Liu Song Hanque

Chapter 444
Among all the gentlemen in the hall, Xie Hui is undoubtedly the most special one.

Unlike Wang Hong, who was purely a lubricant between the emperor and the aristocratic family, he himself was able to get rid of the framework of the aristocratic family and gain a foothold in the Liu Song Dynasty, where capable men were born, which was both an honor and a danger.

Used well, Xie Hui is the fulcrum for balancing the forces of the two parties.

If it is not used well, Xie Hui will become a breakthrough in the conflict between the two forces, forcing Xie Hui to become a puppet of the two forces, pushed to the front to deliberately provoke the forces of the emperor, and become a victim of the struggle between the three forces.

Of course Liu Yizhen was not willing to destroy Xie Hui like that, so he still wanted Xie Hui to take the initiative to solve this problem.

After looking at Xie Hui for a long time, Liu Yizhen didn't look back until the other ministers realized something was wrong, and continued to discuss the rewards for the soldiers.

Until the Chaohui dissipated, Liu Yizhen did not mention the conferment of the generals, which also sent a signal to the many forces below, namely——

"I really attach great importance to this matter. If you have evil intentions, don't run into my knife."

Two days later, there was another insignificant news in the palace, that is, the emperor allowed Concubine Xie to go home to visit her relatives.

When they returned home, it was naturally not the ancestral home of the Xie family in Chenjun, but Xie Hui's mansion in Chang'an.

But Xie Hui who saw his daughter was not so happy.Because nothing happened, a person who should not have appeared in the line of the imperial concubine going home to visit her relatives...

"Your Majesty... why do you need to come to me with such an appearance?"

Looking at Liu Yizhen who was wearing a brocade sweater, Xie Huiqiang forced a wry smile.

That's right, Liu Yizhen also went home to "visit relatives".

However, facing this son-in-law with great background and high status, Xie Hui did not welcome him with great fanfare, just like when Liu Yizhen came, everything was low-key and scary.

Liu Yizhen was invited by Xie Hui to a side room, only Xie Hui and him were there, and there was not even a waiter serving tea and water. The strange atmosphere made Xie Hui feel a little suffocated.

"Xie Shizhong, don't tell me that you don't know the reason why I came to your house like this today."

Liu Yizhen went straight to the point and explained to Xie Hui the purpose of his visit.

Of course Xie Hui knew what the emperor wanted to do, but his scalp still felt a little numb when he thought about what the emperor was about to do.

"The emperor wants to take back the military power of the generals?"

"It's one of them."

Liu Yizhen did not deny it.

"Second, I want you to suppress the anger on both sides."

Xie Hui: "..."

He knew that Liu Yizhen would go too far, but he didn't expect it to go so far.

This is not only to suppress the expansion of the military power group, but also to push down the aristocratic family by the way.

Xie Hui showed embarrassment: "Your Majesty, this... I'm afraid it's not something I can do."

Facing Liu Yizhen, Xie Hui chose to refuse for the first time.

But behind this refusal is not a struggle, but powerlessness.

Liu Yizhen looked at Xie Hui strangely and then suddenly asked: "Did you look for Wang Hong after you came back?"

Xie Hui wanted to deny it, but when he saw Liu Yizhen's determined face, he nodded dejectedly.

"No wonder, when I went to court two days ago, I saw that your face was very ugly. It turns out that Wang Hong and you have got to the bottom of it."

Although Wang Hong is old now, his mind is still not confused. His political IQ is placed in Liu Song Yiguo, even if it is relaxed to the whole world, few people can be better than him.With Wang Hong guiding Xie Hui, it is no wonder that Xie Hui is full of worries about his future.

Xie Hui was indeed anxious all the time.

The main reason is that Liu Yizhen created a psychological shadow.

When the Northern Wei Dynasty was fought in Hebei a few years ago, the two monarchs and ministers were still on the battlefield, looking like they were fighting against each other.But as soon as he got back to health, Liu Yizhen threw Xie Hui out as a spearman, and successfully took over the power of the court.

This time it was the same scene again, Xie Hui just suffered from last time, and visited Wang Hong right after returning to Chang'an, Wang Hong also helped him analyze the situation for the sake of the friendship between the two families.

The current Xie Hui is the handover point of the three forces of the emperor, the aristocratic family, and the military group. There is hot magma under his buttocks.

It is also very simple to break the game.

Either be determined, unite the aristocratic family and the military group, and fight against the emperor.With the help of military power, he returned to the family politics of the year and became Liu Song's version of "Longyou Military Meritorious Group".

