Chapter 433: Nichinankoku
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Maybe you can start with Yang Liang to try it out and see how it works, and then make specific follow-up plans.
Basically, Yang Jian had already agreed to the empress's construction, and planned to release Yang Liang and give him a feudal kingdom first. However, the question of where to go is the one.
It has to be far away from the heart of the Central Plains, and it has to be a frontier, and it has to be a joint domain for the imperial court, so the area west of the Longyou River is not good, although it is also a frontier, but it is too close to the Guanzhong Jingshi. Yang Jian walked to the side of the large screen, on which hung a map of the world, depicting a panorama of the mountains and rivers of the Great Sui.
Yang Jian looked at it for a long time, and in his heart he had already excluded Longyou, Hexi, Hetao, Daibei, Liaoxi, and Saishang, these places are very remote, and at the same time they are close to the powerful Hu people. It can neither play the role of the Ping Domain, nor can it play the role of stabilizing the clan, and the northern front line has always been the top priority of the imperial court, wars are frequent, and the people are fierce, in case any ambitious princes make a rebellion in the future, it is easy to borrow the soldiers of the Hu people to make a rebellion. After thinking about it, Yang Jian still felt that it was better to divide it to the southwest or southeast, where there were already many barbarians, and these barbarians often rebelled, but their forces were not strong, and at the same time, there was territory in the south that could be expanded, and it was far away from the heart of the Central Plains. Sealing the country to these places can not only help the imperial court to deal with the barbarians and defend the border, but also help assimilate and control these barbarians, and the imperial court does not have to worry about these princes being a threat to the imperial court. After all, the southern soldiers were inferior to the northern soldiers, and they wanted to rebel from the southernmost frontier. It is basically impossible to succeed. Just like since the founding of the Great Sui, although the Southwest Yi has rebelled many times. But every time it can be calmed down quickly. The Hu people living in the north invaded the south, but the imperial court had to go all out. This is the fundamental gap between the North and the South.
Thinking of this, Yang Jian had already made up his mind to seal the south.
Yang Liang, who was the first to be sealed, simply sealed it far away. Yang Jian finally stopped his finger at the far southeast.
It is the end of the world, but it is not Hainan Island, Hainan Island has been developed in the past dynasties, and the Central Plains court controls zhì is not bad, although the Han people control zhì in the basic coastal area are strong, and in the mountainous area in the center of the island is still the territory of the Baiyue slang people. However, the whole island can be regarded as a piece of familiar land. The fief chosen by Yang Jian for Yang Liang was South Vietnam, which was opposite to the sea to the west of Hainan Island.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, counties were already set up, and later there were repeated times. The southernmost piece of Rinan County, in the last years of the Southern Dynasty, had been completely captured by the Linyi State. After the situation in the north stabilized, he sent troops to the south to attack Linyi and regain the territory of the Central Plains since the Qin and Han dynasties. Now, it can be directly sealed to Yang Liang.
"Demote Yang Liang as the king of Rinan. The feudal land of Ninan County is the land of Ninan County. Yang Jian pointed with his hand and gave Yang Liang this place in the south of the sky.
Yang Liang's eyes widened, and it took a while to find his fiefdom from that map, the southernmost end of the long tail facing the sea to the west of Qiong Island. Look at this little dot. He was speechless in his heart, but he didn't dare to refute it when he had just walked away from the ghost gate. Looking at the emperor's expression, it seems that you are either going here to be a king. Either go to Fangzhou and be an exiled commoner, there is no third option.
"It's nice here. There are eight counties. "Yang Jian has a good memory, and he is very familiar with this territory that was not officially established until the eighteenth year of the emperor's reign. In the Sui Dynasty, it belonged to Jiuzhen County, and later the southern counties were divided from Jiuzhen County and Jiude County was established. After the abolition of the county, Jiude County was changed to Yuzhou, and Jiuzhen County was changed to Aizhou. Although there are eight counties in the southernmost prefecture, there are only 10,000 households in total, and the population is only more than 50,000. Of course, Yang Jian is still looking forward to Yang Liang, since the end of the Southern Dynasty, Lin Yi rose, repeatedly invaded the states of Nanyue, the original Qin and Han dynasties in Nanyue, most of the old land in Nanyue was taken away, and finally could only be bounded by Hengshan.
"I will give you three thousand soldiers and horses, and two thousand craftsmen, and all the families of the soldiers and craftsmen. There are eight prefectures in your southern kingdom, but if you have the ability to withstand the invasion of the southern kingdom of Linyi, you will always have these eight prefectures in the future. If you can still lead the troops to fight across Hengshan, then the old land of the Qin and Han dynasties south of Hengshan, if you can restore one county, you will add one county, and if you can restore ten counties, you will be restored to ten counties, all of which will be under the jurisdiction of the southern kingdom of Japan.
Hearing this, Yang Liang couldn't help but feel a little hot in his heart. On this day, the southern country is really not very big, although it is said that there are eight counties, but there are only 10,000 households in eight counties. But the emperor gave him 3,000 soldiers and 2,000 craftsmen, plus the families of these people, and the population must be 20,000 or 30,000, which can increase by 5,000 at once. More importantly, the emperor gave him the right to conquer the southern Linyi, promising that if he could capture one county, he would expand one county in the southern country, expand ten counties if he captured ten counties, and even destroy the Linyi, and all of them would be in the southern country, which was too tempting. originally thought that he could only go to the south of the sky to be a local tyrant, saying that he was a king, but in fact it was just a state assassin in a remote place, and even a county order in the hinterland of the Central Plains was equivalent. In a large county in the Central Plains, there are still 20,000 or 30,000 households.
