Chapter 576: Returning Home
Wu Xiongying chatted with his comrades and guided them on their future governance concepts for the territory.
At this time, Wu Xiongying's officers were already cultural people, especially the officers of the Air Force, many of whom had graduated from universities and had the reputation of being a student.
Don't be blind to the things of management, and it's not difficult for them to go down and become a lord.
However, being able and being able to do well are two different things, learning well, good technology, not necessarily having management ability, and not necessarily knowing how to operate.
Therefore, people like Wu Xiongying can quickly stand out in their own group.
Most of the suggestions of the colleagues who were surrounded by culture for Wu Xiongying were also written down very carefully, and they were ready to try to practice them when they arrived in the fiefdom.
At the banquet on the upper floor of the Ming Dynasty, the popular drinks are wine and rice wine, the alcohol content is much lower than that of shochu, and you can drink it slowly and chat.
The crowd was lively until more than ten o'clock in the evening.
The next morning, Wu Xiongying got up and freshened up, packed his luggage, and went to the airport to take a passenger plane back to his hometown in Songjiang.
Wu Xiongying returned to Jingshi, originally to participate in the ceremony of entering the city to praise his merits, and he didn't bring much luggage, just wrapped a few clothes one by one.
There are a large number of high-ranking officials in Jingshi, as well as a large number of traditional aristocratic families, and he is not a county man at all.
Moreover, the imperial court has just canonized a large number of new nobles in batches, and there are tens of thousands of people large and small.
Although the vast majority of them are squires and countrymen, there are also one or two thousand people with the traditional orthodox title of baron and above.
Especially last night's celebration, the whole street was full of new nobles.
The hotels are full of new nobles.
But after returning to his hometown, Wu Xiongying immediately became the focus of attention.
The barons officially canonized by the imperial court, although they are the lowest in the traditional titles, are also noble and noble, and as long as the children and grandchildren work hard, they can rest with the country.
The key is that Wu Xiongying himself now holds the actual baron of a county fief.
The county man can also enjoy the treatment of the official of the sixth grade at the local level, which is just one level higher than the highest county order in the county.
According to the tradition of Shenzhou, Wu Xiongying, a person who has been knighted, belongs to the "village elder" in his hometown.
If there is any important matter in the local area, the county will usually invite him to the county office to participate in the discussion, and will seriously consult and consider their opinions.
The most important thing is that Wu Xiongying is knighted for actual military merits, and he has not yet retired, and the future can be expected.
Wu Xiongying was warmly welcomed at the airport.
The principal officials headed by the magistrate of Shanghai accompanied Wang Xiongying's parents and close relatives to the airport to greet the glorious return of the meritorious hero Wu Xiongying.
At the same time, there were also people from the aviation association and veterans, and even representatives from the Songjiang Prefecture Yamen and the Baoshanwei garrison also arranged for representatives to come over and say hello.
Wu Xiongying really felt the feeling of being in the limelight.
Regarding the meaning of this title itself, Wu Xiongying finally had a sense of reality in his heart.
Wu Xiongying followed the reminder and worshiped his father Wu Zhiyuan first.
According to the tradition before the Ming Dynasty, the honorables who were knighted for military merit had to be posthumously awarded three generations.
The recipient's father and grandfather will also receive a nominal title of the same rank.
However, there will be no actual salary, just a treatment in etiquette.
The purpose is to avoid the situation that the status of the hero himself is higher than that of his father and grandfather.
After the Renwu Dynasty, the posthumous sealing of his father and grandfather was no longer actually carried out alone.
Instead, on the canonization edicts and documents of the heroes, it is specifically listed that their ancestors can also enjoy the same level of etiquette.
Wu Zhiyuan will now enjoy the baron's courtesy, and his mood is also very good.
smiled and accepted his son's salute, and then took him to greet his parents and officials in his hometown, as well as his colleagues in related industries.
Although the county man is treated as a positive sixth grade, he has no direct power outside his fiefdom.
The parent official in his hometown held the actual administrative power, and if he was to trouble him at all costs, a baron would be very uncomfortable.
It's just that the officials are all rogue officials, and basically they don't deliberately contradict the locals.
Both sides are very polite, polite to each other, and convenient for each other.
The welcome ceremony was very lively, and everyone seemed to be very happy.
The last stage of the ceremony is that everyone accompanies Wu Xiongying to the ancestral hall of the Wu family to comfort their ancestors.
After Wu Xiongying finished worshipping, when the family was chatting, the elders of the ancestral hall clan smiled and said that they would write a special article for Wu Xiongying.
also said that after a hundred years, Wu Xiongying's ranking and ancestor should be put together.
The people from the county government also said that this kind of thing should not only be written on the genealogy of the Wu family, but also on the county chronicles.
