Chapter 748: The Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System and the Winner in Life

In addition to announcing the country name and the year name, Zheng did not choose a new era name, but adopted the Western calendar, the summer calendar, and the three chronological methods of the Chongzhen year name in parallel.

In other words, it is now the year 2022 of the Gregorian calendar, and it is also the 383rd year of Chongzhen.

The reason why the Chongzhen era name is adopted, rather than the Southern Ming emperors and the prison state who are related to the Zheng family, is because the Chongzhen Emperor is recognized as the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and has a wide influence in Goryeo, the island country, Annam and other regions, such as Goryeo, which is still using the Chongzhen era name many years after surrendering to Houjin.

Among the emperors and supervisors of the Southern Ming Dynasty in history, although there are many more wise, they have no power to return to heaven, have not made any achievements, and their influence in history is relatively low.

This point has also been widely recognized by the people of the kingdom and overseas Xia descendants, after all, it is already a new era of the 21st century, and the Western calendar is widely used in the world, and no one in the young people is too lazy to convert between the era name and the Western calendar.

The parallel of the three calendars naturally facilitates the daily life and work of the people.

The name of the country and the name of the year were established, and the second edict began to be promulgated, which was a reward for the Zheng clan's relatives and ministers.

The edict was read by the celebrant and the canonization ceremony began in the Royal Parliament building.

The first canonization was to crown Zheng Zhao Shuyuan as the queen and lead the inner palace of Anping Wangcheng.

Note that it is not the princess, but the queen of the ancients, whose status is on par with the king, which can be said to have given Zheng Zhao Shuyuan supreme glory.

Strictly speaking, the queen is also a king, and the queen has the right to act as regent before the king dies or the heir is a minor, not the kind of concubine who cannot be involved in the harem of the later feudal dynasty.

This point did not make people feel that there was any problem, because the Zheng monarch of the Dongning Kingdom belonged to the independent princes and kings, similar to the foreign vassal of the Goryeo Kingdom, and within their own feudal state, they were called "Great King" by the ministers and even "Your Majesty", rather than the county king or the king of Yeonpyeong, the latter was the title of outsiders and outsiders, so Zheng Jizong's canonization of the queen instead of the county princess was also completely in line with the regulations.

Then he canonized his concubine Zheng Zhixuan as the lord and crown prince of Lanfang, and officially appointed him as the heir to the kingdom. In fact, like this, the daughter of the king of the foreign domain was usually named the lord of the county in ancient times, but Zheng Zhixuan didn't like this title, so she took the daughter of the county king as an example and named the county lord.

This did not cause criticism at all, in this era of equality between men and women, even machismo, do not dare to say in public that women cannot be heirs, otherwise they will wait to be beaten!

Moreover, the heir of the crown prince is the lord of Lanfang, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a gesture of goodwill to the former Lanfang forces, those Xia wealthy businessmen and ethnic groups. In addition, Zheng Zhixuan was originally a famous beauty in the South Seas and the pearl of Bonizhou Island, such a crown prince is naturally more popular with people.

Then Zheng Jixing was canonized as the Auxiliary Prince, the Governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and the Zongzheng of the Dazong Zhengyuan.

Needless to say, the dukedom of the Duke of Fuguo is the highest title outside the Ming Sect, second only to the county king, after all, the Dongning Kingdom is nominally a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, and the king is the prince of the county, and he cannot be crowned a prince like the West, although the "prince" over there is not the same thing as the prince of the Ming Dynasty at all.

and Zheng Ershu's two official positions, the former was established by the Ming Taizu, and the authority was to command the three armies of the kingdom; The latter was the yamen in charge of the affairs of the royal family and the succession of lords.

It can be said that Zheng Jixing only relies on these two positions, and he is definitely above one person and below ten thousand people in the Dongning Kingdom, and he is a proper high and powerful position.

At the same time, for the clan, Zheng Jizong, the fourth generation of Dongning kings, did not canonize the clan, but announced the re-writing of the genealogy, and the Wu family restored the surname Zheng, but only the lineage was surnamed Zheng, although other collateral lines were also listed as clans, but they could be changed back to the surname Zheng or the surname Wu could be maintained.

