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  Chapter 434 432 [The treatment of the Kong family]

  When Zhao Han returned to Nanjing, all the troops on the front line, including the commanders, military judges, and missionary officers, had finally sent all the meritorious documents jointly formulated.

  After discussion by the Ministry of War, the resolution is as follows—

   Annihilating Duoduo's army and arriving at the battle situation in Shandong, Zhang Tieniu's department should be credited with the first contribution.

  Running into Liaodong, breaking through several cities, attacking outside Shenyang City, and looting tens of thousands of people from the Tartars' lair, Hu Dinggui's department ranks second in credit.

  The Huang Yao tribe who captured most of Sichuan and captured the false emperor (Shu king) is the third in terms of military merit.

  When Zhao Han proclaimed himself emperor, he didn't offer a lot of rewards, but now he has to show it anyway.

  Zhang Tieniu was granted the title of Marquis of Yizhou, Hu Dinggui was granted the title of Marquis of Haizhou, Fei Ruhe was granted the title of Marquis of Jining, and Huang Yao was granted the title of Marquis of Chengdu.

  For the division commanders of the remaining divisions, all those who have served as division commanders for more than two years are all enfeoffed marquises, and all those who have served as division commanders for less than two years are granted feudal uncles.

  These titles are all hereditary titles.

  In addition, Fei Ruhe, Zhang Tieniu, Hu Dinggui, and Huang Yao each rewarded 50 mu of land. Each member of his family owns land, and the upper limit is increased by 20 mu, subject to the above-mentioned land, and limited to ten people.

  Zhao Han established the upper limit of land production very early on, and each person can only have a maximum of 100 acres of farmland, which is 500 acres when converted into farmland and farmland.

  Take Fei Ruhe as an example. If his family has ten household registrations, the total land property limit is 1200 mu (shangtian)!

   At this time, the upper limit of land property is useless, but it will be useful in a few decades.

   Those who have done meritorious service can continue to receive rewards, and sooner or later there will be hundreds of thousands of acres in the family. The government will relocate some farmers in the area as appropriate, and the land will be vacated for reward recipients. The relocated farmers must also be compensated, and they can get more land when they go to the north. At the same time, they will also donate farm cattle—normally, they will be loaned to farm cattle.

  Hey, it’s not easy to recruit tenants, because everyone in the countryside has land.

   During the busy farming season, farmers don’t have much spare time to cultivate other’s land except for their own fields. At that time, no matter how much land you get, you have to discuss it with the tenants. Who would like to charge a higher rent?

  The contradiction between land and population will not appear until at least fifty years later, because the north needs a large number of people to immigrate there!

  Nowadays, the government organizes people to migrate out of any county where the population density is too high. Counties, towns, and villages have achieved that every family has land and everyone has land, and pure tenant farmers have completely disappeared from the south.

  Guangdong and Fujian provinces, the main places of immigration are Qiongzhou (Hainan) and Taiwan respectively.

  Criminals moved to the raw land to open up, and the good people moved to the cultivated land to cultivate. The so-called Shudi refers to the land next to Shufan, where the aborigines have a high degree of Sinicization, and the climate and environment are not very bad.

  In the past few years, more than 100,000 people have moved to Qiongzhou Prefecture in the mainland of Guangdong, and the development of Hainan Island is getting higher and higher.

  As for Taiwan, the main place of immigration is the northern part of Taiwan Island. Zheng Zhilong moved tens of thousands of people there, and Zhao Han moved tens of thousands of people and thousands of bandits there. There are very few Spaniards in the chicken coop (Keelung), and the next step is to immigrate to the chicken coop.

  The Spaniards in Taiwan were not driven away by force, but Spain is shrinking its colonies.

  Portugal successfully became independent from Spain, coupled with the aggressiveness of the Netherlands, Spain was overwhelmed. Historically, because Spain evacuated too many people, the chicken coop would be taken by the Netherlands in a few years.

