Xiong Dun released the captured nobles back, and together with the defeated army that had escaped earlier, he recruited a group of minor nobles from the royal territory.
The formation of Luoyi's Sixth Army was quickly restored. As the commander of the Xia Dynasty, Qi Hou was training this rebuilt army, hoping to restore its combat effectiveness as soon as possible and make up for the hidden danger of the lack of combat effectiveness in the Wangji area.
Almost everyone looked happy. The negative impact of this defeat was gradually disappearing, but Luo Su smelled danger.
In special periods that are not wartime, tens of thousands of off-duty troops can actually be recruited.
This does not mean that the economic situation is good, but it means that there are more nobles without fiefs who hope to obtain land by serving the emperor.
There were a large number of nobles in Bangzhou who had feudal states, but there were also many nobles who did not enfeoff, but stayed in the royal territory to develop their own clans.
They served the emperor as officials in the royal territory, and the emperor distributed the land in the royal territory to them, and the output of the land was used as salary to support the clans of these people.
This land was different from the land that was enfeoffed to the princes. The ownership was still in the hands of the emperor and could not be bought or sold. It was only used as output.
Countless small nobles make a living from this, and even Luosu has a fief in the royal territory.
If many people lose their fiefs in an instant, the entire kingdom will explode in an instant.
There were very few free people in this era. In any of the vassal states, there was no recruitment of soldiers like that of later generations. All of them were the lowest-level little nobles and people serving in the army.
Only by ensuring their interests can the emperor sit safely on the throne.
This was also the time when Ji Wan suffered a landslide on his way back to Luoyi. After the news of the defeat reached Wang Ji, Luo Su immediately expressed his condolences to Wang Ji's minor nobles.
All the fiefs will not be taken back, and even people from their clans will be sent to continue serving the emperor to ensure the loyalty and confidence of the vassals in the emperor.
In order to thoroughly understand the basic situation of Wang Ji today, Luo Su asked Chen Hou for the distribution of Wang Ji's land, population, and clans.
This is the latest statistical result obtained by recruiting new troops. Chen Hou is a mediocre person. He has no ability to analyze the information behind these data.
But Luosu could. Looking at the list, he felt his hands trembling.
The situation was more serious than he imagined. It had only been seventy years since King Kang moved east to Luoyi, and the land in Wang Ji had already been divided into four layers.
According to the patriarchal system, large sects are divided into small sects, and small sects are further divided into smaller sects. The number of such clans will increase exponentially. How can there be so much land to distribute among the kings.
If new land cannot be obtained, fierce conflicts will occur between the small nobles without fiefs and the large nobles with large fief areas.
At that time, the entire royal territory will definitely fall into the haze of political struggle, and even the military nobles will directly take action.
"No wonder our ancestors said back then that the patriarchal system, the feudal system, and the Xia monarch and the barbarian people are a trinity. If any one link is missing, the destiny of the Zhou people will gradually collapse."
Luo Su took a deep breath, "This kind of continuous enfeoffment among Wang Ji must not continue. Some of these clans that have been entrenched in Wang Ji for many years must also be cleared out."
Luo Su knew after a moment's thought that the resistance to this matter must be great. If we were to use an example from later generations to describe it, it would be equivalent to driving a middle class person who had settled in Beijing out of Beijing to the frontier.
For such a thorny problem, even the ancestors and other heavenly beings have no complete solution. They can only choose to enfeoff all the people and delay it as long as possible. But now the situation is different. Enfeoffment cannot be done just by saying. The time was also somewhat at a loss.
Suddenly the guard outside said there was a letter from Hao Jing. Luo Su put down the bamboo slip in his hand and asked the guard to bring the person in.
Then they saw Taibao, Xia Chief Qihou and a young nobleman wearing leather armor hurried in. As soon as Qihou saw Luo Su, he said eagerly: "Grandmaster, there is an urgent military situation from Haojing."
The Marquis of Qi was the commander of the Xia government, and was in charge of the military affairs of Bangzhou. All military news, in addition to being sent to Luo Su, had to be sent to the Xia government office at the same time.
As soon as he received the information from the messenger, he immediately put down what he was doing and rushed to Luosu.
Luo Su quickly unfolded the letter delivered by the messenger. While waiting for Luo Su to read it, the Marquis of Qi said directly: "The princes entrusted to the west of Haojing jointly sent a letter saying that the news of King Li's defeat has spread to the Xirong tribe, and the Xirong tribe believes that the state has The myth of Zhou Dajun being undefeated has ended.
