In the Lingyan Pavilion, lifelike portraits of people were hung in the pavilion, and Li Shimin personally hung the last portrait of Luo Xuanye on the Bagua Qian's position.

The painting shows Luo Xuanye wearing a crown facing the sky, wearing bright light armor, leading a horse in one hand and a horse lance in the other, majestic and heavy.

Li Zhi followed Li Shimin in princely clothes.

Time ticked by, and after Li Shimin remembered for a long time, he exhaled lightly, "Child, what I want to do is almost done, and the most important thing next is to teach you how to be a good king."

You see, all the heroes hanging here are my heroes, and I can have my current achievements without these people, and you will have so many virtuous ministers in the future to assist you in achieving great things.

I have already ordered that all the governors, governors, protectors, and nobles in the world come to Chang'an to worship me, and also come to worship you, and by the way, announce a thoughtful thing that I have thought about, you must take a good look at it and understand it well. ”

……

In the Taiji Palace, all the prime ministers were shocked by what the Son of Heaven said, especially Luo Xuanchen, who was in charge of the ministry, only to feel that the wind and rain were coming.

is because of what Li Shimin said - "The national teacher taught me that if this society is a person, then the official system is like a skeleton, whether a person stands upright, or a soft stomach and can't straighten his waist, it all depends on the official system."

official

Out of the ground.

If there is a state, there will be a history of thorns, if there is a county, there will be a county order, if there is a governor's office, there will be a governor, and so on.

On June 30, the ambassador returned to Chang'an and reported to me and the secretaries on the affairs of the provinces, and the secretaries should still remember.

I thought about it and wanted to redivide the supervision areas of the world's various provinces, so as to avoid collusion between the Xuan Xuan envoy and the local state assassin history.

At the same time, the thorn history of the states in the world was reorganized, and some of the state thorn histories were merged, added, and transferred to the feudal state. ”

How can this not shock everyone, such a large-scale adjustment of administrative planning, it is very difficult.

Almost before Li Shimin's voice fell, Wei Zheng asked directly: "Your Majesty, have you ever thought about the following questions?"

After the redivision of the prefecture and county, how will the county government and the state capital, land register and household register be transferred?

If the registered soldiers belong to two states, how will their land be distributed? ”

Luo Xuanchen continued: "The dismissal of officials is a trivial matter, but now almost all the affairs in the prefectures and counties recorded by the Ministry of Officials will be greatly changed, and the Ministry of Officials will not have enough manpower, which may delay the next imperial examination and the promotion of officials." ”

Fang Xuanling also persuaded: "Your Majesty said that you want to change the history of the state assassin to seal the country, is it to divide the country into feuds?" Isn't this a policy that has already been rejected? ”

The prime ministers basically oppose Li Shimin's approach, thinking that this is simply looking for trouble, and it is no longer the Sui Dynasty, after the two political division adjustments in the early years of Wude and Zhenguan, the current prefectures and counties have stabilized, and there is no need to adjust and redivide.

Li Shimin said unhurriedly: "I will not make major changes to the state and county, so you don't need to be so flustered, what I want to adjust is the supervision area at the level of the province, for example, Jiangnan Province is divided into Jiangnan East Road and Jiangnan West Road, and Jianghuai Road is divided into Huainan Road and Huaibei Road." ”

He paused for a moment, no one spoke out from the prime ministers, the state and county system is the fundamental local system of the country, any change will be very troublesome, even if it is just a change of name like Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, it will lead to a large number of official document revisions, if the Son of Heaven does not move this fundamental system, it is not a big problem.

As for the state and county above the Dao, this is not an administrative level, just a temporary supervision area, although these prime ministers who are familiar with history, all know that in the Han Dynasty, the state was only a supervision area, and the current Dao, from the function, is exactly the same, but in the end the state still has administrative and military functions step by step, and finally becomes the highest administrative level above the county, and the final outcome of the Tao is probably the same, but at least at this moment, the Tao is indeed not so important.

Today's Son of Heaven is a little different.

After Li Shimin said those words in a hurry, all the prime ministers present felt that the Son of Heaven was prepared, and everyone looked at each other secretly, and they all sat up slowly, and the atmosphere in the hall was a little different.

Seeing this, Li Shimin, who was half-lying on the throne, had a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, "The first question must have been understood by all the secretaries."

Now back to the second issue of feudalism.

Zhuqing, I want to ask, in the first year of Wude, there were nearly 200 states in Datang, how many states are there in Datang now? ”

After more than ten years of forced territorial expansion, it has killed the Mobei Dong Turks, threatening the Xiyan State of the Hexi Corridor, Gaochang who controls the passage of the Western Regions, and the Liaodong State that poses the greatest threat to the Central Plains.

