In the first year of Dachen Shenlong, on the eighth day of June, Sui pounded the throne and Emperor Chen ascended the throne.

After Chen Kefu ascended the throne, the first thing was naturally to seal the civil and military affairs. Countless soldiers who followed him to fight over naturally reached the time of success at this time. Chen Kefu was not a stingy man, and he knew that the imperial court needed to secure his ministers with rewards in order to gain their continued loyalty to him.

On the day of the new emperor's accession to the throne, Chen Kefu canonized the eldest grandson Wujian as the queen, Chen Shen was honored as the emperor of Taishang, his mother Shen was honored as the empress dowager of Taimu, and Chen Yu, the eldest son born to the eldest grandson Wujian, was the crown prince. Canonized Yang Jier as a noble concubine, Li Xiuning as a concubine, Feng Wan as a concubine, and Zhai Wushuang as a virtuous concubine. Zhang Chuchen was added as Mrs. Zhaoyi, Khitan concubine Alina as Mrs. Zhaorong, Dongying concubine Suga Ye Lisha as Mrs. Xiuyi, Concubine Yulan as Mrs. Xiuyi, and Turkic concubine Ayiguli as Mrs. Chongyi. He also canonized Chen Xuan, the son of Yang Jier, as the king of Jin, and the daughters of Alina, Ye Lisa, and Yulan as princesses.

In the end, in the surprise of everyone, he canonized the princess of Silla, Kim Seung-man, as one of the nine concubines of the second grade, and canonized him and Kim Seung-man's son, the grandson of King Silla Chan Lang, as the king of Liao. For the canonization of Jin Shengman's mother and son, Fang Xuanling and others were originally opposed, although they also knew that this Chen Lang was Chen Kefu's son, but after all, his mother was the princess of Silla, and he was several years old now, and he was also the grandson of the prince of Silla. However, in this regard, Chen Kefu just said that the future king of Silla is his son, and after the king of Silla ascends the throne in the future, then the country of Silla will naturally be his. At that time, some soldiers and horses will be sent into Silla, and this Silla will not be able to return to itself. Isn't it the most natural thing for Emperor Lao Tzu to send troops to his son's king's territory? Something that makes sense?

Just one word. Immediately, Li Benlei, Li Jing and other generals in the army, who were still a little hesitant, shouted in unison. Even Mao Xi, who originally shouted that Chen Lang could not enter the royal family genealogy, immediately smiled and said that Chen Lang would be included in the Chen family genealogy immediately.

For the tribal kingdoms of Silla, Khitan, Baekje, Yam, and Kumoxi outside the Guan, these generals in the new dynasty are the most unanimous. That is, when there is a chance, we must annex these small barbarian states, and completely turn the entire northeast Guanwai and the Goguryeo Peninsula into the rear of the imperial court. It's just that the time has not yet come. As long as the Central Plains is flat, these tribal nobles who have now been corrupted by Dachen's various luxuries, who will be able to stop them at that time.

Although the civil officials of the imperial court have been shouting Confucian benevolence and righteousness on the surface, in fact, with Chen Kefu, Fang Xuanling and others, they have gradually developed a tacit understanding with Chen Kefu. There is a chance to annex the various tribes outside the Guanxi and completely avoid the rebellion of the tribes in the northeast, and of course they will not only shout benevolence and righteousness like ordinary corrupt Confucians. After following Chen Kefu for a long time, everyone is also accustomed to putting interests first in everything.

Even Mao Xi, who had already taken a back seat, regained his second spring. Every day, he thought that he was hanging on to the position of the Grand Master, so he kept his duties and went around Chen Kefu all day long, saying that he wanted to sit with the Son of Heaven and discuss the Tao. As for his word. It's actually quite simple. It is from the fact that Chen Kefu wants to establish Chen Lang as the king of Liao. Found inspiration. Therefore, he is now pestering Chen Kefu every day. Chen Kefu immediately worked hard with the Khitan concubine Alina, the concubine Yulan, the concubine Sugaye Lisha, and the Turkic concubine Ayiguli to give birth to the prince as soon as possible, and then make these princes the kings of all tribes, and send a large army to escort the princes back to their grandfather's house in the future, so as to take advantage of the opportunity to become famous and rightfully annex all those tribal kingdoms.

Even for this reason, Mao Xi, who had always opposed marriages with those foreign clans in the past, saying that it would ruin the Chen bloodline, took the initiative at this time to ask for the princess and daughter from the Khitan Dahe clan, Baekje Kingdom, Dongying, Kumoxi, Tiele, Turks, etc., so that they could have more princes in the future, and they would annex each other in a good name. Mao Xi, who was full of excitement, was even planning to let the sailor fleet under Zhang Zhongjian go to sea to visit those island countries in the East and the South Seas, as well as the coastal kingdoms in the South Seas, to seek relatives with various countries, and to ask their princesses to marry Chen Kefu, so as to implement his goal of educating barbarians and the world in China. Looking at his appearance, he has completely regarded Chen Kefu as a seeder. …,

Later, Chen Kefu had to walk around when he saw Mao Xi, and arranged guards to stand guard from a distance, as long as he heard that Mao Xi was coming, he would hide immediately. Just kidding, although Chen Kefu did have such an idea in the affairs of Silla. But it's because the king of Silla has no son, and the child has been the grandson of the prince for many years. What's more, even if this plan is really carried out in other tribal kingdoms, this thing cannot be done overnight. What's more, now that the new dynasty has been established, the most important goal is to unify the world, not to annex those Cypriot races.

