"His Royal Highness King Dan, His Royal Highness King Min, the Governor of Runzhou, sent someone to the dock to ask for a meeting."

Less than a day after the fleet left Nanping, it arrived in Lin'an (present-day Vung Tau City, Vietnam). Originally, according to the plan, except for a few naval transport ships that stayed here for half a day, after unloading some ordnance and supplies, they would immediately set sail and continue their journey back to mainland China with the fleet.

Unexpectedly, King Min, the governor of Runzhou, who was supposed to stay in Jiangzhou City (now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), arrived in Lin'an, and when he heard that King Dan and Huangsun were on the ironclad ship "Beiqu", he immediately sent someone to invite him.

"yes, got it." Dan King Qi Weining was only wearing a profane robe on his body, with an unconcealable tiredness on his face, as if he didn't want to get off the boat to meet the hospitable King Min.

"What about His Royal Highness?" Qi Weining was about to turn around and return to the cabin, when she suddenly thought of something and asked casually.

"Back to His Royal Highness the King of Dan, His Royal Highness the Emperor Sun has already disembarked." The lieutenant replied respectfully, but when he looked up, his eyes subconsciously glanced into the cabin, and he saw a naked woman lying on the bed inside, with her hair covering the head of the bed, and half of her thighs exposed outside the thin sheets, exuding a seductive whiteness.

"Heh, our Royal Highness the Imperial Sun is really energetic." Qi Weining smiled bitterly, stepped into the cabin, and as the hatch closed, he also locked a room of spring inside.

The naval captain officer looked at the hatch in a daze, and seemed to be still recalling the temptation he had just seen, and he couldn't help but lick his lips and swallow a mouthful of saliva.

Royal nobles, you will really enjoy it!

The woman seemed to have been given to His Royal Highness King Dan by a wealthy merchant in Nanjing, and she was very favored, and she was brought all the way from Nanjing to Dengzhou, and from Dengzhou to the ship.

Looking at this posture, most of them are to bring back to Chang'an and come to a golden house to hide Jiaojiao as a reward for this visit to Qin.

I just don't know what kind of thoughts the royal family will have after learning about King Dan's move.

Since ancient times, how to manage the clan has become the top priority in front of the rulers of various dynasties, and the power of the clan can be the dependent of the imperial power, but also become the threat of coveting the imperial power.

The Han and Jin dynasties, who relied too much on the power of the clan, broke out into a clan rebellion, thus sounding the death knell for their own demise.

When Cao Wei and Qianming, who limited the power of the clan, fell into the dynasty, the clan could only watch and do nothing, and finally perished with the country.

As for other dynasties, although they have repeatedly jumped sideways in terms of restrictions and exploits, the seizure of power by the clan is not uncommon, which makes those in power take it as a warning, and there has never been a situation of usurpation by the clan vassal king in the former Song Dynasty - oh, that sorghum river car god should not be in this case, he succeeded to the throne as the emperor's younger brother. Of course, it is also the era of the best management of the clan in all dynasties.

After the establishment of the Great Qi Dynasty, for how to manage and control the clan, it was also a collection of public opinions, continuous exploration and discussion, in the late period of Emperor Taizu, the clan management model was gradually established, of which the most borrowed is actually the former Song Dynasty's knighthood system.

According to the regulations of the Great Qi clan, the princes and brothers of the reigning emperor will be named princes or county kings (regardless of one word and two characters), and the prince (county king) will then choose one person to be demoted to the county king (Guogong), and the rest of the heirs will be awarded the title below the prince according to the situation, and the heirs of the county king will inherit the title, which is equivalent to a demotion to the title.

Of course, the regulations are regulations, and the implementation is one thing, the prince and the imperial brother of Daqi are not directly crowned kings, but first carry out systematic and formal learning, and then through a series of assessments, will be awarded low-level officers or general officers, after some achievements, and then give the title of the county duke, the prince of the country, the king of the county, and even the prince, and the title of the prince is also first named in the name of miscellaneous names, and then gradually added to the big country, until the top honorific title.

As a result, many princes have not been able to become top-level princes by the time they die. For example, His Royal Highness King Dan, who has traveled the world, visited various countries, and also presided over the compilation of several books on geography, mountains and rivers, and is quite famous in the literary world, but until now it is just a miscellaneous county king knighthood.

However, in order to give the children of the clan who could not obtain the title in the future a way out, Taizu issued an edict in the late period, allowing the children of the clan to participate in the selection examination for government officials, and through the government's selection, they could seek a half-official position and obtain a salary to support themselves.

But after all, there is a clan identity, and there are certain sensitive issues. During the Taizong period, a clear decree was promulgated to make certain restrictions on the appointment of officials for the children of the clan, and the military position could not exceed the rank of Zhenguo general (lieutenant general), and could not be used as an independent leader of the army, while the civilian position could not enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister, that is, to prevent them from excessive power and prestige, and then affect or threaten the imperial power.

