The important ministers of the Manchu Dynasty couldn't help frowning, and looked at the last Merton with dissatisfaction, although the Wenchen and the military generals competed, but in essence, they all knew that Enwei and Shi were the best choice for the management of the ethnic minorities in the southwest, and the two were only competing for which side was a little more important, and the Mo family directly opposed this policy, wouldn't that be a denial of their previous policy.

"Merton, do you know what you're talking about?" Li Shimin's face sank.

Merton proudly said: "Your Majesty, Weichen knows. ”

Li Shimin suddenly became angry and said angrily: "Since this is the case, then you can talk about it!" If you can't tell me how ugly you are, I can't spare you! ”

Merton nodded solemnly, and arched his hand to the surroundings: "Your Majesty, ministers, the rebellion of the southwest wingmen has been a long time, and Your Majesty has been favoring them for many years. If it has been enveloped, I am afraid that ten or ten years later, there will still be endless rebellions. However, if it is suppressed forcefully, it will damage His Majesty's benevolence and morality, and make the bureaucrats hold together, and the bureaucrats will die and be sad, and I am afraid that they will deviate from the court. ”

Merton knew in his heart that even in the Ming and Qing dynasties a thousand years later, the ethnic minorities in the southwest were still in rebellion, which showed how thorny the southwest problem was.

Li Shimin nodded, which was exactly what he was worried about.

"Then, in your opinion, how should we deal with and solve the problem of bureaucrats?" Wei Zheng frowned.

Merton arched his hand towards Kong Yingda and said, "Actually, what Lord Sacrificial Wine said just now has cut to the point. ”

Kong Yingda couldn't help but be stunned, he didn't expect that Merton would agree with his thoughts.

Merton nodded and said: "Yes, the crime of rebellion of the wingmen lies in the Tusi, and the bureaucrats are so innocent, but I don't know that after General Niu Zhang broke through the sultry people, the three divisions of the ruling bureaucrats Tusi will be tried, and I don't know how the imperial court will govern the local sultry people." ”

Kong Yingda said without thinking: "Of course, it is to support a bureaucratic leader who is interested in the imperial court to succeed Tusi." ”

Merton nodded, "This is the root of the rebellion. ”

Li Shimin's eyes flashed, and he instantly understood what Morton meant.

"You are saying that the root cause of the repeated rebellions of the wingmen is the Tusi system." Wei Zheng said suddenly.

The hearts of the hundred officials were shocked, they had always thought about where to rebel and suppress the rebellion, but they had never changed the Tusi system of the bureaucrats.

"Yes, the wingmen and the toast are all local patriarchs, the court decrees are difficult to carry out, the bureaucrats only know the toast, do not know the court, as if they are divided from one side, not controlled by the court, and live in one place, Yelang is arrogant, sitting in the well and watching the sky, the court reprimands a little, and rebels, even if the court now selects a toast who is committed to the court, after one or two generations, I am afraid that history will repeat itself." Merton pointed the finger directly at the Tusi system.

The hundred officials couldn't help but nodded, the bureaucrats were indeed a little unable to beat and scold now, and the imperial court's control over them was extremely weak.

"What do you think?" Li Shimin's face softened slightly, and then he realized that Merton was not talking nonsense, but after careful consideration.

"Change the land and return to the stream!" Merton said word by word.

"Change the land and return to the stream!" Baiguan couldn't help chewing on these four words, and his heart couldn't help but suddenly open up.

Merton said: "Most of the local officials are local clans, arrogant and lascivious, brutal rule internally, and regard the headquarters as their own one-third of an acre, hereditary from generation to generation, without being appointed by the imperial court, naturally there is no loyalty to the imperial court. ”

The leader of the tribe served as the Tusi, and his own tribe would definitely grow rapidly, and when the tribe of the bureaucrats was strong, it would have the capital to rebel.

Li Shimin's eyes narrowed slightly, and he couldn't help but look at Merton with appreciation, this move is indeed the best way to solve the increasingly frequent rebellions of the bureaucrats, in his opinion, when the Tang Dynasty unified the world, it was too much for the southwestern departments, and all those who belonged to the Tang Dynasty were allowed to be high-ranking officials, resulting in the current tail not falling.

"Wherever there is no place under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, there is a possibility of rebellion! Naturally, under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, it should naturally be ruled by the imperial court, and this is a great unification! Merton said solemnly.

The theory of great unification comes from the Spring and Autumn Ram Biography, the king was ordered to control the world in the first month, so that all things are all enshrined in the beginning, so the great unification is also, the ministers of the court are full of poetry and books, naturally know the theory of great unification, and have been pursuing the policy of great unification, but the great unification of the imperial court is more used to rule the Han people.

It's just that Merton's unification is more radical, and he even includes the unification theory of the southwestern ministries and even the entire territory of the Tang Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, can't?" Feng Zhidai couldn't help but be anxious, and objected repeatedly, "Weichen has lived in Lingnan for generations, so he naturally knows that the southwestern wingmen are extremely united, and if they implement the reform of the land and return to the stream, I am afraid that it will provoke a collective rebellion among the southwestern wingmen." ”

Baiguan's face changed suddenly, Merton's suggestion seemed to be once and for all, if this is really the case, I am afraid that the price paid by the imperial court will be very heavy, and when the time comes, all the departments in the southwest will be opposed, and the price paid by the Tang Dynasty is really too great. After all, no one wants to lose the power in their hands.

