Chapter 6715 So dark?

Chapter 6715 So dark?

In fact, to be honest, Kang Guang not only panned for gold himself, but also brought Xia Zhu and a few others with him. Although the amount of gold they could get every day was not much, this place was a super large gold mine. The Qing Dynasty mined it for many years in the name of the country. The Han Dynasty was still very conservative and cautious when mining, and it is estimated that they could mine for hundreds of years.

Of course, after hundreds of years of digging, it’s not that there is no gold left in the gold mine, but that the existing technical means make it difficult to continue mining. However, even so, being able to eat the gold mine for hundreds of years is quite satisfying for these old soldiers who have sealed themselves here.

It can be said that at this point in time, the old soldiers of the Han Dynasty who chose to use the fiefdom order to enfeoff themselves basically chose a very good place among millions of square kilometers, and then erected a monument, and they would become the landlord of this land in the future.

If this kind of land was discovered by the major families in the former Han Dynasty, there would definitely be twists and turns. But now, society is developing rapidly, and although Chen Xi's distribution method is not very brilliant, it does try to let the people of the Han Dynasty reap as much of the huge benefits of war as possible.

As a result, the Han family had no interest in the family businesses of these small families that had been passed down for three to five hundred years. The village that Bi Laoliu had built himself was in a valley in the plateau mountains. There was a natural water source in the valley, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there were also several small mines nearby.

Twenty years ago, if this kind of place happened, not only would the wealthy families come to fight for it, but at least the second-rate families would be very interested in it. But these days, the second-rate families are indifferent to the fact that Lao Liu occupies this kind of place. It's not because they are generous, but because they have found a better one.

What is a dividend? This is a dividend. It means that under my, Chen Xi's, management, the people of this country can live easily as long as they are willing to work hard. Even if they don't work hard, they can live better than before when they worked hard.

Isn't the meaning of social progress to make people live more easily and happily in the world? If even this cannot be achieved, then where is the progress?
Before I made progress, I lived like a dog and needed to consider the issue of thirty-six taels a year. After I made progress, I still lived like a dog and needed to consider similar issues. Wasn’t that all my progress in vain?

Therefore, the routine inquiries that Liu Bei made when signing the fief documents were actually a process of understanding the current social environment. A person's mood can actually be seen by looking at his behavior. Things like spirit are difficult to hide.

The fief documents signed by Liu Bei in his early years and the middle-level officers who came, Liu Bei was able to compare the difference between this time point and the last time or the several times he had met them. It was obvious that their lives were better and they had absolute confidence and drive for the future. Liu Bei could see at a glance that after chatting with them for a few minutes and talking about their recent situation, he could feel that these people were really satisfied.

What is this? This is the base plate!
However, the number of fief documents signed by Liu Bei has increased significantly this year. Although the middle-level officers who came to see Liu Bei still expressed confidence in the future and were grateful for the country's cultivation over the years, and were the same to Liu Bei as always, when talking about certain things, one could obviously feel that they were hesitant to speak, and Liu Bei also knew the reason for this reluctance to speak.

"In the past five years, I have issued a total of 327 fiefdom orders, most of which were ninth and tenth level titles. The main places of fiefdom were either the Liaodong coastal area, the alluvial plains along the rivers in Central and South China, or the Central and South coastal areas. Only sixteen people actually went to Central Asia, four went to Eastern Europe, and three went to Southeast Asia." Liu Bei said with a sigh.

There are actually more than so many titles of level seven and above that have been retired from the Han Dynasty over the years, but those who are adventurous or directly interested in fiefdoms are only those mentioned above.

There were even some veterans who came to get the fiefdom order not because they wanted it themselves, but because their brothers did not have enough titles, so they helped to get it on their behalf. If you really want to talk about this kind of thing, it is an illegal operation, and Liu Bei could actually tell whether the other party was here to get it on behalf of others, but Liu Bei was a man who valued brotherhood, so he never cared about this matter.

