zhao Wuxian alone, but it was because he had a lot of complaints about Zhao Wuxian's division of the princes.

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"Your Majesty, when the Duke of Zhou occupied the world, he divided the land like a melon, and the children of the seal had the same surname, and the original intention was to let them shield the Zhou room, just like the spokes concentrated on the hub, and the wheels ran around the axis, isn't it the same as the original intention of the feudal children of the king today?"

Zhao Wuxian bowed his head and let him continue.

However, the Duke of Zhou did not expect that with the estrangement of blood relations, the princes began to disobey the orders of the Son of Heaven. During the reign of King Zhou Yi, the prestige of the Son of Heaven was exhausted, and he had to go down to the court to greet the princes in person. When King Xuan of Zhou, although he relied on the southern expedition and the northern expedition to revive the prestige of Zong Zhou, he was still unable to decide the heir of Lu Jun after all. Later, King Zhou Ping moved the capital eastward to Luoyi, and had already placed himself on the same status as princes. Since then, there has been a Zheng Zhuang Gong who injured the Son of Heaven in the shoulder with an arrow, and the Chu people asked Zhou Tianzi about the importance of the Jiuding of the country, and the matter of the Jin State's crusade against the Minister of the Son of Heaven, Fanbo, the world was in chaos, and the etiquette collapsed, and the Son of Heaven was no longer regarded as the Son of Heaven. ”

"King Zhou has lost power for a long time, and now he just keeps an empty name! The reason for this is that the princes are so powerful that the tail is too big! In order to compete for hegemony and annex land, the princes are increasingly estranged, and the fraternal countries attack each other like enemies, and Zhou Tianzi can forbid it. The reason for Zhou's decline is probably here. “

Kan Zhi paused, carefully observed Zhao Wuxian's expression, and saw that he was not angry, so he had the courage to say his conclusion: "Today, the Central Plains is unified by the gods and spirits, and most of the former states and feudal towns have become Zhao's counties......

After that, he waited for Zhao Wuxian's fate with some trepidation, because this matter, since Zhao Wuxian had the intention of the feudal princes, Kan Zhi has been holding it in his heart, say it, there is a suspicion of dividing the flesh and blood of the Zhao family, don't say it, but don't vomit unpleasantly.

Zhao Wuxian suddenly laughed, patted him and said, "Zi me, Zi I, I never thought that you still have such knowledge, and you are worthy of being the talent of Zai Fu favored by widows." ”

Kan Zhi was flattered, but listened to Zhao Wuxian: "What you said is right, the county is superior to feudal, there is no doubt about it!" ”

Affirming Kan Zhi's opinion, Zhao Wuxian's voice changed again, and he said solemnly: "However, you can't say it in one word, but you must weigh it according to the situation. “

The feudal system has not existed since ancient times, but with Tang Yao, Yu Shun, Xia Yu, Shang Tang until Zhou, slowly developed, before Zhou, the place that Yin Shang could control was only Wangji, and the Quartet was some Fang countries with different surnames, such as Zhou and Dongyi, sometimes annexed, sometimes defected. After the Eastern Expedition of the Duke of Zhou, the feudal children were a kind of historical progress, which enabled the Zhou Dynasty to consolidate its rule and expand its territory. And let the vast area form the general situation of Xia Jun and Yi people, and finally Yi Xia completed the integration, forming the Zhuxia community, that is, the prototype of the Han nationality, in which the feudal system is a great contributor.

As Kan Zhi said, the Zhou Dynasty was also feudal, and the decline was also feudal, and the Jin, Lu and other countries that continued the Zhou system also produced the situation that the ministers and ministers could not be dropped, and the monarchs and ministers were transposed, and the feudal system had to carry a big pot.

Therefore, within the emerging Qing clan such as the Zhao family, it has become the mainstream of the times to use the emerging scholars as officials, and only enjoy the Yulu and not give hereditary fiefs.

However, feudalism also has the necessity of its existence in this era.

The fundamental way to judge a system is whether it adapts to the development of the productive forces, and feudalism is not that Zhao Wuxian does not want to abolish it, but that the trend of the development of things is not allowed for the time being.

First of all, the hearts of the sons and daughters of meritorious heroes are not cold, after all, this is the Spring and Autumn Period, except for Zhang Mengtan and Kan Zhi, who have a high ideological consciousness, most Zhao Chen still takes meritorious service and fiefdom as the goal of his life. Secondly, the border land is too far away from the Zhao State, and the people's hearts have not yet been attached, and the cost of developing it by the central immigration is too great, so letting the feudal monarch run it can reduce a lot of trouble.

There is some truth in Kan Zhi's suggestion, but he still only sees one side, and Zhao Wuxian can't completely deny the immediate benefits of the feudal children because of what may happen in a hundred years.

