From beginning to end, the emperor was extremely famous for his generosity towards meritorious heroes. And it seems that so many years have passed, and the emperor has not ordered the execution of any meritorious hero?

An emperor who is generous to his followers, how wild should his heart be to have unconvinced thoughts? An emperor who never easily raises a butcher's knife against his ministers, how crazy should it be that someone would want to provoke him? Especially since the emperor has the ultimate violence in his hands from the beginning, as long as he is a person with a clear mind, after getting what he deserves, no one will easily seek death, right?

"Your Majesty must have similar meanings, otherwise it would be impossible for the matter to be discussed." Wei Han followed the emperor from the beginning, and at the beginning he was a scout officer in the emperor's initial army, and climbed to the position of the commander of the Zhonglang General for more than ten years. He thought that he still knew the emperor a little, and said with a smile: "At least there is no mistake in encouraging the people to open up outward." ”

Xu Zhi kept nodding his head when he listened, and agreed: "That's right! His Majesty doesn't care who is expanding outward, but what they can do for the Empire. ”

Meng Tian and Lu Chen glanced at each other without leaving a trace, and the two quickly looked away again.

Recalling what the emperor has always advocated, and looking at the changes in the empire in recent years, even those who have been following it at the beginning think so, then it is estimated that there is really nothing wrong with the general direction of the whole thing, only differences in some details.

"It was mentioned a long time ago that it was to encourage the military to put down roots in place." Lu Chen began to be a little interested in chatting, moved a Mazha, grabbed a bunch of grapes for himself, and said: "It's not that the legion develops on the spot, but that some people who have retired from the military are encouraged to settle down directly at the stationing site. It is a pity that not only the military itself finds it difficult, but also the civilian clique. ”

Meng Tian really didn't know that such a thing had happened. Curiously asked about the incident, and then said rather stunned: "At that time, the civilian official group did not deal with us?" ”

It happened seven years ago, at that time, there was no shadow of the empire at all, and the country was still called "Han", when the Han army was fighting with the Baiyue tribes, it seemed that it had just entered Lingnan not long ago?

Before the Han army entered Lingnan. Baiyue has suffered heavy losses in a row, and it does not pose any threat at all. The Han army's conquest of Lingnan is said to be the biggest enemy of the Baiyue people, rather than the natural environment. Fortunately, most of the Han troops who participated in the attack on Lingnan came from the south, and some of them were from the previous Yue...... It is the real Yue, not the Baiyue, led by Luo Shao, a descendant of the Yue King Goujian, and became the pioneer of the conquest of Lingnan.

After the capture of Lingnan. It can't just occupy land and not develop it, right? Some people suggested that soldiers who should be retired should live in place, but to tell the truth, the soldiers themselves were reluctant not to say it, and the civilian officials were afraid of the loss of population under their own rule. At that time, the Han Kingdom was not invincible in the world, but it could not make trouble, and then the military was not so powerful that "whoever provokes me, I will beat whom", and the matter can only be over.

"So. His Majesty came up with the Tuntian soldiers...... Now it should be called the Construction Corps. Wei Han said in a cowardly tone: "Doesn't the empire want to be disarmed? It is estimated that the number of construction corps will increase dramatically over a long period of time, but that is only a matter of transition. So. If you want to continue to use the model of the construction corps to develop the land you want to develop, there is no difference in cost compared to no disarmament. ”

It is very correct to say that although the construction corps is a non-combat unit, the soldiers of the formation still need to pay military salaries, the difference is that they cannot enjoy wartime allowances. If it was purely to save money, it would not have been possible to maintain the size of the construction corps in large numbers.

"I ...... I remember it more clearly. The empire is not short of money, right? Lu Chen was a little confused, and he said: "The reason why Your Majesty chose disarmament is because you believe the wording of the ruling government, believing that the huge number of military troops has slowed down the pace of local construction. ”

Not to mention, even an ordinary commoner now knows how financially wealthy the empire is. That's because the empire has been propagating where and where to plunder how much wealth it has plundered, and using such propaganda to justify its outward expansion.

Since disarmament is not carried out for the sake of saving financial considerations, it can only be done to free up more labor force for construction, and the problem has come back to the fact that there are no longer so many combat corps, but the huge structure of the construction corps is more beneficial than bad for construction, right?

