If the Tang Empire won, it would say to its opponents: "You damn well behave yourself in the future, or be careful that I wipe out your entire clan. Pay tribute obediently every year!"
<...In any case, in this era, those small countries do not have strict national borders, and there are large areas of vacant land.
If Zhenla does not agree, then increase the number of troops for the King of Ji.
Zhao Huan had long planned to exile the members of the Zhao Song imperial family to other places, such as sending a large number to the South China Sea and a large number to the northern desert.
After conquering the Southern Hemisphere, they filled in another batch, and even further west.
This was the enfeoffment system of the Zhou royal family.
The enfeoffment system had both advantages and disadvantages.
The downside is that it can easily become too big to handle later on, but the advantages are also obvious: it greatly reduces the initial management costs.
It's somewhat similar to the concept of franchisees in large cities in later generations, which can accelerate the speed of territory expansion.
Moreover, it can also create some potential threats for the central empire, preventing the central empire from becoming increasingly conservative under the unified rule, to the point that all conflicts remain within the empire itself.
This has led to increasingly serious internal strife, hindering the development of various cultural and scientific endeavors.
As long as this potential threat is not from an alien race, it's fine.
Even if one day a vassal king were to rebel, it would be a war between members of the same clan.
After that, Zhao Huan could no longer worry about what happened.
He was just a mortal; how could he solve all the problems for future generations? Whether the country could be secured depended entirely on his own abilities.
Even Qin Shi Huang, who was incredibly powerful and worried about so many things during his lifetime, could have caused the empire to collapse in an instant if there were problems with his successor. Can we blame Qin Shi Huang? It was all because that stupid donkey Hu Hai was brain-dead.
After a brief chat with Xu Churen, Zhao Huan dismissed him and began to sort out all the members of the imperial clan himself.
Those members of the royal family, living in luxury, had no idea that their fates would soon undergo a dramatic change.