Chapter 32 32. Princes or Federation (seeking tickets for further reading)

"Mother, my son, go and discuss with Father." Liu Qi left in a hurry.

"Your son is really smart!" Empress Dou praised.

"It was taught by the queen mother, how can I have any intelligence."

Wang Zhi regretted it a little.Isn't Empress Dou's political wisdom superior to hers when playing big swords in front of Guan Gong?What can you do!low profile!Keep a low profile!
It is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree.A man is a big tree, we women just play happily under the tree.Wang Zhi brought a trailer and a hanger, and two daughters, and he didn't care about the affairs of the government and the public.

"Square, round, square, round, square, round..."

On the ground, Wang Zhi made a shape with branches, and led Ping'er to dance the grid.Xue'er and the nurse holding Shuang'er were watching.

"Wang Liangdi!"

Hearing someone yelling, Wang Zhi turned his face to look, and hurriedly bowed his body and saluted: "Father!"

Emperor Wen didn't know when he was standing not far away.This is the emperor who wears thick black silk himself, is extremely simple but holds his favorite male as the richest man.

According to the emperor's instructions, go back to the Jiaofang Hall, and retreat to the left and right, leaving only the eunuchs.

"Wang Liangdi, according to what the crown prince said, is it your suggestion to cut down the feudal clan with gold?" Emperor Wen asked after taking his seat.

"Returning to the royal father, the lowly servant girl is just speaking from feelings. The princes donate gold, and the Holy Majesty will come in person, and the Shaofu will inspect and accept it. The gold is divided into gold, platinum (silver) and red gold (copper), and the best is naturally gold. You can use this as an excuse." , do the planning."

Emperor Wen nodded: "I haven't made a plan in advance this year, I'm afraid I won't be able to achieve my goal. Does Wang Liangdi have a better suggestion?"

"Return to father. According to the order of father, the gold is four taels for every thousand mouths, and the remainder is four taels for more than five hundred." The emperor will also "round up"!

"The gold system has been implemented for many years, and the population should also change. According to the number reported by the princes and kings, there may be concealment." Wang Zhi replied.

"Can my father send envoys to the vassal states to actually survey the population? One is to know the population of each country; the other is to find out the strength of each country; the third is to check whether the ministers of the countries sent by the imperial court play a coordinated role in check and balance?"

Emperor Wen was silent for a while, and then ordered the eunuch: "Pass down my oral order, order the crown prince and the crown prince's family order Chao Cuo, Wang Liangdi, to assist in this matter."

Well!A census?Is there any difficulty?Wang Zhi recalled the Hu County transnational marriage case.

This is a special case that happened in the early Han Dynasty.The background of this matter is the parallel system of prefectures and states set up in the early Western Han Dynasty.

Many people think that the parallel system of prefectures and states in the Han Dynasty has not changed the essence of its unified empire.Under the management of the central government, there are only differences in the systems of different regions within the empire, and there are no national differences.

However, a practical problem is that in the early Han Dynasty, the Han Empire was only a nominal name, but within the Han Empire, there were many nearly independent political entities, and there was a clear relationship of competition and defense between these political entities.

In November of the ninth year of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty formally ordered that the five major clans of Qi and Chu, the Zhao family, the Huai family, the Tian family, the Jing family, and the Qu family, all migrate into Guanzhong and become Changling Town.

This is the mausoleum system.Wang Zhi's stepfather, Tian Shen, was the descendant of Tian Ji, the horse racer in Qi.Wang Zhi's mother, the Zang family, remarried to Changling Tianfu after her husband Wang Zhong died.

The essence of forced relocation is the strong stem and weak branches of the Han Central Committee.Uproot the rich and powerful families in the vassal states, so as not to affect local governance.It also enriched the population to the land directly under the central administration of the Han Dynasty, guarded the mausoleum and became a city, and defended the capital of Chang'an.