Several military bigwigs were stunned in unison, they stared at each other, silent, and they were probably confused in their hearts, and some did not understand what the recent national policy changes were based on.

"Those civil servants are so annoying!" Xu Zhi was the first to speak after being quiet for a while, he said, "They have always thought that we would be threats, don't they have a word like that?" It's called 'a lie will become the truth when it is repeated all the time', could it be that Your Majesty has been influenced? ”

"What a joke!" Wei Han choked directly: "Your Majesty can be casually influenced by that group of idiots?" ”

"yes!" Xu Zhi nodded: "Your Majesty will not be so easily influenced by that group of idiots, but we can't relax our vigilance, it's best to write to the Taiwei, and let the Taiwei keep an eye on those idiots who like to make trouble." ”

That is, the first group of people to follow Lu Zhe would speak so directly, in other words, it is impossible for anyone who was incorporated into the imperial system after being annexed to speak so casually. Just look at Meng Tian and Lu Chen, they must have similar thoughts, but they all shut up and didn't say anything.

"Be sure to write privately to your colleagues in the center!" Xu Zhi is the type of person who is crazy, but he is a little restrained as his status gets higher and higher, but he is still the same in front of people with the same status. He said almost with teeth and claws: "Those idiots are getting more and more excessive, and we can't show weakness." ”

Meng Tian was already frowning in his heart, he thought to himself: "No wonder that group of civilian officials think that the military is tough and domineering, it should be that this group of guys has always treated the civilian clique with a similar attitude, right?" ”

In some ways, Meng Tian really did not wronged the wrong people, the military relied on the leader to be the direct leader from the beginning, and they did not take some civilian officials who governed the local area seriously from the beginning. On the one hand, it is estimated that Lu Zhe has not paid much attention to the feelings of civil officials, believing that fighting the world relies on force, and as long as the local productive forces are not destroyed, he does not seem to pay much attention. The starting point for Lu Zhe's thinking is. They did not have a stable environment to build a place, so they could only rely on robbing hundreds of people to maintain their grain crops.

After waiting for the place to be emphasized, the situation developed into a situation in which the military had the Tuntian troops. In this way, the military's military rations can be supported by the Tuntian troops, and Lu Zhe and the military don't care so much about what the civilian officials who govern the local area think.

Well, wait for the time when Lu Zhe wants to care about what the civil officials who govern the place think, and as a result, the Central Plains War will begin. forced Lu Zhe to turn his attention to military affairs again.

From the south to the north, the whole country was unified in a relatively moderate way, and it was only from that moment that Lu Zhe diverted some attention to the civilian bureaucracy, so there was a series of projects that started with cash-for-work.

However, it was too late for Lu Zhe to start paying attention to civilian officials, because he didn't care, and the military was used to not taking the civilian clique seriously.

Besides, Lu Zhe didn't think about unifying the whole country, he should go to Kuma and release it to the south, but he wanted to continue to develop. With that in mind. When there is a conflict between the military general group and the civilian official group, he will inevitably have some bias.

What's more important? It is Lu Zhe who knows one thing very well, civil officials are unhappy with the ruler, and many times they can only be unhappy, but once the military is unhappy with the ruler, it is not as simple as being unhappy. If a situation arises, the consequences of military generals will definitely be much greater than those of civilian officials, so what...... The civil servants continue to work hard, just press hard.

In recent years, Lu Zhe has also gradually suppressed the arrogance of military generals. It cannot be said that it has no effect at all, at least it is not possible to see that the military people have done anything angry and resentful on the mainland. Even if there is something angry and resentful, the military is also against foreign countries and foreign races, and Lu Zhe will punish the military for a group of foreigners when he is sick.

"Your Majesty is different from any other king." Wei Han looked at Meng Tian strangely and said, "What happened to those kings in the past, it has nothing to do with us, as for the next generation or generations of kings...... It's so far away from us. ”

Meng Tian really didn't hold back just now. It is suggested that it is still necessary to ease relations with the civilian clique, after all, the transformation of the empire is already an established national policy, so there is no need to fall out with the civilian clique at all. Then, he gave some examples of the previous Qin State, which showed that the civil officials played yin very well. In many cases, Wu himself also has a way to die.

