If the Han family, the Zhong family and the Hu family collude to cause rebellion, especially when a war breaks out between the Yuan Kingdom and the Chu Kingdom, Zhiyao will be in great trouble.
If a single family is in trouble, Zhiyao is confident that it can be put down in a very short time, and it will not have a big impact on the war that will break out with the Chu State.
Zhiyao knew the appeal of enfeoffment to those nobles.
If there is a foundation for enfeoffment, at least the possibility of the Fox family participating in the war will be reduced to a minimum. It will be difficult for the remaining small and medium-sized nobles to be attracted by the rebel forces. They would rather stand on the side of the Zhi family to quell the chaos and gain credit in exchange for enfeoffment qualifications.
The only family that was not so attractive to enfeoffment was the Han family, which had a large family and business. After most of the nobles were attracted by enfeoffment, they knew exactly what would happen if they rebelled.
As for the Zhong family? They were composed of the eight feudal lords of the original Jin Kingdom. After the establishment of the original kingdom, there was a tendency to separate the families. Until Zhiyao readjusted the noble fiefdoms, the families were indeed separated.
After the separation, the Zhong family shrank in size, but Zhong Wu still enjoyed the benefits of being Zhi Yao's comrade-in-arms and still enjoyed a high position in the original country.
Zhiyao took out the contents of the oath and gave the nobles time to think, pretending to be sure of victory.
Currently, in the original country, only barons and above are considered nobility, while the rank of doctor is reduced to the level of quasi-noble.
Due to the reform of the original country's military system, new distinctions have emerged among military personnel. The Huben Army and the Habayashi Army, which are classified as national defense forces, are professional soldiers, and the rest are uniformly classified as reserve forces.
Originally, "scholars" and "disciples" should have opinions. In view of the fact that despite the reform of the military system, service can still offset taxes, and people with killing skills are still more likely to be rewarded for meritorious service. The rewards and punishments of the original country remain clear, so they can
Calm your mind again.
Can service be offset against taxes? Knowing why Zhiyao has enough soldiers, she would still be so cautious every time she recruits soldiers.
Zhiyao left the scene and returned to the harem.
The ministers attending the meeting dispersed.
It is bound to be lively next time, not that lively, just nobles visiting each other will become very frequent.
Zhi Yao, who had just returned to the harem, had just changed her clothes when Cheng Shuo and other members of the Zhi clan came to see her.
"Your Majesty, does the enfeoffment include us?" Cheng Shuo asked on behalf of the clan.
Zhiyao showed a dumbfounded expression and replied: "Of course. The whole clan is the one who has benefited the most, so why are you asking this question?"
Cheng Shuo turned around and looked at the others reproachfully.
However, these people were not weak at all and even seemed confident.
When Ji Zhou was enfeoffed, a large number of tribesmen were enfeoffed, and the heroes became somewhat incidental.
Zhiying asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, is Xiaozong also entrusted outside the territory?"
Zhiyao probably understood what was going on.
When Ji Zhou carried out the enfeoffment, most of the tribesmen were enfeoffed in positions that he knew were favorable and close to Wang Ji, while those with other surnames were assigned far away.
Those princes with different surnames were also the first to be wiped out in large numbers by the foreign races, giving more princes with the Ji surname time to develop.
Therefore, in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, there were still many princes, but why are there only a very few princes with different surnames left? Isn't it obvious?
Zhiyao asked slowly: "You don't want to?"
What are they thinking? Do they want Zhiyao to follow Ji Zhou's example and allocate all the good places to the tribesmen, while only keeping the Wangji area in the center?
Faced with Zhiyao's question, no one answered.
Zhiyao asked the others to retreat and left Cheng Shuo alone, and then said: "I am not a mean and ungrateful king. For the sake of future generations, I must not imitate my ancestors. If the clan members are unwilling to go to foreign lands, I can enfeoff them in Chu, Wu, Yue.”
Cheng Shuo was silent for a while and then said: "The enfeoffment is a pioneering move. Your Majesty, you don't have to worry about it."
Zhiyao didn't believe this.
If Cheng Shuo himself had no idea, how could he bring others to see him?
Therefore, Cheng Shuo's words are just a step down which both parties can climb.
However, Zhiyao really needs to consider the thoughts of her clan members and cannot ignore family ties.
The Zhi clan itself is Zhi Yao's basic base, so special treatment is a matter of course, and outsiders cannot gossip too much.
It was Zhiyao's original plan to entrust the clansmen to Chu, Wu or Yue. It would be difficult for people from the three areas to return. It would be necessary for clan members from the Zhi clan to go and take charge. If they were handed over to outsiders, there would be a great possibility that both parties would be harmed. If we join forces, there will be some commotion in the future.
As for creating new feudal states with the original states like in the Western Han Dynasty? Zhiyao had no such idea at all.
If we really want to learn from the Western Han Dynasty, the central government will definitely face the same dilemma as Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty. The original country does not have Hangu Pass as a solid barrier, and the capital will be in a central position and it will suddenly be out of control.
