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It's just a land similar to the Wangzhuang that the Ming Emperor gave to his sons.

Let everyone go to the enclosure first, and let the local officials who have just been sent cooperate with them to allocate enough heaven for them.

A marquis can encircle 50,000 acres of fertile land, give priority to the encirclement of the former prince Wang Zhuang, and allow them to occupy the palace of the local prince, Wang Pu occupies the palace of the king of Jin, and Li Wuliu occupies the palace of the king of Shu.

The earls are 30,000 acres, and they have no power to occupy the palace, but can only occupy the castle of the Manchu nobles.

In addition to these marquis, Yang Chao also sealed more than 500 nobles, more than 100 viscounts and more than 300 barons.

The fiefdom limit of the viscount is 20,000 mu, and the baron is 10,000 mu, and the land of the viscount and the baron are in Sichuan.

Because although Beizhili and Shanxi have also enclosed land, most of the population is still left, and Sichuan has really been killed.

In the first place, no one could be found to cultivate, so these nobles were just mobilized to develop.

For these new nobles, although there are fiefs, but their feudal fields, they still have to pay taxes according to the rules and regulations like the people's fields, these land assets are the remuneration for their dedication to the country over the years, in addition to a noble title, as well as these fields, Yang Chao does not plan to give them and their descendants a fortune.

The Ming Dynasty was basically consumed to death by the hundreds of thousands of kings and nobles, and the amount of money used to support the vassal kings alone was more than 8 million taels a year, which was higher than the amount issued to all civil officials, second only to military spending.

Without these eight million loads, Yang Chao felt that the Ming Dynasty would not be unable to support the Xiaoice River period, and Zhu Yuanzhang held a peasant's little shrewdness, was too harsh on officials and treated his descendants too favorably, and as a result, officials were corrupt, and every descendant of later generations could be relied on.

Yang Chao did not want the country to bear such a large financial burden, and at the same time had to consider the livelihood of these heroes and their descendants, although these Xuntian had to pay taxes like the people's land, but they were not allowed to buy and sell. And the implementation of the primogeniture inheritance system, these feudal fields can only be inherited by one descendant, and can never be separated, which ensures that these noble heirs will always enjoy wealth.

Obviously, this will create a clique of elites for generations. And if these elite groups want to maintain their wealth, they can only firmly support the rule of Yang Chao and Yang Chao's descendants.

Of course, Yang Chao didn't think they could be relied on, when Azig attacked Nanjing, he counted the group of nobles who surrendered quickly, Zhao Zhilong and Xu Hongji were not the descendants of the founding heroes. Which one is not a high-ranking official, when the country is ruined, the only thing they want is to keep their wealth by betraying the Savior.

The reason why Yang Chao cultivated this group of powerful people was just to make an appearance and tell the people of the world that those who dedicate themselves to the country can enjoy wealth forever for their descendants, so as to satisfy the traditional concept of the country's wives and sons.

As for this group of people, if they can develop an aristocratic culture, it will naturally be good.

However, the cultivation of this aristocratic culture is not so easy.

It is impossible to cultivate an aristocracy without three generations, and it is impossible to cultivate an aristocratic culture in a hundred years. It can't be without 500 years, and the most prosperous era of Chinese aristocratic culture can be said to be the Zhou Dynasty, and the 800 years of the Zhou Dynasty Guozuo guaranteed the emergence and development of this culture.

At that time, people emphasized honesty and valued righteousness over life and death, which was the time when China's moral standards were the highest.

But when Song Xianggong, who paid attention to the attitude of the aristocracy, refused to attack the Chu ** team that did not cross the river, and refused to attack the Chu ** team that did not set up a battle formation after crossing the river, he waited for the other party to prepare everything before attacking. As a result, he was defeated and killed.

Song Xianggong in the Spring and Autumn Period was scolded by later generations for being incomplete, but he didn't understand that this was an aristocratic culture, noble and proud. Later, when the Qin people who were culturally backward and backward with Xirong, the invincible army swept the world, the aristocratic culture suffered a second blow, when Liu Bang, who was born in the market, defeated the great nobleman Xiang Yu. The aristocratic culture was completely extinct in China.

