A faint smell of sandalwood permeated the study.

Niu Ben thought for a moment, and looked worried: "What the emperor said is very true. If the King of Huainan takes action, it will save us a lot of strength, and at the same time it can also weaken the strength of the King of Huainan. If the Kingdom of Yan, Liang and Zhao are destroyed, only the King of Huainan and Yong will be left north of the Yangtze River. But is the emperor ready to let the vassal state continue? After all, the internal chaos in Dayu is enough to see the harm of the vassal state to the vassal state."

"I can see what General Niu can see, but King Yong and King Huainan have surrendered to me, but I cannot easily use troops to them. Now my plan can only appease them and take the strategy of reducing the vassal state after the Great Yu country is stable. This will save the people from the suffering of war and solve the problem of the vassal king without bloodshed. Moreover, the great troubles of the barbarians have not been eliminated, so I will just quell the rebellion as soon as possible." Xiao Ming said in contemplation.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to solve the vassal kings once and for all, but he always has to pay attention to one strategy in everything. Since he can pull one and beat another, why bother to challenge all the vassal kings by himself?

And an important issue is that if the war continues, the Great Yu Kingdom will be completely defeated into a mess. The young and strong people in the Great Yu Kingdom will be killed and injured in this battle in Yunzhou City.

Among them, the number of deaths in the Battle of Yunzhou was not mentioned, but the people who transported food and grass to the Three Kings coalition were also dead. This was not the case with the rioters who plundered and killed the people after the defeat.

It is easy to say that the Three Kings coalition was defeated, but in fact it caused serious war problems to the Great Yu Kingdom.

For this issue, you only need to look at the contemporary Middle East issue to understand what the people in the north are facing.

During World War II, soldiers killed civilians indiscriminately. In this dynasty that was far from civilized, killing people during the war was simply common.

The battle report of the war in Yunzhou was placed on the table, but Wang Xuan collected the news under the table.

According to the information provided by the Sewei, the three kings coalition was very insidious this time. Most of the civilians they recruited came from the occupied royal prefectures and counties. At the same time, the food and supplies of this battle were also forcibly added to the people of these prefectures and counties.

During their capture of the city, the people of these prefectures and counties had already suffered their slaughter, but now they are suffering.

If the barbarians were fighting at this time, he really suspected that the people in these places would eventually go to help the barbarians, because these vassal kings would not be much better than the barbarians.

Based on these things, after thinking about it, he decided to win over the dependent vassal kings and stabilize the country as soon as possible. After all, the real enemy of the Great Yu Kingdom has been staring at him, and it is in his interest to be completely destroyed in the north.

Although these dependent vassal kings are hidden dangers, at least they can keep one side stable.

Moreover, after the King of Yan, King Zhao, and King Liang, King Yong and King Huainan could not pose a threat to the central government at all, so they could just slowly digest it.

"The emperor has a far-sighted vision, and it seems that he is too worried." Niu Ben breathed a light sigh.

Xiao Ming glanced at Niu Ben. In the past two days, officials such as Pang Yukun, Zhan Xingchang and others have mentioned this issue. This is different from the attitudes of old officials such as Fiji and Chang'an.

Xiao Ming thought for a moment and understood that after he ascended the throne and emperor, the Chang'an officials and other officials of the country, even less than a pot of urination.

One is that Chang'an officials still attach importance to family backgrounds and look down on officials from civilian backgrounds such as Pang Yukun. Secondly, these officials tend to be conservative in their thinking and do not have open minds for the founding officials.

Pang Yukun and others were the vested interests of Xiao Ming's extermination of the wealthy clan. Psychologically, they were instinctively wary of the wealthy clan, and they were worried that the wealthy clan would gain power and that they would be liquidated.

After all, there are also close ties between the wealthy families in Qingzhou and other wealthy families in Dayu Kingdom, and they have great opinions on Pang Yukun and others.

Secondly, Pang Yukun is trying to restore the Legalist trend, and these officials from Chang'an still have strong Confucianism, and the two are even more pointed.

From Xiao Ming's perspective, he naturally favored Pang Yukun, but the land under the jurisdiction of the feudal state continued to expand, and he had to rely on old officials to govern the prefectures and counties for him.

He also had a headache in the face of this contradiction, but there was no solution at present. After all, it has only been five years since he came to Qingzhou.

He was able to achieve such achievements in the past five years and was unprecedented in the Great Yu Kingdom. However, even so, the number of officials he was able to train was limited. Even so, there were some officials trained by the Bowen Academy who were different from each other and still respected Confucianism in their hearts, and they were in the same spirit as conservative officials such as Fiji.

However, this question was raised by Niu Ben and he was very unhappy because he knew that the army could not have thoughts, otherwise it would be easy to cause trouble at that time.

No matter how much the officials make trouble, they just move their mouths. A modern army will cause trouble if they move rashly.

So he sternly said: "General Niu, you are too concerned about this matter. Soldiers only need to obey orders and do not need to care about the government."

Niu Ben's heart trembled when he heard this, and he suddenly realized, "Your Majesty, I will be guilty!"

"Don't do it again next time! I know what you are worried about, but you are thinking too much. Don't forget that slaughtering the rich was my idea back then, and some people can't make a comeback." Xiao Ming seemed to have some point in his words.

"If there is the emperor, I will feel at ease."

Niu Ben bowed and said, Xiao Ming is now the emperor, and he gradually felt that Xiao Ming was changing to an emperor.

"That's right. I will reward you later on my merits." Xiao Ming said with a smile. He also hoped that these generals would continue to fight for him. It was necessary to properly appease him.

After bowing, Niu Ben turned around and left the study. At this time, the brush in Xiao Ming's hand that he had put down stood up.

Looking at Niu Ben's figure as he passed through the stone bridge, Xiao Ming sighed softly. Only after becoming the emperor did he realize that being a fool is simple, but being a wise ruler is too difficult.

Because the group of people under the balance are in trouble, they also have to worry about the army. After all, in this era, the generals do not listen to the orders and the fact that they have to respect themselves is simply common.

Even in contemporary times, some countries often experience military coups, and the fundamental reason is that the army has become the private soldiers of some generals.

This situation is a very common thing in feudal dynasties. It is precisely because of this that the emperor has many restrictions on military generals.

Now Xiao Ming has also encountered this problem. He must not let himself kill a general, who can easily lead the army to rebel.
Chapter completed!