The enfeoffment of Ji Zhou was a way of opening up, and it was also a kind of surveillance of the original princes on the spot, so that if the princes with different surnames showed slight signs of rebellion, the princes surnamed Ji could unite to attack and destroy them.
Do you know why Song, Chen, and Qi were gathered together in the first place? It was just to facilitate surveillance.
In order to monitor the "Three Kes", the Zhou royal family even reserved a lot of land under the central jurisdiction, and continued to indulge the Zheng Kingdom to annex each other.
Zheng Guo played a very unreasonable trick on the Emperor of Zhou, which opened a new chapter in history of constant disputes between princes.
While Zhiyao was chatting with Cheng Shuo, someone came to report that Han Geng and Hu You wanted to see them.
Han Geng and Hu You didn't make an appointment to meet each other. Hu You came before Han Geng and the two of them bumped into each other.
When Han Geng first saw Hu You, he thought about asking to see Zhiyao again after a while. Unexpectedly, Hu You said hello, so he had no choice but to ask to see Zhi Yao together.
Not long after, Han Geng and Hu You came over. They saw Cheng Shuo also present and glanced at each other subconsciously.
"I've met the king!"
"Two of you, sit down. I don't know why you came to see me."
Han Geng motioned to Hu You to speak first.
Hu You didn't show any pretense, and after saluting again, he asked: "Your Majesty, I wonder if Bai Zhai can be considered a foreign land?"
Bai Zhai is Bai Di, and their location was probably Shangjun during the Qin Empire.
As soon as everyone heard this, they understood that the Hu family was interested in Bai Zhai's territory, and thought that after Zhiyao started to divide the kingdom, he would set up the feudal state on Bai Zhai's side.
Speaking of which, the Hu family and Bai Zhai have been in love with each other for nearly a hundred years, and the grievances and resentments between the two parties are simply indescribable.
The Hu family, who once lived in Bai Zhai, knew that area very well. Based on their understanding and keeping in contact with some tribes in Bai Zhai, they probably thought that the feudal state could easily establish a foothold there?
If Zhiyao's capital is on the Qin side, it is impossible to establish a feudal state with a different surname in Shangjun, otherwise it will create trouble for himself.
Because the original capital was not in Qin, Zhiyao was indifferent to the appearance of a feudal state in Shangjun.
"Of course it's a foreign land." Zhiyao gave a clear answer.
Hu You immediately showed an expression of great joy and said without hiding it: "If the Hu family can be entrusted, please entrust it there."
Do you think that the Shangjun side is all mountainous? Although there are indeed many mountains there, the northeast and the due north near Yinshan Mountain are plains with quite abundant water and grass.
Of course, it is impossible for Zhiyao to seal all the areas currently occupied by Bai Zhai to the Hu family. I believe the Hu family knows this too?
Therefore, Zhiyao simply asked someone to bring over the mountain and river map, pointed at the spread out mountain and river map and asked: "Where does the Fox family want to get?"
This mountain and river map is a map of the western part of the original country, including Qindi, Wushi, Yiqu, Baizhai and Linhu.
Since Mr. Hu couldn't understand the scale of the map, but the mountains and plains were drawn on the mountain map, he traced a circle around a part of the mountains and a large area of plains, and said, "If there is a choice, Mr. Hu will choose this place."
Zhiyao can understand map proportions.
The so-called map scale means that there is a boxy line box about 100 kilometers away on the mountain and river map.
Hu You just drew a circle with his hand, which is about 400 miles long and 350 miles wide.
Zhiyao asked: "Do you know how many miles the chosen circumference is?"
Huyou doesn’t know.
Of course Zhiyao guessed that Hu You didn't know, and said with an unpredictable face: "Based on the original mile, it is eight hundred miles long and seven hundred miles wide."
This is almost the entire territory of the Song Dynasty before!
With one stroke of his hand, Hu You drew a fiefdom that was larger than the Shangjun established by the Qin Empire, and almost included most of the Hetao area. It seemed a bit like he was trying to eat shit.
Most of Ji Zhou's initial enfeoffments were states with a radius of fifty miles, and a very few were states with a radius of a hundred miles.
Although Bai Zhai currently has almost no construction there, such a large area is very rich in resources. Just grazing is enough to feed 3.5 million people. Hu You's ambition is really too great!
When he heard that the area was eight hundred miles long and seven hundred miles wide, Hu You was stunned for a moment. Perhaps he knew that the request was too exaggerated. He stared at the map of mountains and rivers again, looking like he was thinking about how to re-select a fiefdom as a fiefdom.
Zhiyao didn't want to talk to Hu You for the time being, and asked Han Geng, "Did the Han family also come to choose the location of the feudal kingdom?"
When Han Geng asked to see Zhi Yao, he was not here to choose matters to establish a feudal kingdom. It was just that Hu You was so unreasonable that Han Geng didn't know how to say what he originally wanted to say.
