Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

At the beginning of the founding of Datang, a lot of knighthoods were actually sealed off. Take the group of elders who came to Li Xin's wedding today as an example. One of them counts as one, and all of them have knighthoods.

This is no way, because after all, it is to fight the world, but this is a business that will lose your head if you don't play well. If you don't give enough chips in advance, who would be willing to follow you to fight the world?

However, everything has two sides. Perhaps when the world was conquered, the generous granting of so many titles was beneficial to the establishment of Datang, but once it was time to rule the world, too many titles would be very unfavorable.

The first issue is taxation. You must know that these closed sites could have collected a lot of taxes, but once they were closed to a nobleman, these taxes would have nothing to do with the state, and they were all privately owned by the landlord. This is not a small loss for the state treasury.

Moreover, the fief, you can't seal a barren mountain to others, right? I'm not afraid of chilling. Therefore, fiefdoms are generally divided into close quarters. The greater the credit, the larger the area and the better. In this way, the loss of the treasury will be greater.

In addition to the taxation of the fief, the salaries of these nobles were not cheap. Dignity, where can the salary go? You can't be too poor, right?

Finally, there is the rule of law. Although it is said that since ancient times, China has said that "the emperor violated the law and the common people have the same crime", but in fact, this statement comes from the legalists, not the Confucianism that China has always admired. The most common saying in Confucianism is that the law does not impose respect on it, and it has evolved into the extreme status quo of "no punishment for a doctor" in Song Dynasty.

These honored nobles and their descendants are undoubtedly a group of people who are beyond the law. When Li Xin was still a dude, he was always busy in the city, etc., if it is really strictly investigated and handled according to law, then If you don't die, you have to peel off the skin.

Therefore, the nobility is the privileged class. Not only does it have a considerable negative effect on the country's finances, even in the governance of the country, it is difficult to produce any positive effects. Therefore, each dynasty followed the same trajectory: at the beginning of the founding of the country, it was rewarded lavishly, and with the stability of the country's governance, the titles and lands that had been sealed off were gradually recovered.

Today's Datang is just out of this shrinking stage. Li Shimin hasn't been knighted for a long time. In fact, if he really wanted to make any title, the thoughtful ministers such as Fang Xuanling, Chen Yin, Du Ruhui, and Wei Zheng would desperately prevent him from doing such a thing.

However, at this moment, Fang Xuanling and Xiao Yu were sitting at Li Xin's wedding banquet, but they did not object to Li Shimin's seemingly generous award. What's the reason? It lies in the restriction of "no fief, no food".

The biggest problem with the title is that the fiefs and food towns cause damage to the country's finances. Putting this aside, the others are a bit innocuous.

If today Li Shimin does not impose the restriction of "no fiefdom and no food", and simply says that every time Li Xin gives birth to a son, he will be given an extra knighthood. Without waiting for opposition from others, Li Xin would be the first to kneel on the ground and plead. The emperor withdrew his life.

The reason is also very simple, only eight characters-the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it.

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