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However, although being cheated by Li Mo made Xiaotian very unhappy, this unhappy mood was quickly diluted by a series of happy events.

There are four happy events in life, the night of candles in the cave room, the title of the gold list, the long drought and the rain, and the old acquaintance in another country. Xiao Tian caught up with the two of them in one go, and it was nothing to be unhappy.

Wait, wait, wait, the day of the official marquis has finally arrived.

To tell the truth, the word marquis has no impression on people no matter how old they are, because Daming has indeed not been a marquis for too long.

Since ancient times, non-military merits are not marquis, when a dynasty has just been established, it must be a situation where the prince is all over the place, and the baron is not as good as the dog, but with the passage of time, especially in the civil politics of the Ming Dynasty, the title of the prince is almost all posthumously sealed, that is, after the death of the person, it cannot be hereditary.

Can you make a dead person jump out of a coffin and be sealed? Of course not, so Xiao Tian's marquis this time is really a sensation in the world.

In order to show his attention, Jiajing even deliberately asked people to build a Fenghou Jintai. It is covered with gold bricks with a square surface of one meter (in fact, it is also a type of high-end tile, but it is indeed very expensive), and it is said that it cost nearly 20,000 taels of silver.

The majestic Imperial Forest Army stood tall and had a murderous atmosphere, blocking the onlookers from the safety line, and those who were a little farther away could see a shadow. Fenghou is the highest honor of a soldier, and they can contribute a little bit to this grand ceremony, and they also feel honored, and they all show their best spirit and show their most handsome side, in case they are taken by a big girl and a little daughter-in-law.

Of course, the inner guards are the Jinyi Guards of the Son of Heaven's pro-army, don't think that the Jinyi Guards are full of spies, a considerable number of them, their work is actually a guard of honor, it is really nonsense to say how high the force value of these people is, and no one who is really capable is willing to enter this part.

These brocade guards who are in charge of the honor guard, the biggest selection rule is handsome. All of them are big men, with angular facial features, wearing flying fish robes with brushes, and they are guarding the Jiajing Emperor in the middle with neat steps.

Today, Daojun Emperor Jiajing rarely took off his Taoist robe and attended the ceremony very solemnly. Everywhere Xiao Tian's footsteps were tread, there were flowers all over the ground, which fully showed the importance that the imperial court attached to this feudal marquis.

Although Xiaotian is not a person who attaches importance to hypocrisy, this grand scene still makes him a little proud. Looking at the enthusiasm of the people in the city, and looking at the envious eyes of the officials below, Xiao Tian felt what the scenery was for the first time in his life.

Especially when he thought that he would marry his beautiful lady as a marquis soon after, Xiaotian's heart was as sweet as smearing honey, looking at the old man in the audience holding back his happiness in his heart, and pretending to be serious and stupid on his face, just like he was his son.

What is Success? There are countless interpretations of this word in modern times, but in the Ming Dynasty, at this moment, Xiaotian is success, he is the representative of success, he is the example of Dick Si, and it is the goal that talented people are competing to catch up.

Jiajing solemnly handed over the marquis's golden seal to Xiao Tian, and from the moment Xiao Tian took it, his identity as the Marquis of Dingyuan was confirmed.

In Europe, the most important step of the marquis is to take an oath, the monarch will solemnly hand over a sword to the marquis, and the marquis will have a lot of ink, and finally make his oath of loyalty, that is to say, the European marquis ceremony is actually a process of swearing allegiance.

Of course, this set is not needed in the Ming Dynasty, this is the centralization of monarchy, because whether you are a marquis or not, you must be loyal to the monarch or not. There is no need to emphasize anything that is a matter of course.

However, although there is no need to take an oath, the canonization ceremony of the Ming Dynasty is much more complicated than that of Europe. Everything in Europe is theocratic, which means that no matter what you do, there will be a god involved. And God has an agent in the world, so the princes of Europe are loyal in both directions, both to his monarch and to his god, which is why the European Holy See is so powerful.