The Zhou culture was only preserved in the ideas of Confucius, who was born in a small aristocracy.

Therefore, Confucian culture is an aristocratic culture, which stresses etiquette, loyalty, faithfulness, and so on.

Through Confucian culture, the Chinese continued the aristocratic culture of the Zhou Dynasty for more than 2,000 years, not completely and completely, until the Celestial Empire.

Is the aristocratic culture good, it is not all good things, pride, looking down on commoners, talking about origin, this is a bad thing; But etiquette, integrity, loyalty, such things as Yang Chao definitely can't see his badness.

So is the scolding that Confucianism endured wrong? It is not entirely wrong, because after ruling China for 2,000 years, Confucianism did not complete the transformation of modern society with China's old self-style; But it's not entirely right, because it is the Chinese themselves who have played Confucianism badly, which is a concept, a kind of thought, which is used to edify cultural cultivation and improve personal cultivation, but it can only be used to govern the country.

Therefore, Yang Chao does not prohibit, and even advocates Zhou culture, after all, this is the culture developed by the Chinese themselves, if it can be developed, it is better than full westernization in the future, there is no root in the culture, and people's thoughts float better.

It's a bit far.

At the same time that Yang Chao was crowned a hero, after more than a year of trekking, Li Xiangjun and others finally arrived in the West.

Disembark from Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The craftsmen who accompanied the ship relented, bought a piece of land near the canal in the countryside not far from the port, and began to build houses with the help of the Dutch.

A simple domed house, supported by huge stone pillars and skeleton arches, has only one floor and more than ten houses.

But then they laid gold glazed tiles made in Nanjing for the imperial palace on the roof, and the walls were pasted with fine white porcelain from Jingdezhen, and the walls inside the houses were also pasted with blue and white porcelain, tortoiseshell porcelain, celadon and other porcelain tiles.

While building the house, Lu Daqi began to visit various countries with an envoy delegation, and the first step was to France.

Lu Daqi, a civil official, was full of disdain when he was ordered to visit Fanbang.

But when he arrived in the Netherlands, he saw the bustling port of Amsterdam, he was a little surprised, the bustling docks, neat streets, and neat stone houses, but it was only an accident, he just didn't expect that the barbarians would have the ability to build such a city.

It's just that although Amsterdam is prosperous, it is a small city after all, and there is nothing particularly outstanding in architecture.

But to France. When he arrived in Paris, Lu Daqi was a little shocked.

More magnificent cities, with tall walls, and especially the towering Notre-Dame Cathedral. Obviously, Lu Daqi can't find this kind of building in China, this is a completely different type of building from Chinese turn-to-wood architecture, the key is that the kind of tall, brick-and-wood structure is impossible to achieve.

When Lu Daqi began to communicate with the French high-level, he had already put away that arrogance. These barbarians can be treated more equally.

Unexpectedly, he was favored by the Empress Dowager, King Louis XIV was still a minor, and the cardinal who controlled the government was also the re-prime minister of France, Mazarin, who very much agreed with Lu Daqi's political ideas, which was actually the unification of China.

France was different from the surrounding countries, and Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu, a pair of exemplary monarchs, spent a lifetime fighting the power of the aristocracy, expanding the royal power, making power highly centralized, and making the French the hegemon of the European continent.

But after the deaths of Richelieu and Louis XIII, Mazarin took power. However, there was a strong backlash from the old magnates, so Mazarin was very interested in Lü Daqi's proposal to appoint virtuous people instead of relying on the aristocracy's political system.

In fact, this is China's imperial examination selection system, which appeared in a unified China and was also recognized in a unified France.

Yang Chao didn't expect that Lu Daqi was moved by the French monarch and minister, and finally agreed to stay in France as a consultant, and he consulted for 20 years, and finally died of old age and was buried in Notre Dame Cathedral in France with a state funeral.

Because after Louis XIV came of age, Lü Daqi assisted Louis XIV in establishing the first imperial examination system in the West. The selection of civil servants by examination has made France's strength even stronger than in history, and if it weren't for Yang Chao in his last years, he would have almost let France unify Europe.

