The moon is dark, the wind is high, and the night is deep.
Under the pitch-black night sky, there were no stars or moon in the sky.
The deep night is like the future of Chu State,
Chu Yuyi stared out the window blankly, and after a long time, he sighed quietly.
"I don't know if Chu State can survive this disaster."
Suddenly,
Chu Yuyi thought of her current situation.
It seems that no matter whether Chu State can survive or not, at least he can't continue to survive.
Once upon a time, Chu Yuyi could rely on his iron fist to suppress all opposition voices in the court. ?.?????.???
However, when the situation in Chu was unstable, turbulent, and even faced the disaster of national subjugation, Chu Yuyi's authority was also gradually declining.
This is like a country full of contradictions.
In order to divert domestic conflicts, they chose to mobilize foreign troops.
As long as we can win the war, we will be able to plunder enough wealth from the war, and everything will be easy to talk about whether it is contradictory or not.
But this method is actually drinking poison to quench thirst.
After all, you can't win every battle. As long as you don't fight once, all the problems will come together and explode.
obviously,
Now Chu Yuyi is facing such a problem.
In other words, this is also the shortcoming of the empress.
Although in this world, the restrictions on women are not so strict.
Even in some cases, ministers would support the emperor's daughter to ascend to the throne.
But,
When a female emperor comes to power, she often faces a problem.
That's the prince!
Generally speaking, there are generally only two solutions.
Either the empress would find a son-in-law, and the child would have her own surname. But those who can use this method since ancient times can be said to be the least among the young.
Because most ministers cannot support such a prince.
After all, fundamentally speaking, in a patriarchal society, this child belongs to the man.
So usually the empress will choose the second method.
That is to select a smart junior from the clan and make him the prince.
Before, many ministers of Qi State also advised Han Lin to do this.
But unlike Han Lin, he completely controlled the power of Qi.
In Chu State, wealthy noble families had too much say.
Starting from the time when the capital was moved,
In succession, there were no less than twenty people urging Chu Yuyi to establish a crown prince as soon as possible.
these people,
Undoubtedly, he chose to support certain princes in the clan.
Under such a problem,
Sometimes Chu Yuyi wonders whether the conditions he agreed to with Qi State would have been better.
After all, this is Chu State,
After all, it is not our own Chu State.
It's just the Chu family and the Chu country with many wealthy noble families.
and,
If the situation continues like this, I don't know when I will be left alone.
In fact, it was not that Chu Yuyi had never thought about forcibly integrating the various forces in Chu State.
After all, in this dispersed situation,
Just like the so-called alliance of princes.
In wartime, a pile of scattered sand cannot be condensed into a rope.
It may even appear,
If you don't hit the door of your own power, you don't want to send troops to rescue.
but,
The various aristocratic families in Chu State have complex and deep-rooted powers.
If Chu Yuyi really dared to do this, those aristocratic families could choose to change their emperor on the spot.
After all, although the emperor is nominally the lord of the world, he still needs someone's support. He is the emperor.
It's like Emperor Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty. As the king of a country, the treasury was so poor that he could starve to death. As a result, he asked ministers to donate some money, and each one withheld money as if it was killing them.
Moreover, in the face of this situation, Emperor Chongzhen could not directly mobilize troops to raid his home.
After all, if he wants to secure his position as emperor, he needs the support of these people.
In the end, they had to continue to get money from the people, which eventually led to continuous uprisings by the people.
Those who supported the emperor relied on the intimidation of imperial power to annex large amounts of land and appropriate wealth.
In the end, it became an interest group that even the imperial power could not touch.
Then they intensified their efforts to annex land and accumulate wealth. This kind of thing was almost an unsolvable problem in the ancient feudal dynasty.
So after hundreds of years of feuding among the princes,
Countries around the world have begun to implement reforms.
Among them, Qin's reforms were the most thorough.
In fact, it is not that Chu State has no solution, but because of the obstruction of vested interests, it is impossible to completely reform.
this problem,
It has troubled Chu Yuyi for nearly ten years.
nowadays,
As the Chu country was in turmoil and in danger of national subjugation, she realized how serious the consequences of this problem would be.
But
Chu Yuyi also knew that there was no way to solve this problem on his own.
At first,
When Han Lin ascended the throne, he also faced such a problem.
But Han Lin's solution was very crude. He directly confiscated all the so-called aristocratic families and exterminated their ancestors, which fundamentally solved the problem.
However, there must be a prerequisite for doing so.
That is in the hands of the emperor, who needs to control an army and have an overwhelming advantage.
"Your Majesty, it's late at night, it's time to rest."
Just when Chu Yuyi was feeling melancholy, a gentle voice full of concern sounded from behind him.
Chu Yuyi looked back and saw her personal maid Xiao Yu.
Although they are maids in name, they have been together for more than ten years and are the people they trust most.
Xiaoyu slowly walked behind him and put
