Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 445 Official System ([-])

"The branch of my Wang family can also take the exam, and I will be admitted first. Please don't worry, my grandmother never thought of dictatorship and centralization. The Wang family is the Wang family of the Wang family, not a certain person's Wang family."

After Tai Shihu's explanation, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. After Wang Ting's chaos, they instinctively disliked centralization and dictatorship.

Afterwards, someone asked again: "Why do you submit to Qin and not Jin?"

Tai Shihu replied: "Jin is far away from Liaodong, so it can't pose a threat to us. There is no need to be a vassal. Qin has already occupied Kanto. If you don't, I am afraid it will conflict with Qin."

Someone asked again: "Is the annual Liao salary only [-] million?"

Tai Shihu replied: "The previous Liao salary was only [-] million."

Someone asked again: "Why do you want to accept the two families of Jin Guoyu and Yin?"

Tai Shihu replied: "They gave too much."

It turned out that three years ago, in the last year of Huan Wen's life, he finally completed the second process of the third process of usurping the throne, only missing the last process of Jiuxi and becoming king.

However, the two aristocratic families of Yu and Yin couldn't hold back anymore, fearing that Huan Wen's illness would not be delayed, so they launched a military coup, bringing hundreds of family members to overthrow Huan Wen.

In the end, he was defeated by Huan Wen, and then the whole clan was killed.

Fortunately, before the rebellion, the two families of Yu and Yin bought luxury houses in Yandu in Yan State in advance, and sent a lot of money and technical talents to the court of Yan State.

So after their coup d'état failed, they dragged their families and ran away to the country of Yan.

Huan Wen asked the Yan State for members of the two great families of Yu and Yin, and demanded that the members of the two great families be extradited from the State of Yan to the State of Jin.

But the Yan State ignored Huan Wen at all, and Huan Wen was so angry that he wanted to declare war on the Yan State, but was finally dissuaded by Xie An.

Someone asked again: "My country of Yan has only [-] soldiers, why should we reduce the army?"

Tai Shihu replied: "After discussing with Jiuqing, the ratio of soldiers to civilians should be 1:300. That is to say, every 600 people of Yan State can support one soldier of Yan State. The current population is [-] million, so only one soldier can be raised. To have an army of [-], we need to cut down [-], otherwise there will be too many soldiers, which will affect our national policy of recuperating and recuperating.”

After the reduction resolution was passed, there were only [-] soldiers left in the Yan Kingdom, of which the city lords added up to [-], and Yan Houxue's imperial guards were still [-].

Most people also support this matter. After all, they still have an advantage over the princes and princes, and they can also save themselves military expenses.

The system of Yan State makes Yan State seem huge, but it has very few forces that can be directly mobilized. For example, if Yan Houxue wants to attack the Central Plains, the army she can directly mobilize is actually only 3000 people, and most of these 3000 people have to stay. In Liaodong Shoujia, the number of troops that can really be mobilized to the Central Plains to fight for hegemony at will is only a thousand at most.

Of course, although Yan State can mobilize very few troops when it takes the initiative to attack, if an enemy country invades Yan State, then Yan State can mobilize a lot of troops, because each city lord will send his own troops to support Liaodong, and Yan State will allow it. The guilds recruit township braves to join the battle.

In short, if it is an active attack, then under normal circumstances there are only 1000 people at most. If it is forced to defend, there is a guarantee of 50 yuan, and there may be more than [-] at most. Explode soldiers by all means.

This is also an important reason why Yan Houxue does not want to get involved in the situation in the Central Plains, because there are too few soldiers who can be mobilized to take the initiative to attack, and there will be no troubles if they are involved, so it is the best choice to be honest and accept Liao's salary.

Afterwards, everyone had no problem pointing out to Yan Houxue's debriefing work. After all, Yan Houxue has been very reliable these years, and most people are very satisfied with the current status quo.

After Yan Houxue's report was over, Jiuqing, Yushitai, Shangshutai, clan children or their representatives began to report one after another, and everyone raised objections and pointed out problems.

After such a process is over, it has been half a month later. Just transcribing everyone's work report has used a lot of expensive paper, and the cost is very high. It is not as many people imagined to simply get together and say a few words That's fine.

There were two city lords who were unpopular in their rule and there were too many problems. After the vote of all the royal family, the two clan children were deprived of their positions as city lords, and other clan children who had no fiefdoms were replaced as city lords.

However, the two clan children who were deprived of the position of city lord only lost their fief. They are still the clan children of the royal family, and they still have the seats of nobles in the parliament. Later, the royal family opened up a new city in the Spice Islands. The descendants of the clan can become the hereditary city lord again.

Therefore, in the Wang family, although following Liu Bang's example, the county system and enfeoffment system coexisted, but on top of the county system and enfeoffment system, it was the consensus of all members of the family, that is, the family meeting that had existed since Wang Kang's period.

Today's parliamentary system can be traced back to the family meeting in the period of the ancestor Wang Kang.

Wang Kang holds a family meeting every year, allowing family members to brainstorm and work together to find ways to grow the family. At the beginning, it was actually just everyone getting together to chat and express their ideas. Slowly, Wang Changzhi had no time to deal with it. Family affairs, so more power was given to the family meeting. When it evolved to the period of the eighth-generation patriarch Wang Zhe, the family meeting that worked together became a family council that shared power. By the time of Wang Bian, the parliamentary system basically took shape. By the time of Wang Jue, The parliamentary system was further improved. By the time of Yan Houxue, the parliamentary system had repaired many problems exposed by the Wang Ting Rebellion, and it was more perfect and reasonable than before.

The Wang family’s parliamentary system did not appear suddenly, nor was it someone’s sudden whim, but it had a prototype as early as the ancestor Wang Kang’s time, and then made small changes step by step, and finally accumulated a lot, and quantitative changes led to qualitative changes. This is how it is today.

It’s like, a ship didn’t suddenly become what it is today, but changed its rudder decades ago, changed its deck more than ten years ago, changed its sails ten years ago, and changed its sails a few years ago. The sailors were replaced, the captain was changed two years ago, the hull was changed a year ago, and the sailing technology was updated this year.

It didn't suddenly become like this, but evolved step by step.

The same is true for the aristocratic families in the Central Plains. They didn’t suddenly become aristocratic families in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and then poured their power into the court and the public, making people of later generations talk about it. Instead, they started to develop as early as the Liu Bang period of the Western Han Dynasty. The small landlords are powerful and trembling at the feet of the princes and kings. Later, the princes and kings were crushed by Emperor Wu, and they gradually grew into relatively large-scale tyrants. After that, they provided soldiers, horses, money and food to Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, and became Liu Xiu's Under the influence of Liu Xiu's Confucianization reform, the founding heroes gradually transformed from a powerful tyrant to a noble family, and then continued to develop, strengthen the family strength, monopolize the right to speak in Confucian classics and the privilege of being an official, and then developed from a noble family to an aristocratic family, and The ruling foundation of the empire was eroded step by step, and after that, the imperial power suffered a devastating blow in the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, and the family was in full swing, and there was the image of the terrifying family that we know.

In short, anything does not appear out of thin air, it can be traced back to its prototype, and then has a developmental vein, and along this developmental vein, it finally has its current appearance.

(End of this chapter)