Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1732 Post-war Waves ([-]) Please Stay, Lord Hou

Gao Wushi's appointment as Marquis of Nanning was the real highlight of today, but it was not the only major event.In addition to the emperor's victory in this battle to comfort his second ancestors and make a huge wave of political capital by the way, there are several other things that are also very important for rewarding merit.

Second only to Gao Yushi's conferment, another happy event was also a noble award: Qi Jiguang conferred Ning Haibo!

Gao Yushi granted the title of Marquis, so it corresponds to the land of a government. The emperor chose "Nanning" because Nanning belongs to Guangxi, and Guangxi is where Gao Yushi's official career really started; So I chose this place because Ninghai County belongs to Taizhou Prefecture, and Qi Jiguang's famous battle in his early years was the victory in Taizhou.

Therefore, there are both similarities and differences between Gao Yushi and Qi Jiguang's canonization.The similarity is that all the titles have the word "Ning" in them, and the chosen nominal fief is the place where their official careers started. This is to emphasize that their contributions have brought the effect of "Ning" to the Ming Dynasty.

There are at least two points of difference. One is that the titles are different, one is a Marquis and the other is an Uncle; the other is that the highly pragmatic Nanning Marquis has the suffix "hereditary non-replacement", and this kind of title is called Spyker; The suffix means that the title cannot be hereditary, and it is generally called Liujue.Under the title system of the Ming Dynasty, the titles of both of them belong to the title of hero (the other belongs to the title of foreign relatives), and the difference is "world" and "not world".

Hereditary or non-hereditary, it seems that the gap is very large, but in fact, it may not be as big a gap as most people imagine in practice.

For example, when Li Chengliang was in the seventh year of Wanli, he was awarded the title of Bo Ningyuan because of his military exploits in the sixth year of Wanli. It was not hereditary at the beginning.But at that time, Li Chengliang was still very capable of fighting, and continued to make great achievements in battle, so it didn't take long for him to be rewarded again for his meritorious service, and after Ning Yuanbo, he was added a hereditary replacement.

That is to say, if Qi Jiguang makes new contributions after this, he is still very likely to continue to receive rewards, and eventually he will also get the iron certificate--Liujue has patents but no certificates, Spyker has patents and certificates.

The two titles are awarded separately, and there are other rewards after the title. This time, there is no need to list them separately, but an imperial decree:
Luping Yuan's great victory, plus the crown prince Taishi Hubu Shangshu Nanning Marquis Gao Wushi Shaofu, rewarded 500 taels of silver, Yin's son inherited the Nanning Guard Commander; A reward of 100 taels of silver, Dayin's son, Jinyiwei, hereditary from hundreds of households, and Yangqian's son, Yuan Yinwu, who was promoted to a hereditary rank, were still rewarded with imperial edicts; Xiao Daheng, the Minister of the Military Department of the Governor Xuanda, and Wang Shiyang, the governor of the Xuanfu Du Yushi, each rewarded 100 silver Two, Yin's son, Jinyiwei, is hereditary from hundreds of households;

Ning Yuanbo, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, should follow Li Rusong to reward him with a big red silk python robe and 200 taels of silver. Yin's son, the commander of the guard, is hereditary; Each will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver, and Yin's son, Benwei, will be the commander of hereditary envoys;

Liaodong deputy general Xiao Ruxun and other deputy generals were each rewarded with 80 taels of silver, and Yin's son, Benwei, commanded the affairs; he and the generals, guerrillas, etc. were upgraded and rewarded differently;
Each sub-guard deputy envoy, sub-patrol officer, clerk in charge of grain, etc. will each be rewarded with 20 taels of silver; those who go out to the frontier to fight bloody battles will be rewarded as usual; the former XX (who has committed crimes and meritorious service) will be reinstated, and the horse price will still be 200 taels of silver. Two, send a member of the military department to go, and reward the soldiers together with the governor;
Zhou Yong, one of the soldiers, was rewarded with 50 taels of silver for his meritorious service in dispatching, and Yin’s son went to prison to study; Han Ji and Song Yingchang, the servants of the Ministry of War, were promoted to one level of salary and rewarded with 30 taels of silver;

For the meritorious service of the Dudufu of the Five Armies in transshipment (because the Production and Construction Corps is responsible for the transportation within the customs), Xu Wenbi, the leader of the left governor of the squad, rewarded 400 taels of silver; There is a difference.

