Qian Fu looked constipated, as if he had something to hide.
Gu Jiu frowned, and boldly guessed, "It can't be His Highness's bad idea."
Qian Fu repeatedly denied, "Why would Madam think so, of course it was not His Highness's idea. His Highness is still waiting for His Majesty to bestow the Prince's title, so how could he end his own way?"
"Who is that? Dare to give His Majesty a bad idea to cut down the title, are you dead?"
Cutting the rank is tantamount to cutting off the promotion path of military generals and cutting off the road to wealth and honor of the royal clan.
Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents.
Cutting a noble is a hundred times more vicious than cutting off a person's wealth.
After the military general Xungui and the royal family knew about this, they tore up those who advised Emperor Wende.
Qian Fu whispered: "The person who proposed this matter, according to the information I got from the palace, should be Li Shizhong without accident. But behind Li Shizhong, there should be the Sun family."
Gu Jiu opened her mouth with a bewildered expression.
"Li Shizhong? The Sun family?"
Qian Fu nodded.
Gu Jiu felt unbelievable, "Li Shizhong is such a shrewd and powerful person, how could he come up with such a bad idea. Also, Li Shizhong took away the glory of the Sun family for generations, replaced the Sun family, and wrote the imperial edict. Li Shizhong cooperate?"
This is so weird.
Qian Fu said solemnly: "Nothing is impossible in the court. Madam, you have to get used to it."
The corners of Gu Jiu's mouth twitched, and the way he looked at Qian Fu was wrong.
"Is the reduction of titles aimed at all those who have titles, or is the net widely cast and focused on arresting?"
Qian Fu was stunned for a moment, understood what Gu Jiu meant, and said after deliberation: "Of course the focus is on arresting."
Gu Jiu understood.
"Could it be that such a big commotion was made just to deal with the Cui family of the Duke of Zhenguo?"
Qian Fu said: "The specific situation, the old slave can't tell. It's better to wait a few days, and then draw a conclusion when the situation is clear."
This is indeed a safe way.
In the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were noble families, if there were not two hundred, there should be one hundred.
These one hundred families are involved in all aspects of military, government, agriculture and economy. It is related to the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of people.
Cut down
hehe!
It's easy to say, just touch your lips, aren't you afraid of capsizing
This year is the first year of Wende, Emperor Wende's throne has not yet been firmly established, and his confidantes have not really controlled the court.
If you play Wang Bo at the beginning of the game, aren't you afraid that you will have no cards to play in the end
If you end up with a pair of threes in your hand, it will be really terrible.
The overthrow of the empire was just a blink of an eye.
How serious are the consequences of cutting the title.
For example, if the difficulty of collecting taxes on noble scholars is ten, then the difficulty of cutting nobles is one hundred, and they will go directly to the eighteenth floor of hell.
Emperor Wende was not a person whose brain was flooded and he couldn't figure out the importance.
Knowing that the consequences of cutting the nobles are serious, but why can't wait to take this move
Gu Jiu couldn't figure it out.
I wanted to wait for Liu Zhao to come back and ask Liu Zhao.
As a result, Liu Zhao came to stay overnight.
People just rest outside the city.
When he rushed back to the capital, the city gate was closed. I have no choice but to go to Xinmin County to find a first-class inn to stay.
Early the next morning, as soon as the city gate opened, he hurried to the palace.
Hurry up, hurry up, at least catch up with the morning court.
The court meeting was half an hour later than usual.
Anyone in the capital who is eligible to go to court, as long as he is not dead or disabled, must attend the twice-a-month court meeting.
Many people have prepared question books, and they want to talk about important things at today's Great Court Meeting.
The result was an unprecedented lore.
A censor stood up and proposed to cut the title.
As soon as the word "cut jue" came out, the court was shocked.
After the shock, when he came back to his senses, the honorable military generals and the royal family members immediately aimed their artillery at the civil servants.
All of this must be a conspiracy by the civil servants, and the civil servants deserve to die.
As nobles, their titles were earned with their lives.
After shedding so much blood, paying the price of their lives, and dying so many paozes, they finally got a title, which can protect future generations and protect paoze's descendants.
dream!
Whoever dares to win the title, they will fight each other to the end.
Whoever does not let them live, they will not stand still waiting to die.
The honorable military general, with fire-breathing eyes, can't wait to rush up and kill those hypocritical civil servants. Especially the censor who proposed to cut the title should be cut into pieces.
Compared with the anger of the honorable generals, the royal family members were even more flustered.
They can't study well, can't bear the hardship of studying, and can't bear the hardship of being a soldier. It can be said that if we can't make words, we can't make martial arts.
They can live a rich life, fighting cocks and walking birds all day, all relying on Juelu to support them.
Once the title is cut, how can they live a rich life.
Being a civil official is not as good as those sons and daughters of officials with family background.
Being a military commander is also not as good as a noble son with a long history of family education.
Without Juelu, the royal family members are nothing in the officialdom. It will be beaten back to its original shape soon.
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to cut the nobility.
Your majesty must not be allowed to cut the title.
In the court hall, the crowd was excited.
The honorable military generals united with the royal family to attack the censor and civil officials.
Later, the two gangs fought directly.
Shoes flew around and official hats fell to the ground.
"Ah! Whose stinky shoes have suffocated this old man to death."
"Take a note of not washing your feet for three months."
"Eating the old man's penis kick."