  In addition to the commanders of the divisions being rewarded, the rest of the soldiers were also rewarded.

   Especially soldiers who died in battle, including those who died of the plague, can receive a pension, and each will be given five acres of land. Children enjoy extra points in examinations, and in the future, the children of martyrs will be given priority in the recruitment of officials.

  The surrendered generals and rebels who have made meritorious service are also rewarded with land, and can divide the land as usual, but these lands are all rewarded in Shandong and Henan.

   Two civil servants were also granted the title of Marquis, and Pang Chunlai was given the title of Marquis of Guangning because his hometown was in Guangningwei, Liaoning. Li Banghua was granted the title of Marquis of Jishui, and he also took his hometown as the title.

  Xu Ying made great achievements in arranging and meticulous work, and was named Qian Shanbo.

  Fei Chun raised and dispatched food and grass, and he worked hard, Feng Guangxin Bo.

  In the entire Datong court, there is no duke for the time being, let alone a prince. The world has not yet been unified, and the rewards will be gradually raised, how will the rewards be rewarded after reaching the top at one time?

  Datong military system, taking advantage of this reward, also refined the system again.

  Soldiers are divided into three grades: lower pawn, mid-pawn, and top pawn.

  Generals are divided into four grades, and each grade is also divided into upper, middle and lower grades: Shi, Lieutenant, Colonel, and General.

   These are all military ranks, and future salaries will also be received according to the rank of the military.

  The ordinary soldiers who died this time will all be posthumously awarded as senior soldiers, and their pensions will also be received according to the standard of senior soldiers. Zhao Han is not short of money, but now he is only short of food, so it doesn't matter if he gives more pensions.

   Fei Ruhe, Zhang Tieniu, Hu Dinggui, and Huang Yao were awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and the commanders of the remaining divisions were major generals.

  The entire Datong Army has the distinction of military rank, military position and honorary title.

   Salaries are received according to military ranks, and actual power is divided according to military positions. The honorary titles are the continuation of the Ming Dynasty, such as Captain Zhaoxin, General Wuyi, General Dingguo, General Huaiyuan, General Longhu].

  In ancient times, there were many methods of awarding rewards, and it was rare that there were no rewards.

   Even though Fei Ruhe has been promoted to general, there are still a bunch of honorary titles waiting, which are densely packed general ranks. After being promoted to the top general title, there are still a lot of additional official titles, such as Sangong, Sangu, Zhuguo and so on.

  Although it is useless, it is all honorary titles, but the addition of various honors is very awesome.

   Moreover, regardless of Sangong and Sangu, they are empty titles without any power. But when the emperor goes to court, Sangong and Sangu can stand at the front!

  …

   Cabinet.

  Tian Younian asked: "Your Majesty, should the construction of the Forbidden City in Nanjing begin?"

  Li Banghua also said: "The Forbidden City should indeed be built."

  Pang Chunlai said: "The majestic emperor still lives in the former Ming minister's office, which is indeed detrimental to the dignity of the country."

  The three unanimously requested the construction of the Forbidden City because the plague in the north was too severe, and not many people in Beijing must have died, and the northern Zhili also needed to be immigrated one after another. Therefore, it is unrealistic to move the capital to Beijing in the future, and it is impossible to change the capital to Nanjing.

Zhao Han thought about it carefully: "We can start preparations for the construction of the Forbidden City in Nanjing. But corvée should not be recruited. I said exempt corvée, so I will definitely not break my promise. The cabinet made a decision, and the Ministry of Industry took the lead to contract the project to private construction companies. The Ministry of Industry must strictly supervise and revoke the license of the trading company if it finds subcontractors, those who cut corners, and those who collude with the government and businessmen. Those who deserve to be beheaded will be decapitated, those who should be exiled, and those who should be ransacked. Even if they ransacked their homes and exiled, they saved their lives Yes, business is not allowed within three generations."

