Chapter 644 (2/2)
He has great respect for Lu Chuan now, not only because he knows that the teacher is powerful, but also because his father Di Xin asked him to listen to the teacher more when he had a secret talk with him at sishuiguan.
And after his return this time, his mother, imperial concubine Huang, also wanted him to have great respect.
Lu Chuan said, ”I thought that this time the princes made trouble because the enfeoffment system gave them too much power and made the vassal state more and more powerful. Therefore, I thought that after this chaos, the king should abolish the enfeoffment system and the vassal state and change the new system to settle the world!”
As soon as he spoke, it seemed as if a spring thunder sounded in the hall, and man Chao's eyes suddenly looked over.
Except that Wen Zhong knew in advance, the eyes of other ministers were stunned and surprised.
Another new system?
The origin of the enfeoffment system has long been unknown, but it is said that it was implemented by the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan. This Lord Lu unexpectedly asked him to change the system
The ministers exchanged in a low voice.
”Another... New system?” Wu Geng's expression was slightly frozen.
There will never be a winner in war!
Although they killed countless rebels and suppressed the princes, the price paid by Yin Shang was not large.
Not only did hundreds of thousands of soldiers bury their bones in Xiqi, Yin Shang almost perished, but even his father, di Xin, failed to come back during the imperial expedition.
”What do you think?” Wu Geng looked at the others.
Although he was young, he saw so many killings, bloodshed and corpses during his trip to Xiqi. After the war, his young face became more mature and had a trace of style as a king.
The ministers were still discussing in a low voice, looking serious and very serious.
Bigan also frowned and whispered something to Wen Zhong in front of him.
Lu Chuan looked at them, looking calm and not worried at all.
The ministers knew how much damage the princes' rebellion had caused to the Yin merchants. Even the former Emperor Xin died on the West Zhengxi road.
Therefore, these ministers will consider his proposal very seriously.
If he can come up with a new system to replace it, everything will basically come naturally.
”To your majesty, I think we have to consider this carefully.”
At the critical time, Wen Zhong cooperated with Lu Chuan and said, ”Lord Lu, changing the new system is very important. If you want to change it, you need a set of alternative system. You can't change it if you want to.”
Lu Chuan secretly praised him, took out a volume of music from his sleeve and said, ”report to the king, this is a new system that the minister has worked hard to replace. Please have a look at it with your ministers.”
The attendant passed the note to Wu Geng. After reading it, Wu Geng didn't understand it, but he felt very powerful.
So he showed it to the ministers again, and then the playing slips were passed among the ministers one by one.
”State county system...”
After reading it, all the ministers were shocked and looked at the tall and straight man standing in the hall.
Although it is not the first time they have seen Lord Lu's outstanding talents, they are shocked every time.
State county system, under the central government, there are States, one state has a state animal husbandry; There are counties under the state, and a prefect is set up in one county; Under the county, there are counties, and a county has a magistrate!
In addition, two officials are set up to take charge of administrative, military and supervisory duties. They will no longer hold power in the hand of one person.
Such a system is feasible for many ministers without directly appointing officials by the central government to protect their interests.
Now they also understand that it is not a good thing for princes to have too much power. The lesson this time is deep and painful.
”This system is simply... The old minister has no opinion.”
Wen Zhong wanted to blow each other's business, but he stopped after thinking about it.
After seeing it, Bigan looked at Lord Lu with a happy face and a look of successors: ”the old minister has no objection.”
”I have no objection!”
”No minister...”
”Good!” Wu Geng said in a deep voice, ”then we will do as Lu Shi said, abolish enfeoffment, and implement the state and county system.”
For the princes who killed his father, he hates as much as he wants.
Next, Lu Chuan discussed with the ministers in the court and finally divided the territory of Yin Shang into 36 states, 108 counties and more than 1500 counties, which greatly reduced the power of the previous princes.
This is only a preliminary formulation, and the number of these States, counties and counties will increase upward in the future.
After the agreement, the king's order to abolish the enfeoffment system was also issued to the major princes, and the state county system was officially implemented throughout the country.
At the same time, Lord Lu also prepared an army and horse to play once and prepare for a rainy day. As long as any princes did not comply with this system, he would take people to destroy anyone.
In fact, now he only needs one man, one horse and one sword, and he can conquer a city without even taking out the immortal sword.
Unfortunately, it disappointed him after all.
One month later, the decree of a new system was passed on everywhere, but as he said to Wen Zhong, those princes were just beaten. They were afraid that they would hurt for a long time. They were still hurt. Where would they dare to resist?
Therefore, the major princes were abolished. Of course, some of them cooperated with each other, such as Su Quanzhong, Hou of Jizhou, chongheihu, Hou of Beibo, and so on.
These were people who had not participated in the rebellion earlier, so Lu Chuan specially played Wu Geng and gave it to an official of a state shepherd in their thirty-six, but it must have been transferred from the original fief.
In addition, the implementation of the new system has created many new vacant posts.
In the past, the official position of Chaoge was more monks than monks, but now such a practice can enable many noble children to have officials.
After coming to the door to Praise Lord Lu's gift, these ignorant noble children happily took office.
In front of the Guoshi mansion, Lord Lu waved off their carriage with a smile.