But if we really have to consider the issue of proxy leadership, among the 327 fiefdom orders, about 60 were for proxy leadership. In other words, there were indeed not many Han people willing to go abroad to obtain fiefdoms. Most retired veterans would rather stay at home with their wives and children and farm than get fiefdoms.

Just like Jiang Guang, this guy fully meets all the prerequisites for a fiefdom, but Jiang Guang has no interest in getting a fiefdom. Although he said that if he had the ability to command troops, he would definitely get a fiefdom and give his son a complete background, in fact, even if Jiang Guang had the ability to command troops, he would not get a fiefdom. He is very satisfied with his current life.

Then there is Zhao Ying. Zhao Ying is a good fighter, a commander, and has reconnaissance capabilities. His title is also high enough to get a fiefdom. However, Zhao Ying would rather stay in the street office of Wuji, Zhongshan, to study how to fight against Jiang Guang than run out to get a fiefdom. What's the point of a fiefdom? I'll command more than 30 small accounts to farm today. After that, I'll go and see if I can bring Jiang Guang down today.

It can be said that except for Liu Bei's forced enfeoffment, most of the retired veterans were actually not willing to go out for enfeoffment.

After all, he has hundreds of millions in cash, and an estate of several hundred acres or even thousands of acres. He has a great reputation in the local area and has certain authority. He can do some important things for the folks, let the locals brag about him, show the joy of returning home rich, and become a VIP player in the local area.

Under such favorable conditions, how many people are willing to develop their fiefdoms? Although they can certainly make tens of billions in the future, and have a bigger garden, and their descendants will have more inheritance, but they will definitely have nothing to show off, and it will be difficult for them to enjoy the same happiness as now in the second half of their lives. After comprehensive consideration, most people who have no ambitions will just leave it at that.

Even more directly, the veteran soldiers with middle-level titles under Liu Bei have already reached a rather outrageous understanding, that is, their fiefdom orders can be taken on behalf of others!
Although logically this is illegal and unreasonable, dozens of brothers went to Liu Bei to take over the throne, and they did not even hide it from Liu Bei. They just said that they were taking over the throne on behalf of their own brothers. That guy's title was not high enough, but I had enough title, but he did not want a fiefdom. We were sworn brothers, and my title was just enough. The commander-in-chief, please be kind and help me get the entire fiefdom order.

There was a fool who actually said this in front of Liu Bei. Although he had made an offer to his brothers before, he was hesitant when asked and was reluctant to explain to Liu Bei. But Liu Bei was not a fool. He understood the situation after a quick thought and signed the contract with a smile.

Who cares about this? Do you care? Anyway, I, Liu Bei, don't care. When Zichuan and Wenru were doing it, they said that the ninth-level title could be exchanged directly, and the seventh-level title was a pioneering document, and they didn't say that others were not allowed to exchange it. Besides, there are at least hundreds of thousands of square kilometers suitable for living in the north, and more than two million square kilometers in the Indochina Peninsula in the south. Tens of thousands of ninth-level little Camillas can be enfeoffed.

Two hundred square kilometers per person sounds small, but you are only a ninth-level noble. Two hundred square kilometers is only thirty miles in radius. The damn Qin State was only fifty miles in radius when it was founded. I have a big territory and can do whatever I want.

Moreover, let alone Liu Bei's subordinates, even if the entire Han Dynasty were added together, it would be impossible for there to be more than ten thousand ninth-level titles. Up to now, the number of titles above ninth level is less than the number of titles above fourth level, so even if the Indochina Peninsula is divided up like this, it is impossible to divide it all up.

Therefore, when a fool told the truth later, Liu Bei signed it as if nothing had happened, and the order for the ninth-level nobility to receive fiefdoms became an open secret.

In other words, for the old soldiers who are now in the country, they can fool around first, and when their sons grow up to a certain age and see others getting fiefdoms and complaining about them as fathers, they will take the stuff and give it to their sons.

Some of the descendants, headed by Li Zhe, have many but they do not want to continue struggling and just want to show off locally. They are contemporary middle-aged people who sincerely say, "son, if you have any ideas, please say it directly. If you want to struggle, dad will give you the entire fiefdom order. Anyway, dad is not interested. If you have the ability, you can build it with the fiefdom order, and it will be yours. If you can't build it, let's not talk about it."

