Where is the Marquis of Gu Wanhu now? What is the income?
The ancients had a persistent yearning for the official career, they believed that the official career could allow them to get all the things they expected, and the ministers stood on a high place, enjoying the wealth and looking down on all living beings, so for the common people, the official career is a shortcut to happiness.
However, this is only the fantasy of ordinary people, who will never be able to reach the pinnacle of power.
From ancient times to the present, the Marquis of Wanhu has always been regarded as the supreme prince and marquis in the feudal dynasty. It originated from the Han Dynasty's highest reward for his subordinates, an honor that only six courtiers had the honor of.
They are Cao Shen and Zhang Liang, who have made meritorious contributions to the founding of the country; Wei Qing and Huo Quai, who fought for decades, made great achievements for the Western Han Dynasty and cleared countless obstacles. The remaining courtiers were also distinguished by their merits in order to receive this supreme honor.
Only by making significant contributions to the country and gaining the favor of the king can he be awarded the supreme title of Marquis of Wanhu. The status of the marquis of Wanhu is respected, there are many fiefs in his hands, countless rewards, and his status is only under the imperial power.
The aristocratic glory of thousands of generations, the marquis of ten thousand households, can not only be passed down from generation to generation, but also ensure the material life of the family. Although he has no real power, he has the name of Wanhu Hou is eye-catching enough, especially in the people, and the social status of Wanhu Hou is very high.
This is because the fiefdom of the Marquis of Wanhu can feed many people, which is a real welfare.
The fiefdom of the Marquis of Wanhu who left Zhang Liang is really amazing. It was a land with 10,000 real households, and the fief that the emperor had given him included not only this land, but also 10,000 households of the common people.
The people living in the fiefdom made a living by cultivating the land, and after the harvest, except for the necessities, the rest had to be handed over to the owner of the fief, the Marquis of Wanhu himself. Although these are only part of the harvest from farming, the quantities are still very impressive.
In ancient times, the fiefdom area of Wanhu Hou was quite large, because the population density was small and the land was vast. For example, Kuang Heng was canonized as the Marquis of Le'an, owned 600 households, and after personal measurement, his fief was about the size of three townships, with an area of more than 140 square kilometers.
This is comparable to the size of a modern prefecture-level city.
The wealth of Le'an Hou, from the perspective of the system of the Han Dynasty, can be regarded as astronomical. Taking the 66 mu of cultivated land under the jurisdiction of a household as an example, based on the output of 7 stone of grain per mu, a family has to hand over more than 460 stone of grain.
In addition, each household also needs to pay 200 yuan of land rent to 10,000 households, and 10,000 households pay a total of 46,000 stone of grain and 2 million yuan. For an ancient society dominated by agriculture, such wealth was undoubtedly beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Therefore, the Marquis of Wanhu is undoubtedly an extremely wealthy title.
The preciousness of the title of Wanhu Hou does not lie in wealth, but in the symbolic status. In the entire Han Dynasty, only a handful of people received this title, which was a manifestation of the emperor's weight and status.
These people are all fighting for the prosperity of the motherland, money is no longer important to them, and the false name of the marquis of Wan Hu is far less important to them than they themselves have.