The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 359 Chu Hui’s shock

Liu Tai's promise to several people to be crowned kings naturally made them complacent. They originally thought that their title had come to an end and that after the war, they would probably be able to enjoy their old age in peace. However, they did not expect that Liu Tai actually promised to be crowned kings.

Although it is not enfeoffed to Yanhan country, but to the islands around Yanhan, even so, it is to use one's own name to establish a country, to use one's own will to establish laws, and one can implement them on this island. will.

Even if his children do something outrageous in the future, there will still be a big man to wipe his ass!

Although the name is called Fengjun, or if it sounds harsher, he may be called Island Lord, but they all know very well that this is the Fengjun of the Earth Splitter.

For any high-ranking person, no one will refuse to break the earth to become the king, especially the reasonable and legal one.

Liu Tai's promise to them soon reached Chu Hui's ears. There was no way Liu Tai could say this to these guys openly, which meant that Liu Tai had no intention of hiding it.

Under such circumstances, Chu Hui decisively ran over to Liu Tai to confirm this matter.

"Your Majesty, I heard that your Majesty promised that when the Jin Dynasty is overthrown and the Yan and Han Dynasties are unified, they plan to ennoble meritorious ministers as princes, entrust the coastal islands, and inherit the family name?" Chu Hui couldn't help but ask Liu Tai.

"I do have this idea!" Liu Tai nodded in approval, "I often wonder, I, Yan Han, have treated the aristocratic family with the utmost benevolence, but the aristocratic family seeks power to usurp the throne. Why is this?
In the final analysis, people’s hearts are still full of insufficiency, and their desires are hard to satisfy!
Therefore, since the human heart is not enough, then fill it up. If the desire is hard to fill, then fill it up with desires.

If he is still not satisfied with being a high-ranking official in Yanhan, then let him establish a country with one surname and inherit the family. "

"Your Majesty, I naturally believe in the loyalty of these generals, but their children and their descendants may not!" Chu Hui said sincerely,

"The Zhou Dynasty divided the world, but in the end there was the Spring and Autumn Period, then the Warring States, and even the First Emperor.

Now that the king is carrying out the policy of enfeoffment again, isn't he afraid that the Han will make the same mistake again? "

"The system is unreliable. There will be times when any system becomes corrupt. If you want to bring order to the chaos, you can only count on another member of the Liu clan to bring order to the chaos!"

Liu Tai smiled calmly and said, "However, the biggest difference between enfeoffed islands and land is that the capacity of land is unlimited. As long as we continue to develop, we can always control more borders.

But as for the island, the size of the island is there, and it has natural boundaries. If it continues to be developed, it will naturally be curbed.

At the same time, if someone wants to counterattack the mainland in the future, he must take on the responsibility of manufacturing the ships himself. This is the most difficult.

Because as the fleet continues to be updated, the island may be able to accumulate a fleet through accumulation.

But without the corresponding shipbuilding industry and corresponding supply chain, it will naturally be suppressed by the mainland! "

Liu Tai shrugged and said, "The ocean is a natural barrier and the biggest restriction on the development of the island, so there will be no direct threat to Yanhan from enfeoffment on the road.

Of course, if there is an island to attack the remnants of the Sixth Generation, directly defeat all the Dahan fleets, seize the Dahan shipbuilding base, and occupy the raw material land for the Dahan shipbuilding, and the Dahan can't counterattack, then the Dahan really deserves to be destroyed! "

After hearing Liu Tai's words, Chu Hui understood what Liu Tai meant, and Liu Tai would definitely implement this policy.

For Liu Tai, his goal has always been to introduce marine genes to the big man.

This is a destination that Liu Tai has never forgotten from beginning to end, and it is also a goal that he hopes to achieve in his lifetime.

After all, in Liu Tai's view, even if he has completed the unification of China, after his death, Yan Han will last at most another three hundred years and then collapse. By then, Li Shimin should rise and sweep the world to complete the unification.

As for an unreasonable guy like Li Shimin, who was good at kicking martial arts temples and able to govern the country and bring peace to the country, he could still hold the world steady even if he was the Tang Dynasty and Han Dynasty.

As for the fact that after the rise of the Han Dynasty, people all over the world will think that the destiny of Liu Dynasty belongs to Liu. It may be possible in other countries, but in this land of China, just save it.

After shouting out the words "Princes, generals, ministers, it's better to have your own kind!", the spiritual power brought by it has completely ended the class worship of the powerful.

There is only one thought in everyone's mind, and that is why they can't be the powerful ones!

Under such circumstances, unless the powerful fulfill their duties and pass on morality to their families, if the upper class makes a mistake, the impact will be expanded to ten thousand points if it spreads to the lower levels.

