Liu Zhang did not speak, and the Empress Dowager Fu Shou first issued the imperial edict.
Liu Zhang, the king of Shu, led the Sichuan army, supported the Han Dynasty, revitalized the country, and in ten years of work cleansed the world, re-stabilized the Han Dynasty that had been crumbling since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, pacified the Southern Barbarians, Western Qiang, northern grasslands, Goguryeo, and Southern Barbarians, and defeated the nobles.
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There are a lot of signs of a prosperous age in Peiping, all due to the merits of Liu Zhang, the king of Shu. Now that the Han Dynasty has not had an emperor in the court for several years, the king of Shu will conduct the world with virtue and should succeed the emperor and establish a prosperous and prosperous age in the Han Dynasty.
Fu Shou issued an edict to establish Liu Zhang as emperor. Although the Sichuan army and civil and military officials knew about it, the people in the world were all happy. The Han Dynasty had been fighting for so many years and had no emperor for so many years. Now, he could finally live a stable life.
The Empress Dowager issued the edict, and Liu Zhang naturally gave three words. After completing this unspoken rule, Liu Zhang announced that he would ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor on December 12th.
Huang Yueying, Fazheng, Zhang Ren, Fan Lixiang, Jiang Wan, Wang Lei and other high-ranking civil and military officials all remonstrated with Liu Zhang and requested that Peiping be the capital.
Liu Zhang did not make a statement and sought opinions from civil and military officials.
Of course all the civil and military officials have their opinions, but first of all, there is auspiciousness, secondly, I am now in Peking, and thirdly, Huang Yueying, Fa Zheng, Zhang Ren, etc. have all requested, so is it useful to object on my own?
All civil and military officials unanimously approved the change of Peiping to Beijing, and the Han Dynasty moved its capital to Beijing.
At this time, the civil and military officials and many knowledgeable people still did not understand that Liu Zhang had planned to make Peiping the capital.
Otherwise, why did Jiang Wan, a Sili lieutenant, be demoted to the position of governor of Peiping? Otherwise, why did he build roads from major cities to Peiping, open a canal from Peiping to the Yellow River, and let Cao Chong be the general manager?
This had obviously been prepared for a long time. Although no one said anything, it was only at this point that they could not say anything. The civil and military officials were still dissatisfied.
"Lord, now we have to discuss the matters after taking the throne, otherwise it will be too late."
After announcing the date of his accession to the throne, someone went to prepare the complicated etiquette. Huang Yueying immediately found Liu Zhang. Under Liu Zhang's coercion and inducement, Huang Yueying had to agree with Zhang Ren and others to move the capital to Peking. Now she feels a little resentful, but it is not like
Other civil and military forces are so strong.
Huang Yueying has always deliberately suppressed her family. She has kept an informant in the family. If anyone uses her power to cause trouble, she will be dealt with immediately. Therefore, even with the huge foundation of the Jingzhou Huang family, they cannot compete with the wealthy families in Yizhou.
Therefore, Huang Yueying doesn't care about Dingdu at all. Other officials are worried that Peiping, the remote capital of Dingdu, will be divorced from their roots and will affect their authority. At the same time, it is too far away from their hometown and they are not satisfied. Huang Yueying does not think so.
Huang Yueying just feels that it is not necessary to make Peking the capital. To this day, Huang Yueying cannot agree with Liu Zhang.
But we also know that there are many advantages to making Peiping the capital, one of which is to remove the original civil and military officials of the Sichuan Army from their roots, which is conducive to balanced rule and will not create an obvious regional power hierarchy.
It is for these reasons that Huang Yueying feels that he can compromise, otherwise Huang Yueying will try his best to prevent the capital from being moved to Beijing.
Now that the matter of setting the capital in Beijing has been decided, even if many civil, military and businessmen are dissatisfied, they dare not break out. Then it is time to discuss the imminent proclaiming emperor.
Seeing Liu Zhang nodding, Huang Yueying said: "After ascending the throne, the lord must determine the official system, military system, and people's livelihood policies, but these are not the most important. The most important thing is to reward the meritorious officials.
Other lower-level civil and military officials have their own rewards from the upper-level civil and military officials. What we have to worry about are the upper-level civil and military officials, their titles and official positions, as well as their jurisdiction, food and towns, etc.
The official positions are easy to say, in Yueying's view, they are to promote the previous officials of the Chang'an court to one level. In the army, Zhang Renke can be promoted to a general, and the others can be awarded according to their merits. It's just a matter of title. What do you think, lord?"
"The five tiger generals, the six good generals, Zhe Lanying, Fazheng and others, as well as the late Leng Bao and other generals were all crowned kings, and the earliest generals who followed them were Wang Yue, A Ke, Gao Pei, Yang Huai and others.
Fenghou, Li Yan, Jiang Wan and other civil servants were all promoted to marquis, and other generals and civil servants..."
"Wait, my lord, wait."
Huang Yueying listened to Liu Zhang's words. The more she listened, the more frightened she became. She was stunned for a while, suddenly realized, interrupted quickly, stared at Liu Zhang and said: "My lord, are you kidding Yueying?
Are you giving away titles? This is absolutely not allowed. There are more than ten kings alone, so we might as well have given them the title of king in the first place to encourage them.
Didn't we wait until today to compress it? If it weren't for the fear of dissatisfaction among the soldiers, Yueying felt that not a single throne should be sealed off, including Yueying's own throne of Yan.
