"The third-class national prince, Ming Dingzheng is the second grade, 4,000 households, and 4,000 acres of Yongye field."

The proclamator stood under the imperial case, holding the bright yellow emperor's edict in his hand, and his voice was subdued, announcing the edict loudly.

The second grade of the national prince is already the highest level of knighthood that the ministers can get, and the high grade of the second grade, and there are also 4,000 households of food and 4,000 acres of Yongye field. Let the ministers in the palace wearing purple robes have bright eyes, and in some respects, ministers above the third rank have the opportunity to obtain the dukedom of this country. After all, this is the time of the opening of the dynasty, and the reward of the title will definitely be more generous than the ordinary time.

Although the imperial court has also added some titles before, the number is small, and the second is also a little chaotic, so everyone attaches more importance to this title.

The proclamator read the edict unhurriedly, while many ministers pondered it in their hearts.

It didn't take long for the knighthood system to be announced.

Twelfth and eighteenth rank titles, from the prince of the first rank to the county man of the sixth grade. There are eighteen titles, in addition to the royal family's exclusive kings, heirs, and county kings, there are also fifteen titles that courtiers can obtain.

Duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male, under the five titles, there are also county and county titles under each of them. The duke of the second rank is followed by the county duke from the second rank and the county duke from the second rank. The second is the Hou of the third grade, and there are also the county marquis from the third product and the county marquis from the third product. Then there is the fourth uncle, and below there is the county uncle from the fourth, and the county uncle from the fourth grade. Then there is the son of the five, and the following is the county from the top of the five and the county from the bottom of the five. Finally, there is the man who is six, and the county man from the sixth and the county man from the sixth.

Fengyi and Yongyetian are also from 4,000 in the second product to 3,000 in the second product. Two thousand from three, one thousand from three, four eight hundred, four or six hundred. is five five hundred, from five to three hundred. is six or two hundred, from six hundred.

These food towns and Yongye fields are very rich, anyway, they are generous compared to the title system before the Sui Dynasty. In the third year of the Lunar New Year. The imperial court only retained the titles of king, marquis, and earl, and did not give fiefdoms and Yongye fields, and only received some Yulu. It became a nice name but had no practical benefits.

But the new title system of the current imperial court. But it is given a rich food and Yongye field. Even if according to the usual practice, there will not be so many real sealed food estates by then, but the Yongye Tian that can be passed down from generation to generation will not be fake.

After the proclamation officer finished reading it, Chen Kefu did not let him continue to read the edict of knighthood, but stood up, "Knighthood is an important matter for the country." The system of knighthood shall not be awarded if the title is not for social and military merits, and the title shall not be granted unless it is specially decreed. In order to thank the ministers of civil and military affairs of our dynasty for their hard work. Today, these 12th and 18th rank knighthoods are specified. The status of knighthood is respected, and it is easy not to be awarded, and the knighthood is hereditary. Inherited by the eldest son, the family is reduced by one class. ”

"To reward the ministers for their exploits. His Majesty and the king decided that all the fiefdoms and Yongye fields would be food feuds, and no one would be reduced, and in order to reward the ministers for their merits, all the feudal euphores and Yongye fields would be doubled this time. ”

A series of surprises sounded, and countless people looked at each other in surprise. Everyone didn't expect that the imperial court not only did not seal the three-third of the food according to the convention, or did not give the actual seal only the honor, but this time not only gave the real seal, but also doubled. That first-class prince has a full 20,000 households of food and 20,000 acres of Yongye land. That is to say, a single prince can get all the taxes of a whole 20,000 households. This is a huge amount of income, not to mention that there are 20,000 acres of Yongye land, and everyone is excited for a while.

Even if the county barony of the twelfth and eighteenth ranks, the lowest level, would have 200 households and could enjoy the tax income paid by thousands of people. …,

"Mao Xi was crowned as the Duke of Yan Guo, and Jiawen Sanguan sealed 8,000 households from the first product of Kaifu Yi and the three divisions, and rewarded 8,000 acres of Yongye field. His Majesty specially ordered to seal 2,000 households with real food and 2,000 acres of Yongye land. In addition, from today onwards, Jin is the Situ of the Three Princes, and sits and talks with the Son of Heaven. ”

Mao Xi bowed to Xie En, "Thank you for the emperor's grace, long live the emperor!" ”

"Emperor Da Sui ordered, Fang Xuanling was crowned as the Duke of Song, and he was promoted to the left servant of Shangshu. Du Ruhui added the title of Duke of Chu, and was promoted to the right servant of Shangshu. Gao Shilian was crowned the Duke of Yue Guo and promoted to the throne. The three ministers all opened the palace with the three divisions from the first product, and sealed 8,000 households, and rewarded 8,000 acres of Yongye field! ”

The three of them hurriedly stepped forward, knelt down and bowed, and the three of them were not only crowned as the third-class Zhengerpin Guogong, but also promoted to the real position, the head of the three provinces, and they were really excited in their hearts.

