From the beginning of December, the empire has spread the news that the emperor is going to get married on the National Day, and at the same time, the royal propaganda department issued a brief notice, advocating that people should be simple when they get married, not extravagant, and use limited energy and financial resources in economic construction. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The ambassadors of many countries asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs whether they wanted to send envoys to attend the wedding of Emperor Shenwu, but all of them were rejected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Although the Xia Emperor's wedding was simple, other countries did not think so, and the heads of state still sent envoys, nearby governors or ambassadors to send gifts to celebrate Zhang Wei's marriage, and near the end of December, the heads of state sent congratulatory telegrams one after another.

The citizens of the empire and the local chambers of commerce sent their gifts to the royal family by mail, but the number of cards made by elementary school students reached tens of thousands, and these gifts filled the empty royal warehouse.

Xiao Yu'er's elegant appearance, bright smile and her pro-people actions were quickly accepted by the subjects of the empire, and the newspapers also published photos of Xiao Yuer from time to time, which played a role in fueling the fire.

According to the sum of Xiao Yuer and Zhang Wei, on New Year's Day, the most important thing is to divide the title, not their wedding.

Satsuki set the title as seven levels: prince, duke, marquis, earl, son, male and lord, and each rank is divided into multiple sub-ranks, the prince has 3 ranks, the duke has 4 ranks, the marquis has 5 ranks, and the lord has 9 ranks, a total of 42 sub-ranks.

The prince can only be divided into princes; Princes and dukes can receive fiefdoms; Marquis, earls, viscounts and barons 4 levels only the first generation of the title can get the land reward, only one of the descendants can get the title of inheritance, and every generation continues, the title will be reduced by one level, the inherited land will be reduced accordingly, until the 1st level of the lord, and then refer to the lord's management regulations, the sub-feudal land can not be bought and sold, if you are not willing to ask for land, you can apply for only treatment, the empire will issue titles according to the rank; The title of lord can only be maintained for 2 generations under the condition that no new merit can be made, the land that is divided is freehold land, which can be bought and sold, and after three generations, only the title will be recovered and the land will not be recovered, the 9th level Lord can get 20 acres of permanent land, and the 1st level Lord can get 180 acres of permanent land.

Squad leaders and soldiers can only receive the title of Lord, Platoon Commander, Company Commander, Battalion Commander and other personnel at the rank of lieutenant and below and those with the administrative rank of section can obtain the title of Baron, and personnel at the school and administrative level at the county, municipal level and below can obtain the title of Viscount up to the title.

At the same time, Xiao Yuer also formulated detailed conditions for the division of titles, and only those who meet the conditions for meritorious service can obtain the corresponding titles.

According to the standard of meritorious service, the highest recipients of the knighthood this time are James, the president of the Bank of Asia, and Sun Zhengquan, the deputy governor of the Central Bank, who were awarded the second grade earl; In this financial attack against European and American countries, he created huge profits for the empire and became the biggest contributor to the empire.

Others who received the title of earl included Lu Weimin and Li Zhaoshui of the General Staff, Gao Jinquan and Chu Quanquan of the Imperial Central Bank, Zheng Daoyou and Li Civilians of the Government Affairs Yuan, Zheng Guibo, President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Dian Zheng, Chief Justice of the Imperial Empire, Fang Liang, Chief of Staff of the Archipelago Military Region, Han Xin, Governor of the Southwest Dominion, Li Yunhai and Yang Yili, Chief of Staff of the Central Fleet, and Zhang Hailong, Commander of the Northern Theater Fleet, and other 13 people were awarded the 6th rank of the Imperial Earl.

The person who unexpectedly lost the election of the earl was Xiao Xuguang, the governor of the Northern Theater Command, who was only awarded the title of second-level viscount, which was the same as the title of Du Shihui, the governor of the Peninsula Special Administrative Region; Chen Dezhi, deputy governor of the Northern Theater Command, only obtained a 5th level viscount, and his title was lower than Du Shihui's because he used more troops in the battle to destroy the Japanese army in Seoul, and the Japanese En eliminated fewer enemies than when he recovered Arthur; And Du Shihui not only commanded the campaign to recover Lushun, but also participated in the campaign to recover Taiwan and other places, so his military merits were much higher than Chen Dezhi and others, and his knighthood was higher.

The most satisfied with his title is Zhao Gao, who first followed Zhang Wei to fight, he was only a company commander at the time, and was later sent to the Royal Army Military Academy for training, and now he is a major. He was able to obtain such a high title, mainly in the initial stage, and made great contributions to Zhang Wei, and in terms of military merits, he has not surpassed him yet.

On the whole, the navy's combat exploits are not much different from the army's combat exploits, and the number of naval personnel is small, but only winning the battle against Britain in the Indian Ocean and destroying the Japanese combined fleet has created a large number of combat exploits for the navy, and although the army has many achievements, the number of personnel is larger, and the average combat exploits are not as brilliant as the navy; The captains of battleships and battlecruisers who participated in this naval battle were basically viscounts, and the navy received many more viscounts than the army.

The most unexpected winner of the title was Zhao Erfeng, who was awarded the title of 3rd class viscount by virtue of his personal merits for suppressing the Tibetan Tusi rebellion, occupying Tibet, fighting against religious forces, changing the land and returning to the stream, establishing cities and counties, and driving out British forces.

This not only makes many people who have joined the nationality of the Xia Empire see hope, but also attracts more people of insight to join the Xia Empire.

Zhang Wei also wants to attract more talents to join the Xia Empire family, due to the changes after the system upgrade, Zhang Wei must use more local people in the future to ensure the better and faster development of the Xia Empire; Attracting talents, cultivating talents, retaining talents, and providing opportunities for talents to make contributions to their careers, so that they have an environment to give full play to their talents, is the focus of Zhang Wei's next work; Vigorously rewarding Zhao Erfeng is the first move to attract talents.

In order to celebrate the newly married emperor Zhang Wei, the Xia Empire declared a 10-day holiday on New Year's Day.

At 10 a.m. on January 1, 1908, a simple wedding was held at the Imperial Palace, at which Zhang Wei declared Xiao Yu'er the Empress of the Empire.

At 11 o'clock, on the second floor of the Arc de Triomphe, Zhang Wei issued a speech to his subjects in the square, first of all, advocating that all citizens of the empire should prohibit extravagance and waste when holding weddings, birthdays and other festive activities, and should practice economy and simplicity.

The list of knighthoods was then read out to the subjects of the Empire.

Zhao Erfeng and Zhao Gao immediately became popular figures all over the empire and became idols in the minds of many people, especially Zhao Gao, with his personal military exploits, in just a few years, he was promoted again and again from the position of company commander, and was named a viscount because of his military exploits, so that the people at the bottom of the entire empire saw the hope of rising, as long as the rising channel was unblocked, it could arouse people's enthusiasm to work hard.

Zhang Wei's simple wedding has also become the object of emulation of the young people of the empire, and the National Day and New Year's Day of each year have become the peak season for the young people of the empire to get married, and the empire has also announced that every year since then, May Day, National Day, New Year's Day and Spring Festival will all have 7 days off, leaving enough time for the young people of the empire to get married. (To be continued.) )