Chapter 267 After the Python Robe and Jade Belt Department verified the head of Li Xiaojun's victory, only eight days later, the holy decree of the imperial court's promotion and reward was officially issued.

Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Originally, Li Xiao was crowned an uncle, and he needed to go to the capital to meet the emperor in person and accept the reward in person.

However, Chongzhen considered that Li Xiao had just returned from North Korea, and out of concern for his subordinates, he did not want to let him run in vain, but directly sent a eunuch to Shandong Chifeng to issue a holy decree.

When the eunuch came to Chifengwei with a happy face with the decree, Li Xiao had just arranged for the newly recruited displaced people to go to Jeju Island as the first batch of immigrants to settle and develop.

To Li Xiao's surprise, Xu Xiuqing and others recruited a total of more than 105,000 displaced people from Henan, Beizhili, and Shandong, reaching half of the number of displaced people that Li Xiao was planning to send to settle on Jeju Island at one time.

With Li Xiaojun's current strong economic strength, arranging these 100,000 immigrants is not a big deal.

After distributing the necessary clothing and food to each of these immigrants, Li Xiao ordered the sailor to take them to Jeju Island.

Of course, the specific work of this group of immigrants after arriving on Jeju Island was arranged by Wu Liang, the head of the Jeju colonization regiment who had come to the island earlier.

Li Xiao only put forward one request to Wu Liang, that is, to open up wasteland as soon as possible and give priority to ensuring grain production.

On the morning of that day, as soon as Li Xiaogang and the officials returned from Longkou Port, a soldier came urgently to report that the imperial court had sent a eunuch to announce the decree and had arrived at Chifengwei today.

Hearing this news, Li Xiao hurriedly led the main generals and important officials to sweep the streets, prepare incense cases, and kneel down to greet them in the official hall and courtyard of Chifeng City.

At the beginning of the hour, the eunuchs who came to announce the decree led the crowd to Chifeng City, followed by the officials of Chifengwei, and introduced them into the official hall of the inner city.

As soon as the eunuch entered the official hall, Li Xiao glanced at it and saw that this person was a middle-aged eunuch with a dark expression, wearing a three-mountain hat with gold shaking wings, and a purple robe with a cluster of brocade pythons.

Different from the dark and obscene eunuch Wang Kun that Li Xiao had seen in Xuanfu Town a few years ago, this Xuanzhi eunuch, who was also dressed in a purple robe and python suit, looked like a square temperament, peaceful eyes, and a bit of elderness.

The middle-aged eunuch walked into the courtyard, looked around casually, and saw that the courtyard had been cleaned and tidy, and on a long table of glazed pear flowers and wood, incense tables and flowers had been placed, and the cigarettes were curling.

Seeing that Li Xiao's greeting arrangement was so appropriate and respectful, the eunuch nodded with satisfaction.

"Li Xiao, the left governor of Shandong Chifeng, received the order."

The middle-aged eunuch unfolded the holy decree and let out a long sigh of Gorry.

Li Xiao took a few steps forward, brushed the ground and waved his clothes, knelt on the ground and arched his hands, and said in a deep voice: "Minister, Li Xiao takes the order." ”

The middle-aged chief eunuch with the bright yellow silk cloth in his hand was not in a hurry to read the decree aloud, but first looked Li Xiao up and down, with a faint smile on his face, before he began to read it aloud.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said: Shandong Chifeng left governor Li Xiao, gallop to drive the king, loyal and commendable, play the best friends, prestige in foreign lands, save North Korea at the moment of a thousand jun, retreat from the Tartars at the time of the merit, such a miraculous feat, brilliant, I heard the report, I am very happy. Li Xiao is loyal and righteous, a pioneer of the king, a pioneer in the trouble, a pillar of the imperial court, and a dry city of the country. Such a great achievement, can be praised for its achievements and not praised for it? I should follow the will of the emperor's ancestors who will be rewarded for their meritorious service, and I hereby specially named Li Xiao as the Red Phoenix Uncle, giving coupons, iron coupons, 1,000 stones, and hanging the seal of 'Conquest General', and attacking the lord for generations, and will not replace it for eternity. After the Ministry of War verifies the meritorious service of the department, the meritorious service of the department will be discussed and rewarded according to the merits. In addition, Li Xiao was promoted to the chief military officer of the regimental training of Dengzhou Prefecture, and the guard posts of all prefectures and counties in Dengzhou were under his jurisdiction, and the soldiers and civilians in his place were all governed by him. I hope that Li Xiao will guard against arrogance and be unscrupulous, and add to his achievements, govern the locality, raise the people, fulfill his duties, and work hard to prosper. Chin Jai。。。。。 ”

After the middle-aged eunuch read this long holy decree, he was so dry that he subconsciously swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva.

Li Xiao knelt on the ground and listened to his reading, although he tried to keep a calm look on his face, but the more he listened, the more shocked his heart became.

