Xianxia version of Water Margin

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Counting on his fingers, Jiang Hongfei has been in this world for almost fourteen years.

In these fourteen years, Jiang Hongfei has done a lot of great things. He led Liangshan Marsh, which had only a dozen people, to become a hegemon; step by step, he became one of the four major bandits; while the other three bandits were dividing the territory of the Zhao Song Dynasty, he seized Shandong and Hebei of the Zhao Song Dynasty; while the Jurchens were fighting against the Liao Dynasty, he seized Yanyunping and the nineteen states; he defeated Tian Hu and seized Hedong; while Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan and his son, and Fan Zhixu and other Song officials made stupid moves and fought internally, he decisively sent troops to occupy the Central Plains and six routes of Shaanxi; sent Li Jun and Le He to behead the capital of the Goryeo Dynasty; indeed, he sent troops to suppress Wang Qing and occupy Huaixi; took advantage of the Miao-Liu mutiny to eliminate the central system of the small Southern Song Dynasty.

It can be said that Jiang Hongfei seized every opportunity given to him by the times.

At the same time, Jiang Hongfei also gave birth to a lot of children.

Among them, hundreds of the older ones are already more than ten years old, and the oldest dozen are even thirteen years old.

And this is only the sons of Jiang Hongfei who survived, not counting those who died young, nor Jiang Hongfei's daughters.

It is not difficult to imagine how many children Jiang Hongfei has.

Okay.

The reason why I don't say the specific number is because Jiang Hongfei has too many children.

Moreover, Jiang Hongfei's women are still giving birth in large numbers.

The key is that in this world, the survival rate of newborns is not high, and Jiang Hongfei's children often die young.

In this way, Jiang Hongfei doesn't know how many children he has.

Not only that, Jiang Hongfei, who is busy conquering the world, has no time to take care of his children himself, so he can only let the Ministry of Rites set up two "schools", one to teach his sons and one to teach his daughters.

Of course, Jiang Hongfei doesn't care about everything.

When he has time, he will also visit his children and give them some advice.

For example, for those who are interested in politics, Jiang Hongfei will suggest them to read books such as "Shangshu" and "Zizhi Tongjian", and arrange them to anonymously "intern" in relevant departments according to their ambitions and talents.

For example, for those who like to fight and want to be generals, Jiang Hongfei will arrange for them to join the army anonymously and start from soldiers.

For those who like to do business and trade, Jiang Hongfei will arrange for them to go to the "bank" or go to sea with Hu Cheng and others to engage in maritime trade.

It can be said that Jiang Hongfei will support his sons who have ideas and ambitions, and will send them to where they want to go in the future.

In other words, Jiang Hongfei allows his sons to develop, and even lets some of his sons develop in the army. Isn't he afraid of a thousand kings' rebellion in the future?

The answer is... Jiang Hongfei is really not afraid.

Jiang Hongfei has already thought about it.

After he confirms the crown prince, he will send all his ambitious sons to the New World and give them fiefs there. Well... If he can really conquer half of the world like the Mongolia in history, he can also split up the areas outside China and give them fiefs to his ambitious sons.

In China, Jiang Hongfei can adopt the camel model and rule China by blood relationship.

——In the later generations of Luotuo, there were more than 5,000 princes, who occupied half of the positions of governors and cabinet officials in all provinces, and monopolized all ministries except the Ministry of Petroleum, and occupied 200 senior positions in the armed forces, police, coast guard, and central and local administrative agencies. Among the princes who did not hold official positions, about 800 have become wealthy.

Jiang Hongfei knew that this would inevitably lead to internal strife, and even his sons killing each other.

But if he didn't do this, would he have a dynasty that would continue to be passed down?

Don't deceive yourself.

Thousands of years of ancient Chinese history have proved that a dynasty can only last for 200 to 300 years at most. The two Song dynasties together lasted less than 400 years. This is already the longest dynasty, and the only dynasty that lasted more than 300 years.

Some people say that this is not right.

The Xia Dynasty lasted 471 years.

The Shang Dynasty lasted 554 years.

The Zhou Dynasty lasted 790 years.

The Han Dynasty lasted 405 years.

That's four.

How can you say that only the two Song dynasties lasted more than 300 years?

First of all, Xia, Shang, and Zhou were all slave states that were born out of tribal alliances.

Although this tribal alliance was a little larger, it was still an alliance, and there was no unified centralized power. The princes in various places had their own absolute power, and they were all independent small countries.

For example, the Zhou Dynasty implemented a perfect patriarchal system with blood ties as the bond. The Zhou emperor was the big clan, and the princes were the small clans. Through the feudal system, the originally concentrated power was decentralized to other princes. Although they needed to obey the orders of the Zhou emperor, pay tribute to the Zhou emperor regularly, and go to war with the Zhou emperor, this was when the prestige of the Zhou emperor was still there in the early stage. Once the Zhou royal family was weak, these princes immediately lost their constraints. The most obvious example was the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when the princes fought in chaos and the status of the Zhou emperor further declined. Including the territory directly under its jurisdiction was also shrinking. To give an inappropriate example, the early period was like a federation, and the later period was like a confederation, which was not a top-down centralized power. From an academic point of view, Xia, Shang, and Zhou cannot be considered a real dynasty. They are just labels for that era.

