1498 Meritorious Awards
Compared with the grandeur and lengthiness of the emperor's enthronement ceremony, the process of the emperor's enthronement is much simpler, and the etiquette before and after is not carried out for more than an hour, followed by the father and son banqueting the ministers.
However, Shen Chong has nothing to be dissatisfied with this, the opportunities he enjoys now are unimaginable in his early years, and they are enough to make the world envious. If there is a little loss, it is that his best friend Qian Feng has never been able to show up in front of people openly and share this joy with him.
The friendship between Shen Chong and Qian Feng is definitely not a conspiracy based on interests, they have similar family backgrounds, similar interests, good overall angles, and lifelong friends.
And Qian Feng also helped a lot to the Shen family's imperial industry, whether it was under the command of Wang Dun in the early years, or later hidden behind the scenes and traveled to Hebei, including after the Shen family really gained power, many things that Shen Chong's father and son were inconvenient to deal with or did not have the energy to do, were also silently presided over by Qian Feng.
Now time has long passed, and Qian Feng's old sins have been almost washed away after the Shen family ruled Jiangdong. It stands to reason that even if Qian Feng is now a public identity and shows his face, no one will actually hold on to the old things.
However, after so many years of concealment, Qian Feng has no ardent thoughts about making his identity public. And even if he is public, many of the things he does are actually difficult to get formal praise, and if he is too immersed in conspiracy, it will inevitably have a bad reputation, and once it is widely known to the world, it will affect the development of his children.
In fact, according to the relationship between Qian Feng and Shen Chong, even if they can't enjoy honor, their children will inevitably be fully cared for by the Shen family. Qian Feng's only son, Qian Mo, is now in charge of Taiwan, and he has also joined the northbound of the Secret Pavilion before, and his prospects are very good. If it weren't for His Majesty the Emperor considering that their father and son would get together less and leave more, Qian Mo would have stayed in Hebei to take up the post of prefecture and county and be in charge.
But despite this, after the night banquet, Shen Chong felt that he was enjoying the honor he enjoyed, and still felt that he owed a lot to his close friend, and specially told the emperor that in the later conferral ceremony, he must give the Qian family sufficient compensation.
In fact, even if there is no father's advice, Shen Zhezi will not ignore this matter. With the recovery of Hebei, many secrets and old stories of the state of Qian were also disclosed in the confessions of many prisoners of war, allowing Shen Zhezi to more comprehensively outline the process of the death of Shi Leheng, the ancestor of the state of Qian, and to have a deeper understanding of the key role played by Qian Feng in it.
Qian Feng is indeed not a good person who governs the country in the world, even if he has some conspiracy ability, but in the case of the general situation, it seems a little clumsy and ridiculous. But once arranged in the right situation and position, it can play an irreplaceable role for others.
Of course, putting these aside, just to meet his father's demands, Shen Zhezi will also give full preferential treatment to the Qian family.
Regarding the issue of the treatment of the emperor, it is very simple to solve, after all, there is the old precedent of Han Gaozu as the basis. Emperor Taishang did not live in the forbidden middle, and expanded the small city of Xuanren to Shouxing Palace, as the Emperor Taishang's Rongyang Dormitory.
This was originally the emperor's old residence, and the walled laneway leads directly to the forbidden middle school, which is convenient to come and go, and the safety is also enough to ensure that there are many constraints in the forbidden area. The scale is also not small, enough for the emperor to cultivate himself here, feast on the old, even if the homesickness is strong, it is enough to set up Wuxiang scenery in the small city to entertain the audio-visual, Shen Chong is also very satisfied with this arrangement.
On the fourth day of the ceremony, it was the ministers who asked for the book to set up the Kunji Middle Palace. There is no doubt about this, His Majesty the Emperor has not many wives and concubines, and the Sima family in the main room was originally married at a young age, and the husband and wife were in love, and they gave birth to two sons in a row.
Because it was after the ministers invited him, the emperor immediately issued an edict to set up his wife Sima as the queen, and the two saints merged with the court, and accepted the congratulations of the ministers in the Liangyi Palace. After that, the queen sent a decree again, and among the emperor's two concubines, Cui's book was a noble concubine, and the other concubine Gua'er was born in the Shen family, so she simply gave the emperor's surname and became a concubine.
At this point, the ceremony around the emperor's family came to an end. After that, it is naturally a ceremony to be happy with the public, His Majesty the Emperor in the outer court Hanyuan Hall to reward the relatives and ministers, the queen is in the inner court of the Changqiu Hall to see the noble women.
As soon as the new dynasty was established, the conferment of the knighthood can be said to be equivalent to the emperor's performance, and Taichung has also widely discussed this point and discussed it for a long time.
The most important point in this is naturally the issue of the conferral of the clansmen. In particular, the Shen clan is huge and has many ethnic groups, and any slight difference can produce great results in practice. And the Sima clan of the previous dynasty took power, and the disaster to the common people was also Yin Jian, so it naturally required full caution.
In the end, the final plan was decided, that is, the relatives in the Shen family's service, which were roughly divided into three levels: prince, county king, and founding county marquis. Those who can be awarded the prince are only the Emperor Zhu Kundi, Shen Ke is the king of Chu, Shen Hong is the king of Yue, Shen Ke is the king of Wei, Shen Yi is the king of Zheng, and Zhuang Yao, the two of them are each posthumously awarded Han and Song, all of whom are attacked by their heirs, and they are the same as the king of the county.
