Liu Zhang did not speak, and the regent Empress Dowager Fu Shou first issued a decree.

Liu Zhang, the king of Shu, led the Sichuan army, Kuangfu Han Dynasty, and Zhongxing Sheji, cleansing the world with ten years of work, so that the Dahan rivers and mountains that had been crumbling since the Yellow Turban Rebellion were re-stabilized, and pacified the Southern Barbarians, Western Qiang, Northern Grasslands, Goguryeo, and Southern Barbarians, and defeated the Kushan Empire army.

There are a large number of signs of prosperity in Beiping, all of which are the merits of Liu Zhang, the king of Shu, and now there is no Son of Heaven in the Han Dynasty for several years, and the king of Shu walks the world with virtue, and when he succeeds to the throne of the Son of Heaven, he establishes the prosperity of the Han Dynasty.

Fu Shou issued an edict to establish Liu Zhang as the emperor, although the Sichuan army and civil and military all know, but the people of the world are all happy, the Han Dynasty has been fighting for so many years, there has been no Son of Heaven for so many years, and now, you can finally live a stable life.

After completing this unspoken rule, Liu Zhang announced that he would ascend the throne on December 12 as emperor.

Huang Yueying, Fa Zheng, Zhang Ren, Fan Lixiang, Jiang Wan, Wang Lei and other civil and military officials all sent advice to Liu Zhang and asked for the capital of Beiping.

Liu Zhang did not make a statement, and asked the civil and military officials for advice.

Of course, the civil and military officials have opinions, but first, there is Xiangrui in front, second, he is now in Beiping, and third, Huang Yueying, Yingfa Zhengzhang, and these people have all requested, is it useful to oppose it yourself?

The civil and military officials unanimously approved the change of Beiping to Beijing, and the Han Dynasty moved its capital to Beijing.

At this time, the civil and military officials and many knowledgeable people still did not understand that the capital of Beiping was simply what Liu Zhang had thought about early on.

Otherwise, why did Jiang Wan demote a lieutenant to Beiping Taishou, or why did he build roads from various big cities to Beiping, and opened the canal from Beiping to the Yellow River, and let Cao Chong be the chief transfer.

This is clearly a long time ago. Although no one said anything. But that's only for now. They can't say anything, and the civil and military officials are still dissatisfied in their hearts.

"My lord, now we have to discuss what happened after we ascended the throne, otherwise it will really be too late."

After announcing the date of enthronement, since someone went to prepare those cumbersome etiquette, Huang Yueying immediately found Liu Zhang, and under Liu Zhang's coercion and temptation, Huang Yueying had to agree with Zhang Ren and others to move the capital to Beiping. Now I have a little resentment in my heart, but it is not as strong as other civil and military forces.

Huang Yueying has always deliberately suppressed her own family and left an eyeliner in the family, if anyone relies on his power to mess around, he will do it immediately, so now the Huang family in Jingzhou has a huge background, and it can't compete with the wealthy family in Yizhou.

As a result, Huang Yueying didn't care about Dingdu at all, and other officials were worried that Beiping, which was remote from Dingdu, had detached itself from its roots. will affect his own authority, and at the same time, he is too far away from his hometown to be dissatisfied. Huang Yueying wouldn't think so.

Huang Yueying just felt that it was not so necessary to make the capital of Beiping, and for this, until now, Huang Yueying could not agree with Liu Zhang.

However, it is also known that the capital of Beiping has many advantages, one of which is that the original civil and military officials of the Sichuan army are separated from their roots, which is conducive to balanced rule and will not create a clear hierarchy of regional power.

It is precisely because of these reasons that Huang Yueying feels that she can compromise, otherwise, Huang Yueying will try her best to prevent the relocation of the capital to Beijing.

Now that the matter of Dingdu Beijing has been decided, even if many civilians, military and businessmen are dissatisfied, they dare not break out, then it is time to discuss the imminent claim to the emperor.

Seeing Liu Zhang nodding, Huang Yueying said: "After ascending the throne, the lord will definitely determine the official system, military system, and people's livelihood policies, but these are not the most important, the most important thing is to reward the meritorious heroes."

Other lower-level civil and military have their own upper-level civil and military rewards, and what we have to worry about is the upper-level civil and military, titles and official positions, as well as jurisdictions, food and euphemia, etc.

The official position is easy to say, in Yueying's view, it is to promote the officials of the former Chang'an court to one level, in the army, Zhang Ren can be promoted to the general, and the others are canonized according to meritorious service, but this title is a problem, what does the lord think? ”

"The five tiger generals, the six good generals, as well as Zhi Lanying, Fa Zheng and others, as well as the late Leng Bao and other generals are all crowned kings, Wang Yue, Ake, Gao Pei, Yang Huai and other military generals who followed the earliest are all marquis, Li Yan, Jiang Wan and other civil officials are all promoted to marquis, and other generals and civil officials are ......"

"Wait, lord, wait."

Huang Yueying listened to Liu Zhang's words, the more she listened, the more frightened she became, she was stunned for a while, reacted suddenly, quickly interrupted, stared at Liu Zhang, and said, "Lord, aren't you joking with Yueying?"

Are you knightly giving away? This is absolutely impossible, there are more than ten kings alone, so we might as well be crowned kings in the first place to motivate them.

We waited until today, didn't we just want to compress? If it weren't for the fear that the soldiers would be dissatisfied, Yueying felt that a throne should not be sealed, including Yueying's own Yan throne.

