South of Chang'an City, outside the east of Weiyang Palace, Shangguanli.

As the most prosperous aristocratic gathering area of the Han family, Shangguanli can be described as a gathering of high-ranking doors and flowers.

All the nobles with names and surnames in the Han family, except for the relatives who lived in Qili, almost all of the rest had a mansion given by the imperial court, which was located in Shangguanli.

For example, last month, Liu Jie, who had just been named the Marquis of Che, Ji Chen, Uncle Tian and the rest of the more than 20 people in Guannei Marquis all got mansions of the same size as the food in Shangguan.

For example, in the outermost and smallest courtyards of Shangguanli, there is a freshly baked 'Ancient Anhou Mansion', waiting for the sons and nephews of Huaiyang Shoushen Tujia to come and receive it.

Further in, Liu Jie's new mansion, the Yangxin Marquis Mansion, was also recently completed and officially handed over to Liu Jie.

It seems that the further the mansion in Shangguanli goes, the larger and more majestic it becomes; In fact, the composition of the courtyard in Shangguanli is basically in the order of its owner's food eup, from the outside to the inside.

In the center of Shangguanli, there are several Chehou mansions that are familiar even if they are placed in later generations.

——Pingyang Hou Mansion of 1,630 households!

——Liuhou Mansion of 10,000 households!

——The Marquis Mansion that has been deposed and sealed the country, and has eaten 10,000 households!

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there were only three Wanhu Hou, which was the unyielding card in Shangguanli.

It's just that now, these three marquis of ten thousand households have lost their figure in the court...

Therefore, Cao Qiao, the Marquis of Pingyang, who guarded the imperial history, committed suicide in fear of crime because of his younger brother Cao Yan; Although he was ordered by Emperor Liu Hong to be buried and inherited as a prince, the Pingyang Marquis family can no longer be seen in the court.

Liuhou, a family that was incompatible with the entire noble class in the early Han Dynasty - the first Liuhou Zhang Liang, the marquis of ten thousand households, still refused the 30,000 households given by Liu Bang, retreated to the second, and reluctantly accepted it; After being made a marquis, Zhang Liang no longer set foot in the political arena, retired to the mountains and forests, and did not ask about political affairs.

It's a pity that the second-generation Marquis Zhang Budo was demoted in the Gaomiao incident, and was later ordered by Liu Hong to return to the country!

If nothing else, at least for a hundred years, the figure of the Liuhou lineage is unlikely to appear in Chang'an, the center of power in the Han family.

The marquis left by Xiao He, the first marquis of the founding of the country, was also deposed as early as the fifth year of Emperor Gao (202 BC) because the second marquis Xiao Lu died and had no heirs.

Although it is said that no matter who sits on the throne, as long as the butt who sits on it is still surnamed Liu, he will inevitably choose one from Xiao He's descendants to inherit the ancestral hall of the Marquis, but there is no doubt that the era of the founding of the Marquis has quietly entered the twilight.

Now the three dukes of the court, the prime minister Qu rebelled against the marquis Chen Ping, because of the merits of Zhu Lu, Liu Hongyi was sealed 1,200 households, and now there are 6,200 households.

Zhou Bo, the Marquis of Taiwei, sealed thousands of households because of the merit of Zhu Lu, and now there are 9,100 households in Shiyi.

Zhang Cang, the Marquis of Beiping, the imperial historian, only has 1,200 households...

You must know that at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were 6,900 households in Xiahou Ying alone!

Nowadays, it has reached the point where the imperial historian and the internal history are the same 1,200 households, and there are four people without marquis (Dianke, Zongzheng, Fengchang, Langzhongling) among the nine Qings, and one is the Marquis of Guannei (Shaofu).

is also the general Yingyin Marquis irrigated with babies, and he can barely support the scene for the military with 6,000 households.

But whether it is Chen Ping, Zhou Bo, or Guan Bao, or even Chai Wu, Worm Da and other founding heroes, they can already be regarded as the widows of the first generation of heroes - even Chai Wu, the youngest of the several people, has reached the age of nearly sixty.

As for Chen Ping, he is over 70 years old...

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there were more than 5,000 households in the city, and almost all of them experienced a time when the first generation was dying and the second generation was not able to grow up.

Just like the Quzhou Marquis Mansion at this time, there was a change that the founding princes were helpless and had to face - the first Quzhou Marquis Lishang closed his eyes tightly, lying on the couch with his breath in his breath, waiting for the successor of the title: the eldest son Li Ji rushed back to Chang'an from the clouds.

Speaking of which, Li Shang followed Emperor Gao Liu Bang not too early - at least compared to Zhou Bo, Xiahou Ying and other old teams who came out of Pei County together, Li Shang can undoubtedly be regarded as a 'rising star'.

In the third year of Qin II, that is, the first year of Han Gaozu in the later historical era, Li Shang was recommended by his elder brother 郦食 (yì) 其 (jī) to Liu Bang, who was then the king of Han; As a general, he followed Liu Bangnan to fight in the north.

