In the aristocratic system of the Lin Dynasty of the Daheng Empire, there are more than fifty old nobles who are quite special. They all belong to the Ji Dynasty or even earlier dynasty periods. Many of them have lasted for hundreds or even thousands of years.
The old aristocracy.
Recognizing some of the old nobles is to show that the new dynasty has inherited the traditions of the Daheng people and respects history. It is also to express the new dynasty's broad mind and so on.
Of course, these are just grand reasons. There are also some practical reasons. In every unification war, nobles need to take sides. The nobles who stand on the winning side will naturally be able to retain their titles or even be on the wrong side.
The nobles naturally disappeared in the long river of history.
This time, the more than fifty old nobles recognized and re-canonized by the new dynasty were the old nobles who firmly stood on the side of the Lin Dynasty during the Unification War.
Including Duke Meng, they all married their granddaughters to Lin Ziran.
Many other nobles also contributed money. The old nobles of Nanhai State jointly purchased tens of millions of national debts in one go. They also responded to Lin Ziran's call and invested tens of millions of funds to develop factories.
, indirectly supporting the war of unification.
In the early days, I took benefits from others, and now I naturally want to give them back. Recognizing their title is a public reward.
There are nearly 600 newly canonized military nobles and civil servants, and more than 50 old nobles have been recognized. A total of 683 nobles have become the aristocratic group of the Lin Dynasty.
However, the aristocrats of the Lin Dynasty are the same as the aristocratic system of the Ji Dynasty, they are all empty aristocrats.
A model combining virtual annuity system, hereditary system and life-long system was adopted.
As for the nobility's fiefdom, of course there is no such thing, but some land will be granted, and these lands are just ordinary real estate, without internal affairs and other rights.
Just ordinary real estate!
After thousands of years of changes in the aristocratic system of the Daheng people, especially after the reforms during the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties, the internal affairs and administration of the aristocracy have been completely stripped away.
During the Fifth Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty at that time continued the unification war, killed a large number of big nobles and abolished their fiefs, leaving only some fiefs of small and medium nobles.
At that time, the Zhou royal family directly controlled more than 80% of the direct territory of the entire empire, completely changing the situation in which the great nobles owned entire counties or even entire state fiefdoms.
It is said that at that time, the Duke Meng family lost the fiefdom of Nanhai Prefecture.
Taking advantage of this east wind, the Zhou Dynasty abolished the military power of the nobles at that time, unified the troops of various nobles, and established an imperial standing army.
During the Ji Dynasty, the power of the nobility was further weakened, and after the Unification War, the nobility's internal affairs authority was completely stripped away, and a very special policy was promulgated, which allowed the nobility to sell land on their own.
This is the famous fiefdom propertyization during the Ji Dynasty!
Treating the nobles' fiefs as ordinary real estate completely removes the special characteristics of the fiefs.
From then on, the Daheng nobles no longer had fiefdoms, only real estate, completely completing the virtual fiefdom of the Daheng noble system.
The aristocratic system of the Lin Dynasty also continued the aristocratic virtual title system of the Ji Dynasty.
The nobles did not even have a nominal fiefdom, but only a large piece of real estate. At most, they could be regarded as big landowners.
There are many landowners in the Daheng Empire. Even ordinary peasant families own hundreds of acres of land. Many wealthy rural families own thousands or even thousands of acres of land.
Some large landowners who engage in large-scale agriculture and plantations own tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of acres.
And the area of most nobles' fiefdoms is not as large as the land of these big landowners.
Nobles who own tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of acres of land and only have land property rights are not too special in Daheng.
In addition to inheriting the propertyization of aristocratic fiefdoms from the Ji Dynasty, the Lin Dynasty also inherited the annual subsidy system, but the annuity subsidy was actually significantly lower than that of the Ji Dynasty.
During the Ji Dynasty, or to be precise before the civil war in Daheng, the annuity of a duke could reach 30,000 constant yuan, and pure gold coins were not discounted!
But now, the Lin Dynasty's annuity subsidies for the nobles are much less. The annual annuity subsidy for Duke Wu Guanlin is only eighteen thousand constant yuan.
This annual subsidy is just to maintain the minimum dignity of the nobles. After all, the Daheng Empire is an imperial country. Since there is an emperor, there must be nobles, and the special characteristics of the nobles also need to be maintained. They cannot be allowed to ruin the family property and then
Go to the streets and beg for food.
Although the aristocratic system of the Lin Dynasty continued the virtual aristocratic system of the Ji Dynasty, so that the aristocrats did not have too special privileges, they were still aristocrats after all.
It is still the best symbol of glory and wealth!
In addition to the meritorious nobles, there is also the clan aristocracy system, but this clan aristocracy system is relatively simple. The prince is granted the title of prince or county prince, and a reduced hereditary system is adopted.
The eldest son's inheritance will be reduced by one level, while the second son's inheritance will be reduced by two levels. After being reduced to a lifelong baron, the title will be directly reduced to the people, so as to prevent the clan from being too large and limiting the total number of people.
The establishment and improvement of the aristocratic system is a part of the improvement of the Lin Dynasty of the Daheng Empire, and it is even a less important part.
For the new dynasty, what is more important is the improvement of the internal affairs and military system.
After the enlarged military meeting, the knighting ceremony was held continuously. After the canonization ceremony, Lin Ziran convened an enlarged government affairs meeting non-stop, mainly to discuss post-war development issues.
The meeting identified four major work priorities for the Daheng Empire after the war. The first was to organize local administrative agencies, especially those in the north, which must be established and improved as soon as possible to take over local government affairs.
Let the thirteen states in the country be completely brought under the control of the empire and lay the administrative foundation for the subsequent implementation of various policies.
The second item is post-war recovery work, restoring agriculture and industrial production in various places and restoring various infrastructures that were damaged by the war, especially bridges, roads, docks and ports, etc.
The third item is to study and focus on the development of certain industries, especially mining, steel, textiles, food processing and other key industries, to further stimulate the development of the manufacturing industry, so as to absorb more wealthy labor force and reduce the unemployment rate.
The last item is to develop transportation!
The first three items are all reasonable and within the expectations of the ministers. However, Lin Ziran personally identified the transportation issue as one of the four major post-war work priorities, which surprised some ministers.