Or, continue to be the emperor's gun, to overthrow the other two parties to the ground, and let them submit to the emperor's majesty forever.

As for wanting to sit on the mountain and watch tigers fight...

Others can, but Xie Hui can't.

Because as long as any party shows signs of expansion, Xie Hui, the "safety bolt" of the tripartite forces, will be pulled away and become the dregs in the center of the battlefield.

This was also what troubled Xie Hui the most.

In the eyes of others, he is now the emperor's close minister, the head of the aristocratic family, and the leader of the military group, who is favored by thousands of people.But only those who are sensible know how dangerous Xie Hui is.

"Grandma's!"

Xie Hui finally cursed from the bottom of his heart.

If he could copy Wang Hong's way and marry his daughter to Liu Yizhen to become queen in advance, then he would be Xie Hui who is now lying flat and watching him rise from a high building.

With this in mind, Xie Hui's resentment intensified a bit...

But after complaining, you always have to move forward. No matter how difficult the fork in the road is, you can only have a future if you walk in it. You just linger in front of the door.

After thinking for a long time, among the two ideas Wang Hong gave him, Xie Hui naturally chose the latter without hesitation.

For the former, Xie Hui himself didn't know who he could win over.

Zhu Lingshi?Or Tan Daoji?

They are not surnamed Xie, nor are they from aristocratic families, and they have been greatly favored by Liu Yu, so why do they want to do things with you, Xie Hui?

What's more, the big head of the military is still in the hands of the emperor's faction, Wang Zhen'e, and Guanzhong itself is considered the emperor's home field. It is a bit of a problem with IQ to want to engage in armed struggle with the emperor here.

Therefore, Xie Hui chose Liu Yizhen out of no choice.

His refusal was not a refusal, but he was discussing with Liu Yizhen what to do so that both parties could be beaten to the ground.

"Since Xie Shizhong has figured it out, then I can rest assured!"

After clarifying Xie Hui's attitude, there is only a solution.

As the saying goes, people's hearts are unpredictable, but routines can still be used. Since Liu Yizhen dared to come to Xie Hui, he naturally made a plan long ago.

"Nowadays, the center of the imperial court is a system of three provinces and six ministries, and the three princes are all empty positions, which cannot satisfy the appetites of both parties."

Official positions can't satisfy the appetite of this group of people, and Liu Yizhen is unwilling to give military power, so he can only reveal the last magic weapon-the title of title.

"I intend to abolish the current title and re-confer the title."

With just one sentence, Xie Hui frowned.

The title, that is almost the family's private land.

The aristocratic family that claimed to be Qingliu could not care about authority, but if their titles were abolished, they would definitely jump.

"From now on, I plan to keep only the five nobles, the Duke, the Marquis, the Bo, the Zi, and the male, and each of them is divided into four grades, a total of twenty grades."

"Among the five ranks of titles, only earls and above can inherit incense and live the same life as the country. The rest of the sons and barons cannot be passed on."

Xie Hui was taken aback.

This is to directly cut off two of the original fifth-level titles!

Aristocrats who cannot be hereditary, are they still called nobles?

Xie Hui was a little apprehensive: "What about other noble titles?"

"It should be inherited according to the original position."

In fact, the nobles in Liu Song today are basically the founders of the country, such as Xie Hui in front of him, such as Wang Hong, Xu Xianzhi and others.

Handed down from the Jin Dynasty, only Wang Dao, Xie An, Wen Qiao, Xie Xuan, and Tao Kan were retained by Liu Yu after the establishment of Liu Song, but the titles of these five people were all downgraded from Duke to Marquis.

The most obvious one is Xie Xuan's grandson Xie Lingyun. Liu Yizhen used to call him "Kangle Gong", but now he has become "Kanglehou".

If Liu Yizhen demoted again this time, poor Xie Lingyun might be demoted to "Kangle Bo".If this kind of thing happened, there was no guarantee that Xie Lingyun would not come and cry in front of Liu Yizhen, so Liu Yizhen didn't think about touching the five single seedlings from the previous dynasty.

Xie Hui felt a little relieved when he heard Liu Yizhen's explanation.

In this way, in fact, only those former county sons and county men were sacrificed, and it obviously had no effect on the higher-ranking nobles.

At the same time, Xie Hui also saw who Liu Yizhen was targeting by abolishing the hereditary system of sons and barons.

It's the family!
The real military leaders, which one is not a title above "Earl", this policy has little effect on them.

On the contrary, because the aristocratic families that Liu Yu wanted to win over before, they were conferred titles such as county magistrates and county males, who were not very high-ranking, but indeed entered the ranks of nobles.Now that Liu Yizhen has slashed, these people are undoubtedly the biggest victims of the entire policy.