Attacking the Changshe, Li Shang led the troops to go first, and sealed a letter to become a king; Later, he followed Liu Bang to capture the seventeenth city of Wan and was promoted to general; After the death of Qin, he served as the governor of Longxi, pacifying the northern land and Shangjun. Later, he broke the chapter of the Han Ministry to generalize Yongjiang, Zhou class, and Su Chan, and cooperated with Liu Bang's main force to return the three Qins, and gave 6,000 households to eat the city.

In the struggle for hegemony between Chu and Han, Li Shang first defeated Chu Jiang Zhong Lihuan, and then rushed to Qixia with Liu Bang, and finally forced Wujiang, the overlord of Western Chu, to kill himself, and finally determined the world.

After the Han Dynasty, Li Shang never missed any battles - from suppressing the rebellion of Yan Wang Zang Di, to attacking Daidi, personally capturing Cheng Zong, and then to the later Chen Xuan, Yingbu Rebellion, etc., you can see the name of Li Shang in the merit book.

Relying on the accumulation of this series of military merits, Li Shang was able to settle at the bottom of the Han Dynasty, and when he re-evaluated the merits of the land, he was awarded the title of 'Marquis of Quzhou', with 5,100 households, ranking sixth among the eighteen meritorious heroes of the founding of the Han Dynasty!

Whether it is the current general Guan Ying, the late Emperor Taifu Wangling, or the general of the chariot cavalry, the flying fox Duwei Chai Wu, and the Wei Wei Worm, the ranking among the eighteen heroes of the Han Dynasty is not as high as Li Shang!

In front of Li Shang, there are only five people: Hou Xiao He, Pingyang Hou Cao Shen, Xuanping Hou Zhang Ao, Jianghou Zhou Bo, and Wuyang Hou Fan Xu!

As the 'rising star' of Liu Bang's camp, Li Shang can climb to such a high position in just over ten years, relying on hard work, which can be said to be very inspirational - you must know that even Liu Bang's old brother Xiahou Ying is ranked behind Li Shang!

But with the passage of time, all the glory won by Li Shang could not escape the dust and dust in the end; What was left to the Li merchants was the 5,600 families in Quzhou County, who had supported the descendants of the Li merchants for generations.

However, compared with other meritorious marquis, Li Shang is relatively lucky - he also has a relatively promising son, who can inherit his title and continue to support the sky of the Marquis of Quzhou.

In the matter of punishing Lü, Li Shang was held hostage by Zhou Bo, forcing the prince of Qu Zhou Hou Li Ji to deceive Lü Lu and hand over the tiger talisman in Lü Lu's hand to Liu Jie, so that Zhou Bo could smoothly enter Beiying and shouted the sentence 'Lü's right Tan, Liu's left favor'.

But after the situation stabilized, there was a very strange voice in public opinion: Qu Zhou Hou Shizi sent it, betrayed friends to seek glory, it is simply not a son of man!

It stands to reason that Li Ji, as Lu Lu's best friend, should indeed stand firmly on Lu Lu's side; According to the moral outlook at this time, even if Lu Lu is a bad person, Li Ji should not 'kill his relatives with righteousness'.

In this regard, even if Li Shang had expected it, it was in vain - as early as when Liu Xiang, the king of Qi, entered Chang'an, but because of the ridiculous sentence 'Si Jun, the wicked are also', he missed the throne, Li Shang already understood: Except for the meritorious marquis who stood firmly on the side of Chen Ping and Zhou Bo from the beginning, no one can get a profit from the matter of Xulu!

But then, public opinion ushered in a 180-degree change because of a 'rumor' from Weiyang Palace-it is rumored that after Emperor Liu Hong heard about this, he casually said to the eunuchs around him: The father was captured, and he lost his righteousness because of filial piety.

Liu Hong's words, the reversal of public opinion reversed instantly: Li Ji was faced with a difficult choice between his father and his friend, and finally chose to protect his father's safety and betray his friend, which can be described as a big disregard for caution!

This incident has also changed from the evidence of Liji's 'betraying friends for glory' to the evidence of Liji's 'purity and filial piety'.

On the other hand, the other protagonist in this matter: Zhou Bo, is completely reduced to a harlequin - Taiwei knows that Li Ji is filial, and he still wants to use the life of the old general Li Shang to force Li Ji to betray his friends, which is simply morally corrupt, pus on the soles of his feet, and his conscience is greatly broken!

It wasn't until the trend of public opinion changed that Li Shang finally settled down, but Li Shang, who was lying on the sickbed because of worry, never got up again...

Li Shang understands very well that if he really wants to consign his friends for glory, then it is almost impossible for the Qu Zhou Hou family to enter the Han officialdom - the Han family, the most basic requirements for officials: majestic and handsome appearance, undoubted military merits, and perfect morality!

