Chapter 128: When the title is in hand, everyone is happy!
The detoxified salt is shoveled out of the pot, which is about two catties and three catties, which is much more efficient than boiling salt in seawater, and it seems to be semi-refined salt.
Twenty catties of mine salt and lake salt produced three and a half catties of coarse and fine salt, which is simply a miracle.
Zhu Zilong, the cottage emperor, pretended to take it and took it over, with his expression on his face, and said with an exaggerated smile: "Three catties, okay, there are countless salt mines on the side of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, as well as in my Huangzhuang mining area. Wouldn't it be a casual monthly production capacity of millions of catties of salt. Hahaha, the period of replenishment of the treasury is also just around the corner! ”
"Long live the Lord, long live the Lord, this is still auspicious from the sky, God bless me Daming!" Cao Huachun and the other eunuchs, as well as the palace maids, and even the queen and others finally knelt down.
Everyone sang God bless me Daming, the emperor Shengming.
This is not more than the usual sycophancy, but really happy. After all, the eunuchs and palace maids, as well as the people in the palace, all came from the weaving bureau and various taxes, as well as mine revenues.
The production of official salt was once not high, so that private salt was popular, and now Zhu Zilong's body has introduced the method of salt transfer, which can increase the proportion of official salt, and the income of people in the palace can be stabilized not to mention that it is only a little, who doesn't like it?
It's everyone's benefit!
Emperor Zhu Zilong finished laughing, and thought to himself, this method was contributed by Lao Tzu's body, you people can make sycophants, but you have to cooperate with me for a while!
There are also several members of the cabinet here, who are also kneeling.
While the iron is hot, Zhu Zilong smiled in front of everyone, lifted the pen, and wrote on the screen, "My son of the dragon, a good talent from the sky!" "Numbers!
"Someone, the purpose." In the next second, Zhu Zilong waved his hand.
So, not long after.
The people of Zhujiazhuang found that Jingran had another holy decree.
It was Wang Chengen who announced the decree, and the horse came over 800 miles, which fully demonstrated the importance of Zhu Zilong's body.
Lao Wang wears a black coat on his head, inlaid with a piece of white jade, wears a soap-colored round-necked robe, a soap-colored leather belt around his waist, and a pair of thin-soled fast boots under his feet.
I rested at the inn for a long time, and after relieving my breath, I came over immediately.
When he saw Zhu Zilong's body, he smiled before speaking: "Alas, this must be the son of Zilong who presented the auspicious salt method." Your Majesty's face is happy, and I have specially ordered our family to come in the starry night, I want to take a good look at my Ming genius for Your Majesty, and I really show a talent when I see it today. ”
Zhu Zilong made a little etiquette and replied: "This adult is smiling, the adult has come to announce the decree, and there is a lot of trouble." ”
After speaking, Zhu Zilong's body was about to pretend to kneel down to receive the order.
Wang Chengen hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Zhu Zilong's body and knelt down, and said sharply: "Zilong Gongzi still has people who have made great contributions, and His Majesty has already explained before he came, so that Zilong Gongzi does not have to salute when he receives orders in the future." Your Majesty has always been eager for talent, and our family can't afford to be an adult. ”
Zhu Zilong thought to himself, you react quickly, remember not to let my brother kneel, not bad, not bad.
If I really wait for Boss Ben to kneel, you will come and pull me up. Turning back, my soul will be attached back to the emperor's clone, and I will definitely kill your head.
After the polite words of both sides, it began to enter the official begin.
"Fengtian carries the emperor, the edict says; Today, there is a maritime envoy surnamed Zhu Zilong, who has been adhering to the good and restrained since he was a child...... (Thousands of words omitted below)"
This holy decree was recited for more than ten minutes, leaving Zhu Zilong speechless, and everyone in Zhujiazhuang except him was kneeling. I don't know if it's the amendment added to the will drafted by that bastard in the cabinet!
Finally, I finally finished listening.
Zhu Zilong got what he wanted, the last sentence of his will, the title of county boy that he had known for a long time.
From today onwards, he is a baron!
After Wang Chengen finished reciting the holy decree, he put on a smiling face and bowed his hand again and again: "Congratulations to the lord, congratulations to the lord, he is an eighteen-year-old man, and his day is just around the corner." ”
Zhu Zilong replied with a smile: "My brother is grateful. With this good news, how can you let the adults go home empty-handed, a little respect, and I hope you don't dislike it. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Ma Xiaosan came over with five hundred taels of silver and more than a dozen boxes of viagra (standard gifts).