"Your Majesty, this...is something wrong?"

Xie Hui wanted to help Liu Yizhen, but it didn't mean he wanted to help Liu Yizhen without thinking.

If this policy is really announced, the family may cause commotion in an instant in various places, and there may be mutinies.If such a situation really occurs, the peace of Liu Song will be broken in an instant.

"Of course it can't be that simple."

Since the number of nobles is to be reduced, the gold content of nobles must be increased.

"I intend to restart the enfeoffment. Anyone with a title of earl or above has the opportunity to obtain a fief and become the lord of a country."

"..."

"..."

Liu Yizhen's tone was very relaxed, but Xie Hui felt like thunder was exploding in his ears.

He touched his forehead, and after confirming that he didn't have a fever, he wanted to touch Liu Yizhen's head again, but Liu Yizhen's dangerous eyes made Xie Hui stop his death-seeking behavior.

"Splitting!"

Xie Hui still couldn't help screaming, and looked at Liu Yizhen with weird eyes, as if he felt that Liu Yizhen in front of him was pretended to be a joke with him.

"Your Majesty, you know what you are talking about?"

Liu Yu, Liu Yizhen, and many heroes at the beginning of the Liu Song Dynasty were all trying to do one thing, that is, to centralize power.

Even though Xie Hui represents the interests of the aristocratic family, he still wants to promote centralization.

why?
Because the tragedy of the Yongjia Rebellion had already happened, Ning, an aristocratic family member, was very aware of the importance of centralization of power to a unified dynasty.

Now Liu Yizhen actually wants to turn back the wheel of history and go back to that barbaric feudal era...

If Xie Hui hadn't been inseparable with Liu Yizhen day and night before, and was too familiar with Liu Yizhen, he might have drawn his sword and chopped off this guy who dared to "pretend to be the emperor".

"I'm not crazy."

"Again..."

Liu Yizhen raised his head and glanced at Xie Hui: "Isn't your aristocratic family most want to do this kind of thing? There is a piece of land that belongs only to you, and then you can do anything reckless in it, even the king of heaven and I can't control it?"

Xie Hui smiled awkwardly: "That's what I said, but I still want to ask Your Majesty... to think twice!"

This matter is too big, Xie Hui has never even heard the wind before, he dare not show his attitude in front of Liu Yizhen at all.

In case the emperor came out to fish and wanted to test his attitude, wouldn't it be too unfair for him to hit the gun with his head?
Liu Yizhen saw that Xie Hui's face turned blue and white, and knew that he had thought of something strange again.

But he didn't stop Xie Hui from making up his mind.He just explained for himself: "This is just my idea. Now that the enemy in the north has not been eliminated, even if I want to seal it, there is no place to seal it."

Xie Hui heard something was wrong this time.

"Isn't Your Majesty going to seal the country in Kyushu?"

"of course not!"

Xie Hui felt relieved in his heart, but then his heart hung up again.

As a member of Xie's family, he has read a lot of books, and subconsciously thought of Zou Yan's theory of "Great Kyushu" during the Warring States Period.

Looking at what Liu Yi really meant, is he no longer satisfied with being his emperor in "Chixian Shenzhou", but wants to extend his hand to other "continents"?
Xie Hui's mind was in a mess, even though he was extremely alert, he was a little powerless at the moment, and a sense of emptiness filled his entire body.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, I don't know."

As proud as Xie Hui, he also lowered his head at this time, expressing that he could not share the worries of the emperor.

"Don't worry, I know that I can't become a big fat man in one sitting. At the same time, if I don't give those aristocratic families some bones, they won't follow me in vain."

Xie Hui: "..."

"Ahem, Xie Shizhong, don't get me wrong, I never said that your family is a dog."

"..."

Abandoning this topic, Liu Yi really wanted Xie Hui to make a promise: "I will find a model to set up for those aristocratic families. Xie Shizhong only needs to help me suppress them when their reactions are the most violent at the beginning."

Xie Hui still had a stomachache: "Your Majesty, the problem is not here. Regarding the matter of enfeoffment, I still hope that His Majesty can make a long-term plan. No matter how bad it is, I will discuss it with Wang Xiu and Wang Maide, right?"

"I've talked to them."

Xie Hui stared round his eyes: "They agreed?"

Among these people, especially Wang Xiu, his maturity and stability have always been regarded by other ministers as a refreshing decoction for the emperor.There is no reason for such a person to mess around with the emperor on such a big matter.

Xie Hui began to doubt himself again.

Is there... is there anything else I don't know about it?

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