A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 484 The second year of Yuanxing
  Wang Che ascended the throne and changed the Yuan Dynasty to Yuanxing. In the early years of Yuanxing, major cases in Guanzhong passed away.

Wang Che handed over the confiscated wealth in Guanzhong to the royal caravan for disposal, partly to prevent official corruption, and partly to increase the income of the royal family and the court.

The royal family's expenses have been getting higher and higher in recent years. The royal family needs to give rewards to each generation. Although there are not many princes and kings, there are many princes.

The title granted to the emperor's brothers by Daqian was Duke, and only a few who were willing to explore overseas could be granted the title of King. But even so, the annual expenditure was not a small amount.

After several generations, the number of direct descendants of the royal family has reached thousands. Coupled with the money and food needed by the army to expand overseas, the imperial family's Habayashi Guards, etc., there are too many places to spend money.

The royal family faced this problem, and the court also faced a similar situation. Although the title of Daqian is not hereditary but is inherited, many titles have been awarded over the years.

Although few of the titles awarded by the imperial court included actual fiefdoms, most of them were fiefdoms. However, this era was not like those of later generations of courts, which turned all fiefdoms into honorary titles.

A city of one thousand households means a city of one thousand households. If there were no food towns for a thousand households, there would be another false seal, and then there would be a 'real seal'. Put these layers of matryoshka dolls.

In the end, the establishment of a thousand households in the city and the virtual grant of a thousand households became an honor. There was no salary, no land, and no use. It could only prove the high status, great face, and sufficient qualifications. Only by obtaining the real seal can one have money.

But if there is no reward for food and food, how can the soldiers be brave enough to kill the enemy? Rely on words or rely on spirit? The title is empty, the food and the land are empty, so why risk your life? What kind of blood? What's the point of spending a few hundred dollars a month?

My father shed blood for the country and made great contributions to the country. Why don't I benefit from it at all? My father is a general, why should I sweep the streets?

The imperial court must take these into consideration, and after the hereditary succession is no longer possible, the imperial attack will be carried out accordingly.

After all, the court cannot bring harm to the family due to crimes, and there is no such thing in the world as to accept a knighthood for meritorious service but not let the descendants inherit it.

Da Qian was not as ruthless as Qin Fa, and often had to use his title to compensate for his crimes. On the contrary, because of the victorious battles, a large number of titles needed to be awarded. Over the past hundred years, the imperial court has given out many titles. Even when the imperial court granted titles, they were a little stingy, but there were too many people.
  In addition, some people who have made great contributions to obtain official positions, the court's expenses are also increasing. Do we have to blame the generals for being too good at fighting? Win every battle? Let the generals hold back next time they fight. How many times will they be defeated? Isn’t this nonsense?
  Although the imperial court has tried its best to limit titles and rewards, there are still many nobles in the world.

The imperial court's current finances are pretty good, but if it continues like this, big problems will arise in another ten or twenty years. Therefore, Wang Che wanted to solve the problem while it was not serious, or try his best to delay it.

The imperial family put the shops and workshops in Guanzhong up for auction. In order to prevent them from being sold at a low price, the imperial court only released some of them. As one of the Five Capitals, Chang'an is also an important city on the Silk Road. The value of these shops is very high. You can't even think about buying them for less than several times the price. They can be used as family heirlooms.

Therefore, as soon as the imperial court released a number of shops, they were swept away by the nobles, powerful, and businessmen. Next, the royal family began to sell batches one by one.

Of course, some of the shops with good locations were specially reserved by the royal family.

The money sold in the end needs to be compensated for the people who were killed first, and the remaining money is divided equally between the royal family and the court. The business practices of the royal family are often criticized by some people as competing for profits from the people, but the court ignores them. After all, the right to speak has always been in the hands of the imperial court, and the royal family is much better than them in economic matters.

Besides, does the people you are talking about refer to the common people? This is not the future, the emperor was deceived and became lame. Although many people in the academy studied Confucianism, many of the interpretations had to be in accordance with the imperial court's wishes, otherwise they would lose their qualifications as doctors of Confucian classics.

The farmland in the hands of the royal family has also begun to be sold, and the people's enthusiasm for these fields is even higher. Because the court no longer grants land to young people, many people have no acres of land in these years.

Daqian implemented the eldest son inheritance system. A common family had three sons. Basically, the eldest son inherited the land, the second and third sons shared some money, and then left home to make their own way.

Some people will sign up to go to the Hehuang Valley, the Western Regions, Lelang County in Liaodong, or even to Fusang. But after all, such people are a very small number. More people are not willing to leave their hometowns, but become tenants of wealthy families in their hometowns, or go to the city to learn a craft and become a craftsman.

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

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

There was no way to get land before, but now that there is a way, it is natural to give some benefits to the second and third sons.

Although Daqian was already very tolerant to the people, he still couldn't make all the people rich. The imperial court's land policy has been improved several times, but as the population grows, no matter how good the land policy is, it will become outdated.

The Tang Dynasty was the pinnacle of the government army system. During the founding period of the Tang Dynasty, the government army system played an important role. But at that time, the government-armed system was able to be implemented because the country had been in turmoil for decades, the population was depleted, and large areas of land across the country were uncultivated, so it was more than enough to implement the government-armed system.

But a few decades later, during the Xuanzong period, the imperial army system was completely ruined. One of the reasons was that nobles and officials occupied land, but the bigger reason was that the population grew and there was no land to divide. In this case, it was inevitable that the imperial army system would be replaced by the imperial army system. of.

Daqian is also facing this situation now. The population is growing and there is no land to divide. The land released by the court this time was about [-] acres, and it was all purchased in less than a month.

The remaining hundreds of thousands of acres of land are planned to be sold in batches in the next few months. Otherwise, too much land is sold at once, which may cause land prices to plummet. In the end, let those businessmen, powerful people, and nobles take advantage.

After the great turmoil in Guanzhong gradually subsided, in addition to the heavy losses suffered by the officials, nobles, and powerful men in Guanzhong, the common people at the bottom, the nobles, officials, and businessmen from other places, as well as the royal family and the court, all benefited a lot.

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

(End of this chapter)