When a group of ministers of civil and military affairs started a fight, they lost their dignity.
The hair is messed up, the official uniform is messed up, and the face is also messed up.
The Golden Luan Temple, which symbolizes supreme power, is full of various flavors.
Sour and sour, unbearable.
Emperor Wende could only retreat.
Grandma is a leg, just trying to make such a big mess.
Emperor Wende pinched his nose and felt that his whole body was not well.
"Your Majesty, the matter of reducing the title should not be taken lightly."
Li Shizhong secretly left the Golden Luan Hall and followed Emperor Wende all the way.
As soon as he returned to Xingqing Palace, Li Shizhong solemnly suggested to Emperor Wende that he should not lightly dismiss the issue of the noble.
Emperor Wende frowned, feeling very upset.
"Li Aiqing, Juelu has become the biggest burden for my Dazhou, like a vampire growing on my body, how can I not get rid of it."
Li Shizhong held his head high and said loudly: "Your Majesty has seen the reaction of all the courtiers in the courtroom today. To tell you the truth, my humble minister has the audacity to arrange for someone to propose cutting the title and test the courtier's reaction, which has aroused public outrage.
Tomorrow, Wei Chen might be blocked in the middle of the road and beaten, and the gate of the mansion would be sprayed with feces. The children of humble ministers will also be isolated. Their marriage will also be affected. "
Emperor Wende had a gloomy face.
Li Shizhong continued: "Your Majesty, the matter of reducing the title can only be done gradually, and it must not be rushed."
Emperor Wende smiled coldly.
His heart is bitter!
As long as there is a way, he will not poke the hornet's nest of Shajue.
The ancestors, from the Taizu down, were all generous and generous, and the titles were handed out as if they didn't want money. The result is that the future generations will suffer.
In this dynasty, there are only six hereditary first-class dukes.
The first-class duke is the same as the prince.
One year's Juelu, the sum of several companies is an astronomical figure.
What is hereditary replacement
Just don't downgrade to rank.
The title earned by the ancestors is the first-class duke, and the descendants inherit the title as the first-class duke, and there is no need to be reduced to the second-class duke. In this way, the descendants will pass it on from generation to generation, and all generations will eat the court's royal salary, and they will be rich and honored from generation to generation.
Fortunately, two of the hereditary first-class Duke's mansions have been cut off, and the titles were taken back by the late emperor. Anyway, it left a lot of money for the court.
Except for the remaining four hereditary first-class dukes, the rest of the families with titles are mostly saints, and they were cut off for five generations.
For example, Marquis Lu, his title is first-class marquis.
When his son inherits the title, he will be demoted to a second-class marquis.
When the grandson inherits the title, he will be demoted to the third class.
After the third-class marquis, there are various generals such as Zhenguo General and Fuguo General.
After five generations, there was no title.
The Pei family, without their titles, is naturally not qualified to continue working in the noble circle.
If the children and grandchildren do not live up to their expectations, after losing the title, the Pei family will soon be reduced to what others call a shabby household, and within a few years it will disappear from everyone's sight.
Needless to say, the title of the royal clan.
What prince, county king, princess, princess...
Pull it out, and a series of people have titles.
Anyone who has a title has a title.
Juelu is borne by the Ministry of Households.
The ancestors' hands were too loose, and the titles were handed out without money.
The result is that until now, the court has to bear the burden of several million taels of juelu every year, and it cannot be in arrears.
Juelu seems to be the biggest burden on the Ministry of Households.
Even during a war, the military expenses ahead can be deducted, and the titles of the nobles cannot be deducted.
In the past, when Emperor Wende was a prince, he received his own salary from the Ministry of Households every year. At that time, he didn't care whether the court had money or not. Anyway, the Ministry of Households must not owe him money.
Even if the household department went to the Shaofu to borrow, they would have to send Juelu to him to the Wangfu with a lot of pennies.
It wasn't until he became emperor himself that he knew about Juelu, that he was a gold-swallowing beast.
No amount of money can be swallowed.
The first emperor reigned for more than 30 years, and he was very stingy in bestowing titles, and even found some excuses to take away some people's titles.
But even so, the Great Zhou Dynasty still had nearly a hundred families leading the ranks.
Emperor Wende sighed, "I only hate that the emperor's methods were not cruel enough, and he never wiped out the empty titles of the corpse."
Emperor Wende is sad!
He was shouting in his heart: Father, father, you are just killing people for nothing. If I had known today, I should have reminded you to kill more families with titles. However, at the beginning you were very pleasing to the military general Xungui, so naturally you were not willing to use the title of military general Xungui. He was only willing to touch the title of the royal clan.
Thinking about it now, Emperor Wende still felt that the methods of the first emperor were too benevolent and not cruel enough.
According to his thinking, the title of the royal clan should be reduced by at least half.
Honorable military generals also have to be reduced by half.
Li Shizhong didn't want to be scolded by thousands of people, "Your Majesty, it's better to delay the cutting of the nobles for another three to five years. When the time is right, we will do it one by one. Although it is slower, the victory is safe."
Emperor Wende knew how powerful he was, even if he felt unwilling, he had to admit that what Li Shizhong said was right.
He nodded, "The four hereditary dukes' mansions must be moved first. The hereditary wardens must be changed to five generations and beheaded. Why don't you take the Cui family of the town's duke's mansion first to test the depth of the pool."