Brothers turned against each other, flesh and blood killed each other, and a brutal battle broke out between blood relatives.

This is something that has always been unavoidable in the succession of emperors.

Thinking of such a terrible scene, Cao Lan shook her head again and again.

"I don't want to."

"I don't want to."

Guo Peng sighed and said: "Therefore, you and I should focus on Ah Jin, the more stable his position is, the more secure he is, and the safer the children will be after he succeeds to the throne, I keep telling him that he is my only choice, which is to make him feel at ease."

His brother is also growing up, and he will gradually have different emotions, which is human nature, so neither you nor I can have an additional preference for any child, which is the safest for our children. ”

Guo Peng held one of Cao Lan's hands and slowly told the plan in his heart.

Cao Lan understood what Guo Peng was thinking, and for a while, her heart was mixed.

"Then the other children can only be confined in Luoyang City for the rest of their lives, and end up depressed? Can you never do anything? ”

Cao Lan bit her lip and looked at Guo Peng's side face: "That must be very uncomfortable, right?" They are all lively and lovely children......"

"No matter how uncomfortable it is, it's better than the end of fratricide, and no matter how difficult it is, it's better than being killed by your brother, isn't it?"

Guo Peng sighed helplessly and said, "Heavenly family, isn't that the case? I want power and freedom, how can there be such a good thing in the world? You and I are still in control.

But what happens to you and me, and how can you and I decide? Alan, we are the heavenly family, I am the emperor, you are the queen, our family is no longer the family of the past.

Our family can't tolerate so many children's private affairs, you and I, if you want to let the children except Ah Jin spend their lives safely, the daughter is fine, but you must not favor any son. ”

Cao Lan stopped talking.

Both of them were silent for a while before Guo Peng spoke again.

"Actually, I also thought about it, in addition to this way of dealing with it, is there any other way, can I find a way that is good for Ah Jin, and for other children, I thought about it, but I have some ideas, although it is difficult, but I think it is not impossible."

As soon as Guo Peng said this, Cao Lan suddenly became interested.

"What thoughts?"

"Similar to the way the Zhou royal family divided the feudal clans and heroes to all parts of the Central Plains in North China to be the monarchs, the children were divided and made their own feudal monarchs, with Wei as the suzerain, and Wei Tianzi as the suzerain."

"What does that mean?"

Cao Lan didn't understand, and hurriedly asked: "Didn't Peng Lang say that he wouldn't seal the country for the children?" Isn't the closure of the country the source of the trouble? Wouldn't it be dangerous to do so? ”

"Of course it's impossible within the Wei Kingdom, I won't seal the country for the children within the Wei Kingdom, but it may not be impossible outside the Wei Kingdom."

Guo Peng took a deep breath, squinted his eyes and said: "After the success of King Wu's war, he divided the clans and heroes to various places to be the monarch, and now it seems that it has indeed caused hundreds of years of division and chaos.

But at that time, at least before the decline of the Zhou royal family, it was a move to expand the territory, Alan, the traffic at that time was not as good as now, and the place controlled by the Zhou royal family at that time was only the area of Luoyang, Guanzhong.

Many other places, including the Central Plains and Hebei, are wild places, there are no roads, no exploration, no exploration, no knowledge of what the situation is, in the traffic situation at that time, the Zhou royal whip is beyond the reach.

Even if King Wu has the heart, he can't control too much territory at all, the Zhou royal family can't directly rule those places, the government decree and the army can't reach them, and there are still natives in those places, and there will definitely be wars.

If the Zhou royal family could bear it and fight hundreds of miles away, even at the moment, I would feel struggling, and I had to build a large number of tuntians, which was almost unimaginable a thousand years ago, so King Wu and the heroes chose to divide the seal.

Divide the clan and the heroes to manage the places that the Zhou royal family cannot occupy, these monarchs will inevitably actively open up the territory for their own interests, they use their places as supply bases, attack the nearest cities, develop nearby, and occupy while developing.

While they expanded their territory and expanded their own strength, it was equivalent to expanding the territory of the Zhou royal family to the places they went, and those lands that did not belong to the Zhou royal family also became the royal land of the Zhou royal family in name and de jure terms. ”

"But after that, isn't the Zhou royal family simply unable to command the kingdoms? It is not a good thing for countries to expand their territory with each other, to have disputes, and to be at war for hundreds of years. ”

Cao Lan was influenced by Guo Peng and had read a lot of books, so her face was full of doubts.

Guo Peng shook his head.

