It has been 23 years since Guan Ze ascended to the world, but these 23 years have not been a day of shame for Guan Ze.

The territory controlled by the royal family was constantly decreasing with the partition and the melee of the princes. It's not that Guan Ze doesn't want to regain the prestige of his ancestors, but if he wants to get support, gold and silver wealth has lost its use, and he doesn't have much treasure to give.

As for things like the elimination of feudal domains, it's enough to think about it yourself, and you can't even say it.

Trapped in the world, but there is no defenseless place around, Guan Ze has to sigh every time he thinks about it at night, and the situation left by his ancestors is really dead and can no longer die.

Guan Ze felt that the only thing he could do now was to stand on the map and look back and forth.

"Emperor Qi, the prince asks to see you."

Guan Ze was even more annoyed when he heard it, this unlucky son, Datong was estimated to die in his hands, and he either went out to play with mud or tinkered with wood or something, and he originally hoped to marry with which prince to improve the status of the royal family, but he didn't want to see the yellow-haired girl of a farmer's family, Guan Ze was angry and couldn't eat.

Took a deep breath and suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, no way, just the two biological ones, the crown prince, the heir, the biological one, and the two biological ones, quickly recited it several times in their hearts before Guan Ze felt a little better.

"Biography."

After Guan Cheng got permission, he almost ran in.

"Father, please step back and go, my sons have important matters."

Guan Ze was a little surprised, in addition to the anger that this son would make the old masters angry, how many times would he have something serious?

Is it possible to marry the girl from the peasant family?

Thinking of this, Guan Ze's face couldn't help but darken a little, he was simply a rebel, a wicked animal, and there was nothing smooth in this world.

"Wait until you stand down, and there shall be no eyes and ears within ten feet."

Soon the door of the main hall was closed again, and Guan Ze said lightly: "If there is something important to say, but I put my ugly words in front, if you dare to extract that Cao family woman again, I will abolish your crown prince." ”

When Guan Cheng heard this, his face showed joy: "Father, the son is here to talk about this." ”

The words were not shocking, Guan Ze couldn't believe his ears, and he didn't react for a while.

"You say it again?"

Guan Ze knelt down directly, and then said solemnly: "Erchen implores his father to abolish Erchen's position as the crown prince." ”

There was a terrible silence in the hall.

Guan Ze, as an emperor, is an emperor for more than 20 years even if he doesn't have much real power, and not being angry and self-righteous is a passive skill, and at this time, he has reached the full level, and the doubt, anger and disappointment in his eyes are thick together.

How can you endure it at this time?

Seeing Guan Ze standing up and picking up a wooden stick with skillful movements, Guan Cheng's eyelids jumped and he hurriedly shouted: "Father, father, you are angry, and the sons have thought it through, in order to save my Datong!" ”

Guan Ze stopped a little when he heard this, the stick in his hand was pinched to death, thinking that although his son was rebellious and not doing his job, he was still a little smart, so he sat down on the floor again, and the wooden stick in his hand pointed at him and said in a cold voice: "Okay, you tell me, if you talk nonsense, I will beat you to death here, and you will completely lose the ancestor's social income in your hands." ”

"Father, my son fell on a horse a few days ago, can you stand up and say?"

When Guan Ze heard this, the anger he had just suppressed almost rushed to his head again, but who would ride a beast if he had a little status, and which one would not go out to sit in a carriage?

Seeing that his Lao Tzu had signs of running away again, Guan Cheng hurriedly said: "Kneel, kneel, Erchen knelt and said." ”

"Father, the current situation of my Datong is that the princes do not respect the court, the courtiers do not respect the throne, the scholars and doctors do not respect the subordinates, the peddlers and pawns are trying to survive, the great gifts have collapsed, the order has been broken, and although the land occupied by the royal family has several counties, except for Zhili County, the rest of the places are separated by the princes, and the court decree law cannot go out of Zhili County at all."

