Go to ancient times and engage in construction

Since the Xia Dynasty, five noble titles such as Gong, Hou, Bo, Zi, and Nan have been established.After the founding of the Great Qin Dynasty, the same system of titles was followed.The titles are all hereditary, and the feudal lands are all called the country. In this way, various large and small vassal states are formed. In the vassal states, titles such as marquis, uncle, doctor, and scholar are placed. Exercising the right to rule is only ordered by the princes.Over time, this kind of knighthood system has the consequences that cannot be lost.Smart princes and monarchs realized that this system would make them lose control of the place, just like Qin Tianzi lost control of the princes.

I don't want to fall into the same situation as Qin Tianzi. Eight years ago, Zhao Guoguo took the lead in carrying out system reforms in the country. He changed the fiefs of the lords into food towns, and the farmers on the fiefdoms of the lords paid rent for their labor. However, administrative power cannot be exercised there, and King Zhao returned the administrative power to the central government.

The state of Wu is next to the state of Zhao, and the king of Wu once wanted to carry out system reforms like the state of Zhao, but he was persuaded by Yi Ji, who was about to rely on Dr. reform.The reason for Yiji's remonstrance is that Zhao Guo first tried to reform and did not know the consequences. Wu Guo can wait to see the changes in Zhao Guo's reform before making a decision.

After being persuaded by Yi Ji, King Wu's reform plan was delayed.After Zhao Guo reformed the title system, the national power became stronger day by day, but because of his health, King Wu no longer had the energy to make drastic changes to the status quo of Wu State.

With Zhao Guo's successful reforms as the first, the monarchs of Yan, Chu, Qi, Lu and other countries have successively carried out or are preparing to carry out the reform of titles.

Xihou's cancellation of rewards and fiefdoms and private soldiers is nothing more than the road that King Zhao took first. The great families in Wu's country have been reduced by half in the turmoil. In addition, Chu Chaohui's actual control over the entire army, Xihou The resistance encountered by the reform was even smaller than that when King Zhao changed the feudal city into a food city.

Xihou was the villain who reformed the nobles, and Zheng Yuming had to be a good person to stabilize people's hearts.In the eyes of the Wu nobles, the ones who suffered the most from the reform system of abolishing feudal titles were actually Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui.

Due to the contributions of Zheng and Chu, Chu Chaohui can at least get a doctor-level fief according to the rules, and a prince like Zheng Yuming cannot escape a marquis-level fief.Now that Zheng and Chu are silent against each other, everyone will see how Zheng Yuming rewards meritorious ministers. If Zheng Yuming's rewards are not in place, the two will lose the support of many nobles.

Zheng Yuming first proposed to the Marquis of the West that the ranks of the General Hussars and Sima Dong and Nam should be raised by one level, that the Great General Hussars be promoted from the original earl to marquis, and the two Sima Youshi in the southeast be promoted to uncles. There are local titles in the Ulsan area, but there is no royal title in Wangdu. This time, Zheng Yuming proposed to grant titles of different sizes.Wei Shen and Wei Ren were proposed to have the highest titles, Bo, Wei Ci as Doctor, and Guo Si, Chen Meng, and Yu Kui as Scholars.The lords who were the first to defect to Ulsan were also promoted to one level in their original titles. At the same time, Moon Jae of the Sehou fiefdom was also proposed to be a doctor.

The list of knighted nobles proposed by Zheng Yuming was within people's expectations. Only Zhou Cheng, Wei Qing, and Zeng You's proposal to become knights attracted the attention of the nobles. Fortunately, Wei Qing was a commoner adopted by Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui. Cheng and Zeng You are slaves (Zeng You is actually a bandit, in order to cover up his identity as a bandit, he can only claim to be a bought slave).Although the nobles talked a lot, no one came forward to speak out. Gein, the three of them had made great contributions. If they were nobles, they could be granted the title of doctor.

In addition to honorary rewards, the next step is material rewards.In order to compensate the meritorious officials for not being granted fiefdoms, Zheng Yuming rewarded them with a large amount of gold, jewelry and jade, and even took out a set of twelve crystal wine glasses from the villa as rewards.

This set of crystal cups in the villa is a lead-free crystal goblet. It cost Zheng Yuming’s sister more than 1000 RMB to buy from Taobao. It looks very beautiful. Under the sun, it will refract the sunlight into a colorful rainbow, and the cup will be as transparent as a diamond. shine.

If this set of cups were put on sale in the Daqin market, the set price would not be able to afford one of this set of cups, except for princes of the monarch level.Zheng Yuming did not monetize this set of cups. The main reason is that it is too difficult to find buyers. If they are sold at a low price, the price of the glass products produced in the valley will drop. This is not what Zheng Yuming wants to see.Therefore, there are a lot of modern and exquisite tableware in the kitchen of the villa. Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui would rather pack them up and send them to the storage room to become moldy, rather than let these high-quality goods go to the luxury market to impact the prices of glass and porcelain factory products.

Although you can't cash out with these high-quality goods, you can buy people's hearts with these extremely beautiful items.

Twelve cups were distributed to the twelve heroes who contributed the most to the chaos. Each cup was wrapped in silk and placed in an exquisite fragrant wooden box.

The nobles who got the cup as a reward were satisfied after seeing the cup. Such a beautiful cup can definitely exchange several cities.Every nobleman secretly made up his mind to pass on the cup as a family treasure.

Yi Ji brought along a bundle of gold, and after solidification and retesting to remove impurities, together with most of the jade and brocade silks in the inner treasury, was handed over to Zheng Yuming by Xihou for rewarding meritorious officials and rebuilding.Zheng Yuming rewarded them with these gold, jewelry and brocade silks.

The meritorious nobles who were not qualified to get the cup were rewarded with many gold and jewelry brocades.A piece of fiefdom is fortunate enough to manage for half a lifetime, and the wealth harvested is equal to the reward. Putting money in vain in front of your eyes, it is better than paying taxes every year. The nobles who have material compensation, the little dissatisfaction with Xihou disappeared. .

After the nobles finished their meritorious deeds, the next step was to reward the soldiers of Huben and Ulsan for their meritorious service.

Chu Chaohui didn't want Wu's army to keep [-] tigers. He didn't want Wu's future standing army to be of noble origin. He hoped that the soldiers in the army would be composed of civilians and slaves.It is easier to give favors to noble soldiers to gain their support than to favor commoners and slave soldiers.

Since we want to reduce the number of soldiers in Huben, we have to find ways to get them to leave. There is nothing better than giving them benefits to make Huben happy to leave without causing protests.Most of the tigers who serve in the army are from declining families, and they want to join the army to gain military exploits and revive their families.

Huben hopes to get money and land after working hard for the king.Zheng Yuming's idea of ​​getting Huben to leave the army fulfilled their wish.Anyone in the Huben army who is over 25 years old and has served in the army for five years can get a generous discharge fee and go home, and at the same time will get [-] to [-] acres of fertile land as a reward.

The fertile land allocated to Huben comes from fiefdoms without owners. There are three situations for these unowned fiefdoms, one is destroyed by Yi Ji and has no close relatives and heirs, the other is cooperation with Yi Ji, and the other is The Swing faction was deprived of their fief by Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui under the pretext.The manor land of these three types of people must be redistributed, in addition to being allocated to civilians and slaves for cultivation, it is also allocated to the tigers who have retired and returned home.The land allocated to the tigers is private property, and they pay [-]% tax per mu every year. They are tax-free for two years and can be bought and sold freely.The land allocated to civilians and slaves also pays [-]% tax every year. The land is state-owned and can only be transferred for planting and cannot be bought or sold privately.

When this measure was announced, half of the tigers wanted to be discharged from the army and go home. After all, Youtian and Youdi had already achieved their expected goal of being tigers.Chu Chaohui approved all of them.Of the more than 1 tigers left behind, Chu Chaohui still didn’t want to keep all of them in the army. He planned to divert one-third of the people to set up post stations, and one-third of the people to go to various counties to maintain law and order.

Where there is no lord in the state of Wu, there will be counties and counties, and the counties and counties need security personnel.These administrative measures are still on paper and will be implemented step by step in the future.

While Chu Chaohui dealt with Huben, he recruited soldiers from civilians, and the age of soldiers was limited to between 17 and 20 years old.After passing the test and joining the army, soldiers will receive a monthly allowance, and they can also be discharged after five years. In the future, they will enjoy half of the treatment of Tiger Ben.

Most of the soldiers in Ulsan did not have five years of military service, and they were not ready to be discharged. Economically, the only reward for them was money, and politically, the low status of slaves was abolished.

"Zhaohui, after the battle, I found that your army construction is still a big expense." Zheng Yuming held the ledger in one hand, and rattled on the abacus with the other.

"When the military expenditure is not a big one, your country will be strong and peaceful." Chu Zhaohui put down his pen and smiled, he was also working on the military budget.

"I haven't started rebuilding here, and the money is flowing out." Zheng Yuming patted the account book with emotion.To appease the nobles and disband Huben, he used up the gold, jewels and brocades Xihou gave him.If it wasn't for Wei Qing's smuggled property from the inner treasury of the palace, and Zhou Cheng's stolen property from everywhere, Zheng Yuming would not have dared to be so extravagant.

"Money can only live if it flows." Chu Chaohui walked behind Zheng Yuming and helped Zheng Yuming massage his shoulders.

Last night, the two of them just successfully tasted the in-depth communication. Although there are medicines from military Chinese medicine practitioners to help reduce the physical damage, the first time it always makes Zheng Yuming feel uncomfortable in the sexual area.Chu Chaohui can still sleep a little longer in the morning, but Zheng Yuming has to get up to work, and in the afternoon he has to help Prince Sheng preside over the reward army. Chu Chaohui has been paying attention to Zheng Yuming's physical condition. Knocking his back with one hand, he knew that Zheng Yuming's body was still sore and backache.

"That's right. Putting it in the internal treasury is worse than circulating it in the society." Zheng Yuming closed his eyes and enjoyed Chu Chaohui's massage.Chu Chaohui's massage level is no less than that of a professional masseur.

Huben people take their retirement money back and don’t put it in a box for use. They have newly allocated land. If there is a lot of land, they will hire people to cultivate it. They want to buy farm tools and cattle. The factories that produce farm tools, workshops and farmers who raise cattle can benefit from it. benefit.

"It's not early today, let's go to bed early." Chu Chaohui massaged, and massaged his hands to places that shouldn't be massaged.

"I want to rest early!" Zheng Yuming knocked off Chu Chaohui's unruly hand with a 'slap'. He knew Chu Chaohui's intentions very well. Tomorrow is the day when Young Master Guang will be buried. Zheng Yuming didn't want to drag his handicapped body along. Farewell, so Chu Zhaohui's idea was vetoed by Zheng Yuming.

Just as Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming were entangled, Xihou and his own Wenzai were discussing Zheng and Chu.