Kan Zhi was convinced, and after retreating respectfully, Zhao Wuxian looked at the red glow at dusk alone, and also fell into deep thought.

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Zhao Wuxian was luckier than others, not only to summarize the past history, but also to see clearly the lessons left by later generations.

Qin has the world, split the capital and for the county, abolish the Hou Wei and guard it, according to the world's male map, the upper reaches of the Liuhe, shoot the four seas, and transport it within the control. However, few people can remember that in the six generations before Qin Shi Huang, the Qin state was also feudal: Shang Yang was sealed in Shang Yu, Wei Ran was sealed in Tao, and the newly conquered Shu State was also sealed for several generations of Shu marquis.

The Han Dynasty has the world, the Qin Dynasty is in vain, the system of favoritism is favoritism, the sea is cut and the sect is established, and the meritorious heroes are sealed. The rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms during the reign of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty is often criticized, but who can remember that when the Lu family was powerful and the Liu family was almost about to change its surname to Lu, it was a group of princes surnamed Liu who raised troops and cooperated with the meritorious ministers inside and outside, which kept the community, and the vassal states that were divided into the south also played a great role in promoting local production.

There is no doubt that the county is superior to feudalism, but feudalism itself is not the original sin, it depends on how it is used.

"From Qin Xiaogong to Qin Shi Huang, five generations and six generations, more than 100 years."

"From Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it is almost four generations, nearly a hundred years."

With the prosperity of the Qin and Han dynasties, it will take a hundred years to slowly transition feudalism to great unification, not to mention the Zhao State at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period? If you take too big a step, you'll get the egg.

No system is perfect, and no system needs to be reformed from start to finish.

That's why he turned the feudal princes into a feudal system that was more common during the Warring States period and easier for the central government to control......

Interestingly, it was "Zhao Xiangzi" who pioneered the title in history.

Compared with the previous princes and doctors, the political and economic privileges of the four feudal monarchs of Zhao were weakened, and Yecheng appointed ministers or guards to supervise the feudal monarchs, and the feudal monarchs must abide by the laws of Zhao, and also stipulated: "The third generation will receive the knight if he does not contribute to the country!" ”

What's more, Zhao Wuxian still had the big move of Tui En Ling in his hand and didn't release it...... In other words, if his descendants are really mediocre and incompetent, they will be replaced by feudal monarchs with the same surname and replace them with fresh blood for the dynasty, which is not a way to delay the law of historical cycles?

Facing the sunset, Zhao Wuxian opened his arms and laughed at himself: "Life is less than 100, and I often have a thousand years of worries." I am Chinese New Year's Eve five years old today, in the prime of life, and I still have at least thirty or forty years to live, but to do what it took the Qin and Han dynasties a hundred years to do in a generation is really going against the sky! ”

The heavy sense of mission to this nation and the times compelled him to do things against the sky, to avoid the recurrence of the tragedy of the death of the second emperor, and it is precisely for this reason that Wuxian is like walking on thin ice as if facing the abyss, and every step must be taken carefully......

The feudal children will continue as a system, but only in the border areas of the country, within China, they are the frontier and barrier, and outside the territory of China, they are the vanguard of expanding the territory, the fire of spreading civilization, and the border of Zhao State moving!

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With the diplomatic and internal affairs basically arranged, and the meeting of Huangchi also coming to an end, Zhao Wuxian had already asked people to prepare the carriages, horses and boats, and only wait for the ice and snow of the big river to melt, and then return to Yecheng.

But he always felt that something was wrong, did he forget one thing? That night he was drunk, and the last clear memory stayed in the princes and ministers who came to offer wine, and he didn't remember what happened after that, but he vaguely remembered that he seemed to have promised someone or something.

Ning Zhiyuan, a temple man who was next to him that night, asked, Ning Jiancan said with a smile: "The prince was drunk that day, and the ministers came up in turn to offer wine, and when it was Liu Xiayue's turn, he bowed down to the head of the court, saying that there would often be people from afar to come to the court, and when Zhou became the king, Qiyang's meeting, there were Yu clans and Great Xia who came to offer gifts. Therefore, Liu Xiayue asked to lead a team of people to the west, hollow out foreign lands, and re-contact the Shangyu clan and even the Western Queen Mother Kingdom for the Zhao State...... The prince has already promised him in public! “

PS: "Yi Zhou Shu. Wang Hui Xie "its west like me, the white tiger. Tuzhou Panther, Yu's 騊駼. The white cow of Daxiaz, the white cow beast also, the cow shape and the ivory.

According to the orientation of the Yi Zhou book, the above are all in the northwest region, of which the Yu clan is the Yue clan, which is located in the Hexi Corridor at this time.

There is one more chapter in the evening.

(To be continued.) )