The list of princes was divided into feudal lords, and this list was discussed by the prime ministers of the Zhongshu Sect and submitted to the emperor's case.
Li Shimin looked at the list, and the names on it were all very familiar.
In fact, when the list was discussed, he was almost always present and participated.
There are many heroes of the Tang Dynasty, including the heroes of the Taiyuan Army, the heroes of the Xuanwumen Change, and the generals of the Tang Dynasty over the years to pacify the world.
There are one hundred and eight names on the list.
One hundred and eight, this is Li Shimin's final decision.
Divide the princes, but it is too much, and if it is too much, then there is no point in dividing the feuds, and it does not show the favor of the court and the emperor.
Of course, it can't be too little, which will make the court and the emperor appear unkind.
Thus, one hundred and eight princes were finally determined.
The one hundred and eight princes who were finally elected were all extremely meritorious authors, and they were all existing nobles. opened the list, and the first one listed was Li Chao.
Li Chao, the Duke of Zhao, had a fief of 500 li, and Tuien was divided into 200 li for his father and son.
The second in place is Sun Wuji, the prince of Wei.
Li Chao ranked first, it is indisputable, Xuanwumen has the first merit, and since then he has made many great contributions, especially this time to repel the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Turks, which is even more indispensable.
But in second place, Li Shimin was in a dilemma.
The eldest grandson Wuji is very capable, and he has always been his confidant and brother-in-law, but the eldest grandson Wuji has no military merits, and he has caused chaos when he goes out of town.
Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Yu Wenshiji, Gao Shilian, Yang Gongren, and even Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda, these prime ministers, also have great merits, but in the end, Li Shimin still chose the eldest grandson Wuji to be ranked second.
The fief of Wei State led 300 miles of land, and the fief was at the northern foot of Yanshan.
Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui Gong tied for third, and they were both sealed for 200 miles.
The Duke of Liang and the Duke of Cai are both in the northwest of Qinghai Lake.
This list of heroes is divided into feuds, and the first ones are all great heroes in the Xuanwumen Change, and then the old henchmen of Tiance Mansion that year, the Taishang Emperor Yuanzuo of the Taiyuan Uprising in the early years, such as Pei Lin and Feng Deyi, although they are also included, they are ranked low, and the fiefs are only 100 miles each.
They are not even as good as Qin Qiong, Yu Chigong, Cheng Yanjin and other generals, and they are all princes with a land of one hundred and eighty miles.
The fiefs of the princes are distributed in all directions of the Tang Frontier.
Large and small pieces are distributed, and they will become the barrier fortresses of Datang.
After his eyes stayed on the list for a long time, Li Shimin picked up the imperial pen, dipped it in cinnabar, and wrote a word on the list.
Putting down this list, Li Shimin picked up another list, which was a list of sect divisions.
The heroes with different surnames are divided into frontiers, and the clan is of course also feudal.
Originally, the ministers of the court and the central government believed that the clan should be distinguished from the meritorious heroes, and the meritorious heroes should be divided into territories and feudal but not stated, while the clan should be feudal and feudal state, and should not be divided outside the old frontier of the Qin and Han dynasties.
However, Li Shimin did not want to be feudal, let alone let the children of the clan be feudal in the prefectures and counties directly under the Central Plains.
After many days of discussion with the prime minister and important ministers, Li Shimin finally took the idea, and the clan was divided into feuds like the princes.
It is divided into prince's territory and county king's territory, the prince leads 300 li, and the county king leads 100 li, and the same must be sealed in the frontier, and all kinds of treatment are the same as those of the princes.
If you want to talk about the difference, it is that there are countless heroes who have been knighted in the court, but in the end, only one hundred and eight heroes were selected to divide the territory, but those clans, regardless of age and merit, each one is counted as one, and they are all divided into feuds, and the territories are divided according to their titles.
However, on the list in front of him, there are no names of the two county kings, the king of Hainan and the king of Hailing, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, who are still quite sensitive, and everyone has left out these two kings very tacitly.
On this list, there are also the sons of Emperor Li Shimin who have not been knighted, and there are also the sons of Emperor Taishang who have not been knighted.
Li Shimin's sons will all be crowned princes.
But the son of the Emperor.
Li Shimin hesitated for a long time, and finally picked up the pen and wrote down a line.
The sons of the Emperor Taishang were all crowned county kings, including those who had been crowned princes before, and they were also renamed county kings.
Although this is a bit too unkind, Li Shimin does not want to give these more than 20 younger brothers the title of prince.
His father, I don't know how many beauties he has been lucky enough to have in the past two years, gave birth to a large group of children, and Li Shimin had a headache when he saw it. 、 In the end, Li Shimin determined the list of clan divisions.
Thirty-six princes of the clan.
The emperor's eldest son, Chengqian, is the crown prince and is not divided, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji are not mentioned, and others such as Li Xiaogong are included in the list of meritorious heroes.
Only the emperor, the emperor's son, and brother can be crowned kings, and the rest can only be crowned kings, which is also a new system set by Li Shimin.
In the past, when the emperor was too great, Luo Yi was a separatist hero, and in order to win them over, they were also divided into kings, and Li Xiaogong and others in the clan were even crowned kings.
But now, Li Shimin has demoted these kings to dukes.
