The assessment inheritance system is actually not a new thing in the Tang Empire, because in the previous clan title inheritance system, there was an assessment inheritance system.

The clan title is also a reduced hereditary system, and there is no provision that you can directly continue to inherit after the reduction of hereditary status, and there is no provision that you can reduce the hereditary inheritance after several generations, all of them are reduced to the hereditary general, if the son of the general Fengguo can pass the assessment, then he can inherit the title, and if he can't pass, he will be cut to the title, and the other sons of the general of Fengguo will all be cut to the people.

Basically, this so-called assessment system also gives the emperor a great flexibility, when he thinks he needs it, then he will be hereditary, and when he thinks he doesn't need it, he will cut the knighthood.

In fact, there is no need to make it so complicated, after all, in the Tang Empire, the emperor can make you a prince of the country with a single sentence, and the same sentence can directly deprive you of your title, what to reduce the hereditary rank, and assess the hereditary, to some extent, it is redundant, in fact, it is just to give the emperor in the future to cut down or retain the title of some nobles, and find a decent and compliant excuse.

After all, you can't always open your mouth and cut off something directly, it's too ugly to eat like this.

Li Xuan gave fiefs to the five nobles, and also gave Wang Shanxi a grace of 'assessment and inheritance', which made the upper elites of the empire instantly feel like they were beaten with chicken blood.

Because they know that this is just the beginning, Wang Shanxi's division is just the beginning, and in the future, thousands of other nobles will also be divided one after another.

But they soon thought of a serious problem, that is, in today's sub-feudal, the baron is a state and county, and the viscount is a state larger than the ordinary prefecture.

After that, those counts, marquises, and even dukes were not allowed to take out the area of a large mansion or even half a province or even a province for feuding.

But there are so many overseas territories of the Empire!

What, you said that there is still a lot of land in the empire itself that can be divided!

Thinking about beauty, those nobles are also divided into prosperous places in the country, but is it possible?

Impossible!

In the future, at most, that is, the kind of suffering land in Northeast Province will be used for separation, and even Hefeng Province will not take it out for separation, and other prosperous places in the Central Plains, don't count on an inch of land.

But the other overseas territories are not enough, what about the empire now with more than a thousand nobles, and there may be more in the future, what should I do?

What else can I do, expand externally and recover more overseas territories!

For a time, the top of the empire was very excited, and a large number of nobles, regardless of whether they were born as generals or civil officials, and even scientists and aristocrats from the Royal Institute of Technology, were all clamoring to recover the lost territories overseas!

"Since the beginning of the world, the Western Regions have been the territory of the empire, whether it is the former Tang Dynasty or the former Ming Dynasty, it is the land of the people of the empire, and it was later stolen by the barbarians, and now it is time to recover the lost territory of the Western Regions!"

"Now the Northwest Railway is under rapid construction, and it will not take long to be completed, and when the time comes, hundreds of thousands of troops will be sent to the west, and the Tatars will be pacified in one fell swoop, and Tubo and Mobei will be recovered."

These people who are clamoring for the Western Expedition are all generals of the army!

However, the navy shouted: "Fusang has always been the territory of the empire, and now the Chinese remnants on the Fusang Islands are looking forward to the eastward crossing of the king day and night, and now the steamship has matured and popularized, and there is no obstacle to the large-scale eastward crossing of the Fusang Islands, it is time to send troops to land in Fusang and take back the Fusang Islands into the arms of the empire!" ”

In addition to the two major schools of thought, the Western Expedition and the Eastern Crossing, there were also many people who supported various other chaotic plans, such as attacking the Nanyang Peninsula, or completely purging the remnants of the indigenous states on the Nanyang islands, completely bringing the Nanyang islands under imperial rule, and carrying out immigration and development.

There are also people who support immigrating to Australia and building Australia into the second home of the empire!

In such a wave, it is natural that there will be people who support the large-scale immigration occupation of the Americas.

And although the common purpose of these different schemes is to expand the territory of the empire, to obtain more living land for the empire, so that the nobles have land to be sealed.

However, behind these programs, the groups of people supported are different, and they are hierarchical, because different programs represent different interests.

The army supports the western expedition, and the navy supports the eastward crossing to Fusang, which is nothing, and behind the support for the Australian plan, it is also indispensable to the promotion of the second prince, King Zhao.

Although the current King Zhao is in the Wandan Mansion, he has long known that this Bandan Mansion is just his transitional fiefdom, and his fief is in Australia!

Australia is now completely included in the empire, but there is also a dilemma of a small population and a low degree of development.

Today, in a huge Australia, the empire has only established a dozen settlements, three of which are in northern Australia, and the rest are in southeastern Australia.

