Chapter 433: The Second Year of Yuanxing

Wang Che ascended the throne and changed Yuan Yuanxing, and the early years of Yuanxing passed under the disturbance of the Guanzhong case.

Wang Che handed over the confiscated wealth from Guanzhong to the royal caravan to dispose of, partly to prevent official corruption, and partly to let the royal family and the imperial court make more money.

The cost of the royal family has become higher and higher over the years, and the royal family needs to be rewarded for each generation, although there are not many princes and kings, but there are many dukes.

The title of Duke to the emperor's brother is duke, and only a few who are willing to open up overseas can be crowned king, but even so, the annual cost is not a small amount.

Over the generations, the number of royal descendants has also numbered in the thousands. In addition, there are too many places to spend money and food that the army needs to open up overseas, such as the royal family's Yulinwei.

The royal family faced this problem, and the imperial court faced a similar situation. Although the title of Daqian is not hereditary, but descended, there are many titles over the years.

Although there are few titles rewarded by the imperial court with actual fiefs, and the vast majority of them are food eups, but this era is not those imperial courts in later generations, and the food euphores have been made into honorary titles.

A thousand households in the food town are a thousand households in the food town. There were no 1,000 households in the food estate, and there was another false seal, and then there was a 'food real seal'. Put aside this layer of nesting dolls.

In the end, the thousands of households in the food town and the thousands of households in the false seal have become an honor, there is no money, no land, no fart, it can only prove that the status is high, the face is big, and the qualifications are sufficient.

But if you don't reward the food, how can you let the soldiers fight bravely to kill the enemy? By mouth cannon or by spirit? The title is empty, and the food is also empty, so what is the life? What kind of blood is shed? What are you fighting for a few hundred dollars a month?

My father has shed blood for the country, and my father has contributed to the country, so why don't I benefit at all? My father was a general, why should I sweep the streets?

The imperial court must consider these things, and after it cannot be hereditary, the descendation will follow.

After all, the imperial court can't cause disaster to the family because of the crime, and there is no such saying in the world that the descendants are not allowed to receive meritorious service and receive the knighthood.

Daqian is not as ruthless as Qin Fazhulian, and he often needs to use his title to atone for his crimes. On the contrary, because of the victory in a hundred battles, a large number of titles need to be sealed. Over the past hundred years, the imperial court titles have been divided into a lot, even if the imperial court was knighted, it was a little stingy, but it couldn't withstand too many people

In addition, some of those who have made meritorious contributions to obtain the official position of Enyin, and the expenses of the court are getting bigger and bigger, do you want to blame the generals for being too capable of fighting? Win every battle? Let the generals close the points in the next battle and lose a few battles? Isn't that?

Although the imperial court has tried its best to limit the rewards of titles, there are still many nobles in the world.

The finances of the imperial court are not bad now, but if it continues like this, in another ten or twenty years, there will be big problems. Therefore, Wang Che wanted to solve the problem while it was not serious, or try his best to delay it.

The royal family auctioned the shops and workshops in Guanzhong, and in order to prevent cheap sales, the imperial court only released a part. As one of the five capitals, Chang'an is also an important city on the Silk Road, and the value of these shops is very high.

Therefore, as soon as the imperial court released a batch of shops, they were swept away by those nobles, heroes, and merchants. Next, the royal family began to sell them in batches.

Of course, some of these well-located shops were deliberately left by the royal family.

In the end, the money sold had to be compensated to the people who were mutilated, and the rest of the money was divided equally between the royal family and the imperial court. This kind of business behavior of the royal family is often criticized by some people as competing with the people for profit, but the court ignores them.

After all, now the right to speak has always been in the hands of the imperial court, and the royal family is much stronger than them in the way of economy.

Again, do you mean the people by this people in your mouth? This is not a later generation, the emperor was fooled and lame. Although many people in the academy learn the Confucian set of things, many of them must be explained according to the meaning of the imperial court, otherwise they will lose the qualification of a doctor of classics.

The farmland in the hands of the royal family also began to be sold, and the enthusiasm of the people for these fields was even higher, because the imperial court no longer granted land, so many people did not have acres of land over the years.

The eldest of the common people has three sons in a family, and basically the eldest inherits the property, and the second eldest divides the money into three parts, and then leaves home to find a way out.

Some people will sign up to go to the Hehuang Valley, the Western Regions, Lelang County in eastern Liaodong, and even to Fusang. But such a people are a very small part of the people. More people do not want to leave their hometowns, but become tenants of large families in their hometowns, or go to the city to worship masters, learn a trade and become craftsmen.

Although the income of craftsmen is higher than that of farming, according to the simple concept of the people, it is still more secure to farm.

Therefore, after seeing the imperial court selling the land at a low price, many people wanted to buy it. Some of these people want to increase their strength, and some are preparing some land for the second and third children after the separation, after all, they are their own sons.

In the past, there was no way to get land, but now that there is a way, it is natural to give some benefits to the second and third children.

Although Daqian is already very lenient to the people, he still can't make all the people rich. The imperial court's land policy had been perfected several times, but with population growth, even the best land policy would become outdated.

The Tang Dynasty was the pinnacle of the government military system, and during the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the government military system played an important role. However, at that time, the government military system was able to be implemented because the population of the whole country was withered due to decades of war, and there were large areas of land in the country that were uncultivated, and the implementation of the government military system was more than enough.

But a few decades later, during the Xuanzong period, the government military system was completely corrupted, including the reason for the occupation of land by nobles and officials, but the greater reason was that the population growth was not divided into land, in this case, it was inevitable that the conscription system would replace the government military system.

The great cadres are now also facing this situation, the population is growing, and there is no land to divide. The land released by the imperial court this time was about 300,000 mu, and as a result, it was all purchased in less than a month.

The remaining hundreds of thousands of acres of land are ready to be sold in batches in the next few months, otherwise selling too much land at one time is likely to cause land prices to plummet. In the end, let those merchants, heroes, and nobles take advantage.

After this great turmoil in Guanzhong gradually subsided, in addition to the heavy losses of those officials, nobles, and heroes in Guanzhong, the people at the bottom, the nobles, officials, and businessmen in other places, as well as the royal family and the imperial court, can be said to have gained a lot of benefits.

The situation in Guanzhong was resolved, but on the other side of the empire, a turmoil had begun.

(End of chapter)