The later Qin Dynasty was the first truly centralized dynasty.

Besides, although the two Han dynasties combined lasted 405 years, Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty and established a new dynasty in the middle, as well as a reform regime for more than two years. Moreover, from the fall of the Western Han Dynasty to the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a break of more than ten years. A continuous dynasty.

The key point is that although Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty Liu Xiu was also a clan member of the Han Dynasty, the blood connection was not that close after all.

There are only two Songs left.

Although the Jin Kingdom destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty during the Jingkang Incident, it did not completely go south to unify the country.

Zhao Gou's Southern Song Dynasty regime was established immediately without any interruption.

Moreover, Zhao Gou is the son of Zhao Ji and the younger brother of Zhao Huan, so the blood relationship is very direct.

In addition to moving the capital and shrinking the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty, other culture, clothing, etiquette, bureaucracy, ancestral family law, etc. came directly from the Northern Song Dynasty. Even the civil and military officials in the Southern Song Dynasty came directly from the Northern Song Dynasty.

The key point is that people at that time were either divided into the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, or they were directly divided into the Great Song Dynasty.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin'an Prefecture was established in Hangzhou, which meant temporary settlement and was called Xingzai. It was not the capital, but Bianliang City in Tokyo was called the capital.

Compare this to the Ming Dynasty when Zhu Qizhen went to Wala to study and Zhu Qiyu took over the throne. At that time, there was an uproar in the court advocating for the capital to be moved. Fortunately, Yu Qian was able to turn the tide. Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty would be the same as the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties.

Therefore, although the Zhao and Song dynasties had many problems and were extremely humiliating, they were still the only dynasty that lasted more than three hundred years.

To be honest, it was not easy for the Zhao and Song dynasties to last for 319 years against the background of the rise of large nationalities in the north and the establishment of political power.

After all, during the Song Dynasty, the Zhao and Song dynasties faced strong state power rather than tribal rebellions.

The two Song dynasties together lasted just over 300 years, and this was only in history.

In this world, the Zhao and Song dynasties did not even reach two hundred years.

Jiang Hongfei did not think that the Great Yuan Empire he created would definitely last more than three hundred years.

Therefore, it is better to entrust all his sons away, so that their flesh may still rot in the pot.

Of course, there are so many sons of Jiang Hongfei, and it is impossible for all of them to be outstanding. There are also some who are not so outstanding, and even some are playboys.

Jiang Hongfei specially built a clan mansion to manage these children so that they would not become too lawless.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Jiang Hongfei studied from those dynasties in history, and what he mainly studied was not the previous dynasties, but the Qing Dynasty, the pinnacle of the feudal dynasty.

Of course, the Qing Dynasty actually learned from the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty Huidian changed one word in the Qing Dynasty and became the Qing Huidian.

The laws of the Ming Dynasty were changed to the laws of the Qing Dynasty.

In addition to retaining some systems with Manchu national characteristics, such as the Eight Banners system, other six central ministries of the imperial court and local governors, these Qing dynasties were exactly the same as the Ming dynasty, and even the salaries of officials at all levels were the same.

In fact, the management of the Eight Banners is similar to the Zhu family clan system in the Ming Dynasty.

It is said that during the Qing Dynasty, there was a gate in front of Tiananmen called Daqing Gate. In the Republic of China, it was renamed Zhonghua Gate. However, it was difficult to find materials for the inscribed plaque at that time, so someone suggested that we take off the plaque with the Great Qing Gate engraved on it and engrave the words Zhonghua Gate on the back. Isn't this solved? But when I took off the plaque and took a look, I was dumbfounded. Behind the plaque were engraved the words Daming Gate.

In other words, the Qing Dynasty was a good student of the Ming Dynasty.

But it must be mentioned that the Qing Dynasty avoided all the problems of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, some of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty fought with crickets, some were illiterate, some were cultivators, some were generals, some were doing carpentry, and some were just lying down and not working.

The bottom line is that there is something wrong with education.

As a result, the Qing Dynasty was one of the strictest dynasties in the history of education for princes.

So much so that by the eighth generation of Emperor Daoguang, he was still both civil and military.

When Daoguang was a prince, he once led the royal guards to fight hand-to-hand with members of the Tianli Sect who broke into the Forbidden City and killed the bandit leader.

This is worth learning from Jiang Hongfei.

Therefore, although Jiang Hongfei did not personally take charge of the education of his sons, he required the officials of the Ministry of Rites to strictly educate his sons, and the standards should be in accordance with those of the Qing Dynasty.

In addition, Jiang Hongfei understands a truth very well, that is, if you can't teach someone else, you can do it once you teach him something.

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei often asked his sons to come to Wanguo City to study and let them see what would happen to the royal families and clans that lost their own dynasty.

