The emperor looked at the rain curtain outside the hall, and said with some concern, "The rain is playing all over the place, this autumn rain is a little urgent and a little heavy, and it has been held back for a few months, and now I want to come down all at once, it seems that many places are going to have autumn floods, I don't know if I can prevent it." ”

The eldest grandson Zhaoyi came over with a bowl of dumplings, "The concubine's new bag of leek dumplings." ”

"I have a heart."

Eating dumplings, the emperor was a little absent-minded, he was still thinking about the conversation with the eldest grandson Wuji before, and the two of them talked for a long time and talked a lot.

The eldest grandson Wuji is indeed inexhaustible, and in the end, he talked about the imperial court's recruitment system, imperial examination system and feudal system, and the most likely result is redundant soldiers, redundant officials, and redundant expenses.

Nowadays, there are thousands of nobles of all sizes, and under the order of Tui'en, the princes of the second generation in the future may increase several times or even tenfold, even if the size of the fief does not change, the number of princes who can surge will still bring many other problems.

For example, even if the princes do not hold real positions, they can also have a high rank of title, and they can also be able to enter the office by virtue of the shadow of the door, and a large number of noble children will not only have an impact on the imperial court's system of taking officials, but also bring the harm of redundant officials. Not to mention, the nobles also enjoyed many other privileges, such as a high number of land, and so on.

On the other hand, relatives and the children of officials can also obtain the door shade, since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the road of this door shade has become wider and wider, almost making the official position hereditary, which is also the real reason why the imperial court wants to open the imperial examination to take scholars. Otherwise, once the official position is truly hereditary, the threat to the imperial power is huge, which is also the reason why the Guanlong nobles were so prominent in the past.

It is still only the beginning of the founding of the country, so some problems have not yet appeared, but it is obvious that after two or three generations of emperors, the privileges of the marquis, officials, and relatives will inevitably lead to big problems.

"Guanyin, I plan to make a detailed specification of the Enyin system, what do you think?" Luo Cheng put the dumplings in the vinegar dish and said while dipping.

"The concubines only know that everything is pre-planned, and if they are not pre-planned, it will be abolished, and it is of course the best to establish rules early, so that there will be precedents to follow and systems to follow."

After eating dumplings, Luo Cheng immediately summoned Wei Zheng to come.

"I'm going to redraft the door-shade system."

"How does Your Majesty plan to change it?" Wei Zheng asked, the door shade system is very important, after all, it involves the interests of nobles, officials, and relatives, and any change will affect the whole body.

"I also know that this matter is important, but I am the founder of the country, if I don't reform well, then future generations will be even more constrained and unable to change. It must be changed now, and only now can be changed. Luo Cheng made up his mind, "First of all, the scope of the door shade, the officials above the ninth rank, the honorable officials above the fifth rank, all the nobles who are divided, and the relatives of the three queens, four concubines and nine concubines, are all in the list of the door shade. ”

"There were a lot of them before, one person could be in the shade of several children, and even brothers, uncles and nephews, etc., I thought it was too much, and many children of noble officials and relatives were still in infancy to give officials, too much."

Wei Zheng nodded, this is indeed there.

The door shade has reached its peak since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the prime minister can even favor more than a dozen of his brothers and nephews.

"I think that whether it is a prince or a prime minister, or a county order, they can retain the privilege of being in the shade, but only one person below the fifth rank can be in the shade, and only the eldest son can inherit the shade, and he must be at least twenty-one years old before he becomes a ding."

For the children of these officials, Luo Cheng made adjustments, originally directly conferred officials, but now he has changed it to conferring ranks.

Officials of the sixth to ninth grades, after their eldest son becomes a ding, can be awarded the rank of Chengyin, and the rank is the ninth rank of the Liuwai.

The ninth rank outside the stream, that is, the official position outside the eighteenth rank and thirty levels of the ninth grade, the eighteenth rank of the ninth grade is called the inner rank, and then there are the outer positions.

The flow outside is also called not into the flow, the Northern and Southern Dynasties have it, the Northern Wei Dynasty is called the flow outside the nine classes, the Northern Zhou Dynasty to the flow of nine lives, the flow outside the nine ranks.