Except for a little dissatisfaction in the sidelines, everyone has no opinion.

In particular, the ministers of the Zheng clan deeply agreed with this, and the people of the kingdom and the Xia ethnic groups such as Nanyang also praised the wisdom of this initiative.

After all, the problem that the bannermen of the former Ming clan and the later Jin clan were not able to get rid of in the middle and late dynasties was the most alarming, and if the Dongning Kingdom made a large number of clans to eat the imperial grain, it would definitely bring a burden to the national finances.

The next is to canonize the ministers, the Dongning Kingdom inherited the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, followed the ancient nine-product Zhongzheng system, and set up the cabinet, six ministries, nine qing, and the official pattern of local state capitals, counties and towns.

Among them, the Ministry of Rites is equivalent to the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture and Propaganda; The Ministry of Officials is the department in charge of the promotion of all civil servants and officials; The military department is equivalent to the general armament department and the logistics department, and also has the responsibility of training new soldiers; The Ministry of Finance, which is in charge of the country's finance, economy, and taxation; The Ministry of Industry is the department in charge of national construction, industry and commerce.

The last of the six criminal departments belongs to the Ministry of Public Security, which is responsible for state affairs such as public security police, fire and transportation, and forms the Three Law Divisions together with the Dali Temple and the Inspectorate in the Jiuqing, and implements the separation of powers between public law and procuratorate.

Dali Temple is the highest court of the Dongning Kingdom, and the Inspectorate belongs to the function of the procuratorate, and the imperial historians naturally become prosecutors.

Speaking of ancient officials, they all have similar duties, and the imperial examination system and this official system in Middle-earth can be said to be hundreds of thousands of years advanced in terms of functional perfection, but in the period of great exploration, it suffered from the calamity of the Xiaoice climate and foreign invasions, so it lagged behind the West for hundreds of years.

This is what the Westerners themselves said, they were shocked after learning about the imperial examination system, but because of the constraints of the old system, there was no way to reform it immediately, and it can be said that the later civil service system was originally developed with the imperial examination system as the original.

Gao Jingfei, the canonized official, didn't pay much attention, after all, he was not very familiar with the subordinates of the Zheng family, but there were also people he knew.

For example, Cheng Yishan, a descendant of Jinyiwei and the head of the Zheng family's dark department, was canonized as the commander of Jinyiwei, and also received the hereditary title of Huaiyang Bo.

The title system of the Dongning Kingdom restored the ancient fifth-class lord system, but there were only fifth-class lords and the corresponding county lords, country ladies, county ladies, county lords, township lords and other female titles and non-hereditary lords, and there was no practice that each title was divided into first, second, and third classes, which was to avoid the flooding of titles and worthlessness.

The commander of the last southern expedition, Wei Nanping, was named Jiang Ningbo, and his ancestor Wei Guogong served as the garrison of Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty for a long time, and Jiangning was a subsidiary of Nanjing, so this can be regarded as restoring the glory of the ancestors, once he has made great contributions, it is estimated that the Zheng family will not be stingy to re-canonize the Wei family as the Duke of Wei.

There is also the Ang Shoulong who Gao Jingfei dealt with, the director of the Public Security Bureau of Ganghua District, the government of Pagang City, who was named the squire of the Criminal Department, and also had the title of the prince of the upstart county.

Even his quasi-son-in-law was given the title of Marquis of Danyang, which matched Gao Jingfei's luck title in the underworld.

In the dark, Gao Jingfei noticed that his luck had changed again, and the authority of the Marquis of Danyang, who had originally only inherited the luck of several dynasties in the other world, had further grown in this world and the underworld at this time, and turned into a substance, and was generally no longer as vain as before.

This is the connection between the Netherworld and the Yang Dynasty's luck, right?

Regarding the Zheng family's son-in-law being knighted, outsiders didn't know Gao Jingfei's contribution to the Dongning Kingdom, and they only thought it was for the preparation of his marriage with the county lord in the future, and they didn't care much about it, but many men of school age were very jealous of Gao Jingfei, a hairy boy.

This is a winner in life who has both a beauty and a wealthy title!