The Wu family prepared a banquet and invited all the guests to eat together, and it was more than three o'clock in the afternoon, and the guests from all walks of life gradually dispersed.
Wu Xiongying first went to his room to sleep, and got up at night to have dinner with his family.
Wu Xiongying's family background is very good, and when his father Wu Zhiyuan was young, he could already afford to play with airplanes.
Wu Zhiyuan himself has technology and popularity, and he naturally participates in the popular aviation industry, which makes his family's assets swell again.
Wu Zhiyuan himself graduated from university and had a diploma as a student, so he could have taken a concubine.
When the Ming Dynasty transferred slaves, Zhu Jianyan gave the people an opportunity to exchange the amount of slaves for concubines, of course, only for Korean maids and maids.
In this way, Wu Zhiyuan got a second place as a concubine.
Wu Zhiyuan's wife, that is, Wu Xiongying's mother, is the child of a well-known businessman's family.
The first concubine was a Ming girl from a working family.
The second concubine was a maiden.
Wu Zhiyuan plays with airplanes, and he is in good health......
With three women, one wife and two concubines, a total of eighteen children have been born so far, ten boys and eight girls.
Wu Xiongying is the eldest or eldest son in the family.
Wu Xiongying took a few older brothers with him to drink and chat with his father, who was still very excited.
In the traditional social life of the Ming Dynasty, except for the eldest son who inherited the family business by default, there is not much difference between the other children and concubines.
As long as the mother is not too bad, she will be regarded as a normal child of the male owner, and the treatment depends on whether she is liked by the father.
But no matter how bad the treatment of the unfavored child is, it is also the child of the male master of the family, and there is still an insurmountable barrier between him and the real slave status.
Most of the cases in which concubines and concubines and concubines are like slaves are demonized by later generations.
The current situation of the Wu family is that Wu Zhiyuan sits in the main seat, Wu Xiongying sits opposite his father, and Wu Xiongying's younger brothers sit on the sides of the two.
The mood of a group of people was very excited, and several younger brothers looked at their eldest brother, all of whom were envious and admired.
At the same time, they all thought that if their eldest brother is developed, what will be the benefit to them in the future?
The eldest brother will be the actual baron of Tessie in the future, and he will make a few Tessie orchids in his territory, this should always be easy to capture, right?
Wu Zhiyuan looked at his son's canonization edict, and chattered and arranged while drinking:
"Boss, even if you are the king of a country in the future, you will continue to serve in the army, and someone will have to help you take care of the affairs of your fiefdom.
"The third, fifth, and sixth children are willing to go to school, so they stay in their hometown to continue their education and do business with me in the future.
"The second and fourth children don't have books at all, and they do some stealing and touching dogs all day long.
"Just let them go to work in the fiefdom with you, and it can be regarded as an errand for them.
"But the three of them are not good, they are not more reliable than you, so we have to find a way to invite your Uncle Wei out of the mountain to be the manager for you for a few years.
"He knows everything about Tessie's side.
"Let Uncle Wei take charge of the fiefdom first, and also educate the three of them how to do things in a few years, and also train some local manpower for you.
"Your wedding has to happen now, and I don't know when I'll be back when I'll be back this time.
"You are now a serious baron, and you are qualified to directly take two concubines in the Ming Dynasty, and it is best to do it directly after the wedding.
"In the local area, there is a chance to find you a serious Ming girl as a concubine.
"When you get to Tessie, it shouldn't be easy to find a serious girl, and you still have a chance to hire a few more Tessie orchids......
"By the way, you brought your sister over a few too......
"In the current Ming Dynasty, many young boys have run out, and there are a lot of girls in the family, so it's a bit troublesome to find a good family.
"But when you get to Taixi, there must be a new nobleman with the same status as you, who wants to marry a Ming daughter as a wife.
"It's definitely better to get there than to marry at home......
"No...... You may not be able to do this alone, so I'll go with you......"
Wu Xiongying nodded again and again when he listened, and felt that his father's arrangement was very good.
Your own fiefdom does need manpower, especially if it is reliable and credible enough.
Some of my younger brothers don't want to go to school, so it's also a matter of arranging a job for them to do.
I actually got married before I went to college.
I was going to graduate from college and get married, but I went directly to the battlefield without graduating, and this time I went home just to do the wedding before leaving.
There is still a large gap in the proportion of school-age girls in Daming and overseas.
Most of the ordinary people who go overseas directly are single, or bring their sons instead of their daughters, or they are newlyweds.
I should indeed try to directly choose two concubines of the Ming Dynasty in my hometown to bring over to Taixi.
I should also find a way to help with my sisters' marriages.
Bringing a few older sisters with them to Tessie to marry the new nobles of the adjacent fiefdom or their brothers, or the former comrades-in-arms and their brothers, should be the most suitable choice now.
