Iron Dynasty

A faint scent of sandalwood permeated the study.

Niu Ben thought for a moment, and looked worried: "What the emperor said is extremely true. If King Huainan takes a shot, it will save us a lot of energy, and at the same time, it can also weaken King Huainan's strength. If it is Yan, Liang, and Zhao all After extinction, there are only King Huainan and King Yong to the north of the Yangtze River, but is the emperor ready to let the vassal state continue? After all, the great Yu civil turmoil is enough to see the prince's harm to the great Yu kingdom. "

"General Niu can see, I can see it naturally, but King Yong and King Huainan are attached to me, but I can't easily use soldiers against them. The only plan now is to appease them and wait until the great Yu country is stabilized. The policy of cutting the feudal clan can save the people from the suffering of the war and solve the problem of the feudal lord without blood. Moreover, the barbarians are not eliminated, and the king just put down the rebellion as soon as possible." Xiao Ming said in a deep voice.

It's not that he doesn't want to solve the feudal lords once and for all, but he has to pay attention to one strategy in everything. Since he can pull one against the other, why bother to challenge all the feudal lords by himself.

And an important issue is that if the war continues, Great Yu will be completely broken into a mess. This time the battle of Yunzhou City will be killed and injured by the young people of Great Yu.

Among them, the number of deaths in the Battle of Yunzhou is not mentioned. It is just that the people who transported grain and grass to the Three Kings Alliance also died. This is not to say that the rebellion army looted and killed the people after the defeat.

It is easy to say that the Allied Forces of the Three Kings are defeated, but in fact it has caused serious war problems for the Great Yu.

With regard to this problem, one only needs to look at the contemporary Middle East problem to understand what is happening to the people in the north.

During the Second World War, there was the pleasure of soldiers killing civilians indiscriminately. In this far less civilized dynasty, killings during the war were simply commonplace.

The report of the battle of Yunzhou, Niu Ben, is on the table, but the news collected by Wang Xuan is under the table.

According to the information provided by the Secret Guard, the three kings' coalition was very badly damaged. Most of the civilians they recruited came from the occupied royal states and counties. At the same time, the food and equipment of the battle was also imposed on the people in these counties.

During their occupation of the city, the people in these counties had already suffered their slaughter, but now they are suffering even harder.

If the barbarians came here at this time, he really doubted that the people in these places would eventually help the barbarians, because these vassals might not treat them any better than the barbarians.

Based on this, after thinking about it, he decided to win over the dependent vassal and stabilize the country as soon as possible. After all, the real enemy of the Great Yu Kingdom has been staring at him, and it is in his interest to completely destroy the north.

Although these dependent vassals are hidden dangers, at least they can keep one side stable.

And after excluding King Yan, King Zhao, and King Liang, King Yong and King Huainan could not pose a threat to the central government at all, so you can digest them slowly.

"The emperor is far-sighted, and the final admiral seems to be overly concerned." Niu Ben breathed lightly.

Xiao Ming glanced at Niu Ben. In the past two days, officials such as Pang Yukun, Zhan Xingchang and others have mentioned this issue. This is different from the attitude of Fiji and other Chang'an officials.

After thinking about this, Xiao Ming understood that after he became the emperor, the Chang'an officials and Pang Yukun and other officials of the state were not urinating in a pot.

One is that Chang'an officials still value family status in their bones, and look down on officials from civilian origins such as Pang Yukun. Secondly, these officials tend to be conservative in their thinking, and they are not open-minded officials.

And Pang Yukun and others are the vested interests of Xiao Ming's elimination of the wealthy family. From a psychological point of view, they have an instinctive vigilance towards the wealthy family, worrying in their hearts that the wealthy family will gain power and they will be liquidated.

After all, the tycoons of Qingzhou and other tycoons of Dayu are inextricably linked, and they have great opinions on Pang Yukun and others.

Secondly, Pang Yukun is trying to restore the legalist trend, and these officials from Chang'an still carry a strong Confucianism, and the two are even more pointed to the Maimang.

From Xiao Ming's perspective, he was naturally biased toward Pang Yukun, but the land under the jurisdiction of the state was constantly expanding, and he had to rely heavily on the old officials to govern the states and counties for him.

Facing this contradictory problem, he also had a headache, but there is no solution yet. 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 an achievement in the country of Da Yu. It has been unprecedented, but even so, the number of officials he can train is limited. Even so, there are some officials trained by Bowen College with different appearances. , I still respect Confucianism in my heart, and I'm like Fiji and other conservative officials.

However, Niu Ben brought up this question and he was very unhappy, because he knew that the army could not have thoughts, otherwise it would be easy to get into trouble.

No matter how the officials make trouble, they are just talking about it. If a modern army moves rashly, it will cause trouble.

So he sternly said: "General Niu, you are too lenient in this matter. Soldiers only need to obey orders and don't need to care about government affairs."

Niu Ben's heart trembled when he heard this, and he suddenly woke up, "The emperor, he will be guilty at the end!"

"Don't do it again next time! I know what you are worried about, but you are thinking too much. Don't forget that it was my idea to slaughter the wealthy clan back then. Some people can't turn the sky." Xiao Ming's words seemed to point.

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

Niu Ben bowed and said, Xiao Ming is now an emperor, and he also gradually felt that Xiao Ming was transforming into an emperor.

"That's right, I will discuss merits and rewards in a few days," Xiao Ming said with a smile, and he also counted on these generals to continue fighting for himself~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Proper comfort is necessary.

Bowing, Niu Ben turned around and left the study. At this time, the brush in Xiao Ming's hand stood up.

Looking at Niu Ben's figure as he crossed the stone bridge, Xiao Ming sighed slightly. After becoming the emperor, he realized that being a monarch is easy and that being a Mingjun is too difficult.

Because balancing the group of people under your hands is enough to choke, and at the same time you have to worry about the army. After all, in this era, the generals do not listen to dispatch, and the matter of supporting the soldiers is just commonplace.

Even in modern times, military coups often occur in some countries. The fundamental reason is that the military has become the private soldiers of certain generals.

This situation was a very common thing in the feudal dynasty. Because of this, the emperor had many restrictions on the generals.

Now Xiao Ming also encountered this problem. When he wanted to kill a certain general, this general could easily lead the army to rebel.

After thinking about it, he felt that the solution to this problem was to nationalize the army. If so, he would have to pay close attention to the history of the army.