The eldest grandson Wuji replied: "Your Majesty, there are three hundred and sixty states. ”

Li Shimin shook his head with a smile and said, "Wrong, it's more than a thousand states." ”

Yes?

As soon as Li Shimin's words came out, everyone naturally knew what he was talking about, the eldest grandson Wuji was talking about Neizhou, that is, the Central Plains Prefecture directly managed by the assassin history, and Li Shimin was talking about the Detention Prefecture, and the situation of these Detention Prefecture was too complicated.

Some are divided according to the city, a city is a state, such as Liaodong City changed to Liaozhou, Gaimu City is Gaizhou, Beisha City is Beizhou, and so on.

There are also because there is no water and grass to live, there is no city, then directly to the official position, according to the official position to manage the various tribes, at the top of the official position, is the three khans, the formation of a collegial system, this is also the grassland custom.

"Fanren originally did not have a centralized system, the same ethnic group, the big tribe can't manage the small tribe, so there are often small tribes who commit offenses, how we dealt with it later, Zhu Qing still remembers."

As soon as this matter was mentioned, several people in the palace began to have a headache, the organizational structure of the Hu people was too bad, for example, the Turkic Khan surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and came to participate in the tribute, but there were Turkic tribes on the border to invade the border, and the most important thing that made the Tang Dynasty feel blind and speechless was that this matter really had nothing to do with the Turkic Khan.

Datang also blamed the tribal leaders at the beginning, but later found out that it was not that they didn't want to take care of it, but they couldn't manage it, because among the various tribes of the Hu people, they all came through consultation, and there was no difference between the upper and lower levels, so there was no order to obey anyone.

Later, in order to solve this problem, Datang could only pinch his nose and teach these Hu people to engage in centralized power, in other words, to establish an absolute authority within their ethnic group, and whoever did not listen to him, Datang would beat him.

All the tributes and exchanges with the Tang Dynasty can only be done by this leader, and the most absolute thing is that he is dead, I will let his son go, you don't think about communicating with the Central Plains in the same way as before.

The source of legitimacy and strength of these people is the support of Datang, so a set of systems have been built layer by layer to make the border stable.

This system is very successful, only a dozen years later, after the Fanren suffered the disaster, they no longer went south to fight the grass valley, but reported to the governor's mansion and asked the Tang Dynasty for disaster relief.

According to expectations, in the future, it is necessary to move these deeply sinicized people to the Central Plains step by step, give surnames, and then move the Central Plains surnames out, and communicate step by step.

But, "Some time ago, the national teacher and I said some words, which made me suddenly a little uneasy, during the Zhenguan period, there were me and Zhuqing, so all policies can always go according to our ideas."

What if future generations can't do it?

What if they collapse the current system before the dust settles?

The national teacher and I said that there is nothing wrong with me Datang stabilizing the border, but we must remember that there is no perfect thing in this world.

Now the Khitan and Turkic departments around Datang, because they are too close to Datang, are progressing at an unimaginable speed, almost every ten years, they can double.

From the form of Xia Shang to the form of Datang, it will not exceed a hundred years, and I am deeply worried. ”

The national teacher actually told the Son of Heaven about this, and Li Fanling muttered when he heard this: "Your Majesty, what the national teacher said is indeed reasonable, when he came into contact with the Fan people over the years, he was almost no different from the Han people, but the minister thought that there was no problem with this policy now, and the borders of the Tang Dynasty were more stable than all the dynasties in the past, and there was almost no war with those Fan tribes." ”

Li Shimin stretched out his hand to stop the follow-up speech of the Li Fan Order, "I naturally know that the current policy is almost the best, but I feel that if I can go up and add a few more guarantees, it will be even more foolproof."

Since ancient times, there has been no better way to control the local government than to divide it.

The last hope of the Qin Dynasty was to canonize the princes and princes of the Emperor Fusu, and if it were not for the gods such as King Zhaosheng, King Xiang, and Emperor Han Gao, the Qin Dynasty might not have died.

The princes of the Han Dynasty also successfully suppressed the local area for more than 100 years.

Up to now, my Tang Dynasty has successively established the three kingdoms of Qin, Yan, and Qi.

Within the Central Plains, in fact, there have always been some places that are difficult to reach by the king's order, and the Qings all know that such as Qianzhong, such as the land of Nanzhao, and Lingnan, have been under the control of the central dynasty since the Qin Dynasty.

But in fact, only a very small number of plain land have established counties, and in those countless mountains, there are still an unknown number of natives who do not obey the king's orders, and even often besiege the county government.