The descendants of the clan are demoted to inherit the title after five generations, and then reduced to the viscount, and after no great merit or outstanding contribution, they are no longer among the clans.

Well, that is, except for a national surname, there is no difference between him and ordinary people in terms of identity.

Moreover, even if you are in the clan and have a knighthood, for each downgrade, the royal family will be given less than half.

What makes the children of the clan even more criticized (fucked) is that before the attack, the clan with the right to inherit still needs to pass the royal assessment, if the four bodies are not diligent and the grains are not divided, there is no skill, just a waste that eats and waits for death, or has no reputation, sorry, you can't get the title you deserve, you can only rely on eating the old book to continue to mess around.

For example, the Dan King Qi Weining was knighted as the king of the county, and he could receive a salary of up to 20,000 gold yuan from the royal family fund every year, which could allow him to live a life without worrying about food and clothing, and he was also extremely luxurious - of course, the premise is that he does not make mistakes, or provoke something angry and resentful, and the royal family has always been very merciless.

After his death, his eldest son could only pass the royal examination and inherit the title as a prince, and the salary he could receive would be cut in half at once, with less than 10,000 gold yuan a year. If the family is big and the population is large, then life will definitely be tight.

As for whether there is a hereditary lineage in the clan, it is a pity that Taizu adopted a one-size-fits-all rule at the beginning, and there is no hereditary lineage in the clan.

Oh, not necessarily, as the founding commander of the country, Cao Xiong's family has been crowned King of Lu since he was crowned as the king of Lu, and he is also the top prince and queen, he can be hereditary and retired with the country. In addition, the inheritance method is also the traditional principle of primogeniture, and the other heirs are only made earls and beheaded in the first generation.

At this stage, all the children of the Daqi royal family have to rely on mixed qualifications and hard work to obtain the title, such as the thirteen heirs of Emperor Taizu, when Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong were alive, they were successively awarded the titles of prince and county king. But up to now, there are only three or five people who normally attack the prince of the heir of the duke. Among them are the King of Qing in South America and the King of Yi in Yinzhou (North America), which is evident in the harshness of the title of Great Qi.

As for those children of the clan who failed to obtain the title, they can only gradually become ordinary people in the country, and they are unknown to everyone.

Therefore, unless the children of the royal family are really not successful, they will generally have a strong sense of crisis from the time they can remember.

As the eldest son of the heir, if you want to attack the lord normally, you must develop the attitude of "study hard and make progress every day" from an early age, and you can't do some out-of-the-ordinary bastard things.

And the brothers who do not have the qualifications for the heir can only work hard, specialize in something, take a position as a general officer, or rely on the royal relationship to make a long-term living, and accumulate a considerable wealth for future generations, so as not to insult the royal system.

From this point of view, the clan management of the Qi State is definitely much more clever than the model of raising the children of the clan as pigs like the previous Ming. Not to mention that it effectively reduced the burden of support for the future royal family, it was the success rate and contribution rate of the children of the clan, which also threw off the actions of the princes of the former Ming clan a few streets.

The royal disciples of Daqi had to "roll" up in the face of this extremely "harsh" clan management system. Whether they have made achievements or supported themselves, they must learn something useful as soon as possible under the patronage of the royal family and the protection of their fathers and ancestors, or give full play to their own strengths, and actively work hard to continue to live a life of fine food and clothing in the future.

As the tenth son of Emperor Taiping, King Qi Weihao is only twenty-four years old this year, only two years older than the emperor's grandson Qi Zexuan, and when he was crowned the king of the county, he was only nineteen years old, which is rare in the royal family.

This is by no means because he has the talent to go through the heavens and the earth, nor is it because he has built any immortal achievements.

Gain, five years ago, the Safavid Empire of Persia sent a princess to Chang'an, hoping to reach a marriage between the two countries with the Qi State and become a good match for Qin and Jin.

Looking at the royal children, only the tenth son Qi Weihao, who was nineteen years old at the time, and the eleventh son Qi Weiyan, who was sixteen years old, were not married and could marry the Persian princess.

But considering the fit between ages, Qi Weihao was chosen to marry this Persian princess. In order to demonstrate the nobility and dignity of the royal family of Daqi, Emperor Taiping issued a special decree and enshrined him as King Min, directly skipping a series of royal examinations.

It can also be said that Qi Weihao wanted to marry a foreign princess, which was a political marriage, and he paid a huge "sacrifice" to obtain the title of a county king, which was somewhat stained with his wife's light.

