The 421st son was divided, and the grandson was cut down

Zhu Chongba, Duke of Lelang, Ming Yuzhen, Duke of Han, Duke Chen Youliang, Duke Mao Gui of Wei, and Li Siqi, Duke of Tang, are the five famous princes with different surnames in the Wei Xia Dynasty.

In order to curb the five princes with different surnames, and in order to appease the smaller powerful generals, Wei Anhaofu was forced to divide the Gongwei Jingshi, the vassal king surnamed Wei. In terms of real-world geography: Shaanxi is the state of Zhou; Shanxi is the Jin State; Hebei is the state of Zhao; Liaoning is the country of Yan; Shandong is the state of Shandong; Fujian is the defense of the country; Guangdong and Guangxi are the countries of Vietnam; Hunan and Guizhou are the state of Chu. In addition, Ming Yuzhen seized Yunnan, Chen Youliang seized Sichuan and Chongqing, Li Siqi seized Gansu and Ningxia, Mao Gui seized Inner Mongolia, and Zhu Chongba seized Korea, and China suddenly reappeared in the chaos of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

The Wei Xia royal family only actually ruled Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other places, and its comprehensive strength may be inferior to that of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Due to the long sea routes, the political cost of administering the Nanyang Islands was incredibly high for the Wei Xia Dynasty, whose capital was Nanzhili. Wei Anhao simply broke the jar and broke it, and also divided the Nanyang into things, first gave Sumatra Island to the puppet emperor Wei Xiuwen, and the country was named "Foqi"; Then he gave the island of Java to his son, and the country was named "Shunta".

One is to curb the threat of Wei Xiuwen's descendants to Wei Anhao's direct descendants, and the other is to curb the birth of a new threat similar to Wei Anhao in Nanyang, Wei Anhao gathered a small number of directly governed territories on the Malay Peninsula and established a vassal "starfish"; Summarize the few territories on the coast of Kalimantan and establish a vassal state "Borneo"; Summarize the few territories directly under the jurisdiction of the Philippines and establish a vassal state "Luzon". Since then, the five feudal states of the South Seas, such as Shunta, Foqi, Starfish, Borneo, and Luzon, have restrained each other, and no one wants to threaten the royal family with their maritime geography.

With different surnames and five kingdoms, five feudal states in Nanyang, and eight relatives in the mainland, Wei Anhao dismembered Wei Dongsheng's imperial dream.

In 1366, Wei Anhao died and was succeeded by his eldest son, Wei Shengying, who was the third emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty.

In the same year, Wei Dongsheng came to another world again.

Wei Dongsheng's second life is his great-grandson.

This sentence sounds a little awkward, but it is a joke that exists. The inferior Tomorrow Ring erased the traces of the word "Wei Dongsheng" with incredible power. The traces of Wei Dongsheng's first life, whether it is the actions of King Shunta during his reign or the allusions and testaments of the Central Plains period, have become the deeds of "Wei Hansheng".

This erasure is like the replacement function of the ORD document, where the author searches for the three words Wei Dongsheng and replaces them all with "Wei Hansheng". After the replacement, Wei Dongsheng can continue to continue the second life experience under the name "Wei Dongsheng".

The inferior Tomorrow Ring has replaced the first Wei Dongsheng with Wei Hansheng.

When the world hears the word Wei Dongsheng now, they will only regard Wei Dongsheng as a descendant of Wei Hansheng.

As a result, Wei Dongsheng's second life became the grandson of Wei Hansheng's second son in the eyes of the world.

Wei Dongsheng was speechless in this regard.

Wei Shengying, the third emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty, was the grandson of Wei Dongsheng, and the kings of the five overseas feudal states and the eight relatives of the interior were either the sons of Wei Dongsheng or the grandson or great-grandson of Wei Dongsheng. Thinking that the true identity of his colleagues or superiors was actually his blood descendant, Wei Dongsheng couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

Gossip aside.

When Wei Shengying divided the kingdoms, the grandson of the first Wei Dongsheng and the titular father of the second Wei Dongsheng was ordered to guard Tushan West and was the king of Jin.

In 1357, the titular father of the second Wei Dongsheng died.

In recent years, in order to ensure that their descendants can smoothly inherit the title, the princes of the Eight Princes of the Mainland, the Five Domains of Nanyang, and the Five Princes with Different Surnames, they have unanimously deleted and amended the Succession Act to amend the binding clause that the heir must be at least 24 years old. Therefore, after the death of the second Wei Dongsheng's titular father, Wei Dongsheng immediately succeeded to the king of Jin at the age of nine.

For the convenience of writing, the second Wei Dongsheng was abbreviated as Wei Dongsheng, and the first Wei Dongsheng was abbreviated as Wei Hansheng after the correction of the inferior tomorrow ring.

After Wei Dongsheng succeeded to the king of the Jin state, he did not go to the Jin state to lead the government, but lived in Kaifeng (Bianliang) to receive education.

There are two main reasons why he did not return to China in time.

First, the second emperor Wei Anhao, in order to break up the threat of real power soldiers, scattered them to the jurisdiction of the eight relatives in the mainland, and the Jin State also stationed some arrogant generals for it. The real power generals that the royal family cannot control, and the empty shelf Jin State small court is naturally more difficult to restrain this group of arrogant generals. Wei Dongsheng's guardian was afraid that the arrogant soldiers would rise up and coerce Wei Dongsheng, so they simply stayed in Henan Province, which was close to the Jin State, and remotely controlled the Jin Dynasty's government from a distance.

Second, Meng Yuan was only driven out of the Central Plains by the generals of the Northern Expedition, and after Emperor Yuan fled to the grassland, he still continued to invade the frontier vassal states without giving up. In order to jointly resist the threat of the Mongol or Northern Yuan, the frontier vassal states surnamed Li Tang, Wei Zhou, Wei Jin, Mao Wei, Zhao, Yan, and Zhu concluded the Great Wall Alliance against the invasion of the Northern Yuan. The reason why the Jin State had no way to take the proud soldiers was also because the royal family needed them to cooperate with the Great Wall Alliance to resist the invasion of the Northern Yuan from time to time.

Of course, at the latest at the age of twenty, Wei Dongsheng must return to the Jin State to sort out the government.

The second life experienced the crisis situation and the first life has something in common, both the lord and the young minister are strong, and the power is hollowed out. However, with the foreign aid of the Wei clan and the constraints of the Successor Act of the Partition System, even if the Jin State gave birth to a powerful minister who was even more powerful than Yang Xinning, he would most likely not dare to think of plotting to usurp the throne. With the practical experience of the first political game, Wei Dongsheng could easily regain the legitimate power belonging to the King of Jin under the pretense of the royal family, the eight relatives of the mainland, and the foreign aid of the five countries with different surnames.

However, Wei Dongsheng's upward path is limited to this.

Different from the Shunta Kingdom in Java, the Jin Kingdom is surnamed Zhou with Wei to the west, Wei surnamed Wei to the north, Zhao with Wei to the east, and Henan Province directly under the royal family to the south. If Wei Dongsheng had the slightest intention of expanding his territory by force, he would usher in the imperial family leading the conquest alliance of the eighteen feudal states.

So, what does the second life do?

You can't be trapped in Shanxi for a lifetime!

During the seizure of power, Wei Dongsheng thought carefully for a period of time and decided to fulfill the unfulfilled long-cherished wish of his previous life and put an end to the chaotic era of the coexistence of the eighteen feudal states.

In other words, Wei Dongsheng personally felt the fragmented imperial territory, and he didn't know how to evaluate his fourth son, Wei Anhao, for a while. As far as a monarch is concerned, Wei Dongsheng is satisfied with Wei Anhao's choice, because if Wei Anhao is unwilling to compromise and sign the Covenant of Honoring the King, the Wei Xia Dynasty will most likely fall into the hands of Wei Xiuwen. But because of the traditional Chinese education in the real world, Wei Dongsheng naturally admired the concept of the unification of the Liuhe princes, hoping that there would be no other vassal state in the country, at least the Central Plains could not be so fragmented.

If you want to unify the country, you must first seize power.

However, the contemporary emperor is Wei Shengying, the grandson of Wei Dongsheng. During the first life, Wei Dongsheng established Wei Anhao as the crown prince, and often took Wei Anhao's eldest son Wei Shengying with him. Thinking of Wei Shengying's cute face when he was a child, Wei Dongsheng couldn't bear to plot a coup to usurp his throne.

The conspiracy coup d'état usurped the throne of Sun Tzu, which is also shameless.

After thinking about it for a while, Wei Dongsheng decided to assist Wei Shengying as the king of Jin and persuade him to establish a unified empire.

Unexpectedly, Wei Dongsheng underestimated Wei Shengying's ambitions.

Perhaps because he was influenced by Wei Dongsheng's concept of unification when he was a child, Wei Shengying also particularly disliked his father Wei Anhao's strategy of the eighteen feudal states. In 1371, Wei Dongsheng had just skillfully straightened out the power structure of the Jin State when Wei Shengying suddenly began to provoke Wei Anhao's policy of the Eighteen Vassal States without warning.

Perhaps considering the terrain, Wei Shengying took the lead in attacking the state of Chu entrenched in Hunan and Guizhou. Wei Shengying listed more than ten true or false evidence of the king of Chu, and demanded that the king of Chu abdicate immediately.

In 1373, the royal army defeated the Chu army at Dongting Lake and victoriously marched into Changsha Province.

Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Anhui, Henan, Hubei and other provinces directly under the direct jurisdiction of the royal family in the real world are far superior to the Chu State with only two places, Hunan and Guizhou, in terms of human resources and financial reserves. If there was no interference from external forces, Wei Shengying would certainly have easily annexed the state of Chu. However, the eighteen feudal states all know the truth of the cold lips and teeth, if the imperial family acquiesces in the annexation of the Chu State today, who of the other feudal states has the confidence to continue to exist forever? Whether it is surnamed Wei, Chen or Ming, the vassal states in various places saw that the Chu State was about to fall, and they all contributed money and powerful efforts, so they must stop Wei Shengying's ambition to cut the domain.

Wei Dongsheng didn't care about any vassal states.

Wei Dongsheng didn't care about the inheritance of the vassal kingdom.

The overseas five feudal states, the eight relatives of the mainland, and the Wei Xia royal family are all descendants of Wei Dongsheng's bloodline, so why should they hinder the unification for the sake of the inheritance of the Jin Kingdom?

Wei Dongsheng stood firmly in the camp of the imperial family, and with the power of the Jin state, he did his best to block the Tang, Zhou, Wei, Zhao and other vassal states, and relieve the military pressure of the imperial family in the north. Despite this, the coastal states of Lu and Wei still put heavy pressure on the imperial family, and the Ming and Han states even tacitly sent mercenaries to the state of Chu to block the de facto annexation of the state of Chu by the imperial family.

In this case, the royal army was still able to maintain its military superiority.

From 1373 to 1377, the royal army conquered almost all of Hunan, and the king of Chu could only hide in Guizhou to survive.

Unfortunately, the royal victory was only in local battles.

The state of Chu was a domain, and the royal army still could not subdue the state of Chu after four years. At the same time, except for Wei Dongsheng, the rest of the vassal kings were full of complaints, and successively used various legal and illegal means to pull back, forcing Wei Shengying to temporarily suspend his troops.

If the war continues, the Seventeen Vassal States will have to raise troops on the side of the Qing monarch.

In 1382, Wei Shengying died and was succeeded by his eldest son, Wei Yongfeng, who was the fourth emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty.