Chapter 433: Awakening
Wu Yingying nodded slightly, returned the list to Chase, and asked, "The hereditary fiefdom of the prince, have they all been chosen?" Xia is vast and sparsely populated, although a large amount of land is granted, but the reclaimed land is mainly close to the original cities and arteries, many remote places with abundant water and grass are still ownerless, most of these lands are owned by the royal family on behalf of the country, and everything is included in the treasury under the control of the Prime Minister's Office, and then the treasury is allocated to the royal family. If the royal family wanted to divide these lands among the meritorious officials, they had to obtain the consent of the Council of Captains and Tribunes together with the Duke and Marquis.
Chase presented another map, on which Wu Yingying demarcated a hundred and ten pieces of land of various sizes as the fiefdom of the princes, among them, Xin Gu chose a bitter cold but vast grassland next to Xiaohai as the fief of the Qin state, Yu Furen rail also chose the fief of the Zhao state near Xiaohai, Zhang Zhongyao's fief of the state of Chu chose a land on the east side of the Ural Pass with abundant water and grass, suitable for agriculture and pasture, and Xiao Jiu's fief of the state of Wei was in Hanzhong, near the state of Shu. The fiefs of the princes are all large and wide, and the small ones are also hundreds.
"Why didn't you choose a fief?" Wu Yingying asked, the fiefs of more than fifty princes have been indicated, but there is no Prime Minister Chase.
"In the Prime Minister's Mansion, there are still many subordinates who do not have titles, and the ministers are shy as prime ministers, and His Majesty does not dare to shirk the knighthood, if he wants a fief again, he will have no shame on his subordinates. Chase said calmly that he was actually against the granting of hereditary titles and fiefs, believing that all promotions should come from the right path of selection, but Wu Yingying still canonized more than 50 princes and more than 200 hereditary nobles from the two aspects of rewarding meritorious heroes and stabilizing the frontier areas. The current knighthood system is a neutralization of Wu Yingying's original intention and the opinion of the Prime Minister's Office, and the Korean Gong Chase even resigned the fief to show his attitude.
"Okay," Wu Yingying didn't seem strong, and said in a deep voice, "You go and draw up a Wu, so that the salaries of the prime minister's mansion and even the state and county officials can be linked to the growth of the country's wealth and people's wealth." He pondered for a moment, and then asked, "How is the construction of the Taimiao Temple and the Tomb of the Warriors progressing?"
"The ground has been leveled, the drainage system is being built according to the drawings, and the stone carvings are progressing quickly in the workshops everywhere. Chase replied cautiously.
The emperor ascended the throne and accepted the allegiance of his subjects, sergeants, and representatives of important officials in Chang'an. At other times, he mainly handled political affairs in the palace of Dunhuang, the western capital. Chang'an has experienced five generations of war, and the palace room of the Tang Dynasty has long been dilapidated. Wu Yingying did not want to build a large number of buildings, so he only ordered the Xingqing Palace to be built next to the military academy for the emperor's enthronement, and the Taimiao was built next to it. The tomb of the national scholar was built in the desert next to Dunhuang. Wu Yingying personally reviewed the drawings, and the building is based on the theme of eternity, and it is a temple made entirely of basalt, granite and marble.
In addition to the same honor as all the people who have made meritorious contributions to the country, the names of all the soldiers who have died since the Jiangnan army have been engraved on the low black granite wall of the national tomb, and the camps of the Dragon Tooth Army and the Tiger Wing Army connect the national tomb with the palace. Starting from Wu Yingying, every emperor of the Xia Kingdom, every general and every soldier who died in battle for the country returned his soul here.
After capturing Guanzhong, from among the forbidden troops of the Song State, Wu Yingying selected the elite and formed three infantry armies, which were named the Bashan Army, the Xiliu Army, and the Thief Army. Under the general's mansion, in addition to the original Andong Military Division and Anxi Military Division, there was also an Anbei Military Division, with Xin Gu as the general manager of the march, and cooperated with the hussars, Lu, Duhan, and Tongqiu four armies through the Mobei grassland. Among the founding armies, the Dragon Tooth Army, the Hussar Army, the Jiaorong Army, the White Feather Army, the Flower Hat Army, the Lianrui Army, the Chi Hunting Army, the Chengying Army, and the Tiger Wing Army were awarded the honor of the Guards.
Chase retired with a happy face, leaving Wu Yingying alone in the Xingqing Palace to prepare for the enthronement ceremony.
Wu Yingying stood in front of a large bronze mirror with a height of one person, although there was no helmet and armor, but the dress worn by the emperor of Xia when he ascended the throne was not a wide robe with big sleeves, but a rather neat bright yellow general robe, with a sword hanging from the waist of the Son of Heaven and a dragon pattern cloak on the outside, in order to show the martial style of the country. Looking at the image in the bronze mirror, Wu Yingying was in a trance, and seemed to have some unreal feelings. "That's who I am. Wu Yingying said softly.