Generally speaking, this is a rewarding decree that everyone is happy with. Although there are few people who are directly promoted, there are many people who are favored and rewarded.Especially the reward of silver, it can be said that it is much more generous than in the past - after all, Qi Jiguang's various great victories in the past were only rewards of ten taels, 20 taels, and 30 taels of silver.

In addition, there is another difference from the past, that is, at the end, a reward for the Dudu's Mansion of the Five Armies was added.Don't look at the fact that it seems reasonable to give rewards to the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies in battle, but in fact it is not at all-in fact, all the big victories in the past have nothing to do with the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies!

This time, the Dudu Mansion of the Five Armies actually received a reward. Although it was just a reward of some money, it was nothing to these people, but the significance of it was extraordinary.Because of this, after the edict was announced here, the military officials and nobles looked at Gao Yushi with a more affectionate look-it's a pity that Gao Yushi knelt down first because he received the reward again, but he couldn't see it.

Many of the people who should receive the reward were not present, but it doesn't matter, the announcement of this edict is essentially a symbolic political move, and there will be a follow-up imperial edict that everyone can get individually for the specific reward.

After the above process was completed, it was the last major event of the day: the emperor of Ming Dynasty accepted the pilgrimage of King Shunyi and other ministers.

Wearing a royal robe today, Han Naji took the representative of the Ordos Department, Yilduqi, and a group of leaders under his own Tumed, under the watchful eyes of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, to meet the emperor with pure Ming officials and Han etiquette, and bowed five times Three knocks.

I would like to mention here that three kneeling and nine kowtows were only used to worship the heavens in the Ming Dynasty, and the later flooding was due to the nonsense of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, it is impossible for Han Naji to kneel and nine kowtows to Zhu Yijun at this time, but only to worship three times five times. knock.

There was five prostrations and three kowtows in the Ming Dynasty. It is clearly stated in the "Hui Dian": "Ji Shou bows his head five times, which is the ceremony for the ministers to see the emperor. First bow the hands and Jishou four bows, and then kowtow the head to complete the ceremony." That is to say, first Arch your hands, make a bow, and bow down. The first four bows use the Jishou bow, and the last bow is a kowtow.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Yijun solemnly accepted the second Mongolian Ministry's statement of submission again, and then ordered Chen Ju to call for a reward.The leaders of Tumed's tribes headed by King Shunyi and Mrs. Zhongshun received a lot of rewards. Yilduqi and other Ordos tribes were not as rewarded as Tumed because of Bo Shuoketu's rebellious actions before, but they also got some property. And the increase in border trade quota this year.

However, one of the most eye-catching things in this award is the award of Erde Mutu.As the emperor of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yijun clearly conferred him the title of Prince Shunyi's son, and at the same time appointed him a very Ming-like position: General Helin.At the same time, he was ordered to "choose an opportunity to establish a guard post and report to the Ministry of War" in Waikalkha.

The former is just "filling up the formalities", because Daming has been calling him Prince Shunyi for a while, but he has not been formally canonized. This time, he has completed all the procedures, and he will be completely legalized as the heir of Han Naji from now on. .

The latter is a precedent: when I answered the tribute, it was actually agreed a long time ago that the internal affairs of Tumote, also known as the "Daming Jin Kingdom", were arbitrarily decided by King Shunyi, and the Ming court would not intervene.However, this time it was obviously Daming who broke this rule and directly intervened in its internal power distribution.

However, there is actually a legal problem in this matter, that is, whether the territory of the Outer Khalkha belongs to the "Daming and Jin Kingdom".If it belongs to the Great Ming Dynasty, it is of course unreasonable for the Ming court to directly interfere with its administrative power, military power and other powers, but what if it does not belong to the Great Ming Dynasty?
The battle of destroying the Yuan Dynasty was initiated by Ming Dynasty, and the battle of capturing and defending the Waikalkha tribe was fought jointly by Ma Gui and Bahanaji, of which Ma Gui was the actual leader.That being the case, if the historical objective fact that the Outer Khalkha tribe was originally a Mongolian territory controlled by the Mongols is not taken into account, then this area is obviously a mere spoil of war for the Ming Dynasty.

