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Niu Ben thought for a moment, and looked worried: "What the emperor said is extremely true, if the king of Huainan makes a move, it will save us a lot of effort, and at the same time, it can also weaken the strength of the king of Huainan, if the Yan Kingdom, the Liang Kingdom, and the Zhao Kingdom are all destroyed, only the King of Huainan and the King of Yong will be left north of the Yangtze River, but is the emperor ready to let the vassal country continue?" After all, this civil strife in Dayu is enough to see the danger of the vassal king to the Dayu country. ”

"General Niu can see it, I can naturally see it, but King Yong and King Huainan have attached themselves to me, but I can't easily use troops against them, and now the plan can only appease them, and then cut the feudal domain after the stability of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, so that the people can avoid the suffering of war, and the problem of the feudal king can also be solved without blood, and the barbarian disaster has not been eliminated, and this king is just to put down the rebellion as soon as possible." Xiao Ming said with a deep groan.

It's not that he doesn't want to solve the vassal kings once and for all, it's just that he has to pay attention to one strategy in everything, since he can pull one to fight the other, why should he go to challenge all the vassal kings by himself.

And an important problem is that if the war continues, the Great Chongqing Kingdom will be completely beaten into a mess, and the casualties in the battle of Yunzhou City this time are all the young and strong people of the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

Among them, the number of deaths in the battle of Yunzhou is not mentioned, but the people who transported grain and grass to the Three Kings Coalition Army also died, not counting the rebellious army after the rout, looting everywhere and killing the people.

The defeat of the Three Kings Coalition was very easy, but in fact it caused a serious war problem for the Great Chongqing State.

One need only look at contemporary problems in the Middle East to understand what is happening to the people of the North.

During World War II, soldiers had the pleasure of killing civilians indiscriminately in war, and in this far uncivilized dynasty, killing people during war was a common occurrence.

The battle report of Niu Ben of the Yunzhou War this time was placed on the table, but the news collected by Wang Xuan was under the table.

According to the information provided by the secret guards, the Three Kings Alliance was very bad this time, and most of the people they recruited came from the occupied royal states and counties, and at the same time, the grain, grass and baggage of this battle were also forcibly imposed on the people of these states and counties.

During their conquest of the city, the people of these states and counties had already suffered from their slaughter, and now they were suffering even more.

If the barbarians came at this time, he really doubted that the people of these places would eventually go to the aid of the barbarians, because these vassal kings would not necessarily treat them much better than the barbarians.

Based on these, after thinking about it, he decided to win over the dependent vassal kings and stabilize the country as soon as possible, after all, the real enemies of the Great Yu Kingdom have been staring at him, and it is in his interests that the north is completely destroyed.

Although these dependent vassal kings are a hidden danger, at least they can keep one side stable.

Moreover, after removing the kings of Yan, Zhao, and Liang, the kings of Yong and Huainan could not pose a threat to the central power at all, and they could be digested slowly.

"The emperor is far-sighted, and the last general seems to be too worried." Niu Ben breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiao Ming glanced at Niu Ben, Pang Yukun, Zhan Xingchang and other officials have mentioned this issue in the past two days, which is different from the attitude of Fiji and other former ministers of Chang'an.

Xiao Ming thought about this a little and understood that after he ascended the throne and became emperor, the Chang'an officials and Pang Yukun and other feudal officials became more and more unable to pee in a pot.

One is that Chang'an officials still attach importance to their families in their bones and look down on officials from civilian backgrounds such as Pang Yukun, and secondly, these officials tend to be conservative ideologically, and they are not as open-minded as feudal officials.

And Pang Yukun and others are Xiao Ming's vested interests in eliminating the Hao family, psychologically they have an instinctive vigilance against the Hao family, and they are worried that the Hao family will gain power and their people will be liquidated.

After all, the wealthy clans in Qingzhou are also inextricably linked with other wealthy clans in the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and they have great opinions about Pang Yukun and others.

Secondly, Pang Yukun is trying to revive the Legalist trend, and these officials from Chang'an still have a strong Confucian ideology, and the two are even more needle-to-point.

From Xiao Ming's point of view, he naturally favored Pang Yukun, but the land under the jurisdiction of the feudal state continued to expand, and he had to rely on the old officials to govern the prefectures and counties for him.

He also has a headache in the face of this contradictory problem, but there is no solution at present, after all, it has only been five years since he came to Qingzhou.

In the past five years, he has been able to achieve such achievements in the Great Chongqing Kingdom, but even so, the number of officials he can train is limited, even so, there are some officials trained by the Bowen College who are different from the outside, and they still respect Confucianism in their hearts, and they are the same as conservative officials such as Fiji.

However, when this question was raised by Niu Ben, he was very unhappy in his heart, because he knew that the army could not have thoughts, otherwise it would be easy to cause chaos at that time.

No matter how much trouble the officials make, they are just talking about it, and a modern army is going to get into trouble.

So he said sharply: "General Niu, you are too lenient in this matter, the soldiers only need to obey the order, and they don't need to care about the government." ”

Niu Ben's heart trembled when he heard this, and he suddenly came to his senses, "Your Majesty, the last general will be guilty!" ”

"Don't do it again next time! I know what you're worried about, it's just that you're thinking too much, don't forget that it was my idea to slaughter the wealthy back then, and some people couldn't turn the sky upside down. Xiao Ming's words seemed to mean something.

"If there is an emperor, the general will be at ease."

Niu Ben bowed down and said, now Xiao Ming is already the emperor, and he gradually feels that Xiao Ming is transforming into an emperor.

"That's right, I'll talk about meritorious deeds in a few days." Xiao Ming said with a smile, he also counted on these generals to continue to fight for themselves, and proper pacification was necessary.

Bowing down, Niu Ben turned around and left from the study, and then the brush in Xiao Ming's hand stood up.

Looking at Niu Ben's figure when he crossed the stone bridge, Xiao Ming sighed softly, when he became the emperor, he realized that it was simple to be a faint monarch, and it was too difficult to be a bright monarch.

Because it is enough to balance a group of people under his hands, and at the same time he has to worry about the army, after all, in this era, generals do not listen to dispatches, and it is simply commonplace to support the army and respect themselves.

Even in modern times, military coups often occur in some countries, and the root cause is that the army has become the personal soldiers of certain generals.

And this situation is a very common thing in the feudal dynasty, and because of this, the emperor will have many restrictions on military generals.

Now Xiao Ming is also encountering this problem, he must not let himself want to kill a certain general, this general can easily lead the army to rebel.

After thinking about it for a while, he felt that the solution to this problem was to nationalize the army, and if so, he would have to pay close attention to the long history of the army.