When Ran Min was completely silent, Wang Meng continued to rank up and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, it doesn't matter if you want to continue to expand your territory and promote the empire's heavenly might, but you must do what you can. At present, the national strength of Great Wei can no longer support such a protracted war, not because the soldiers are not good enough, not because the generals are not brave enough, but because there is not much money and food in the empire! ”

Money and food again?

The thing that Ran Min hates and loves the most is money and food.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and without money and food, Ran Min can't do anything she wants. Whenever the treasury had just accumulated some money and grain, it was quickly squandered by Ran Min, which made the ministers very dissatisfied, but helpless!

"Wang Meng, what do you want to say?"

"Your Majesty, your purpose in opening up the Quartet and clearing the universe should be to complete the great cause of 'all the rivers and the sun and the moon shine on the land of Wei', right? But how easy is it to accomplish such an unprecedented feat? Previously, our Great Wei used war to feed the war, and the treasury was quite full, but now in order to support the war between the Western Expedition and the Southern Expedition, the treasury has long been unable to make ends meet! If Your Majesty wants to accomplish such a great cause, he should put the community first, put the people first, stop the army, cultivate good governance, and return the people of the world to a prosperous era where they can live and work in peace and contentment! ”

"Ten years! Your Majesty only needs to give the people of the world ten years, and the empire ten years to recuperate. Chen believes that the empire can continue to fight in all directions, so that every inch of the land under the sun under the sky, and every river under the sky, will become the territory of the Great Wei Empire! ”

"Ten years?"

Ran Min's lips twitched slightly, obviously angry, and then he slowly stood up and shouted, "Ten years?!" Wang Meng: Do you know what you're talking about? Ten years! How many decades can a person have in his life? I'm in my forties! It can be said that half of my body is in the ground, and who knows what I will look like in ten years?! ”

The ancients were thirty and standing, forty were not confused, fifty knew the destiny of heaven, sixty were sixties, and seventy were rare.

Ran Min is already over forty years old, and he can be regarded as "long-lived" under such extremely poor medical conditions. It can be said that in ancient times, when you were forty or fifty years old, you basically half of your body was buried in the ground!

After all, in troubled times, the average age of people is only 30 years old.

Ran Min didn't know if he could live for ten years!

The ministers all hoped that Ran Min would put the society and the people first, stop foreign wars, and concentrate on governing the country and the country, but Ran Min did not want to give up his ambitions, so he fell out with the ministers and broke up unhappily.

After getting off the court, Ran Min ran to the Jiaofang Hall angrily, wanting to find some comfort in Queen Dong Qiaoqiao.

At this time, Dong Qiaoqiao was carefully taking care of the potted plants on the edge of the palace road, which were supposed to be things that the subordinates should do, but she had nothing to do, so she did it herself, and it was a pastime.

Seeing Dong Qiaoqiao holding scissors to cut off the extra branches of the potted plant, Ran Min also complained on the side: "Qiaoqiao, you don't know how excessive the ministers are now, and they have joined forces to force the palace!" They don't want to think about it, is it just for their own ambitions to expand their territory, to conquer the east and west, and to fight in the south and north? I want to build a country like an iron bucket, so that my future generations can sit on this country! But they are so pedantic! ”

"Brother Min, why are you so childish?"

Dong Qiaoqiao smiled faintly, reached out to wipe the fragrant sweat from his forehead, and said, "Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren." You want to build a country like an iron bucket, that's right, but Brother Min, you need to know that iron buckets will also corrode. If the king of the future generations can't sit on this country and loses it, it will be time and fate! Just like Qin Shi Huang wanted to pass on the Qin Dynasty to thousands of generations, but the last two dynasties perished, no matter how strong the country is, it can't reach the hearts of the people. ”

"No matter how strong the country is, it can't reach the hearts of the people?" Ran Min was stunned when he heard this.

"Yes. If the kings of later generations are not angry, won't the country be lost if it is lost? ”

For Dong Qiaoqiao's advice, Ran Min can still listen to it.

