July.
Regent Prime Minister Zhang Chao issued an order that all the elderly over 70 years old in the world should be given a stone of grain and a horse of cloth.
Seeing that August 8, the auspicious day selected by the Taishi Bureau, is getting closer and closer, the imperial court has recently continued to issue many praiseworthy and benevolent government decrees.
For example, food and cloth were given to the elderly, and additional funds were given to nursing homes, orphanages, nurseries, and almshouses. and exempted from the land in many places Money and food were given to the students of the Jingshi Guozijian and the Beijing University, money and food were given to the officials and soldiers of the Gyeonggi Army, rewards were given to the garrisons in various places, and Mid-Autumn Festival gifts were given to the teachers and students of the government schools in various places in advance.
And during this time, it seems that all kinds of auspicious things are also frequent.
In the end, Zhang Chao even had to come forward in person, asking the officials to inform the following that Xiangrui should not go too far.
Only people like Wang Mang and Wu Zetian would like to engage in auspiciousness, and they will do it wantonly.
Zhang Chao didn't need this kind of auspiciousness to build momentum for his ascension to the throne.
Compared to making auspicious rui, he actually has more things to deal with.
To discuss the content of the Magna Carta, and even to adjust the organizational structure of the court, and even the organizational structure of the yamen of the vassal states and the princes, Zhang Chao also had to consult with Ma Zhou and others.
Zhang Chao's meaning is very straightforward, the princes can set up their own subordinates, collect endowments, and support soldiers and horses.
But it is not unlimited, the princes are the vassals of the imperial court, and the fiefs of the princes are also the autonomous territories of the imperial court.
They had to implement the laws and taxes of the imperial court, and at the same time to facilitate the management of the thousands of princes and vassals of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Chao proposed that the imperial court should implement a unified standard for the organization of the princes' territories.
For example, the fief of the prince is called the country, and the fief of the boy is called the territory.
The State Council, the Parliament, the Military Affairs Yuan, the Supervision Department, the Police Department, the People's Court and other institutions were established in the country.
The Governor's Office, Parliament, etc. shall be established in the territory.
The organizational structure must be the same in each country.
"I think that the princes can be their own officials, but the court cannot completely let it go, the minister of the State Council, the speaker of the parliament, the general of the military affairs yuan, or the governor of the territory, the lieutenant, these should be selected by the court for the princes to be a person with high talent, experience, and good moral character."
This is similar to the feudal system in the Western Han Dynasty, when the Western Han Dynasty was divided, and the Fu and state ministers of the princes were also appointed and transferred by the imperial court, and other officials and subordinates were appointed by the princes themselves.
The imperial court sent Fu Hexiang, of course, to supervise the princes.
Now that Zhang Chao has made this request, Ma Zhou thought about it, but he didn't think it was impossible.
"It should also be feasible for the imperial court to send ministers, speakers, generals, governors, and lieutenants to help the princes deal with affairs."
This needs to be communicated with the princes, and if the communication is good, there will be no problem.
Even if the princes know that the court intends to place a personal hand in the past, as long as it is said in advance, the princes are the lords of the fiefdoms, and after the ministers of state and other officials are sent over, they are not court officials, but the princes' territorial officials, and they take the princes' money and do things for the princes, so they should respect the princes.
"I think that all vassal states, leaders, and the imperial court should send to supervise the imperial history, the imperial history of the army, and the imperial history of taxation."
The three sent before, the prime minister, the speaker, and the general, are considered to be the three heads of the country, but now Zhang Chao has proposed to send three, but these three are completely different.
The first three can be regarded as housekeepers and guard captains that the imperial court helped the princes find.
And the three imperial histories behind are completely people from the imperial court, and they were really supervised in the past.
The supervision of the imperial history is to supervise the princes, the supervision of the army is to supervise the princes' army, and the supervision of the tax imperial history is to monitor the taxation of the princes.
If the imperial court wants to send ministers, speakers, and generals to the princes, the princes may still be able to refuse.
But Zhang Chao wanted to send these three imperial historians over, but the princes had no reason to refuse.
After all, the current feudal system is similar to that of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty, but it is not the same.
The princes are not independent, they are vassals of the empire, and the fief is only a dominion, autonomy, and there is a limit.
One third of their taxes had to be paid to the court, and they had to enforce the laws and taxes of the court.
A princely fiefdom sends six people, or two teams.
There are thousands of princes in the Tang Dynasty.
"It's going to be at least 20,000 or 30,000 people, will it be too much?"
Chu Suiliang proposed another plan, that is, a district sent several imperial historians.
Originally, the imperial court also divided several domains into the feudal areas of the princes, such as the Xindu Domain, the Hezhong Domain, the Monan Domain, etc.
"The imperial court sent governors, admirals, and then sent imperial historians, which can save a lot of manpower."
Zhang Chao shook his head with a smile.
Sending the minister, the speaker, the general, or the governor, the speaker, and the captain is to strengthen some control over the fiefdom, at least have the right to know.
A fief sends three, and thousands of large and small fiefs have to send tens of thousands, but these people are supported by the princes, and what the court has to do is to send 10,000 people over.
Now that the empire is so big and there are many scholars, I believe it is relatively easy to select 10,000 people.
As for whether these people will be hollowed out by the princes after they are sent, and the deputy general will actually be in charge of things at that time, in fact, Zhang Chao doesn't care, as long as he has these three people staying in the princes' fiefdoms, he will be replaced every five years or every ten years after the expiration of his term of office, and someone can be there.