"Moreover, the army is abandoned, and even an army cannot be raised in a county, and the army that can be directly mobilized by the father is only more than six thousand people in three brigades, and even the Peng State in the north has an army of 10,000 people, so Datong will inevitably not exist in the past. If there are no hunters to hunt deer, the countries now just don't want to be the first birds, and leave a little pitiful face for my royal family. ”

"But the general trend of the world will eventually tend to be unified, how can the weak soldiers of the third brigade resist the unstoppable trend of the world at that time?"

Guan Cheng's remarks surprised Guan Ze, this is a problem that has plagued him for more than 20 years, and even he was eager to solve it when he was the crown prince.

If the royal family wants to revive, it must have a strong army and the support of the vassal states, but what else can you look at other than the land kingdoms? In addition to the name and righteousness, what can the royal family take?

Guan Cheng also stopped speaking in time, and saw that his Lao Tzu was already thinking deeply and stood up quietly.

Walking to the edge of the map, famous mountains and rivers crisscross it, and the counties and counties like stars are dotted on it.

But the purple color that represents Chase is very pitiful, and it is broken into slag.

"Father?" Guan Cheng awakened his Lao Tzu from his contemplation.

Guan Ze's face was complicated, and he asked for a long time: "Emperor, you tell your father the truth, do you think about these by yourself or are you taught?" ”

Guan Cheng smiled: "Father, naturally the son thinks of himself, and with the identity and character of the son of the minister, he doesn't disdain to act like that villain." The father and the emperor are all worried about the children every day, and they only hate themselves for being unable to share the worries of their father. ”

Guan Ze was relieved, at this moment he was more like a father: "The emperor is very pleased to think of these fathers, but these ills have accumulated for two hundred years, and the princes have already become a trend, and the successive emperors don't want to solve it, but if you want to win over the princes, what else can you do besides the land?" Silver? Wealth? Population? With land, what is not? ”

"Wrong! Miss by a mile! Guan Cheng suddenly shouted excitedly.

"My father's father's use of land affairs and all countries is to help the enemy and weaken himself, how can the desires of the countries ever be tired, with more than 5,000 counties in my Datong to now my father is in charge of only 100 counties, and the people who make the government pass are only eight counties and one county!"

Guan Ze sighed and said, "Do you think my old man doesn't know or my grandfather doesn't know?" At this point, is there a solution to what you said? ”

Guan Cheng also knew that things were not in a desperate situation overnight, and there was no point in tracing back to the root at this time.

"What Erchen just said is a law."

Guan Ze frowned again: "What does this have to do with your position as the crown prince?" If someone else can solve these problems, let alone your position as the crown prince, what if it is my life? Don't sell it, you kid, come quickly, or you'll ......" Yan Bi didn't know where to take out another stick.

Guan Cheng's eyelids jumped slightly, obviously he was quietly hiding just now, how much was prepared.

"Father, do you know how to break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly?"

"I don't know."

Guan Cheng said with a smile: "This is what Erchen only said today, and my father naturally doesn't know." ”

Guan Ze's face darkened a little, and the wooden stick in his hand lifted slightly.

Seeing this, Guan Cheng hurriedly said: "Erchen went out today, and accidentally learned that the butterfly flying in the air was actually made of a cocoon of an insect with no wings and no legs, and Erchen realized a little truth from it. ”

"What's the truth? Butterflies are made by insects, and this kind of thing is in Taige's agricultural book, don't you like miscellaneous studies? Haven't seen it? Guan Ze looked at his son in front of him and teased.

"Well, okay, but that's not the point, in fact, what Erchen wants to say is that insects have no legs and no wings, but after forming a cocoon and breaking the pupa they can spread their wings among the flowers, then why can't I regain my life."

"What a freshman?" Guan Ze felt that this time this son might really have a feasible way, so he couldn't help but ask urgently.

"Four words, break and then stand!"

"Break and stand? How to break? How to stand? Abolish your crown prince? Guan Ze asked puzzled.