The other side. Li Xiangjun was invited by the Empress Dowager to live in the Danfeng Belle Palace in France, and then feasted Western ladies every day.

Li Xiangjun brought the best Yangzhou cooks, cumbersome, exquisite, and learned the royal meal system from Princess Zhu Yujiao, all of which deeply touched the strong interest of the French queen mother from the Habsburg family.

In fact, the European aristocracy has just come out of the Middle Ages, and to put it bluntly, they have just made a fortune. The reason is the great development of Europe brought about by the Age of Discovery, but in this wave of development, the aristocracy is not the only rising force, and the merchant class is the fastest rising force.

These great nobles were under strong pressure from the new class of wealthy countries, and showed some unconfidence in their hearts, and in the Middle Ages, most of their nobles were illiterate, and they were not embarrassed by their rudeness, just like their barbarian ancestors.

But in this era, perhaps because of the fact that Kurayu knew etiquette, and after it was developed, they suddenly found that they needed to make something different to decorate the façade, and the kind of thing they found was aristocratic culture, which was how the Renaissance from Italy came about.

It was then introduced to France through two generations of empresses of the Medici family, and finally Louis XIV carried it forward, defining the aristocratic etiquette of Europe.

But before the various rituals were about to be formed but not formed, the Zhou rites that appeared more than 2,000 years ago from China clearly resonated in their hearts.

Zhou Li is extremely cumbersome, isn't this a problem, nobles, it is a class with a lot of money and a lot of time, so they quietly learn how to eat from Li Xiangjun.

In fact, Li Xiangjun was born in Qinhuaihe, and his diet is different from that of the nobles, but Zhu Yujiao is a princess, even if Chongzhen is poor, the royal generals sometimes have to have, at least during festivals, Zhu Yujiao is well versed in that set.

Later generations of Chinese lost all aristocratic culture, did not know that China actually divided the meal system, thought that it was invented by Westerners, and did not want to think about it, Empress Dowager Cixi ate two hundred dishes at a meal, did she go to the table one by one? Isn't it all brought over by the palace maids, isn't this a form of separate meals?

The Manchus were just nomads in the past, and the Mongols still ate with their hands, obviously these etiquettes were learned from the palace maids and eunuchs in the Ming Palace.

So the meal system was passed into the French royal palace before Louis XIV, and of course, there were also complicated and exquisite Chinese dishes, and after the envoys left, the French left a cook for them for three years and learned some skills.

There is also tea drinking.

This is what Yang Chao is most concerned about.

The procedures are cumbersome, the process is strict, and the tea drinking culture with a variety of patterns has naturally been welcomed.

Green tea, black tea, clear tea, flower tea, different kinds of tea, different kinds of tea sets, and even different water, undoubtedly do not show exquisiteness, highlight elegance, all of which are in line with aristocratic culture.

After Li Xiangjun left, the demand for tea in Europe soared, increasing tenfold and tenfold year after year, and in less than ten years, it increased to a share of 10 million taels of silver, surpassing silk and porcelain, becoming the largest export commodity.

After that, Li Xiangjun spent more than a year visiting the courts of dozens of countries in several famous cities in Italy, several states in Germany, Denmark and Sweden in Northern Europe, and as far as Poland.

In addition to spreading culture, she also has another mission, which is to recruit talent.

Crystal glass craftsmen were recruited from Bohemia in Germany, shipbuilders from the Netherlands, cannon smiths from England, and clockmakers from Switzerland.

More than a dozen scientific personnel were also recruited from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and France even sent a special exchange delegation of the Royal Academy of Sciences to visit Daming.

If Li Xiangjun had not gone to Europe in person, it would have been impossible for the Netherlands alone to attract the interest of these talents, and the culture displayed by Li Xiangjun and his party has shocked many people, especially in the last era of China's impression on the West, so that these people finally made up their minds to go to China.

Needless to say, how much impact this move had on history, within ten years, Yang Chao introduced the Western natural science system to China, and Li Xiangjun's trip was a great contribution.

However, it will take two years for Li Xiangjun and his entourage to return to China.

Yang Chao didn't receive any news, and his top priority was to deal with the emperor's problem. (To be continued.) )