Sheng Tong, the loan manager of the Industrial Zone Branch of the Shanghai Branch of the Royal Bank, originally thought that this Yang Cheng was just a collateral member of the Jiujiang Yang family, but he didn't expect that after a simple conversation, he found that this person was actually a descendant of the Jiujiang Yang family.

After all, most of the capable children of the gentry have gone to study for the imperial examination to become officials, and they will come to do business, even if they are those who have no talent for studying the imperial examination, most of them would rather linger in the Qinglou, sighing and talking about the injustice of God, the shady curtain of the imperial examination, but they will not easily run to business.

There is no other reason than the low social status of merchants.

Although the Tang Dynasty did not forcibly divide household registration like the former Ming Dynasty, and engaged in military households, peasant households, business registrations and other things, the strong tradition still continued.

Over the years, Li Xuan has felt very difficult to promote the progress of the social status of soldiers, and now he has no intention of improving the social status of merchants and the like, besides, there are not many pure merchants in Datang now, regardless of whether they are ordinary trading houses or factories, most of their owners are gentry families.

Nowadays, in the process of promoting industry and commerce in the Tang Empire, most of the gentry families have gradually evolved from controlling a large amount of land in the past to controlling a large number of enterprises.

At the beginning, Li Xuan actually did not expect that in the process of directly promoting industry and commerce, the traditional gentry class would be turned into a new type of industrial and commercial class in the Tang Dynasty.

Nowadays, I often hear that a certain gentry sold the land that had become unprofitable due to the high agricultural tax and the continuous suppression of land rent, and put the money obtained from the sale of the land, plus the silver buried in the cellar for an unknown number of years, and then invested in the tide of opening a company and investing in a factory.

However, in fact, people are still those people, and even the model has not changed, it is nothing more than that I used to like to hoard land, now I like to build factories, I used to like to build a shop restaurant, and now I like to engage in various companies......

They are still gentry families, claiming to be scholarly families and eunuch families, as for you saying that they are businessmen, people can spray you in the face!

How could they do such a copper-smelling thing as business, it was all the work of the side disciples and servants, so they didn't care

Therefore, in such a big background, it is not so urgent to discuss the social status of merchants, because you don't know who to say is a pure businessman.

It is the promotion of the social status of the military that Li Xuan has always paid attention to and spent a lot of effort on.

At first, he improved the status of soldiers by improving the treatment of soldiers, but later found that this effect was not good, money is good, but it still can't really change the current state of despising or even despising soldiers in society.

Therefore, Li Xuan later made a big move: he formulated a system for officers to be transferred to civilian officials.

It stipulates that when an officer retires after a certain number of years of service, he or she may be transferred to a local civilian service.

And this is the most important measure for the Tang Dynasty to promote the social status of soldiers!

This kind of behavior of military officers turning into civilian officials blurs the boundaries between traditional military generals and civilian officials, and means that military generals can also change careers to civilian officials at any time.

The effect of this measure is not bad, and it dispels the concerns of many students when they apply for military schools, and if they apply for military schools, they can avoid worries.

If they are lucky, they will rise all the way up to become generals, or even win knighthoods and establish the prominent status of the family.

Later, in order to further promote the social and political status of the soldiers, Li Xuan simply further tightened the conditions for the award, and in the current imperial knighthood system, there are clan titles and courtier titles, and the clan, that is, Li Xuan's children and grandchildren, the clan titles they received are completely different from the titles of courtiers, and there is no comparison.

In the case of the title of courtier, there are several types of people who can be obtained, the first type is those who have made great contributions to the state, and this article is also the main reason why a small number of civil officials in the court have obtained the title, including Liu Bagou, who were knighted for this reason.

What is a person who has made great contributions to the country, simply put, it is to save the driver, save the country, to be specific, unless you block the bullet for Li Xuan, otherwise it can only be a raging force, saving the country and in crisis.

This point is not limited to anyone, and it can be awarded if the conditions are met, but the civil officials who have been knighted in the name of great merit with the state, at present, only Liu Bagou, Wang Wenhua, and Qian Mengjiu are all the earliest ministers of the dragon, if they are not knighted, the military will be even less qualified.

The second category, knighthood for military merit, this point does not need to be said in detail, most of the titles in the current empire are awarded for military merit, and even the titles of several civilian officials, that is also awarded in the name of military merit, what military merit? Provide food, weapons, and ammunition to the army!

The third type is the scientific research knighthood, as long as you are smart enough, awesome enough, and make amazing research or inventions, the knighthood will be properly obtained.

The fourth category is the knighthood of relatives, which is the most goldless, and it is also clearly stipulated that those who are knighted by relatives will be awarded the highest viscount.

