Chapter 545: The Marquis of Qinghe

Today the emperor's schedule is full.

In the morning, worship the Taimiao, worship the martyrs' shrine at noon to worship the dead soldiers' spiritual position, in the afternoon, the meritorious deeds are rewarded, and in the evening I heard that there is a night banquet.

Coupled with the lifting of the curfew on the third day and the already hot weather, the whole Xianyang must be very lively during these three days.

Although Chen Xu is not interested in these cumbersome etiquettes and ceremonies, nor is he interested in the court's government affairs and meritorious deeds, and even less interested in the night banquet in the palace, as a marquis, he still has to honestly follow the process together.

Looking at Qin Shi Huang, who was sweating and kneeling to worship the ancestors of the Taimiao Temple under the scorching sun, and then offered the head of Touman Danyu to burn incense and read the sacrificial words loudly, although Chen Xu was also dizzy with the sun, he once again had great reverence and admiration for this ancient emperor.

These for the worship of gods, ghosts, immortals and saints to the era of incomparable, every step of the emperor is strict and serious, without the slightest laziness and carelessness, and the content of the worship is not to covet pleasure and good joy, but to respectfully tell the ancestors that they did not disgrace the ancestors of Daqin, I Yingzheng recovered the land of Henan that the princes of the Central Plains had never recovered, and at the same time raided Hebei, the court of the Xiongnu, and killed the Xiongnu Shan Yu, hoping that the ancestors and ancestors would continue to maintain the prosperity of my Great Qin and so on

And when the emperor read out the sacrificial speech, the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty and the guards of the princely and princely forbidden armies were all sweaty, but they were all very solemn.

In the face of this ancient ritual, everyone is extremely serious and eager.

All believed that their prayers and sacrifices must have been seen by the ancestors.

After paying tribute to the Taimiao, then go back to the court to rest for an hour, and then go out of the city at noon to build the martyr's shrine outside the north gate to worship and worship the martyr's spiritual seat.

Because the martyr's shrine was built in a hurry, it is not big, covering an area of only ten acres, the foundation is piled with loess, and then divided into nine layers to form a trapezoidal platform, and a temple on the top of the platform is built with rammed earth and wood and stone.

In order to quickly complete the Martyrs' Shrine, which covers an area of only 10 acres, the Ministry of Industry requisitioned 2,000 prisoners to work day and night, using hundreds of oxen, horses and vehicles, and finally completed the construction of the Martyrs' Shrine two days ago.

Therefore, the Martyrs' Shrine seen at this time is like a temple that appears out of thin air, standing on a three-zhang high earthen platform divided into nine layers.

A straight staircase up to two feet wide leads to the temple gate at the top.

There is a black plaque hanging on the gate, which is engraved with three ancient small seals of the Martyrs' Shrine, and the concave handwriting is also filled with cinnabar.

When Taibu divides the auspicious time, Taizhu reads the sacrificial words, Taile conducts the music, and Taishi records the grand occasion.

"At noon on May 13, the 29th year of the first emperor, the emperor worshiped the martyrs' shrine and worshiped the dead in ......the ancestral hall."

After the sacrifice was completed, the spiritual seats of more than 800 soldiers who sacrificed their lives in Henan and Hebei were placed in the martyrs' shrine.

"Boom Boom Boom~"

With the sound of the three-barreled salute placed at the entrance of the Martyrs' Shrine, the three fireworks bombs exploded under the dazzling scorching sun and clear sky.

And just after the emperor and the accompanying people left the sacrifice, the people of Xianyang who heard the news entered the martyr's shrine with melons and fruits to worship, and many people wailed in pain, which were the relatives and families of the dead soldiers, and more people are coming one after another, to do their part to guide the ghosts of these soldiers who sacrificed their lives on the battlefield to return to their hometowns.

Since then, the Martyrs' Shrine has been burning incense all day long, and it has also given countless people who have already lost their relatives on the battlefield a place to express their sorrows.

In addition to the compensation for the families of the sacrificed soldiers, 10,000 new-style horsemen and soldiers were all rewarded, and all the soldiers who participated in this battle were awarded at least three grades, and those who beheaded the Huns were awarded the fourth grade, and the title of the one who was awarded the fifth grade, and the captain Jiang Bu, who was the head of the Hun Wang's court, was directly awarded the eighth grade, and was directly promoted by the Wu Dafu to the great Shangzao, with 600 households, 100,000 rewards, and 100 slaves and good horses, and became the deputy general who commanded the second 10,000-person new-style horse that was being equipped.