They gathered dozens of tribes, formed a coalition, and suddenly attacked the western princes. The princes were unprepared and were defeated. When the letter came, more than a dozen princes had been conquered.
The princes fled to Haojing Wangji with their members of the clan, defeated troops, and people from the country, and temporarily lived in the city of Wangji.
Now the princes of Zhenxi, Chenghou, Maohou, Taihou and Bihou, are leading their troops to resist, preventing the dog soldiers from directly breaking into the royal territory and destroying the ancestral temples of our ancestors.
It is said that they have contacted Baohou, who has always been on good terms with Quanrong's large tribe, hoping to get Quanrong to retreat. "
Luo Su had also finished reading the intelligence sent to him at this time. He did not know much about military matters, but he was very good at maintaining the balance of power, but now most of Bangzhou's diplomacy was made by him personally.
He felt very strange about what happened in the west, and said to himself: "Why did the Quanrong suddenly attack on a large scale? I know that the two sides often have frictions, but with the Qiang people as allies, the Quanrong are crazy to fight with us. Bangzhou starts a large-scale war?"
Qiang and Jiang have the same origin. The Qiang people have always been Bangzhou's most important ally to the west of Haojing and an important helper in resisting the Dog Rong. How could such a balanced distribution of forces be suddenly broken?
As for the myth that Bang Zhou's army was undefeated, just listen to it. Since moving the capital to Luoyi, and with the help of the Qiang people, Bang Zhou has focused his main energy on the development of the central and eastern areas. The shooting has never been enough.
He ordered the guards to take the messenger down to rest. There were no outsiders present, so the two of them sat cross-legged casually, thinking about the strange news coming from Haojing City. Luo Su shook the bamboo slips in his hands and frowned: "Uncle, what do you think about this matter? They all reveal something strange.
As the western princes said, the strength of the Quanrong army has grown extremely rapidly in recent years, but it will not suddenly grow to the point where it cannot be stopped by the coalition forces of all countries.
There is no way that there should be an unparalleled general like Xiong Dun among the Quan Rong, who could defeat more with less and defeat the western princes and Qiang tribes at the same time.
Does Gu still have to pull the newly rebuilt army in Luoyi to quell the chaos?
It is simply the most ridiculous thing in the world. "
The Marquis of Qi was a man who had experienced many battles, and he found the news even more strange.
I have been thinking about it all the way and am puzzled.
But when he heard what Luo Su said, it seemed as if a spiritual light suddenly shot into his mind, "Lead the army to Haojing and re-deploy a huge military force in Haojing. Could it be that the western princes themselves created this?" Something.”
Luo Su heard the muttering of the Marquis of Qi, and he immediately remembered that the two of them had said before that the princes in the west often exaggerated the threat of Quan Rong to Hao Jing, and tried their best to make the emperor move westward.
The main purpose is to hope that the emperor will invest his power in Haojing again, so as to restore the political status of the former center.
It is very likely that the princes in the west took advantage of the emperor's defeat to see if they could bring the emperor to Haojing.
Luo Su knew about the demands of the western princes, but he would not allow this to happen. The emperor would stay in the Central Plains for at least thirty years.
"Uncle, your guess is still very possible, otherwise it would be impossible to explain this matter."
Luo Su said angrily: "I hope this is just the speculation of the two of us. If the western princes deliberately allow the dogs and soldiers to cause chaos, they will really be punished. Anyone who shakes the country will die.
But if it is really them, making such a move is a dangerous political signal.
It seems that Haojing's decline has reached a point that they cannot tolerate.
If we don’t consider the people of Ho Kyung, a more dangerous turmoil than this may not be far away.
Ensuring the stability of the western region is the top priority. Haojing is the important place where the destiny of the state is rising, and there must be no mistakes.
At that time, King Su once told King Kang that he would implement a two-capital system. In the narrow land between Haojing and Luoyi, a large number of vassal states with the surname Ji were enfeoffed, completely turning this land into a king.
Then by connecting the two capitals, Bangzhou's destiny would become long-lasting, but in the end it was not implemented.
Now it seems it's time to revive the plan.
With the development of the east, Luoyi has reached its peak of prosperity. Rebuilding Haojing now can also lay a solid foundation for the future strategy of the western frontier. "
The Marquis of Qi was one of the leaders of the eastern princes, and naturally opposed the emperor's westward movement.
But Qi State was Bangzhou's ally after all, so he didn't say much, just frowned and said: "In recent years, the feudal princes have gradually developed customs.
Previously, the three sons of the late king were ennobled as marquises. It can be said that they are of noble blood and are favored by Emperor Xi's accession to the throne. What reasons should other princes surnamed Ji use?