"Your Majesty. A coquettish cry woke up Wu Yingying, and when he looked back, it was Huang Wen who was wearing the queen's costumes, standing in the hall timidly, looking at Wu Yingying with beautiful eyes. She wears a phoenix crown on her head, and a dark blue large-sleeved shirt with colorful Zhai patterns, and the neckline, cuffs, and skirt are inlaid with red cloud dragon patterns. A bunch of slender waists, hanging with mutton fat white jade double wear and jade ribbon ring. As empress, Huang Wen was the only concubine who was eligible to enjoy the allegiance of her subjects to Wu Yingying when she ascended the throne. This noble queen dress is decorated with jewels and gemstones, and the weight is heavier than ordinary dresses.
"The enthronement ceremony is about to begin. The expression on Wu Yingying's face was not like an emperor who was about to ascend the throne, but it was as relaxed as he usually spoke to his subordinates, "You come here," Wu Yingying took a deep breath of the faint fragrance in the hall, hugged Huang Wen who was approaching him in his arms, and hugged her shoulders and waist.
The emperor kissed the empress, and the maids behind Huang Wen hung their heads with crimson faces.
"Your Majesty. Huang Wen struggled to break free from Wu Yingying's arms, her pretty face was crimson, she glanced at him with a little reproach, flattened the collar of her shirt, and covered the green gauze middle single, Wu Yingying smiled at her slightly, stretched out her hand, held her hand firmly, and the two stood quietly side by side in the door of the main hall.
Outside the palace, the sky is clear, the blue sky is like washing, on the colonel's field, tens of thousands of sergeants of the Dragon Tooth Army and the Tiger Wing Army are lined up for sanitation, and nearly a thousand officers, civil protectors, important ministers of the court, and representatives of priests stand quietly, looking up at the gate of the main hall of the Xingqing Palace, looking up at the emperor who is about to accept the allegiance of his subjects.
As soon as the auspicious time came, the salute rang out nine times, the guards opened the palace gate, and the morning sun shone into the magnificent hall, Wu Yingying and Huang Wen walked out of the palace together, standing on the pedestal surrounded by white marble railings. In July of the tenth year of the founding of the Great Xia, Emperor Wu Yingying initiated the meeting of the soldiers, the prime minister of the Liao State, and the privy envoy of the North and South Courts, Han Derang, and the prime minister of the Song State, Wang Yu, went to Hequ together.
The meandering river is named after the meandering of the Yellow River, surrounded by east, west and south, and is the town on the east side of the river, located between Song Lanzhou and Liaoshuo Prefecture. The Liao army often crossed the river to fight the grass valley, but the Song army could not be saved, and the fathers and elders of Lanzhou mourned to the king of Xia. In the first year of the founding of the Great Xia, Wu Yingying took advantage of the Liao and Song dynasties to exchange troops and move their families to the town, so that the Bai Yu army crossed the river, collected the river meandering city, pacified the people, organized regimental training, and built a fortress, making it the only stronghold of the Xia State in the east of the river. After the meander returned to the summer, the Liao soldiers did not arrive.
For Song Liao, the meanders of the river were the land of projectiles. Xia captured Guanzhong, and helped Song to retreat from Liao, and Liao Guoxing defeated Xia, and was worried that Xia Guoda would report back. Neither the Liao and Song dynasties reacted in time to the Xia state's occupation of the meander. The Andong Military Division also continued to make good alliances with Liao and Song officials who were connected to the geographical area. In the past ten years, the meander of the river has become a summer land, which has become a tacit fact for both the Liao and Song dynasties. Because the river meander is located between the Liao, Song and Xia dynasties, it was selected by Wu Yingying as the location of the meeting of the Three Kingdoms.
At this moment, outside the city of Hequ, tens of millions of tents are like mushrooms after the rain in the summer grassland, in order to deter each other, the Liao State 5,000 palace troops came with Hu Han Derang, and there are 30,000 iron cavalry pillows in Shuozhou, and the Song State is the new Taiyuan guard Yang Yanzhao led 5,000 iron cavalry to escort the prime minister Wang Yu to come, and the towns in Hedong are all in good standby, and the Liao soldiers take the opportunity to go south to enter the Kou. On the contrary, it was the emperor of the Xia Kingdom, Wu Yingying, who initiated the meeting of the bait soldiers, in addition to the five battalions of the Xiliu Army originally stationed in Hequ, only brought five hundred dragon tooth troops to the meeting, and now it was in the Hequ City of the Xia Land, but the troops of the Liao and Song sides stationed outside the city exceeded the Xia army stationed in the city.