However, in the end, the European side is just taking two vows, and as soon as a few words are over, the banquet can be held.

This is not the case on the Ming side, there is no god in the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming people have ancestors. Therefore, all major activities and ceremonies in the Ming Dynasty, including the feudal marquis, need to worship the heavens upwards and ancestors downwards.

Heaven and ancestors have no agents, and naturally there will be no ancestor who jumps out against you or the like, so this has become a pure form, since there is only one form left, then in order to show respect for God and ancestors, it is natural to make all the vain etiquette and details to the extreme.

Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, worshipping the heavens and ancestors is far from saying a few words of like in Europe. There is also a place that is different from the Europeans, the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, not only their own ancestors, but also such a major event as the marquis needs to be reported to the emperors, so Xiaotian went to worship the ancestors of Jiajing before worshipping his ancestors.

For decades, Xiao Tian was the first person who was neither a eunuch nor a surname Zhu but could enter the Taimiao, which really made the bigwigs in the cabinet red-eyed with envy.

Xiao Tian participated in the marquis ceremony for a whole day, and felt that the reason why Daming was so complicated was because Daming was rich. In Europe, no matter how complicated the ceremony, a palatial palace is enough to meet all your requirements, but in Daming it's a joke. In the Ming Dynasty, there is a golden platform for the seal, worship ancestors, and there is a royal temple. Their ancestors are still lying in the ancestral temple in their hometown of Shaoxing, and they have to go back to worship sooner or later.

The most important thing is that these things can't be in the same place yet. The four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest have their own exquisiteness. Xiao Tian's one-day journey to the marquis, most of the time was actually spent on the road between these places.

In order to express his compulsion, Xiaotian also deliberately recited a poem (plagiarism) on the Fenghou Jintai: Xiaozhu gradually rests down, and there is an old alliance when he is worried. Calling the bottle to greet the guests, waving the dust and sitting and talking. The cloud guard toothpick is full, and the star contains a sword. I don't want to wait, but I hope the sea is flat.

Look, it's more appropriate. Such a poem that is suitable for the occasion, not more than sorry for their identity, this poem has soared in the hearts of the people as soon as the worship value of the people rises.

The original author of this poem should be Qi Jiguang, who did it in middle age, and now Qi Jiguang is his little brother, and it is an unchanging unspoken rule for the leader to grab the scenery of the younger brother, so Xiaotian is so justified for the first time when he is a copyist.

When it was all over in the evening, although Xiao Tian was excited, he also felt physically and mentally exhausted. When he first got home, he was almost exhausted like a dead dog. Fortunately, there is still a period of time before the big wedding, and if this is a continuous rotation, Xiaotian estimates that he can't help but escape from the marriage.

But no matter what, Xiaotian is still cool. And he's not alone. Fenghou, this is the real glory of the ancestors. Daddy Lehe, grandmother Zhang, uncles and aunts, are all excited and can't sleep.

Not only that, from the top to the county order, they talked about this matter all day long. This is not a matter of Xiao Tian alone, this is a major event of the entire Ming Dynasty. What does this mean? It means that the road of the Ming Dynasty has been reopened.

The military warriors have a goal again, and one by one they decide to fight bravely to kill the enemy in the future, and strive for their own glory. The scholar who thought he was talented was not willing to be lonely, and began to study hard all night. Although it is said that non-military merits are not marquis, after all, a large part of Xiaotian's merits have nothing to do with military merits, he is actually more like a businessman.

Especially potatoes and corn, two of his greatest feats. Many adventurers began to march into the deep mountains and old forests, hoping that they could also walk shit or something, and find some seeds that had not been planted before.

More choose to sail out to sea and follow the pace of Xiaotian. Many years later, history defined this day as the prologue to the Age of Discovery, and I don't even know where to get a small quote: "Do you want to be as successful as me?" Go for it! Fame, wealth, and power are all on the sea, go find them! As long as you have a dream, as long as you are brave enough, there is everything you need to find on the sea. (To be continued.) )