In this way, a different surname cannot be a king, and a minister like Luo Yi can no longer be crowned a king.
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And the new rule that the clan is not the emperor's brother and son is not allowed to be the king also makes Li Chao, a minister with a surname who is included in the royal family genealogy, and a clan like Li Xiaogong, also lose the qualification to be crowned king.
When this article was first issued, many people thought that it was directly aimed at Li Chao, because now, only Li Chao's merits can be crowned kings with merit.
The emperor blocked the road early.
The two lists were confirmed, and Li Shimin leaned back in his chair, closing his eyes and pondering.
One hundred and forty-four princes were divided at one time, and one by one princes' territories were also set up on the frontier of the Tang Dynasty, and he still doesn't know whether this approach is right or wrong.
Will these princes and leaders become the border barrier of the Tang Dynasty in the future, become the bridgehead of the Tang Dynasty's outward development, or sooner or later, become a force that threatens the central dynasty.
After thinking about it for a while, Li Shimin still felt that he had not made a mistake in this step.
The Li family is already recruiting troops and horses to recruit artisans to immigrate to the territory, and a wave of territory construction is about to begin.
The construction of the Li family's territory was all paid out of pocket and absorbed, and most of them were poor people and craftsmen in the Central Plains, people who lacked land and little land in the Central Plains, and even many of them were lowly craftsmen, tribesmen, slaves, etc.
The departure of these people from the Central Plains actually has a lot of benefits for the Central Plains, the population density of the Central Plains has decreased, and the land is not so scarce.
On the other hand, the Li family spent money to immigrate to build territories and enrich and stabilize the frontier, which also became a barrier for the imperial court.
Moreover, after the Li family's territory was established, the imperial court took two-thirds of the tax revenue, and took the lion's share.
The better the Li family's territory was built, the richer the development, and the more taxes the imperial court extracted.
After this batch of seals, it will not be easy to divide a large number of heroes in the future, and they will not be divided if they are not great.
Opening his eyes, Li Shimin searched for a while from the imperial case and found an excerpt.
This folded is a secret report from Six Doors, about gunpowder weapons.
It records in detail the use of gunpowder by Li Chao at the time of the war with the Turks in Hedong.
Li Shimin couldn't imagine that the seemingly inconspicuous thing was not just loud, but it turned out to be so powerful when used.
If we improve the research, I believe it can be even more powerful.
What moved Li Shimin the most was that he quoted a sentence from Li Chao, the inventor of gunpowder, that if gunpowder is used to siege cities, the effect is stronger.
Any strong city, as long as it can get close to the city, dig tunnels under the city, and then bury a large amount of gunpowder underneath, even if it is a strong city like Chang'an and Xiangyang, it can blow up a hole.
Li Shimin didn't believe this before, but now after seeing the use of gunpowder in the Battle of Loufuguan, he believes it.
On the battlefield, it is not difficult for the besieging troops to get close to the city walls and dig a tunnel or something.
Originally, in the siege war, there was a tactic of digging tunnels to attack, but that tactic was more difficult, but with gunpowder, there was no need to dig tunnels at all, just dig a pit under the city, and then transport gunpowder into it, seal, blast, and a section of tall and strong city walls would be blown open.
Li Shimin is also a commander of the army, and he knows very well that it is very difficult for a fortified city to rely purely on forcible attack.
For that kind of fortified city, it is more dependent on besieging the city, relying on the inside and the outside, relying on the exhaustion of food in the city, relying on the collapse of the defenders, etc.
For example, the Tang Dynasty attacked Luoyang, besieged twice, the first time it was besieged for a long time and it was fruitless, and the second time it was besieged for more than a year, or it was relied on besieging the city to send reinforcements, and Luoyang was cut off to send reinforcements, so that Luoyang took the initiative to open the city and surrender.
And if there is a perverted siege weapon like gunpowder, the success rate of breaking the city is greatly increased.
A fortified city, relying on a ladder to climb the city to grab the city, is very difficult.
But if you just blow up a hole, it's completely different, it's like someone opening the city gate with someone inside and outside.
With gunpowder, what kind of city can't be captured Li Shimin could imagine the desperation of the defenders when the siege troops blew up several gaps at once.
It is forbidden to possess gunpowder in the guards' camps in the princes' realms Li Shimin gritted his teeth and made up his mind.
Whether it is a prince with a different surname, or a feudal prince of the clan, the force is distributed the same, and there are two protectors in each mile of fiefdom.
Li Chao, the largest fief, also has a maximum of 1,000 protectors, and his fief is divided into several parts, the largest one is only 300 miles and 600 protectors, such as the eldest grandson Wuji, who is only 300 miles and 600 protectors, and Qin Qiongwei Chi Gong only has 306 protectors.
But Li Shimin is still a little worried.
After imposing layers of restrictions on the princes' barracks, he added another clause prohibiting the princes' barracks from possessing gunpowder.
Even Li Chao, the person who invented gunpowder, was not allowed to possess a weapon that used gunpowder.
The officers of the princes' guard camp must be appointed by the imperial court, and the transfer of the guard camp must first be consulted by the court, and then the princes and the court officials in the territory jointly show the military talisman, and the soldiers can only be transferred after the inspection.
Li Shimin sighed, hoping that in this way, he could control it. t1706231537: