Brothers turned against each other, and cruel struggle broke out between their bloodlines and relatives.

This is something that has been inevitable for the inheritance of the emperor's position.

Thinking of such a terrible scene, Cao Lan shook her head repeatedly.

"I don't want to."

"I don't want to."

Guo Peng sighed and said, "So, your and my eyes must be focused on A Jin. The more stable his position is, the more secure he feels. After he succeeds to the throne, the safer the children will be. I kept telling him that he is my only choice, and this is to make him feel at ease.

His brother is growing up, and he will gradually develop different emotions. This is human nature, so neither you nor me can have extra preference for any child. This is the safest for our children."

Guo Peng held one of Cao Lan's hand and slowly told his thoughts.

Cao Lan understood what Guo Peng thought, and for a moment he felt mixed feelings.

"Then the other children can only be confined to Luoyang City for the rest of their lives, and die of depression? Can they never do anything?"

Cao Lan bit her lip and looked at Guo Peng's side face: "That must be very uncomfortable, right? They are all lively and cute children..."

"No matter how uncomfortable it is, it is better than the ending of brothers' slaughter. No matter how difficult it is, it is better than being killed by brothers, isn't it?"

Guo Peng sighed helplessly and said, "Isn't this the case with the Tian family? I want power and freedom. How can there be such a good thing in the world? You and I are still here, and I can control the situation.

But what will happen to you and me later? How can you and I decide? Alan, we are the Tian family, I am the emperor, you are the queen, our family is no longer the same family as before.

Our family cannot tolerate so many children's relationships. If you and I want all children except A Jin to spend their lives peacefully, the daughter is fine, but we must not favor any son."

Cao Lan stopped talking.

Both of them were silent for a while before Guo Peng spoke again.

"Actually, I have also thought about whether there are other ways to deal with this method, whether there are other ways to find a way to A Jin or other children. After thinking about it, I have some ideas. Although it is difficult, I think it is not impossible."

After Guo Peng said this, Cao Lan immediately became interested.

"What's the idea?"

"Similar to the way the Zhou royal family enfeoffed the royal family and the heroes went to various parts of North China Central Plains to be kings. The children were enfeoffed and their respective monarchs were enfeoffed, with Wei as the sect leader and Emperor Wei as the sect leader."

"What does this mean?"

Cao Lan didn't understand and asked hurriedly: "Didn't Penglang say that he wouldn't enfeoff the country for his children? Isn't the ban on the country the root of the chaos? Will there be no danger in this way?"

"Of course it is impossible within the State of Wei. I will not enfeoff the children within the State of Wei, but it may not be impossible outside the State of Wei."

Guo Peng took a deep breath, squinted his eyes and said, "After King Wu successfully attacked Zhou, he enfeoffed the royal family and went to various places to become kings. Now it seems that it has indeed caused hundreds of years of separatist chaos.

But at that time, at least before the decline of the Zhou royal family, it was an act of expanding territory. Alan, the transportation at that time was not as good as it is now, and the area controlled by the Zhou royal family at that time was just the Luoyang area in Guanzhong.

Many other places, including the Central Plains and Hebei, were wilderness, with no roads, no developments, no explorations, and no knowledge of what was going on. Under such traffic conditions at that time, the Zhou royal family was beyond the reach.

Even if King Wu had the will, he could not control too much territory. The Zhou royal family could not directly rule those places, nor could they reach them. Moreover, there were indigenous people in those places, so they would definitely fight.

If the Zhou royal family had to bear it with all their strength and went to war for hundreds of miles apart, even now I would have to build a large farmland. It was almost unimaginable that King Wu and his heroes chose to enfeoff their feudals.

The royal family and the heroes were enfeoffed to manage the areas that the Zhou royal family could not occupy. These kings would inevitably actively open up the border for their own interests. They used their place as a supply base to conquer cities and siege nearby, develop nearby, and occupy them while developing.

While they expanded their territory and expanded their own strength, they also expanded the territory of the Zhou royal family to where they went. Those lands that did not belong to the Zhou royal family became the land of the Zhou royal family in name and legal terms."

"But after that, wouldn't the Zhou royal family be unable to order the countries? The countries have expanded their territory and had disputes, and have hundreds of years of war. That's not a good thing."

Influenced by Guo Peng, Cao Lan has read many books, so she is full of confusion.

Guo Peng shook his head.

"As far as we look at it now, of course, because we can completely control the Central Plains and Hebei. Because of the great development of transportation, national government orders and military can rush to the local area in time, so I can control the entire Wei State in Luoyang.

But Alan, we cannot compare the situation from more than a thousand years ago. Now we can do it, because of the accumulation of more than a thousand years. The Zhou royal family did not have the pioneering and accumulation of more than a thousand years of their ancestors, so they really couldn't do it."

When Guo Peng said this, Cao Lan became even more interested.

"What can't you do?"

"Because the Zhou royal family has no conditions, expanding territory, transportation, manpower and material resources, and none of these Zhou royal families have it. It cannot control such a large territory. The land it can directly control is very limited. It can only enfeoff the country and there is no other way to go.

Even the small countries it enfeoffed cannot annex each other and can only develop. When the vassal states were enfeoffed, they seemed to be a large territory, but they were not as well-formed counties and villages as they are now.

The local residents at that time were not even Chinese people. They lived in various places, ate raw meat and drank blood, and did not know how to educate. The Zhou royal family divided the land to the princes, but how to manage and manage it depends on themselves. The Zhou royal family would not provide them with too much help.

What they controlled at the beginning was just a small area around the capital. Compared with the country, it was better to say it was a city-state. It slowly reclaimed wasteland and built settlements. As time went by, transportation improved, population increased, and technology increased, and the situation changed.

More than a hundred years later, the government's speed of passing on government orders and military marching became faster, and the vassal states gradually gained a foothold, educated and assimilated the locals, and became the Chinese people, increasing the population, increasing productivity, repairing roads, and continuing to expand their direct jurisdiction.

In this way, from a city-state to several cities, from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, the nominal land truly became kingly land, and the hegemonic country in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period gradually took shape, and with scale, those lands truly belonged to China.

During that period, how many wars, how many bloody conflicts occurred, how many alien races were destroyed, conquered, and assimilated, how many Chinese people died in the process of development, how those cities were built, how roads were repaired, and how canals and water conservancy were built were all in those hundreds of years."

After Guo Peng explained, Cao Lan understood what the eviction was and what was going on.

"What happened if the Zhou royal family could not control the vassal states later? If the feudal division is so effective, how could the subsequent situation happen?"

Cao Lan continued to look at Guo Peng.

Guo Peng sighed.

"Where is a perfect system in the world? It is only most suitable for the present, but the world is constantly changing and everything is changing. If it cannot keep pace with the times, it is destined to be abandoned by the times. This is how the Zhou royal family was abandoned.

The feudal system was very good at the beginning, helping China expand from Guanzhong to the lower reaches of the Yellow River, in Shuzhong, in Hebei and in Jiangnan. The population of various vassal states was increasing day by day, the territory was increasing day by day, and gradually gaining the power to compete for hegemony.

I think that at the latest when King Li and Xuan of Kings, the Zhou royal family should have begun to reduce the vassal states. At that time, the vassal states had already had a considerable scale, both in terms of population, finance, or military strength.

Moreover, the world's transportation has also changed dramatically. Anyone with knowledgeable people in the Zhou royal family should realize that it is only a matter of time before the various vassal states can get rid of control, but the Zhou royal family did not.

King Xuan wasted great opportunities in vain, so that King You died at the hands of the Shen Kingdom and the Rong tribe. It was a lie to play with the princes. Can a King of Zhou, who was praised by the princes, check and balance the princes?

King Ping no longer has the foundation for rule, so this is something that King Wu did not expect when he was granted the feudal period. At that time, hundreds of years have passed. Was it the fault of King Wu's?"

Cao Lan nodded silently.

"Of course this is not the fault of King Wu."

"Alan, who could have predicted what happened hundreds of years later? Can King Wu be? Can Jiang Shang be? They can't. They were the most powerful elites at that time. They could only make the best choice at that time, the most beneficial and suitable choice at that time. They did not make any mistakes.

Later generations have no vision to keep pace with the times, have no courage and wisdom to break the ancestors' achievements, and have failed to change the world to make the system rejuvenate the country. This is the incompetence of future generations, not the fault of ancestors."

Cao Lan looked at Guo Peng.

"So, for us now, there is also the best choice?"

Guo Peng nodded.

"In my spare time in the past few years, I have carefully studied the counties and counties and fiefs, and read the history of more than a thousand years. Then I realized that counties are conducive to rule and feudalism are conducive to development. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

The county system is very conducive to the emperor's governance of the world, but it is not convenient for the expansion of territory. Once the world is unified, the power of local officials will be subject to great checks and balances under the county system. They will not be able to control all their power and everything will be constrained and they will not be able to continue to explore.

