Your Majesty! You can't let the people of the empire pay for your ambitions, for your unprecedented achievements! ”

Cui Hao's words were like a heavy hammer hitting Ran Min's heart, making him tremble.

And the ministers all seemed to agree with Cui Hao's words and kept silent, but looking at this posture, they all thought that Ran Min should not continue the war between the southern and western expeditions.

In the imperial history, Cheng Wei Jian was even more distressed and said: "Your Majesty, the war between the Southern Expedition and the Western Expedition lasted more than a year, and the empire invested a million troops before and after this, and moved 500,000 people into the land of the Southern Barbarians, which was huge and consumed!" The Empire's finances are no longer able to finance a military operation of this magnitude! Please Your Majesty put the community first, put the people first, stop the war, cultivate good governance, and return the people of the world to a prosperous era of living and working in peace and contentment! ”

The ministers all knelt down one after another, and shouted in unison: "Please Your Majesty put the community first, put the people first, stop the army, repair good governance, and return the people of the world to a prosperous era of living and working in peace and contentment!" ”

When Ran Min heard this, his face became very gloomy for a while: "Isn't it to create a prosperous world, open up the frontier, and set up the capital to protect the mansion?" Since the history of China, it has been suffering from border troubles, and those who have been planning are the thousands of generations of the Great Wei Empire! In order to completely eliminate border troubles! ”

"Your Majesty, border troubles are endless. Now the Eight Metropolitan Protectorates are the territory of the empire, but it is only nominal, one day, the empire will decline, and the barbarians of the four directions will once again invade my borders and invade my Middle Earth! Cui Hao said bitterly.

And Wang Meng also said: "What Master Cui said is extremely true. Your Majesty, you are right, you are far-sighted, but the collapse of an empire often comes from within! Qin died in the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, not the Xiongnu! Han died to the princes, not Xianbei! Wei and Jin all died in the Shi clan, not in the alien race! From this, it can be seen that His Majesty's sweeping of the four razes and the clearing of the universe seems to have created very favorable external conditions for the empire, but once the country has no male lord and the national strength is declining, where will the Great Wei go? ”

Seeing that the ministers seemed to be strongly opposed to their behavior of expanding the territory, there was a rare look of hesitation in Ran Min's eyes.

Am I really doing something wrong?

The duty of the Imperial Protectorate was to "appease the feudal domains and regulate the foreign invaders", and all the "comfort, requisition, meritorious service, and punishment matters" for the surrounding ethnic groups were all under its control. The Metropolitan Protectorate is the equivalent of a modern military institution, but also a colonial institution, using force to maintain a certain degree of rule over the military garrison and radiate influence outward.

Its role is to directly serve the maintenance of unequal international relations between the central power and the frontier power (Huaxia Siyi Guan).

Just like the Protectorate of the Western Regions, it has become an inseparable part of China.

And Ran Min had to set up a capital protectorate to manage these foreign lands, because just by virtue of his strong military power, he could only conquer his country, but not convince his countrymen. And the Duhu Mansion is to use the "soft knife" to make the Siyi bin suit little by little, in order to achieve the purpose of turning Ran Min into a summer.

In doing so, Ran Min was completely emulating the Tang Dynasty in its heyday.

During the Tang Dynasty, the national power was unprecedentedly strong, and it successively government the Turkic, Goryeo and other surrounding tribes.

In order to effectively manage the vast border minority areas in the northeast, north, northwest and southwest, the Tang Dynasty followed the example of the Han Dynasty to set up the capital protection office, from the time of Taizong Li Shimin to the reign of Wu Zetian, successively set up the Andong capital protection office, the Dongyi capital protection office, the Anbei capital protection office, the Shan Yu capital protection office, the Anxi capital protection office, the Kunling capital protection office, the Mengchi capital protection office, the Beiting capital protection office, the Annan capital protection and so on.

These prefectures have a wide area of jurisdiction, but they are constantly being adjusted and changed.

In the case of the Andong Prefecture, for example, its jurisdiction was originally east of the Liao River, south of the Songhwa River, and northern Korea, and its administrative office was located in Pyongyang. Later, the jurisdiction continued to change, and when the jurisdiction was the largest, it stretched from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north, to the Bohai Sea in the south, to the Daxinganling in the west, and to the north of Korea in the east.

Including the Liaohe River, Songhua River, Heilongjiang River Basin, the administrative office has been stationed in Pyongyang, Liaoyang, Fushun, Lulong and other places.

Although the names of the six capitals of the Tang Dynasty are the same, they are all called the capitals, but the management system is not the same.

Anbei, Shanyu, Beiting, and Annan are all under the jurisdiction of prefectures and counties, which are the same as those in the interior; The Andong and Anxi Prefectures, on the other hand, were similar to the Han Dynasty Prefectures, taking the form of military shelter and allowing the tribes in their jurisdiction to follow their own customs for management.

The current Wei Empire is basically like this, with the four major prefectures of Beiting, Anbei, Yidao, and Yizhou set up prefectures and counties to manage, and the Western Regions, Andong, Anxi, and Annan set up counties and counties to manage them, but basically they still let each vassal state manage them.