Unreasonable enfeoffment, not to mention princes with different surnames, will cause problems within the royal family. Since ancient times, people have not been concerned about poverty and inequality, so we must act with caution. "
Luo Su naturally knew this, and suddenly he seemed to remember something. He turned around and picked up the clan members in Wang Jinei again. He couldn't help but smile on his face, and said with some joy: "The title of enfeoffment has been found. The key is how to get these people." go out."
When Qi Hou took the bamboo slips from Luo Su, he immediately understood what Luo Su meant and asked, "Are you planning to entrust these ministers within the kingdom? If they are these people, there will indeed be much less resistance."
Finding solutions to the two problems at the same time, Luo Su said with a somewhat relaxed expression: "These ministers in Wang Ji are all nobles who have stayed in Wang Ji since the time of King Kang.
Although they do not have the backing of a country like the princes like us, they are well-connected and have a large population in the royal territory. It will be very beneficial to Bangzhou to transfer them out.
These people have served the emperor for many years, and their merits are enough to silence some princes. Many of them are nominally the emperor's ministers, and their status is noble enough.
When the ancestors formulated the patriarchal law, they said that the emperor's three princes were regarded as princes, the emperor's ministers were regarded as uncles, and the emperor's officials were regarded as sons.
According to this system, we enfeoffed all the nobles with large clans in the royal territory, the nobles who lost power but owned a large number of fiefs, and the small nobles who did not have fiefs.
It can not only solve the land problem within Wangji, but also solve the problem between the two capitals. "
The Marquis of Qi quickly pointed out a problem in this method: "Can they agree to let the big nobles move out of the royal territory?
Especially for those families with generations of ministers, not even you could expel Yu and Ji from King Li's side.
If it hadn't been for King Li's defeat this time, I'm afraid they would still be staying with King Li safely.
The land entrusted to the royal family is not hereditary, but everyone knows that it is actually hereditary.
I even heard that the royal office is already trying to allow the nobles to trade the land in the fief at a reasonable price.
If you exchange the land outside the territory for the land within the territory in their hands, they will definitely object.
After all, Wang Ji is their territory, unless our army is transferred here, but you know, we can't do that. "
Luo Su smiled slightly and said: "My nephew has naturally considered what you are worried about, uncle.
Speaking of which, although the Luo Kingdom is a foreign country, starting from the ancestor King Su, the Luo Marquises of all generations have basically served in the Wang Ji. However, the ancestral temple is not here, but they can still be regarded as the princes of the Wang Ji.
According to my understanding, the internal affairs of the princes and ministers are not monolithic. Some large clans of princes and ministers are gradually marginalized among the princes and originally want to be exposed to the outside world.
A hundred years ago, Wangji would have been the most prosperous and fertile place in the world, and no one would want to leave here.
But after so many years, with the progress of the Xia monarch and the people, many princes are no longer so difficult, and Wang Ji Gongqing is jealous.
As for those ministers who are unwilling to be released outside, according to the patriarchal system and the enfeoffment system, ministers, officials, and Yuanshi must be sealed in layers.
The big sect did not grant land to the small sect, which was not in line with Zhou etiquette.
I am the eldest son of the clan named Ji. For a clan that does not follow the patriarchal etiquette system, it is normal to uphold justice for those small sects in Kinai, right?
As long as the military nobles are stabilized, I will first enfeoff the small clans that cannot get fiefs to weaken the strength of the larger clans.
If you still don't know the difference then, you should ask me if the blade is sharp. "
After hearing what Luo Su said, Qi Hou felt that it was quite appropriate, so he smiled and said: "Since you have a good plan, I won't ask more questions, but how should we deal with the matter in Haojing City now?"
Whether it is the relocation of Wang Ji Gongqing or the revitalization of Haojing, it is a long-term national policy. What is now facing them is the military chaos in the west.
Retracting my divergent thoughts, I don’t know the specific situation of this matter in the West, and there is actually no other way.
He could only send someone over and said, "I still have to trouble my uncle to go west for this matter.
With the strength of an army, I will ask the regent council to entrust the military and political affairs of the entire west to your uncle, and you can act with full authority.
After arriving, the main thing is to appease the defeated princes. If there are too many, find the one who is the most excessive and deal with it. Let the rest go first and check first.
As for the Qiang tribe, my uncle knows better than me. Just make your own decision. This time, I want to take a closer look at what is going on in the west. "
When Qi Hou came, he expected that he would most likely go west, so he directly agreed: "Leave this matter to me. I will send a messenger back if I find new discoveries."
