The first legitimate son of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 256
The ninth year of Zhenguan has passed, and the tenth year of Zhenguan has arrived. The Tang Dynasty also has the Spring Festival. Of course, the people of the Tang Dynasty do not call it the Spring Festival, but "Yuanzheng"!
For the people of the Tang Dynasty, they were serious about passing Yuan Zheng.

Li Shimin directly gave the ministers seven days of leave. This is our current Golden Week. On Yuanzheng day, people in the Tang Dynasty would hold a grand Nuo opera.

Nuo opera is a form of opera formed by absorbing folk songs, dances and dramas based on folk sacrificial rituals. It has a long history and has been an important activity of the Chinese people's Spring Festival since the ancient pre-Qin period.

In the Tang Dynasty, the religious color of Nuo opera gradually faded away, and the folk entertainment atmosphere was strong. Its dance movements changed from mysterious and strange to beautiful and moving, which also made it an important entertainment activity for both officials and the people.

In addition to Nuo opera, another highlight of the Spring Festival in the Tang Dynasty was night vigil.

Among the people, vigil is also an important activity during the Spring Festival.Meng Haoran has a poem that says, "Every family should stay at the end of the night to stay awake", which shows how much people in the Tang Dynasty loved night vigils.

On New Year's Eve, folk customs include lighting candles, setting up door gods, posting Spring Festival couplets, giving New Year's money, and hanging New Year pictures.

On the street, there are lanterns and colorful lights everywhere, just like a lantern festival, colorful.Unfortunately, fireworks that could be launched into the sky had not yet appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and children at that time only played with "firecrackers."

Otherwise, with the national power of the Tang Dynasty, the sky on New Year's Eve would have been colorful.Various activities on New Year's Eve continue until daytime, and the vigil is officially over.

It's just that this time there is an extra Li An in the Tang Dynasty. In front of Lijia Village, Li An invited many old friends to come over today, such as the Cheng family, Niu family, Qin family, Changle family, Changsun family, Li Zhi, etc. Everyone who could be invited was invited, and a large group of people came to Lijiacun to watch the fireworks.

This time, Li An bought a lot of fireworks from Hyundai, and then set them off in Lijia Village. One by one, the fireworks exploded in the sky. The gorgeous fireworks made everyone look like crazy drunk.

"Wow, what is this? It's so beautiful!" Li Zhi stood next to Li An and looked up at the fireworks. They exploded one by one. They were really gorgeous to the extreme.

Li An nodded with a smile: "It's beautiful. However, besides being beautiful, it can also be turned into a sharp weapon. But if it is really released, I don't know how many people will die, so I won't let it go for the time being." When it appears, just think of it as something I miss about the past!”

"Haha. Brother, your words are getting more and more mysterious now. However, there is a happy event recently. You should pay attention to it." Li Zhi looked at Li An.

Li An was a little surprised: "I have any happy events to pay attention to. I am nothing. I just stay in my Lijia Village!"

"Hehe, if this happy event comes true, then you may not be able to stay in Lijia Village. You will most likely go to another place." Li Zhi said with a smile.

After Li An listened, suddenly, Li An seemed to remember something, looked at Li Zhi and said slightly: "Self-conferral?"

When Li Zhi heard that Li An knew it, he nodded quickly: "Brother, you know, I saw your name last time when I went to the Manna Palace. This should be the reward from my father."

As soon as these words came out, Li An frowned a little.In the 11th year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin issued an edict to King Jing Yuanjing to be appointed governor and governor, and ordered his descendants to inherit his position hereditary, which opened the prelude to the title of governor.The Shifeng Cishi is a short-lived "feudal lord system" that appeared during the Li Shimin period. It is equivalent to the enfeoffment system in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Cishi was established in various places and hereditary positions could be hereditary.

After Li Shimin ascended the throne as emperor after the Xuanwu Gate Incident, he wanted to imitate the Zhou Dynasty in enfeoffing brother princes and meritorious officials and implementing a hereditary system in order to protect the central government and strengthen local control.

However, Wei Zheng was very opposed to this system and believed that it was not conducive to centralized management by the central government, so he temporarily suppressed Li Shimin's ideas.Li Shimin did not stop there. Instead, in the fifth year of Zhenguan, he directly drafted relevant regulations and canonized several princes and brothers as kings.

But Li Shimin did not continue. However, the reason why he did not continue was not because Li Shimin did not want to canonize the title, but to put it on hold temporarily. In the fifth year of Zhenguan, although a group of people were canonized as kings, the princes and princes were too young to manage them. Because of local effects, Li Shimin did not continue to implement this system.

But now that the princes of the tenth year of Zhenguan have grown up, according to the hereditary governor system, they should go to the fief, so that they can consolidate themselves. There were 21 princes and emperors, and 14 meritorious officials, including Changsun Wuji, were named governors and ordered Its hereditary.

It's just that Li Shimin took it for granted.

This hereditary governor system is really a symbol of retrogression. Wei Zheng and others strongly opposed the hereditary governor system in order to centralize power for the sake of the country's political stability. Li Shimin was in his prime and the country was prosperous. There were no riots in the country, and he had no right to appear. Ministers who support both the government and the opposition do not need to use this system to check and balance national power.

The hereditary governor system will unbalance the national power and is not conducive to the current development of the country. After the governor obtains a fiefdom, he will be completely out of the control of the central government. As the saying goes, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away. Although the central government regularly accepts his worship, it cannot curb their development.

As the power of the governor grows stronger, it will seriously threaten the status of the central government. Once there is a riot, governors in other places will inevitably be affected. At that time, it will be difficult to control whether to defend the central government or take advantage of the opportunity to rebel.

Although the implementation of the enfeoffment system in the past dynasties will benefit from it, the country will eventually be backlashed by it. Because the power of the princes grows and threatens the central government, it will eventually lead to the princes fighting for hegemony and the country torn apart.

There is another more important reason why Li Shimin insists on "conferring his brothers as princes", which is the shock brought to him by the demise of the Sui Dynasty. Li Shimin witnessed with his own eyes that Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty brutalized his compatriots to seize the throne. Five brothers were either killed or imprisoned, and even his cousins None of them escaped the risk of suspicion and demotion.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty not only did not trust his brothers, he also did not trust his son. So when Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was defeated and fled, the only person who accompanied him was his young grandson, which was of no use to the construction of the country and could not let the turbulent Sui Dynasty. North Korea turned danger into peace.

In just a dozen years, the Sui Dynasty was destroyed. In order not to repeat the same mistake, Li Shimin proposed a hereditary governorship.

Everyone has their own thoughts and reasons. Li An knows that troublesome things are about to happen. With this hereditary governor system, how should Li An choose? Should he fight Li Shimin with everyone, or go with the flow? To be honest, Li An really didn't think about it for a while.

After all, Li An didn't want to touch these things, but he had to touch these things. Fortunately, at this time, Li An thought of Queen Changsun. Yes, if he told Queen Changsun everything, wouldn't it have nothing to do with him?

(End of this chapter)