In the northern fanbu, there are often disputes, and what if one day, the Tang monarch does not have the ability to control the fanbu?

The three kingdoms, the Qin State is too far away, and there is no letter sent back yet, the Yan Kingdom and the Qi Kingdom, as well as the old land of Gaochang in the Western Regions, and the old land of Western Yan, if there are bad ideas, what should they do?

I remember that in the Han Dynasty, there were marquis states built in kingdoms, marquis states in counties, and marquis states in barbarians, which I wanted to emulate.

Liaozhou, the town of Liaoguo, is my attempt.

I want to carry out this system, and when the emperor's order is difficult to reach, I will seal the heroes and clansmen. ”

After Li Shimin stopped talking, the prime ministers in the palace communicated with each other, and Luo Xuanchen sighed slightly in his heart, this separation, the imperial examination system will basically be killed directly within a hundred years.

Because the aristocracy goes out of the town, it is not the literati who are needed, or in other words, the status of the literati will be very low, and the status will be low, and they will not be able to attract people.

Society is moving upward, and Luo Xuanchen thought that the imperial examination would change the situation in the world because he saw that other things such as being a soldier, doing business, and so on are not as good as studying for the imperial examination.

But the aristocracy pays attention to the inheritance of blood, pays attention to the protégé to maintain his status, and the literati can only deal with some swords and pens.

But separation, this is the national policy of the Tang Dynasty, and he can't say anything.

Fang Xuanling asked in a deep voice, "What Your Majesty said is that the states that can cover the expenses with taxes today will remain unchanged, and the states with key positions will remain unmoved, and then those states that are difficult to control will be hereditarily divided and guarded by meritorious heroes." ”

"Yes!"

Li Shimin looked at everyone, and the prime ministers were also looking at him.

……

The Tang Dynasty in August was very lively, a car, a ship, and the assassins from various states went to Beijing to report on their work, and the governors stationed in various places also returned to the capital, and Li Xiaogong and Luo Xuanyun, the high-ranking officials of the four major metropolitan protectorates, also returned to Chang'an from the major capitals.

It is rare for Chang'an City to gather so many high-ranking officials at the same time, and everyone knows that this is not a simple gathering of ministers, Chang'an, no, there must be a major change in the Tang Dynasty, so the Son of Heaven will summon so many high-ranking officials back to Beijing.

The great changes in the Tang Dynasty in recent years have made people a little dizzying, since the king of Qin went out to establish a kingdom, the whole world has been one major event after another, as if the Son of Heaven is in a hurry to do something.

Hundreds of high-ranking officials of the fourth grade and above appeared in Chang'an, hundreds of national dukes, the entire Tang Dynasty, and almost ninety percent of the high-ranking officials and lords are here.

This can make the scholars in Chang'an City excited, or rather, now all the scholars in the world are rushing to Chang'an.

Although the Tang Dynasty is now promoting the imperial examination system, but Zhenguan has been recovering in recent years, so the recommendation system is more prosperous than the imperial examination, and in the process of the development of the Tang Dynasty, the scholar family, as well as the traditional Guanlong and other high gates, have made meritorious contributions at the same time, grabbed a lot of benefits, and almost held seventy percent of the official positions.

This is almost doomed, after all, as soon as the war is won, a reward will be awarded, and this reward is to make the aristocratic group continue to expand, if it were not for the Liaodong Kingdom personally commanded by Li Shimin, it would have swelled even more.

Shizimen are trying to hope that they can be appreciated by some powerful people, and then directly enter the official career, if they can start from the rank of official, it would be better.

The hustle and bustle in Chang'an, Li Shimin, who was sitting in the palace, naturally knew, he was very happy, stood on the palace wall and said with a smile to Li Zhi: "This is the Tang Dynasty, talents emerge in an endless stream, and your main responsibility in the future is to select talents from these people, and then hand over state affairs to them, know people well, this is what a king should do." ”

Waves of high-ranking officials appeared in Chang'an, and the people of Chang'an would also comment on these officials from different states, some of them were shabby, and some of them were poor states, and some of them such as Suzhou and Yangzhou would attract admiration.

The old poem sings, "Return to see the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven sits in the Ming Hall."

Twelve turns, rewards hundreds of strong. ”

For example, today Zi Gao sits on the top of the Ming Hall, but there are more than hundreds of people entering the palace, there are hundreds of officials alone, as well as clan relatives and relatives at the level of county princes and state princes, as well as many meritorious heroes who are no longer directors, all appear in the palace at this moment.

Even the wide Taiji Hall can't stand so many people.