Li Xin, Marquis of Di Dao, led 7,000 horsemen to sweep Henan, beheaded 40,000 enemies, captured more than 100,000 prisoners, and seized countless cattle, horses, livestock, and skins, but Qin Shi Huang did not promote the marquis for him, but added thousands of food estates, a mansion, 50 hectares of land, and a lot of other money, grain, cloth, and slaves.

Su Jiao, the deputy general of the horse, is the commander of the carriage at the third level, and he is only two levels away from being able to be a marquis, this level is definitely the top lord in the general of Daqin, and the position has been directly promoted from a border deputy general to the chief general of the second team of 10,000 new horses, and since then he has stepped into the ranks of the main generals of Daqin.

As for Jiang Hu, who is the most dazzling in this victory, under the overwhelming propaganda of the Daqin Metropolis Daily, Jiang Hu's credit has been magnified to the point that it is impossible to look at directly, and it took a month to travel thousands of miles, raiding more than ten Xiongnu tribes, with more than 2,000 people, and beheading more than 20,000 mouths, and finally attacking the Xiongnu royal court to behead Mandanyu, capturing Touman's wife, capturing dozens of envoys of Xiongnu nobles and other small Hu countries.

The Ministry of War agreed on its merits a few days ago, Shangshu Province submitted a report, Zhongshu Province verified that it was correct, the emperor approved the book, and rewarded the fifth level of the knight as the Marquis of Guannei (nineteenth-level Marquis of Lun), and gave the title of Marquis of Yinshan, so as to reward the merit of leading the army to cross the Yinshan Mountain and raid Hebei, and the respect of the Marquis naturally has countless people such as the money and grain slaves of the feudal fields, but these have already been decreed, and the rewards are naturally approved by the Ministry of Household and the Inner History Office.

And in this war, there is another very special figure, that is, Comrade Li Shun, a reporter from the newspaper.

This time Jiang Hu was able to achieve such a huge contribution, and Li Shun's original instigation is closely related, and more than once instigated, it was Li Shun who instigated the dispatch of troops against the order, after the invasion of Hebei, after the casualties at the beginning, most of the captains began to retreat, and it was Li Shun, a-stirring stick who did not understand military affairs at all, who played his lip service, and Jiang Hu and several captains who were instigated by some words were enthusiastic, and then asked for the horse leather shroud and returned, so he starved and traveled thousands of miles without hesitation. In the end, he found the royal lair of the Huns, and succeeded in one fell swoop.

Of course, no one will say anything about this matter instigated by Li Shun, and no one will admit that this is a military operation, if an outsider like Li Shun leads him by the nose, I am afraid that the emperor will chop Li Shun after knowing it.

But this time, Li Shun's merits were also infinitely magnified because of a detailed battle report, so that Qin Shi Huang and the people of Daqin understood the details of Jiang Hu's action in detail, and at the same time, under the wonderful pen of the Daqin Metropolis Daily, this great victory was also presented in front of the world like a magnificent picture, so that ordinary people also truly appreciated the bravery and tragedy on the battlefield for the first time, as if they were in the battlefield, following the bloody death fight of the Daqin soldiers.

Therefore, Qin Shi Huang did not forget Li Shun's merits, and personally wrote down an edict, appointing Li Shun as the lower secretary, rewarding a set of mansions, rewarding 100 acres of fertile land, rewarding 10 slaves, and rewarding money, grain, cloth and silk according to regulations.

Of course, as the main driving force behind the direct promotion of this war and the victory of Great Qin.

The merits of Chen Xu, Marquis of Qinghe, are even more impossible for the emperor to forget.

After rewarding everyone, Qin Shi Huang set his eyes on Chen Xu, who was sitting on a big chair and squinting and napping.

"I said last time that on the day of the victory in recovering Henan, I will make the Marquis of Qinghe the title of Taishi......"

There was a great silence in the entire court.

Almost everyone in the world knows about this matter, not only Xianyang, but even the border wastelands of Liaoxi and Huiji have long known what the emperor said.