But there will definitely be dissatisfaction among the generals if they are not granted the title of king. I think Zhang Ren, Fazheng, and Zhe Lanying can be granted the title of king. There are at most two other places. The lord can decide by himself, but there can never be more than five people, and they cannot grant the title of state.
Only counties and counties can be sealed."
If she didn't know Liu Zhang well, Huang Yueying would have thought that Liu Zhang was an idiot. This was simply a big giveaway of titles, and no king would do this.
In the beginning, Liu Bang granted so many kings in order to win over people's hearts. After becoming emperor, he began to cut off kings with different surnames. Now that Liu Zhang has unified the world, he still grants so many kings. Isn't that sick?
"No." Liu Zhang waved his hand, directly rejected Huang Yueying's proposal, and said solemnly: "Ten thrones are not many, and there can be more marquises. After all, they are all honorable ministers and generals, and it is their dream to be granted marquisships and titles.
However, all these titles are classified as descending titles. From now on, all the titles in the Han Dynasty are only descending titles and there are no completely hereditary titles."
"Decreasing title?" Huang Yueying reacted for a moment, but she didn't fully react yet.
"Not only are the titles reduced, but all the princes do not open houses or govern the country. They only receive the food and salary of the title, and enjoy generous benefits and status and treatment on the same level as the imperial officials."
"If you don't open a government, you can't govern the country?"
Huang Yueying was startled. She finally realized what Liu Zhang had planned.
Decreasing titles are the titles originally assigned to retired soldiers. Unless their descendants have made meritorious service during the inheritance process, the titles will decrease in sequence. Marquis will be reduced to earl, earl will be reduced to viscount, and viscount will be reduced to baron. There is also the title of "scholar".
treatment as a baron, but a baron cannot be hereditary.
This is considered a good policy. It can not only comfort those soldiers for their contribution to the Han Dynasty, but also prevent the proliferation of titles, but that is only for retired soldiers.
Because they had never been knighted in the first place, it was an unexpected surprise that the title of Marquis and King fell on them. The benefits brought by those titles did not include the previous retirement benefits for Sichuan Army soldiers.
This kind of extra surprise brings status, wealth, and life insurance. Who among those soldiers would not be happy?
But this does not apply to these meritorious civil and military figures at all. These people originally wanted to be knighted, and the title is a permanent hereditary title.
When these civil and military officials have reached this stage and want status and wealth, how can they be appeased by a status "on the same level as the imperial officials" and "generous welfare rewards"?
As for life accidents and government support, do these civil and military officials need this insurance?
Including Huang Yueying, no one had ever thought that Liu Zhang invented this decreasing title and would use it for enthronement titles, because it was only suitable for lower-level soldiers, and for the upper-level, this would definitely not satisfy those civil and military officials.
Moreover, there is also a country that cannot be run without running a government.
What is this concept? If Zhang is granted the title of King of Shu, it has nothing to do with Yizhou.
The meaning of this title only means that Zhang Ren can enjoy a lot of food, that is, a lot of food and money. In addition, based on this title alone, he is probably on the same level as the Prime Minister. When meeting the Prime Minister, even if he does not have an official position, the Prime Minister will
Salute him.
In addition, if Zhang Ren had an accident, the government would use a very high insurance premium to support him.
Zhang Ren could not manage one county or one county in Yizhou. He had no private soldiers or his own royal officials, such as the prime minister of the kingdom, the captain, etc.
So what is the use of this throne? The so-called title is nothing more than a status symbol and a symbol of many gifts and wealth.
Would those meritorious civil and military personnel be satisfied with such treatment?
No wonder Liu Zhang was so generous in conferring the title of king. These princely titles are completely meaningless.
What's more, it's still decreasing.
"My lord, this is absolutely not allowed. This will cause strong dissatisfaction among the civil and military officials. Reducing titles is only suitable for the lower class. Without opening a house, running a country, or entering a fiefdom, this is unprecedented, and will chill the civil and military circles."
"There are so many things that have never been done since ancient times. Someone has to come out to do it. Civil and military affairs are now cold. It is better than me sealing the king out and sending troops to conquer later."
Every time a dynasty changed in history, the new dynasty liked to confer a king and then slowly conquer. Only Zhao Kuangyin was kinder. Liu Zhang really didn't want to play this game of conferring a king and then conquering.
If the king conquests another expedition, there will still be war. At the same time, Liu Zhang does not want to kill those heroes to help him achieve his great cause. They are all people with feelings. He really does not want to fight with swords.
The most frightening thing is that if the kings who were sealed off did not take action while they were still alive, or their descendants were ambitious, just like in the early Western Han Dynasty, it was not until the reign of Emperor Wen, Jing, and Wu that the power broke out and controlled the central power. That would be unbearable.
tidy.
The Jin Dynasty was destroyed by the Rebellion of the Eight Kings.
What Liu Zhang was most worried about was that when he was in power, no one dared to say anything. When he died, the kings in various places would not be able to lose their tails, which would be terrible.
Seeing that Huang Yueying wanted to say something more, Liu Zhang said: "I will not only impose the regulations of decreasing titles and not opening a house on the civil and military affairs, but also on the clan.
The children of the royal family also have diminishing titles and cannot open a government or govern the country. Unless they hold an official position in a specific place or are a general in a specific army, they cannot hold any power."
At that time, Liu Bang stipulated that people with different surnames could not be crowned kings, but he crowned many kings with the surname Liu in order to make the Liu family more stable.