Wu Xiongying basically had no objection to his father's chatter in the end, so he agreed.
Wu Zhiyuan mentioned the two sons, when they heard their father mention this arrangement, and saw that the eldest brother readily agreed, they were all overjoyed.
After the family banquet, Wu Xiongying's younger brothers went back to the room and told their mother about their father's and eldest brother's arrangements, and they were also very happy.
The next morning, Wu Zhiyuan took Wu Xiongying, and the father and son went to visit Wei Yuan together.
After Wei Yuan returned from overseas, he became famous and entered Songjiang University as a teacher, teaching geography courses.
Wu Zhiyuan's father and son invited him to be the head of Wu Xiongying, and he can even be regarded as the minister of state, but the scope of management is only one county.
From a university teacher to a magistrate, the cooperating monarch is still the son of a friend, and the other party will be in the army for a long time in the future.
The actual power he will have in the future will be much greater than that of the ordinary magistrate, and there is no term limit.
Even though the place of work is far away from Tessie, if it were for other average university teachers, they may not be willing to go and do this job.
But Wei Yuan didn't mind going overseas, he was already very interested in the overseas world.
After the acceptance of the Ming Dynasty, the Taixi Kingdoms, the people of Taixi and the changes in society also had a good attraction to Wei Yuan.
So Wei Yuan basically agreed without much thought, and then went directly to the head of the school to resign.
Let the mountain chief recruit a replacement teacher as soon as possible, and he will leave in three months at most.
Wu Xiongying didn't go to Taixi to take office right away.
For Wu Xiongying, these meritorious generals, the imperial court has given them enough time to arrange family affairs.
Before the Renwu Dynasty, after the Jinshi passed the examination, they also had half a year to a year to arrange family affairs.
Wu Xiongying should rush back to his unit before the end of the long holiday for the Chinese New Year next year.
However, Wu Xiongying is still a small lord, and before returning to the army, he has to arrange the affairs of the territory first.
Therefore, Wu Xiongying had to advance a little earlier, at least a month or two, and rush to Feiluo County in advance to accept the fief.
In this way, there are only three months left in the local area, and the time is also a little tight.
Wu Zhiyuan's father and son stayed with Wei Yuan for a day and discussed things about the management of the fiefdom, about the style of Taixi, and about the world situation.
The next day, Wu Zhiyuan and his son went home and began to arrange the wedding for Wu Xiongying.
Time is tight, and it is too late to completely follow the ancient tradition and stretch all the etiquette to half a year.
However, the two families knew each other well, and Wu Xiongying and his fiancée were already familiar with each other.
Knowing the situation on Wu Xiongying's side, of course that side is also willing to cooperate.
After getting married, it is to find Daming's concubine.
However, considering the emotions of his newlywed wife, Wu Xiongying did not immediately handle the matter of taking concubines.
Instead, after finding a candidate, he first went to the yamen to sign the marriage letter of the concubine, and arranged for their family to go to Taixi with him.
Let them live in their fiefdom for a year and a half before holding a concubine ceremony.
On the second day of the 11th month of the fifth year of the Grand Duke, Wu Xiongying's family mixed Wei Yuan and took a long-range passenger plane to Taixi together.
Wu Xiongying, father and son, both like airplanes, and both feel that taking boats and trains is too slow.
After several successive repairs, the group arrived at Wu Xiongying's fiefdom the next morning, Philae City, the center of Philo County, and the original Figeles City.
In fact, there are only about 50,000 people in Figuerais City, and it can be regarded as a normal county seat in Daming before the industrial age.
However, many towns and villages in Songjiang Prefecture now have more urban areas than they do here.
When Daming accepted Figueles City, there was no battle in the city, and the defenders directly handed over the entire city to Daming.
When Lucia and the Germans conquered Spain, only skirmishes broke out around the city.
When the city was finally handed over to the Ming people, it was basically intact.
There is a large castle in the city, which is the largest military fortress in the whole of Catalonia, but it has played little role in mechanized warfare.
There are also a large number of traditional buildings in Taixi, but there are not many new buildings in the style of the Ming Dynasty.
When Wu Xiongying and his entourage came to the sky above the city, the city scene they saw was a bit like a ruin.
A large number of traditional Tessy buildings are being demolished and turned into building materials to build new facilities.
The cross on the spire of the church in the city has been torn down.
The castle is being restored to a stone state.
It is clear that the ordinary people who used to live in the city have now become workers and are doing these jobs.
There were several groups of soldiers patrolling the city, some of them were Ming troops, and some were servant soldiers from Xianbei, Persia, Egypt and other places.
Wei Yuan sat by the window of the plane and looked at the scene below, and sighed with emotion.
But nothing was said.