Ran Min deliberately created the Eight Great Protectorates, in order to completely eliminate border troubles and create a barrier for the Great Wei Empire, and at the same time, more importantly, he still wanted to imperceptibly assimilate those foreign races, promote ethnic integration, and let them become a part of China!

"A-Ying, what do you think?" Ran Min couldn't make a decision for a while, so he looked at the crown prince Ran Ming, who was standing on the side of His Majesty's platform, and asked.

Ran Ming sighed faintly and said, "Father, please forgive your son's outspokenness. The father swept away the murderers, established the Great Wei and unified the world, opened the canal, opened the imperial examination, established the official school, built straight roads, galloped roads, dug canals, crossed the sea in the east, went to the Western Ocean, and preached the prestige of our heavenly kingdom, and expelled the six Yi from the Central Plains, whipped the eight wildernesses, and destroyed the group of Hu one after another, so that our China since ancient times will have its inherent territory, north beyond the North Sea (Lake Baikal), south to Jinlin Bay, east from the Thousand Islands Islands, west to Buzhou Mountain (Mount Everest). The empire has more than doubled in your hands! ”

"At the beginning of the unification of the empire, the territory area was only 5.43 million square kilometers, but now, the entire Great Wei Empire has an additional 6.93 million square kilometers of land! In the end of the Great Wei Dynasty, the territory area was unprecedentedly vast, reaching a huge area of 12.37 million square kilometers! Father, can't such a huge empire satisfy your ambitions? ”

Ran Ming said loudly: "Since the founding of the People's Republic of China and the emperor, every major event that my father has done is worthy of praise from all generations!" The father did all the things that would benefit the future, but the sons thought that the father was in a bit of a hurry. Anything you do, in other dynasties and in the hands of other emperors, it will take years or even more than ten years or decades to complete! But Father, you have done it overnight with more than ten years of things, which has buried a great hidden danger for the empire, please think twice! ”

Hearing Ran Ming say this, Ran Min became even more silent and speechless.

At this time, as if they had already colluded, Shang Shuling Cui Hao also said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said is right. If you want to hurry, you can't reach it, Your Majesty is a saint of the ages, so you can complete such an imperial hegemony in such a short period of time! But how long can such hegemony last? ”

"Why did the mighty Qin Empire fall in just fifteen years? Qin Shi Huang swept away the six kingdoms and unified the sea; create an imperial system and strengthen central rule; abolishing the feudal system and replacing it with a county system; The book has the same text, the car has the same track, and the line has the same wheel, and the text and currency are unified. The Qin Empire repeatedly attacked the Xiongnu externally, went south to conquer Baiyue, built straight roads, galloped roads, built Afang Palace, built the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, abused the people's power, and used military force! He took only twelve years to do what should have taken decades or even hundreds of years! ”

"Your Majesty, the minister remembers that you once said that if you take history as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall! Please also ask Your Majesty to take Qin Shi Huang as a lesson from the past and be cautious! ”

There are actually many reasons why the Qin Dynasty fell so quickly and was short-lived in the long river of history.

First, after the Qin Dynasty unified the six countries after many wars, the people suffered very seriously from the war, and it was the time when they needed to recuperate.

Second, the famous Shang Dynasty changed the law, which made the Qin state a powerful country, but after more than a hundred years, it has become a rigid system, take the famous Chen Sheng uprising, they delayed the deadline because of the heavy rain, and they could have completely mitigated or avoided the criminal law, but in the rigid laws of the Qin state, there was no such thing, and they must be executed. This made the people's resistance to the Qin Empire more and more great.

Third, after the unification of Qin, although the six countries were destroyed, the remnants of the six countries were not completely eliminated, and there were still many hidden in the people, and the unification time of Qin was too short, and the status of the court had not been established in the hearts of the people.

Fourth, the struggle within the regime and the corruption of politics made the already stormy regime even worse, and the Qin Dynasty became one of the shortest-lived dynasties in history.

After a long time, Ran Min said lightly: "I know what you said is right. But as the founding king of the Great Wei Empire, if I don't do these things, do I have to wait until the kings of later generations do them? There is a folk proverb: no more than three generations of wealth! Although a dynasty will also experience several prosperous times, experience several reigns, and have so many prosperous kings, how great can its achievements be? ”

"Ladies and gentlemen! The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants enjoyed the shade! If I don't pave the road and build the country like an iron bucket, how can I be a family for eternity? How can you, the ministers and ministers who are related to the country, be so happy? ”

Hearing this, Ran Ming gritted his teeth and said to Ran Min: "Father, you have already done what generations of monarchs have done. If you have done all these things, what can the king of the future achieve? Please believe in your children and grandchildren, and believe in the kings of the generations to come! ”

How can I believe it?

Ran Min didn't believe that there were many powerful kings in the future, and it was already very good that the Great Wei Empire could be inherited for four hundred years. Generally speaking, a unified empire will eventually flourish and decline, and can only last for more than 200 years......