Chapter 32 32. Princes or Federation (please vote for further reading)

Author: Lan Xinlanshan

Chapter 32 32. Princes or Federation (please vote for further reading)

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

"Con'er is indeed very intelligent!" Empress Dou praised.

"It's my mother's teachings. How can my son be so smart?"

Wang Quan felt a little regretful. She was using a big knife in front of Guan Gong. Wasn't Queen Dou's political wisdom superior to hers? What could she show? Keep a low profile, keep a low profile! Keep a low profile!

It's good to enjoy the shade under the big tree. Men are like big trees, and we women can play happily under the tree. Wang Ao took a couple with her, and two daughters, and didn't care about the affairs of the government and the public.

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

Wang Da was on the ground, making shapes with branches, and dancing with Ping'er. Xue'er and the wet nurse holding Shuang'er looked on.

"Wang Liangdi!"

When he heard someone shouting, Wang Quan turned around and hurriedly knelt down and saluted: "Father!"

Emperor Wen didn't know when he was standing not far away. This was the emperor who wore thick black silk stockings, was extremely simple, and yet regarded his male favorite as the richest man.

According to the emperor's instructions, he returned to Jiaofang Hall and retreated to the left and right, leaving only the eunuchs.

"Wang Liangdi, according to what the prince said, is it your suggestion to cut down the feudal vassals with gold?" Emperor Wen asked after he sat down.

"Back to my father, I'm just speaking from my perspective. The princes presented gold, and the emperor came in person, and the young man accepted it. This gold is divided into gold, platinum (silver) and red gold (copper). The best is naturally gold. This can be the reason.

, carry out the planning."

Emperor Wen nodded: "If I fail to make plans in advance this year, I'm afraid I won't be able to achieve my goal. Does Wang Liangdi have any better suggestions?"

"Back to my father. According to the original order of my father, the gold price is four taels for every thousand households, and the remainder is four taels for every 500 households." This emperor can also "round up"!

"The mint gold system has been implemented for many years, and the population should also change. According to the self-reported numbers of the princes and kings, there may be something concealed." Wang Quan replied.

"Can my father send envoys to various vassal states to survey the population? One is to grasp the population of each country; the other is to find out the strength of each country; and the third is, do the ministers of each country sent by the imperial court play a cooperative and balancing role?"

Emperor Wen was silent for a while and then ordered the eunuch: "I have given you an oral instruction, asking the prince and his family ministers Chao Cuo and Wang Liangdi to assist in this matter."

Okay! Let’s do a general census? Is it difficult? Wang Quan thought of the cross-border marriage case in Hu County.

This is a special case that occurred in the early Han Dynasty. The background of this incident is the parallel system of prefectures and states established in the early Western Han Dynasty.

Many people believe that the parallel system of prefectures and states in the Han Dynasty did not change the nature of its unified empire. Under the management of the central government, there were only differences in the systems of different regions within the empire, and there were no differences among countries.

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

In November of the ninth year of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty officially issued an order requiring the five major clans of Qi and Chu, namely the Zhao family, the Huai family, the Tian family, the Jing family, and the Qu family, to move to Guanzhong and establish it as Changling.

This is the Lingyi system. Wang Quan's stepfather Tian Shen was the queen of Qi State's horse racing Tian Ji. Wang Quan's mother Zang remarried to Changling Tianfu after the death of her husband Wang Zhong.

The essence of forced migration is that the central government of the Han Dynasty strengthened the cadres and weakened the branches. It uprooted the powerful and right-wing families in the vassal states to avoid affecting local governance. It also enriched the population into the areas directly under the control of the central government of the Han Dynasty, guarded the tombs and formed cities, and guarded the capital of Chang'an.

A woman named Nan from the Tian family was escorted to Guanzhong by local officials. She actually fell in love with one of the officials. On the way to Guanzhong, they officially got married. And this official was from Qi

The Prison History of Guo Linzi.

It is hard to leave their homeland, and Nan hopes to return to Qi State and return to his homeland. Therefore, after arriving in Changling, the two of them faced an unavoidable problem. After Yu Shilan completed the escort mission, he must return to Qi State Linzi

, and Nan can only stay in Guanzhong.

So Yu Shilan asked Nan to pretend to be a patient and then follow him back to Qidi. When he left Hangu Pass, he was eventually discovered and handed over to the nearby Hu County County Court for trial.

The Hu County trial held that Yu Shilan should not have taken Nan as his wife, and after taking Nan as his wife, he took her back to Linzi privately, so Yu Shilan committed the crime of seduction and adultery. As for Zain Nan, who has become a Han,

In the process of escaping privately back to the vassal states, it goes without saying that the concealment crime committed by Yu Shilan goes without saying.

After reporting the matter to the imperial court, it was approved that Shi Lan was only guilty of concealment.

The vassal states were just a region under the rule of the Han emperor, so what was the difference between the people of the vassal states and the people directly under the central government of Han Dynasty?

From the perspective of later 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 nationalities, such as Han people, Qi people, Yan people, Zhao people, Liang people, etc. In the eyes of the central rulers of the Han Dynasty, these different people were

There is a clear difference.

The actual relationship between the Han central government and the princely 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 only areas that the Han Central Committee could truly fully control were its own directly administered counties. As for the vassal states, the Han Central Committee only led them in name. In fact, there was a completely antagonistic relationship between them.

Since the rise of the Han Dynasty, the princes, kings and vassals with large territories may have five or six counties and dozens of cities. The hundreds of officials controlled by the princes and kingdoms, except for the prime minister sent by the central government and the appointment of officials with more than 2,000 shi, are not subject to the control of the central government. This naturally includes the kingdoms

The ranks of the provincial governors of the counties under their jurisdiction were not determined by the central government of the Han Dynasty, but were decided by the princes themselves.

The vassal kingdoms also have a high degree of independence in the judiciary. What does the high degree of judicial independence of the vassal kingdoms mean? It means that the internal governance of each vassal state is self-contained and has its own set of operating systems. Although for the Han central government,

Naturally, all the vassal states need to obey the orders of the Han Dynasty.

However, if the Han central government did not formulate corresponding Han laws, the vassal states could naturally handle the matter on their own, investigate crimes and make judgments on their own. There was no need to apply to the central court of the Han Dynasty for a ruling like the counties directly under the central government of the Han Dynasty.

In this way, each vassal state that has an independent judiciary can naturally further control corresponding personnel power, financial power, and even military power.

The cross-border marriage case in Hu County actually reflects the contradiction between the central and local governments in the complicated environment of the Han Dynasty. The central government of the Han Dynasty was only the central government of the Han State, not the central government of the vassal states.

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

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This is the reason why Emperor Wen and his son have been planning to reduce the vassal status. They want to strengthen the centralization of power, and they are also worried about the rebellion of powerful vassal states, especially Wu King Liu Bi.

So, can the census proposed by Wang Quan be carried out smoothly?

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