Liu Fei kowtowed anxiously and ruthlessly, and the center of his forehead turned red in a moment, obviously the resignation came from the bottom of his heart, and he even kowtowed with all his might.

Liu Ji was silent, lowered his eyes, stared directly at his son's low back, and quipped for a while,

"This is a blessing that others are tense and operating in every way, and they can't ask for it, how can my son suddenly be stupid?"

Liu Fei gritted his teeth and said,

"This is the grace given by my father, but it was originally disrespectful, but not only did my son dare not obey the edict, but he also persuaded his father to withdraw his order!"

"Oh?"

"The law of dividing the kings is an expedient measure for our Han Dynasty today, but it is by no means a long-term policy for peace and stability."

Liu Fei said, didn't dare to raise his head, and still kowtowed.

"Okay, okay, don't knock, let outsiders see, and think I've done something to you."

Liu Ji's tone was light, and he couldn't hear too much emotion, he turned around and sat back on the imperial couch, propped his elbows on the Quzha jade table next to the couch, pestle his head, and looked at the big prince in front of him expressionlessly.

The room was as warm as spring, and it was even more cold, and the slightest chill of jade came through the thin bedclothes, spreading into the limbs, making him shiver.

"You get up first, sit down and talk slowly."

"The retainers obeyed."

***

After knocking his head countless times in a row, at this time, Liu Fei's eyes were full of Venus, and his skull was buzzing, he endured the pain on his forehead, returned to the side, and silently read through the many truths of the current politics and the world that he had listened to Zhang Liang on weekdays, and then said boldly,

"In the past six months in the northwest, the first thing I realized was that the country's territory is really too vast, from south to north, a total of more than 50 counties, and the customs and customs of various places are all different.

Erchen heard the Taifu say that when the initial emperor was bent on accomplishing the great cause, it was not just the superficial meaning of 'the car is on the same track, the book is the same, and the line is the same', but to let every Qiantou in the world follow the same law, believe in the same morality, use the same measurement, make the same money, and abandon the customs that have been cultivated for hundreds of thousands of years. ”

"Well, you can have this level of knowledge now, Zhang Zifang is indispensable."

Liu Ji was a little surprised, raised his eyes and quickly glanced at him, scratched his head and sighed,

"One family in the world, one in the world, it sounds easy, but it's really difficult to do.

At the beginning, your father and I were just a small pavilion chief, and I didn't have so many big ideas, but I just felt that the new policies promoted by the First Emperor were very complicated.

He abolished the feudal state internally, organized households directly under the county bureaucracy, attacked the Xiongnu in the north externally, built the Great Wall, and tossed the whole country for more than ten years, which made people unclear.

Now I understand more and more his true intentions, that is, 'Under the Putian, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king'-"

Liu Ji's muttering memories came to an abrupt end, and those words that he wanted to say and stopped, even in front of his own son, it was inconvenient to say them clearly.

Although he conformed to the general trend and played the banner of punishing the tyrannical Qin at the beginning of the army, deep down, he always believed that the king referred to in the "royal land" and "royal minister" was the Son of Heaven, a person, and the only emperor in the world, and it was by no means a co-owner of the world who shared power with other princes, kings, and veteran heroes.

***

Seeing that Liu Fei listened to him carefully, he changed the topic and continued,

"Your explanation of the same text and the same line is correct.

As for the car on the same track, you are still young and have not understood the true meaning of Taifu.

The car is just a means, and its ultimate goal is to make the decree of the central court really go down to the countryside. ”

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the vassal states that were divided into powerful countries were beggar-thy-neighbor, and when each country made horse-drawn carriages, it deliberately made the spacing of its own wheels different from that of other countries, and the cars were painted on different tracks.

At that time, the roads were mostly dirt roads and gravel roads, and the wheels with the same spacing and regulations rolled over for many years, leaving two deeply embedded ruts in the road surface, and later cars were fast and stable as long as they drove along the two rutted tracks.

On the other hand, if a car of different shapes from another country is driving on this road, it will bump and sway or even overturn because it cannot fit into the rut seamlessly.

Therefore, the first emperor's insistence on promoting the same track of cars is not limited to the spacing of the wheels at six feet in a narrow sense, but to completely break the traffic barriers between different regions, so that the above system is lower, and the upper is heard.

Only when vehicles and information can travel freely throughout the country can local taxes and goods be continuously transmitted to the central court, and the chariots and soldiers of the central court to suppress local rebellions can quickly and unhindered along the unified road to every corner of the country.

If there is still a place that cannot be reached by administrative and military orders, how can it be called a great unification?

Liu Ji said with emotion,

"Now it seems that the path of the first emperor is right, the car is on the same track, the central government directly manages the counties, and the government decrees go directly to the counties.

However, he was too anxious, and he always wanted to achieve it overnight, but he forgot that the people of the six eastern countries were not emotionless plants and trees.

In the end, he put a good end to a dynasty, and he was stunned and collapsed. ”

Therefore, he learned the lessons of the First Emperor and planned to complete the great cause of unification in a tortuous and roundabout way.

***

The process of Qin's annihilation of the six eastern kingdoms was as fast as the wind and clouds, so that there were many aftermaths, and just 14 years later, the heroes of Daze Township raised their arms, and the nobles of the former six countries revived.

In other words, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's revelation eventually evolved into a battle for the restoration of the kingdom by the princes of the six kingdoms to fight against the Qin state.

At the same time, Liu Ji also relied on the cooperation with the princes and kings all the way to finally ascend to the throne.

The division of seven kings with different surnames is a promise and exchange between the superior and the alliance of the princes, and it is also the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, which is a kind of repair and reconciliation of the Qin Dynasty's sudden abolition of the Six Kingdoms.

It's just that everyone still underestimated Liu Ji's determination, compromise was just an expedient measure when he was under others, and when the time came, he would still practice the grand plan of great unification with perseverance-

Replace those princes with different surnames who were forced to divide the feudal titles with their own people, and use several vassal states with the same surname who are absolutely loyal to the Han court to rule those regions that have had strong resistance to the great unification, such as Chu and Qi.

The people he identified in his heart include the children of the Liu family with the same surname, and the brother Lu Xuan with a different surname who is like a sibling. and the honest Changsha King Wu Chen's family, which can be regarded as half of his own people.

Sealed the State of Qi to his eldest son Liu Fei, and split the State of Chu, which originally belonged to Han Xin, into two and sealed it to his distant brother. Then let Lu Juan go to Yan to be the king, and together with Wu Chen of Changsha State, one north and one south, as a buffer between the Xiongnu and South Vietnam, and the Central Plains.

If the surname of the counties in the world is Liu, and the surname of several kingdoms is also Liu, it will be a complete family. Even if the county and the country are parallel, as long as they are all surnamed Liu, it is done.

Since ascending the throne, Liu Ji has thought hard about this clever plan to retreat, but the inexplicable panic in his heart finally fell to the ground and turned into a cold reality in the joke that Liu Fei Mo wanted to rebel.

That joke was too traceful, not only completely exposed the hidden worries buried deep in Liu Ji's heart, but also woke up Liu Fei, who was carried away by the ecstasy of being crowned king.

When Liu Ji talked about the strategic position of Qidi, there was a moment when Liu Fei was grateful for the trust of his father in front of him, and he was also intoxicated by the beautiful scenery of Qi with more than 70 cities outlined by his father.