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As for the imperial history, tens of thousands of imperial histories sound amazing.
But these people can be regarded as apprentices in the imperial history of the imperial court in the future, select a group of people from the Guozijian or the Jingshi University or those who raise people in the imperial examination, select a group of non-commissioned officers or officers from the army, and let them go to various fiefdoms to supervise the imperial history, supervise the military imperial history, and supervise the tax imperial history, and complete one or two terms in the princes, and then according to their achievements, and then select excellent arrangements to the supervision court, Dali Temple, criminal department, or household department, and the military service.
The cost is there, but it's definitely not high, and it's worth it.
"The Prime Minister, the Governor, the Speaker, the General, and the Captain are sent over, do they obey the court or the princes?"
Cen Wenwen asked again.
Zhang Chao's fingers tapped lightly on the table, this question is estimated to be a concern of many princes.
After all, the ministers of state and generals are all important positions in the fiefdoms of the princes, and they cannot be controlled by the imperial court.
"I still say the same thing, these belong to the princes and feudal officials, and they are selected and recommended by the princes of the imperial court, and they are not court officials.
Even if he was an official of the imperial court in the past, once he accepted the order, he was no longer an official of the imperial court and became an official of the princely state.
When they arrived at the fiefdoms of the princes, they naturally respected the princes. ” "Of course, if a prince violates the constitution or plots rebellion, then even if he is not the minister of state, the people in any fief have the obligation to report the prince's wrongdoing to the imperial court."
There is nothing wrong with these words, and there is no leakage.
Of course, Zhang Chao said that he would not force the princes.
If the princes themselves have a better candidate to serve as the minister of state, then they can appoint these people selected by the imperial court as deputy ministers, deputy generals, and deputy speakers.
In short, if the people are elected, they will be sent over, and it is the business of the princes whether they are used or not.
Ma Zhou could only laugh at Zhang Chao's somewhat scoundrel approach.
But this is an inconsequential matter, even if everyone knows that this is the eyes and ears sent by Zhang Chao, it doesn't matter much.
If you really want to say it, in fact, although there are many princes in the imperial court now, it is still very different from the division of the Western Han Dynasty.
One of the biggest features of the Western Han Dynasty is that it is in the Central Plains, in fact, it has a large territory, especially a large population.
The big princes have thousands of miles of land, hundreds of cities, and dozens of counties.
They had vast fiefdoms, as well as numerous populations on them.
At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, a quarter of the country's population belonged to princes.
In comparison, although the number of princes of the Tang Dynasty is larger, there are thousands.
But their fiefs were all on the four sides without exception, outside the traditional Central Plains of China.
In particular, the princes of many places in Monan and Yanbei had fiefdoms outside the arid line, which was an area where crops could not be grown.
For example, Liaobei, Hezhong, Xihai and other places are also quite distant and sparsely populated.
A few big princes only have a few hundred miles of fiefs, and many small princes have only a dozen or twenty miles of fiefs.
Even if these princes such as Cheng Yanjin and other feudal princes, many brothers and nephews of their family also have sub-fiefs, but the fiefs are not together, but scattered.
There is even a situation where one is in northern Liaoning, one is in Xindu, and one is in the West Sea.
Those places are far away, the land is vast and sparsely populated, especially the mixed Chinese and Chinese, if you want to develop them, you need to invest a lot of capital, and to form enough strength, it will take a longer time.
Unless he has the Broken Leaf River Valley like Fang Xuanling's family, the fiefs of Zhang Chao's past, and his own powerful land and wealth in the Central Plains.
Otherwise, it would be too far away to threaten the central government like the princes of the Western Han Dynasty.
Land alone is not enough, there must also be a population, a huge population.
But they are on all sides, far away from the Central Plains, and they are still too slow to develop.
Even in later generations, the development of the east and west was very different, not to mention the difference between the Central Plains, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court in this era, and the frontier fiefdoms of the princes.
But a fief is a fief after all, this is the foundation of the princes, and it develops slowly, even if it is almost, this is also their own territory.
Just like those poor people, who used to give tenants to cultivate, now they are given a piece of land, even if this land is not paddy field, not roadside flat land, hillside land that cannot be irrigated, dry land, but after all, it is their own land.
The princes thought that they would need the court more than the court needed them.
Zhang Chao now not only holds the land of the Central Plains, but also the three new Raole, Songmo, and Lingdong roads newly laid down by the imperial court this year, that is, the hometowns of Xi, Khitan, and Xia, and the original Linyi, Funan, and North Korea that were originally defeated by the imperial court have always been in the hands of the imperial court and are directly under the central government.
Even the overseas ports of Yongji, Xinji, and Xindu are also directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.
Not to mention, those fiefs that originally belonged to the Zhang family, such as Luzon, Liuqiu, Boni, Dawan, and Wolf Mountain, will now also become directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.
There are also the hundreds of large and small fiefs that have just been recovered from the hands of the exiled princes such as the eldest grandson Wuji.
Anyway, the Indochina Peninsula and the Nanyang Islands, Zhang Chao will not take them out for the time being, those places will be directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and now they can't be developed for a while, and they will also be reserved for their own use, and they will be kept for slow development.
As for the future clans and heroes, Mobei, Northeast, and even Siberia, America, Australia, and Africa will be feudalized.
The mistakes made by Li Shimin and Li Chengqian back then, Zhang Chao will definitely not make them again.
The princes' feudal system will not change, but he will be extremely cautious and cautious every time he divides the feudal system. t1706231537: