"Going in and out of the phase, worshiping the marquis" is undoubtedly the life goal of the ancient military generals, take the Li Guang who often gets lost, his goal is to be able to make a marquis, but because of the policy towards the Xiongnu during the Wenjing and The Two Emperors, Li Guang was unable to be sealed during the Wenjing and The Two Emperors, and when it came to the Wu Emperor Dynasty, Li Guang was unable to adapt to the new tactics and finally had no chance to be knighted, so there was a saying that Li Guang was difficult to seal.
However, in the words of the time, Li Guang's goal was a "small goal" for Wei Qing, and there was also a hierarchy among the marquises, while Li Guang only wanted to obtain an ordinary marquis, and the highest rank among the marquises at that time was the Wanhu Hou, and at that time, the Wanhu Hou of the Wu Emperor's dynasty was only Wei Qing and Huo Fuyi, and there were only four Wanhu Hou among the founding heroes of the Early Han Dynasty.
From this, it can be seen that Li Guang's goal was really too small to be any smaller, but unfortunately, li Guang was unable to achieve such a small goal in the end, so how big was the official position of the "Marquis of Ten Thousand Households" at that time? What status does he have?
There is an old saying called "Han Chengqin system", the title of the early Han Dynasty is to follow the Qin Dynasty, because Liu Bang has a "white horse alliance", stipulating that "non-Liu surname can not be called a king", and the Western Han Dynasty did not have a fifth-class title of duke and uncle at that time, so if you want to give a reward to the military general, only the marquis.
Qin Fa had a total of twenty ranks from top to bottom, of which the marquis was the most honorable, and the marquis was divided into Guannei Marquis and Che Hou, who later changed his name in order to circumvent Liu Che's harmonic pronunciation.
Among them, Wanhu Hou is equivalent to saying that the culmination of the military generals of The Wenchen Dynasty can reach, when Wu Anjun was famous and prestigious, but he did not seal the "Ten Thousand Households Hou" in his lifetime, which shows the standard of the Ten Thousand Households Hou.
When Huo went to the sick first battle against the Xiongnu, 800 people killed 2,000 Xiongnu cavalry, and captured the Xiongnu minister and Shan Yu's ancestor, this merit assumed that Li Guang's words would be properly crowned marquis, but Liu Che only made Huo go ill and named a "thousand household marquis", and Liu Bang had a promise in the Battle of Wujiang that if anyone killed Xiang Yu, then this person was "Eating Yi Ten Thousand Households", but in the end 5 people snatched Xiang Yu's body, and Liu Bang could only retreat to the second place to seal five people as thousand households.
In the Western Han Dynasty, Wanhu Hou was simply a "rare" existence, and without major contributions, he would never be rewarded, and the merits of Emperor Wu's wei qing and Huo Fuyi were only later status by relying on many battles.
What was the standard of Wanhuhou at that time? Why is it so hard?
It is no exaggeration to say that the Marquis of Wanhu was the first person under the king, the highest praise for the generals with foreign surnames during the Han Dynasty, with a high social status, and was the ruling class at that time, so many people were very envious.
In addition, the title of Marquis of Wanhu can also be hereditary, which is essentially different from the Qing Dynasty, so for some people with family concepts, once a person is crowned, then if the family does not change much, it will continue to multiply in the long run, and may even become the so-called "door valve".
This is the influence of social status, and the food estate has entered the ranks of "nobility".
In addition to his lofty social status, the best thing about Wanhu Hou lies in his taxes.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, some countries were still in the concept of splitting the land and dividing the territory, that is, to divide a place as a fief of this prince, which was equivalent to establishing a "country within a country".
But for national development, this is undoubtedly very unfavorable.
However, after several generations of monarchs, the Han Dynasty finally completely abolished the "sub-feudal system" and changed it to the "county system", and the land was owned by the monarch.
Although you can't control the people in this land, if you are a million households, you can still do the taxation on this land. If there are 10,000 households on this fiefdom, then all the taxes paid by these people every year will go directly to you.
During the Han Dynasty, the economic source was still relatively single, and most of the taxes at that time were agricultural taxes, which were plainly land.
Among the ministers of the Han Dynasty, the highest-ranking minister should be about two thousand stones, which is the so-called "three dukes and nine secretaries".
But what is this concept if you are a food eater?
According to the fifteen taxes of the Han Dynasty, you can get 4,000 stones of income a year, and if you buy it for a merchant, there are nearly 100,000 taels of silver, which is converted into RMB, then your annual income is nearly 10 million, while during the Han Dynasty, a house was only a few dozen taels.
It is precisely because the threshold of the Marquis of Ten Thousand Households is quite high, so under normal circumstances, the imperial court will never give you a lot of Ten Thousand Households, you must know that at that time, the entire Western Han Dynasty had a total of so many people, and it was possible to seal a few Thousand Households, which directly accounted for half of the tax revenue of the Imperial Court, not to mention the Marquis of Neihou and Qianhuhou