I am very inexperienced and very reasonable, so that now there are more and more old soldiers who are giving up - anyway, I am happy now, and I don't want to go through the trouble of building any fiefdom. I just want to go back to my hometown and show off, so that my uncles, elders, and fellow villagers can see that I, XX, have made it big. Whoever wants to build a fiefdom can do it, but I won't do it!
This operation directly made the brothers with the ninth-level title come ashore collectively, and even fewer came to get fiefs. However, this was before this year. This year, Liu Bei met many brothers who came to ask for fief documents. Most of them came from the Ganges Legion, and their titles were not just ninth level, the highest was even seventeenth level.

In Liu Bei's words, you have already reached the 17th level of nobility, and you won the war to destroy the Kushan Empire. Even if you don't have any great merits, considering Guan Yu's situation, he will definitely give you some profits and let you reach the 18th level of nobility. Even if you have some achievements that you can show off during that time, considering Guan Yu's character, he will find a way to give you some profits from his own pocket. I'm afraid you can expect to be made Guannei Marquis.

One thing needs to be said here. The twenty ranks of nobility in the Han Dynasty were copied from the twenty ranks of nobility in the Qin Dynasty. Although there were some optimizations, some core elements remained unchanged. The most important of these is the policy of demotion. Ranks of eighteen and below will be demoted every generation.

This was a precaution made by Shang Yang in order to prevent the proliferation of titles. For titles above level ten, after the death of the title holder, if his descendants had no achievements, the title would be directly downgraded to level nine when it was inherited. For titles between levels five and nine, it would be downgraded to level five, and for titles below level five, it would be downgraded to level one.

Therefore, if a normal title has no descendants who have made achievements for three generations, it will fall.

Only the 19th-level Guannei Hou and the 20th-level Lie Hou are not demoted, and this thing is hereditary, which is the so-called human rights card, and it is actually holding shares in the country.

Although the marquises of the Han Dynasty were divided into Tinghou, Xianghou and Xianhou, they were actually of the same level, all of which were twenty levels of nobility. The division into three levels was actually the difference in fiefdoms, not the difference in status.

He the Butcher, who was the Marquis of Ting, brutally killed Huangfu Song, who was the Marquis of Xian. Even if Huangfu Song had a lot of curses in his mouth, and even if they really had to fight on the battlefield, a bunch of He the Butcher would die in front of Huangfu Song. But that did not prevent He the Butcher from brutally killing Huangfu Song before the fall of the Han Dynasty, when rules were greater than power.

Essentially, after becoming a marquis, what matters is not how many counties you have or how many townships I have, but whether you are in charge.

After all, you have several counties under your fiefdom, and as long as you are not above another marquis in terms of division of powers, you cannot control him.

Therefore, in the system of twenty levels of nobility, level five is a hurdle, level nine is another hurdle, but level nineteen is a new world, and that is where the problem lies.

It is difficult to obtain titles above the nineteenth level, even if it is the so-called selling of official positions and titles. Except for the founding period of the Han Dynasty, when there were more marquises, there were only about a hundred marquises at other times.

To put it even more exaggeratedly, in this era, the Yuan family was only granted a marquis-level title, that is, Yuan Tan. Others, such as Xun Chen, Xu You, Xin Pi, and Gao Rou, were not of that level.

Similarly, Cao Cao's side was slightly better, after all, he had become the emperor for a short time. But even so, Cao Cao obtained less than five marquis titles, while Sun Ce only had two officially canonized people, one was Sun Ce and the other was Zhou Yu. As for Sun Quan, he was the Marquis of Wucheng through inheritance. The others were not counted as part of the Han Dynasty's formal system, so naturally they did not have the title of marquis.

It is just like what Emperor Jing said about Li Guang back then. Since he has accepted the rewards from the princes, there is no need for me, the emperor, to give any rewards.

