Valley Emperor

In fact, the evaluation inheritance system is not a new thing in the Tang Empire, because in the previous imperial family title inheritance system, there was an evaluation inheritance system.

The royal title is also a system of reducing hereditary titles, and there is no rule that the inheritance can be directly continued after the hereditary is reduced, and there is no special order to allow hereditary titles to be reduced for several generations and then reduced to the hereditary. After the general, if the prince of the general Fengguo can pass the examination, then he will be able to inherit the title. If he fails, he will lose the title, and the other sons of the general Fengguo will all be reduced to the people.

Basically, this so-called assessment system also gave the emperor a great flexibility. When he thought it was necessary, it would be hereditary, and when he thought it was not necessary, he would cut the title.

In fact, there is no need to make it so complicated. After all, in the Tang Dynasty, the emperor can make you a prince with a single sentence, and the same sentence can directly deprive you of your title, what to do to reduce hereditary status, to evaluate hereditary, to some extent This is superfluous, in fact, it is just to find a decent and compliant excuse for future emperors to cut down or retain the titles of certain nobles.

After all, you can't always open your mouth to cut the rank or something, it's too ugly to eat like this.

Li Xuan granted fiefs to the five nobles, and also gave Wang Shanxi the grace of 'inheriting the assessment', which made the upper-class dignitaries of the empire feel like they were beaten with blood in an instant.

Because they know that this is just the beginning, and the enfeoffment of Wang Shanxi and the others is just the beginning, and in the future, thousands of other nobles will be enfeoffed one after another.

But they also quickly thought of a serious problem, that is, the current division, the baron is a county, and the viscount is a larger state than the ordinary government.

After that, those earls, marquis and even dukes were not allowed to use the area of ​​a large mansion or even half a province or even a province to be enfeoffed.

But how can there be so many overseas territories of the empire!

What, you said that there is still a lot of land in the mainland that can be enfeoffed!

Think beautifully, those nobles are also sealed in the prosperous places in the country, but is it possible?

Impossible!

In the future, at most, that is, the suffering land of Northeast Province is used for enfeoffment, and even Hefeng Province will not take it out for enfeoffment, and other prosperous places in the Central Plains, don't count on an inch of land.

But other overseas territories are not enough. There are more than 1,000 nobles in the empire now, and there may be more in the future. What should we do?

What else can we do, expand externally and recover more overseas territories!

For a time, the upper echelons of the empire were very excited. A large number of nobles, regardless of whether they were generals or civil servants, or even scientists and nobles from the Royal Institute of Technology, were all shouting to regain lost territory overseas!

"Since the beginning of the world, the Western Regions have been the territory of the Empire. Whether it was in the Tang Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, it was the land of the people of the Empire. Later, it was stolen by barbarians. Now it's time to recover the lost land in the Western Regions!"

"Now the Northwest Railway is under rapid construction, and it will not be long before it will be completed. At that time, hundreds of thousands of troops will be dispatched to the west to pacify the Tatars in one fell swoop and recapture the Tubo and Mobei regions."

Those who shouted about the westward expedition were all generals of the army!

However, the navy shouted: "Fusang has always been the territory of the empire, and now the Chinese survivors on the Fusang Islands are looking forward to Wang Shi's eastward crossing day and night. Now that the ship has matured and is widely used, there is no obstacle to the large-scale eastward crossing of the Fusang Islands. It's time to send troops to land in Fusang and bring the Fusang Islands back into the embrace of the Empire!"

In addition to the two major schools of the West Expedition and the East Crossing, there are many people who support various other messy plans, such as attacking the Nanyang Peninsula, and for example, the complete eradication of the remnant indigenous countries on the Nanyang islands, and the complete removal of the Nanyang islands. Incorporated into imperial rule and colonized development.

There are also people who support immigration to Australia and make Australia the second home of the empire!

In such a wave, it is natural that there will be people who support large-scale immigration to occupy the Americas.

Although these different plans have the common purpose of expanding the territory of the empire, obtaining more living land for the empire, and allowing the nobles to have land to seal.

However, behind these plans, the groups of people who support them are different, and the levels are clear, because different plans represent different interest demands.

The army supports the westward expedition, and the navy supports the eastward crossing of Fusang, which is nothing, but behind the support for the Australian plan, it is also indispensable to the promotion of the second prince, King Zhao.

Although the current King Zhao belongs to the Wandan Mansion, he has long known that this Wandan Mansion is just his own transitional fief, and his fief is in Australia!

This Australia is now completely included in the territory of the empire, but there is also the dilemma of a small population and a low degree of development.

Today's huge Australia, the empire has only established a total of ten immigration points, three of which are in northern Australia, and the rest are in southeastern Australia.