The magnitude of the emperor's reward was really beyond his expectations.

Hang the "Capture General"

This is not a big deal, because at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the commanders in important positions in their books could obtain the rank of hang-up general.

If Zu Dashou is in Jinzhou, he will be crowned the forward general and hang the seal of the forward general.

Another example is the Qianshan Customs General Man Gui, who once hung the seal of the general of the conquest, and in the later real history, the general of the Ping thief and the seal of the Hubei General Commander Zuo Liangyu.

In addition, there are many people who have been awarded the seal of the general of the edict, such as Qin Liangyu who was awarded the seal of the general Zhendong, and his son Ma Xianglin who was awarded the seal of the hussar general.

Among the generals with seals, only Ma Xianglin was the deputy chief soldier and the title of hussar general.

Of course, his identity is somewhat special, first, he is a toast, and the court rewards his general Yin Duo with the intention of wooing.

Second, the two families of Qin and Ma, since the three dynasties, have been loyal to the imperial court, and have repeatedly sent troops to fight against the king, and pioneered the king.

It's just that the emperor wants to crown himself as a hereditary earl, which is unfortunate.

It is said that since the Zhou Dynasty, China has a system of duke, marquis, uncle, son, male, and five lords, and the Western aristocratic hierarchy system in later generations is actually just a translation of the name of the ancient Chinese title.

Of course, because in modern history, Western civilization and science and technology are very strong, far surpassing China under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so the world has a better understanding of the Western title system, and some people do not know its origin, and even think that the title system evolved from the West to China, which is a big fallacy.

This fifth-class title, which lasted for thousands of years, basically did not change, but in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang thought that the fifth-class title was too troublesome.

In the Ming Dynasty, in addition to meritorious heroes and relatives, there were also children of eunuchs and leaders of ethnic minorities.

Those who receive iron coupons are hereditary knights, otherwise they are lords.

The raid also depends on whether it has a coupon (also known as the Danshu, which is the origin of the Danshu iron coupon) to approve the world's flow and removal.

The title is hereditary, or the same generation inherits this title, or demotes to the inheritance, such as the marquis and hereditary earl.

It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that the knighthood would be too indiscriminate, so he forcibly stipulated that all knights who were not for social military merits could not be sealed, and titles could not be given unless they were specially intended, so in the Ming Dynasty, even liujue was quite rare, not to mention the hereditary titles such as iron coupons.

You must know that Li Chengliang, the former uncle of Ningyuan, fought with the Mongols in the northeast for a lifetime in exchange for the position of this earl, and he is still a liujue, and his son Li Rusong cannot inherit it.

Li Rusong was finally named Ning Yuanbo, or because in the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, Li Rusong, who was fifty years old at the time, was killed in the battle with the Mongolian tribes.

Of course, by the time of the Southern Ming Dynasty, because the emperor had no soldiers and no power, in order to win over the military leaders from all over the country, he began to indiscriminately seal the title, resulting in the originally very valuable famous lords of the imperial court becoming stalls on the street.

Now Emperor Chongzhen has given such a young Li Xiao, the hereditary title of earl, which is a very rare honor.

It's just that in Li Xiao's heart, what really shocked him the most was the promotion of the imperial court to the position of chief military officer of Dengzhou Mansion.

If the imperial court only promoted itself to be the chief soldier of the regimental training of Dengzhou Mansion, it was nothing, at this time, there were many soldiers in various towns in the Ming Dynasty, and various places had gradually become indiscriminate, like Li Xiao himself, who had been the chief soldier of Chifeng in the past.

What Li Xiao didn't expect at all was that Chongzhen would trust himself so much, and the chief military officer he gave himself was a management model that greatly violated the ancestral system and gave him military power and governing power.

This model, to put it mildly, can be regarded as a real power moderation, but to say that it is ugly, it is tantamount to a feudal town-like existence.

In fact, for the current Li Xiao, Chongzhen handed over the Dengzhou Mansion to him to manage, and he did not have much joy in his heart.

Because now that he has Taiwan and Jeju, he is no longer as desperate for land as he was a few years ago.

Now, apart from only wanting to obtain the city of Dengzhou to build a shipyard and garrison sailors, he is not interested in obtaining the county guards of the states and counties of Dengzhou Prefecture where the land is barren.

Of course, it is also a rare good thing that the emperor can hand over the Dengzhou Mansion to his own governance.

can get more land and people, Li Xiao laughed at himself.

Li Xiao's heart quickly began to think about it.

This Emperor Chongzhen arranged himself like this, but what did he plan?

"Li Xiao, don't get the order and thank you soon."

The middle-aged eunuch let out a low snort, which brought the pensive Li Xiao back to his senses.

"Minister, thank you, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

A smile bloomed on Li Xiao's face, and he took the decree from the eunuch who announced the decree.

Subsequently, Li Xiaofu received the python robe and jade belt and the earl's waist card given to him by the emperor from the eunuch.

The python costume has a four-clawed dragon on the front chest and back, and the bottom is the Jiangya seawater, which is very similar to the dragon gon dress worn by the emperor, but the difference is that the dragon embroidered is one less claw than the five-clawed golden dragon on the dragon robe.

To be able to get the python suit, it can be described as a great honor, like in the official history, Yang Sichang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and later Xue Guoguan, the first assistant and others, have been rewarded by the python suit, the emperor's move, on behalf of Wang Dou's status in his heart, has been the same weight as Yang Sichang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and others, can be said to be quite important.

The earl's waist card received by Li Xiao is made of ivory jade, which is the highest grade of benevolence, beautifully carved, smooth in shape, with the ornament of dragon dancing and panyun, and there are round holes up and down, and jade silk is worn to facilitate hanging.

This kind of benevolent waist card is specially worn by those who are super good lords such as dukes, marquis, and uncles.

Li Xiao, who was holding the python robe and jade belt and the earl's waist card, was full of emotion in his heart.

He suddenly remembered that when he went to Zhongtun in Guangning to join the army, he got the waist card made of fir wood, which was crude and humble compared with this ivory jade plate.

When the sun set, he joined the army, did he ever think that one day, he would become the red phoenix uncle of the Ming Dynasty.

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As soon as Li Xiao handed over these rewards to his subordinates, the eunuch who announced the decree said to Li Xiao with a smile: "Uncle Chifeng, congratulations to our family, Uncle Chifeng is so young, but he is in such a high position, and he is so valued by the emperor, he is really a masterpiece." You must know that if the prince enters the army, he can be in charge of the five prefectures and the six armies, and if he comes out, he can lead the general seal as the generalissimo, the president's soldiers and horses, and the Caogang under his jurisdiction, which is the existence of the country's pillars. ”

Li Xiao said with a smile: "How can Li be so trustworthy, he can make the emperor so trustworthy, and I am really ashamed in my heart." But I don't know that this father-in-law, his surname? ”

The eunuch said with a smile: "Our Wang Chengen is also, he has to be sent by the emperor, and he has come to Chifengwei to announce the decree." ”

"Oh, it turned out to be the prince."

Hearing Wang Chengen's self-report, Li Xiao felt a tingling in his heart.

In his mind, Wang Chengen's historical life quickly emerged.

Wang Chengen, is a native of Bai'an Township, Xingtai City, Hebei Province, originally under the name of the eunuch Cao Huachun, in the later period of Chongzhen, because of his hard work, loyal to Chongzhen, so he won the trust of Chongzhen, and finally successfully became the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, on the morning of March 19, when Li Zicheng entered the city of Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen, who had rebelled against his relatives, climbed the coal mountain and hanged himself on the crooked old locust tree near the Shouhuang Pavilion on the mountainside.

Subsequently, the loyal eunuch Wang Chengen, after crying and worshipping the corpse of Emperor Chongzhen three times, also hanged himself on the begonia tree next to him.

And in front of him, Wang Chengen, the eunuch who accompanied Chongzhen to hang in history, was standing in front of him with a smile, which made Li Xiao suddenly have an illusion of confusing history.

However, Li Xiao quickly recovered from the reverie of history, and said to Wang Chengen with a smile: "My father-in-law came from afar to announce the decree, and the road was hard. ”

The smile on Wang Chengen's face suddenly became brighter and brighter: "Uncle Chifeng's heart, if our family doesn't accept it, it will be disrespectful." ”

Li Xiao laughed, and then ordered someone to send 500 taels of snowflake pattern silver for Wang Chengen to accept.

After Wang Chengen laughed and accepted it, Li Xiao also rewarded his entourage according to their ranks, so everyone was happy.

Subsequently, Li Xiao arranged a feast to entertain Wang Chengen and his party.

During the banquet, Li Xiao and Wang Chengen talked and laughed Yan Yan, and their words were deed, but the relationship between the two became closer and closer.

After the banquet, Wang Chengen still had to go to Dengzhou to preach and demote Chen Hongfan, the chief soldier of Denglai, to the holy decree of the general soldier of Laizhou, so he politely refused Li Xiao's invitation to stay, and took a group of entourages to say goodbye to Li Xiao.

After Li Xiaogong sent Wang Chengen and the others out of Chifeng City, he changed into a python robe and jade belt, and a benevolent ivory waist card that showed the identity of the earl, and at the same time wore a hinged gold hair crown and thick-soled court boots, which made him more and more noble and graceful, and his heroism was extraordinary.

A group of generals and soldiers, when they saw Chifengbo Li Xiao standing on the high platform, they actually had an indescribable bearing of dominating the world, and they all applauded loudly and cheered in unison.

Their voices, like rolling spring thunder, swept through the entire Red Phoenix City.

"Chi Fengbo, Wan Sheng!"

"General Zheng, Wan Sheng!"

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