Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1040

The emperor sat down, and the officials shouted long live three times. Ye Chen accepted everyone's kneeling and declared that he would be exempt from courtesy. Everyone knelt behind the desk, kept their sitting posture upright, and bowed their heads in a solemn manner.

Left Prime Minister Ma Wentao still presided over the entire ceremony.It is different from Song State at this time of the year when the ceremonial officials come out to recite the congratulatory speeches that have been prepared to praise the emperor and the court for a year. Instead, it starts directly with praise music and dance, and the focus is that Han Xizai and Yang Jiye represent political affairs respectively. The hall and the military affairs department summarized all the work they have done in the past year, the achievements and existing problems, and generally introduced the main planned tasks for the coming year.This is naturally what Ye Chen meant, and it is actually similar to the government work report of later generations.

Everything is carried out in strict accordance with the relevant regulations and procedures.The civil and military officials of Xiangfu Kingdom have already adapted to Ye Chen's habits. They rarely utter obscure nonsense in their memorials and presentations. People can understand what it means as soon as they hear it, and they will never be confused.

Ye Chen sat on the throne, listening to it with gusto, full of emotions in his heart, and at the same time he was very ambitious for the coming year. Now that Hexi and Hehuang have been captured, the border area is not much smaller than Daliao and Dal Song, and the population has more than 800 Ten thousand, the territory, population, and military strength have more than doubled since the beginning of the founding of the country.Now Xiangfu Kingdom finally has the strength to compete in the world.

With the longer time on the throne of the Son of Heaven, and the rapid increase in the population and military strength of the territory under his rule, Ye Chen's mentality has also undergone some changes unknowingly. The worries that he once had about conquering the world will cause the displacement of the people no longer exist. In his view now, there is fundamentally no difference between the situation in the world today and the situation in which the Seven Kingdoms ruled the roost in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods and the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.In order to completely end this kind of war and end the long-term pain with short-term pain, it is necessary to unify the world and implement the development model of the benevolent government and science and technology to promote social productivity to the whole world, so that all the tens of millions of people in China and even People of different races can live a better life than ever before.

If Ye Chen had hesitated before, then Ye Chen's determination to unify the world is already extremely determined.

After the summary report, because of Ye Chen's insistence, the entire set of procedures at the Zhengdan Grand Court Meeting was much simpler than that of the Song Dynasty, and today's highlight was directly launched to reward the meritorious officials.

The titles adopted by Xiangfu Kingdom are the same as those of the Song Dynasty. The titles from high to low are Prince, Heir King (the one who inherits the Prince is the Heir King), County King, State Duke, County Duke, County Duke, County Marquis, County Boss, County son, county man.And in view of the long time to come, avoid the situation that there will be no rewards in the future.Last year's big awards, the highest titles were only six people, Yang Jiye, Han Xizai, Ma Wentao, Li Junhao, Hu Sanguang, and Bai Canghai.

And because His Majesty the Emperor values ​​hard work and merit, the result of this conferment and title is actually based on the results of the calculation of the merits of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Military Affairs a few days ago, and there is not much suspense.

Yang Jiye, Han Xizai, Ma Wentao, and Li Junhao were granted the title of Duke of Jianguo County by the Marquis of Jianguo County, and their food townships were upgraded from [-] households to [-] households.

Zhang Dawei, Deng Chongxuan, Xu Xuan, Jia Xian, Zeng Shangfei, and Yu Wen were granted the title of Marquis of Jianguo County by Bojia of Jianguo County, and the food township was upgraded from [-] households to [-] households.

Wang Chao, Liu Jinyuan, Du Qianqiu, Huang Dongqiu, and Yang Yanqing were granted the titles of Kaiguo County Boss by the sons of Jianguo County, and the food township was upgraded from [-] households to [-] households.

Minister of Agriculture Tian Jiumi, Tang Xingwu, Zhong Sanhe, Han Tao, and Gao Wuyang were conferred two ranks as Kaiguo County Boss by Jianguo County men, and there were [-] households in Shiyi.

Shi Lang, Liu Dongming, and Qian Hengduo originally had no titles, but this time they directly surpassed the county male, and were conferred the title of Founding County Son, with two hundred households in Shiyi

In addition, a group of officers such as Chang Podao who have made great contributions in the army and some civil servants with outstanding political achievements and no titles before, were conferred this time as the founding county male, with one hundred households in the city.

And there was a title before, but in the past year, the merits were not outstanding, or because the title of civil and military officials who did not participate in the war has not changed.For example, Hu Sanguang, Zhe Yuxun, Li Guangshun, Tuoba Gelu, Zhan Xiongwu, Hei Yue, Zeng Shangfei and others.

After rewarding the meritorious officials, the emperor gave a banquet, basically they didn't have to eat, and the officials offered wine to celebrate the emperor's birthday.After a total of about four hours, this year's routine has finally come to an end.It's just that some families were happy and some were jealous. Some went home to celebrate, and some threw their glasses at home, with dissatisfaction and jealousy on their faces.Hu Sanguang is the one with the highest official position among the disaffected and jealous people.

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On the same day, in the city of Kaifeng in the Central Plains, the Great Song Dynasty also organized a great court meeting, and Zhao Dezhao also conferred rewards. Li Mingxuan was conferred the title of Duke of Zhen, Li Jixun was conferred the title of Duke of Long by the Duke of Longxi County, and Lu Yuqing was also conferred the title of Duke of Long by Marquis Chongwen. Chongwen Gong, Zhang Dong, the chief commander of the Song Weifu, was granted the title of Zhongweihou, and Wang Haijiang, the commander of the imperial city's forbidden army, was given the title of Zhongyihou.