How to distribute the loot is of course decided by Daming, and now Daming’s decision is equivalent to saying that I do not directly control it, I will give it to you Mongols, but I want to keep the name of this place as belonging to Daming.

In fact, this approach was far beyond Hannaji's expectations, but Hannaji didn't get too entangled in the name issue, but felt that doing so was quite beneficial to his plan.

The first is that I can take the territory of the Outer Khalkha in a reasonable and legal way through the imperial decree of the Ming emperor, and I have ruled legitimacy since then; the second is that I don’t have to worry about internal distribution disputes—if you are dissatisfied, go to the emperor to appeal, my king It’s just acting in accordance with the order; again, no matter what the name is, the eldest son Erdemutu will have his own tribe from now on, instead of relying on his father’s support from the West Post Headquarters, which will affect his future rule of Mongolia. There must be benefits.

Of course, although Hannaji doesn't pay much attention to name, it doesn't mean that he underestimates the role of name. After all, the reason why the Mongolian Golden Family can always control most of the power depends on the role of name.

Therefore, Hannaji also realized that the new system of the Ming Dynasty for the territory of the Outer Khalkha had dug holes.The official position of chief soldier has always been a product of the Ming system, and the chief soldier of Ming Dynasty does not have local administrative power. He is nominally equal to the governor and guarding eunuch. In fact, the governor has always had the final say, let alone the governor Sometimes there is the governor.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has set up Helin Zongbing for the territory of the Waikalka Ministry, who knows when they will add a governor and eunuchs to guard it?At that time, who will have the final say in the Waikalkha tribe, and Han Naji, the king of Shunyi, will not be able to guarantee it.

However, at this time, the Ming army was extremely powerful, and Tumed's economy had already been completely bound to Daming. It was obviously impossible for Han Naji to say no to the Emperor of Ming because of the unpredictability of the future.Han Naji can only hope that Daming feels that it is a thankless task for him to directly take charge of the Waikalkha Department, so he will continue to use the current setting for a long time.Only in this way, the Waikalkha tribe can be regarded as the real gain of this battle.

In any case, Han Naji accepted the emperor's edict in a serious manner, and led Yilduqi and others to retreat one by one.Next, the Supervisor of Rituals announced the rewards for the armies who participated in the ceremony of welcoming the suburbs and offering sacrifices to the Taimiao today.

Simply put, this reward is money, and in fact it is not much, basically it is one tael, two taels, three taels, five taels, eight taels, and ten taels, most of which are one tael.However, because it was stated before the rewards were issued that today's rewards did not conflict with the regular rewards after the Ministry of War, the armies participating in the meeting were quite satisfied and cheered "Long live my emperor".

It seems that money is indeed a good thing.

After that, he said he would give a banquet, but the army would definitely not be able to participate, and had to settle down first.Only civil and military officials at all levels can participate in the banquet.

There is a strict system for the process of holding a big banquet in the palace. For example, today, Shang Baosi set up the throne in Fengwang Hall, Jin Yiwei set up Huang Hui on the east and west sides of the hall, and Jin Wu and other guards set up 24 guards in the hall. separate things.

In the hall, the Jiaofang Division set up nine music songs, among which Dale was set up outside the hall, and the three dance teams were lined up under the hall.Guanglu Temple has a wine pavilion on the west side of the throne, a dining pavilion on the east side of the throne, and a delicacy pavilion on the east and west sides of the wine pavilion.

For those who set the royal banquet on the throne, set the Crown Prince's seat on the east side of the throne (even if it is empty), facing west, and the seats of the kings are arranged in order to the south, facing east and west (even if it is empty, it does not necessarily have to be set) .Civil and military officials of the fourth rank and above are seated in the hall, and those below the fifth rank are seated under the east and west corridors, and the pot stewards, Shangjiu, and Shangshi wait on them.