Of course, as a royal son, this Min King is also ambitious. Especially after hearing that his old father-in-law, Shah Abbas III of the Safavid Empire of Persia, was seriously ill and bedridden, his eldest brother Muhammad Libanda behaved wisely and skillfully, and with the help of the Qi army, he not only led the troops to expel the Afghan tribal rebels, but also defeated Tsarist Russia several times, and had the hope of rebuilding the glory of the empire.

Although he is not qualified to inherit the imperial throne, as a prince of a big country, he can't always be a prince of peace, let his own uncle and brother of Fanbang laugh at him, and rely on a woman to take the throne.

"Uncle Huang, what do you mean is to join the Hexian Kingdom to plot against Cambodia?"

As soon as the imperial grandson Qi Zexuan ate a few bites of food and drank two glasses of wine, he heard the young imperial uncle mention that he wanted to cooperate with the Hexian Kingdom to attack Cambodia, and he was taken aback, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at King Dan beside him.

This is going to make trouble!

The position of the governor of Runzhou has not yet been hot, and the government and people's livelihood have not yet been familiarized, so they want to use swords, seek neighboring countries, expand their territory, and think that they will seek greater merit and power.

It is reported that the Kingdom of Cambodia has always been submissive to our Daqi, and has not had any acts of rebellion and transgression, so why should it raise troops to fight?

"The River Immortal Kingdom wants to extend its borders to the line of the Dasa River, and bring that tens of thousands of square kilometers of anointed land under its rule, so as to increase the depth of its territory." Qi Weihao said with a smile: "In recent years, the monarch of the Kingdom of Cambodia has been constantly changing, and the situation is chaotic, which has made it difficult to suppress various opposition forces in the country. Ha Xian Yang believes that if Cambodia does not take advantage of the weakening of the country to rapidly expand its own strength, when it is invigorated, it will inevitably suffer from it, and the legacy will be endless. However, the Hexian Yang clan was worried that his strength would not be enough, so he wanted to invite my Runzhou Governorate to jointly send troops to attack, and promised us the two places of Polomian and Chai Frame. I wondered if Runzhou could get these two places, not only would it extend its sphere of influence to the middle reaches of the Mekong River, but it would also protect the security of the northern part of Hung Chau (present-day Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai Province, Binh Duong Province, Long An Province, Tien Giang Province, etc.). ”

"With the greedy appetite of the Yang family, I am afraid that this Cambodian kingdom will be occupied by their river immortal kingdom sooner or later, and it will be completely replaced." Dan King Qi Weining shook his head and said, "After that, the target of the River Immortal is estimated to be the Vientiane Kingdom in the hinterland of the interior, or Siam in the west. ”

"In this world of great contention, holding the strong and confronting the weak, swallowing up small countries, can be described as natural selection, survival of the fittest." Qi Weihao said in his mouth, lifted the wine jug, filled the wine glasses of King Dan and the emperor's grandson, and said with a smile: "The big river basin, with a little development, will be the granary land." Isn't this kind of heaven-given treasure in the hands of the natives a tyrannical thing? Today, the Governorate of Runzhou, with a population of one million, will surely continue to live and grow in time, and the population will be even greater. If there is not enough land, how can we resettle tens of millions of people? ”

"Uncle Huang, the Runzhou Governorate and the Hexian Kingdom intend to expand their territory for hundreds of miles, and almost push the border line to the left of Phnom Penh, the royal city of Cambodia, which seems a bit rushed!" Qi Zexuan said softly: "You need to know that it is easy to expand the soil, but it is difficult to govern. There are too many natives in the territory, and it may not be easy to naturalize and tame them. The slightest carelessness will lead to ethnic conflicts and strife within the jurisdiction. ”

"There are only hundreds of thousands of mouthfuls left and right, and I can still eat it." Qi Weihao said disapprerovitously: "How can such natives have any thoughts of a country and a nation, give them a few mouthfuls of food to eat, and they will be grateful to me, long live the mountain." In addition, the consumption of local people is not a one-time achievement, large river basins, swamps, dense forests, so it is not necessary for a large number of people to fill and transform? It's just that, as a local governor, although he has the responsibility of self-responsibility for military and political affairs, after all, the use of military power will inevitably be criticized by the old ministers of Chang'an City. Therefore, after the imperial brother and the imperial nephew return to Hanzhou, be sure to help me talk about it in front of Your Majesty, and don't let pedantic people spoil this important matter. ”

"Is Uncle Huang already ready to do it?"

"That's nature." Qi Weihao said: "After the second crop of rice in the field was planted in June, I began to mobilize the township soldiers in the territory to assemble. I believe that as long as the Kingdom of Cambodia faces the blow of the Ha Tien Kingdom, it will definitely give in to our Qi country, and maybe if the sword and soldiers do not move, and the war will not be born, it will be able to easily take the two places of Polo Veng and Chai Frame, and expand the territory for us for hundreds of miles. ”

(End of chapter)