Song Gexing

Chapter 248 The reformulation of the title system

"I have a book to play!"

At the court meeting a few days later, Han Qi rarely came up to preface the meeting in person.

Zhao Fang knew what was going on. He had been ventilated yesterday. He smiled and raised his hand and said, "Shoufu Han, please speak."

"I heard... My duty as a king is only to serve heaven. There is no room for selfish motives in awarding honors and rewards. We use the world's wealth to reward the world's merits. The people's qualifications are limited, but the nobility is infinite..."

As soon as Han Qi finished speaking, the whole hall erupted in commotion. This was to grant a new title and change all the original titles of the Song Dynasty.

Of course, this was nothing at first. Many people had complained about the imperial title setting, but Han Qi's changes this time were incredible.

The titles of the Song Dynasty are not inheritable, but today he actually proposed that the nobles should retire with the country. This is an ancestral title, and the descendants will be nobles forever.

What's even more annoying is that Han Qi divided the titles into three categories. The first category is the royal title, the second category is the civil servant title, and the third category is the military minister title.

Only the title of military minister is the same as that of the country. Isn't this looking down on civil servants? Are you, Han Qi, not a civil servant yourself?

Of course, there are ministers who support him. After all, Han Qi also said that nobility is not easily rewarded. Military ministers cannot be ennobled without military merit, and civil servants are no longer awarded titles based on military merit.

This makes it easier for civil servants to be knighted. Although nobility is not hereditary, the title is the most glorious record of meritorious service of a minister.

"I object! This is Han Qi's move to disrupt the government..."

Zhao Fang got tired of listening to a lot of blah blah blah, and raised his hand to stop Qian Mingyi's speech: "Can you give a reasonable reason for your objection? Don't object just for the sake of objection. You are a son of a famous family, and this is the imperial court." The restaurant is not a vegetable market!”

He silently added in his heart, "You are stupid, your Qian family will not have a title, and you are not afraid of being beaten half to death by your father when you go back."

"By the way, it's no wonder that the title of the Qian family is not his."

Qian Mingyi retreated sarcastically. Zhao Fang looked around at the ministers and said, "If you have different opinions, you can say it, but you can't mess around. Everything must be well-founded. This is not a matter of Yushitai Fengwen. If you say If you don't have any reason to object, please be careful when speaking, otherwise I will think that you are not qualified for the official position."

Well, these words have cut off the back of many people. If you really want to say one, two, three, you can't make it clear now. You have to go back and study carefully before you can organize your words and express your objections.

But as soon as the opponents subsided, the supporters started to speak louder. They didn't need to give reasons, they just needed to second the proposal, so there was no need to study it.

Miraculously, the matter was settled on the spot. The angry opponents glared at Han Qi and others angrily, and cursed him as a traitor. The Song Dynasty had another traitor.

That afternoon, Han Qi's infamy spread throughout Bianjing, and many people cursed Ding Wei, that bastard before, and Han Qi, a shameless person later.

In fact, Han Qi was wronged. It was Zhao Fang's idea to divorce the nobles and the country. Han Qi actually disagreed. It was just that he couldn't reason with his son-in-law, so he had to agree.

He was not the only one present at this incident. The cabinet ministers, the three major leaders of the Privy Council, and several people from the Fifth Army Governor's Office in Beijing were all present.

The Governor's Office of the Fifth Army will definitely support this matter. The three Privy Council members remain neutral. The Emperor is trying to help the Governor's Office of the Five Armies. Naturally, the cabinet cannot win the quarrel.

This title reform has actually been brewing for a long time. When Zhao Zhen was in power, some people proposed reforming the title system, but everyone thought it was not important and delayed it.Zhao Fang's suggestion this time is mainly aimed at Wu Xun, which is the real nobility. The name Xungui refers to more than just the title of nobility.

Having titles but no honors is not considered a real nobility. The titles of royal family members and civil servants are titles without honors. It is just a status honor.

The nobles are nobles who have a matching title and title, so they must have military merits to be knighted. For example, the nobles in the Ming Dynasty, everyone only sees a certain duke, a certain marquis, etc., but it is not the case.

For example, Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, bestowed the imperial edict on the heroes of Jingnan. He granted Qiufu the title of Fengtian Jingnan, a military minister of Xuanli, special minister of Ronglu, the governor of Youzhu Kingdom, the governor of the left governor of the Central Military Command, and finally the Duke of Qi State. This title.

The previous series is the honorary title, and only nobles with honorary titles can inherit it hereditary, otherwise they will be homeless.

The titles granted in the Song Dynasty also had honorary titles, but there were not as many titles as in the Ming Dynasty. It was just that the Zhao Kuangyin brothers were not kind and did not allow them to be hereditary.

Hereditary honors are actually beneficial. He can guarantee the loyalty of the Wuxun family. When the Ming Dynasty fell, there were very few honored men who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Most of the honored men chose to go to the country together.

If you think about it, you will understand that in the Ming Dynasty, only they could inherit hereditary status and become nobles. If the Ming Dynasty died, they would be nothing. The new dynasty would not give these people the original treatment.

Others can surrender, because they have to use their lives to gain a future, and they are not dogs to whomever they treat as dogs.

But the nobles are different. No one will trust their loyalty to the new dynasty. After all, the old dynasty has supported you for hundreds of years. Even if you want to be loyal to the new dynasty, you will be looked down upon.

Just like Wei Guogong's lineage surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Jinling, but do you think there are still people in the Xu family serving as officials in the Qing Dynasty? Dorgon has long since cleaned up.

And Qian Qianyi, who was too cold, was reused. If he hadn't been found to support the Anti-Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty secretly, his status would not be much lower than Hong Chengchou.

This is the special nature of the nobles. The binding of interests forces them to live and die with the emperor. However, unless the disciples of Wu Xun are too unbearable, they are basically useful talents.

The martial arts of the Ming Dynasty were useless. It was after the middle period of the Ming Dynasty. Military generals were suppressed by civil servants and could only be regarded as dandies. If the system of the early Ming Dynasty were maintained, the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty would still be like dragons.

If you look at the earthen fortress built during the reign of Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, you will understand that in order to protect this idiot Yingzong, almost all the nobles were killed or injured, and there were several who were praiseworthy and tearful among them.

For example, all three brothers of the Wu family of Zhongshun Hou died in the battle, and their deaths were extremely heroic. At the end of the Wara people's fight, many people knelt in front of the bodies of the three brothers and cried bitterly, because the Wu family was Mongolian.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 20 Mongolians who were honored as nobles. More than a dozen of them died in the defense battles of Tumubao and Beijing. All of them showed their loyalty and bravery.

It made the people of Wala wonder whether they had done something wrong, and why these warriors of the same race would fight them to the death for the Ming Dynasty.

This is the role of Wu Xun on the court, not only because of the bundle of interests, but also because of the glory of the warriors. If you give them enough respect, they will give you enough loyal ministers.

It was precisely for this reason that Zhao Fang spent all his time arguing with Han Qi and others. Finally, he did not waste his efforts and allowed these cabinet ministers to approve the resignation of Lord Wu Xun.

As for the transfer of nobles from the royal family and civil servants, he would not waste any effort. The cabinet would handle it well, and almost none of the civil servants would object.

(End of this chapter)