"Crowned Li Benlei as the prince of Zhenguo, and added military officers from the first rank of hussar generals! 8,000 households are sealed with real food, and 8,000 acres of Yongye field are rewarded! ”

At the beginning, he immediately crowned the four princes of the second grade, which immediately made countless ministers moved.

But then they were slightly disappointed, after the four princes, only eighteen county dukes, thirty-six county dukes, and forty-eight princes, seventy-two county marquis, and one hundred and eight county marquis were added to the back of the imperial court.

The two hundred and eighty-six titles are basically the generals who followed Chen Kefu to raise troops in Liaodong back then, although some of them are civil ministers, but the number is very small, they are all old ministers of the Chen family like Mao Xi, and the rest are also civil ministers like Fang Xuanling who came from the Central Plains later.

In the Hebei surrender faction, only three people have been knighted, namely Luo Yi's Zhenbei Marquis, Xue Dingguo's Zhengbei Marquis, and Luo Cheng's Dingbei County Marquis. In fact, none of the vassals and generals have been knighted.

Some people are happy, some are envious, and some are jealous, but they don't dare to have any opinions on this knighthood. The most important people in the court were knighted, and the others did not matter.

Chen Kefu sits on the throne of the emperor, governing on behalf of the Son of Heaven, since the last incident, the little emperor has been completely placed under house arrest by Chen Kefu in He'an Palace, and he can no longer contact people outside the palace, and he is not even needed to act like a court.

Slowly sweeping over the ministers, Chen Kefu said loudly, "This list of knights is only the first batch. I believe that these people are not the ones who have made meritorious contributions to the imperial court, there must be more people who have made meritorious contributions, and the imperial court has never hesitated to give rewards, as long as there are social and military merits, the imperial court will give rewards. ”

Hearing this, many ministers who had not been rewarded were also relieved.

"The knighthood of the imperial court this time is extremely rich, but there is only one condition. That is, since the first year of the republic, all the fiefs of the imperial court are not allowed to be sealed on the territory of the imperial court seven years before the Great Cause. The more than 200 titles you have awarded today, and all your fiefdoms are on the territory laid down after the seventh year of the Great Cause, of which Yanzhou, Liaozhou, and Haizhou are not included in them. Now the places that can be rewarded include Weizhou in the north of Liaozhou, Luozhou Island in the east of Haizhou, and Liuqiu Island in the east of Jiangnan, which has just been changed to Liuzhou. The same is true of all your e-fiefs, the court has given you a lot of e-estates, but whether or not the amount given by the court can be reached, you must personally recruit the displaced people to voluntarily go to the fiefdom. ”

"In the future, the larger the territory of the imperial court, the more fiefs the ministers can choose from, and the more food estates will be feuded."

Hearing this last condition, many ministers who had been knighted with happy faces were suddenly dumbfounded. Their food estates, their Yongye fields, are not in the Great Sui Dynasty, but in those remote barbarian lands. The so-called Weizhou was the former Murwei grassland, which was larger than the two Henan and Hebei provinces combined, but the population was only two or three hundred thousand immigrants. …,

As for that Naju, it is a large island hanging over the East China Sea, near Baekje Province, although the area is huge, but it was all wild people before, although now the imperial court sailors occupy it and also capture those wild people, but in that place, who wants to go.

And the Liuqiu Island Country, which was originally the country of Zhang Zhongjian, the marshal of the Navy Division, although it has now become a state of the imperial court, has been changed to Liuzhou. But it is tens of thousands of miles away from Beijing, and it is also hanging on the sea, no matter how big the territory is given, what is there to be happy about. What's more, in such a bad fiefdom, they have to be responsible for finding the people of the fiefdom themselves, but they can kidnap those thousands of people to go to those barbarian sea lands? When I thought of this, the smile on my face was gone.

But the fiefdom had already come down, and they could no longer ask the court to change it. If it weren't for the fact that the fiefs were in these barbarian places, how could the imperial court give them such a large fief and return so many food estates? In any case, at least the title of this title is still real, and it can be regarded as a consolation.

Chen Kefu, who was sitting on the dragon chair in the hall, watched everyone's reactions, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile.

Knighthood can unite the loyalty of officials in the imperial court, and it can also unite the strength of the ruling class. But the knighthood is also a double-edged sword, the more sealed, the thicker the given, the officials are happy, but the strength of the central court will inevitably be weakened. But if you don't give it, then don't say that this new tax policy can't be implemented at the moment, or it will be given sooner or later in the future.

After thinking about it, Chen Kefu finally came up with such a solution.

Not only sealed, but also sealed, everyone is sealed and doubled. But at the same time, they were not sealed in the Central Plains, and they were not allowed to have the opportunity to suck the blood of the central court. Instead, they were sealed to the newly laid frontier territory in the past few years, and those places were as big as one or two Hebei, but they were vast and sparsely populated.

Now the imperial court has given these worthless lands to these civil and military warriors, firstly, to reward the ministers, and secondly, with the participation of these ministers, the border states will inevitably be able to accelerate their development and integration into the Central Plains in the future.

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