There is a woman named Nan in the Tian family.On the way to be escorted to Guanzhong by local officials, he actually had a secret love affair with one of them, and on the way to Guanzhong, they officially became husband and wife.And this official is Shi Lan, a prisoner from Linzi, Qi State.

It is hard to leave his homeland, and Nan hopes to return to Qi and his homeland.Therefore, after arriving at Changling, the two of them faced an unavoidable problem. After prisoner Shilan completed the escort mission, he had to return to Linzi, Qi State, while Nan could only stay in Guanzhong.

So prison Shilan asked Nan to pretend to be a patient, and then followed him back to Qidi.When leaving Hangu Pass, he was finally discovered and handed over to the nearest county court in Hu County for trial.

The trial in Hu County held that Prison Shilan should not have taken Nan as his wife, and after taking Nan as his wife, he took her back to Linzi privately, so Prison Shilan committed the crime of seduction and rape.As for the crime of concealment committed by Prisoner Shi Lan in the process of becoming a Han Chinese in the south and fleeing back to the princes privately, it goes without saying.

After reporting to Ting Wei, Shi Lan was approved to only commit the crime of concealment.

The vassal state is only an area under the rule of the Han emperor, so what is the difference between the people of the vassal state and the people directly under the central government of the Han Dynasty?
From the perspective of future generations, of course there is no difference.But at that time, there was a big difference between them.The definition of Han people is very narrow, and it only refers to the people of counties and counties directly under the central government of Han Dynasty.

For the territory of the Han Empire at that time, it was actually divided into many peoples, such as Han people, Qi people, Yan people, Zhao people, Liang people and so on.In the eyes of the central rulers of the Han Dynasty, these different Chinese people have obvious differences.

The reality of the relationship between the Han Central Committee and the princes and kingdoms is that each has greater independence, but they also check and balance each other.This relationship is similar to the federal system in countries such as the United States.

Therefore, the situation at that time was that the areas that the Han Central Committee could really fully govern were only its own counties and counties directly under the Central Government. As for the vassal states, the Han Ting Central Committee only led in name, but in fact there was a complete antagonistic relationship between them.

Since the rise of the Han Dynasty, the feudal vassals of the princes have a large land or five or six counties, and dozens of cities are connected.The hundreds of officials controlled by the vassal kingdoms, except for the prime minister sent by the central government, who appoint officials with more than two thousand shi, are not subject to the restraint of the central government.This naturally includes the ranks of the magistrates of the counties under the jurisdiction of the kingdom, which are not stipulated by the central government of the Han Dynasty, but decided by the princes and kings themselves.

The vassal kingdoms also have a high degree of independence in terms of judiciary.What does the high degree of judicial independence of the princely kingdoms mean?It means that the internal governance of the vassal states of various countries is self-contained and has its own set of operating systems.Although for the Han orders formulated by the Han Central Committee, the princes and states naturally need to obey them.

However, if the Han Central Committee did not formulate corresponding Han laws, the vassal states would naturally be able to handle, question and judge on their own, and there was no need to apply to the Han Central Court for adjudication like counties and counties directly under the Central Government of the Han Dynasty.

In this way, the vassal states that have mastered the independence of the judiciary can naturally further master the corresponding personnel power, financial power, and even military power.

The transnational marriage case in Hu County actually reflects the contradictions between the central and local governments reflected in the complex environment of the Han Dynasty.The Central Committee of the Han Dynasty is only the central government of the Han State, not the central government of the vassal states.

On the surface, they obeyed the Central Committee of the Han Dynasty, but in fact, with independent judicial power, financial power, personnel power and military power, the relationship between the vassal states and the Han Dynasty was by no means a simple relationship of dependence, but a special relationship of opposition and cooperation. .

This is the reason why Emperor Wen and his son have been planning to cut down the vassals. They want to strengthen the centralization of power, and they are more worried about the rebellion of powerful princes.Especially Wu Wang Liu Bi.

So, will the census proposed by Wang Zhi be carried out smoothly?

 Feel sorry!I was busy yesterday and the update was late.Thank you for your support!
  
 
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