In the first year of Shenlong in the Great Chen Dynasty, on the eighth day of the sixth month, Emperor Sui abdicated and Emperor Chen ascended the throne.

After Chen Kefu ascended the throne, his first thing was to be granted the title of civil and military. Countless soldiers who followed him to fight were naturally at the time of success and fame. Chen Kefu was not a stingy person, and he knew that the court needed to use rewards to stabilize the ministers, so as to gain their continued loyalty to him...

On the day the new emperor ascended the throne, Chen Ke re-elected Changsun Wugui as the empress, Chen Shen was honored as the emperor, and his mother Shen was honored as the empress dowager Taimu, and appointed Chen Yu, the eldest son of Changsun Wugui as the crown prince. Yang Jier was conferred as the imperial concubine, Li Xiuning as the concubine, Feng Hua as the concubine of De, and Zhai Wushuang as the virtuous concubine. Zhang Chuchen was also added as the wife of Zhaoyi, Khitan concubine Alina as the wife of Zhaorong, Japan concubine Su Woye Lisha as the wife of Xiuyi, and Concubine Marcelona Chapter 789

The vassal Magnolia was named Mrs. Xiurong, and the Turkic concubine Ayiguli was named Mrs. Chongyi, and other ninth concubines. She also conferred the daughter of Chen Xuan, the son of Yang Jier, as the princess.

Finally, in the surprise of everyone, she cannoned Silla Princess Jin Shengman as the wife of Xiuyuan, one of the second-rank ninth concubines, and named him and Jin Shengman's son Chen Yiong as the King of Liao. Fang Xuanling and others were originally opposed to the canonization of Jin Shengman and his son. Although they also knew that Chen Yiong was Chen Kefu's son, his mother was the princess of Silla Kingdom, and he was several years old now, and he was also the King of Silla.

It would be a bit unreasonable to enthrone this without the other party's consent. However, Chen Kefu just said one thing, revealing that the future King of Silla is his son. After King of Silla ascends the throne in the future, the Silla Kingdom will naturally be his. At that time, sending some troops into Silla, but Silla is not his own. Isn't it the most natural thing to send troops to the territory of my son and king?

Just one sentence immediately made Li Benlei, Li Jing and other generals in the army who were hesitant all shout. Even Mao Xi, who was originally calling Chen Wei, could not enter the royal family genealogy, Chapter 789

Fengfan immediately smiled and said that he would immediately include Chen You in the Chen family genealogy.

For tribal kingdoms such as Silla, Khitan, Baekje, Mohe, Kumoxi outside the pass, these military generals in the new dynasty had the most consistent eyes, that is, if you have the opportunity, you must annex these small barbarian countries and completely turn the entire northeastern pass and the Goguryeo Peninsula into the back of the court. However, the time has not come, as long as the Central Plains is leveled. Who can stop these tribal nobles who have been corrupted by various luxury objects in Dachen at that time?

Although the civil officials in the court kept calling Confucian benevolence and righteousness on the surface, in fact, with Chen Kefu and Fang Xuanling and others, they gradually developed a tacit understanding with Chen Kefu, and Confucianism outside and kings inside. The new dynasty admired it. If there was annexation of all tribes outside the pass, completely eliminating the opportunity to rebellion among the tribes in the northeast, they would certainly not just call benevolence and righteousness like ordinary corrupt scholars. After Chen Kefu for a long time, everyone was used to putting interests first in everything.

Even Mao Xi, who had already retreated to the second line, regained his second spring and took the position of Grand Tutor every day. Therefore, he was observing his post and surrounded Chen Kefu all day long, saying that he wanted to sit with the emperor to discuss the truth. As for the way he discussed, it was actually very simple. He found inspiration from Chen Kefu's intention to make Chen Wen the King of Liao. Therefore, now he pestered Chen Kefu every day and asked Chen Kefu to immediately have a Khitan concubine, Alina, Concubine Magnolia, Yulan, Concubine Yu, Concubine Suwo, Concubine Suwo, and the Turkic concubine Ayiguli, to give birth to a prince as soon as possible, and then grant these princes the title of kings of various tribes. In the future, he sent a large army to escort the princes back to his grandfather's house, so that he could take advantage of the opportunity to become famous and to annex all tribe kingdoms.

For this reason, Mao Xi, who had always opposed marriage with foreign races and said that it would ruin the Chen bloodline, took the initiative to ask the Khitan Dahe clan, Baekje, Japan, Kumoxi, Tiel, Turks and others to ask for a marriage to the princes in order to have more princes in the future and to abolish the other party with justification. Mao Xi, who was excited, was even planning to let the naval fleet under Zhang Zhongjian go to sea to visit the island countries in the East and South China and the kingdoms along the South China Sea coast, to ask for marriage to various countries, and to marry Chen Kefu, so that his princely daughter could implement his purpose of educating the barbarians and the Chinese world. Judging from his appearance, he had completely regarded Chen Kefu as a seedling machine.

Later, Chen Kefu had to see Mao Xi and walked around and arranged guards to stand guard from afar. As long as he heard Mao Xi coming, he would hide immediately. Just kidding, although Chen Kefu really had such an idea in the matter of Silla Kingdom, at least because Silla King had no son and that child had been the grandson of the king who had been for many years. What's more, even if he really had this plan in other tribal kingdoms, this matter could not be achieved overnight. What's more, now that the new dynasty is first established, the most important goal is to unify the world, rather than annex the external tribes.