"If the southwestern tribes dare to rebel, then they must ask whether the knives in the hands of the Tang soldiers are sharp." Cheng Biting Jin raised his eyebrows and shouted.

Many generals immediately geared up, and they were filled with righteous indignation.

Li Shimin's face also sank, and he kept weighing the gains and losses in his heart.

"The whole world is not the king's land, and the coast of the land is not the king's ministers, and the southwest tribes are in rebellion, and the imperial court should indeed strengthen its rule." Fang Xuanling took a deep breath and said.

Many officials also nodded, and within a year, the bureaucrats rebelled three times, and many courtiers were also annoyed.

"Together, the Tang Dynasty will definitely be ruined, and the minister wants to start the crime of provoking the border troubles without authorization." Kong Yingda said with a cold face, he thought that Mo Jiazi had changed his mind, but he didn't expect that Mo Jiazi was still promoting his radical theory of unification, and the radical theory of radical unification of the Mo family, which made him frightened, was still quite marketable, and many officials actually supported this theory of great unification.

Kong Yingda couldn't help but lament in his heart, the great unification is a Confucian theory, and it was actually used by the Mo family in this aspect, what kind of student did Guozi teach!

Feng Zhidai is also worried in his heart, if he is talking about the biggest toast, then he must count his Feng family, the Feng family can be said to be the strongest force in Lingnan, and the back is the tribe of Mrs. Xian of the Baiyue clan.

Li Shimin was in a dilemma, and he couldn't help but suddenly see Merton with a calm face, and said in his heart: "Merton, since you proposed to change the land and return to the stream, how should you solve the rebellion of the Tusi in the southwest. ”

Morton showed a sincere smile and said: "Back to Your Majesty's words, the situation in the southwest departments reminds Wei Chen of an experiment in the "Mozi's Secret Book". ”

"The Secret Book of Mozi!" The important ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were suddenly quiet, they had heard of this great "Mozi Secret Book" that made the Mo family rise again, and they had not expected that Mo Dun would mention it in the court again.

"Mozi once did an experiment of boiling frogs in warm water, the frog was cold, if you put a frog into a pot of warm water, the frog would not be able to stand the high temperature, jump out of the pot, and successfully escape, but if you put the frog in a pot with cold water first, and then heat it slowly, the result will be different. Instead, the frog is comfortable in the water because of the comfortable temperature at the beginning. When the frog found that he could not stand the heat, he was already too weak and was unknowingly boiled to death in hot water. ”

After Merton finished speaking, the entire court was silent for a moment, and those who could enter the court were human spirits, so they naturally knew that the frogs in Merton's mouth referred to the southwestern tribes.

Merton said proudly: "First change the Tufu, and then change the Tuzhou, the Tusi of one state and one government has too much power, and the probability of rebellion is the greatest, and the harm is particularly serious." ”

The courtiers couldn't help but nodded, and the three states that rebelled successively were all led by local Tusi,

"The second is to seize all favorable opportunities to change the land and return to the stream, for example, if some local officials have no heirs, there is no successor, or if the clan is in dispute, they will send the liuguan to take over;

"The local officials fought against each other, and after they were pacified, they sent the officials to take over."

"Some local officials committed crimes, or after the rebellion against the imperial court was quelled, they were dismissed for their crimes and replaced by liuguan."

Some local people are dissatisfied with the tyranny of Tusi, and they can apply to the imperial court to "change the land and return to the stream", and the imperial court will naturally respond to public opinion. ”

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Every time Merton said a word, the faces of the court officials became a little more smiling, especially the last one, the local people applied to the court to change the land and return to the stream, which was too operable.

"In this way, the toasts in the southwest are like frogs in warm water, and they have lost the opportunity to escape." Merton clenched his fists and said proudly.

The Manchu officials suddenly sighed in their hearts, the original thorny problem in the eyes of everyone was solved by Mo Jiazi in a few words, this time even Kong Yingda could not refute it, after all, this method can not only complete the policy of unification of the imperial court, but also avoid the Tusi rebellion to the greatest extent, even if there is, it is also an itch of scabies, and it can't set off any big waves. The only thing that made him uncomfortable this time was the Mo family's theory.

"Mo Sheng is indeed a man of great wisdom." Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief, a henchman of the Tang Dynasty easily found a solution.

"Since this is the case, then from the three prefectures of Ya, Jia, and Ling, we will start to change the land and return to the stream, and all the places that participate in the rebellion will be reassigned to the liuguan." Li Shimin said decisively.

"Your Majesty is wise!"

The ministers bowed down and said, in this way, there are another batch of vacancies in the imperial court, which is a real benefit for the imperial court.

Feng Zhidai was suddenly mourned, if the imperial court completed the reform of the southwest departments, the Feng family, which started by containing the southwest departments, would naturally lose its role, and at that time, the Feng family would no longer have the glory it has today.

Looking at Feng Zhidai's expression, Morton couldn't help but show a smile, and secretly said in his heart: "I am also dedicated to the country!" ”

At the end of the year, the Great Dynasty Meeting officially ended.