Chapter 59: Honorary Titles
These days, Datang is very lively.
The restaurant and the willow land of fireworks alley are all talking about one thing.
As long as you are willing to spend money, you can buy a knighthood.
Yes, it's absolutely true!
Although this title is preceded by an honor, it cannot be passed on from father to son and brother, nor can it be fiefdom and food, and it can only be owned by one person.
However, with this title, he is a nobleman, even if it is an honorary nobleman.
The aristocratic class and the merchant class, that is simply a heaven and a earth.
Merchants are rich, but they have a humble status, and they are inferior to others when they go out.
However, just when the wealthy merchants were trying their best to change the status quo, an edict from the emperor was issued.
There are 100,000 honorary scholars.
Honor the county of 500,000 guan.
Honor County Male One Million Guan.
Honor the county 1.5 million.
Honorable county 2 million.
Honorary county waiting for five million guan.
10 million honorable county marquis......
The level is higher and higher, if it reaches the level of the national prince, it is impossible to have tens of billions of guan, even the future generations of Teacher Ma can't afford it.
This is also the result of the deliberations of the ministers.
The ministers looked down on businessmen, but businessmen did control the economic lifeline of the country, and they had a large amount of money.
Therefore, as soon as Li Shimin's plan came out, it immediately received a response from many people.
In addition to the opposition of Confucianism led by Kong Yingda and others, some people who are attached to the family have stood up to respond.
The family is a representative of fame, power and wealth.
However, the family is also a representative of the many people, and at the same time, 60% of Datang's business is in the hands of the family.
There are more people in the family, and the titles given by the Tang Dynasty are not enough, after all, it is impossible for every family to be knighted, but now it is okay, with these honorary titles, there can be more viscounts, barons and the like in your family, and I am not afraid that the titles will not be enough.
We are a family, we are rich!
Those families are very happy.
Especially Cui Mingan of the Cui clan in Qinghe, who is now ready to take a title for his sons.
It doesn't need to be very tall, just a marquis and a count.
After the dispersal of the dynasty, some people began to mobilize money and food.
Isn't it just for fame and fortune that a man struggles?
What is fame? It's a knighthood!
In a restaurant, several figures were chatting, all with a hint of a smile on their faces.
"You've heard that this morning, when the court was in the court, there was an incident about us in the court." A businessman said with a smile: "In the future, we can also be nobles." ”
"Isn't it?" Another figure said with a smile: "Our family master also said that this time he can give me the identity of a scholar." ”
"Scholars, 100,000 yuan, your head of the family is too stingy, my head of the family said, help me get the identity of an honorary county." The other figure smirked.
Merchants were attached to the aristocracy in order to make their business bigger and bigger.
All wealthy businessmen are either attached to the five surnames and seven wangs, or to the royal family and the national princes.
Therefore, these nobles of the Tang Dynasty look down on businessmen, but they are inextricably linked with businessmen.
In this era, you don't have a tough backer, and your million-dollar property is estimated to not be yours the next day, as for the law of the Tang Dynasty, the ancient law is to maintain the rule of the aristocracy.
Therefore, everyone wants to be a nobleman.
When you become a nobleman, you have the feeling of being a master.
……
At this time, Yue Wangtai was invited into the palace.
Originally, I wanted to take a nap with Xiao Yan Wan in my arms, but who would have thought that I would be called into the palace by my father.
I saw that next to my father, a young woman was crying, and my father was staring at a pair of tiger eyes.
Li Tai walked in slowly, and said with a smile: "Dad, are you uncomfortable with your eyes?" ”
In the entire Tang Dynasty, only Li Tai dared to joke with Li Shimin so casually, even Li Chengqian didn't dare to be so presumptuous in front of Li Shimin.
However, it is such a presumptuous son, but Li Shimin is afraid of falling off and afraid of transformation.
"Humph! You rebel, say, did you eat Concubine Yin's Wenxuan? Li Shimin asked, in front of the concubine, he still has to keep his majesty.
"Yin Concubine?" Li Tai couldn't help but glance at the young woman more.
Yin Concubine, the daughter of the Yin Shi.
The old man of the Yin World Master is not simple, he is very loyal to the Great Sui, when the old Li family attacked Chang'an, the Yin Shi Shi killed Li Zhiyun and others, and also dug up the ancestral grave of the old Li family, and the old Li family can be said to have a common hatred.
The first thing Lao Li did when he broke through Chang'an City was to go to the Yin World Master to take revenge and cut off the head of the Yin World Master.
However, something happened that puzzled Li Tai.
It stands to reason that all the people of the old Yin family should be killed and the grass should be cut down to prevent future troubles, however, Lao Li not only gave the daughter of the Yin Shishi to Li Shimin as a concubine, but also gave Yin Hongzhi a knighthood.
Could it be that Lao Li had already seen that Li Er was anti-willing, so he wanted to kill Li Er by the hands of the Yin family? Among Li Er's women, most of them have a grudge against him.
Sleeping with your enemies and having children, it is estimated that it will only happen in ancient times.
"Dad, who are you talking about Wenxuan? Son, I like to eat, but there are two things that I absolutely don't eat, the first is people, and the second is. Li Tai lazily found a place to sit down and said, "Dad, you know, son, I have been losing weight recently, and I don't eat greasy things." ”
"Humph! Some palace people said that when they saw you stoned Wenxuan to death, you ...... You still deny it now, Your Majesty, look at him, you see that he has no remorse at all, woo woo woo ......" Concubine Yin said while crying while coquettish.
"I said Aunt Yin, your words are a bit serious, right? Who in the entire Tang Dynasty doesn't know that I, King Yue, is the most kind-hearted? Li Tai saw that this woman was crying and coquettish, and his heart was suddenly unhappy.
Don't you know that in the entire Tang Dynasty, the people who are coquettish and obedient to Li Shimin can only be our children? And, of course, my wife!
You are born with a second wife, why are you coquettish with my father!
You're going to be shameless!
I was quite unhappy all of a sudden.
"You go out to inquire, my Yue Wang is very kind, even if I see an ant on the road, I won't step on it, and I will wait for the ant to go away safely, what could kill your Wen Xuan?" Li Tai rolled his eyes and said, "I'm a cowardly person who doesn't kill people." ”
"Wen Xuan is not a human!" Concubine Yin said.
"Not people? That's the thing? Li Tai said.
"Wen Xuan is not a thing?" Yin Concubine Qidao.
"Not a thing? Something that's not a thing, that's damned. Li Tai snapped his nose and said.
"Your Majesty, look, look at ......" Concubine Yin was said by Li Tai, crying a lot, that look makes people feel distressed.
No wonder Li Shimin called himself.
"Qingque, don't be unreasonable!" Li Shimin glared at Li Tai and said, "Don't apologize to your aunt Yin soon!" ”
"Dad, then you have to tell me what Wenxuan is." Li Tai said.
"Wen Xuan, it's a colorful divine chicken raised by your aunt Yin!" Li Shimin glared at him and said, "It's the divine chicken offered by the country of Bi." ”
"Poof~" Li Tai almost laughed, god chicken? The pheasant is the pheasant, and the pheasant is also a god chicken, why don't you rise with the wind and soar up to 90,000 miles?
"Dad, isn't it the pheasant raised in the harem?" Li Tai asked. Without the slightest worry, Li Shimin is a well-known spoiling child in history, especially for Li Tai and others, who are definitely a typical representative of doting children.
"That's right! It's that pheasant! Li Shimin said.
"The pheasant is the pheasant, what is it called?" Li Tai smiled, and then started his own performance, and said: "That pheasant was taken away by me, hey, the pheasant should live in the mountains, but Aunt Yin had to raise the pheasant in the palace, the pheasant is very melancholy, and he is about to get depression." ”
"It just so happened that I was instructed by a man of God and knew some animal languages, so I went to ask the pheasant, pheasant, pheasant, why are you so fat? No, it's a pheasant, pheasant, why are you so depressed? ”
"The pheasant told me that the world was so big that it wanted to see it. As a caring and responsible young man of Datang, I naturally fulfilled the wish of the pheasant, so I took the pheasant out. ”
Watching his son's vivid performance of talking to himself, Li Shimin almost laughed, which was too funny.
The qi disappeared without a trace all at once.
"But I didn't expect it, I just took it out of the palace, and a dog came to meet me, and it bit the pheasant to death at once, poor pheasant, I originally wanted to see the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, but it turned out to be a life."
"I see that pheasant died so miserably, I can't let it die anymore and have no place to hide, I'm a good person." Li Tai said with a smile.
"You're buried?" Li Shimin asked.
"Buried? What a pity to be buried? No, how pitiful it was, so I buried the pheasant in my belly, and now the pheasant has become one with me. Li Tai said with a smile.
"Your Majesty, you ...... You must be in charge of Winshare. Hearing Li Tai's words, Concubine Yin began to cry again.
"Dad, Wan'er once told me, 'On the afternoon of hoeing day, sweat drops into the soil, who knows that the Chinese food on the plate is hard work.'" Li Tai said with a smile.
"Good, good, worthy of being my talented daughter of the Tang Dynasty, worthy of being my daughter-in-law of Li Shimin, okay." Li Shimin was immediately happy.
"Then Dad, if it's okay, I'll go back first, I still have to discuss life with Wan'er, and strive to give you a big white grandson next year." The smile on Li Tai's face became even stronger.
Compared with holding her grandson, Concubine Yin's pheasant is too weightless.
"Well, let's go, remember to enter the palace tomorrow morning and go to Huangzhuang together." Li Shimin said that he didn't blame Li Tai much.
After all, Li Tai is his son, and he is still very favored.
Concubine Yin watched Li Tai's departure, and her eyes showed cold hatred.