Allowing retired military personnel to serve in administrative offices in towns and villages can effectively maintain or even improve the social status and living security of retired military personnel.
Whether he is a police officer or an ordinary official, even if he is a handyman, in the eyes of outsiders, he is covered with an official skin. In the words of later generations, he is a civil servant.
A higher social status, stable job and income are enough for them to live a decent and prosperous life for the rest of their lives.
And this is far from comparable to the so-called Invalids Farm and other resettlement!
Moreover, placing a large number of retired soldiers in grassroots governments can also bring a great benefit, that is, it can allow the Tang Dynasty, or Li Xuan himself, to better control the grassroots.
Establishing administrative agencies in towns and villages, resettling retired and disabled soldiers, and even improving various central institutions of the Tang Dynasty. These trivial but extremely important matters took Li Xuan and the others three days to discuss and finalize.
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However, after three days, civil and military officials like Liu Bagou and Fang Dongquan seemed a little excited, and they all looked happy when they walked.
Because at the end of the third day of the meeting, Li Xuan formally ordered the cabinet to come up with a detailed charter for the title system of the Tang Dynasty.
Developing a title system was the most important topic at this royal strategy meeting, because it meant that Li Xuan would be officially knighted soon, and they had been waiting for this day for a long time.
Relatively speaking, although other matters, especially the establishment of administrative points in various towns and villages, are also important and can even be said to be related to the future foundation of the Tang Dynasty, in the past few days, Liu Bagou and Fang Dongquan have
What I care more about is my title.
Liu Xin wanted to rebel against Zhuge Liang, and he had not been idle before. He had been prepared for it long ago. Even when he was still in Lijiacun, he had already conceived the title system of the Tang Dynasty.
Later, we discussed it many times with Wang Wenhua, Qian Mengjiu, Yang Xiucai and other senior civil servants in the Tang Dynasty. Before coming to Lanjiang Ferry, the cabinet actually had a draft.
Now that Li Xuan had decreed to come up with a specific charter for the title system, they were unambiguous. That night, the cabinet organized a small internal meeting, and after deliberation for most of the night, the draft was revised into a formal plan.
After the imperial meeting began the next day, Liu Shishi presented the detailed plan for the title system.
After Li Xuan took it, he looked at it carefully. This title system was obviously based on the title systems of the Ming Dynasty and several other dynasties.
In detail, the titles are divided into two systems, one is the title of clan and the other is the title of meritorious officials.
The clan titles are divided into five levels, from top to bottom: prince, county king, general of the country, general of the auxiliary country, and general of the country.
The prince is granted the title of prince or county prince, the prince's son is granted the title of county king, the son of the county prince is granted the title of general of the state, the son of the general of the state is granted the title of general of the state, the general of the assisting state is granted the title of general of the state, and the son of the general of the state is appointed general of the state.
Unless there is a special decree, the above-mentioned clan titles are inherited at reduced levels, down to the hereditary rank of generals serving the country.
However, when Li Xuan saw the hereditary clause, he couldn't help but think of the many royal families in the Zhu Ming Dynasty. He didn't want his descendants to become hundreds of thousands of people and become the country's beetles.
There is no need for all hereditary. The fertility of nobles these days is too terrible, so without any hesitation, he directly picked up the ink pen and crossed out the two words hereditary, and at the same time said: "Make a note!"
Li Xuan asked the officials to take a note, which meant that a formal edict was about to be issued. Liu Bagou directly picked up the pen and spread out the paper and waited for Li Xuan to speak.
Just listen to Li Xuan say: "The five levels of royal titles remain unchanged. The prince's son inherits the title of county king, the non-prince son inherits the general of the country, the prince and prince of the county inherits the general of the country, the son of the non-prince inherits the general of the auxiliary country, and the prince of the general of the country inherits the title of auxiliary country.
General, the non-prince son inherits the title of General Fengguo. The crown prince of General Fengguo is granted the title of General Fengguo. Non-prince sons need to pass the examination before they can inherit the title of General Fengguo.
The eldest son of General Fengguo needs to pass the examination before he can inherit the title of General Fengguo. If he is not the eldest son, he will not be ennobled and he will have to make a living on his own."
The point of this series of words is not what title the prince's son will be given, but that the eldest son of General Fengguo needs to pass the examination before he can inherit the title of General Fengguo. However, the ordinary son of General Fengguo will not be given a title and can take the imperial examination.
Business and politics make a living.
In this way, we can prevent the large-scale proliferation of royal titles and reduce the financial pressure on the country. As for whether future generations will starve to death without titles, this is not within the scope of Li Xuan's consideration.
If someone born in the royal family still starves to death, it means that the mud cannot support the wall, so just starve to death.
Speaking of this, he felt it was necessary to emphasize one more point: "Clan titles cannot be inherited and replaced. If a clan member below the general of Zhenguo has made outstanding achievements, he can be promoted to one level. This is an iron rule and future generations cannot change it!"