After the establishment of the Great Qin, the officials of the exile were set up in the ninth class, the first to the ninth class.

The outside of the stream is actually a official, and the ninth rank of the official is not in the stream, but he can also be promoted into the stream if he performs well.

Now Luo Cheng means that not all the children of aristocratic officials are excellent, if they are really excellent, they can enter the government through the imperial examination and other ways, so he advocates that the privileges of the door shade should be reduced.

The children of the sixth-grade to nine-grade officials can only be awarded the ninth rank of the first rank, and then the officials are selected, and those who pass the examination are awarded specific corresponding positions, such as Zuo, Shi, Pavilion Chief, Zhanggu, etc.

The children of third- to fifth-grade officials can be first awarded the eighth rank of exile, and the children of first- and second-grade officials can be awarded the seventh rank of exile.

Relatives include the third queen, the queen, the queen mother, the queen mother's family, as well as the four concubines and nine concubines, each family is the same only one eldest son, if there is no grandson, then the eldest son of the shadow is required to be twenty-one years old before they can inherit the shade. They are also all beginners.

If you can't pass it, although you retain the rank of the outside of the stream, you can't be conferred, you have to continue to participate in the election, and you can't pass it three times, and you can't pass the rank of the outside of the stream, and the qualification of the shade will naturally be canceled.

"Isn't that too low?"

Wei Zheng asked.

In the past, the prime minister could shade seven or eight dozen brothers and nephews, and even the beginning was eight or nine grades, or even seven grades. For example, the emperor's original pro-Xun Yi Sanwei, among which the pro-guards are all the children of the prime minister and the prince, and the lowest is from the seventh grade as soon as they enter.

"The official position is a public instrument of the state, a manager, and cannot be hereditary." Luo Cheng insisted.

At that time, a large number of gentlemen will have no talent and no virtue, but they will get official positions through the shadow of the door, shouldn't this be chaotic?

"Those who are really talented can directly participate in the imperial examination, or they can join the army and enter the imperial court to teach martial arts, which is also the right way. If you don't have talent, I don't want to give it to a ninth-level outstream. ”

In addition, Luo Cheng simply canceled the permanent shade of what is the shade of the Shishi, the shadow of the posthumous table, the shadow of the suburbs, the shadow of the Holy Festival, the shade of Dengji, the shadow of the book, etc., and the rest of the special shades such as what the concubine gave birth to a child have also been canceled, and there is only one system left in the door shade.

Although the officials, feudal marquis, and relatives all retain the privilege of being shaded, each person is only allowed to have one son regardless of his position, and he can only be officially awarded the rank of shade after his son is a ding, and there are strict restrictions on the rank, and they are all outside the ranks.

Only sons, brothers, nephews, grandsons, not to mention shade doormen, doctors, etc.

As for the princes' Tui'en division, Luo Cheng also readjusted, it turned out that all his sons could be Tui'en and divided, but now Luo Cheng has changed it.

Regardless of the size of the title, the princes are only allowed to inherit the three sons in each generation, first the eldest and then the youngest. Among them, the eldest son is not demoted to a hereditary title, and the remaining two sons are demoted to the second rank to inherit the title, and the fifth son is beheaded. The first hereditary lord retains a hereditary title, and the rest of the titles from Tuien are reduced to two levels of inheritance per generation, and at most five generations, they will be concubines after five generations, unless they can be awarded other meritorious services.

Even the imperial court set up counties and counties for the princes' fiefs, and stationed officials to manage them, stationed government soldiers, and so on.

The greatest privilege and benefit of the princes is that they can own one-third of the two taxes of the fiefdom, specifically referring to the household tax and the land tax, and the rest of the industrial and commercial taxes have nothing to do with the princes.

The children of the princes who have not been entitled, can be given priority to enter the national eunuch or the martial arts hall to study and practice martial arts, but not to give another background, and the entrance to the official needs to be obtained by their own ability.

After listening to the emperor's plan, Wei Zheng couldn't help but sigh, "The reform is very strong, if it can really be implemented, it will be of great benefit to the imperial court in the long run." ”

Luo Cheng heard the meaning of Wei Zheng's words, but he was afraid that this reform would encounter great resistance.

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