Iron Dynasty

A faint scent of sandalwood permeates the study.

Niu Ben thought for a moment and looked worried: What the emperor said is very true, if King Huainan shot, it would save us a lot of strength, and at the same time, it can weaken the strength of King Huainan. After the destruction, only the Huainan King and the Yong King will be left north of the Yangtze River, but is the emperor planning to let the vassal state continue? After all, the civil strife in Da Yu is enough to see the harm that the vassal king is doing to the Da Yu state.

What General Niu can see, I can naturally see it, but King Yong and King Huainan are attached to me, but I can't easily use troops against them. Now the only plan is to appease them and wait for the stability of the Great Yu Kingdom. The strategy of cutting down the vassal, in this way, can save the people from the suffering of war, and can also solve the problem of the vassal king without bloodshed, and the barbarians have not yet eliminated the serious trouble, the king just quelled the rebellion as soon as possible. Xiao Ming said in a deep voice.

It's not that he doesn't want to solve the vassal kings once and for all, it's just that he always has to pay attention to one strategy in everything. Since he can fight one by one, why bother to challenge all the vassal kings by himself.

And an important question is that if the war continues, the Great Yu Kingdom will be completely smashed into a mess. The casualties in the battle of Yunzhou City are all the young men of the Great Yu Kingdom.

Among them, the number of deaths in the Battle of Yunzhou is not mentioned, but many people who transported food and grass to the Allied Forces of the Three Kings also died.

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

One only needs to look at contemporary Middle East issues on this issue to understand what is happening to the people of the North.

During World War II, soldiers had the pleasure of killing civilians indiscriminately. In this far-uncivilized dynasty, killing people during the war was simply commonplace.

The battle report of the Yunzhou war Niuben is on the table, but the information collected by Wang Xuan is under the table.

According to the information provided by the Secret Guard, this time the Three Kings Allied Forces were very insidious. Most of the civilians they recruited came from the occupied royal states and counties. At the same time, the grain and baggage for this battle were also forcibly added to the people of these states and counties.

During their capture of the city, the people of these prefectures and counties had already suffered their slaughter, and now it is even worse.

If the barbarians came to fight at this time, he really doubted that the people in these places would eventually help the barbarians, because these vassal kings did not necessarily treat them any better than the barbarians.

Based on these, after thinking about it, he decided to win over the dependent vassal kings 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 interests that the north is completely smashed.

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

Moreover, after removing King Yan, King Zhao, and King Liang, King Yong and King Huainan could not pose a threat to the central government at all, and it was enough to digest it slowly.

Your Majesty is far-sighted, it seems that the last commander is overthinking. Niu Ben let out a sigh of relief.

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

Xiao Ming pondered a little about this and then understood that after he became emperor, the Chang'an official and Pang Yukun and other feudal officials became less able to urinate in a pot.

One is that Chang’an officials still attach great importance to family status in their bones, and look down on officials from civilians such as Pang Yukun. Second, these officials tend to be conservative in thinking, and they are not open-minded than officials who have closed the country.

And Pang Yukun and others are the vested interests of Xiao Ming's elimination of the wealthy family. Psychologically, they have an instinctive vigilance against the wealthy family, and they are worried that the wealthy family will gain power and they will be liquidated.

After all, there are innumerable connections between the nobles in Qingzhou and other nobles in the Great Yu Kingdom, and they have great opinions on Pang Yukun and others.

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

From Xiao Ming's point of view, he naturally favored Pang Yukun, but the land under the jurisdiction of the Fengguo continued to expand, and he had to rely on the old officials to govern the prefectures and counties for him.

Faced with this conflicting problem, he also had some headaches, but at present there was no solution. After all, it had only been five years since he came to Qingzhou.

In the past five years, he has been able to achieve such achievements, which is unprecedented in Dayu Country, but even so, the number of officials he can train is limited. Even so, there are still some officials trained by Bowen College. , I still respect Confucianism in my heart, and I have the same urgency as conservative officials such as Fiji.

However, this question was raised by Niu Ben, and he was very unhappy, because he knew that the army could not think, otherwise it would be easy to cause trouble.

No matter how much the officials make trouble, it is only a matter of lip service, and a modern army's rash movement is going to cause trouble.

So he said sharply: General Niu, you are too lenient on 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 the words, and he suddenly woke up, Your Majesty, you will be guilty in the end!

Next time, don't do it again! I know what you are worried about, but you think too much. Don't forget that slaughtering the wealthy was my idea back then, and some people can't turn the sky over. Xiao Ming's words seemed to point to something.

If there is an emperor, you will be at ease at the end.

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

That's right, I will discuss the merits and rewards in a few days. Xiao Ming said with a smile, he also expected these generals to continue to fight for him, and proper comfort was necessary.

After bowing, Niu Ben turned around and left the study, when Xiao Ming put down the brush in his hand and stood up.

Looking at Niu Ben's figure as he crossed the stone bridge, Xiao Ming sighed softly. When he became the emperor, he realized that being a foolish ruler is easy, and being a bright ruler is too difficult.

Because balancing a group of people under the hand is enough, and at the same time, you have to worry about the army. After all, in this era, generals do not listen to dispatch, and it is common to have troops with self-respect.

Even in contemporary times, military coups often occur in some countries, and the fundamental reason is that the army has become the personal soldier of some generals.

And this kind of situation is a very common thing in the feudal dynasty, because of this, the emperor will have many restrictions on generals.

Now Xiao Ming has also encountered this problem. He absolutely cannot let himself want to kill a general, this general can easily lead the army to rebel.

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