This is because although Australia is vast, in fact, only the southeast region has a small amount of land suitable for farming, so Australia's immigration plan is mainly aimed at the southeast of Australia.

As for the three settlements in the north, one is a typical golden settlement for the development of local gold, and the remaining two are supply ports purely for the supply of passing ships.

Although King Zhao will be renamed such a large area as Australia in the future, he knows that it is not so easy to develop this place.

Even Li Yu, the third prince who has not yet become a vassal, knew early on that he might be awarded the title of America in the future, because he was almost certain in the Sandalwood Islands, and Li Xuan had said it in private many times.

Jun has no jokes, and his mouth is constitutional, what Li Xuan has already said, then it will inevitably be fulfilled.

Next year, he will be on Honolulu Island, and after the development of the Americas, it is a high probability that North America will be changed.

So he also spared no effort to promote the Americas Project!

These are some of the reactions of the upper echelons of the empire to Li Xuan's division of the nobility, but the middle groups of the empire are also shocked by a series of policies issued by the empire recently.

Let the many middle levels of the empire, including officials at all levels, middle generals in the army, and middle and high core levels in various fields, pay more attention to another point, that is, the establishment of a lord system.

The establishment of a new lord means that the Tang Empire has an additional title level, even if it is one level lower than the baron, it is the lowest level of noble title, but this is also a noble title.

And if you are one level lower than the baron, then it means that it is less difficult to be knighted.

After the unification war in the early years, a large number of generals obtained knighthoods after the war of unification through military exploits during the unification war, but since the end of the unification war, in the past ten years, the empire has newly canonized more than 200 nobles.

Most of them are military generals, a few are from the field of scientific research, and a very small number are from the civilian field.

As far as the number of military generals with the largest number of knights is concerned, it has been extremely difficult for a general to obtain a knighthood, even the lowest-ranking baron at that time, in recent years.

He has to make great military achievements, and those who can make such great achievements often climb very fast in his position in the army, so the military generals who have been awarded the title of baron over the years are basically all above the rank of major general.

This is not to say that every or most of the generals can be awarded the title of noble, but that the military generals who have obtained the title of baron are generally already at the rank of major general or above.

As for scientists, the starting standard is an associate professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, and they have to make huge scientific research results.

As for civil officials, don't expect ordinary civil officials, high-ranking officials in the ministry are the minimum standard!

Because of the candidates for civil official knighthood over the years, they all have a characteristic, that is, they serve in the imperial study, either they are the walking ministers of the imperial study, or they are simply the ministers on duty in the imperial study.

Needless to say, the minister on duty said that the minister of the imperial study walking, although there is no strict standard for this dispatch, sometimes the third-grade or even fourth-grade officials have the opportunity to enter, but most of them enter the imperial study as a walker in the capacity of various ministries, in addition, Li Xuan will also give some important provincial governors or Taoists, and grant them a false title of 'Imperial Study Walking Minister'.

Therefore, unless there is a special case, then the second grade is basically the minimum standard for entering the imperial study.

This is only the minimum standard, and in fact there is not necessarily a civil official who is awarded a title of nobility in a year, even if it is only the lowest baron, and it is often canonized at the time of his death.

In recent years, whether it is in the army, politics or scientific research, it is actually difficult to obtain a noble title, and only a dozen new nobles have been canonized in recent years, and the number of this depends on how many old nobles have been cut off.

Basically, the number of nobles in the empire has always remained at the scale of 1,000, ten years ago it was more than 1,000, and now, it is only more than 1,100.

Of course, there are also some low-level old nobles who have been cut down because of natural deaths, and a very small number of them have been deprived of their noble titles because they have committed crimes, otherwise, the total number of nobles should be more than 1,200.

The number of nobles under the old system was scarce, and it was difficult to canonize them, so that most of the middle-level generals and officials of the empire had little hope of being canonized as nobles.

But now that the lord system has come out, it has given the core middle and upper echelons of these empires a new opportunity.

The knighthood would certainly be easier than the baron's, and there should be more of a many, and for many, it would be an opportunity.

Therefore, many core middle and high-level generals or officials, scientists, and even some outstanding talents in other fields are looking forward to it, hoping that they will also have the opportunity to join the imperial aristocracy.

The result was a turmoil in the middle and upper echelons of the empire, and almost every day there were people who went to the west or the east or the south to the South Seas.

In short, it is necessary to expand, to fight!

When you fight, you have more chances to be crowned nobles, and if you fight, you can occupy more territory, and then you will have enough land to divide among the existing and new nobles in the future.

However, these turmoil in the empire has nothing to do with Wang Shanxi!