NovelTags Chapter 266
Chapter 266
"Xu announced, as the Lingnan Song Dynasty bowed to Xuan, the Great Sui declared unification!"
"From now on, we will expand the territory of the Great Sui inch by inch!"
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In the Daxing Hall, only Yang Guang's excited voice was heard.
And the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military officials did not expect His Majesty to say such a thing at all, and for a while they were a little surprised and speechless.
Goguryeo, who took the initiative to find trouble for the Great Sui, and the Turkic royal court on the steppe, were all defeated by the hands of the Great Sui.
His Majesty the Great Sui is indeed qualified to say such things.
However, from the beginning of the storm to the current active expansion, the ministers of the DPRK and China are still somewhat in a trance.
A moment later.
A white-bearded minister walked out and bowed his hand towards Yang Guang: "Forgive the minister for being ignorant, the minister thinks that it is inappropriate to do this." "
"Why not?" Yang Guang looked at this Wen Chen and said tepidly.
"Around my Dasui, most of them are some barren lands, these places, not to mention the cost of troops, after getting it, they also need a lot of manpower to manage, so isn't it worth the loss?"
"Moreover, my Central Plains has always been rich in resources, and I don't need these places to satisfy us..."
"Although the Great Sui is now different from the past and extremely strong, His Majesty still needs to convince people with virtue, this is the best policy!"
The minister's words just fell.
Above the court, the other civil and military officials were suddenly startled.
Most of the courtiers were in their minds at the moment, and they felt that His Majesty was in too much of a hurry.
However, Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and the second assistant, as well as several ministers such as Hube Shangshu, stood in place without saying a word, and did not echo these ministers.
In the eyes of these people, since His Majesty made such a decision, he naturally had a foolproof plan.
Based on their understanding of Your Majesty, every time Your Majesty makes a decision, although it seems to be imaginative on the surface, in fact, it is carefully considered.
For example, land, commercial tax reform...
In implementing these decisions, which courtier could see His Majesty's good intentions?
What courtier could see the meaning of His Majesty's decision?
Therefore, these few people just stood quietly in place, waiting for His Majesty's final decision.
Yang Guang also knew very well in his heart why the white-bearded Wenchen just said this, and why they did not advocate foreign expansion.
Most of the Chinese courtiers were Confucian, while the ancient Celestial Empire was dominated by Confucianism.
There are also Taoists and Legalists, and although at some point, certain dynasties have indeed manifested, but Confucianism is the most basic root vein, and it has never been severed.
Even the dynasty established by foreign invasions was eventually corrected by Confucianism.
Confucianism, on the other hand, emphasizes unipolarity, orderliness and inclusiveness.
The so-called polarity has many levels of understanding, one is that the Central Plains is the loyalty of the entire world, the emperor is the loyalty of human beings, and imperial power is the center of power.
As long as this center is guaranteed, then the world will be peaceful...
And to ensure this center, for them, this has little to do with the size of the territory.
On the contrary, the larger the territory, the more difficult it is to guarantee.
From what they just said, it is not difficult to see that they feel that the larger the territory, the more unmanageable it is.
If His Majesty sends other people to manage, and he is not at ease, and sends his own sons to manage, the sons will fight for the world again, causing chaos in the world.
The so-called orderliness is to hope that all people in the world can be safe and guarded by themselves, respectful and orderly, and the father is kind to the son.
Prince, courtier, father, son.
Under such a group of cultures, they are most afraid of some chaos.
If they invade other countries, it will naturally be a manifestation of chaos in their eyes.
What did ancient kings pay the most attention to to conquering other countries?
By what?
Not by force, but by virtue.
Typical examples are when King Shang went to conquer Dongyi and King Wu of Zhou conquered the Shang Dynasty.
The same is conquest, why do later generations have such a high opinion of King Wu of Zhou, and the opposite is to belittle King Shang?
This is because people in history believe that the conquest of King Wu of Zhou was conquered by virtue, while King Shang was simply crushed by force, and the most fundamental difference between the two was at this time.
The so-called inclusiveness, to take a simple example, is to lie on the side of the bed, how to allow others to snore.
Zhao Kuangyin said this because the person sleeping soundly beside him wanted to compete with him for imperial power.
If you don't compete with him for imperial power, he can tolerate it.
For example, Zhao Kuangyin did not think of conquering the Kingdom of Dali, including the entire Song Dynasty.
That's because this Dali state does not pose a threat to their central power, as long as it does not pose a threat, as long as you recognize the central government as a pole, then in Confucian thought, it can be inclusive of you.
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