But there must be dissatisfaction with the generals who are not crowned kings, I think Zhang Ren, Fa Zheng, and Zhe Lanying can be crowned kings, and the other two places are up to two, and the lord can decide by himself, but there must be no more than five people, and he can't seal the state country, only the county country and the county state. ”

If she didn't know Liu Zhang, Huang Yueying would have thought that Liu Zhang was an idiot, this was simply a big gift of titles, and no king would do this.

At the beginning, Liu Bang sealed so many kings, in order to win people's hearts, and after becoming the emperor, he began to cut off kings with different surnames, and now Liu Zhang has ruled the world and has so many kings, isn't that sick.

"Nope." Liu Zhang waved his hand, directly rejecting Huang Yueying's proposal, and said in a deep voice: "Ten thrones are not much, and marquis can be more, after all, they are all lords and generals, and it is their dream to be crowned a marquis."

However, all these titles are classified as decreasing titles, and from now on, all titles in my Han world will only have decreasing titles, not completely hereditary titles. ”

"Diminishing titles?" Huang Yueying reacted, but she didn't quite react yet.

"It's not just a decreasing title, all the princes don't open the palace, don't govern the country, only receive the title of the food and the city, and enjoy rich benefits and equal status treatment with the court officials."

"If you don't open the government, you won't govern the country?"

Huang Yueying was startled, she finally reacted and knew what Liu Zhang was planning.

Decreasing title, that is, the title of the original placement of retired soldiers, unless the descendants in the process of inheritance have made meritorious contributions, otherwise the title is reduced in turn, the marquis is reduced to the earl, the earl is reduced to the viscount, the viscount is reduced to the baron, and there is also a "scholar" title, which is lower than the treatment of the baron, but the baron cannot be hereditary.

This is a good policy, which can not only comfort those soldiers for their contributions to the Han Dynasty, but also not let the titles proliferate, but that is only for retired soldiers.

Because they would not have been knighted in the first place, and now the marquis prince has descended on their heads, it is a surprise, and the benefits brought by those titles do not include the retirement treatment of the former Sichuan soldiers.

This extra surprise brings status, wealth, and a life insurance, and those soldiers who are not happy?

But this doesn't apply to these meritorious civil and military at all, these people originally wanted to be knighted, and they were permanent hereditary titles.

These civil and military officers have reached this point, if they want to have status and wealth, what can they use to appease them with the status of "equal to the court officials" and "generous welfare rewards"?

As for what kind of life has an accident and is raised by the government, do these civil and military officials need this insurance?

Including Huang Yueying, no one ever thought that Liu Zhang invented this decreasing title, which would be used on the title of knighthood on the throne, because this is only suitable for lower-level soldiers, and for the upper-level, this will definitely not satisfy those civil and military forces.

Moreover, there is also a government that does not open and does not govern the country.

What is this concept? If Zhang is any king of Shu, it has nothing to do with Yizhou at all.

The meaning of this title just means that Zhang Ren can enjoy a lot of food, that is, a lot of food and money, and with this title alone, it is estimated that he will be on the same level as the prime minister.

In addition, if Zhang Ren has an accident, the government will support him with a high insurance premium.

Zhang Ren could not manage a county in Yizhou, had no private soldiers, and did not have his own royal officials, such as the prime minister of the kingdom, the governor and so on.

So what's the use of this throne? The so-called knighthood is nothing more than a status symbol and a symbol of many conferred wealth.

With such treatment, will those meritorious civil and military officers be satisfied?

No wonder Liu Zhang is so generous to be crowned king, these princely titles are meaningless at all.

What's more, it's still decreasing.

"Lord, this is absolutely impossible, this will cause strong dissatisfaction among the civil and military, the decreasing title is only suitable for the bottom, if you don't open the mansion, you won't govern the country, and you won't enter the fiefdom, it's even more unprecedented, and the civil and military will be chilling."

"There are more things that have not been seen since ancient times, someone has to come out to do it, and the civil and military forces are chilling now, it is better than me to go out and send troops to conquer in the future."

Every dynasty in history changes, the new dynasty likes to be crowned king, and then slowly conquer, only Zhao Kuangyin is more benevolent, this kind of game of sealing the king and then conquering, Liu Zhang really doesn't want to play.

If the king conquers again, it will still be war, and at the same time, Liu Zhang doesn't want to kill those heroes, and assists himself in achieving great causes, they are all people with feelings, and they really don't want to see each other.

The most terrible thing is that if the king who is sealed out does not act when he is alive, or their descendants are ambitious, just like in the early Western Han Dynasty, it only broke out during the period of Emperor Wen, Emperor Jing and Emperor Wu, and it also controlled the central power, then it would be unbearable.

The Jin Dynasty was destroyed by the Rebellion of the Eight Kings.

What Liu Zhang is most worried about is that when he is in power, no one dares to say anything, and when he dies, he will not be able to lose the king's tail everywhere, which is terrible.

Seeing that Huang Yueying was about to say, Liu Zhang said: "I will not only let the regulations of decreasing titles and not opening the mansion be added to the civil and military forces, but also to the clan."

The children of the royal family are also reduced titles, and they are also unable to open a government or govern the country, and they cannot hold any power unless they are official positions in specific places or generals in specific armies. ”

At that time, Liu Bang stipulated that different surnames could not be crowned kings, but many kings surnamed Liu were sealed, in order to make the Liu family more stable in the world. (To be continued......)