"The world * * * bitter endlessly, princes. Lai Zongmiao, the world was first established and the country was restored. It's a tree soldier. It's not difficult to seek peace! Tingwei suggested yes. "
Although, the debate about the advantages and disadvantages of the enfeoffment system and the county system did not stop there. After the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang had a dispute over the choice of enfeoffment system and county system. For example, Xiang Yu is a staunch supporter of the enfeoffment system. At first, he was afraid that the king of Chu would give him a local overlord of Chu, but later he felt dissatisfied. He just kicked away the emperor of justice, and then he enfeoffed the world himself:
"Wang Naili Zhang Han is the king of harmony, and the west of Xianyang, the kings, all waste hills. Long Shixin was imprisoned in Liyang and tasted virtue in Xiang Liang; Chunyu Chang Dong Yi advised Zhang Han to surrender to Chu. Therefore, Sima Xin was appointed as the king of Sai, and the king Xianyang was in Liyang from east to river. Dong Ming was appointed King Zhai of Wangshang County, and both of them were high slaves. Wang Bao, who moved to Wei, was the king of Western Wei, Hedong and Pingyang. Zhang Er, the minister of Shenyang, first went down to Henan to meet the Chu River, so he made Shenyang the king of Luoyang, Henan ... "
Didn't he conquer the world just to occupy territory for himself? But in the end, he was very eager to subcontract his land to others, which is really a strange phenomenon in history. Not only Xiang Yu was fascinated by the enfeoffment system, but Liu Bang also had a certain yearning for it. On one occasion, Liu Bang was besieged by Xiang Yu, and when he was at the end of his tether, Shi Li suggested to Liu Bang that he should enfeoffment the vassal in order to gain allies:
"If you want to establish six countries and establish a tree party, Hanwang will engrave it and send you to establish it."
Without thinking, Liu Bang carved all the seals, and then prepared to give his carved seals to others, and then sealed them for others. Fortunately, Liu Bang is very cautious. He thought for a moment, ready to ask his most reliable consultant Sean. So he told Sean about it. Sean was surprised and said, "Who gave you this bad idea? I beg you to kill him! "
Then Sean used chopsticks as a tool to tell Liu Bang in detail the disadvantages of the enfeoffment system. I only heard Liu Bang spit out the half-chewed rice on the spot and cursed: "This smelly Confucian scholar almost ruined my event!" " Because Shi Li is a Confucian scholar. Scold is over, it's not enough. Liu bang quickly burned the seal that he had driven out overnight, so as not to let people take it out and pretend to be their own princes.
Why did Liu Bang change this position as soon as he heard Sean's analysis? Because of the disadvantages of the enfeoffment system, it was placed in front of Liu Bang, but it was not reflected in the discussion with Liu Bang. More importantly, Shi Li was originally a lobbyist. He wanted others to believe him, so he said it was of great benefit. With Liu Bang's excessive and surprising personality, it must be easy to believe.
So, enfeoffment vassals
What are the disadvantages? In fact, there is no need for Sean to popularize the history of Zhou Dynasty for Liu Bang. Just take a look at the world situation after Xiang Yu's enfeoffment. Xiang Yu entered the State of Qin and drove Liu Bang away at the Hongmen banquet. He felt that "no return of wealth is like a splendid night trip", so he divided the world into princes and claimed to be the overlord of Xi's land. Next, the world opened a new great turmoil:
"Tian Rongwenyu moved to Wang Qi, Jiaodong, and made Tian the king of Qi. He was furious and took ice cream to see Tian Du. Go to Chu. In June, Tian Rong killed Shi Tian and became the king of Qi. At that time, Peng Yue was in Juye, with more than 10,000 people and no ownership. Glory and more general printing because of opposition. The more you kill Wang An in Jibei, the more glorious it will be. Han Guang, the prince of Yan, refused to migrate to Liaodong. In autumn and August, Zangcha killed Han Guang and his land. Sai and Zhai both surrendered to Han. "
In a word, that is "mutual harm". Not only did the princes attack each other, but even the princes kept killing each other. This is the most prominent point of Qi. Tian Rong, Tian Du, Tian Heng and others, because of their dissatisfaction with the distribution of power, kept killing internally, and invited foreign aid from outside to persecute each other. In fact, the founding king of Qi might say here: Since Qi is surnamed Jiang, why did you Tian come here to win the position? My descendants named Jiang haven't spoken yet!
But Tian certainly doesn't care about this. Since Tian replaced Qi, they have regarded Qi as their private property. But in fact, Tian Rong and others are not the orthodox descendants of Tian Ji, but only the descendants of Tian Ji's small clan and Minister Tian Ji. But at this time, in fact, people don't pay attention to these, just like "Mazhuang is the son of heaven" behind, and the real descendants of Tianqi dare not argue with such a powerful minister as Tian Rong.
Therefore, when I saw this, Liu Bang was suddenly enlightened-it was a thankless thing to enfeoffment princes. If, according to the old system of the Zhou Dynasty, the descendants of the former governors were divided into princes, then those powerful ministers who really held the power of princes would be dissatisfied with Liu Bang. They took great risks to rise up against Qin, not to oppose the so-called tyranny, but essentially to change their lives and become a real king.
Now that the great event is over, they are still courtiers, and they used to be royalty or royalty, so what are they fighting for? Let's do it again! This is what they did to Xiang Yu. Because they were not satisfied with the result of the enfeoffment system, there was another uprising directly. On the other hand, if Liu Bang enfeoffed the ministers of vassal states into vassals, could they keep their place? No, but it will be more messy.
Because although the power of the royal family is declining, the name of the royal family is still very famous. And Liu bang enfeoffment vassal ministers, it is impossible to seal all vassal ministers into one country. There are always people who are dissatisfied with their own packet. So at this time, the value of the former royal family is reflected-those dissatisfied ministers can rebel under the banner of the royal family and ask Liu Bang to re-enfeoffment.
In a word, it is because of more than 800 years' operation that the enfeoffment system of the Zhou Dynasty has completely lost its control over power, the real royal family has declined, and the powerful ministers have great power. In this case, even if Liu Bang wanted to enfeoffment the vassal, he would not dare to enfeoffment it, so as not to "avenge the millet". In this way, it is better to let the enfeoffment system become history directly, so that the royal family and the dignitaries have nothing to say.
Anyway, I didn't propose the county system first. If the governors are not satisfied, they will scold the first Qin Shihuang who fully implemented the county system! Liu Bangru thought.