At the same time, it is also stipulated that non-military merits cannot be crowned marquis, and non-national salvation merits cannot be crowned dukes, as for the hereditary replacement, even if it is only a hereditary replacement after the hereditary to the baron, it is also extremely difficult.

Among the above articles, the three, one, three, four, and three are actually like the moon in the water for ordinary people, and it is unlikely that they will be awarded the title through these three ways, and the only feasible one is to be knighted with military merit.

However, the question is, why do these scholars want to obtain this noble title?

You must know that in terms of the current aristocratic system of the Tang Empire, it is all a virtual lord system.

At present, in the aristocratic system of the Tang Dynasty, there are no fiefs for the nobles, and even other political privileges are not given, only part of the ceremonial treatment and Yulu, although this Yulu is not small, but compared with political privileges and the like, it is still of little use.

To a certain extent, in fact, the current noble title of the Tang Dynasty is just a title!

It is not like the title of military general and aristocracy in the Ming Dynasty, which can directly run over to become a senior general, or even succeed the father and son.

In the Tang Dynasty, if you want to be an officer, you have to apply for the martial arts school or the sea school, if you want to be a senior officer, you have to read an imperial school, the imperial school is a comprehensive higher military academy of the general nature of further education for the army and navy and the Guards, with three branches, namely the army branch, the Guards branch, the navy branch, the three major branches of the military are distinct, although they are all in Jinling City, but in fact, their campuses are not the same place, and the management is even more separate, but they have the name of the imperial school.

This kind of military school system and examination system is actually to prevent a large number of mediocre people from entering the army, and if the children of the nobility have no talent, it is basically impossible to apply for the military school.

But then again, if the children of the nobility have a little passable ability, with the high-level education they can receive since childhood, as long as they work hard, it is not a big problem to be admitted to the military school.

This difference is basically that the children in the city are about the same as the children in the countryside who are admitted to college, and if everyone has the same IQ and level of effort, the children of the city people will definitely have better grades because they can enjoy better educational resources.

In the Tang Dynasty, the position of a general cannot be inherited by the father and the son, which can be regarded as a big difference between the aristocracy of the Tang Dynasty and the aristocracy of the Ming Dynasty.

The aristocracy has no fiefdom and no political privileges, so why is it that a large number of people still squeeze their heads to get a noble title, and those who already have a title want to get a higher title?

This question, in fact, can also be put into the question of why the military generals have always supported the global strategy of the Son of Heaven, and they have been actively preparing for war in the past two years, wanting to go north and south.

Why?

Because according to internal sources, the Son of Heaven has already talked about the fiefdom issue many times in private, saying that the world is so big, if this is defeated, it can choose some places outside the Central Plains as the fiefs of the nobles.

Although this is just a rumor, it is a clear rumor, and even when someone went to Li Xuan to inquire about the news, the Son of Heaven did not explicitly deny it positively.

Of course, the Son of Heaven also did not admit that he had said these words!

But does it matter?

This doesn't matter, after the news of the fiefdom of the nobles circulated in private, people used their imagination on their own, they thought, this world is so big, in addition to the Central Plains of China, there are so many lands in the South Seas and the North alone, not to mention West Asia, Africa and even the Americas, so many places, if the empire conquers the world, this is the lord of the world, and when the time comes, in order to suppress the barbarian natives, it is also to give the courtiers a little reward.

Great, greater than the sun, no ancients, no one after him, Li Xuan, the ancient saint who owns the whole world, the god emperor, the holy son of heaven, casually takes out the size of a fingernail, no, only one-tenth the size of a fingernail, or even one hundredth, and the insignificant land is sealed to the courtiers, that is also a remarkable number!

After all, this is Li Xuan, the Holy Son of Heaven who owns the entire world!

According to the authoritative explanation published in the Tang Dynasty newspaper, the specific meaning of Tianxia is: everything that is known, unknown, existent, and non-existent! For example, let's say you have a dream, and everything in this dream belongs to Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven!

Fiefdoms, even if it is just rumored that they may be granted fiefs in overseas places in the future, this is enough to make these people extremely excited, many people actually think that if their own merits are big enough, when they talk about fiefs in the future, is it possible for them to obtain a larger fief, such as millions of square kilometers and the like, when the time comes, they will not be able to send it.

Even if you don't have actual control over the fief, as long as you can get a part of the benefits from the fief, then it is an unimaginable benefit.

As for directly controlling the fiefdom, and then becoming a king, emperor, etc., no one thinks so, because everyone is not stupid, and they don't believe that Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, is a fool and will do this kind of thing that is enough to destroy the foundation of the empire, Li Xuan is willing, and those ministers will not be willing.

They just think that when they have a large area of land, they can make a lot of money from it!

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