Chapter 542
Although all this is a bit too simple now, Pei Shiju thinks it is not entirely a fantasy. As long as it is operated well, it is very likely. In the same time, the Zhou Dynasty was feudal, and it took eight hundred years before the Qin unified the six kingdoms. The feudal period was divided on the grassland, and the grassland was difficult to unify again, not to mention that as long as the Sui Dynasty in the Central Plains was strong, it would be even more difficult for them to have tribes to stand out.
Yi Feng said to Pei Shiju, "Pei Qing is a diplomatic expert. Please help me think about my plan and make up for the shortcomings. Rest at home first, and you can leave Beijing later, so you don't have to hurry up."
"I am not tired." Pei Shiju hurriedly bowed to Yi Feng, "To be honest, after listening to Your Majesty's grassland strategy, I am now excited and excited. I wish I could return to the grassland immediately and do my best for Your Majesty's strategy. If Your Majesty's plan really succeeds, it will be rewarded in the present and future. From then on, the Central Plains dynasty will be able to incorporate the grasslands that have been threatened by generations into the rule, expand the territory and expand tens of thousands of miles away, and solve the troubles of the north once and for all. As long as you think about it, it will be extremely exciting. In a thousand years, it will inevitably be passed down in history."
"Don't worry, you can't eat hot tofu in this moment. Good plans must be implemented well. Now the focus of the court is still on the battle of western Liaoning. You have to recover western Liaoning Province first, and then you can concentrate your efforts to fight the northern expedition again." Yi Feng said to Pei Shiju.
Later that day, Yi Feng convened the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall to discuss matters in Ganlu Hall.
"Today I'm summoning you to come, it's actually just to discuss something." Yi Feng said to the nine prime ministers, "This matter is to discuss the reconciliation of the titles of the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, and the inherited three dynasties since the Sui Dynasty."
Yang Su was just taken by the new emperor for the earthquake last time, and in the end he was fined a year's salary. He also had to submit a petition, saying that the earthquake was because he, the prime minister, did not do it well. As a result, God warned him. Today, when he heard the emperor mention the title of title, he immediately felt sensitive. The emperor was going to continue to attack the wealthy families in Guanlong.
The Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, and three dynasties were all established by the Guanlong Group. The Yuwen and Yang Clans were all core families. Because the Northern Zhou was abdicated by the Western Wei, the Sui inherited from the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the royal family changed three families, but those meritorious and important officials have always been dominated by the nobles and wealthy families of the Guanlong Group. It has been nineteen years since the founding of the Great Sui Kingdom, but many of the top noble families still maintain the titles granted by the Western Wei Dynasty. Some top aristocratic families, such as the twelve generals of the Eight-Pillar States of the Western Wei Dynasty, have all been inherited since the Western Wei Dynasty. After three dynasties, many big families now have many titles, some families have several dukes and many county dukes. There are many maids like dogs everywhere. The country's noble titles have long been flooded.
Too many feudals and too many inheritances have led to many ministers who have been conquering the world with the emperor in the Xin Dynasty. They have shed blood and sweated for the Xin Dynasty and have worked hard to build a country. Perhaps they are just a son or a man or a marquis, but others, such as the Li Mu family or the Dugu family of Yang Su family. A little kid who has not grown all her hair may already have the title of a duke or county duke.
On the other hand, due to the large number of titles, a large number of fiefs also brought great pressure to the court's treasury. These fiefs of titles occupied a lot of taxes, and the tax they originally paid to the country were handed over to the vassals. Another thing is that these titles were inherited from generation to generation, and the titles were inherited by the legitimate sons, the other descendants were also qualified to enter the official position according to the family's family, which also occupied many official positions, allowing the court's politics to gradually be controlled by these wealthy families, forming a huge aristocratic group, which could not be lost, and a great threat to the royal family. This is also one of the reasons why the Yuwen family and the Yang family easily usurped the throne.
Yi Feng sat on the couch, glanced at the nine prime ministers, and took the list of titles in the court reported by the Ministry of Rites. It was a thick book. He asked, "Is the title too much good or bad for the world?"
The censor Liu Wenjing is best at scrutinizing the will of the saints. Although he is also a member of the Guanlong Group, he is at most the bottom of it. Therefore, he regards himself more as the emperor's direct line. He naturally agrees with the emperor's unscrupulous titles that the emperor wants to clear out the absurd titles since the three dynasties. Only by cutting off the titles of those people can the new emperor's direct lineage be able to advance the ranks of the new emperor. Moreover, he believes that the biggest reason why the emperor let him take charge of Baitai and enter the Political Affairs Hall to be the deputy prime minister is
He was willing to take advantage of his reputation and charge for the emperor. He immediately spoke, "Looking at the past, the most people have been awarded titles today. Duke Hou Bozinan of Zhou, the fifth grade of military merits of Qin, the twenty-fourth grade of Cao Wei abolished the twenty-fourth grade of Cao Wei and re-administered the fifth grade of titles. Then to the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, this example has been generally used. However, all the dynasties have not had the excessive titles of our dynasty. Each dynasty has made great contributions and cannot be imposed on the excessive titles. It is because the world is private, which is not the way to control things. The excessive official positions and titles are a major problem for the country."