The royal family needs to maintain a transcendent status, and this transcendent status must also be maintained in scarcity. If there are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of royal members with titles, how can they maintain scarcity and transcendent status without being
It's good to curse people to death.
Li Xuan can change the title of the clan according to his own wishes. Anyway, this is only for Li Xuan's own descendants and has little to do with the many ministers here, so Liu Bagou and the others consciously interpret Li Xuan's words.
I wrote it down and came up with a sentence to obey the order.
However, Li Xuan, the next hero who was knighted, was much more cautious.
The title system for meritorious officials drafted by Liu Bagou and others also has multiple levels. From top to bottom, there are five levels: duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male. These titles are also inherited in reduced degrees, and the titles are removed after being reduced to baron.
, while hereditary entitlement can only be granted by the imperial court.
In addition, the above-mentioned titles are not equivalent to the grades of officials like the Ming Dynasty and other dynasties. Instead, they form a separate system and have nothing to do with the grades of officials.
In other words, when a minister meets a Duke, unless the Duke holds a higher position than the minister, otherwise there is no need to show the courtesy of superiority and inferiority. If he is polite, he will call you "Governor" and you are welcome.
I can also ignore you.
The official grade system, the title system and the military rank system were independent of each other in the Tang Dynasty, and there was no strict reciprocal relationship.
Li Xuan thought the title of meritorious officials drafted by Liu Bagou and the others was okay, so he didn't make any big changes. However, in order to imitate the descendants of later generations to randomly issue hereditary and unreplaceable titles and randomly issue other titles, he only
Two more items were added: hereditary meritorious service will not be awarded unless the merits of saving the country are achieved; Dukes, princes, and princes will not be awarded the title unless they have achieved military merit.
This will largely prevent future generations from using hereditary as a big killer, and it can also prevent anyone from being able to get a title.
If you want to get a title, go to war and perform meritorious service!
Li Xuan said this personally. Liu Bagou, Fang Dongquan and the others would naturally not have any objections. They were the first generation of rebels and were the founding heroes of the country. The restrictions on titles and even hereditary succession had little impact on them. Really
It affects the people who come after you, and they care about the people who come after you? They care so much!
They only care about the title they can get!
After Liu Bagou and the others sent over the revised title system, Li Xuan read it carefully and made sure that there were no problems, so he stamped his seal. Well, it was also the national seal of the Tang Dynasty, and it was officially confirmed.
The title system of the Tang Dynasty.
After determining the title system, Li Xuan saw everyone looking at him eagerly and knew that these people couldn't wait to get a title.
Li Xuan didn't pretentious for too long, and soon began to seal the title of meritorious officials. After some old-fashioned and obscure words, Li Xuan began to officially open the seal.
Fang Dongquan and others who are illiterate naturally don't care about a lot of nonsense that Li Xuan said before. It is nothing more than the establishment of the Tang Dynasty because the Li family and his son followed the will of God, and the emperor Li Xuan was also given by God.
It's okay to deceive outsiders with these words, but telling them is like telling them to cows and horses.
They don’t know who the Li family and his son are? He used to be a small landowner. Well, Li Erbi was so smart that he got Liu Bagou, the fortune teller, Chen Butcher, the pig butcher, and others to start the proclaimed emperor.
The game of founding a nation.
As for why it was able to survive the encirclement and suppression by officers and soldiers and develop into a 'huge' dynasty that controls hundreds of miles of land and hundreds of thousands of people. To be honest, even Li Xuan himself found it incredible. Apart from saying that it was God's help,
He really couldn't think of any other reason.
There have been many people who have rebelled since ancient times, and there are countless people like them, the Li family and his son, who established a dynasty as soon as their heads got hot. But to be able to actually build a stage like they are now and have thousands of troops, this is still
Very few people have done it.
After a lot of nonsense, Li Xuan quickly knighted all the important officials of the Tang Dynasty. First of all, Liu Bagou, who worked hard and helped the Li family and his son to the throne of the emperor one after another, Li Xuan gave him
For the first time, he was granted the title of earl.
Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren, Wang Shanxu, Hao Bainian, Qian Mengjiu and Wang Wenhua were named viscounts.
Butcher Chen, Cai Erhu and others were granted the title of baron.
After these titles were awarded, everyone present was successful. The last one was also a baron and became a nominal noble lord.
Why is it said to be nominal?
Because these titles are virtual titles and there is no fiefdom! And although the salary is said to be a certain amount, in fact it is just a number and they cannot get it at all.
Not having a fiefdom is normal, as many previous dynasties did, but not having a salary is somewhat abnormal. Why is this?
This is because the Tang Dynasty has no money. There are only ten thousand taels of silver in the treasury, and these silvers need to be used to purchase various materials, especially sulfur, saltpeter, and lead needed to maintain the war.
Iron, copper and other strategic materials.
Therefore, it is impossible to distribute these precious gold and silver as wages. Therefore, the titles and salaries of these nobles are the same as the salaries of officials. They can only be owed in advance. When will they be paid? Only God knows.
So far, the Tang Dynasty still gloriously maintains the fine tradition of no salary! 8)