The social hierarchy of the Tang Dynasty is strict, and it can be said that it is divided into the Great Nine Order, the Great Nine and so on.

The highest is naturally the royal family, but this royal family is limited to the direct parents of the Tang Emperor, and the rest of the royal family, such as brothers and sisters, are naturally inferior royal families. Or rather, he became a high-ranking scholar.

Next, there are scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants.

further down, servants, servants, tenants, and slaves.

Each category is further divided into nine classes, and there are interspersed in between. For example, a second-class craftsman must be higher than a fifth-class sergeant. First-class farmers, in fact, are no longer considered farmers, but agricultural technicians, who are on an equal footing with third-class soldiers, and if they want to go further, they must become scholars.

The conditions for advancement, first, are great contributions to Datang. Second, the special gift of the emperor. Third, the son-in-law of a first-class peasant became an official by virtue of his talent, and after reaching a certain official position, he was given the status of a scholar. Then this first-class farmer, Meng Meng, also became a scholar.

Each level has a chance to go up. Even the lowest-ranking slaves have the opportunity to advance their social status.

Among them, the literary examination, the martial arts examination, the entry into the office, the military merit, and the wasteland. The way for five ordinary people to have the best chance of rising up.

For example, if Niu enters and reaches there and establishes a homeland overseas, the slaves who come here, even if they are the lowliest ninth-class slaves, will definitely have the status of ninth-class peasants as long as they work for five years. In other words, civilians.

Soldiers, not for example, are in various ranks, and soldiers can be any category of agriculture, industry, and commerce, and generally reach the level of generals, so they are also the identity of a soldier, so soldiers are listed separately. Professional soldiers, at the time of retirement. will be given an identity according to his family and his military exploits.

If you join the army at the age of eighteen and retire at the age of fifty, and serve the Tang Army all your life, even if you don't have any military merits, with this hard work, you will be given a consolation rating of a ninth-class sergeant.

The Goguryeo people came to Palembang, and if their status is calculated according to the civilian population, they should be in service or below the rank of peasants and laborers of the seventh class. But just as they stepped into Palembang. After officially starting to take up the post, no matter what level they had before, all of them were promoted to three levels in a row, and some teams were positive. Captain's. It has even touched the edge of the taxi.

The new guard of Palembang is surnamed Lee. It's also royalty, but it's a very marginal kind.

In order to compete for this position, he waited for a day and a night at the entrance of the military department. Write 5,000 words of port defense experience.

The deputy general of Palembang is surnamed Cui, and he is the son-in-law of the Cui family on the peninsula, and he is attached to the Cui clan of Qinghe, if he is not in the army now, he is a ninth-class scholar, and he came here to make his status a higher level.

After taking over the defense and arranging the armies, the guard general surnamed Li naturally wanted to meet the king of Qin.

And Vice General Cui didn't want to meet the King of Qin, but his identity was not qualified to meet at all, so he went to meet the patriarch of the Cui clan in Qinghe, Cui Junsu.

"It's been hard work!" Cui Junsu said politely in a very official manner.

"Patriarch, when Dandong was recruiting, my nephew made some contributions to patrolling the border, and Xiao Dudu recommended it. However, there were bribes, and as many as 13 people took bribes. Whether it is the selection of generals, colonels, and non-commissioned officers, or the selection of ordinary soldiers, there are people who want to fight for this opportunity. ”

Cui Junsu nodded as he listened, he was not surprised by the news.

Not to mention in Dandong, even Chang'an has some private things.

"The Park family made a fuss and sued. The Sun family was hit hard, and the number of children sent by the Park family to Nanyang this time reached seventy. Of the 43 military attachés, only 27 were ordinary soldiers. Before leaving, I heard that the Kim family of Silla had made a table, and thought that this selection of soldiers was unfair, and only the soldiers of the Goguryeo tribe were selected, not the soldiers of the Silla clan. ”

Cui Junsu pressed his forehead, and said in his heart that there were still people rushing to do this work of leaving his hometown.

"There's a message from the military department."

"Bingbu?" Cui Junsu has been away for many days, and he really doesn't know anything about the news of Chang'an for several months.

"Second class, General Cheng made him a duke, plus a first class sergeant. Moreover, the eldest son of General Cheng is the direct successor of the second-class sergeant, if he has military exploits, I am afraid that when the old General Cheng is alive, he will be a first-class sergeant. The reason given by the Ministry of War is that he has worked hard to defend thousands of miles of sea frontiers for Datang.

Cui Junsu gasped.

You must know that the Tang Dynasty, the third order to the second order, is said to be more difficult than the Xiuchangyi Railway. The second order is promoted to the first order, without the work of expanding the land for thousands of miles, without the work of governing the land and the ten benefits, there is no possibility at all.

This ten benefits of governing the land means governing at least a thousand miles of land, and the income of the people and the government treasury will increase tenfold.

"It seems that this overseas treasure land." Cui Junsu said with emotion. He also said: "A certain is a first-class sergeant, and if the eldest son of a certain has nothing to do, he will inherit a certain title and will be a third-class sergeant, an official, and a general, and a second-class sergeant." If you are not a son-in-law, you will be demoted to three orders in a row, in other words, if the Cui family is mediocre for three generations and has nothing to do, the Cui family will become a low-class scholar, and within two hundred years, there will be no Cui family in the family. ”

The adjutant general of the Peninsula Cui clan lowered his head, not knowing how to answer.

"Cui's children, be careful. The first hundred warriors of the dynasty must be my Qinghe Cui clan. ”

"Yes, my nephew must be attentive!"

