Chapter Ninety-Nine: A Veritable King of the North Sea

That night, Zhao Min had a dream, and he dreamed that he seemed to be back in the middle school classroom of his previous life, and the history teacher with a vague face was in class. When the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info talked about "whoever is the king, or the **** of power, or rebel to stand on his own", suddenly the teacher's face turned into the appearance of Zhao Duo with a stereotypical face, and the old-fashioned face suddenly had to be opened, and the halberd pointed at Zhao Min and said sharply: "What virtue do you have, how can you dare to steal a high position, do you have the heart of disobedience?" Immediately after the picture turned, countless soldiers armed with sharp blades appeared behind him, all with hideous faces, approaching him step by step, and the steel knife in his hand was raised, as if he was going to slash at Zhao Min!

Zhao Min was frightened, "Ah! He sat up and looked around before he realized that he was dreaming. At this time, when I touched my body again, I was full of cold sweat. Looking out the window again, it was vaguely sunrise, remembering that today was the time to issue the decree, and there was no sleepiness at the moment, so I simply got up and practiced a five-bird play, and I was sweaty, which slightly suppressed the lingering irritability in my heart, and went to take a bath, and waited until the washing stopped, and the little officials who came to pass the ceremony also arrived at this time.

Naturally, the officials came to inform the time and place of the decree, and then invited the King of the North Sea to attend at that time. Needless to say, the place where the decree was issued must be in the state office, and the time is in the middle of the hour.

By the way, in fact, the Xia Dynasty was the earliest to continue the Qin system, and the assassin was not a permanent position at the local level, and the administrative division was only at the county and county levels; It was not until the period of filial piety to the emperor that in order to strengthen the centralization of power, the number of counties and the state were set up as states according to the region, with a total of twelve states in the country, plus the division where the national capital was located, and called the thirteen states of Great Xia, and the post of assassin was added. Originally, the history of assassination was only a supervisory function, that is, similar to the function of the Audit Commission, which only had the function of supervising the submission of exams, but had no advantage in making decisions on the fly. However, due to the inconvenient transportation and underdeveloped communications industry in ancient times, many of the information checked could not be delivered to the central government before incidents arose, which was very inefficient. In order to change this situation, the assassin gradually gained the power of administrative execution, and the power also increased.

After the Red Turban Rebellion, in order to facilitate management and centralized scheduling, the post of state pastor was even set up for a short time in Jizhou, Yanzhou, and Yuzhou, where the Red Turban was the most troubled, but it was soon abolished, and this position was revoked as soon as the Red Turban Rebellion was calmed down, and the post was changed back to the supervision system of the assassination history. However, in order to avoid falling into the truth, the original 2,000 stones of the Thorn History and the county guard were adjusted to the middle 2,000 stones, although on the bright side they are still the same as the county guards of the same three-rank officials, but they are a head taller from the top of the Yulu, and even with the various engagements under the command of the Thorn History, they are almost on an equal footing with the county guard. In particular, the original duty of the county was only to monitor whether the county was illegal, but now the relationship with the county guard has evolved into a relationship similar to that of the modern province and the province.

However, after all, the assassin is not the lord of a state in the real sense, so there is no state office in the office, but usually a separate place is set up next to the county guard of the state, called the state office, of course, it is also usually called the assassin's mansion. It is from this that the daily administrative orders of the assassin are sent to all parts of the state, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the brain of a state. Therefore, solemn activities such as the imperial decree naturally took place here.

After eating the court food, Zhao Min changed into the clothes of the official court meeting, and only took Shao Qi to the state office. Although Guy Menghou, Xiahou Ying and others are all Zhao Min's arms, but after all, there is no official body recognized by the imperial court, and Xiahou Jie, the only official person, has not yet arrived in Jimo. As for Shao Qi, that is Zhao Min's inner palace official, which is equivalent to the role of a secretary, who can take a secretary with him? So this time there were only two people who went together.

When I arrived at the Texas State Department, as soon as I entered the door, a solemn feeling came to my face. But when I saw the soldiers on both sides standing with halberds, the armor was bright and the halberds were sharp, and they didn't squint. A burst of fragrant smell rushed into the nose, which was the so-called incense, which should be burned for three days without extinguishing it as a sign of piety. There were already a lot of people in the hall, but they were not in groups of three or five as usual, but stood in two columns according to their official positions and titles.

Zhao Min looked around, the two envoys and Cao Kai had not yet appeared, which was normal, the protagonists were the last to appear, and there was no way to avoid it throughout the ages. Zhao Min originally planned to find a corner to do something, as for Shao Qi, he could only stay by the porch, and it was okay to listen as a secretary, but if he wanted to stand with the adults, he didn't want to think about it. As soon as Zhao Min walked over, dozens of pairs of eyes fell on him, he wanted to stand in the back row, and those eyes kept staring at him until he was uncomfortable, so he had to keep moving forward, moving again and again, and finally moved to the position closest to the incense case.

I waited for a long time like this, and it wasn't until it was close to midnight that Cao Kai was late. As soon as he entered the hall, he saw Zhao Min standing at the forefront, and seemed to be a little stunned, but then he returned to the smiling rich man's face, and bowed his hand to Zhao Min slightly, meaning that it was inconvenient to say more on this occasion, so he stood next to Zhao Min and stood in a row with him.

Zhao Min looked funny, this master tried every possible way to belittle himself and make himself ugly, but in the end, on such a formal occasion, looking at the people in the field, only he dared to recognize the second person after him assassinated Lord Shi. The others, whether they are county guards or engaged in it, are inferior in terms of status and status, so there are only two people in the first column, himself and Cao Kai, followed by a large number of officials, as if they are all subordinates of the two.

Just thinking about it, suddenly heard a gong, everyone turned their heads to look, but saw two angels dressed in khaki official uniforms, with a crown and a broad belt, each holding a piece of wood wrapped in bright yellow satin, taking square steps, slowly walking towards the hall.

When the two arrived in the hall, they ignored the crowd, first handed the wooden slip in their hands to the entourage around them, and then each lit three incense sticks from the incense case, respectfully worshiped the incense, and everyone also followed the movements of the two to worship in the direction of the incense case. Zhao Min also joined everyone, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, fortunately, the ritual of kneeling is not popular in this era, otherwise as a highly educated soul in the twenty-first century, how can he accept the act of kneeling and kowtowing? Thinking of this, I can't help but secretly praise those who have crossed to the Ming and Qing dynasties, and they can kneel as a matter of course, just rush to this forbearance, and Zhao Min will also give them thirty-two likes!

Next, there are a series of rituals such as Fengtian and anti-worship, and it is easy to go through this set of processes, and finally start to officially issue the decree. I saw Zhong Kui retreat to the side, Zhao Duo stood in the middle first, carefully untied the bandaged yellow silk with both hands, unfolded the wooden slab, and read aloud:

"In the spring and March of the third year of Xinping, Emperor Gongde of Daxia said: Lu Xu rebelled, Jingshi was shaken, and the world was thinking about it at night. Fortunately, thanks to the great efforts of Zhu Qing, I was very relieved to rebel in January. Or the rebellion in Yunqingzhou is a matter of responsibility, and it should not be honored, I don't think so. Merit is rewarded, and punishment is punished, which has been the case since ancient times. I have heard of praise and virtue, and I appreciate the material...... Now the universe is messy, the court is in trouble, there are Lu Rebellion and other people who dominate it, and a group of thieves suddenly descends, and the root cause is that they all belong to the unknown, and the officials are not clear...... Jinyi takes Beihai County as the country, and should cut off the Haoqiang, appease the township, conform to the people's feelings, and rectify the rule of officials...... The fourth son of the emperor, Min, Xuande Mingen, Shoujie Chengyi, Xuanmin Shangde, Su Wei Zhongzheng, I am very comforted, and he is crowned the king of Min Beihai, and he is a thousand households with Jimo land...... When the weather is good, by the order of Zi Ming, Wangqing will work hard, Zuo in the Xia family, forever Sui all over the world. ”

As soon as the words fell, the surroundings "buzzed", and everyone showed an incredible demeanor, especially Cao Kai, who tilted his head and stared straight at Zhao Min, his mouth was half open, and a pair of small squinted eyes almost jumped out of his sockets, which can be said to be extremely gaffe. And the surrounding officials are not much better, if it weren't for the officials present who are all officials with heads and faces in Qingzhou Mansion, if they want to hold their own identities, I am afraid that they would have exploded at this time.

Even Zhao Min himself, although he guessed in advance that he would be granted the right to open the mansion, he didn't expect his titular father to play so decisively, so violently, and so unbelievably! Where is this just the right to open the mansion, this is simply the rhythm of giving the entire Beihai as a personal item to Zhao Min to play! This is not just a simple opening of the mansion as conjectured earlier, this is the county for the country, and Zhao Min should be given complete independence and sovereignty! It can be said that this will is that Zhao Min can almost walk sideways in Beihai, even the state capital can't control him, and he is already a country within a country at all! Let's exaggerate, in one acre and three points of land in Beihai, as long as Zhao Min does not rebel, he can do whatever he wants, and even taxes are dispensable - anyway, the tax rate is set by Zhao Min himself, if he really wants to adjust the tax rate to zero, no one can do anything with him!

In the following time, Zhao Min was basically in a dizzy state. It is said that it is a good thing that a pie falls from the sky, but if it is a pie that is bigger than a person, then it is necessary to consider whether the person receiving the pie can afford it. Zhao Min is feeling this way now, the so-called unbearable weight of life.

Zhao Duo turned a blind eye to everyone's reactions, and after the announcement was completed, he retreated and gave up his position to Zhong Kui. Zhong Kui is also a master who doesn't care what others think, just show the holy decree and read it according to the rules: "In the spring and March of the third year of Xinping, Emperor Gongde of Daxia said ......"

Only then did everyone quickly listen intently. The content of the decree just now is certainly shocking, but at least it doesn't matter what they do. Now the content of the announcement of the ministry is directly related to the rewards of everyone in the field. However, to their regret, the content of this second holy decree is extremely brief, roughly that the relevant officials related to the counterinsurgency have each increased by half a level, and the only thing is that Lord Cao Kaicao has added the title of a township marquis, which is a little affordable. After listening to the content of the edict, everyone was dejected, but it was not easy to show it too obviously in front of the court envoys, so they received the edict under the leadership of Cao Kai and thanked him.

Zhao Min's brain has not yet sobered up, he only knows how to mechanically follow the actions of everyone, and he remembers in a trance that Zhao Duo handed over the holy decree to himself, and seemed to have said something to himself, and many people around him came forward to congratulate, but he only knew how to give his hands one by one, and only walked out of the state office in a daze until the end of the decree ceremony.

Out of the state office, Shao Qi hurried up, although he was full of excitement, but seeing Zhao Min's appearance as if he had lost his soul, he was a little confused, so he had to secretly pull Zhao Min's sleeve and whispered: "Fourth master!" Fourth master! ”

Hearing Shao Qi's voice, Zhao Min came back to his senses, paid attention to the envious eyes of everyone around him, and then looked at the excitement that Shao Qi was almost overflowing from his face, took a deep breath, secretly gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, and said fiercely in his heart: "Meow a mi!" Isn't it just a king? What's the big deal, I had no power in the past and had to give the official position privately, but now I really have real power, but I'm afraid that it won't work? As for whether there will be any trouble after doing this, in the past, I was weak and could deal with it, is it better to have real power than before? Let's go, what kind of conspiracy and trickery, just come, brother and follow! ”