From the Taiji Palace, standing outside the hall, countless figures are longing, all kinds of official uniforms, standing in columns, among these people, the high-ranking officials who were called forward and supported in the past are now just the lowest-ranking officials.

Of course, there are not many in Shangzhou, even if it is the history of Xiazhou Thorn, it is also a high-ranking official under the fourth grade, especially the history of the Thorn in charge of a place, and it is a well-deserved official.

In the people, the county order is called Baili Hou, in a county, has almost absolute power of life and death, as for supervision, even in Ji Zhao's era, many times it can't be circulated, not to mention that under this communication condition in ancient times, it can be monitored, basically it is all by luck, and the county order is still like this, not to mention the management of at least a few, or even a dozen counties.

But the history of the past can only be at the end of the queue at this moment, where what the Son of Heaven says is almost inaudible, and can only be retold by the singer.

The steps in front of the Taiji Palace, which are full of people, at this moment, are like white jade steps, exuding light, that light represents power, whoever is closer to the palace, who has more power.

At the end of that palace was the supreme emperor with almost unlimited power.

As long as he can gain the trust of the emperor, he will be able to be like Wei Zheng, from a white body to a prime minister, and become one of the most powerful people in the world.

"Boom!"

A clear voice sounded in the palace, which was the bell that symbolized the beginning of the court meeting, and everyone who was still talking to each other just now stood quietly back in the ranks.

Qianniuwei wore a guard uniform, armed with bows and arrows, swords and guns, and stood in front of the palace and His Highness, majestic.

On the throne of the Taiji Hall of Daming Palace, Li Shimin was facing the wide open door, and his eyes looked at the ministers lined up outside the hall, the number was too large to count.

The next moment, with the ringing of the bell, the ministers all bowed down and said: "Long live my emperor, ten thousand years and ten thousand blessings!" ”

When the ministers were all standing in the hall with wat boards in their hands, Li Shimin stood up from the throne and said loudly: "Summoning the ministers to Beijing is due to a major event that affects the entire Tang Dynasty.

Since ancient times, I have never heard of a person who rules the four corners of Kyushu.

Since ancient times, I have never heard of a king who can rule alone without relying on his courtiers.

I have heard that a king who treats his subjects well will gain loyalty.

From time to time, when I look through the annals of history, I will think of the princes of the Han Dynasty, and I have tried to emulate them many times, but the ministers have advised me that dividing the feudal seal is the way to take trouble out, and this has been the case for hundreds of years.

Some time ago, I saw barbarians in the Hengduan Mountains attacking our county and even killing the people of our Tang Dynasty.

In the Hengduan Mountains, the march is difficult, and the local people are unruly and untamable, and they have always been difficult to subdue, and for hundreds of years, no Central Plains Dynasty has been able to control them.

I thought about it, if I really sent a large army, it would be in vain, and the natives only needed to hide in the mountains, and our army would only cry out in vain.

Thinking about this, instead of this, it is better to give it to all meritorious heroes and clansmen.

I heard that in the Hengduan Mountains, there are thousands of tribes, all of whom live on high mountains, between cliffs, and there are no ghosts.

Then I will establish hundreds of princely states there!

Carrying armor and swords, he went deep into it to suppress these bandits who did not obey the king. ”

Hearing this, the county kings and princes present were basically numb, and many of them were even unable to stand on their feet, such a big battle, I knew that there was nothing good, and sure enough, it was to exile us people on a large scale.

That's all a broken place where birds don't, who wants to go there to explore, and the barbarians don't look weak in the face of the Tang army, but it's really small-scale to explore, it's very strong.

At the beginning, there was a flying army in Shu, which was formed by those Yi people, and in the mountains, fighting with those who walked like flying in the mountains, wasn't that looking for death?

The more I thought about it, the more frustrated I felt.

Li Shimin didn't care when he saw this, after all, his real killer weapon had not yet been released, "The land and population that were opened up by the imperial court will not be collected by the imperial court, and all will be returned to the princes."

In the borders I divided, the land reclaimed and the grain grown on it, the court did not want a share, and all the proceeds went to the princes.

In addition to gold, silver and copper mines, the rest of the income from mountains, forests and fisheries was also not wanted by the imperial court, and all of them were attributed to the princes.

I give this period of 100 years, and after 100 years, what will happen, I don't know.

I will be stamped with the seal of the Son of Heaven, which is an agreement between the Son of Heaven and the princes. ”

Although there are still people who don't want to go, but some people are moved, a hundred years, those conditions are nothing, but in this hundred years, as long as you don't die a big death, you have to participate in any rebellion, this hundred years, isn't the family able to continue?

Besides, a hundred years later, no, it won't take a hundred years at all, and after a few decades, if you can really lay down a piece of land, you can completely occupy the magpie's nest.