Although the princes are still young, Chen Kefu has already made arrangements for the prince's future. Although Chen Kefu is young, in fact, the Chen clan is all in Jiangnan, and he, the emperor, is actually completely alone, and has no clan protection and support at all. For this reason, after thinking about it for a long time, Chen Kefu was ready to implement the vassal king system, but considering the rebellion of the seven kings of the Han Dynasty, the rebellion of the eight kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, as well as the Jingnan change of the Ming Dynasty, and the later situation of the clan pig raising, Chen Kefu also combined the factors before and after.

In the end, it was decided to implement the vassal system, but to avoid the vassal king from making trouble in the future or just blindly raising pigs. Chen Kefu decided that all the princes and princes of the vassal kings would live and educate in Beijing until they reached the age of fifteen. After the age of fifteen, the emperor and the imperial court assessed, and only those with good character and ability could be crowned king, and after reaching the age of twenty, he was crowned a vassal state. Moreover, it is specifically stipulated that all vassal kings must be sealed on the territory opened up after the first year of Dachen Shenlong, that is, the most frontier provinces of Ryukyu Island, Tamna Island, Mobei Province, Haidong, Haixi, Vietnam and other provinces.

All vassal kings had to be enclosed in the territories they had opened up after the establishment of the dynasty, and the vassal kings had no power over the people or the right to command the army. Each vassal king could have a thousand guards in the frontier, and they exercised supervision over local officials, officers, and generals. In addition, the guards of the vassal kings were not allowed to leave the domain without the emperor's order, and the officers of the vassal king's guards were all appointed by the imperial court.

However, the vassal kings had the duty of supervising and guarding the area, and if the enemy invaded, they had to lead their guards to assist in the defense, guarding the frontier as the most loyal and reliable force of the imperial court. And in case of a rebellion in the Central Plains, the vassal kings could immediately be ordered by the emperor to lead their troops back to the Central Plains. And in order to limit the power of the vassal king, in addition to the officers who guard are appointed and dismissed by the imperial court, the guards and horses will also be rotated every five years. And the king of Fan has three levels: prince, heir, and county king, and the prince's domain has a county, the heir's domain has only one town, and the county king's domain has only one castle.

Moreover, it is stipulated that the son of the vassal king must be educated in the capital from the age of five, and the assessment at the age of fifteen must be assessed. All princes, the hereditary lords of the vassal kings, must be demoted to one rank. And the other sons of the vassal king, even if they pass the assessment, they have to be demoted to two ranks. And once the title is reduced to the prince below the county king, then he no longer has the right to divide the feudal state. And the children of the royal family have not been crowned kings, and the court has a special Yulu to support, but it will not be too rich. Once the title of the children of the royal family is reduced to below the viscount, they can participate in the civil and military examinations and can become officials.

This whole set of vassal system is very harsh compared with the previous dynasties such as the Han and Jin dynasties. But Chen Kefu practiced elitism, with outstanding royal children guarding the border passes, and ordinary and untalented royal children staying in the capital. The strict qualifications for obtaining the title are also to limit and avoid the situation that the annual tax revenue of all parts of the world is not enough for the vassal kings to eat, as was the case in the later Ming Dynasty.

With the vassal king sitting in the border pass, it can strengthen the supervision and protection of the border pass by the imperial court, and it can also reduce all kinds of battles when the kings are all in the capital. However, dividing the feudal domain to the most frontier and strictly restricting the rights of the vassal king can prevent the feudal king from rebelling. Once the vassal king was found to be in rebellion, the imperial court could transfer the border troops to arrest him. Even if they are kept away from the capital, they can avoid the rebellion of the vassal king. Even if the vassal king rebelled and was far away from the capital of the Central Plains, it would be difficult for them to kill it back. There is a prince who remains in the capital, and he is also a hostage of the vassal king. …,

Layers of restrictions, not only to reasonably exert the power of these imperial powers, to restrain those generals and courtiers in the court, but also to avoid internal strife within the imperial family. Chen Kefu was not yet thirty years old, and he believed that as long as twenty or thirty years passed, the vassal system would be perfected.

Most of the people in the court were opposed to this new vassal system. Mao Xi, Lu Guangli and other old ministers thought that doing this would be too harsh on the members of the royal family, and the outstanding members were all vassal kings, which would inevitably weaken the power of the imperial family. It is easy to give ambitious courtiers a chance, and there is a worry that far from being able to solve the near fire. However, the scholars such as Fang Xuanling had different opinions, and they were worried that the vassal system would eventually become a vassal king like the Han Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, and in the end it would threaten the central court.

For this, Chen Kefu can only explain to them carefully. Cao Wei was a masterpiece of several generations, and finally unified the troubled times at the end of the Han Dynasty and established Cao Wei. But in the end, he was quickly usurped by Sima, and a large part of the reason was that although Cao Wei was able to minister many famous generals, and even had strong soldiers, the imperial family was suppressed by the imperial court and did not divide the kings. As a result, in the end, Cao Wei's power was usurped by Sima, and finally usurped by Sima.

After the Sima clan usurped the country and established itself as the Jin Dynasty, it was precisely because they took into account the lessons of Cao Wei's destruction of the country at the beginning, they sealed the kings, but the power of the vassal kings was too great, and they even not only managed the people but also supported the army, and finally became a country within a country, which led to the rebellion of the eight kings and finally destroyed the country. In history, the Tang Dynasty did not seal the vassal king, and as a result, after the military general group was divided, no one could control it.