The most typical example is the people of Goose City. Huang Silang is not considered wise, but he is not considered an idiot either, but every move he makes will magnify the people below him infinitely.

From the wretchedness of welcoming the county magistrate, to the comedy of suing Wu Zhuangyuan, and the mortal hatred that drove the six sons to death, it can be said that everyone who was exploited and oppressed by Huang Silang from top to bottom instinctively wanted to make things worse.

The quarrel was so big that Huang Silang could only confront Zhang Mazi head-on, until Huang Silang was completely overthrown.

It can be said that it seems that Zhang Mazi was the one who overthrew Huang Silang, but in fact it was the entire people of Echeng who were exploited by Huang Silang, who pushed the matter step by step to the point where Zhang Mazi and Huang Silang had to die.

And Liu Tai also knew that no matter how he reformed, as long as he only had his own unified dynasty in his sight, various problems would definitely arise in China later.

In the final analysis, it is a series of reactions caused by the inability of productivity to support enough population and problems in the distribution system.

Therefore, reducing expenditures is not feasible in the unified dynasty of China, so we can only choose to increase revenue.

Directly starting the so-called Age of Discovery is not feasible in China, because China is a farming society and has its own moral and ethical system.

There are many corners and corners that are too costly for the country to manage. At least it is impossible to build a road for one family in this era, right?

Therefore, China does not like expansion very much, or in other words, expanding land is necessary to ensure harvest for the farming people.

Otherwise, as long as the maintenance cost is too high, the Central Dynasty will like to throw away this land.

But many places that are not worth investing in for the country are completely different for a family or even some military generals with great achievements.

Not to mention, even if it is just an island with more than a dozen acres of land, as long as the place really has fresh water, can farm, and can allow their family to survive, then they will be very willing to move.

Not to mention, the islands of Hainan, Yizhou, Ryukyu, and Fuso, even with the productivity of this era, can still support a population of dozens to one million people. The heads of families who can sit a king in these places and inherit their own inheritance are satisfied.

All feudal lords who were entrusted with land would govern and develop the local area, and then become part of the Chinese civilization.

After these places were developed, and later generations of generals became feudal lords, if they wanted to get good land instead of scattered islands, they could only continue to explore the outside and look for other suitable lands. islands. Normally, places like Nanyang and now Indonesia and Singapore should be discovered first.

At that time, people will either continue to look for a suitable fiefdom to the south, and will naturally find Oceania, or go west and find India.

And the arable land in India has been revealed, and the Han Dynasty has enough ocean-going capabilities, then India will probably be included in the cultural circle of the Han Dynasty.

As for Europe further away, or wanting to discover the Americas, it may not be that easy.

The biggest reason is that there is no desire to continue to develop these fragmented islands before they are completely digested.

In addition, it is one thing for Yanhan to control the land system, but it is another thing to control so many small vassal states on the ocean.

But no matter how you put it, in Liu Tai's opinion, his system of dividing feudal lords into the ocean is the most suitable way for China to enter the ocean.

After all, China has a system of enfeoffment. Rather than doing business to let the lower class people make money, it is better to directly enfeoff the land so that the powerful can have the qualifications of fiefdom.

Then the common people at the bottom will support the military merit system because of the equalization of land and the military system. At the same time, after the military merit system comes to an end in the country, there will still be a enfeoffment system waiting for these generals who have killed a lot of people, and only those generals who are murderous enough will Only then can we open up a feudal country.

At the same time, if there is still time after he unifies the world, he will work hard to reopen the Silk Road and open up the Sasanian Dynasty. Then every twenty or thirty years, he will have the pricing power of the Silk Road with the Sassanid Dynasty. Have a fight.

It doesn't matter whether you win or lose. What's important is that if you win, you can kick the powerful officials out of the center and quickly go to enfeoffment. If you lose, you'll kick the powerful officials to death, eat the power and wealth of the powerful officials, and try your best to survive again.

Anyway, when the Han people, a strange country, have powerful opponents, the vitality of the country established by Chinese culture is particularly strong.

But if you dominate the world in the country's perception, then your life will basically be counting down.

For Liu Tai, what he wants has never been Yanhan Qianqiu. What he wants is just to make the people of Yanhan pay attention to the ocean.

Therefore, the foundation of our country is due to the Bohai Bay, and the future of our country depends on its maritime policy.

If under such circumstances, Chinese civilization still closes itself off in the future and has to experience humiliation and beatings, then Liu Tai can only say that he has tried his best.

This world is going to end, so be it. Anyway, I can't think of any other way.

Of course, compared to Liu Tai's calmness, Chu Hui was a little shocked.

