"Ahem!"

Liu Xiu cleared his throat, clasped his fists at the six judges present before he gave his answer.

"Uh... Actually, what I want to say is all the time I'm going to say... Oh no, it was Brother Tairi who finished it."

Zhou Yao: “…”

Grand Secretary: "…"

Other candidates: "…"

This is your answer? Do you know this is a palace examination? How can you say this kind of answer?

But everyone realized again, by the way, Liu Xiu is also the son of the princes, and there is no difference between him and Zhou Tairi. He almost forgot about this. Isn’t it also a way to reduce the vassals?

If you think about it this way, it is completely understandable. Liu Xiu had the same position as Zhou Tairi, and since the emperor used such a sensitive topic as reducing the vassal states, it was clearly determined that he was determined. If Liu Xiu did not answer like this, he would become the enemy of all the princes.

When every emperor comes to power, the first thing he wants to do is to reduce the vassal states. Especially among the current vassal kings, there are still some who support King Jin. However, this rebellion did not send troops, but in fact, they reached an agreement with King Jin. As long as he takes the palace, these people will immediately shout long live.

Therefore, everyone was not surprised by Zhou Yao's reduction of the vassal states, but they didn't expect that the Liu family's attitude was so firm.

Isn’t Liu Xiu a favorite? Why don’t he behave the same as the emperor? It seems that it’s the same in the face of interests!

Fei Qingshan almost laughed out loud. This time, Liu Xiu was useless no matter how popular he was, at most he was the second to last, a little better than Zhou Tairi!

Hahaha, I didn’t expect that if the soldiers were not bloody, they would eliminate a strong enemy. Yuchi Hang looked like he was heartbroken. Who else could this top scorer be in the end?

Fei Qingshan held his head up and took a step with confidence.

"Student Fei Qingshan and Wu Yusheng tribute student, please give an answer."

"Oh? Are you Fei Qingshan?" Zhou Yao nodded and said, "No, good, the articles of the test are well written, please tell me."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Fei Qingshan was delighted. Even the emperor praised his test paper. The current questions were reduced to the vassal states and the known answers depended on who was in the military and politics and the overall situation. He just wanted to tell other candidates that everyone here was younger brother!

"Now, if it is cut, it will be reversed, if it is cut, it will be reversed. If it is cut, it will be more difficult, and if it is cut, it will be less disaster. If it is cut, it will be less difficult, and it will be less disaster..."

As soon as Fei Qingshan opened his mouth, he first explained his argument in the most refined language.

Cut! He must cut him! If you cut him, he will rebel, and if he doesn't cut him, he will rebel. So you must cut him quickly and accurately and make the princes unable to deal with it. This matter will be easy to settle. If he doesn't cut him for a long time, then he will have to prepare countermeasures.

Sure enough, as soon as the argument was finished, Zhou Yao nodded slightly, Fei Qingshan was immediately inspired and began to make a frank statement again.

"In fact, the essence of reducing the vassals is to fundamentally resolve the contradiction between the centralization of the regime and the separatist rule of the princes, eliminate the threat to the imperial power, consolidate the ruling status of the court, and establish achievements for thousands of years! Students believe that reducing the vassals must be cut off quickly. First, take back the fiefs of the princes and be directly governed by the court, second, hand over the military power, and the governors of each province take over, third, summon the princes to the capital to distinguish loyalty and treason, and those who come will be appeased, and those who do not come will have to rebel!"

This long speech made Brother Ji look ugly. If it weren't for being in front of the emperor, he would have been serving him with old fists long ago!

Even Liu Xiu wanted to say, I bought a watch last year! This is a hatred for the rich, do you want to kill all the princes?

After hearing this, Zhou Yao still did not express his opinion, but just signaled to the others to continue.

Subsequently, several other candidates expressed their opinions and answered one after another, with highly consistent opinions and firmly supported the reduction of the vassal states. They also listed examples of previous dynasties to illustrate the harm of the vassal kings. Some of them were even more extreme than Fei Qingshan. In front of the sons of the two princes, they also spoke out strategies such as the Hongmen Banquet, to capture all the foreign kings in one go.

In the end, only Li Xian left without answering, because he was thinking, what Liu Xiu said at Yipin Honglou that day... "Miss has a good figure! How long have you been here? Is there a sign for a contract to sell your body?"

No, it's not this part, it's later...

"Little Lizi, I will tell you, don't look at the glory of our marquis' family, but it is not uncommon for all dynasties to reduce the vassal states. In the future, if you become a high-ranking official, you must remember that the most unforeseen problem in the world is called "regulating peace and nothing, but in fact you have unpredictable worries..."

By the way, that's it!

Li Xian remembered it very clearly that he was just a little drunk at that time, but Liu Xiu was drunk and drove the young lady away, and pulled him to talk about the demotion of the vassal states. What a strange scene, of course he remembered it very clearly.

Moreover, this chat lasted only an hour. Liu Xiu said a lot. At first, Li Xian thought it was a drink, but the more he listened, the more he felt it made sense, especially there was a sentence that refreshed him.

Li Xian blurted out subconsciously: "Boil the frog in warm water..."

"Hmm?" Zhou Yao was slightly stunned: "Boy Li, do you want to answer?"

Now Li Xian is left, and then he suddenly said something, "Your Majesty, I want to answer..."

"Okay, tell me."

Zhou Yao is also looking forward to it, not because of the Li family, but because of the huge sum of money he bet on Li Xian!

For a moment, Little Lizi seemed to have an illusion. The look of the emperor looking at him was so eager, excited, and even a little excited?

Well, it must be an illusion...

Then, Li Zi put aside her distracting thoughts, sorted out her thoughts, and said slowly.

"The most unscrupulous thing in the world is called "the peace and nothing happens, but there are actually unpredictable worries. Sit and watch the changes and do not do what you do, and you may be afraid that it will be unsuccessful; if you start and force it, the world will be in peace and peace without my belief. Only benevolent, gentlemen and heroic people will suffer great difficulties in order to be born and have great success in the world. This is not something that can be done by force, but if you can seek fame..."

This discussion did not directly talk about the reduction of the vassal states. The meaning was that when peace was in peace, only a small number of people could see hidden crises, and only those gentlemen and heroes would stand up, take risks with themselves, sacrifice themselves to achieve their own deeds, and ignore personal safety.

Then I changed my mind and talked about the reasons for the failure to reduce the vassal states in history. It turned out that it was a reverse discussion and expressed one's own views.

Several great scholars nodded secretly, looking at the vassal of vassals objectively, not deliberately cater to the king, and not making arguments from a personal perspective. This is the way to govern. The boy from the Li Jingxiu family is good!

Li Xian's argument is also an advocate of reducing the vassal states, which is also imperative. However, when talking about how to reduce the vassal states, it made everyone's eyes lit up.

It turns out that what he said about boiling frogs in warm water was exactly his view on reducing the vassal states!

Of course, these are all strategies to reduce the power of the vassals summarized by Liu Xiu using two lifetime memories, and then instilled into Li Zi, how can he not be awesome?
Chapter completed!