"As far as we look at it now, of course, this is the case, because we can completely control the Central Plains and Hebei, because the transportation has been greatly developed, and the state decree and army can rush to the local place in time, so I can control the entire Wei State in Luoyang.

But Alain, we can't compare the situation more than a thousand years ago, we can do it now, it is due to the accumulation of more than 1,000 years, the Zhou royal family did not have the development and accumulation of the ancestors for more than 1,000 years, they really can't do it. ”

Guo Peng said this, and Cao Lan was even more interested.

"What can't I do?"

"Because the Zhou royal family has no conditions, it needs transportation, manpower and material resources to expand its territory, and these Zhou royal families don't have it, it can't control such a large territory, and the land he can directly control is very limited, it can only divide the land and seal it out, there is no other way to go.

Even the small states it divided could not annex each other, but could only develop, and when those vassal states were divided, they seemed to be large territories, but they were not at all as formed counties and villages as they are now.

At that time, the local residents were not even Huaxia people, scattered all over the country, Ru Mao drank blood, did not know how to educate, the Zhou royal family was divided into princes, but how to manage and govern, it depends on themselves, the Zhou royal family will not provide them with much help.

At first, they controlled only a small area around the capital, more than a city-state, slowly reclaiming wasteland, slowly building settlements, and with the passage of time, transportation improved, population increased, and technology increased, and the situation changed.

Decades and more than 100 years later, the speed of government decrees and army marches became faster, and those vassal states slowly gained a foothold, indoctrinating and assimilating the locals into Huaxia people, increasing population, increasing productivity, repairing roads, and continuing to expand their direct jurisdiction.

In this way, from one city-state to several cities, from hundreds of thousands of people to hundreds of thousands, the nominal land really became the royal land, and the overlord state of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period gradually took shape.

During that period, how many wars, how many bloody conflicts, how many foreign races were exterminated, conquered, assimilated, how many Chinese people died in the process of pioneering, how those cities were built, how roads were repaired, how canals and water conservancy were built, all in those hundreds of years. ”

Guo Peng explained, and Cao Lan understood what the sub-seal was and what it was all about.

"In that case, what happened to the fact that the Zhou royal family could not control the vassal states later? If the partition is so effective, how can it happen later? ”

Cao Lan continued to look at Guo Peng.

Guo Peng sighed.

"How can there be a perfect system in the world? Only the most suitable for the present, but the world is constantly changing, everything is changing, if you can't keep pace with the times, you are destined to be abandoned by the times, and the Zhou royal family is so abandoned.

The feudal system was very good at the beginning, helping Huaxia to expand from Guanzhong to the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and also established territories in Shuzhong, Hebei, and Jiangnan.

I think that at the latest, when King Li Xuan Wang, the Zhou royal family should have begun to cut the feudal domain, at that time it had been nearly 200 years since the partition, and the vassal states already had a considerable scale in terms of population, finance, and military strength.

Moreover, the traffic in the world has also changed dramatically, and all those who have insight in the Zhou royal family should realize that it is only a matter of time before the vassal states get out of control, but the Zhou royal family does not.

King Xuan wasted a great opportunity in vain, so that King You died at the hands of Shen and the Rong people, the princes of the beacon fire drama are lies, a king of Zhou who was praised by the vassal states, can he balance the vassal states?

King Ping no longer has a ruling foundation, so this is something that King Wu did not expect back then, and hundreds of years have passed by then, is it King Wu's fault? ”

Cao Lan nodded silently.

"Of course it's not the Martial King's fault."

"Alain, who could have predicted what would happen hundreds of years later? Can King Wu? Can Jiang Shang? They couldn't, they were the most powerful elites at that time, they could only do the best choice at that time, the most beneficial and most suitable choice at that time, they did nothing wrong.

Descendants did not have the vision to keep pace with the times, did not have the courage and wisdom to break the law of their ancestors, and failed to change the world and make the system change to revitalize the country, which is the incompetence of the descendants, not the fault of the ancestors. ”

Cao Lan looked at Guo Peng.

"So, for us now, there is also the best option?"

Guo Peng nodded.

"In my spare time in the past few years, I have carefully studied the counties and the feudals, and read through the history of more than 1,000 years, and then I realized that the counties are conducive to rule, and the sub-feudals are conducive to development, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Once the world is unified, the power of local officials will be greatly checked and balanced under the county system, and they will not be able to grasp all the power, everything will be restricted, and they will not be able to continue to develop.