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PS: Historically, Li Ji did suffer a huge moral stain because he betrayed his friend Lu Lu in the Zhulu Rebellion; In fact, whether it is Emperor Wen Wannian, Zhang Cang was deposed after the Huanglong Incident, or Emperor Jing Dynasty Shen Tujia died of anger after the 'Gaomiao Wall' incident, these two prime ministers were vacant, and Li Ji was the most suitable among the candidates: he was old enough, his qualifications were old enough, his status was also there, and his position was also satisfied.

Whether it is compared to Hou Shen Tujia in Guannei, or ranked as the third duke, as a doctor of the imperial history, but can be domesticated by the internal history to become a sound worm in Kaifeng Hou Taoqing, Liji is more competitive to impact the prime minister's position.

But the evaluation of 'betraying friends and seeking glory' made Li Ji miss the prime minister's position twice in a row, although it can't be said that he ended up depressed, but it is impossible to say that Li Ji died and turned a blind eye.

There are still some things to say in this chapter, so as not to be misunderstood.

Xiao He was indeed rated as the 'first meritorious' by Liu Bang, and his food yi was also ranked among the most meritorious marquis of the founding of the country; but from the text, it is not difficult for everyone to find that Xiao He has 10,000 households, but Cao Shen has 630 more households than Xiao He, and Zhang Liang's food has also reached 10,000 households.

Does this mean that Xiao He's statement of 'the highest food eup' is inaccurate, or that Xiao He's 'food euphorous households' is inaccurate?

This question, the author Jun was also very puzzled at the beginning, so he consulted the literature in every possible way, and finally found the answer in a master's thesis of Xi'an University.

In fact, this is not contradictory, Xiao He did eat 10,000 households, the same as Zhang Liang, and the number of 'food yips' was less than Cao Shen's, but this does not mean that Xiao He's 'food yi' was less than Cao Shen's and the same as Zhang Liang.

The crux of the problem lies in the fact that the 'food euppy' of the Western Han Chehou is not a fixed 'how much money per household'.

The statement in the "Historical Records" about '120 yuan in household tax' can easily lead historical researchers to fall into such a misunderstanding: 120 yuan per household is a fixed income.

According to the literature consulted by the officials, this argument is untenable.

The essence of Chehou Shiyi is to transfer the agricultural tax that this peasant household should have paid to the state to the hands of Chehou's 'Hou Xiang', and finally enter the pocket of this Chehou and become a feudal country.

The reason why there is a record of "one hundred and twenty yuan per household" in the "Historical Records" is because according to the price of grain in Chang'an at the time of Sima Qian: forty yuan for stone, and most peasant households in the Wudi Dynasty had 30 mu of land, according to the agricultural tax rate of 30 to 1 at that time, so that the agricultural tax of each household happened to be three stones of grain (the average yield per mu was three stones), a total of 120 yuan.

As a matter of fact, neither the peasant households pay the agricultural tax to the state nor the 'rent' paid to the Chehou according to a fixed value, but a proportion and the rate of agricultural tax, and one fifteenth or one-thirtieth of the harvest is paid.

For example, at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the common people generally had 100 acres of land and 300 stone of grain, and the tax rate was 15 stones, and the grain tax was 20 stones. The exact amount depends on the price of food at that time.

And Xiao He's '10,000 households' compared with Zhang Liang's '10,000 households' and Cao Shen's '1,630 households', the biggest gap is: fiefdom.

Xiao He's fiefdom: Yu County, located near Gufeng Mountain in Gucheng County, Hubei Province, adjacent to the Han River, can be called the 'land of plastering', that is, the output of the land cultivated by Xiao He's 10,000 peasant households is definitely more than the average yield of corn per mu in the early Han Dynasty: three stones.

Zhang Liang's Fengtuliu County, located near present-day Weishan County, Shandong Province, and Cao Shen's Fengtu was located in present-day Linfen City, Shanxi.

In other words, Xiao He's 'food eup' is the highest, which does not mean that the 'number of food eups' is the most, but that he can get the most money from the feudal state every year.

In modern times, for example: Xiao He got 100 acres of land in the black soil of Northeast China, Zhang Liang got 100 acres of land in the mainland, and Cao Shen got 110 acres in the mainland.

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Regarding the personal food of the Marquis of the Western Han Dynasty in the text, I will briefly explain it.

Chen Pingben has 5,000 households, and 1,200 households have been sealed in the book because of the Xulu Rebellion, so there are 6,200 households in the food estate.

Zhou Boben has 8,100 households, and in the original history, 1,900 households were sealed because of the merit of Zhulu, a total of 10,000 households; In the book, Zhou Bo lost the 'first initiative' and only sealed 1,000 households, so there are now 9,100 households.

5,000 households were filled with infant food, and in history, because of the matter of Xulu, and the intention of Emperor Wen Liu Heng to sow discord, 3,000 households were sealed, a total of 8,000 households; The protagonist in the book chose to provoke Chen and Erren, so he only sealed 1,000 households for infants, a total of 6,000 households.

There are 5,100 households in Lishang's original food estate, and because of the 'merit' of Shizi Liji, 500 households were sealed, so there are 5,600 households in the book.