On the first day of January in the third year of Xinghua, the Taiji Hall of the Dragon City Palace. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Taiji Hall is the main hall of the imperial palace, and it is also the place where the court discusses every ten years, but at this moment the Taiji Hall is full of people, and the top magnates of the Chinese Empire are gathered here, and a person comes out casually, and the lowest position is also the mayor or division commander.

Previously, they were located all over the country, but today they were all dressed up to attend this grand ceremony, including the high-ranking members of the Suzaku Legion, who confronted the Russian army in Western Siberia, and also came to the Dragon City Hall.

It is now winter, the cold weather in Western Siberia has caused the Chinese Empire and Russia, which have been at war, to temporarily stop large-scale operations, and the cold weather in northern Asia is also the reason why the Chinese Empire did not send a large number of infantry to participate in the war.

The ceremony officially began, Yan Xueyi, who was sitting on the main seat of the Taiji Palace, first made a simple speech, praising the efforts of the courtiers present for the empire.

Yan Huaxin is one of Yan Xueyi's grandfathers who is still in good health, Yan Xueyi handed over the Xungui Institute to Yan Huaxin, Yan Huaxin gladly accepted it, and said to Yan Xueyi that he would definitely deal with the affairs of the Xungui Academy.

Yan Huaxin walked in front of the ministers, opened an edict with a purple cover inlaid with a five-clawed golden dragon and began to read: "Fengtian carries the emperor's edict and says, in the second year of the founding of the country, the country and the people are safe,......, the ministers are responsible, so the ministers of the world are meritorious." ”

(Note: The phrase 'Fengtian carrier' has been frequently used since the Ming Dynasty)

After reading the first edict, Yan Huaxin put it down, picked up the top edict from the thick stack of edicts on the wooden plate held by the female official next to him, opened the edict and continued to read: "Yan Xuecai stepped forward to listen to the seal!" ”

I saw Yan Xuecai, who was sitting in the front row, leave, walked to the front of the stage in a few steps, put his right hand on his chest obliquely, and bowed to Yan Xueyi.

This etiquette was specially designed for the nobility, and if you salute someone who is higher than you, you need to bend down, and if you have equal status, you don't need to bend down.

At the same time that Yan Xuecai walked to the front, two pretty palace maids walked towards this side with wooden plates in both hands, a wooden plate with a delicate dress mainly blue, a wooden plate with a richly decorated sword, plus the edict of title canonization, these three things are witnessed as a nobleman, and these things will not be taken back again under special circumstances.

The clothes of the nobles are similar to the official uniforms of the ministers of various dynasties, which is a symbol of the status of the nobles, and the nobles usually do not need to wear this clothes, as long as they are worn in large-scale activities, the nobles have five colors: blue, blue, green, orange, and red, which correspond to the five ranks of the nobles, and the clothes of the five colors are embroidered with a blazing pig.

The sword that rewarded the nobles, originally known as the eight-sided Han sword, is now called the sword of justice, the sword of justice has a straight and upright appearance, the sword is three feet long, the sword body is long and narrow, and it is ground on eight sides.

In the traditional consciousness of the Chinese, not only people must behave properly, but even the sword must be upright, so the sword is regarded as one of the status symbols of the nobility, in addition, the ordinary decorative sword of justice will also equip the army in large quantities, replacing the command knife that officers have been using, and transforming it into a "command sword".

"Fengtian carries the emperor's edict and says, Yan Xuecai is ...... (A lot of Yan Xuecai's merits), I specially named Yan Xuecai as a first-class duke, and rewarded a mansion ......"

"Thank you, Lord Ron!"

Yan Xuecai bowed again, took the three symbols of nobility with both hands, and slowly retreated to his seat, Yan Xuecai was the only duke who appeared at today's knighthood ceremony.

Yan Xuecai is a member of the royal family, even if there is no noble title, his royal status is looked up to by countless people, but this is only the royal family in the broad sense, the royal family in the broad sense represents the entire Yan family, and the royal family in the narrow sense, the narrow royal family refers to the family composed of Yan Xueyi and Yan Xueyi's descendants.

As the Yan family becomes the top family of the Chinese Empire, the Yan family is destined to branch out, as the prime minister of the empire, and has a first-class dukedom, the family with Yan Xuecai as the head of the family will also rise rapidly, and even become a family second only to the royal family.

Yan Xuecai was sealed, and then he was awarded the title of Deputy Prime Minister of the Empire Liu Huamao, who was named a first-class marquis.

Yan Xuecai and Liu Huamao, the two highest-ranking ministers, have been awarded, and the next step is to reward ministerial-level ministers.

Minister of Finance Wang Yuanhua, Minister of Justice Zhou Ziang, Minister of Agriculture Yan Xuezhen, Minister of Commerce Xia Yangshuo, Minister of Industry Chang Botao, Minister of Health Huang Zhixin, Minister of Communications Duan Rongxuan, Minister of Education Jiang Linyu, Minister of Police Gao Yunfei, Minister of War Cheng Ying, these ten ministerial-level ministers basically followed Yan Xueyi when they started their careers, and their merits are second only to Yan Xuecai, and compared with Liu Huamao, the gap is not big, so these ten people are the same as Liu Huamao, and they were named first-class marquis.

In addition, Cao Wenbin, Minister of Intelligence, and Ding Ruchang, Minister of the Navy, were made second-class marquis, and Cai Xuwen, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shen Hongmiao, Minister of Land, Ye Ge, Minister of Energy, and Yan Ji, Minister of the Air Force, were awarded first-class uncles.

After the ministerial-level ministers were divided, they were rewarded at the level of provincial governors and army commanders, among which Zhao Gang was awarded the first-class uncle, and Xiao Yao and other 38 people were awarded the second-class uncle; In the rank of deputy governor and deputy army commander, 3 people were awarded the first class, 11 people were awarded the second class, and 25 people were awarded the third class.

Nine of the mayors and division commanders were awarded first-class males and 314 third-class males.

The above bounties are all for the Empire. Meritorious heroes of both the military and the government, a total of 420 people were rewarded.

Although at this knighthood ceremony, the main objects of knighthood are military and political heroes, but some non-military and political people were also rewarded, for example, Meng Fanxuan, director of Shencheng Shipyard, was awarded a first-class male, Zhu Qingshan, director of Jiangnan Shipyard, and Xu Xiake, deputy director of Jiangnan Shipyard, were awarded third-class males, a total of 34 people, who were awarded first-class males and third-class barons respectively.

Although these 34 people did not belong to the military and political sides, they also made a lot of contributions to the empire, so they were awarded the title of nobility by Yan Xueyi.

By awarding knighthoods to these 34 people, the Imperial Government was able to inform the citizens of the Empire that it was not only necessary to become a soldier or official to obtain a knighthood and become a nobleman, but also to succeed in other "directions".

The knighthood ceremony, which had been going on for most of the day, finally came to an end, and in the evening, a grand dinner was held in the palace, and the nobles dressed in gorgeous costumes brought their wives to the dinner, and the monarchs and ministers enjoyed themselves!

The formal establishment of the aristocratic system of the Chinese Empire not only protects the rights and interests of the heroes of the empire, but also inspires the citizens of the empire to move forward, and the establishment of the aristocratic system is a necessary guarantee for the long-term stability of the empire.

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