Wang Chengen took the tray with a smile, and sincerely saluted Zhu Zilong's body with his heart: "Thank you for your reward." ”
Now the price of viagra on the black market is almost more than 100 taels per tree, and the gift of Zhu Zilong's body, if exchanged for silver, is only worth tens of thousands of taels or nearly 10,000 taels, which is not insignificant. It is the huge effect of viagra on the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, which makes them the favorite.
Zhu Zilong's body was also happy, and he asked Wang Chengen to send more than a dozen large boxes back to the palace, which contained new modern products and gravity electric lights!
In addition, in addition to Zhu Zilong's own baronial title, he also rewarded more than 2,000 acres of land as a reward!
That is to say, with the addition of the previous one, Zhu Zilong's fertile land can reach 20,000 mu now, and there are nearly 10,000 mu of forests and seaside wasteland.
The Ming Dynasty's knighthood system was divided into two systems: the clan and the meritorious relatives, and the separation of the king and the prince and the male fifth rank was a major feature of the Ming Dynasty that distinguished it from previous dynasties.
Generally speaking, lords only have titles and emeralds, and no longer have fiefdoms. However, the titles of duke, marquis and other titles can be given iron coupons according to the situation to show that they have made outstanding achievements and the emperor's grace is immense.
Like Zhu Zilong, who rewarded the land at the beginning, it can only be said that he won the heart of the emperor. (TM's self made himself an official, of course, he won the emperor's heart)!
In fact, there are many officials who oppose the title of this lord to Zhu Zilong's body. But because the forces of the Donglin Party and other civil officials have not become bigger as a whole, and there are eunuch forces and imperial power to suppress one or two, so they have a tie with each other, and Zhu Zilong's side has a tendency to suppress.
Zhu Zilong's emperor doppelganger's attitude towards this opposition was to learn from Emperor Wanli and leave all of them behind. Just let Huang Li, an obedient university scholar in the cabinet, act very cheaply. (Help the emperor block the black cauldron)!
(Huang Liji was a Jinshi in the thirty-second year of Wanli.) Tired officials and young Zhan Shi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites. After Ming Xizong ascended the throne, he became a close confidant of Wei Zhongxian, and in the fifth year of the Apocalypse (1625), he was promoted to the Ministry of Rites, and was also a scholar of Dongge University. )
The title of the Ming Dynasty was a way for the emperor to reward meritorious heroes, so that those meritorious heroes who were already extremely popular could continue to be improved in terms of earnings.
It is divided into five classes, the prince and the boy, each title is different, and the power will be correspondingly different, but when it comes to the power of the title, it is not large, especially in the Ming Dynasty.
Titles can also be divided into hereditary and contemporary, hereditary means that if you die, as long as you have a son, you can have a son to inherit your title; In contemporary times, this title can only be taken by you, and your son has no right to inherit it.
Zhu Zilong's body has not contributed potatoes yet, and it is not good to make himself a higher-level knighthood now, and naturally it is not hereditary.
However, it is only a matter of time.
Oh, I almost forgot to say it.
In order to show his favor, Zhu Zilong also arranged for himself a large number of carpenters and craftsmen in the palace to come over, in order to help him repair the mansion.
Moreover, you don't have to return afterwards, which is equivalent to sending a large number of scientific and technological talents to yourself.
These people can be said to be all class craftsmen, although the period of service of class craftsmen is not long, but because of the operation of the Beijing division, they are extremely tired.
As for the personal injury of the craftsmen by the brutal officials, it is even more unspeakable. In the fourteenth year of Jiajing (1535), Xia Yan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, impeached Hu Sizhongyun, a waiter for the foreman: "The loyal steward is two days, and thirteen craftsmen are injured, and the battle is unbearable!"
This is a classic example, much more than that. In addition, although there were regulations on the length of service of craftsmen, the government could still rely on feudal privileges to force craftsmen to work longer. For example, the craftsmen of Jingdezhen Imperial Ware Factory have "served for more than 20 years without stopping"!
Now that they have brought their families over, they will be exempted from military service in the future, and Zhu Zilong himself also said that the benefits given will be raised to a higher level, and basically these craftsmen in the palace are happy.
To be able to live in Zhujiazhuang for a long time, almost no one of them expressed opposition, and everyone was very motivated to treat their work.
It can be said that everyone is happy!