In the aristocratic system of the Lin Dynasty of the Daheng Empire, there are more than fifty old nobles who are relatively special, they are all nobles belonging to the Ji Dynasty and even earlier dynasties, and many of them are old nobles that have lasted for hundreds or even thousands of years.

The recognition of some of the old nobles is to reflect that the new dynasty has inherited the tradition of the Daheng people, respect for history, and at the same time to express the broad mind of the new dynasty.

Of course, these are only grandiose reasons, and there are some practical reasons that in every war of unification, the nobles need to take sides, and the nobles who stand on the winning side will naturally be able to retain their titles and even go further; Those nobles who stood on the wrong side naturally disappeared into the long river of history.

This time, the more than 50 old nobles recognized and re-canonized by the new dynasty were the old nobles who stood firmly on the side of the Lin dynasty during the unification war.

Including Duke Mengshi, they married their granddaughters to Lin Ziran.

At the beginning, the old nobles of Nanhai Prefecture joined forces to buy tens of millions of national bonds in one go, and by the way, they also responded to Lin Ziran's call and invested tens of millions of funds to develop factories and indirectly support the unification war.

In the early days, I took the benefits of others, and now I naturally want to return them, and recognizing their titles is a public reward.

There were nearly 600 newly canonized military nobles and civil nobles, and more than 50 old nobles were recognized, a total of 683 nobles, who became the aristocratic group of the Lin Dynasty.

However, the nobility of the Lin Dynasty is the same as the aristocratic system of the Ji Dynasty, they are all fictitious nobles.

It has adopted a combination of fictitious annuity system, hereditary system and lifelong system.

As for the noble fiefs, there is naturally no such thing, but some land will be given, and these lands are just ordinary real estates, and there are no internal affairs and other rights.

It's just ordinary real estate!

After thousands of years of changes, especially after the reforms of the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties, the internal affairs and administration of the nobility have been completely stripped away.

During the Fifth Dynasty, the then Zhou dynasty continued the unification war, killing a large number of large nobles and abolishing their fiefs, only retaining some of the fiefs of small and medium-sized nobles.

At that time, the Zhou royal family directly controlled more than 80% of the directly subordinate territories of the entire empire, completely changing the situation in which the great nobles owned entire counties or even entire state fiefs.

It is said that at that time, the Duke Meng's family lost the fief of Nanhai Prefecture.

Taking advantage of this east wind, the Zhou dynasty abolished the military power of the nobles at that time, unified the troops of the nobles, and established the imperial standing army.

During the Ji Dynasty, the power of the nobility was further weakened, and after the end of the Unification War, the internal authority of the nobility was completely stripped away, and a very special policy was promulgated, that is, the nobility was allowed to sell land on their own.

This is the very famous fiefdom property during the Ji Dynasty!

The fiefdoms of the nobility were treated as ordinary estates, and the particularity of the fiefs was completely stripped away.

Since then, the Daheng aristocracy has no fiefdom, only real estate, and has completely completed the fictitious feud of the Daheng aristocratic system.

The aristocratic system of the Lin Dynasty is also a continuation of the aristocratic fictitious system during the Ji Dynasty.

The aristocracy did not even have a fief in name, only a large estate, and at best a large landowner.

There are many landlords in the Daheng Empire, even ordinary peasant families have hundreds of acres of land, and some wealthy rural families own thousands or even thousands of acres of land.

Some big landowners who play big agriculture and plantations own tens of thousands of acres or even hundreds of thousands of acres.

And the fiefdom area of most nobles is not as large as the land of these big landlords.

The aristocracy who owns tens of thousands of acres or even hundreds of thousands of acres of land, and only has the property rights of land, is not too special in Daheng.

In addition to inheriting the property of the aristocratic fiefs during the Ji Dynasty, the Lin Dynasty also inherited the annual subsidy system, but the annuity subsidy was actually significantly lower than that of the Ji Dynasty.

During the Ji Dynasty, to be precise, before the civil strife in Daheng, a duke's annuity could reach 30,000 Hengyuan, and pure gold coins were not discounted!

But now, the Lin Dynasty's annuity subsidy for the nobles is much less, and the annual annuity subsidy for Wu Guanlin, the duke, is only 18,000 Hengyuan.

This annual subsidy is just to maintain the minimum decency of the aristocracy, but the Daheng Empire is an imperial country, since there is an emperor, there must be a nobleman, and the particularity of the aristocracy also needs to be maintained, and they can't let them ruin the family property, so they go to the street to beg for food.

Although it is said that the aristocratic system of the Lin Dynasty is a continuation of the virtual aristocratic system of the Ji Dynasty, so that the nobles do not have too special privileges, but they are also nobles.

It is still the best symbol of glory and wealth!

In addition to the meritorious aristocracy, there is also a clan aristocracy system, but this clan aristocracy system is relatively simple, the prince is crowned prince or county king, and at the same time adopts a hereditary system of reduction.

The eldest son is reduced by one degree of inheritance, and the second son is reduced by two degrees of inheritance, and after being reduced to a lifelong baron, the lord is directly reduced to the people, so as to avoid the size of the clan being too large and stifling the total number of people.

The establishment and perfection of the aristocratic system is a part of the perfection of the Lin dynasty of the Daheng Empire, and even belongs to the less important part.

For the new dynasty, what is more important is the improvement of the internal affairs and military system.

After the enlarged military conference, the knighthood ceremony was held continuously, and after the canonization ceremony, Lin Ziran convened the enlarged government affairs meeting non-stop, mainly to discuss post-war development issues.

The meeting determined the four major priorities of the Daheng Empire after the war, the first of which was to organize the local administrative organs, especially those in the north, to establish and improve as soon as possible and take over the local government affairs.

Bring the thirteen states of the country under the control of the empire and lay the administrative foundation for the subsequent implementation of various policies.

The second is the post-war recovery work, restoring agricultural and industrial production in various places; Rehabilitation of war-damaged infrastructure, especially bridges, roads, docks and ports.

The third is to study and focus on the development of a number of industries, especially mining, iron and steel, textiles, grain processing, and other key industries, to further stimulate and promote the development of the manufacturing industry, so as to absorb more affluent labor and reduce the unemployment rate.

The last item is to develop transportation!

The first three are all reasonable and within the expectations of the ministers, but Lin Ziran personally identified the transportation problem as one of the four major priorities of work after the war, which made some ministers unexpected.

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