As the first vassal state to be divided, Yang Jian didn't want to set too many restrictions as soon as he came, but he still roughly imitated the feudal system of the Han and Jin dynasties.
Yang Liang was named the king of Rinan and built the kingdom of Rinan, and he had military and civil power over Ninan, and he could inherit it from generation to generation. However, there were some changes, such as Yang Jian told Yang Liang that Yang Liang had the right to appoint his own state officials and subordinates, but the two official positions equivalent to the prime minister and the general needed to be appointed by the imperial court, and at the same time, the county commanders, county officials, and county lieutenants of each county also needed to be appointed by the imperial court. Nichinan is only allowed to have 3,000 Kingdom troops and 2,000 personal guards, and cannot exceed the upper limit of 5,000. Yang Liang has the right to appoint his 2,000 officers to guard the pro-army, but the officers of the 3,000 Kingdom Army must be appointed by the imperial court. At the same time, the cost of raising the 5,000 soldiers and horses must be paid for by Nichinan itself. The army of Nichinan Province was allowed to be less than 5,000, but not more than 5,000.
The kingdom must follow the laws of the imperial court, and the kingdom may levy taxes according to the system of the imperial court, and shall not levy them privately, and one cent of the taxes shall be handed over to the imperial court, one cent shall be retained by the county governments, and one cent shall be returned to the kingdom.
Yang Liang went to Beijing for a pilgrimage every two years and was not allowed to leave the domain without reason.
To say, Yang Jian is still very decentralized.
Although the feudal country is only a county, it has a population of tens of thousands of soldiers, craftsmen and dependents. And the most important thing is that Yang Jian gave Yang Liang the right to lead the troops and the people, although for the important positions of state officials and the main officials at the county level, they are strictly required to be appointed by the imperial court, but after all, Yang Jian did not come to a false seal as Cao Wei when he was divided, sealed a small country, and did not allow the leaders to lead the people, which is actually equivalent to house arrest. Yang Jian still gave real power, both to command the army and to lead the people, but to add some restrictions on personnel, in addition, although Yang Jian gave Yang Liang the right to command the army up to 5,000 people, but he asked to seal the country for the army, this is a real restriction, the court does not raise the feudal generals, and the military expenses all need to be paid by the kingdom itself.
But 5,000 soldiers are not so easy to raise, especially Yang Jian has long had restrictions on taxes, which can only be levied according to the tax law of the imperial court, and after collection, it is divided into three points, one point is handed over to the state treasury, one point belongs to the county government, and one point belongs to the kingdom. This part of the county government is used for the locality, and only the share that belongs to the kingdom is Yang Liang. This one-third or so of the tax has to be used to support Yang Liang himself and his state officials, and also to support the army, if the business is not good, let alone 5,000 soldiers and horses, even 500 soldiers can't be raised.
But no matter what, there is still a lot of actual power, and Yang Jian also said that the feudal country will not be relocated and exchanged at will, as long as nothing happens, Yang Liang will stay in the southern country of Japan for the rest of his life, and then his children and grandchildren.
In order to prevent Yang Liang's Rinan Kingdom from being destroyed by the Linyi Kingdom, Yang Jian not only immediately gave 3,000 soldiers and horses to Yang Liang, but also gave a large number of weapons, grain and grass. Yang Jian allowed Yang Liang to support 5,000 soldiers, 2,000 personal guards as the central army, and the remaining 3,000 people were divided into upper and lower armies, each with 1,500 people.
"If you leave the country of Beijing after three days, you can't leave the domain without an edict!" After Yang Jian declared, let Yang Liang leave.
Dugu Hou sat quietly on the side without intervening. Although Yang Liang was demoted to the king of the county, and was also sealed to the place of Nanhaijiao that day, and it was also a place that was attacked by barbarians all the time, he also knew that Yang Liang had been spoiled by them too much over the years. This time is also a lesson, let him suffer a little, maybe he can improve.
On the same day, the palace sent a will, the Han King Yang Liang was reduced to the king of Ninan, with the eight counties of Yuzhou as the south of the country, and Yang Liang sealed the country of Nanyue, that is, the country of the sunrise Beijing.
On the same day, Yang Guang, the king of Jin, solved the solitary confinement, and went to Beijing to take up the post of governor of Bingzhou on the same day.
As soon as the two wills came out, the entire Jingshi was in an uproar. Many people lamented that the King of Han easily escaped, and some people lamented that the King of Han had since left the inner circle of the imperial court and could only stay in the remote Lingnan and Nanyue regions for the rest of his life. Of course, there are also many people who are extremely surprised by the feudal edict of King Rinan, the nineteenth year since the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, and there has never been a real feudal prince, Yang Liang is the first, but it is not the only one, or will there be more clan feudalism in the future? Some of the clans who heard the news were secretly excited, including the children and grandchildren of the Yang Jian brothers, and there were also more distant clan branches, these people were either crowned princes or feudal county kings or feudal princes, but although the title was high, it could not be reused like the emperor's sons. Dividing the frontier and becoming princes and kings may be bad news for the emperor's sons, who are not princes now, but their power far exceeds that of princes and kings. But for these noble clans, if they can feudal the frontier, establish a country on their own, and become a prince and king who has no one to control them, this is too tempting. (To be continued......) R1292