The toast is so difficult to fight, not because the combat effectiveness of the toast soldiers is really strong, but because the terrain there is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is a natural place to divide.

When it really comes to the time when the imperial court is shameless and wants to take back the land of the ancestors, it is completely possible to close the door and compete with the imperial court with the shape of mountains and rivers.

I heard that in the southwest mountains, there are many Tusi families that have lasted for thousands of years.

Although the Central Plains is comfortable, it is indeed too dangerous, the clan is wiped out at every turn, the political struggle is too cruel, and the big families of the Han Dynasty have barely survived until now.

Thinking about it this way, it is really better to divide it into the Hengduan Mountains.

Li Shimin naturally knew that he would definitely have this kind of thought, just like among the princes who were not willing to be martyred, but as long as most of the people were useful, it was enough.

At least this hand can allow Datang to ensure the stability of the southwest border for a long time, and it can also expand the living space of Zhuxia.

Moreover.

Li Shimin wanted to laugh when he thought about it, if one day, even these places in Qianzhong could succeed in rebellion, then Datang would really be damned.

If you want a plain without a plain, if you want a population without a population, it's okay to divide it, it's not a joke to rebel and fight the world.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin began to ask the eunuch to read the holy decree that he had already discussed with the political affairs hall.

This time, he is a real big feudal feud, clansmen, meritorious heroes, and relatives, and a total of more than 100 county kingdoms and principalities.

The area of each country is not large, the small one is only one county, the large one is less than the area of a state, and it is basically a city or a mountain.

Sixty of them were sealed in the south, and more than a dozen of them were sealed on the plateau in the west of Yizhou, where the import and export of Bashu and the plateau were sealed there in order to contain Tibet.

Not only is it encircled on the side of Bashu, but there is also a feudal country on the Qinghai Road, and when it is sealed here, they are basically clan relatives, and they are bitter in their hearts, but they dare not say a word.

Facing Tibet, who can not panic, and living on the plateau, it is said that the life span will become shorter, this is really life and death, wealth in the sky.

Just when many people were wailing, the next sub-seal was even more pit, Li Shimin built a lot of cities on the Hetao, and now he has sealed many people in the past, making them half-farming and half-herding.

Sealed to the Hetao, what the purpose is is simply known to passers-by, one is to monitor the Yan State in the north, the other is to monitor those who are also in the Hetao, there is no one to provoke, once there is a war between the two sides, these small countries are the first to bear the brunt, maybe when it will be bulldozed by a wave.

What's even worse is that it was directly sealed into the Yan Kingdom, after all, the Yan State is different from the Qin State, the Qin State is because it completely wants Li Chengqian to fight down by himself, all Li Chengqian almost has the sovereignty of the King of Qin, but the Yan State was defeated by the Tang Dynasty, but let the Yan King Li Ke manage it, and in the land of the Yan State, there is even the capital of Anbei Protectorate.

Therefore, the Tang Dynasty Emperor could reward hills, rivers, and pastures to others in the name of Yan Kingdom.

But the Son of Heaven dares to reward, whether the person who gets it dares to ask for it, it depends on the means, a careless, in a place like Mobei, it is a very simple thing to die a person.

Compared with the feudal states close to Tubo and Mobei, the feudal state that was sealed in the Andong Dadu Protectorate was the best, and the feudal state that was sealed in the Qi country was at least not so dangerous.

With the reading of the holy decree, the hall can be described as all beings, and some people are pale, such as Pei Lian's grandson, who was sealed to Qinghai to face Tubo on the front line.

Some people are deeply fortunate, such as the descendants of those heroes who followed Li Shimin, such as Qin Qiong's son, at least they were not particularly miserable, some went to Qi State, some founded the country in Liaodong, and some were in the south.

Seeing this, Li Shimin couldn't help but feel a little funny in his heart.

My eldest sons have all gone to the wilderness to open up.

“…… Salty makes you smell it. ”

The eunuchs who read the holy decree were replaced by two, and finally the holy decree was read, and the chanters outside the hall kept repeating it, and these officials outside the hall only felt that the sky was about to change.

So many kingdoms and principalities have been established at this time, and they are all actual kingdoms and principalities, how many more official positions will this have?

And these official positions will definitely not be assigned by the imperial court, but these princes will go with their cronies.

For example, a steward who has worked for the family for generations, or a faithful servant.

The sound of kneeling and worshipping has resounded in the hall, no matter what you think in your heart, the founding of the country is the grace of the Son of Heaven after all.

It is a good thing to turn a family into a country.

Meddlesome......

(End of chapter)