I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Yongxing 18th year, February 1st.

Wu Changqing returned to the harem after a tiring day.

The palace maid squeezed his shoulders and performed various massages to soothe his muscles.

The good concubine Luo Min was peeling oranges for Wu Changqing.

"Being an emperor is so tiring. I almost want to abdicate and live a life of retirement."

Wu Changqing said proudly. Everyone was used to his style, so naturally they would not take his words seriously.

"Why not adopt the enfeoffment system? That way you can take care of a lot less things, and you won't have to be so tired."

Luo Min said.

The harem is not supposed to discuss government affairs, but that refers to public occasions.

When husband and wife chat in private, there is nothing that cannot be said.

In addition, Wu Changqing has always been more indulgent towards them, so Luo Min also developed the habit of speaking more casually.

After Wu Changqing heard this, he couldn't help but think more.

At noon, he saw a memorial, which also suggested that Wu Changqing use the enfeoffment system to manage Dahua's territory.

Before that, people had told him one after another about some of the 'inefficiency' problems that Dahua was currently facing in administration, and their words seemed to praise the enfeoffment system.

He didn't think this was a coincidence.

These remarks have popped up recently. It is obvious that someone wants to establish a feudal system in Dahua.

When Wu Changqing was studying history, he seemed to have said in the book that the feudal monarchy was an improvement over the enfeoffment system.

However, after he owned 95 million territories, he realized that things were not as simple as they seemed.

In terms of communication capabilities during the Zhou Dynasty, the enfeoffment system was actually a better system.

If a centralized feudal system were adopted, administrative efficiency would be horribly low.

Simply submitting a memorial to the central government and waiting for instructions from the central government will cause delays and costs far greater than the benefits that can be gained from resolving the matter.

Even if Qin Shihuang overhauled Chi Dao, he could not fundamentally solve this contradiction.

The rapid collapse of the Qin Empire was partly due to this.

Although the subsequent Han Dynasty was also a feudal monarchy, power was largely decentralized to local governments.

This is even more true when there is war.

Even in the Ming Dynasty, it was famous that imperial power did not go to the countryside.

In the Qing Dynasty, the court had to establish the position of governor of Liangjiang and other feudal officials, decentralizing power.

These are inevitable phenomena caused by backward communication.

It can be said that in the past era of backward communication, a country's territorial area actually had an upper limit.

Like the Mongol Empire, after expansion, it was necessary to adopt a feudal system, otherwise the country would not be able to manage it.

Enfeoffment will inevitably lead to division.

Today, Dahua's communications are countless times more advanced than before, but its territory is also unprecedentedly large.

The continued use of a centralized system for such a huge territory is a very big challenge for the central decision-makers, and some officials in the capital already feel overwhelmed.

They have endless matters to deal with and endless meetings to hold every day.

However, this is not the fundamental reason why they proposed the enfeoffment system.

Wu Changqing had people from the Investigation Bureau providing him with information, so he knew the purpose of the person who proposed enfeoffment.

Behind those people, there are actually shadows of princes.

His eldest child, Wu Xun, is already nineteen and almost twenty years old, and he is already happy to be a father.

Unconsciously, Wu Changqing was already a grandfather figure.

Sometimes he thought it was quite interesting. In his previous life, there were a lot of people who had not yet married a wife at the age of thirty-six. And he is already a grandfather.

In this era, twenty-year-olds are already adults and their minds are already quite mature.

What's more, Wu Xun is still a prince, and professionals have taught him what to do in the future since he was a child.

Some people who were unsuccessful in officialdom even placed their bets on Wu Xun.

As a result, Wu Xun has a team of staff around him to help Wu Xun maximize his interests.

This staff team told Wu Xun very clearly that if you want to take over your father's position, your hope is extremely slim, because Wu Changqing has always been in good health and is ridiculously young.

If someone wants to succeed Wu Changqing, there is a high probability that he will die before Zhu Yuanzhang like Zhu Yuanzhang's son Zhu Biao.

Even if Wu Xun could endure it better, how meaningful would it be to take over the throne when he could no longer walk?

What's more, Wu Xun is not yet the legitimate son and may not be able to succeed to the throne.

In addition to Wu Changqing, he also had to fight with his eldest son Wu Xuan, which was really not easy.

Therefore, after analysis by Wu Yi's staff team, the suggestion given to Wu Yi was to ask Wu Changqing for a fiefdom and become a prince with real power.

Dahua has a vast territory. Even if it is divided into only one-tenth of the territory, it will be 9.5 million square kilometers, which is larger than the previous Ming Dynasty.

A prince with real power in that kind of fiefdom could live the same life as an emperor.

Wu Yi was not stupid. After comprehensive analysis, he also felt that the most suitable path for him was to become a prince elsewhere.

If there is turmoil in the Central Plains in the future, they can also be killed back to compete in the Central Plains.

With real power in hand, everything is possible.

There are many princes who have the same idea as him.

Compared with the eldest son Wu Xun and the eldest son Wu Xuan, the other princes who succeeded to the throne

The possibility is even lower, so the desire for a fiefdom is even stronger.

And those ministers and wealthy people who invested in these princes were working hard to promote the enfeoffment system.

Woman.

Wu Changqing sighed inwardly.

He has always felt that when a woman has children, she will forget about her husband.

This is the general law of nature and cannot be changed.

I think back then, Luo Min put all her thoughts on him and tried every means to please him.

But now, for the sake of her own son, she actually wants to share her husband's property. It's simply outrageous.

"I have my own thoughts on this kind of thing, so don't mess with it."

Wu Changqing said.

Enfeoffment is absolutely impossible.

In the face of power, all brothers have to settle accounts, not to mention that the princes can only be regarded as half-brothers, not even brothers.

If it continues for another two or three generations, they won't even be considered close relatives.

From enfeoffment to division, it is only a matter of time.

He didn't want to think that a scuffle would break out among his descendants in the future, and in order to win victory, some deranged descendant would obtain soldiers and issue a declaration of equality, allowing other ethnic groups to gain the same status as the Han people.

At the end of the war, the vitality of the Han people was severely damaged, and other ethnic groups took the opportunity to become independent, which would be a disaster for the world.

Therefore, Wu Changqing would not agree to the enfeoffment system at all.

As for those princes who were dissatisfied because of this, Wu Changqing would ask them to hold it in.

If you can't hold it back, then go to the private sector and become ordinary people, let them feel the suffering of the world, so that they will not be dissatisfied with this kind of life of sitting and waiting to die.

The treatment they are dissatisfied with is benefits that others cannot achieve in their lifetime.