Chapter 44: Discussion on the Reduction of Domains

"Your Royal Highness the Third Prince, don't worry so much about my Liu family, my Liu family is not so easy to bully." Feng Qingge comforted.

Song Jingying sighed: "Such a shame and humiliation, my father can bear not to mention a bribe." ”

"Your Majesty favors the eldest prince again, this matter will also make their father and son feel guilty, Your Highness doesn't have to worry."

"Hopefully, Ge'er will make arrangements in advance, and I'll go to the imperial study now."

After that, Song Jingying sat on the chariot.

Feng Qingge watched Song Jingying go, bowed his head and said to Cuizhu: "Inform my grandfather of this matter as soon as possible." ”

"Miss, don't worry, the master has already made arrangements."

Feng Qingge relieved his heart at this time.

The Imperial Study.

Emperor Song Ming looked at Song Jingying with an uncertain expression.

Everyone felt that the eldest prince was his favorite son, naturally including the youngest son in front of him.

He looked down at him and said, "Let's talk about it." ”

Song Jingying stood here for a quarter of an hour, and Emperor Song Ming looked at him like this without saying a word.

At this moment, he couldn't make up his mind what kind of medicine his father was selling in his stomach.

"Father, the son feels that this matter should be thoroughly investigated, and the collusion between the ministers of the court and the vassal king really shakes the foundation of the country."

"So, Ying'er is thinking about what will happen after taking down King Liu?"

"Yes, Father."

"Then tell me about it."

"Bribery is not enough to punish King Liu for his capital crime, but it is enough to use it as an excuse to weaken King Liu's strength. The first step is to divide the feudal again, and now the feudal king's strength is too strong, and it can be disintegrated by dividing the feudal again, and all the heirs of the feudal king, regardless of their descendants, can be divided on the basis of the feudal territory. In the second step, the feudal territories can handle some government affairs on their own, but they cannot have their own armies. ”

Emperor Song Ming nodded and said: "Your first article is a bit interesting, but it doesn't mean much to the Wind King, there are many princes of the other domains, but the Wind King has only one son." ”

"So the focus is also on the handling of military power. The Wind King does only have one son, Feng Yu, but the same Wind King is located at the border pass, and the threat is not the greatest. The other vassal kings were too close to Shangjing and were a formidable threat. Song Jingying said.

"Well, you go ahead and talk about it."

"Once you continue to divide the feudal kings in various places, it will inevitably provoke contradictions between the concubines and concubines, and in the long run, the threat of the feudal kings will gradually collapse."

When Emperor Song Ming heard this, he didn't say anything but sighed: "Now that the states are eyeing each other, it is the time to employ people." How to cultivate capable people who are loyal to the army and curb the rebellious vassal kings is the difficult problem at hand. ”

He got up and walked to Song Jingying's side, patted him on the shoulder, and continued: "There are two main aspects of the response measures taken by the past dynasties. The first aspect is to weigh the power granted to the local vassal kings, and how to limit the power of the local vassal kings to a controllable range. The second aspect is to strengthen the education of loyal soldiers and cultivate the idea of loyal to the country of vassal kings in various places. ”

"After the age of six, the sons of the feudal kings of all regions will be sent to the White Deer Academy to study together, and they will not return to their respective domains until they reach adulthood. But this has been ineffective. ”

Song Jingying nodded after hearing this: "Indeed, not only the vassal king has been ready to move all these years, but the northern desert in the north has been harassing my border. Now that winter is about to begin, although our grain depot has surplus grain, once there is intervention from other states, I am afraid that our country will not be stable. ”

Seeing that Song Jingying could figure out these points, Emperor Song Ming nodded with satisfaction and said: "If you want to do it, go and try it, the world will eventually be in your hands, and my father is old." ”

"The retainers are terrified." When Song Jingying heard Emperor Song Ming's words, she immediately knelt down in horror, but she didn't expect Emperor Song Ming to have the heart to make herself the crown prince.

Emperor Song Ming couldn't help but smile bitterly when he saw his son doing this to him: "Ying'er doesn't have to be so frightened, my body, I know it, and I don't have a few years left." But at the moment, I can't make you the crown prince. Do you know why I have the heart to make you the prince? ”

"The sons don't know, ask their father to solve their doubts."

"If I pass the throne to your two brothers, my other sons will not have to live. Although you use tricks, your father knows that you are kind-hearted and can give your two brothers a way to live. ”

"The retainers are terrified." Song Jingying was even more shocked.

"Remember what I said to you, don't kill your brother."

"Yes." The sweat on Song Jingying's forehead dripped to the floor.

Fortunately, when he entered the palace this time, he never mentioned the matter of the eldest prince, and repeatedly emphasized that it was the affairs of the vassal king, if he took advantage of this matter to propose the matter of the eldest prince, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Out of the palace, Song Jingying hurriedly mobilized the people from the patrol camp to arrest Yin Dongsheng.

In just an hour, Yin Dongsheng was arrested and taken to the prison.

Yin Dongsheng looked at Song Jingying, who was interrogating him in front of him, with an uncertain expression, although he was wearing a prison uniform, there was no fear in his eyes.

Song Jingying just said lightly: "Set him up." ”

In an instant, Yin Dongsheng was tied up by five flowers.

"I don't know what His Royal Highness the Third Prince is doing?" Yin Dongsheng's eyes were cloudy, and he looked at Song Jingying as if he was puzzled.

"Punishment."

"Ah——! The Three Princes - Your Highness! ”

A scream echoed in the prison, and the atmosphere in the entire prison dropped to freezing.

"Throw a basin of salt water on him." Song Jingying said.

At this moment, Feng Qingge walked in, and she saluted Song Jingying and said, "His Royal Highness the Third Prince." ”

Song Jingying saw that it was Feng Qingge, so she waved her hand, and everyone retreated in an instant.

"Ge'er, what's going on with me?"

Feng Qingge confessed: "Your Highness, I did this for the sake of my mother's death, and I ask Your Highness not to tell anyone about this." ”

The Liu family is an extremely eye-catching family, Feng Qingge's mother did not die in childbirth, and Song Jingying has also heard about it.

He nodded, and walked out.

Now only Feng Qingge and Yin Dongsheng are left in the prison.

Yin Dongsheng looked at Feng Qingge's face, with madness and fascination in his eyes.

Feng Qingge said: "Yin Dongsheng, you are the grandson of Cui Guizhi?" ”

Although Yin Dongsheng put on the torture instrument again, he did not stop the delusion in his eyes at all: "If the crown princess makes me feel refreshed, Lao Tzu will consider telling you the truth." ”

Smack——!

Yoon Dongsheng was slapped in the face.

Feng Qingge rubbed his hands, and said with disgust in his heart: "Yin Dongsheng, you are really disgusting." ”

"Phew-" Yin Dongsheng spat out a mouthful of blood, and continued with arrogant eyes: "If Lao Tzu sits at the top of power, you women will still say that I am disgusting?" Lao Tzu will lick me how you want to lick me, let you be a, and immediately come to Lao Tzu, wagging his tail and begging for mercy. ”

"Granny Cui has always been generous to others, how can there be a grandson like you!" Feng Qingge's face was full of anger.

"Shut up, you still deserve to mention my grandmother, if it weren't for your Feng family, my grandmother wouldn't die at all! Feng Qingge, what are you pretending, I don't know how dirty your body is, do you want to climb any man's bed! ”