July.

Regent Prime Minister Zhang Chao issued an order that all the elderly over 70 years old would give each person a stone of food and a piece of cloth.

As the day of great auspiciousness chosen by the Taishi Bureau on August 8th is getting closer, the imperial court has been constantly issuing many praiseworthy decrees recently.

For example, giving food and cloth to the elderly, increasing the amount of money to nursing homes, orphanages, nursery halls, and relief homes. They also exempted land taxes from many places!

We reward the students of the Imperial College and the University of Beijing, and the soldiers of the government, and the soldiers of the capital, and the rewards of the local garrisons. We reward the Mid-Autumn Festival gifts to teachers and students from all over the country in advance.

And during this period, it seems that all kinds of auspiciousness are also frequent.

In the end, Zhang Chao even had to come forward in person and asked the government offices to inform him that Xiangrui should not be too much. Only people like Wang Mang and Wu Zetian would like to make Xiangrui and do it in a big way.

Zhang Chao does not need such auspiciousness to build momentum for his ascension to the throne.

Compared to creating auspiciousness, he actually has more things to deal with.

When discussing the content of the Magna Carta, Zhang Chao even had to discuss the organizational structure of the court, and even the organizational structure of the vassal states and the vassal leaders, Zhang Chao also had to discuss with Ma Zhou and others.

Zhang Chao's meaning is very straightforward. The princes can establish their own subordinates, collect taxes, and possess troops. However, it is not without restrictions. The princes are vassals of the court, and the fiefs of the princes are also the autonomous rulers of the court.

They had to implement the court's laws and taxes, and at the same time they wanted to facilitate the management of the thousands of princes and vassals in the Tang Dynasty. Zhang Chao proposed that the court should implement unified standards for the organizations in the vassal territories.

For example, the fiefs of the princes and lords are called the country, and the fiefs of the princes are called the king.

The State Council, Parliament, Military Council, Supervision Department, Police Department, Court and other institutions were established in China. The General Administration, Parliament, etc. were established in the territory.

The organizational structures of each country and its leaders must be the same.

"I think the princes can have their own officials, but the court cannot completely let go. The prime minister of the State Council, the speaker of the parliament, the general of the military department, or the general manager of the territory, and the chief magistrate of the vassal, the court should be appointed by the court for the princes to be talented, experienced and well-charactered."

This is similar to the feudal system during the Western Han Dynasty. The feudal system of the Western Han Dynasty, and the vassals and the prime ministers of the state were appointed by the court, while the other officials and officials were appointed by the princes themselves.

The imperial court sent Fu Hexiang, of course, to supervise the princes.

Now that Zhang Chao has made this request, Ma Zhou thought about it, but he still felt that it was not impossible.

"If the court sends the Prime Minister, Speaker, General, Chief, and Chief Officer, and the Chief Officer, it should be feasible to help the princes handle affairs."

This requires communication with the princes. If the communication is done well, there will be no problem. Even if the princes know that the court intends to arrange personal hands, as long as they make an advance statement, the princes are the lords of fiefdoms and the officials of the equal state will be sent there, they will not be court officials, but territorial officials of the princes. They receive the salary of the princes and do their business for the princes, so they should respect the princes.

"I think all the vassal states, the leaders and the courts should send supervisors, military censors, and tax censors."

The three previous sects were the prime minister, speaker, and general, who were considered the three major heads of the ban. Now Zhang Chao proposed to send three, but these three were completely different. The first three were considered stewards and guard captains that the court helped the princes find. However, the three censors behind were completely from the court, and in the past they were actually supervising.

The censor supervises the princes, the military censor supervises the army, and the tax censor supervises the tax revenue of the princes.

If the court wants to send prime ministers, speakers, and generals to the princes, the princes may be able to refuse.

But Zhang Chao wanted to send these three censors over, but the princes had no reason to refuse.

After all, the current feudal system is similar to that of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty, but it is not the same. The princes were not independent, they were vassals of the imperial state, and their fiefs were just autonomous lords and autonomous, and there was a limit.

One-third of their taxes have to be handed over to the court, and they have to implement the court's legal taxes.

A prince's fiefdom sent six people, or two teams.

The Tang Dynasty had thousands of titles of princes.

"This must be at least 20,000 to 30,000 people, will it be too many?"

Chu Suiliang proposed another plan, which was to send several censors to one district. Originally, the imperial court also divided several lords in the feudal areas of the princes, such as Xindu lords, Hezhong lords, Monan lords, etc.

"The court sent a governor, an admiral, and a censor, which would save a lot of people."

But Zhang Chao shook his head with a smile.

Send the Prime Minister, Speaker, General, or the General Manager, Speaker, and Captain to strengthen some control over the fiefdom, and at least have the right to know.

Three fiefdoms were sent out, and tens of thousands of fiefdoms were sent out in a fiefdom of thousands, but these people were supported by the princes. What the court had to do was to select tens of thousands of people. Now the empire is so large and there are many scholars. I believe it is relatively easy to select tens of thousands of people.

As for whether these people will be undermined by the princes after being sent over, and then the deputy minister and deputy general will actually be in charge of the affairs, Zhang Chao actually doesn't care. As long as there are three people who stay in the fiefs of the princes, they will change every five years or two more years after ten years, and it will be fine if someone can be there.

