The Reborn Wife is Farming

"Fiefdom?" Mu Yangling's eyes widened. "Didn't the former Emperor Sejong no longer entrust feudal princes?"

"The previous dynasty is the previous dynasty, and this dynasty is the current dynasty," Qi Haoran said: "If the previous dynasty had vassal kings guarding the border, Dajin and Xixia would not be able to occupy a large area of ​​my country."

Mu Yangling disagreed and said: "The Great Zhou will lose a large area of ​​land because Emperor Gaozong moved his army inward, and instead of defending against foreign enemies, he guarded against the people. In addition, after Emperor Sejong emphasized civility over military affairs, unscrupulous generals in the army were available. Does the feudal king have half a penny to do with it?"

After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he abolished the enfeoffment system and changed it to the prefecture and county system. After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, the enfeoffment system was adopted again, but it was also quite different from the previous one. It belonged to the combination of enfeoffment and prefectures and counties. For thousands of years, although the enfeoffment system has always existed, it has been weakened. It was not until Emperor Sejong of the previous dynasty that he abolished the vassal system. Before, so the prince had to stay in the capital and not leave the capital.

Mu Yangling didn't think it was right for Sejong to restrict the growth of the royal children, but it was absolutely correct for him to abolish the vassal system.

The existence of the vassal system is extremely easy to split a country, and the Han and Jin Dynasties are two living examples.

Mu Yangling and Qi Haoran said: "People's selfishness will swell, Haoran, I don't agree with enfeoffment, Xiaobao and Xiaoxiong have a good relationship, even if they don't fight for rights, what about their descendants? If you want to cut power, if you want to get more power, the great Qi will be in chaos. The Han and Tang Dynasties have been working hard to weaken the power of the vassal kings for hundreds of years. Emperor Sejong risked his life to abolish the vassal system. Are we going to go back now? , In the end, is it even worse than the Han Dynasty a thousand years ago?"

Qi Haoran frowned, he really didn't think so much, he is the elder brother's younger brother, and he also has military merits, being named a prince is a matter of course, and a rich fief should also be granted, but Ah Ling said that this system , his cognition is wrong.

Mu Yangling knew that he couldn't accept what he said once, so he hurriedly turned around and sent the children to sleep, and then turned around and led him into the room to elaborate.

In history, there are countless incidents in which the country was in chaos or the country's power was weakened due to the reduction of vassals and the rebellion of vassal kings. Mu Yangling didn't even need to read history books. Children and grandchildren are also ordinary people, and they will also fight for power and profit, Emperor Sejong has done a good job, directly cutting off their capital of chaos."

Qi Haoran said in displeasure: "Then my descendants of the Qi family will be like the royal family of the Great Zhou, living on the clan's salary like this? Then after five generations, they will be reduced to common people, maybe not even as good as Liu Xuande who sells straw sandals."

"That's also because they are too incompetent," Mu Yangling said, "They were born into the royal family, and they have so many resources and advantages over others, but they are still mixed up like this. My suggestion is that we should not restrict the royal family's imperial examinations, business And joining the army, no matter what they want to do, they have to fight with the common people."

"After the second generation, if you want to be an official, you can take the imperial examination and compete with scholars all over the world. If you want to do business, you also have to pay taxes. You also have to abide by the law. You can also join the army. Three hundred and sixty lines, so many Which industry can’t do it? They were born in the royal family, they can receive a good education since they were young, and they have contacts and resources that others don’t have. Don't blame us."

Qi Haoran looked at his wife speechlessly.

Mu Yangling continued: "Don't listen to me, think about it, the whole Daqi is only big, your prince occupies a large area of ​​Taiyuan, and the emperor has six sons, except for Xiaobao, you have to go outside Conferring five princes, even if the fiefs they get are not as big and rich as yours, but the last time is five counties. For one thing, it won’t take a few generations. Unless the prince who is sealed off changes, he will cut off his sons and grandchildren, or the emperor will be unsealed in a few generations. What can he do? He can only think about cutting the vassal, and the vassal king will be willing to take it Will the benefits be handed over? When the time comes, there will be another chaos in Daqi."

These are things that have happened repeatedly in history. The Five Kingdoms Rebellion in the Han Dynasty is the most famous representative.

Seeing Qi Haoran's gloomy face, Mu Yangling continued: "And this is just one of the main contradictions. The secondary contradictions include the disputes between the princes within the vassal, the struggle between the vassal states, and the conflict between the vassal king and the local officials and the interests of the people. Because of a vassal system, how much trouble has this Da Qiping caused?"

Seeing Qi Haoran lowering his eyes and thinking deeply, Mu Yangling stopped disturbing his thinking, untied his hair and lay down beside him, yawned and said: "I still say the same thing, children and grandchildren have their own blessings, we have given them the way It's over, they insist on bumping into a ball on the road and knocking us down, but we have all the money and power, as long as we live happily, there is really no need to set up a fief to work hard, so Don’t want this land anymore.”

Qi Haoran said after a long time: "Didn't we break the children's ambition?"

Mu Yangling heard it in a daze, and said vaguely: "Da Qi is so old, are they still worried that they can't realize their ambitions?"

Qi Haoran didn't sleep all night, and the next day he went to Xiao Xiong's room with dark circles to dig him up, looked at him seriously and asked, "Wen Jin, if the father refuses to entrust the land, will you blame the father?"

Little Xiong fell into a drowsy sleep, subconsciously felt that his father was testing him, and immediately reflexively said: "The enfeoffment system was abolished in Qin Shihuang's time, and the vassal kingship system was abolished by the former Emperor Sejong. Daddy, do you want me to write a theory?" Is it a policy theory of the adverse effects of the enfeoffment system and the vassal system?"

Qi Haoran: "..."

Qi Haoran looked at his bewildered son, and pressed his son on the bed with his fingers. He said with a wooden face: "Okay, you can continue to sleep, you have never been a father before."

Qi Haoran turned around and went into the palace.

Today's early court people came very well. As long as they are qualified to go to court, everyone came to join in the fun. The news from the palace yesterday said that today's court meeting may produce the first prince and vassal king of Daqi. Everyone really wants to join in the fun.

Qi Xiuyuan has already decided to reward the biggest meritorious officials today, so his face is beaming, and the faces of all the ministers are also beaming when they see it. This time the battle of gold destruction can be said to be a complete victory, not only regaining the lost land , and also got most of Daikin's property.

After the rewards are finished this time, the palace will definitely hold a palace banquet, and their son (daughter) is also getting old, so they can also communicate with each other during this time.

Qi Xiuyuan's rewards ranged from low to high. Rong Xuan was conferred the title of Grand Master and two generations of nobles for his meritorious service with the crown prince in supervising the country.

And Fan Zijin was promoted to the title of King of Anjun by Duke An, hereditary successor, and Qi Haoran was conferred the title of Prince Rong by King Rongjun, also hereditary successor.

Qi Xiuyuan asked Qi Haoran, "Yesterday, I chose Taiyuan as your fief. You don't like it. Now you have chosen the fief?"

All the ministers looked at Qi Haoran one after another.

Qi Haoran stepped out with a sullen face, cupped his hands and said, "Report to the emperor, I don't want to entrust the land."

The smile on Qi Xiuyuan's face gradually disappeared, and he frowned at him.

Qi Haoran raised his head slightly and said: "Emperor Sejong has abolished the vassal system since the previous dynasty. I personally think that this is a wonderful move, and we should permanently abolish the vassal system."