The family of hundreds of scholars means that the family is a first-class scholar family. And with the identity of a hundred first-class scholars, at present, the Tang Dynasty, the only ones who can really reach this height are the Qinghe Cui clan and the Taiyuan Wang clan, and the remaining five families, unless there is an adventure, it is almost impossible in Li Er's dynasty.

Ordinary Goguryeo soldiers did not have such great ambitions.

When I came to Palembang, the soldiers' salaries were higher and the food was better. And here, except for the merchants of the Tang Dynasty, all the people in charge are the more lowly natives, and the soldiers of Goguryeo also feel that their heads can be raised from the face.

Palembang's Chang'an household registration of 100 excellent soldiers every year is more attractive than the reward of one year of salary.

When receiving the money, some sergeants saw what kind of housing subsidies were on the form, and many people were attracted at the moment, not because of the money, but because the soldiers built houses, all of which lived in the barracks.

When asked, an officer replied, "Here, a white hemp horse can be exchanged for a big girl." No matter how poor and sour. You can also marry two wives and buy two slaves. There is no military camp here in Palembang, and a piece of land is called a military area. You can drag your family over, or you can make a home here! ”

Most of the Goguryeo soldiers were poor, and they were very poor.

Marrying a wife is almost impossible for the lowest soldiers.

Even in Goguryeo, if they marry a woman from the same commoner family, they are too poor to pay the bride price.

"You can advance a year's military salary." The petty officer of the logistics battalion snapped and slapped a stack of banknotes on the table. The people of Goguryeo know the way. This thing is money. Datang Chang'an is universal, and businessmen all over the world recognize money. If you want to exchange copper coins or silver coins, Datang Money Village will exchange them. If you don't want to change it, use this banknote. It is also possible to buy things.

The first building was erected in Palembang. It's not a chamber of commerce, it's not an inn, it's a money bank. Piles of coins like a hill. The large boxes full of banknotes were carried down by these soldiers and are still guarded.

Buy a wife, settle down a home!

The Goguryeo soldiers were a little tempted.

"I signed a five-year stay in Hong Kong and a three-year military salary." One of the soldiers ran to the logistics officer and shouted.

The logistics officer knocked on the table: "Go to your chief officer to use the seal, and within five years, you can only receive forty percent of the military salary every month, and the rest will be advanced to you." Don't forget the military regulations, it's a felony to reach out and get money casually! ”

When the news broke, the local people in Palembang heard that the bride price was a snow-white cloth and three feet of silk. The man who wanted to marry his daughter squeezed down the walls of the military district.

"Your Highness is wise! Nanyang can be determined! ”

"It's not that I'm wise, it's that people have to have hope. If there is no hope to live, there will be no head, and the Goguryeo people are inferior in my Tang Dynasty, just like Xi Junmai back then, they can go from slaves to generals. Goguryeo people can also become my Tang Dynasty, and the outstanding ones can naturally integrate into my Tang Dynasty, and those who eat and wait for death will be untouchables to death. Whether it's the Goguryeo people, the Japanese people, or my Tang people! ”

Li Yuanxing's answer made Wei Ting head again.

Only the excellent can ascend to the top, and only in this way can Datang become stronger and stronger.

"Your Highness, news from Chang'an. Zhongnan is divided into two provinces, and some ethnic minorities who are proficient in Chinese and have no low knowledge compete for the position of state governor, and the saint added the test, and also said that he wanted to hear the opinion of His Highness. ”

"Yes, but Zhongzhou, the chief of Shangzhou. The Tang people add ten points. In the lower state, the county level naturally wants to release some. These officials in the governor's offices of various provinces, in key positions, are still dominated by Tang people. ”

Li Yuanxing expressed his attitude.

Wei Ting gave a salute: "Your Highness, why don't you release one in Shangzhou?" ”

"Feasible, good advice. Ethnic minorities can be appropriately put on the throne, and the Japanese people, Gaochang, and Yiwu will not be considered for the time being. There is no good material for civil servants on the Turkic side. Silla has just surrendered, so don't choose them. A chief officer of Shangju to the Goguryeo people. Pick one or two excellent ones on the Turkic side, and give an important position in the army in the Governor's Palace, and you have an opinion on how to balance it. Just report truthfully on the royal brother's side. ”

"Yes!" Wei Ting replied very seriously.

"The Goguryeo people are still the Japanese people. Or the Turks, it still takes a process to integrate into my Datang, and you can't rush or leave it alone. Those who are truly proficient in my Datang culture are also feasible to reuse. These garrisons stationed abroad, loyal to the Tang Dynasty, naturally have to give them some Tang pride. ”

"The subordinates will arrange it."

"The last thing, this time the ship back to the Central Plains, with an order. Datang ocean-going ships were allowed to be manufactured by merchants, and they were divided into two types: sailing ships and steamships. It is further divided into armed merchant ships and general merchant ships. If you need to be skilled, you can get it in Yaozhou, and each ship must have a separate number, which will be filed with the Maritime Safety Bureau, and the owner of the ship who buys the ship must also be recorded accordingly. ”

Hearing Li Yuanxing's order, Wei Ting thought of the ship coming this time, which could be said to be a mess.

There are many boats that are not suitable for running in the sea at all, and they will not die in some wind and waves.

Without enough ships, it is impossible to have enough ocean-going trade, and the official shipbuilding speed alone has far caught up with Datang's demand for ships.

Wei Ting withdrew from Li Yuanxing's study, and the affairs of these nine ports were ostensibly Gao Baiyang's appearance, but in fact, it was the Qin Wangfu who was controlling it behind his back. This is not just as simple as occupying a port, this is to lay the groundwork in advance for turning Nanyang into the land of the Tang Dynasty in the future. (To be continued......)