The princes and heirs eat and have no share, they are in the middle and do not serve the country, and they are not attached to their duties. In other words, once promoted to the rank of prince, he is the ancestor of each lineage, and he can be honored and raised, but he is no longer involved in military and political affairs.
In the next generation, there are more people in the Shen clan, and there are as many as twelve cousins in Shen Zhezi's generation alone, and several old guys are still young and strong, and they can give birth and raise. According to the law of the sect, those who are less than 16 years old will not be knighted, and Shen Ke's first son and Shen Hong's two sons are among them, but even so, ten county kings are still awarded, and one son of Wei King Shen Ke and Zheng King Shen Yi each have been knighted.
In addition, there are those who have accumulated meritorious service among the clansmen, and they can be awarded three county kings. In addition to the kings, the kings can also play the province of Taiwan, Zongzheng, please set up a prince, Wang Shiziyi with the king of the county without Lu. The kings descended on behalf of the kings, and the five generations were removed, and only the prince guarded the heir, and inherited the royal rites and did not call the king.
It should be said that the restrictions on the clan of this set of princes' patriarchal inheritance are still quite large. If the prince alone does not serve the country and does not interfere in politics, he will abolish the ability of more than half of the clan.
King Jin Shizong is one thing to bring disaster to the country, but if the emperor's family only becomes a pure loner, there is no shortage of hidden dangers in the current world.
For example, His Majesty the Emperor himself still needs the brothers to take care of some internal and external affairs, so he simply pressed Shen Mu and Shen Yun, Shen Mu was awarded the King of Bohai, Shen Yun was awarded the King of Runan, and Shen Jin was the King of Xiangcheng.
As for the other members of the Shen clan, they will not be awarded dukes according to their ranks, the blame is that the clan is too large, once in turn, it is not difficult for the relatives in the Shen clan to make up a hundred and ten dukes. Even if the fiefdom is not given just food, this is also a rather huge number, and it will simply descend to the county marquis, and the attack will stop for three generations.
Of course, if these clansmen really have the hard work and achievements of building a business, then they can also not accept this family award, but be awarded a higher title for meritorious service.
In addition to the clan relatives, there are also in-laws, and if the in-laws only get the title by virtue of their dependents, the highest is at the county marquis level, only the queen and the princess's mother's family or a son, or a generation.
Of course, the rules are so set, but there is still a special existence, that is, the retired emperor Sima Yan, naturally not regarded by ordinary in-laws, and needs to be given special treatment, and Wang Li has not changed for three generations.
In addition to the founding county duke, county duke, county marquis, township marquis, uncle, son, and male, the top is also a national duke, and the same county king. And the meritorious award, starting from the earl, also has a knight without a city, and the false seal is shilu, so the earl simply unified it into four numbers, such as loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, and loyalty.
As for the son and male levels, they are not awarded to courtiers as meritorious lords, but only as an extension of the rank and demotion of the nobles. In other words, as long as the title is lowered to this level, it is necessary to find a way to revitalize the family business, otherwise the next generation will be expelled from the noble system.
There are four people awarded by the highest level of meritorious service, namely Ma Yan of the Jin State Company, Yu Yi of the Duke of the State of Qian, Du He of the Duke of Xu, and Guo Yu of the Duke of Lu.
Among them, Ma Yan of the Jin State Company is not only the former emperor of the previous dynasty, but also the heir of the righteous lord, or the queen's close relative, although the new Liang is politically adhering to the previous dynasty, but the existence of the Jin dynasty is difficult to completely erase, because it is awarded the country.
Yu Yi's identity is also very complicated, he is not only a widow of the previous dynasty, but also a major minister of Shaanxi, and he is named the prince of the country, which can not only give comfort to the old people, but also comfort the present people.
As for Du He and Guo Yu, they are the representatives of the two fields of civil and military affairs in the new dynasty.
Du He assumed the government affairs of the Governor's Office from the early years when he went north to Tuzhong, and after the establishment of Xingtai, he was in charge of the government affairs in an all-round way, which can be the first contribution in this regard.
In terms of military merits, the competition is more intense. Guo Yu was awarded, in addition to his own military exploits are indeed quite boastful, but also because he is the veteran who has followed His Majesty the Emperor for the longest time, as early as the Jiangdong Suzu Rebellion, he led the army to follow, and the choice of his person as the representative of Wuxun can be the least controversial.
At the county level, it is almost entirely the world of martial artists. There are 12 knights, Xie Ai, Han Huang, Lu Yong, Mao Bao, Xie Yi, Xiao Xi, He Yu, Huan Xuan, Li Hong, Shan Yao, Ji Mu, Jiang Yu, of which Huan Xuan, Li Hong, and Shan Yao are posthumously gifted. Among them, except for He Yu, Jiang Yu and the posthumously gifted Shanyao, the rest are all military generals.
In addition to these twelve people, there are also Shen Xian and Shen Mo of the Shen clan, who are not as good as the first twelve in terms of merit, but after all, they are clan members, and they have to be awarded the title of county duke.
Twenty people below the county magistrate shall be awarded the county magistrate. Of course, it does not mean that the merit of the county prince is necessarily inferior to that of the county prince, but for some reason, it was slightly suppressed, and the rest was relocated. For example, the Yu family's Yu Tiao and Yu Manzhi's uncles and nephews are also not shallow, but the family has already produced a super-qualified national prince, and the honor is too great, so they can only be temporarily demoted.
There is also Xin Bin, who broke through Xindu and captured Shihu, also because the current political and public opinion is still contemptuous of Shihu, and the great achievement has not been faced.