The ancestor curled his lips and said, "There are many vassal states, and the country is just like the Emperor of Zhou. It is just a nominal co-lord, and it is no different from the situation of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Such a Tang Dynasty is in name only. I am afraid that the Japanese study is not like this Tang Dynasty."

Liu Yu said seriously: "You guessed it wrong this time. What Japan wants to learn is really this martial arts system. The shogunate world and the official system of the Tang Dynasty was to gather the soldiers from all over the country and divide them into multiple soldiers and guards. Each guard set up a general to control the various military officials in the territory. Ordinary people and civilians were independent of military soldiers and managed by normal prefectures and county chiefs. Later, the reason why the chaos in the Tang Dynasty occurred was that for some reason, the generals of these military soldiers and guards could also serve as local governors. A senior official like the governor of the prefecture was equivalent to the unity of civil and military affairs, and became the ability of Huan Wen to completely control Jingzhou."

The ancestor smiled and said, "This is equivalent to the princes and kings of the Han Dynasty who changed to lords of the vassal states of different surnames. The essence is the same, but without blood ties, it will only be even more terrifying than the chaos of the clans such as the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion and the Eight Kings Rebellion. I know the reason for the demise of the Tang Dynasty, but you said, did the Japanese learn this system?"

Liu Yu nodded and said, "Yes, because Japan is also full of countries, and there are princes everywhere, which is a bit similar to our Spring and Autumn Period. In the end, during the Tang Dynasty, they had just been unified in the island countries, but there was no mature system to appease these princes who had made contributions in the war of unity and became high-ranking officials. Previously, they had the idea to continue to conquer the Korean Peninsula by continuing to fight outside and let these princes devote their energy to external wars rather than seizing power from within. However, after being defeated by the Tang army in Baijiangkou, they gave up this idea and instead learned from the Tang Dynasty how to place these princes of the Wu family."

"In the end, the result of their learning from the Tang Dynasty was to divide civil and military governance, and let civil officials and families become ministers and ministers, and live in the capital with the emperor. They called this capital Kyoto, and then divided the military generals into princes and divided the various places. However, these princes were to be governed by the descendants of the emperor, equivalent to the royal family, and they had to be replaced from time to time to avoid them from forming a climate in one place. Since the places where these foreign princes were located were often just conquered, desolate and barbaric foreign tribes, so there was no
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