Han Geng was stunned for a moment before he said, "I don't know where I will be elected."
Zhiyao knew that this was a euphemism. In fact, Han Geng didn't want to go to a foreign land from the bottom of his heart. He really wanted to give up his original fiefdom and wanted to go to Chu land.
In fact, if it is possible to go to Qin, the Han family would prefer to go to Qin. He thinks that "Ji", the birthplace of the Qin people, is quite good.
However, Zhiyao had already made it clear before that Zhu Xia had no intention of establishing a feudal state within its own territory.
How could any clan member of the Zhi clan come to ask? It was all because although the clan established by the Zhi clan was also a feudal state, it was just a kind of food town.
The reason why there is such a difference is that unless they break away from the Zhi clan, otherwise even though Zhi Yao is the king of the original country, he is also the head of the Zhi clan, and the property of anyone in the clan is within the scope of Zhi Yao's control.
Inside.
This situation is not permanent. Waiting for Zhikai to succeed, Zhiyao may still be like this. In one or two generations, the Zhi clan living in various places will be like the princes entrusted by Ji Zhou, doing everything to protect their own interests.
For the Lord, it is impossible to obey and carry out the orders of the patriarch in everything.
The situation is the same for feudal states with different surnames, but because the central government keeps a closer eye on them than the people of the Zhi clan, their obedience to the central government will take longer.
Zhiyao pretended not to understand Han Geng's rejection and said with a smile: "The Han family will definitely be granted the title. I will tell you when Geng will be chosen."
Han Geng gave a very forced smile.
Zhiyao went on to say: "If the Han family cannot enjoy the title of a feudal state, it is fine. If they are content in the country, the original country will never be destroyed, and the Han family will have no shortage of officials, titles, and salaries for generations to come."
In other dynasties, people who heard the king's guarantee would have been extremely excited.
After all, it was a king guaranteeing that a certain family would stay with the country.
However, the Han family originally had many, more than a million subjects, a large territory, and could form a private army of 70,000 to 80,000 people.
It was my turn to live in the country ruled by Zhiyao. Not to mention losing the fiefdoms one after another, I was only left with the economic control rights of the fiefdoms and a legal private army of 15,000. Although the treatment was beyond the standards compared with other dynasties,
For the Han family, they have lost too much.
In the end, Han Geng still didn't say what he wanted to say when he asked to see him, so he found a reasonable excuse and said goodbye.
Hu You, who was originally staring at the map of mountains and rivers, waited for Han Geng to leave and suddenly said: "The Han family has no intention of rebellion."
Zhiyao thought she heard wrongly, so she said "oh" first and then said, "Why do you say that?"
Hu You told the truth, "Your Majesty is at the height of the sun, and Great Plains is also at its peak. Even if we are going to fight with the Chu State, our country will still have sufficient military resources. The Han family knows that rebellion will lead to the death of the clan, so how can they dare to rebel?"
In other words, even if Zhiyao has mobilized nearly 500,000 people, there are still more troops that can be mobilized in the country. Han Geng is the ruler of the original country. It is impossible that he does not know the confidence of the original country. Unless he wants to feel good, he brings
He must die together with his family members, otherwise no matter how unhappy or resentful his heart is, his reason will still persuade him to continue to endure it.
In the past, the Han family could mobilize 70,000 to 80,000 troops. The Zhi family should have mobilized about 150,000 troops, but it was only the time of the old Huangli.
Now the Han family may be able to mobilize more than 100,000 troops, but Zhiyao can mobilize more than a million troops. The gap between the strength of the two sides is getting bigger and bigger!
Facing Zhi Yao, who had an unpredictable expression, Hu You said with a smile: "Your Majesty is already kind. If the Han family does not know his interests, he will destroy himself. If the Han family knows his interests, he will choose a place to be a country and serve him respectfully.
If the central government dares not to do so, Wu Geng will be the example."
Wu Geng was the heir of Emperor Xin. After the fall of the Yin and Shang dynasties, he received the enfeoffment from Ji Zhou. However, later Ji Zhou was afraid that Wu Geng might take revenge and set up a trap to induce Wu Geng to restore the country, and then summoned the enfeoffed princes to launch the "Three Supervisors Rebellion"
"Wu Geng's power was destroyed.
Seriously speaking, there may be one or other factors. Zhiyao did not use force to destroy the Han family, the Hu family, and the Zhong family, which were originally equal status families. It really seemed benevolent.
This relationship is different from those who fought side by side. They were forced to become Zhiyao's subordinates, and they were unwilling to do so at one time. This alone gave Zhiyao reason to get rid of them.
Now, Zhiyao is fully capable of eradicating them by force. If he really does it, he can find a suitable reason at any time, but he still gives them the treatment of going out to establish a feudal country. Telling the truth is a kind of kindness.
"Mercy?" Zhiyao murmured and turned away from looking at Hu You.