The feudal system is different. The military, political and financial powers are all in the hands of the monarchs of the country. He can take the initiative to send troops without the permission of the central government, which will save a lot of time and explore from the local area. He is full of pioneering and autonomy, and his advantages in this area are particularly great.

But the problem of exile is that local power is too heavy and it is too easy to compete for power with the central government, which will trigger conflicts between the local government and the central government. It is better to have a short time, but over time, it will cause national division, which is something that the master of career cannot see."

I felt that what Guo Peng said made sense, Cao Lan nodded.

"That's why the seven heroes of the Warring States Period compete for hegemony?"

"Yes, it is because of the feudal division that the seven heroes of the Warring States Period were united and fought for hegemony."

Guo Peng said, "Before, compared with the Emperor of Han, I was actually just a feudal princes. The central government could not restrain me or order me. I was focused on unity, but after the founding of the country, it was different. For the sake of national stability, the county system was necessary.

Without the power to enfeoff the king, local officials can only stick to the rules, protect the country and the people, and cannot explore the outside world. Therefore, counties themselves are designed for rule rather than for exploration. For the purpose of rule rather than for progress, the system of feudal division is different, and for development."

Cao Lan felt that she understood.

"So that's the case... but since that's the case, where should we establish a feudal state? If it's in Jiangnan... or Liaodong?"

"No, we must establish a feudal state where we cannot control it."

Guo Peng shook his head and said, "Our Wei State is very large, very strong, with a large population and convenient transportation. The national government orders can be transmitted from Luoyang to any corner. Despite this, with our current situation, the land area that can be controlled is also limited.

I think that to the east, we can control the establishment of counties and counties in Pingzhou, and to the south, we can control the establishment of counties in Jiaozhou. For us, at least within a hundred years, we will have limits in both east and south. We cannot continue to expand externally and we cannot set up effective rule of counties.

It takes time for the arrival of government orders and the army to arrive. Once this time exceeds a certain limit, government orders will lose their effect and the army will not be able to quell the rebellion and disasters in time. In this way, our local rule will collapse and it will not be worth the loss."

"is that so?"

Cao Lan didn't understand government affairs and looked at Guo Peng with her eyes blinking.

Guo Peng nodded slowly.

"Yes, there is a limit to governing counties and counties, and it cannot be expanded infinitely. I have sent someone to calculate and deduce. This limit is about three months. The farthest place that the army and government orders from Luoyang can reach in three months is this limit.

No matter how strong I am or how many troops I have, I cannot rule unless the traffic leap, so I was thinking that I would find this limit, and then send our children outside the limit, and seal them off the country in that place, so that they can explore the outside world and make progress on their own.

In this way, A Jin, who is the emperor in Wei State, will not be threatened by the children who have been enfeoffed, and the children who have been enfeoffed will not be suppressed by the domestic Wei State. Both sides cannot substantially interfere with each other. Perhaps this is the only way."

“That’s a place that far away?”

Cao Lan seemed a little reluctant: "Don't the children never go home?"

"It must be so far, even a little further. For future generations, it is best for them to not have conflicts of interests between each other, so that they can develop longer."

Guo Peng said slowly: "If Liu Bang had the opportunity and strength, he would look outside, and enfeoff the kings of the Han Dynasty on the grassland, the Western Regions, the south of Jiaozhou, and the Liaodong, perhaps now, the Han Dynasty would be in another situation.

If the children who were enfeoffed could open up the situation and occupy the local area, they would be considered vassal states of Wei. The people who went out were our Wei people, who represented the Wei Kingdom, who inherited the Chinese legal system, and who brought us through it were our education. Isn’t this another sense of expansion of territory?”

Cao Lan suddenly felt that what Guo Peng said made sense.

"Another kind of expanding territory..."

"Yes, another way to expand territory, the Zhou royal family might have thought that the territory that the Zhou royal family could control, namely the Guanzhong and the Yellow River Basin, could not be controlled at all.

It was precisely because of the enfeoffment of the countries that Hebei, Central Plains, and part of Jiangnan were controlled. The princes were all Chinese, and the officials and soldiers brought with them were also Chinese.

After taking root and growing, the different countries established were actually China. The land that did not originally belong to China was turned into land of China. It has a history of 800 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100 years of 100

And the same is true for me, to enfeoff the children beyond the limits of the land I can control, to enfeoff the state, to establish a country, to give them some officials and troops, to take away some people who are willing to follow, to develop, to explore, and to build new countries."

Guo Peng took a deep breath: "My child shouldn't be mediocre."
Chapter completed!