On the one hand, Li Xuan wanted to reward the heroes and tie more people to the chariot of the Tang Dynasty's expansion, so as to gain the support of the upper echelons of the empire.

But on the other hand, it restricts the authority of these nobles.

Taking the future Fuso Islands as an example, it is very likely that the future King of Qi will be the Fuso Islands, and at the same time, there may be a certain prince who will be divided into Kyushu Island, and then the Nagasaki area under Kyushu Island will be given to a certain earl or viscount or something, and then a town under Nagasaki may be given to a certain baron.

For example, a certain prince was given the title of Kyushu Island, then a certain viscount was given the title of Nagasaki Prefecture, and a certain baron was given the title of a town under Nagasaki Prefecture.

The fiefs of the above-mentioned barons, earls, princes, and kings of Qi overlap together, and they will share up to one percent of the fief together.

At the same time, how much the above-mentioned nobles can take from this one percent depends on the emperor's words.

If the emperor has a bad idea and directly positions the fief of the Duke of Kyushu as 0.99 percent, then all the nobles who can receive the fief in the Kyushu region, including the King of Qi, can only share the remaining 0.01 percent......

Such restrictions were intended to allow the emperor to have as much authority as possible and to ensure the authority of the central government, as well as to prevent the fiefdom from being too high and the financial burden from being too large.

Under this overlapping and sub-feudal system, no matter how many nobles there are in a piece of land, one or a hundred or more, the fiefdom that can be provided to the nobles on this land is at most one percent!

When Li Xuan was considering giving the clan and nobles a real seal and letting them receive the fief, he was also considering many aspects, on the one hand, he was to fulfill his promise back then and give the courtiers a real seal.

However, in order to reduce the financial burden of the central government, and at the same time to prevent the aristocracy from losing too much at the local level, this overlapping and sub-feudal system was developed, and the proportion was limited to a maximum of 1 percent.

This maximum percentage of one percent is the upper limit, but the lower limit is not, how much, as long as it is one percent, depending on the emperor's mood, there will be more if he is in a good mood, and if he is in a bad mood, he will give you a zero percent or many zeros and add one to the back, then it is also possible.

Therefore, there is no limit to the lower limit, but there is a limit to the upper limit!

If there is no maximum limit of one percent, and there is no overlap in the feudal system, then in the future, the nobility knows how much of the financial revenue of the overseas territories will be occupied, and maybe they will be able to occupy it all.

Today's highest one percent is already a relatively high percentage, and no matter how high it is, it is not high.

You don't think it's a very small ratio, but if you zoom in on the base, it's a pretty impressive number.

For example, in the future Fusang Islands, if the tax revenue can reach 10 million yuan, according to the proportion of 1 percent, this will be 100,000 yuan.

In the future, the economy will develop better, and the total tax revenue will reach 100 million yuan, so this fief will reach a huge million.

Of course, although the overlapping and sub-feudal system has already had perfect laws and regulations, it has not really been implemented, because so far, Li Xuan has only only been fiefdoms of King Qi and King Zhao, and the other princes have not yet done so, and the heroes have not yet done so.

However, this situation cannot wait too long, because with the passage of time, and the empire has conquered large areas of the northeast and steppes, and has also occupied a lot of places in the South Seas.

In addition, there is another very important point, that is, the early group of founding heroes have gradually grown old, and they have been waiting for Li Xuan's promise to be sealed for too long.

In this environment, after listening to the news of the smooth sailing of the American Fleet, Li Xuan walked on the large map hanging on the wall, and he was thinking about how to divide the nobles who were already thousands of people.

Although this kind of real fiefdom only allows these nobles to own the fiefdom and part of the land on the fief, they do not have any administrative power, and they also do not have the power to form a noble guard like the prince and the county king.

But such a large group of nobles is divided into feudal groups, and it still needs to be cautious!

After all, when Li Xuan divided the nobles, what he gave was not only fiefdom, but also a part of the benefits of the nobles, and a large amount of land would be directly given to them.

These lands will be their private property!

Note that these lands are not fiefdoms, but private property, which are two very different concepts.

Due to the need to grant a large amount of land, some densely populated places with relatively little developable land are not suitable, because even if Li Xuan wants to divide the land, it is impossible to deprive the land of the imperial people and seal it to those nobles, or even directly give them the land of foreign races.

It is necessary to consider a balance between the land owned by the local nobles and the land owned by the commoners, if the former owns too much land, then it is not very good, affecting the local development and people's livelihood.

