For the smooth progress of the state funeral, the imperial court ordered many yamen to work together to make the state funeral of the Heroic Soul grand and exciting, with Yinyiwei in charge of all the work on the periphery, and Zhang Xiaowu ordered that when the coffin returned to the city, the walls of each square city were painted with propaganda slogans.

"Welcome home heroes!"

"The pillar of the country, the pride of the country!"

"Hero, we welcome you!"

"Salute to the Heroic Spirit!"

"We will continue your unfinished business!"

"What's the time to be quiet, but someone is carrying a weight forward!"

“……”

This move has aroused the dissatisfaction of some people, but it has also attracted the attention of some people. It is the first time for ordinary people to see this kind of propaganda slogan, the language is straightforward and powerful, easy to understand, and inspiring. But not everyone likes this form, including the little county lord Shi Zhongqiu doesn't like these vernacular either, but she can't say anything to refute it, after all, the Shi family's affairs have become a mess.

Everyone pressured Shi Zhongqiu, an orphan, and the relatives of the Shi family felt that they had to get a piece of the pie, so they asked her to make an immediate decision on who would inherit the title of king of Nanyang County - and at the same time, she must not suffer.

Zhang Xiaowu secretly asked the officials of the Ministry of Rites about the succession of the title for Shi Zhongqiu, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites also said that they were helpless, the succession of the title was the Shi family's own family affairs, not to mention outsiders, even the emperor could not interfere in it.

Zhang Xiaowu was helpless, at most, he could help the little county lord to find out the character and virtue of his cousins, so as not to pass on the title to a white-eyed wolf. But he privately gave the little county lord a bad idea, if the brothers of the Shi family must force her to make a decision, she can only inherit the title, and other properties in the palace cannot be inherited, let alone live in the Nanyang County Palace, in the future, the Nanyang County Mansion will be renamed Shi Mansion, and those who inherit the title of the county king must establish another palace.

Shi Zhongqiu was very surprised and asked, "Is this suggestion feasible?" ”

"How do you know if you don't try." Zhang Xiaowu said, "Did they break their heads for a title?" Or is it for the property and assets of the royal palace? If someone is really just for the title, it means that this person still cares about the Shi family in his heart, and you, as the daughter of the Shi family, naturally want to support such a person who cares about the family to inherit the title. But if someone only values your family's money, and even after becoming the king of Nanyang County, they kick you out of the house, squander everything in the county king's mansion, and squander the palace property within a few years, making the title of Nanyang county king humiliated—are you willing to see this situation? ”

"Of course not." Shi Zhongqiu said with a red face.

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Then you will inform them of this suggestion, and ask to go to the Senate for notarization, and the senators will testify together, so as not to recognize it when you get it." ”

Shi Zhongqiu was a little scared, hesitated, and said, "Brother Zhang, can you ...... Stay with me? ”

"I'll accompany you?"

"Well, I'm afraid they'll hurt me."

"Strange! Where did the little white dragon with the silver gun go in the past? Can they hurt you? You shoot them one by one, poke them to death. ”

Shi Zhongqiu blushed suddenly, and said, "I wasn't young at that time, I didn't know anything. ”

Zhang Xiaowu didn't tease her, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll accompany you." ”

However, this suggestion was collectively rejected by the Shi brothers, do they want a knighthood? Of course not! What they want is the palace of Nanyang County, and what they want is the gold, silver, treasure, land and houses in the palace of Nanyang County. The brothers knew that they couldn't beat Zhang Xiaowu, so they yelled: "Cousin, do you know the travel configuration of the county king?" A few of us are so poor, if there is no guarantee for travel, what else can we talk about the king of Nanyang County? ”

"That's right, no matter what, you can't lose the rank of the county king."

"If I am the king of the county, I must have a carriage with seven horses, so that I can be arrogant."

"Phew! You're pretending! All I need is a five-horse carriage. ”

"Did you deliberately raise the bar with me?"

"What's wrong?"

"Beware of me beating you."

"I'm still afraid that you won't do it, come on, come on, see which of us beats whom."

The brothers of the Shi family fought for the title, and their ugliness made the entire Longdu people talk and laugh, and the courtiers also joked about this matter, saying that it was too embarrassing to not be able to learn from the Shi family in the future. The king of Nanyang County is the moral benchmark set by Emperor Dade, and he should be flawless in both public and private affairs, so he would become the laughing stock of the people of Longdu City.

Zhang Kuan, the left minister, immediately reported to Emperor Dade and proposed that the imperial court appoint the heir as the new Nanyang county king, so as not to make the Shi family a laughing stock in the world and humiliate the canonization system of the county king.

This lawsuit finally reached the emperor, Emperor Dade recruited Zhang Xiaowu to ask about the character of several nephews of the king of Nanyang County, Zhang Xiaowu wrote the character of the dozen heirs on a piece of paper, no matter which one is not outstanding, not even a normal person, a group of typical gentlemen, the loser is proficient in everything, and he will not be able to learn and martial arts.

"You mean, there's no one that fits?"

"Reluctantly appoint an unsuitable person, and then lead to the humiliation of the king of Nanyang County, it is better to ......" Zhang Xiaowu had an idea, and said: "It is better to grant the title of the prince of the small county, although there is no woman in the empire to inherit the title, but if the canonization of the title of female is created by you, it must be recorded in the annals of history." ”

Emperor Dade was moved by the name of history, and after thinking about it for a long time, he stroked his palms and laughed: "Great goodness, feasible, so it is." ”

So, in the 300-year history of the Holy Han Empire, for the first time a woman was given a title, Emperor Dade announced that because the king of Nanyang County had no heir, the nephews of the king of Nanyang County misbehaved, which attracted hundreds of officials to reprimand the people and ridicule, in order to avoid the humiliation of the title of the king of Nanyang County, so he canonized Shi Zhongqiu, the daughter of the king of Nanyang County, as the title of the new king of Nanyang County.

As soon as this canonization came out, it shocked the world, and for the first time in the history of Shenghan, a baroness appeared.

Immediately, there were officials and imperial historians who spoke out against it, and even the students of the Tai Academy also ran to the gate of the imperial city to join forces to protest, and some of the more stubborn old antiques sat at the gate of the imperial city to protest with hunger strikes, they thought that Emperor Dade was acting perversely, provoking the anger of heaven and man, and would inevitably be punished.

However, some people applauded, especially the women who learned the news, and felt that Emperor Dade was not only a generation of Ming monarchs, but also a sage who had no predecessors and no one after him. In the eyes of many people, Emperor Dade is brilliant and gentle, intelligent and strict with himself, not lustful, not greedy for money, and the people for the benefit of the rest and recuperation, that is, the pseudo-king Wu also privately admitted why he must choose to openly build a rebellion, because he also has to admit that if Emperor Dade is given a few years, the national strength of the Holy Han will be restored, and the rebellion of the Tianhuo Sect will no longer have any chance of winning. Now, Emperor Dade pioneered the canonization of women as knights, which improved the status of Shenghan women.

In the eyes of the secular people, women are not allowed to inherit the family field, women are not allowed to inherit the title, and women are not allowed to be officials. However, in the laws of the Holy Han, there has never been such a provision, so the imperial historians tried to look up the legal code and regulations, but found that they could not find the basis.