Because Chu Hui did not expect that after experiencing the successive suppressions of the two Han dynasties of Gaozu and Guangwu Yanhan, the enfeoffment system was finally thrown into the garbage heap of history. Unexpectedly, Liu Tai actually took out the enfeoffment system again. !
When Chu Hui walked out of the hall at this time, his eyes couldn't help but shed tears, and he couldn't help but think in his heart,
"My ancestor, you told me earlier that you wanted to create a feudal system!

If this news had been spread earlier, how could the world's aristocratic families not be able to win the favor of Liang Jingcong, and how could they not be able to eat pots of pulp.

The cultivated land in your hands is nothing, and your own knowledge is nothing. How important is it that you have to overcome all obstacles and establish a family feudal kingdom like a blue thread! "

Liu Tai hates aristocratic families. Perhaps as long as modern people come to this era, they hate aristocratic families.

Unless he comes from an aristocratic family, and the starting point of his origin is the end point that all living beings can't reach in their lifetime, otherwise after reaching the end of Jin Dynasty, anyone who stands from the position of an aristocratic family will be laughed at. After all, China has never produced such a shameful unified dynasty.

Even though the Qing Dynasty signed almost all kinds of treaties with foreigners, it at least had the idea of ​​​​reforming to seek strength.

But the Jin Dynasty gives people the feeling of diving directly into the abyss from top to bottom. All those in power use the country as a tool, and no one has ever really looked at the world from the standpoint of the country. They all only care about their own interests. The family seeks power.

This is completely different from the pattern of the Three Kingdoms period, where aristocratic families sought to serve the world and seek to serve Wei and Shu.

But what Liu Tai doesn't know is that there are two types of aristocratic families, one is the aristocratic family that has been inherited from the Spring and Autumn Period and has truly experienced the enfeoffment to the present, and the other is the aristocratic family that was canonized in the Han Dynasty and slowly transformed. Family.

For the aristocratic families that were inherited from the Spring and Autumn Period, they did not want to see their status degraded little by little, and eventually follow the subsequent aristocratic families to compete for power, so some of them developed the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System.

The purpose is for the aristocratic family to belong to the aristocratic family, the poor family to belong to the poor family, and the common people to belong to the common people to complete the isolation of classes.

Just like this, under the unified dynasty and the county system was implemented, it was impossible for aristocratic families to become princes.

As an alternative to the enfeoffment system, the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System was recognized by the aristocratic family and even pursued by the aristocratic family.

Because they were originally nobles, they were nobles inherited from the Zhou Dynasty, and they wanted to keep their nobility.

The Chu surname of Chu Hui can be traced back to the Song Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period. The son of Duke Gong of the Song Dynasty at that time was named Duan, with the courtesy name Zishi. He was called Master Chu, and his descendants took the surname Chu as Master, which was later simplified to the surname Chu.

Therefore, there is this part of the record in the Chu Hui family, which records the fiefdom and country belonging to the Chu family.

But Chu Hui didn't really understand Liu Tai's thoughts until today, when it was time to unify the Jin court's strategy.

Liu Tai resisted the aristocratic family, but Liu Tai did not resist the enfeoffment. He even wanted to promote the enfeoffment and promised to enfeoff!

This is so important to a family that has been passed down for thousands of years, and its impact far exceeds Liu Tai's expectation.

Because Liu Tai believes that this is just an open source method to deal with the situation when the power of a general reaches a certain level.

After all, in Liu Tai's view, the generals who have already completed the military merit system still have a place to go, so as to avoid causing the court's distrust of military generals in the future, or even causing mutiny or other accidents.

But for the aristocratic family, Liu Tai did not understand the importance of enfeoffment to the aristocratic family, because Liu Tai was not from aristocratic family, and even opposed it.

But Chu Hui understood that for the aristocratic family, regardless of Liu Tai's resistance to the aristocratic family, he did not trust the aristocratic family, and believed that the aristocratic family was the culprit of the destruction of Yanhan. He even supported various classes and groups that opposed the aristocratic family in terms of policies.

But as long as Liu Tai opens the enfeoffment system, it becomes possible for aristocratic families to regain the glory of their ancestors. This is enough to make all aristocratic families crazy. Isn't it because he cheated the Han Dynasty in the Guangwu era, so he is hated by Liu Tai.

If Liu Tai wants to target himself, then he should target himself. As long as he is given a title, Liu Tai will be a wise king of this era, more like a wise king like the sun than Yao, Shun, and Yu.

"This news needs to be spread! This news must be spread!" Chu Hui took a deep breath, "This is enough to make the Jinting family rebel!"

(End of this chapter)