Regarding the title inheritance system, Liu Zhi had already moved it once before when the imperial court structure was reformed.

Drawing on the experience of the Tartar Dynasty, it will no longer be inherited from generation to generation, and the prince will be demoted by one level at most five generations, and the same is true for hereditary marquises.

According to their own system, ordinary meritorious marquis has one generation, some three generations, and so on.

The Tui'en Decree inherited from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has already existed in name only for various reasons, but occasionally there are those who distribute their own land to their descendants.

That's how Liu Zhi's father's Liwu Marquis came back then.

The Han Dynasty lasted for 400 years, and Gaozu had countless descendants, and it had already become a huge family.

Although most of them have become ordinary people in terms of quality of life, only in terms of status can still have the glory of the clan.

But there are many who can retain the status of princes, adding up to hundreds, most of them are marquis, and the proportion of county marquis and township marquis is quite large.

Such a large number of people with titles has become a big burden for the Han court, these people have a huge amount of imperial wealth, but they have not created much efficiency for the country.

Liu Zhi had already seen that they were not pleasing to the eye, but the time was not ripe before and he couldn't move.

At that time, the family was in charge, and he was attacked on his back, and if he was an enemy of the clan again, he would really be embattled.

Now that the Hanmen have begun to rise, there is also a division within the family, and there is a balance between the military attaché group, and the clan has been completely marginalized politically.

Therefore, he asked Long Linwei to collect some black materials from the princely clan in advance, and planned to use it as an excuse to rectify them.

As a result, when the information was sent to his desk, Liu Zhi flipped through it casually, and he was so angry that he exploded his lungs.

These materials add up to more than a foot thick, and each one by one is a record of the bad deeds of the princes.

What kind of bullying men and women, clever robbery, fish and meat in the countryside and the like are the norm, and even many people have murders.

In this era, even the aristocracy, let alone the princely class, enjoyed privileges, and they almost all had a wide range of slaves and maids, and they did not take the lives of their servants seriously.

There are tyrannical personalities, and it is a trivial matter to kill a few slaves who make mistakes, although the law of the Han Dynasty prohibits the torture and killing of slaves, but the local government turns a blind eye and takes some money.

Of course, not all princes are like this, but that is only a few, and most of them are full of brains, thinking that as long as they do not rebel, do not raise an army, and do not interfere in local affairs, the emperor will not care.

It's no wonder they think so, since Emperor Guangwu, the Eastern Han Dynasty has always treated the clan well, except for those who have different intentions, the rest are good to eat and drink.

After a long time, a consensus was formed, the punishment of the doctor is not good, not to mention that they are all royal relatives of the clan, how can His Majesty punish them for such a trivial matter.

Of course, this is also a problem left over from history, Liu Zhi thought about it, in order to avoid provoking chaos, he still did not blame the past.

However, the entire clan class has to be rectified, otherwise in the future, with the improvement of the country's productivity and medicine, the clan will expand dramatically and become larger and larger.

In the past ten years, the birth rate of newborns in the clan has skyrocketed, much higher than that of ordinary people, and over time, the burden on the Han court will become heavier and heavier.

"As a descendant of Gaozu, I should set an example for the people and benefit all the people, but now I am very disappointed."

Liu Zhi glanced around sharply, and he could see that people were cold all over his body.

"After receiving the offerings of the people of Limin, but not doing good deeds for the people, I decided that it is time to put some pressure on you."

Hearing this, the hearts of all those present rose to their throats, and no one knew what kind of order His Majesty would give.

"In the future, whether it is a prince or a prince, whether you can be qualified for the title or not, you must be assessed, and you don't necessarily have to be a successor, but you must be virtuous."

Everyone was stunned, what does this mean?

"I won't pursue what has already passed, but if it is found that he is corrupt and perverts the law in the future, and he carelessly cares about people's lives, he will immediately take away his title and will not tolerate it!"

Finally, some people have come back to their senses, and they don't stand up for virtue, isn't this encouraging all families to start a big war?

Of course, the remarks that the prince may not be crowned the king were automatically ignored by them, and His Majesty just said so, how could he even rectify himself.

"However, the property of each family should be inventoried, those of unknown origin should be confiscated, and the excess land that was encroached upon should be returned."

This is the main thing, every family has a number in their hearts, how many of them are innocent?

"However, I will give you a few months to conduct self-examination and self-correction, and start a unified inventory in the first month of next year."

Speaking of this, he slapped the table in front of him again, and the sound of "pop" shocked everyone's hearts.

I only heard Liu Zhi's voice say coldly: "If I find out after the fact, transfer my property and resist the investigation, don't blame me for being unsympathetic!" ”

Suddenly, the whole hall of the clan was silent, but the heart was dripping blood, Your Majesty really treated them as leeks.

Liu Zhi does have this idea, the country is now waiting for countless places to use money, and if he can take some of it back from them, it can be regarded as taking it from the people for the people.

What the clans don't know is that the emperor will make some changes to the inheritance system in the future, and the rewards for the prince will be stricter.

The fiefdom of the county marquis will be compressed, and the qualifications of the heirs will also be reviewed, and the existing titles.

Moreover, the previously promulgated system of demotion was not strictly implemented, mainly because Liu Zhi did not want to intensify the contradiction at that time.

Now is also the time to start enforcing them strictly, so that some of the titles can be removed.

In the later Tartar clan system, one of the most important points was that the vassal king did not have a fiefdom and did not belong to the domain, but gave a mansion to live in the capital.

This is from the rebellion of King Pingnan, to learn a lesson and reform, this point has been advanced in all dynasties, since then there has been no rebellion of the vassal kings.

However, due to the traditional system of the Han Dynasty, except for Liu Jin, the king of Xiangyang, the existing county kings all live in fiefdoms, and it is not good to let them move back suddenly.

After thinking about it, didn't Liu Kui, the king of Bohai, always want to return to the capital day and night? Then satisfy him, and Liu Wei's mother and son can also let them go back to Luoyang.

With these precedents, you can find all kinds of excuses in the future to put the county kings in the capital one after another.

When the time is right, they will directly issue a decree, and the future vassal kings will no longer be vassals, and their fiefs will be slowly reduced until they are abolished.

Anyway, Liu Wei and Liu Kui have mansions in Luoyang, and there is no need for him to spend extra money to build them, and when Liu Zhen comes back in the future, he will stay in the capital.

Sure enough, at the official birthday banquet, Liu Zhi announced with a smile on his face that he took pity on King Bohai's frail and sickly health, and specially granted him to stay in the capital to recuperate.

Liu Kui was completely unprepared, and he couldn't react at all, he jumped up and down all his life, just to stay in the red dust, but he ended up degrading thousands of miles away.

As a result, when he didn't think so at all, the good thing that he couldn't ask for suddenly came......

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