The sub-feudal system is different, the military, political and financial power is in the hands of the feudal monarch, he does not need the permission of the central government to take the initiative to send troops, will save a lot of time, starting from the local area to open up outward, he is full of pioneering and independent, this aspect of the advantage is particularly great.

But in the same way, the problem of feudalization is that the local power is too heavy, and it is too easy to compete for power with the central government, which will lead to contradictions between the local government and the central government. ”

Feeling that what Guo Peng said was very reasonable, Cao Lan nodded.

"That's why there is the hegemony of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States?"

"Yes, it is because of the division that there is the combination of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States and the struggle for hegemony."

Guo Peng said: "Before, compared to the Han Emperor, I was actually a feudal prince, the central government could not contain me, could not order me, I was thinking about unification, but after the founding of the country, it was different, for the stability of the country, the county system is necessary."

Without the power of the feudal monarch, the local officials can only stick to the rules, protect the territory and the people, and cannot open up to the outside world, so the counties themselves are designed for rule rather than for development, for the sake of domination, not for progress, and the feudal system is different, for the sake of pioneering. ”

Cao Lan felt that she understood.

"I see...... But in that case, where should a feudal state be established? If in Gangnam...... Or Liaodong? ”

"No, we must set up a feudal state in a place where we can't control it."

Guo Peng shook his head and said: "Our Wei country is very big, very strong, with a large population, convenient transportation, and the national decree can be conveyed from Luoyang to any corner, despite this, with our current situation, there is a limit to the area of land that can be controlled."

I think that if we can set up counties in Pingzhou to the east and control Jiaozhou in the south, then for us, at least in a hundred years, we will be able to set up counties in both the east and south directions, and we will not be able to continue to expand externally and set up effective rule of counties.

It takes time for the decree and the army to arrive, and once this time exceeds a certain limit, the decree loses its effect, and the army will not be able to quell the rebellion and disaster in time, and then our rule in the local area will collapse, and the gains will outweigh the losses. ”

"Is that so?"

Cao Lan didn't understand government affairs, and looked at Guo Peng with blinking.

Guo Peng nodded slowly.

"Yes, there is a limit to the use of counties to rule, and it cannot be expanded indefinitely, I have sent someone to calculate and deduce, this limit is about three months, and the farthest place that the army and government decree from Luoyang can reach in three months is this limit.

Beyond this limit, no matter how strong I am and how many troops I have, I will not be able to rule, unless there is a leap in transportation, so I am thinking, I want to find this limit, and then, send our children outside the limit, give them a feudal country in that place, let them open up to the outside world and make progress on their own.

In this way, Ah Jin, who was the emperor in Wei, would not be threatened by the children who were divided into feudal countries, and the progress of the children who were separated from the feudal state would not be restrained by the domestic clamp of Wei State, and the two sides could not substantially interfere with each other, perhaps, this was the only way. ”

"So far away?"

Cao Lan seemed a little reluctant: "Aren't the children never going home?" ”

"It has to be that farther, or even a little further, for the sake of future generations, and it is better for them not to have conflicts of interest with each other, so that they can develop in the long run."

Guo Peng said slowly: "If Liu Bang had the opportunity to have the strength back then, he would have set his sights on the outside and divided the kings of the Han family into the grassland, the Western Regions, the south of Jiaozhou, and Liaodong, maybe now, the Han family will be a different situation."

If the children who are divided can open up the situation and occupy the local area, they can be regarded as vassal states of Wei, and it is our Wei people who go out, and they also represent Wei, and what they inherit is the Chinese legal system, and what they bring over is also our education, isn't this another sense of expanding the territory? ”

Cao Lan suddenly felt that what Guo Peng said was very reasonable.

"Another ...... to Expand Your Territory"

"Yes, another kind of territorial expansion, the Zhou royal family may have also thought like this back then, the territory that the Zhou royal family could control, that is, the area around Guanzhong and the Yellow River Valley, other places could not be controlled at all.

It is precisely because of the division of the feudal countries that Hebei, the Central Plains, and part of Jiangnan were controlled, and those princes were all Chinese, and the officials and soldiers brought with them were also Chinese.

After taking root and developing, the different countries established are actually Huaxia, turning the land that did not belong to China into the land of China, which has been 800 years and 800 years of separation, laying the foundation for today.

And I will do the same, divide the children beyond the limits of the land I can control, give them feudal statehood there, give them some officials and armies, let them take away some people who are willing to follow, let them develop, to develop, to build new nations. ”

Guo Peng took a deep breath: "My child, you shouldn't be mediocre. ”