Chapter 121: Interlude at the Bestowal Ceremony (1)

January 1940 in the republican calendar was destined to be an important and joyful turning point, in which the new imperial axe promulgated 40 laws in one fell swoop, with unimaginably high efficiency. In order to ensure that the legal documents and booklets printed and distributed in each county covered each county, almost all the paper in stock was used up.

According to the plan and schedule for the founding of the country, the initial establishment of the legal system is only in fourth place, and after grasping the barrel of the gun and the money bag, it is to grasp public opinion and calm the people's minds. No one could surpass the masses in the field of public opinion and propaganda, a level that was impossible for any country or organization of the same era, and thousands of newspapers, large and small, covered almost the entire Far East (including Southeast Asia and the holding newspaper companies and media established in countries such as Goryeo and Liaoxia). Therefore, in the grasp of the people's hearts, only the gap of fulfilling the promise has not been closed, which is also the most important thing in the final stage of the success of all great causes, and it is also the main condition for maintaining the credibility of the people. It was the great strength and the strength that united all the people who crossed the crowd that won the final victory. Merit-based distribution of the fruits of victory is one of the countless written or verbal promises made with partners and students and employees.

The most important thing after holding the power is to divide the fruits of victory, and learning from the experience of the ancestors will naturally divide the titles and distribute the benefits and honors to all the meritorious heroes. For example, in order to appease people's hearts and let all those in the know not be entangled in the ambivalence that their titles cannot be higher than those who cross the public, Li Hao naturally wants to give himself the highest title of the first-class dragon hero who helped him ascend the throne, that is, the king side by side, and his title is hereditary, second to the emperor and higher than the prince, and it belongs to the super-grade title.

As for his former classmates and friends (all of whom are subordinates and cadres of the Crossing Public), they will naturally be awarded the corresponding titles according to the status within the Chenji Group, the treatment given by the position contribution and the system, and the instructions of the Crossing Public. From the first-class king to the third-class male (king, duke, marquis, uncle, son, male six levels of titles, each level is divided into 123 grades, corresponding to the nine-rank eighteen-level official position. It also corresponds to the six administrative levels of national, provincial and ministerial level, department level, county and department level, township section level, and section level).

According to the system, after the founding of the country, the new title must have corresponding merits, such as the merit of expanding the land, military merit, major technology research and development, improvement of people's livelihood and many other conditions and prerequisites to enter the knighthood. Some officials have worked hard in China all their lives, and they can only be mixed with third-class men to become high-ranking officials at the provincial and ministerial levels; Some officials can expand their territory or educate tens of thousands of indigenous barbarians after working overseas for a few years, and they can get the title of second-class marquis at once. This system is a very fair system that seeks opinions from multiple parties, and strives to match the risks and payments with the gains such as knighthoods, and there are basically no opinions and dissatisfaction internally.

Before the founding ceremony, no one knew who this emperor was, and after the founding ceremony, not many people felt the presence of this emperor. Except for those who saw the signatures and seals on legal documents and the portraits of emperors on some occasions, there were few people who thought that the new emperors had anything in common with the emperors of the past. Li Hao's appearances in public are out of state needs, either for diplomatic visits or for document stamping, or for various festivals or state banquets and ceremonies as a mascot. It's basically a humanoid stamp and mascot. Compared to the emperor function of a bygone era, this function is almost like the difference between the size of sand and Everest.

In order to maintain the national body and national image, the top leaders of this new category of countries are even more depressed than Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, and they can't do anything out of the cabinet. Words and deeds should conform to the image of the Celestial Empire, if it weren't for the surprisingly good surname and hard work, Li Hao would not have taken this drudgery. Not to mention crossing the crowd, even children don't want to do these things every day.

A vast majority of people in the new system are looking forward to the day before the Dragon Boat Festival in 1940, that is, the first batch of military and political dignitaries in the Chinese Empire officially conferred knighthood and title awarding ceremony, before this ceremony, all officials and personnel implanted in the administrative system are hanging the transitional political axe This nondescript sign in the office, the meaning of the existence of this short-lived transitional political axe is to completely eradicate the tradition of military power divine grant, did not hold the so-called Zen and other ceremonies, and raised a puppet emperor who crossed the public to act as a monarch [*** Like the head of state of the transition of the parliamentary system in the maki. Li Hao also knew the intention of crossing the crowd, and was willing to do this job of being idle and decent.

The titles of the Chinese Empire are basically the same as the imperial titles, which are fictitious titles in name only, just symbolizing that the owner has certain honors and merits, and are a kind of status and privileges in exchange for contributions to the country (for example, the property under its private name can be exempted from a certain amount of taxes, and the percentage of reduction and exemption according to the level of the title is not more than half of the tax payable, and the right to consult the secret archives of the corresponding level and other small privileges that do not involve national sovereignty, There are no old-fashioned privileges involving the judicial power of the state, such as the use of knighthood for crime or the acquittal of murder. )

Getting a knighthood means entering the upper class in the true sense of the word, and the baronial title is just a ticket, and a duke is not a rarity. Almost every cabinet minister has a dukedom, but some are hereditary and some are not. There are three kinds of titles, the first is naturally a hereditary title, which is called a pure gold title by the people, which means that it will never change color or depreciation. The second is that the duke's son is reduced to a marquis, and after five generations it is a commoner, this kind of title is called a gold-encrusted title, which has a gold value but is smaller than pure gold, and its value will wear out and disappear with time. The third is that the title that can only be enjoyed by oneself cannot be passed on to future generations, and this kind of lifetime title is of least value, and is generally only awarded to senior elderly technocrats who have contributed but have little risk, also known as gilded titles, which are basically worthless compared to the first two.

Since the title of the new dynasty does not have a fief, it is basically meaningless to receive an extra treasury title allowance. The emperor received a year's allowance of 1.2 million dragon yuan, 1 million for the first-class prince, 900,000 for the second-class prince, 800,000 for the third-class prince, 60 to 750,000 for the duke, 400,000 to 500,000 for the marquis, 200,000 to 300,000 for the earl, 80,000 to 160,000 for the viscount, and 10,000 to 60,000 for the baron. This allowance generally does not equal up to 1% of the annual tax paid by the nobles on their own private property, and can be said to be only a symbolic privilege.

Titles can be exchanged cumulatively, and through the continuous establishment of meritorious deeds, the people who get lifelong titles can exchange high-level titles for low-level gold-inlaid titles, such as a lifelong duke for a gold-inlaid earl. The gold-encrusted duke was replaced by a hereditary baron. This system was also established to encourage the nobles to make more achievements and strive to improve their titles.