Seeing the two emperors of the Zhao and Song dynasties fighting like two dogs, one punching and the other kicking, and then looking at the indifferent and resentful expressions of the royal family and clan of the Zhao and Song dynasties around them, all Jiang Hongfei's sons felt in their hearts. Swear: "Even if I am shattered to pieces, I cannot end up like this!"

Jiang Ji, the eighth son of Jiang Hongfei, said leisurely: "When did the spring flowers and autumn moon come? How much do you know about the past? There was an east wind in the small building last night, and the motherland cannot bear to look back in the moonlight. The carved railings and jade masonry should still be there, but the beauty has changed. I ask you. How much sorrow can there be? It's like a river of spring water flowing eastward."

After listening to Jiang Ji's words, Jiang Hongfei's fourth son Jiang Di said coldly: "Li Yu and Huizong below are both frivolous, so how can you forget the loss of the country?"

Jiang Ji said with a smile: "Fourth brother is wrong. The reason why the two of them, especially the latter, lost their country is not because of Jin Hui's stupidity, Sun Hao's violence, or Cao and Ma's usurpation, but because of their selfish and small wisdom." Hui, his intentions were biased, he ignored the righteous people, and he was close to the traitors. So Cai Jing used his arrogant and clever talents to support his arrogance, extravagance and vain ambitions, and his worship of ornaments and sightseeing, which exhausted the power of the monarch and his ministers. , The prime minister is arrogant, neglects the affairs of the country, and acts nonsense every day. He also has good soldiers who are diligent and far away, and he is quick to cause trouble. "

Jiang Ji also said: "In the newly created state of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhao Gong still told King Wu that he would not do anything that would be useless or harmful, and that he would not value foreign objects and use them cheaply. The situation was declared and governed by the Song Dynasty, and the remaining caskets of the saints of Xi, Feng, and Shao were mourned. Did Huizong commit these two evils again? Since ancient times, people have lost their ambition by playing with things and indulged in lust. Huizong rarely died, so he wrote this as a warning. "

Jiang Hongfei's fifth son, Jiang Chang, said leisurely: "During the reign of Emperor Huizong, he established calligraphy, painting, and arithmetic. At that time, he paid attention to art and literature, and was very skillful. Therefore, the pear-shaped calligraphy and calligraphy are treasured to this day, and they were flourishing for a while."

Jiang Yan, the 13th son of Jiang Hongfei, also said: "It is most pitiful for Empress Li to perish her country, and Huizong of the Song Dynasty will follow him."

Jiang Di snorted and said, "There must be something hateful about poor people."

Jiang Hongfei's ninth son, Jiang Yao, echoed Jiang Di: "In the Huizong Dynasty, there were excessive levies and exorbitant taxes, scraping three feet off the ground. Huizong was extravagant and extravagant and wanted to build flowers and stones. As a result, the spring debts were not paid, and the autumn debts came back, and the public and private affairs were divided." Debts are exchanged and snatched, the grain has not left the field, the silk has not been unloaded, and it is no longer his own. The poor people have worked hard for a year, but in the end their wives will still be cold and exhausted. What's worse, the rich and powerful families will take away the land, wives and daughters, and the family will be ruined. He also sacrificed his life and lost his reward, causing chaos in the world and destroying his own foundation."

Jiang Hongfei's twelfth son, Jiang Yi, looked at Zhao Huan and said: "Qinzong only reigned for more than a year, but he worshiped twenty-six ministers like a revolving door. Some of their important strategies to save the country were not recognized. Qin Zong adopted it, but some important plans that harmed the country were adopted by Qin Zong. The emperor and his ministers looked at each other and could not work together to solve the difficulties. . As for the emperor, Gai Yixun is a coward and does not know justice! He has suffered so much while enjoying the country for a long time. It is really worth mourning for him!"

Jiang Yan, the 21st son of Jiang Hongfei, looked at Zhao Gou and said: "King Kang, the Song Dynasty has committed many crimes, and the Zhao family has left behind the sins. The family lacks filial friends, and the country is loyal and diligent. I have been ordered to make peace, and I have made a plan to hide myself. The teacher entered the defense to protect himself. He could not bear to regard his father and brother as prisoners. Although the situation was difficult, how could he be ruthless and happy to be called a arrogant person? This can be seen in his heart.

Jiang Hongfei's 22nd son, Jiang Ji, went on to say: "This generation is afraid of me, the Great Yuan. They run around without shame and bend their knees without shame. They can't be said to have the spirit of strangers."

The historians on the side wrote down all the princes' comments verbatim.

Afterwards, these will be handed over to Jiang Hongfei.

This is also an important basis for Jiang Hongfei to choose the crown prince in the future.

In fact, Jiang Hongfei's sons also knew about this, so they expressed themselves one after another.

While the historians were recording the words of the princes, they all couldn't help but look at the prince surrounded by the princes who looked exactly like Jiang Hongfei.

Not only the historians, but also the princes looked at the prince from the corner of their eyes, wanting to hear what he had to say?

The prince who made everyone look forward to him was Jiang Hongfei's eldest son - Jiang Xiu!

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