Yi Feng was very happy with Liu Wenjing's intelligence and nodded, "I am the emperor and I really don't want to see this situation. Therefore, the system of titles for the royal family had been rectified before. Now, no descendants of Taizu are allowed to be crowned kings. Those who are not Taizu's descendants are only granted the titles of Dukes, and only one son has been reduced to the rank of the titles. The other sons, no matter the legitimate and illegitimate, only retain the qualifications for the officialdom. The descendants of Taizu have all divided the titles and guards to protect the titles for the country. Now all the royal families have been granted titles, and the vassals of the court's different surnames must also consider the country."
Yi Feng asked the prime ministers to discuss how to reform the system of titles for meritorious officials of different surnames and clean up and redefine the already flooded titles.
After half a day of discussion, the last nine prime ministers finally made a preliminary plan based on Yi Feng's intention.
First of all, the titles of the court were not descendants of Taizu, and the rest of the royal family were not allowed to be granted the title of king. They were not granted the title of the king without any merits or relatives. The highest was the title of Duke.
Then, a minister of a different surname will not be granted the title of Duke unless he is a meritorious person.
The titles of the court were divided into princes, princes, dukes, county marquis, county magistrates, township men, princes, princes, and township men. The princes were only granted the descendants of Taizu, and the rest of the royal family could only grant the title of Dukes, and the first class was inherited by the eldest son. The rest of the sons were not granted the title of Dukes, regardless of the legitimate and illegitimate, and only retained the qualifications of Chengyin to enter the officialdom.
The ministers of different surnames are the highest titles of Dukes and will not be granted unless they are of great merit. The titles of Dukes, Marquis, Bozi and Nan cannot be inherited in the past, but are divided into two categories: hereditary and lifelong. The inheritance is the first-class inheritance of the generation, and the lifelong title is the only one who dies, and the titles are not inherited. At the same time, in addition to hereditary and lifelong titles, the titles of fifth-class titles are also divided into virtual and real titles.
For those who have a false title, the two words "founding" are added before the title. The false title of the founding country is not changed, but there is no fief, no salary or permanent land, and only one name. Generally, lifelong titles are basically false titles, and they are not given real titles without special orders.
Without adding the word "founding" to the actual title, it can have fief and fiefs and Yongyetian.
In addition, the existing titles of various families will be re-cleared and rectified. All the titles granted before the founding of the Sui Dynasty will be revoked. Each family will retain a title quota for each family after the founding of the Sui Dynasty, but the specific titles must be re-evaluated. The preliminary plan is that the titles that have been awarded for meritorious service in this dynasty can be retained, but each family will still only retain one. For titles inherited from the previous dynasty, if the titles received by the dynasty have not made great contributions, they will be demoted to a higher level, the duke will be directly demoted to a marquis, and the marquis will be demoted to an earl, and all inherited titles will be changed to a life-long title.
It is also specifically stipulated that if anyone who is appointed as prime minister is not given a title, he shall be awarded the title of life for his life, and if he has made merit, he shall be awarded another title.
After this plan was handed over to Yi Feng, Yi Feng personally added two more.
All the fiefs of titles were no longer collected directly from the Feng family to the fief, but were changed to 25 cents of each household, and the court paid the salary to the vassals. The vassals who were genuinely enfeoffed no longer enfeoffed Yongye land, but were instead given two dou of millet per mu, and distributed together with the official salary. In this way, the vassals who received the title had nothing to do with the vessals, and even had no vessals at all. The fiefs and Yongye land of each vassal were just a number, recorded in the court's files. In the end, the court directly gave money and millet according to their true fiefs and the number of mu of Yongye land. The vassals managed the vessals and collected grain, and all the links of the vessals were cancelled. It turned out that two-thirds of the grains of the vessals were genuinely enfeoffed to the vessals, one-third of the grains of the vessals were returned to the vessals, and one-third of the grains of the vessals were returned to the court, and each household had more households.
There can be six or seven min, and each min costs two stones, two min, and three min, if a household averages five min, one household can collect ten stones of millet, two and a half pieces of silk and fifteen min. Even if it is finally handed over to the court, one household can still collect six stones of millet, more than six min and ten min. But now, Yi Feng has a one-size-fits-all, no matter how much or less, it is calculated directly at twenty-five cents per household, and no longer gives Yongye land according to title, but directly gives two dou of millet per mu. Originally, one acre of land could collect at least one stone of millet, although if it is rented, the lease rate of land by the rank is six liters of land by the rank is more than three times the lease rate of land by the rank by the court, but the rank of Yongye land cannot have a title, and only two dou of millet per mu are left.
The two added by the emperor can be said to greatly reduce the value of the title. In addition to the political benefits, no economic benefits can be obtained by enthroning the title.
Shangshu Zuo Pushe and Taifu Yang Su are now Duke of Chu, with a fief of 5,000 households and a 2,500 households in Changshou County. According to the original system, Yang Su had a fief of 2,500 households in Changshou County, where there were 2,500 farmers. They did not pay taxes to the court every year, but instead handed over these renters to Yang Su's state officials. Then Yang Su handed over one third of them to the court. Yang Su had certain management rights for his 2,500 households.
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