The Tang Dynasty continued to use the old system, and the Wu Zhou Dynasty followed the Tang system.

There are nine ranks, namely:

First Class: Zheng Yipin, Prince;

Second Class: From the first rank, the heir king, the county king;

Third Class: From the first product, the Duke of the Kingdom;

Fourth-class knight: Zheng Erpin, the founding county duke;

Fifth Class: From the second grade, the founding county duke;

Sixth-class lord: from the third grade, the founding county marquis;

Seventh Rank Lord: Zheng Si Lu, the founder of the county;

Eighth Rank Lord: On the fifth grade, the founding county;

Ninth Class: From the fifth grade, the founding county male;

In addition to the ninth-class titles of men, the female members are divided into twelve ranks, from the princess of the first rank to the Fengyi of the eighth grade.

Regardless of men and women, it is noble to have a lord, and there is a place for eternal industry and a place for mining.

That's ......

That's a bit of an exaggeration.

Don't talk about women, just ninth-class male titles.

A first-class prince, ten thousand households.

Second-class lord, 5,000 households.

Third-class prince, 3,000 minions.

Fourth-class county princess, 2,000 households.

Fifth class, 1,500 households.

Sixth-class, 1,000 households.

In descending order, the seven, eight, and nine are seven hundred, five hundred, and three hundred.

It stands to reason that at the beginning of the dynasty, there was a great reward for meritorious civil and military achievements, which is really not much.

Do you think, your subordinates were born and died with you, conquered the world, and finally the world was one, and you became the emperor, so you eat meat, and the brothers can't drink soup?

Take Taizong Li Shimin as an example, the change of Xuanwumen made Li Er win the world.

A group of civil servants and military generals in the palace of the Qin Dynasty have made outstanding achievements, such as Qin Qiong, Cheng Biting Jin, and the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang, and Du, all of whom have been crowned the Duke of the Kingdom, that is, 3,000 households in Shiyi.

Not excessive, right?

Not too much at all!

Those uncles, uncles, cousins and cousins who supported Li Er were all crowned princes, isn't it too much?

In the future, Li Er will give birth to a bunch of sons, his own flesh and blood, and it is not too much to be crowned a prince again, right?

It's not too much!

Then why did you add 500 food to Wu Ning, which can't be compared with what I said earlier, but Taiping said a lot? What is the contradiction between the emperor and the gate valve?

Because, when the country was founded, it was not excessive, but in a few decades, it will be excessive, and it is very excessive!

For example, let's take Wu Wangfu's family as an example, and settle accounts.

Li Qianli inherited the prince of Wu, Li Ke, the prince of Yipin, that is, ten thousand households in Caiyi.

But that's not all!

Li Qianli has four sons.

They are: Li Xi, the king of Tianshui County; Cai Guogong Li Qiang; Li Tong, the Duke of Yuguo, and Li Ying, a man from Chengji County.

A county king, two princes, and a county man.

That's how many euphemas is that?

Together, twenty-one thousand three hundred households.

Don't worry, there's more!

Li Qianli's second brother Li Wei gave birth to two sons, one inherited the heir to the prince, and the other passed to his uncle Li Su, who inherited the prince.

That's another fifteen thousand eups.

The third brother Li Kun, among the children, there are five people with titles, one county king, two princes, and one heir.

Another ten thousand.

The fourth brother Li Xuan, the king of Zhengjun, and his son is Wu Guogong.

Fifteen thousand.

Li Qianli also has a group of sisters, either princesses, county princes, and the last is also the county lord, not to mention it, just talking about their four brothers.

The families of the four brothers were added together, and there were 67,300 households.

What is the concept of more than 67,000 households?

In a small and medium-sized prefecture and county in the Great Zhou Dynasty, all the cultivated land and peasant households were added together, and there were almost more than 60,000 households.

To feed a Wu Wangfu, you have to give everything to a small state and county.

And there are countless gate valve clansmen like Wu Wangfu, who can stand it?

If they are not restrained, the state finances will not have to do anything, and it will not be enough to feed them.

This is also the reason why there have been cases of cutting lords and cutting of worship in all dynasties, and there have been chaos because of this.

In fact, it is because the founding emperor was extravagant and rewarded vigorously, but future generations will always have to pay off the debts of their ancestors.

Princess Taiping explained, "In fact, the gate valve and the seven surnames and ten families are suspected of monopolizing the government, but their fundamentals are different. ”

"Seven surnames and ten families are among the people, squeezing the interests of the people, and encroaching on the people's land."

"Moreover, because each family is engaged in commerce, it is not very dependent on land for financial resources."

"If it weren't for the arrogance of the family and vainly trying to compete with the mother emperor for power, the mother emperor would not necessarily be so eager to knock out the family."

"However, the gate valve is different. Most of them are the founding nouveau riche and meritorious ministers, who do not have the same background as the family, and because of the shackles of their status, they do not have the ability to raise money through business. ”

"Their financial resources are mainly in the Yulu and Yongye Tiancaiyi, which encroach on the interests of the imperial court, and the contradictions between them and the mother emperor also come from this."

Taiping leaned lazily on the back of the chair, "To put it bluntly, the gate valve has to rely on Yulu and Caiyi to support a large family, but the mother doesn't want to give them so many Caiyi, and she is thinking about cutting the lord and surrendering to the court, this is a dead knot, can there be no contradictions?" ”

"......" Wu Ning nodded and did not speak.

In this way, the old lady gave 500 food yips, which can be regarded as bloodletting!

Isn't it just bloodletting?

Speaking from the heart, Mrs. Wu is really a heavy reward this time. Because since he rewarded Taiping 1200 food ten years ago, this is the first time in ten years that Wu Zetian has rewarded his courtiers with Caiyi.

Since the development of the imperial court, there is not much Yu Tian as a reward for Yongye Tian.

This is only after Wu Laojiu won the family and let the old lady have more than 10 million acres of Shandong fertile land in her hands, she gritted her teeth and stomped her feet...

Reward!!

......

As Taiping said, this is a dead knot.

Wu Ning finally understood why all the families in Chang'an were desperately encroaching on public land.

Just like Taiping said, these gate valves have no financial resources except for Yulu, and they are embarrassed to do business, so they finally came out of Chang'an City with such a big piece of fat, can they not be tempted?

Then why don't you hurry up and occupy it, and subsidize the family?

However, Wu Ning couldn't figure it out, "The gate valve clan is all glamorous, and they don't look like poor people?" Are you so short of money? ”

"What do you say about this?" Taiping glanced at Wu Ning, "If you want to talk about money, each family must have it, and there are quite a few of them." ”

"It's really more serious, who can't get a dozen or two hundred thousand?"

"But...," Princess Taiping became angry.

"If you don't belong to your family, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are! But if there is a little way to make money, of course, you must seize it. Otherwise, when it comes to real use, there is no money in hand, won't you be blind? ”

“！！！”

Wu Laojiu was shocked, this didn't sound right....

Go first!

"I'm going to the Yamen."

As soon as she lifted her buttocks, Princess Taiping pounced.

"Eh, eh!! What are you going? Did you understand what Hongu was saying? ”

glanced at Wu Ning charmingly, "What does this palace mean is that while there is a chance now, Jiu Lang will not help my sister?" ”

"Take advantage of the power in your hand to grant my sister a few more pieces of land, that's the right thing!"

Really.

Wu Ning rolled his eyes, "What's that, I'll talk about it later!" ”

He ran away as if he were fleeing.

"Cut!" Taiping looked unhappy, "Stingy! ”

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