As for the censors, tens of thousands of censors sound amazing.

But these people can be regarded as interns of the imperial censors in the future. They can choose a group of people from the Imperial College, the Capital University, or the imperial examination juren, and select a group of non-commissioned officers or officers from the army, and let them go to each fiefdom to serve as supervisors, military censors, and tax censors. They can complete one or two positions with the princes. Then according to their achievements, they can choose excellent arrangements to the Supervision Office, Dali Temple, the Ministry of Justice, or the Ministry of Revenue, and the military.

Although the cost is, it is definitely not high and it will be worth it.

"The Prime Minister, General Manager, Speaker, General, and Captain sent over there. Do they obey the court or the princes?"

Cen Wenben asked again.

Zhang Chao gently tapped the table with his fingers. This issue is probably the concern of many princes. After all, the prime minister and general are important positions within the fiefs of the princes and cannot be controlled by the court.

"I still say the same thing. These are the officials of the princes who were selected and recommended by the princes on behalf of the princes. They were not officials of the court. Even if they were officials of the court in the past, once they received the order of transfer, they would no longer be officials of the court and would become officials of the princes. When they arrived at the fiefs of the princes, they naturally respected the princes."

"Of course, if the princes are unconstitutional or pursuing rebellion, then even if he is not the prime minister, any people in the fief are obliged to report the princes' illegal acts to the court."

There is nothing wrong with these words, and they will never leak.

Of course, Zhang Chao said that the princes should not be forced. If the princes themselves have better candidates to serve as prime ministers, they can appoint the people selected by the court as deputy prime ministers, deputy generals, and deputy speakers. In short, when the person is elected, it is necessary to send them over. Whether it is used or not is the matter of the princes.

Ma Zhou could only smile at Zhang Chao's somewhat rogue behavior.

But this has nothing to do with Daya. Even if you know that this is what Zhang Chao sent, it doesn't matter much.

To be honest, although there are many princes in the court now, it is still very different from the feudal divisions of the Western Han Dynasty.

The biggest feature of the Western Han Dynasty was that the feudal was in the Central Plains, which actually had a large territory, especially the large population. The large princes had a thousand miles of land, hundreds of cities, and dozens of counties.

They have a vast fiefdom and a large population above.

In the early Han Dynasty, one-quarter of the country's population belonged to the princes.

In comparison, although the number of princes in the Tang Dynasty is more than a few thousand, their fiefs are all on all sides without exception, outside the traditional Chinese Central Plains.

Especially in the south of the desert and north of Yan, the land of the princes was basically outside the drought line, which was an area where crops could not be grown. For example, in Liaobei, Hezhong, Xihai and other places were also quite far and wide and sparsely populated.

A few big princes have only a few hundred miles of fiefs, and many small princes have only a dozen or twenty miles of fiefs. Even if there are many brothers and nephews of their family who have been granted kings, many of their brothers and nephews have also been divided into fiefs, but the fiefs are not together, but scattered.

There is even a situation where one is in northern Liaoning, Xindu and Xihai.

Those places are far away, with vast land and sparse populations, especially the mixed Chinese. If they want to develop them, they need to invest a lot of capital and to form enough strength, it will take a longer time.

Unless he has the Shuye River Valley of Fang Xuanling's family, the fiefs of Zhang Chao before, and the land and wealth that he had in the Central Plains itself.

Otherwise, it would be too far away to threaten the central government like the princes of the Western Han Dynasty.

It is absolutely not enough to have land alone, it also requires a population and a huge population.

But they were on all sides and were far away from the Central Plains, and they wanted to develop too slowly. Even in later generations, the development of the East and West was very different, not to mention the difference between the Central Plains, which were directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court in this era, and the border fiefs of the princes.

But the fief is a fief after all, and this is the foundation of the princes. It develops slowly, even if it is almost done, it is also its own territory.

Just like those poor people, they used to plunder the fields for others, but now they have a piece of land. Even if the land is not paddy fields or flat land on the roadside, it is hillside land that cannot be irrigated and dry land, it is its own land after all.

The princes thought they would need them more than the court needed them.

Zhang Chao is now holding not only the land in the Central Plains, but also the three newly captured Raole, Songmo and Lingdong, which were newly captured by the court this year, namely Xi, Khitan and Wu. In addition, Linyi, Funan and Korea, which were originally captured by the court, have always been held in the hands of the court, and are directly under the jurisdiction.

Even the three ports of Yongji, Xinji and Xindu are directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

Not to mention, the fiefs of the Zhang family, Luzon, Liuqiu, Boni, Dayuan, Langshan and other fiefs will now become directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

There are also the hundreds of fiefs that had just been taken back from the exiled princes such as Changsun Wuji.

Anyway, Zhang Chao will not take it out and divide it into the Indochina Peninsula and the Nanyang Islands for the time being. Those places will be directly under the jurisdiction of the court. Now that they cannot develop for the time being, they will be a piece of private land, which will be kept for development slowly.

As for the future, the royal family and the heroes were divided into feudal areas, including the northern desert, the northeast, and even Siberia, the Americas, Australia, and Africa. There were many places where they could be sealed.

Zhang Chao would definitely not make the mistakes that Li Shimin and Li Chengqian had made back then.
Chapter completed!