Take the kings of the Qin State as an example? According to Meng Tian's view, several generations of kings of the Qin State are all male lords, otherwise it would not be possible for the Western Qin, which is in a corner, to reach the point of dominating the world, but it would be a wrong example to compare the measurement of the kings of the Qin State with the current emperors.

In the long history, almost every generation of kings of the Qin State has unjustly killed meritorious heroes, but the emperor has not attacked meritorious heroes so far.

Meng Tianna laughed for a while. He said: "You are right, Your Majesty is just Your Majesty, not anyone else. ”

Many people have actually discussed whether the emperor will take the hero to open the knife. The emperor does not take people to open the knife, which is based on the fact that no one seeks death, and it is also the fundamental consciousness that the emperor has the self-confidence of the strongest.

It's very unpleasant to say, only when you feel weak will you feel insecure, and ordinary people will choose to avoid it when they think it's unsafe. When the king is weak, he chooses to raise the butcher's knife when he feels insecure. Then the king will kill whoever he thinks is a threat, and if he can't kill him, he will wait to be counterattacked, and if he succeeds in extinguishing the rebellion, he will continue to be his ruler, and if he does not extinguish the rebellion, he will die abroad and exterminate the clan, and this is the case throughout the ages.

The founding emperors rarely had a sense of weakness or insecurity after the founding of the country, because they created the country with the army, and since they were able to establish the country, they must have the support of the army, and having the support of the army is equivalent to mastering the biggest machine of violence, how can they feel insecure? They were even able to slaughter the generals who had military power after the country was established, and they were all relatively easy to kill.

Xu Zhi said with a big grin: "It's better to ask what's going on, and don't worry about the rest for now." ”

Wei Han bowed: "That's what happened. ”

Lu Chen's reaction was not too intense, he hadn't finished what he had just done, and he continued to do things when the interest in chatting faded.

Meng Tian, who was sitting on the main seat, seemed to be in a trance, he didn't know what was going on so well before, but after experiencing it again and again, he understood. He thought to himself: "No wonder Your Majesty will take over the world, and no wonder the empire will become stronger and stronger." ”

As subordinates, they are not afraid of whether the emperor is always looking for some reason to kill themselves, they are naturally more motivated to do things, especially when they will get what they get when they achieve something, their motivation is really incomparable.

"Monarchs and ministers are suitable, there is no reason why any such ruling class cannot be strong...... Meng Tian suddenly felt relieved by his choice, and he continued to think: "Your Majesty accepts the separation, then there is no such thing as a high meritorious. In addition, it seems that it is clearly written from the beginning about what kind of credit will receive what kind of reward, and there are options. Labor is rewarded, and merit is rewarded, so there is no need for suspicion. ”

It's too correct, there will be such a thing as a high merit and a master, and there are only a few simple factors, the incompetence of the ruler, the incompetence of the ruler, the incompetence of the ruler...... Anyway, it's because the rulers are incompetent,! Then there is not enough room for people, and then the foundations of the rule have been shaken.

Why are the foundations of domination shaken? It has to do with the incompetence of the rulers! To put it simply, if the ruler can meet the demands of the majority, there will be no shaking of the foundation of the rule. To put it bluntly, the shaking of the foundation of the ruling will not occur all at once, there will inevitably be a process, then the ruler will not be able to improve after mastering all the advantages, and no excuse can change the reality of his incompetence!

"Your Majesty will not be an incompetent ruler!" Meng Tian's eyes were staring at the mountains and rivers, but the things in his mind had nothing to do with the battle, he thought to himself: "I heard that the prince has been smart since he was a child, and any one of them is excellent?" Judging from the performance of the prince when he was in charge of the country, he will also be a bright monarch in the future. As an important matter, the prince definitely also attaches importance to the military, so the military will definitely be happy to accept a person who values itself, and there will be no gap between the two sides. Two successive generations of kings have been able to control the military, but they can't think of anything that can cause turmoil in the empire...... Foreign? Which foreign country can beat the Empire? Interior......? Everything is getting better, who wants to make trouble? (To be continued.) )