   Preparations are underway at this time, and work will start next year at the earliest. By then, the food crisis should have been alleviated.

  After the construction of the Forbidden City was decided, the scene was a bit cold, because the three cabinet ministers wanted to say one more thing.

  Finally, it was Pang Chunlai who said, "The Confucius family in Qufu, can you spare me for now?"

  Zhao Han asked with a smile: "Did the county magistrate of Qufu find out something?"

  Li Banghua said: "It is nothing more than the crimes committed by the Zhang family in Longhushan, but the Kong family in Qufu has done more. Moreover, there is a pillar in the main hall of the Confucius Mansion, all of which are carved with dragons... It is extremely presumptuous."

  Zhao Han shook his head: "This Qufu Kong family is really not afraid of death. The emperor of Ming Dynasty is really lenient."

  Under normal circumstances, folk architecture is beyond the system, nothing more than cornices, colors, etc., but the Confucius family directly used dragon pillars.

  The Kong family in Qufu usurped, and there were only three most outrageous ones: the use of dragon pillars, enshrining the titles awarded by the Yuan Dynasty, and resolutely not using the titles given by the Ming Dynasty.

  Zhao Han asked: "You all want to intercede with the Kong family?"

  Li Banghua said: "After all, he is the descendant of Confucius."

Zhao Han sneered and said, "If Confucius was alive, knowing his descendants, and ignoring the benevolence and righteousness pursued by Confucianism, what would Confucius think and do? Surrendering to the puppet Qing Dynasty is unrighteous, and it is inhumane to harm the people. Why do you have the face to claim to be the descendants of Confucius? Since they are not qualified to be the descendants of Confucius, they will be punished according to the law! Anyone with a murder case in their hands will be beheaded, and those who instigate and condone will also be beheaded!"

  The three of them looked at each other in blank dismay, and the instigator and connivance were also beheaded, so how many of the Kong family elders would survive?

  Zhao Han also said: "If the people in Qufu change their surname to Kong, they will be ordered to restore their original surname."

  It is very common to give surnames. Many people with the surname Kong in Qufu are descendants of the Kong family slaves.

Zhao Han thought for a while, then continued: "If there are more than 30% of a village with the surname Kong in Qufu, all the excess will be ordered to relocate to neighboring counties. Anyway, Shandong has fewer people and more land, and wherever you go, you will be farming. There is no need for people with the same surname. People get together."

   This is forcing the surname Kong to change his surname!

  Just as the lower-level imperial clan in the Ming Dynasty couldn’t get enough to eat, the lower-level Confucian family in Qufu also belonged to the exploited.

  A large number of Kong's children have long been reduced to domestic slaves and tenants.

   Moreover, those high-level members of the Kong family have the family law enforcement power. As long as your surname is Kong, they can enforce the family law, even if you kill them casually, the government will not ask.

   It was too violent, and the emperor had to be reported to deal with it. The local officials did not dare to arrest the Kong family.

  Since this is the case, then only a few people died, why should the emperor be alarmed?

  Zhao Han suddenly laughed: "Confucius, Confucius and Mencius, the descendants of Confucius are like this, and so are the descendants of Mencius, so we should follow this method. The descendants of Mencius will also be severely investigated and dealt with!"

   Well, it doesn’t matter if you don’t intercede, the three of them interceded with the Kong family and brought the Meng family into it.

Zhao Han continued: "The title of Lord Yansheng will be retained, and the chief sect of Nankong will immediately move to Qufu to succeed Lord Yansheng. From now on, only one hundred acres of land can be reserved for the Confucian Temple in Qufu. Duke Yansheng All the privileges of the Confucian family are abolished, and they can only receive salaries according to their grades. The Confucian family must pay for sacrifices to the Confucian Temple and several major academies. The family is not allowed to enforce the family law, and must be handed over to the court for trial. If you dare to use the family law privately, you will be punished as treason!"

  (end of this chapter)