Li Xuan didn't want to see the people of the empire making cattle and horses for those nobles, and they were bound to the land of the nobles all their lives.

Although the current empire is undergoing the industrial revolution, people can make a living in addition to farming, but they can also work in factories and other means of livelihood, but the land is not too cautious.

Li Xuan summoned many courtiers successively for the matter of dividing the nobles, all of whom were important ministers of the court, such as Liu Bagou, Qian Aoli and others, and also listened to the views of some senior generals in the military.

Among them, Army General Hao Bonian put forward a very interesting plan, he proposed that we should follow the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China to join the army and divide the field, and establish a 'military merit awarding field system', so as to encourage more talents to join the army and actively fight.

This proposal was affirmed by a large number of military figures, but the cabinet naturally opposed it.

Because Hao Bonian proposed the military merit awarding system, saying that only with military merit can grant land, but the standard of this military merit is too low, those who have been in the army for one year can get a certain amount of land, and those who have been in the army for four years can get a large amount of land, if it is a meritorious service, then the land will be more.

Liu Bagou and others in the cabinet said that the efforts made by the military in the establishment and subsequent expansion of the empire are also obvious to all, and the system of granting land to the military in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China also played a huge role at that time.

However, time has passed, and many things in the past were good at the time, but they may not be suitable for the present.

If every soldier who has been in the army for a year can get a large number of fiefs, then where did the empire get so many lands to be feuded out?

Even if there is still a large amount of land stolen by barbarians, these lands are always limited, and the military produces hundreds of thousands of soldiers who have been in the army for one year every year, and each of them is sealed, no matter how much it is, it is not enough.

However, for the insistence of the military, Liu Bagou proposed that it is not impossible to award this military merit, but the standard must be raised, not that everyone who has joined the army for one year can be awarded, and even not after four years in the army, if you want to be awarded, you must have made military merits, and the number of people must be limited.

In addition, in the process of the establishment of the empire and the subsequent expansion of the empire, it was definitely not only the imperial military that made great contributions to the empire, but also many people who worked hard in the rear.

If you really want a fief, then you should be treated equally, regardless of civil, military, industrial and peasant, but anyone who has made outstanding contributions to the empire should be able to obtain a fief.

But in the end, these were all vetoed by Li Xuan!

If you join the army, you will be given land, and if you do a job in the rear, you will be given land, and this land is too cheap.

The empire already has a system of dividing land for the aristocracy, and will not casually establish a second set of land division system, if you want to stimulate the enthusiasm of soldiers and ordinary people to expand abroad, then you can appropriately expand the aristocratic group.

After all, the earth is so big, not to mention the thousands of nobles now, even if 10,000 nobles come, they can accommodate it.

In addition, the Tang Empire also had another very special system, that is, the immigration and reclamation system.

Nowadays, as long as you are willing to go to overseas territories or frontier areas, you don't have to do anything, you can get a share of the land when you go, for example, if you go to Luzon, you can divide the land, even if you have no money, you can go, because as long as you sign the relevant agreement, you can even take out a loan to buy a ferry ticket!

Therefore, if it is just land for making a living, and it is also land in overseas territories, then there is no need to join the army and make meritorious contributions or anything like that, you just need to register for a name and immigrate.

In the end, after synthesizing the opinions of various parties, Li Xuan decided to suspend the system proposed by the military to confer land for military merits, and at the same time rejected the system proposed by Liu Bagou and other civilian officials that no distinction between civil and military affairs would be made, and meritorious service could be divided into fields.

Instead, the system of emigration and the feudal system of the nobility continued to be adopted.

However, a corresponding improvement was made, that is, under the existing aristocratic system, a new aristocratic system was established, that is, the lord, which was under the baron.

At the same time, it is stipulated that the Lord is a non-hereditary title, and the scope of the award is also relatively large, and those who have made military merits and made certain contributions in other fields can be awarded.

After formulating a new lord, Li Xuan also officially put the sub-feudal land on the agenda, but because the sub-feudal impact is great, and the number of nobles is also quite large, and the land occupied by the empire is not too much, so he just plans to select a few nobles for sub-fiefdom as a pilot.

And the first to receive this honor was the former deputy director of the Military Intelligence Department of the Privy Council of the Army, an outstanding navigator in the early days of the Empire, and a retired army major general, Viscount Wang Shanxi!

The territory he was granted was the state of Banten, which is part of the overseas territory of Banten Province, also known as Banten Island.