Hearing Li Zhi's words, the hundred officials in the Imperial Palace were inexplicably excited.

It's time to talk about the reward for meritorious deeds.

In the past, every time Li Zhi was promoted, or the power of one town and nine provinces expanded, the officials under Li Zhi's command could be rewarded. If Li Zhi is promoted, then his subordinates will be able to report to the court and be promoted to the rank of knight along with Li Zhi's military exploits. If Li Zhi's power expanded, officials would be promoted to more important positions, promoted to more important positions, and held more important management positions.

Now that Li Zhi is the emperor and governs the whole of China at once, everyone's official titles and titles will obviously go further.

Although Li Zhi was extremely strict with the discipline of officialdom, attached great importance to the performance evaluation of officials, and took various measures to make officials dare to be corrupt, Li Zhi paid officials extremely high. Li Zhi believes in high salaries and honesty, and is also willing to give good quality officials the material conditions for their wives and sons.

Therefore, for the officials of the "Great Qi", promotion also means making a fortune, which is a very exciting thing. Of course, this is not the same as the method used by the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty to make a fortune by destroying the social order, and the social consequences caused in the end are completely different.

Of course, from the perspective of Confucianism, Li Zhi's appointment as emperor was not necessarily good news for the officials of the Great Qi. From the perspective of Chinese history, there are many emperors who began to suppress meritorious heroes after becoming emperors. After Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, became the emperor, he released his military power with a glass of wine, and after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he slaughtered the veterans in batches.

However, the officials of the "Great Qi" knew Li Zhi, but they did not suspect that Li Zhi would attack his subordinates.

Li Zhi is a different emperor, and Li Zhi's gaze is not limited to China, the land of the East Asian continent. Li Zhi wants to lead the Han people to kill the whole world, so that the descendants of Yan Huang can occupy every corner of the earth. From this point of view, it is impossible for Li Zhi to do the thing of cutting off his arms.

The officials looked at each other happily, and then saw Li Zhi standing up from the throne.

If Zhu Youzhen was here, he would definitely not easily get up from the dragon chair. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty succeeded to the throne by blood, and did not have prestige and merit, and paid attention to the majesty of the Son of Heaven and sat down.

But Li Zhi is different, Li Zhi's career benefits all the people in the world, so that everyone has benefited. Even if he stood alone in the wilderness, not a single passing citizen would fail to respect him. Li Zhi does not need to hold the frame of the Son of Heaven to shape authority all the time.

He walked left and right on the high platform, looked up at the carved gold pillars of the Imperial Palace, touched his lips and thought about it.

In the end, he stopped and said lightly: "Zhennan Bo Li Laosi followed me to the south to fight in the north, and even led the southern route army to expedition to the Indochina Peninsula, pacify Southeast Asia, conquer India, and work hard. ”

"I named Li Laosi as the Duke of Daqi Town, and I will make the merit of opening up the territory and expanding the territory of Zhangliang."

Hearing Li Zhi's words, the hundred officials in the majestic Imperial Palace couldn't help but look at each other for a while.

Above the count is the marquis, and above the marquis is the duke. Originally, it stands to reason that Li Laosi should have been promoted to marquis before becoming a duke. However, Li Zhi attached great importance to Li Laosi's achievements and directly promoted him to the rank of national prince.

The prince is the king. Li Laosi has now defeated Persia and Ottoman Turkey in India, if he continues to wave his army north to take the northwest and attack Central Asia, which has already lost its heart in front of the Tiger Ben army, will he be crowned king?

Everyone glanced at each other, and after the founding of the country, they dealt with heroes in the secret way, and this kind of thing really had nothing to do with Li Zhi at all.

It can be seen from Li Laosi's title that although Li Zhi became an emperor, he was not ready to be an absolute authority of the central emperor. As long as his subordinates have made meritorious contributions, Li Zhi can be crowned with the throne. The prince and the throne are not ordinary titles, according to Chinese tradition, they are titles that are so powerful that they crush the magistrates.

In the first year of Gongde, that is, in 1655, under the conditions of communication, the cable telegraph could not be built to every front. For example, if you want to pull a cable telegraph from Beijing across the deserts of Xinjiang and the plateaus of Central Asia to India, it may take more than ten years. Li Zhi's instructions to India had to be delivered to India by steamer, which could take a month or two.

As for the territory of North America and Oceania, the cable telegraph could not transmit orders across the sea. And the current territory of Daqi not only crosses the ocean, but also expands at a high speed.

Under such geographical conditions, it is practically impossible for Li Zhi to instruct overseas affairs.

In other words, as long as there is a national prince in a place, or even a meritorious and important minister who has been crowned a king for meritorious service, that place will basically become a hall of important ministers and become a highly autonomous region. Therefore, under such conditions, it is not an exaggeration to say that the important ministers of the prince are divided and divided outside.

Li Laosi relied on merit to become the prince of the country, and he was only one step away from the king. What Li Laosi can do, everyone in the Imperial Palace can also do it, and the officials suddenly feel that an infinite future is waiting for them. As long as merit can be achieved, then anything is possible.

Li Xing's breath became short, and he looked at Li Zhi with wide eyes, waiting for Li Zhi to read out the reward for himself.

Li Zhi looked at Li Xing and said lightly: "Dingxingbo Li Xing was originally my younger brother, and he has followed me loyally for decades and defeated the Jiangbei army in the south, and his merits are very great. Seal the Duke of the Kingdom. ”

Li Xing blinked, slightly disappointed.

He is Li Zhi's younger brother, and he originally thought that Li Zhi would make him at least one county king.

Obviously, although Li Zhi widely used the available people in his kinship, he would not arbitrarily reward these people just because they were his own relatives. The standard for promotion is merit.

The surrounding civil officials and military generals still turned around one after another and congratulated Li Xing. However, Li Xing knew that these people were actually glad that Li Xing was not crowned a prince, and that his failure to be crowned a prince meant that the highest title would not be occupied by the Li family, so other civilian officials would have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

Li Xing took a breath and returned the salute to the officials around him.

But slowly he was still happy, after all, he was promoted from earl to prince all of a sudden, which is also very powerful. Now that Li Zhi is in Beijing, will he give him the old Guogong Mansion in Tianjin?

Li Xing thought about it and laughed.

Li Zhi raised his head and thought about it, was silent for a while, and said: "Cui Changwu is impassioned and has no reservations for the country and the people. I ordered him to change the law in Daming, and he did a remarkable job. In the end, although he failed because of the deposed emperor Zhu Youzhen's perverse actions, he did not hesitate to die to show his righteousness, which was enough to move the people of the world. ”

"Cui's family was originally from Qinghe County, and I named Cui Changwu Qinghe Marquis to show his selfless spirit."

"After Cui Changwu recovers from his injury, he will be appointed as the prime minister of Daqi to assist me in managing the people of the world."

Hearing Li Zhi's words, everyone looked at each other.

Cui Changwu is a person, and none of the officials are unconvinced. Although it is said that this person killed a lot of people and offended many people when he was doing discipline inspection work, because Cui Changwu was too honest and upright, the people who were offended by Cui Changwu really couldn't find a little bit of his handle. And after Cui Changwu was imprisoned in the prison by Zhu Youzhen, Cui Changwu's prestige in Daqi reached a new height.

Although Cui Changwu is not the oldest, this marquis is convinced.

Li Zhi didn't look at the reaction of the hundred officials, with Li Zhi's current prestige, no one dared to gossip no matter how the personnel were arranged.

The next thing is as planned, and there is no need for Li Zhi to announce them one by one.

A petty official in charge of etiquette affairs looked at Li Zhi's face, came out and shouted loudly: "The wife of the Son of Heaven, Cui's chastity, good and virtuous, Jiaolan Hui quality, is regarded as the mother of the Great Qi Empress in the world." ”

Then he took the list of rewards written by Li Zhi last night and began to read out: "Pingdongbo Zheng Kaicheng is old and meritorious, and he has entered the Pingguo Marquis." ”

"Zhenbei Bo Zhongfeng is resourceful and good at fighting, and enters the town of the country."

"Zheng Yuanke, the governor of Liaodong, served as the governor of the three northeastern provinces and was promoted to the governor of the three northeastern provinces, and was named Qinbo of the north."

The list of rewards was very long, and the petty officials read them down one by one, and finally it took a full hour to read all the lists of rewards in front of the ecstatic hundred officials.

In the end, although the hundred officials in the Imperial Palace all stood respectfully and did not speak, the atmosphere in the hall had fallen into a kind of white-hot.

Li Zhi looked at the officials with shiny eyes and was silent for a long time.

In the end, he said with a straight face: "Everyone is promoted to knight today, and you can't be complacent." The world is very big, and the Hongyi, Yingyi, and Baiyi are still provoking us by relying on Europe, which is thousands of miles away. As much power comes greater responsibility. We must always remember public morality, the interests of this nation, and our mission is to make this nation the master of the world. ”

The officials were sternly reminded by Li Zhi, and they all woke up from the ecstasy.

Li Xing shouted loudly: "Brother Shengming! How dare we slack off? ”

The hundred officials put their hands in front of each other, knelt on the ground, and shouted in unison: "My emperor Shengming! How dare we slack off? ”