After all, when Chen Xu first entered Xianyang, the emperor opened his mouth and said that a large number of rewards such as the Marquis of the Prime Minister Taishi and the Golden Seal and the Purple Ribbon almost knocked out the Manchu civil and military forces.

At the beginning, except for the emperor, almost everyone knew nothing about Chen Xu's identity and origin, so in the face of Chen Xu, a fifteen-year-old boy who had not yet reached the age of a weak crown, the reaction of the Manchu civil and military ministers above the court was like porridge in a boiling pot, and it boiled out of control in an instant, and almost everyone jumped out to oppose the emperor's reward.

Under the opposition of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces, Qin Shi Huang finally withdrew most of the rewards, but he rewarded a marquis without pain, but then the rewards continued, and the money and grain real estate came one after another, and finally he had to reward his five princesses to Chen Xu, but Chen Xu refused.

Today, it has only been half a year since Chen Xu entered Xianyang in October last year, but in these six months, Chen Xu has been like a hanging, although he seems to be uninhibited on weekdays, but his actions have never stopped.

He set up an academy of sciences, built factories, repaired water wheels, ran newspapers, made iron and steel, opened the Qinghe Garden, reformed the official positions of the six ministries of the three provinces and nine grades, carried out currency reform, invented new horse equipment, divided millions of slaves, and fought-for-tat with Li Si of the left to block the burning of books, opened a history museum, a bookstore, opened an engineering college, and an agricultural college, and I heard that it would also promote the construction of primary schools, middle schools, universities, and Beijing Normal University halls throughout the country.

Recently, because of the success of the conquest of Henan, he made a proposal to build a martyr's shrine.

He also invented movable type printing, Taiyi Divine Thunder, and last night's unprecedented Divine Thunder fireworks.

There are also threshers, stone mills, Qinghe wine, porcelain, paper, ink strips, inkstones, sweaters, mahjong, sandals, chess, folding fans and other things that can be seen everywhere in Xianyang today.

What makes Xianyang people remember and have the greatest influence is the various delicious foods invented and made by Qinghe, in addition to the braised vegetables, there are also all kinds of iron pot stir-fried dishes that are now spread in Xianyang and pancakes and fruits, spring rolls, and meat buns that can smell the fragrance in the streets and alleys......

In addition to these things that have been done, there have been several violent turmoil in the court because of the appearance of Chen Xu, the first time because of the destruction of the factory, Ao Ping was razed to the three clans, and Shang Tu was demoted and exiled. The second time was that Zhao Zhe intended to assassinate Chen Xu in the palace, which led to the upheaval of the court not long ago, Zhao Gao was sentenced to death by the emperor, and Jiang Heng was dismissed from office by the CRRC government, and then more than 200 officials were implicated......

All of these incidents happened in just half a year.

Many seemingly silent but ferocious seem to have been completed in an instant, such as the court reform, such as the Martyrs' Shrine, such as the Academy of Sciences.

Some seem unhurried but pervasive, and soon have affected countless people and become indispensable in life, such as newspapers, such as food, such as paper, such as mahjong, etc.

Therefore, in the eyes of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, in just half a year, Chen Xu was like him suddenly appeared, and in an instant, he became an existence that could not be ignored by the emperor and princes, down to the commoners and peddlers.

Qinghehou is as pervasive and ubiquitous as a ghost, no one can get rid of his influence, just like the white snake singing section sung all over the street, from the streets and alleys to the Quyuan miscellaneous houses, from ordinary houses to the inner courtyard of the palace, you can hear that popular song everywhere, and now the Manchu Dynasty civil and military standing on the court hall can hum a few words casually, and there are even people who are skilled and sing extremely enchantingly.

Now the great victory in Henan, the great victory in Hebei, at this time, the emperor rewarded the soldiers who returned triumphantly, and once again mentioned the promise to the Marquis of Qinghe that day, and no one in the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty jumped out to oppose it.

Even if they want to oppose it, they don't want to be the first bird.

The emperor is majestic and magnificent, he is decisive and ruthless, and everyone knows about the Enlong of Qinghehou, once he touches his scales, the consequences can be imagined.

Therefore, most people's thoughts are that the Taishi is the emperor's teacher, and if you love it, you will seal it, anyway, sooner or later, no one can stop it.