In addition, it was also on this day that Song Emperor Zhao Dezhao abolished the empress Lu, and made Li Si, the niece of Li Mingxuan, Li Siyan, the empress.This matter was delayed until now, but it was Ye Chen who asked Hu Sanguang to arrange people to spread the news that Li Mingxuan and Li Siyan were members of the holy hall in Song Dynasty. After Lu Yuqing and Li Jixun heard the news, they were shocked and went to the palace several times to persuade them Zhao Dezhao, but Zhao Dezhao has long been fascinated by Li Siyan, and he is far less afraid of the holy hall than Li Jixun and Lu Yuqing, the old people who know what happened back then. Instead, he has the idea of ​​using the power of the holy hall for his own use , so he didn't take the advice of these two people to heart at all.The reason why it was delayed until this time was purely to take care of the feelings of Li Jixun and Lu Yuqing.

In addition, on Zhengdan Day, Zhao Dezhao ordered the execution of more than 1000 members of Zhao Pu's nine clans despite the dissuasion of Li Jixun and Lu Yuqing.In addition, Zhao Dezhao listened to Li Mingxuan's opinion and ordered Zhang Dong of the Weifu of the Song Dynasty to send people to secretly control all the relatives and clansmen of the Jiangnan Daying Commander Sun Meishi and the Song Navy Commander Wen Zhanhui in the north of the Yangtze River. People appointed officials and titles, trying to coerce and lure at the same time, so that the two would submit.

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The Han, Sui and Tang dynasties were a society of county prestige status system, and the noble families of the county prestige enjoyed high prestige and status in society.Among all the distinguished families, five surnames are the most distinguished.That is, the Li family of Longxi, the Li family of Zhaojun, the Cui family of Boling, the Cui family of Qinghe, the Lu family of Fanyang, the Zheng family of Xingyang, and the Wang family of Taiyuan.Among them, the Li family and the Cui family each have two prefect clans.So it is called seven clans and five surnames or five surnames and seven families.

Among them, the Cui family and the Li family are the most powerful and powerful.The surname Cui originated from the surname Jiang in history, and is said to be a descendant of Emperor Yan.In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Jiang Shang, the grandson of Emperor Yan, was granted the title of Duke of Qi because of his meritorious service in assisting King Wen and King Wu to build the Zhou Dynasty.When the data was transmitted to Duke Ding of Qi, the eldest son Jiang Jizi responded to the Duke, but he refused to accept it and gave way to his younger brother Shuyi.After Shu Yi succeeded to the throne, he was rewarded with the area around Cui Yi (now northwest of Zhangqiu, Shandong) as a food town.From then on, Jizi's descendants lived in Cuiyi, and later took the name Cui of Shiyi as their surname, thus becoming people with the surname Cui.

After Cui got his surname, he held important official positions in Qi State for generations, and he was one of the family of ministers at that time.For example, Cui Zhu, the eighth grandson of Ji Zi, was a powerful minister of Qi State and had monopolized the power of the government for many years.Later, because of his failure in the political struggle, the surname Cui lost power in Qi State and moved south to Lu State (now in Qufu, Shandong).During the Qin Dynasty, Cui Yiru, the descendant of Cui Zhu, was granted the title of Marquis of Donglai.After entering the Han Dynasty, Cui Yiru's eldest son, Cui Ye, inherited the title and settled in Wucheng, Qinghe River (now northeast of Qinghe, Hebei).Cui Ye's younger brother Cui Zhongmo lived in Anping, Boling (now part of Hebei), and their descendants developed into powerful clans in the Han, Wei, Southern and Northern Dynasties and Sui and Tang Dynasties, with famous and talented people coming forth in large numbers.Due to the large number of people surnamed Cui in the two branches and the migration of officials and other reasons, the surname Cui was further divided into Zhengzhou Cui, Yanling Cui, Qizhou Cui, Qingzhou Cui, Qinghe Dafang Cui, Qinghe Xiaofang Cui family, Boling big house Cui family, Boling second house Cui family, Boling third house Cui family, Nanzu house Cui family, etc.In the Tang Dynasty alone, the surname Cui was separated from Qinghe and Boling Erwang into ten families of Cui, and a total of 29 prime ministers were born.At that time, there was a common proverb in the world that "no one who speaks a noble surname is like King Cui Lu Li Zheng".

These noble surnames have been passed down from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, and they have been prosperous for a long time, and their Chinese orthodoxy is the strongest. The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty has Hu people's blood, which makes them feel contemptuous, not to mention that at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the five random Chinese, Allowing foreigners to ravage like this, but your own court has no regard for decency and dignity?So far, those rich and powerful families all complained, but at that time the Tang Dynasty court was very good-looking and its strength was not good, but they were helpless.Those far-sighted people among the seven clans and five surnames believed that the crisis was getting closer, so they persuaded the patriarch to completely separate most of the power and resources in the clan from the seven clans and five surnames who were in the open, from the light to the dark, and hid them among the people. In order to hide their strength, on the other hand, once the world is in chaos and the seven sects and five surnames are fatally hit, they can preserve the blood for the seven sects and five surnames.

Later, as expected by the seven clans and five surnames, the Tang Dynasty flourished for only three generations, and then chaos appeared frequently.But at this time, a series of chaos caused Datang to decline day by day, and Hu Feng became more and more violent.

When Huang Chao rebelled, Datang was unable to put down the rebellion at all, so he borrowed troops from the Shatuo people, which led the wolves into the house. It goes on and on, everything is broken, everything is wiped out, the powerful clans are disintegrated, and they are no longer the glory of the day.But at this time, the hidden forces of the seven sects and five surnames did not receive much impact because they were hidden among the people with the three religions and nine streams as the periphery and the five surnames as the core.

(End of this chapter)