Although the princes were still young, Chen Kefu had already made arrangements for the future of the prince. Although Chen Kefu was young, in fact, the Chen clan was all in Jiangnan. The emperor was actually completely alone and had no clan protection and support at all. For this reason, after considering this, Chen Kefu prepared to implement the system of vassal kings. However, considering the rebellion of the Seven Kings of the Han Dynasty, the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Jingnan Incident in the Ming Dynasty, and the later situation of pig farming in the royal family, Chen Kefu also combined the previous and subsequent factors.

Finally, the decision was to implement the system of vassal kings, but to avoid vassal kings in the future, or just raising pigs blindly. Chen Kefu decided that all princes and princes of vassal kings would live and educate in Beijing before they became adults at the age of fifteen. After the age of fifteen, the emperor and the court would evaluate those with good moral character and ability to be granted the king, and after they reach the age of twenty, they would be granted the vassal kings. In addition, it was also specifically stipulated that all vassal kings must be granted the territory opened after the first year of the Shenlong of the Great Chen, which is now the most borderly Ryukyu Island, Danluo Island, Mobei Province, Haidong, Haixi, Vietnam and other provinces.

All vassal kings must be enfeoffed on the territory they had developed after the founding of the dynasty, and the vassal kings had no civil rights or the right to command military power. Each vassal king could have a guard of a thousand people in one mansion and was in charge of the frontier. They exercised the supervision of local officials and officers and generals. Moreover, the vassal kings' guards did not have the emperor's orders and were not allowed to leave the vassal territory. All the officers guarded by the vassal kings were appointed by the court.

However, the vassal kings have supervision and guardian duties for the local area. If there is an enemy invasion, they must lead the guards to assist in the defense. As the most loyal and reliable force of the court, guarding on the most border. If someone rebelled in the Central Plains, the vassal kings can immediately be ordered by the emperor to lead their troops back to the Central Plains to serve the king. In order to limit the strength of the vassal kings, in addition to the officers of the vassal kings appointed and removed by the court, the guards would be transferred every five years. In addition, the vassal kings had three levels: princes, heir kings, and princes. The princes had a county, the vassal kings had only one town, and the princes had only one castle.

It is also stipulated that the sons of the vassal kings must be educated in the capital from the age of five. At the age of fifteen, the other persons who have poor assessments cannot be awarded the title of king. All the titles and the vassal kings must be demoted to the title of first-class title. Even if the examination passes, the other sons of the vassal kings must be demoted to the title of second-class title. Once the title of the vassal kings is reduced to the Duke below the county prince, they no longer have the right to enfeoff the vassal state. If the children of the royal family fail to be awarded the title of king, the court has special salary, but it will not be too generous. Once the title of the royal family is reduced to the viscount, they can participate in the civil and military imperial examinations and become officials.

This complete system of vassal kings is very harsh compared to previous dynasties such as the Han and Jin dynasties. However, Chen Kefu implemented eliteization, with excellent royal children guarding the border, while ordinary vain royal children stayed in the capital. The strict qualifications for the title were also to limit and avoid the situation where the taxes in various parts of the world were not enough for the vassal kings to eat and pay, just like the Ming Dynasty in the later generations.

If a vassal king is in charge of the border, it can strengthen the court's supervision and protection of the border, and it can also reduce the various struggles of the kings when they are in the capital. If the vassal kings are divided to the most border and strictly restrict the rights of the vassal kings, it can avoid the situation of vassal kings' rebellion. Once a vassal king is found to cause rebellion, the court can transfer border troops to capture it. Even if they are kept away from the capital, they can avoid rebellion of the vassal kings. Even if the vassal kings rebelled and were far away from the capital of the Central Plains, it would be difficult for them to kill back. If a prince stayed in the capital, he was also a hostage to the vassal kings.

The layers of restrictions are required to rationally exert the power of these imperial powers, restrict the military generals and ministers in the court, and to avoid internal struggles within the royal family. Chen Kefu is less than 30 years old, and he believes that as long as twenty or thirty years are spent, this system of vassal kings will be improved.

Most of the courts opposed this new system of vassal kings. Old ministers such as Mao Xi and Lu Guangli thought that doing so would be too harsh on the royal family members, and the outstanding members would be all vassal kings outside, which would inevitably weaken the power of the royal family. It would easily give ambitious ministers the opportunity to have troubles that they could not resolve the near fire. However, civil officials such as Fang Xuanling had different opinions. What they were worried about was that the system of vassal kings would eventually become a vassal king like the Han Dynasty and Jin Dynasty, and would eventually threaten the possibility of the central court.

Chen Kefu could only explain this carefully to them. Several generations of Cao Wei were outstanding in the late Han Dynasty and established Cao Wei. However, he was soon usurped the throne by Sima. A large part of the reason was that although Cao Wei had many capable ministers and famous generals, even strong soldiers and horses, the royal family was suppressed by the court and did not enfeoff the kings. In the end, Cao Wei's power was usurped by Sima and finally the Sima family was usurped.

After the Sima family usurped the country and established himself as Jin, they also considered the lessons of Cao Wei's destruction. They had a great title to the kings, but the vassal kings had too much power, not only to manage the people but also to support the army, and finally became a country in the country. This was the rebellion of the Eight Kings and finally destroyed the country. In history, the Tang Dynasty did not grant the vassal kings, but no one could control the power of the military generals after the great separatist power.

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