"Father, please see, the strongest prince on this map is none other than Zhao Chu, followed by Qin, Zhou, Qi, Wei and other countries, and then such as Song Yan and other countries, and there are hundreds of fifth-class princes in the world. These hundreds of vassal states have attacked each other and fought to the present fifty-four, and the first emperors have been forced to divide the territory of Datong almost for the sake of the situation, but my Datong royal family still occupies the righteousness, and there are still some counties scattered around. ”

Guan Ze didn't need to look at it to know where he was talking about, this map had already been printed in his mind, and it was clear which country occupied how many counties.

"It's nothing more than some remote places in the southwest, I'm afraid it's no longer safe at this time, and the imperial court can't take care of it at all."

Guan Cheng nodded and continued: "Erchen has seen it, as my father said, there are still more than three dozen counties scattered in the vicinity of Zhongli Country in the southwest Shu Kingdom. ”

"Yes, but you also said that the imperial decree law can't reach anywhere at all, and those four counties have become enclaves. Recently, I've been thinking that instead of being uncontrollable, I might as well exchange land with Chu. The state of Chu is strong, even the small countries around the enclave dare not stop it, and at that time, it may be possible to exchange four counties for two counties, the strength of the imperial court is too weak, and it must find ways to get more land. ”

After that, the wooden stick in his hand pointed back and forth on the map: "There are also scattered counties in the Northeast, Central Plains, and Northwest China, and these places can be used." ”

Guan Cheng said with a smile: "Father, the son only thinks about the southwest. ”

"Oh?" Guan Ze asked in surprise, "Why?" ”

"Father, please see, there are four counties and more than 30 counties in the southwest are relatively concentrated, which is the largest enclave, and the sons think that it is feasible for the father to change the land, but it is just to replace Zhongli and Shu, so that these more than 30 counties are connected together, and the land of the four counties can be regarded as a fifth-class prince, and they can barely protect themselves. The other places are too scattered, and unlike the southwest, in addition to the two fourth-class princes of Shu Zhongli, there is a fifth-class small country, as long as the law is dealt with, there is a chance to develop and grow, and then the north will be a good Qin State, and the southeast will be a vassal to the Chu State, and the obscene development will not be ten years will have the strength to swallow Shu and destroy Zhongli. ”

Guan Ze thought seriously for a while and said: "You also know that when Zhao Chu is strong today, the place you said is very close to the Chu State, if you swallow Zhongli, it will border the Chu State, what will happen then?" ”

Guan Cheng smiled slightly: "It's not difficult, although Zhao Chu faces each other in the north and south, both of them have the ambition of military domination of the world, especially the Chu State, which has successively seized the land of other countries to enrich itself in recent years, who is not afraid of the surrounding countries?" Although Chu is strong, if there are enemies on all sides, it will inevitably give Zhao a chance, as long as he lobbied properly, his posture was low enough, and then he would be a good minister, and he would pay a heavy tribute to the harem, and he would have a chance to survive. ”

"It would be more advantageous if the princes were provoked to attack Chu at the right time, and the day of the melee would be an opportunity."

"So that's why you said you were deposing you as crown prince for the sake of that?"

Guan Cheng knelt on the ground again and said: "Please also ask my father to forgive me, the son thinks that the current situation is as dangerous as an egg, although the countries are ministers, it is really rebellious, and Zhili County is under siege It is difficult to do anything, if you jump out of this circle and start again, the ancestors raised their troops when they were only three counties, the population is less than 100,000, and the soldiers and horses are only more than 4,000 people. ”

Guan Ze stepped forward to help him up, with relief and a hint of guilt on his face: "Emperor, do you know what this move means?" ”

Without waiting for Guan Cheng to return, he continued: "There are five thousand miles from Yong'an City to Shu State. ”

"Father, the path that the ancestors have traveled through all obstacles is more than ten or five thousand miles." The boy's face was resolute and yearning.

Guan Ze seems to see himself when he was young, and he is also so high-spirited, so full of confidence, and wants to reform the old and restore the glory of Datong, but unfortunately the repeated decline of Datong for more than 20 years has reached the point where there is no way out.

Until this moment.

Yes, Guan Ze is tempted!

He had to admit that this seemed to be another way out, and it was the only way out, and it had to be implemented quickly, otherwise it would be too late for the day when the princes would tear their faces.

"My unicorn!"