Dong Qiaoqiao said again: "Brother Min, in your mind, what is the iron bucket-like country?" Could it be that with the existence of the eight major protectorates, Andong, Anxi, Annan, Anbei, Beiting, Western Regions, Yizhou, and Yidao, the Great Wei Dynasty will be able to pass on the same line forever? No, it won't. ”

"Brother Min, if you continue to expand desperately like this, maybe the Great Wei will also become a short-lived empire that will die after the Qin Dynasty! Now the Hu people can no longer threaten the existence of the empire, but what about the people of the empire? The world is decided, and the people's hearts are at peace, if Brother Min continues to fight abroad, how can the empire let the people be attached? ”

"Brother Min, you only know what you want and what you want to do, but you don't know what the people really want. You can't make the people of the world pay for your ambitions. ”

Ran Min sighed faintly and said, "Qiaoqiao, how can you say the same thing as what the ministers said?" Did they tell you to say that? ”

Hearing this, Dong Qiaoqiao did not hide it, but said bluntly: "The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics." Originally, I didn't intend to interfere in the government's affairs, but what you are doing now, Brother Min, is really against the will of the people. ”

Ran Min shook his head and said, "I can't say anything about you. That's it, after so many years of fighting, I'm tired. ”

When he said this, Ran Min was relieved.

Maybe his mission to cross is like this, there is no opponent all of a sudden, Ran Min feels very lonely, but he has to be like this. In fact, what the ministers said was right, if this battle continues like this, the people will rise up sooner or later, and all the careerists who protect the government will be ready to move, and the rebellion will not stop.

Ran Min was heartbroken for this Great Wei Empire, and finally unloaded this burden, he decided to abdicate and pass the emperor to the crown prince Ran Ming, and he wanted to become the emperor, and took the concubines to play in the mountains and rivers, and this "remnant life".

But the ministers quit, and knelt at the gate of the palace all night under the leadership of the crown prince Ran Ming, and finally made Ran Min change his mind. The latter took advantage of the trend and proposed a sub-sealing system.

Originally, the ministers were strongly opposed, because the Zhou Dynasty died to the princes, the Han Dynasty had the "Rebellion of the Seven Kings", and the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" of the Western Jin Dynasty caused the five chaos of China, which was even more secretive.

But Ran Min threatened to abdicate and forced the ministers to agree to this proposition.

The implementation of the sub-sealing system, Ran Min is well thought out.

There are pros and cons to the sub-sealing system, but in Ran Min's opinion, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

In the past, the Qin Dynasty and the Cao Wei Dynasty all learned the lessons of the previous dynasty, and did not divide the children of the clan as princes and kings, which led to the death of the dynasty when no one helped them, and finally they all perished quickly.

As the saying goes, if you forget to fight, you will be in danger, and if you are warlike, you will die!

If there is no threat to the imperial court, it is easy to breed a comfortable psychology, and at this time, there are vassal states eyeing each other, although there may be a certain amount of trouble, but Ran Min doesn't mind!

Even if there is a "battle of martyrdom" like that of later generations, Ran Min doesn't mind, anyway, they are all his own descendants, and the palms and backs of his hands are all meat, who is the emperor who doesn't sacrifice to himself?

Moreover, the princes and kings of Ran Min were divided into Zhu Yazhou (Hainan Island), Yizhou, Yidao, Andong, Anbei, Beiting and other prefectures, and the population of the latter few prefectures was not large, and most of them were Hu people.

It is difficult to survive in a remote and difficult place, but if you are given a prime minister and a general, can you not be tempted?

And once there is this population, with the entry of these scholars, the empire can assimilate the Hu people there as quickly as possible!

Therefore, Ran Min divided the eighteen adult princes in one go out to establish a country and establish a princely kingdom, hoping that when the Great Wei Empire declined, these vassal states could play a certain role and renew the life of the Great Wei Dynasty.