This is because although Australia is vast, in fact, only a small amount of land suitable for cultivation is available in the southeastern region. Therefore, Australia's immigration plan is mainly aimed at the southeastern region of Australia.

As for the three settlements in the north, one is a typical golden settlement for developing local gold, and the remaining two are supply ports purely for the supply of passing ships.

Although King Zhao will be reclassified as a large area of ​​Australia in the future, he knows that it is not so easy to develop this place.

Even the third prince, Li Bin, who has not yet joined the vassal, knew early on that he might be awarded the America title in the future, because his vassal of the Sandalwood Islands is almost a certainty, and Li Xuan has said it himself many times in private. .

Jun Wu joking, said the constitution, what Li Xuan has already said, then it will definitely be fulfilled.

Next year will be the time when he will become a vassal of Honolulu, and after the development of the Americas, it is very likely that North America will be renamed.

So he also spared no effort to promote the Americas plan!

These are some of the reactions of the upper echelons of the empire to Li Xuan's enfeoffing of the nobles, but the middle-class groups of the empire are also shocked by a series of policies issued by the empire recently.

Let the many middle-level people in the empire, including officials at all levels, the middle-level generals in the army, and the middle and high-level core layers in various fields, pay more attention to another point, that is, the establishment of the lord system.

The establishment of a brand-new lord meant that the Tang Empire had an additional rank, even if it was one rank lower than a baron, the lowest rank of aristocracy, but it was also a rank of aristocracy.

And if it is one level lower than a baron, it means that it is less difficult to become a lord.

It is becoming more and more difficult for the empire to be awarded a title. After the unification war in the early years, many generals obtained the title after the war through military exploits during the unification war. But since the end of the unification war, more than ten years have passed Here, the empire has only more than 200 new nobles.

Most of them are generals from the army, a few are from the scientific research field, and very few are from the civilian field.

In terms of the military generals with the largest number of titles, in recent years it was extremely difficult for a general to obtain a title, even if it was the lowest-ranked baron at the time.

You have to make great military achievements, and those who can make such great achievements often climb the ranks very quickly in the army. Therefore, the military generals who have been awarded the baron these years are basically all of them. above the rank of major general.

This does not mean that every or many generals can be awarded the title of nobility, but that the military generals who obtained the baron were generally above the rank of major general at that time.

For scientists, the starting standard is an associate professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, and they have to make huge scientific research achievements.

As for the civil servants, don't expect ordinary civil servants, that is the minimum standard for high-ranking ministers!

Because these years, candidates for civil service titles, they all have one characteristic, that is, they are serving in the imperial study, either as the minister on duty in the imperial study, or simply as the minister on duty in the imperial study.

Needless to say, the minister on duty, let’s talk about the minister of walking in the imperial study. Although there are no strict standards for this dispatch, sometimes third-rank or even fourth-rank officials have the opportunity to enter, but most of them enter the imperial study as servants of various ministries. In addition, Li Xuan would also give the governors or Taoists of some important provincial highways a false title of 'Roading Minister of the Imperial Study'.

Therefore, unless there are special cases, then starting from the second rank is basically the minimum standard for entering the imperial study.

This is only the minimum standard. In fact, there is not necessarily a single civil servant who is conferred a noble title in a year, even if it is only the lowest baron, and it is often conferred when he is in office.

These days, whether it is in the army, in politics, or in scientific research, it is actually very difficult to obtain noble titles. Only a dozen new nobles have been conferred in recent years, and the number depends on how many old nobles have been cut off.

Basically, the number of nobles in the empire has always been maintained at the scale of a thousand people. Ten years ago, it was a thousand or so, and now, it is only more than 1,100.

Of course, some of the low-level old nobles were deprived of their titles because of natural death, and a few were deprived of their noble titles because of committing crimes. Otherwise, the total number of nobles should be more than 1,200 people.

The number of nobles under the old system was scarce and canonization was difficult, so that most of the middle-level generals and officials of the empire~www.wuxiaspot.com~ had little hope of being canonized as nobles.

But now that the lord system came out, it gave the core middle and high-level leaders of these empires a new opportunity.

It is definitely easier for a lord to be appointed than a baron, and there should be more of them. For many people, this is an opportunity.

Therefore, many of the core middle and high-level generals or officials, scientists, and even some outstanding talents in other fields of the empire are eagerly looking forward to it, hoping that they will also have the opportunity to join the imperial aristocracy.

This caused a turmoil in the middle and upper classes of the empire. Almost every day, people went to the book to ask for the westward expedition, the eastward crossing, or the south to the Nanyang.

In short, it is to expand and to fight!

After the war, there will be more chances to be appointed nobles, and only after the war will be able to occupy more territory, and only then will there be enough land to be assigned to the existing and future new nobles.

However, the turmoil in the empire has nothing to do with Wang Shanxi!