As for Liu Bei's subordinates, there are only more than 40 people who can be awarded this title so far. This number is actually very large. After all, it is not the real founding of a country. To be able to produce so many people is already considered a generous reward. However, the overall achievements can support so many titles.

Therefore, in this situation, it was completely incomprehensible to Liu Bei that a level 17 noble chose to run away. Although Liu Bei felt it was a pity for those level 11 or 12 nobles who ran away before, he could understand it. But now that all the old brothers at level 17 had run away, Liu Bei felt that he really needed to think about the extent of the situation on the front line. Although this level was still far from the human rights card, it was no longer out of reach.

"Ah, Xu Ding is going to run away?" Chen Xi was somewhat stunned after hearing this. No, your brother is Xu Chu. Although he is a core goalkeeper, he is still the core. Why are you running away? Do you know how much impact it will have on everyone if you run away?

Xu Ding and Xu Chu are brothers, and Xu Ding also has certain abilities. Although his martial arts is not as good as Xu Chu, he relies on his connections and favors, and his martial arts are not inferior to Xu Chu. Even if he has not made many contributions as a shield guard for so many years, he has worked hard and was able to reach the 17th level of nobility. His merits are quite a lot, but now he wants to run away.

"He saw a place in Indochina and asked me to confer a title on him. I could sense that he was actually very hesitant, but he didn't want to say anything if asked, so I could roughly guess what was going on." Liu Bei sighed and said, "So I issued him a fiefdom order for 70 li of land and asked him to go to Indochina to choose a place. Zhongkang was right beside him at the time and seemed to be hesitant to speak, so I left him there to let him communicate with his brother."

"This is not a matter of land. We have no shortage of land for enfeoffment. The problem now is that even an old man like Xu Ding has stepped back. Considering the previous Li Tiao..." Chen Xi said with some headache. The middle-level officers who can choose to retire now are the backbone of the country who are truly loyal to the country and put their brothers in their hearts. Just like those who sacrifice first are heroes, those who retreat first are the guys who have seen it but cannot stop it, so they decide to give up their own interests and hope that their brothers will not go that far.

"How many have been enthroned this year?" Chen Xi asked Liu Bei with a serious look.

"Seventy-nine." Liu Bei sighed and said, "It's not winter yet. In the past, when winter came, everyone had free time and came here in waves to do this. But at this time this year..."

"And there are quite a few high-ranking officials this time." Liu Bei said with a sigh, "There are quite a few who have twelfth or thirteenth-level titles, and there are also some who went from the Ganges to Central Asia, and then asked to be discharged from Central Asia after returning from Central Asia. They don't want fiefdoms, nor do they want to go to the Ganges. They just want to be discharged on the spot." Liu Bei said with a bit of frustration. He knew An Ling. This guy was younger than the other veterans and didn't even make it to the first blind date, but as a sixth-level smelter, Liu Bei was still very clear about An Ling's achievements.

However, this kind of person came back and said he was the general. I don't want to go back to Ganges. It's hard to say about Ganges. I'm a little tired and don't want to be an official anymore. I'm going to Doctor Sun to clean up, empty my mind and adjust myself. I hope you can sign it.

Shit, these words almost made Liu Bei autistic. You, the youngest sixth-level smelter, are retiring at the time when you should be working hard the most. You know that you have a bright future and can get a fiefdom at the level of a prince. But you want to retire? It's okay to retire, but the resettlement benefits of the sixth-level smelters in the Han Dynasty start at less than two thousand stones, a local county lieutenant, or a local official. You can act cool in your local area and enjoy the treatment of returning home rich and noble.

As a result, you don't even want to be an official now, and you just want to go to the southern part of Yizhou to follow Sun Qian to fight and empty your mind. Damn, what has happened to you? Your faith in Taoism is broken!

Liu Bei rushed to the government office after seeing these two things today. How did the Ganges become like this? Xu Ding's was at least acceptable, but An Ling's heart was broken and he was so desperate about the officialdom that he wanted to go and fight? My Han Dynasty is so dark!

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