After the banquet table is set and everything is ready, the officials of the Ministry of Rituals invite you to ascend to your seat.In an instant, the drums and music blared together.

Amidst the melodious music, the emperor ascended to the throne, and the music stopped.The whip was sounded, and the crown prince (not yet), the prince, and the prince (none in Beijing) went to the hall and took their seats.Then civil and military officials of the fourth rank and above entered through the east and west gates and stood in the hall, and the officials of the fifth rank and below stood in Danqi.

Guanglu Temple entered the imperial banquet and began to play music.After the imperial banquet is set up, let's stop.The internal officials presented flowers to the emperor.Guanglu Temple opened the first wine to pour wine, and went to the imperial seat to present the first wine.

At this time, Jiaofang played "The Song of Yan Jing" (all kinds of "harmony" songs were not played at the banquet).Accompanied by the music, all the officials inside and outside knelt down, and the Secretary of Jiaofang knelt down to play and drink.After drinking, the music stops.All the officials prostrated themselves on the ground, drank wine, and kowtowed for the grace of the Holy One.Then everyone took their positions, and the preface group scattered flowers to the officials.

When entering the second jue wine, the director of Jiaofang played "The Song of the Emperor's Wind". Along with the music, the officials of Guanglu Temple went to the front of the emperor to drink wine, and the preface class poured wine for the officials.The emperor held up the wine cup, and the officials also held up the wine cup to drink, and they were happy.

Then there is the ceremony of entering the soup, advocating the prelude of the festival, and stopping the advocacy when it reaches the outside of the hall.Music began to be played in the hall, the officials stood up, the officials of Guanglu Temple served soup to the emperor, and the officials sat down, and the orderly class served soup to the officials.At this time, the martial arts performance began, playing "The Dance of Calming the World".

When entering the third jue wine, he played "The Song of the Juan Huangming", the music was melodious, and the etiquette of entering the wine was the same as the first time.After the music stopped, "Dance of Fu'an Siyi" was played.

When entering the fourth wine, he played "The Song of the Heavenly Dao", after drinking, and then played "The Dance of Cheshu Huitong".

When presenting the fifth jue wine, he played "The Song of Zhenhuang Gang" and "The Dance of Hundred Operas".

Enter the sixth jue wine to play "The Song of Jinling", and offer wine and Tang Yili as the first time, and play "Baman Xianbao Dance".

The seventh Jue wine played "The Song of Changyang" and "The Dance of the Lotus Picking Team".

When presenting the eighth jue wine, he played "The Song of Fragrance and Li", and when he entered the wine and soup, he played "Fish Leaping in the Yuan Dance".

When offering Jiujue wine, he played "The Song of Driving Six Dragons".

After the emperor and his ministers had finished drinking, the officials of Guanglu Temple took back the imperial titles, and the preface took back the wine cups of the ministers.Then began to serve soup and meals to the emperor. At this time, drums and music were played together, and all the officials stood up.After eating the soup, the officials will sit down again. Afterwards, the preface class will offer meals to the officials.When the meal is withdrawn, the Hundred Flowers Dance will be played.

Zan withdrew the case, Guanglu Temple officials withdrew the imperial case, and then the preface group withdrew the officials' meal case.When the banquet was completed, all the ministers attended and stood facing the north.When worshiping the emperor, the ministers stood side by side and bowed three times and kowtowed nine times to the emperor. After the ceremony was completed, the emperor got up and drove back to the palace.

This whole process is not so much a meal as a show, except for the emperor himself who might really dare to eat something seriously, the rest of the officials are basically watching the emperor's movements carefully to carry out their corresponding actions , I was afraid that there would be a "disrespect before the king", and the censor who was patrolling the field would catch the pigtails, and it would be impossible to eat something properly.

Therefore, Gao Yushi, who was already hungry after the show, brought a few eunuchs who helped him hold the iron certificate for avoiding death, the imperial letter, the new official uniform (given by the Shao Fu), etc., and just wanted to leave the palace and go back. House for dinner.Unexpectedly, within a few steps, Xiao Huangmen, the inspector of ceremonies, came to stop him in a hurry: "Master Hou, please stay, the emperor is calling!"
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