Chapter 187: Five Lords and Seven Ranks

"I am the one of the Princes." Zhu Yunwen said: "Uncle Xu, he has won the true legend of Guogong, and he has never been trained in the army, and I also feel sorry for Uncle Xu, so let Uncle Xu follow Guogong and be Guogong's assistant, which can be regarded as a father and son soldier in battle. As for the other candidates, even if they are recommended, after consulting with the ministers, they will certainly give them an answer."

This is exactly what Zhu Yunwen meant.

Xu Da's energy problems and physical problems can only support big things, and many specific details cannot be handled. Naturally, someone else will do it. In this way, Xu Da is a brand that unifies military forces.

Send the generals of each faction to work under Xu Da.

The greatest possibility is to integrate the whole army and give Xu Da some benefits. The biggest benefit is the cultivation of Xu Huizu.

I want that after this time, Xu Huizu can also take over Xu Da's mantle in the future and become the leader of a series in the army. The reappearance of the Duke of Wei family in the court is also very beneficial to Zhu Yunwen's control of the court.

It's just that this is contrary to Xu Da's arrangement for the Xu family.

Xu Da hopes that the Xu family can be silent. Get out of the court strife. It's not that Xu Da doesn't want his family to prosper, but that Xu Da's founding achievements are too great, and he is already suspected of being a master of high merit. Xu Da has been humble and self-restrained for so many years. Not without reason. And when the struggle in the court is the most intense, it is the time of the second and third generations of emperors, at that time, the power of the founding heroes was purged, or declined.

This is inevitable, fighting the world is a group of people, and sitting in the world is another group of people.

After the distribution of interests in the world is over, the Xu family has no threat to the imperial court, and only the founding achievements are left, and the glory and wealth of the Xu family can be guaranteed.

Even if it is impossible to be in power for a while, the wealth heirloom is a certainty.

It's just that this is a proper way for the Xu family. But for a specific person in the Xu family, it is not good news, which means that Xu Da wants to suppress his sons, grandsons and even other descendants, just keep to himself and enjoy his glory and wealth, and don't think about other things in politics, especially his sons and grandchildren.

Xu Huizu has always held an idle position, which is what Xu Da means.

It's just that now Xu Da can't stop the Xu family from joining this chaos.

After giving the Xu family such a big benefit, Zhu Yunwen seized the right to appoint the generals of other factions, and there will definitely be many people from other factions under Xu Da's command in the future. It is impossible for Xu Da to truly control the army.

Xu Da could only say, "Your Majesty Shengming."

Zhu Yunwen was proud in his heart.

The situation on the battlefield, although somewhat passive, Zhu Yunwen is also completing the integration of the army step by step. He believed that as long as he had full control of the Nanjing court, he would have enough strength to defeat Beijing.

There is no doubt about that.

"Just let him be arrogant for a while." Zhu Yunwen said secretly in his heart.

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It will take some time for the news of Nanjing and the East China Sea to reach Beijing.

And during this time, Beijing has already digested the effects of the battle between the rivers.

He Xi presided over an enlarged meeting of the cabinet to discuss the list of knights.

The heroes of the Battle of Hejian led by Ye Shen, Ye Shen was the Duke of the Kingdom and the Duke of Changguo. There are about a dozen people below Ye Shen who are marquis and uncles. Many of them are from Liaodong. These people have become a very important Liaodong group among the future nobles.

That's an afterword.

The most important thing about this reward is not the reward of these people.

After all, it's just about rewarding meritorious deeds.

Zhu Xiongying is not a stupid person, maybe for the sake of his influence, he will make some small actions, such as arranging certain people in certain key positions, but it will not affect too much. At the very least, it is impossible to influence justice.

Since it doesn't affect justice, there is not much suspense in this.

There are two things that really have a huge impact, the first is the title reform presided over by He Xi and passed by the court.

There are five lords and seven ranks.

The fifth lord is the fifth knight

, the prince and uncle.

Actually, Daming also had a viscount and a baron before, which was later changed by Zhu Yuanzhang.

However, there is one thing to be clarified, it is not that if you have a knighthood, you can be hereditary, and you still need to give Danshu iron coupons here? Without this, he is a liujue, and he will end up in a lifetime.

Generally speaking, it is not too difficult for most knighted people to want to be hereditary.

Duke and Earl, these have not changed much.

These titles are still superb, above the civil and military officials.

Only under the first assistant and the cabinet of university scholars.

And the viscount treatment is equivalent to a product. The baron is equivalent to the second grade.

Below the baron, there are, light car captain, cavalry lieutenant, Xiao cavalry lieutenant, flying cavalry lieutenant, cloud cavalry lieutenant, martial cavalry lieutenant, and public officer.

These official positions were not created by He Xi. But He Xi came from the Daming Commander, who was originally the highest officer, the pillar country, and the protector of the country. He Xi merged with the viscount and the baron.

In fact, the throne was still useful in previous dynasties.

Although only honorary positions. But there are those who have a fortune. If there is a title, there will be one more salary, and the more titles some officials have, the higher the salary. But unfortunately, after Zhu Yuanzhang researched it, he felt that these officials did the same thing, and if they had a title, they would have one more salary, which was not cost-effective. So there was a rule that no matter how many titles an official had, he would only receive one salary, that is, the one with the highest official position among all official positions.

In this way, the honorable officer has completely become an honorary title.

It's almost useless anymore.

Some are just a name.

He Xi simply took it and used it, and formed a set of knighthood systems from the lower to the dukes.

The reason why this is so is because the hereditary official position of Da Ming Wei is actually ninth.

Hereditary commander, hereditary commander, hereditary commander, hereditary guard, hereditary thousand, hereditary deputy thousand, hereditary hundred, hereditary test hundred, hereditary suppression.

The hereditary commander, the hereditary commander, is the future viscount, the baron.

The following seven ranks, the official positions correspond to the light car lieutenants and so on.

According to Zhu Yuanzhang's charter, generally speaking, to be a commander, he will be reduced by one level of hereditary command and acquaintance, or another basic one, hereditary thousand households. But not too low.

The entire hereditary system inherits the title system at the top and the soldier at the bottom.

Because when Zhu Yuanzhang designed the guard system, he wanted the soldiers below to be soldiers from generation to generation. From the title to the upper-level generals, the hereditary system is against the middle-level generals, and the military household system corresponds to the ordinary soldiers.

Self-contained.

In general, it was to reduce the amount of money and give land, or to allow it to be obtained from the land, so as to avoid excessive expenses of the imperial court.

This is also a period corresponding to the beginning of the founding of the country, when all kinds of waste were waiting to be rebuilt, and the imperial court expenditure was insufficient, but there were continuous wars in various places and military expenditures exploded.

In fact, this is also a problem for Zhu Yuanzhang to establish a system, Zhu Yuanzhang's system does not spend much on the surface, but a large amount of expenditure has become invisible expenditure. As long as there is power, each position has its own share of money, but it does not come from the imperial court.

This is the evaluation given by some historians in later generations, the characteristic of China's feudal society since the Qin Dynasty is the feudalism of power. The superior assigns a certain power to the people below, and the people below naturally use this power to their advantage.

In this case, corruption is tacitly tolerated.

He Xi's reform, in essence, is equal responsibilities and powers, and all hidden expenditures are included in the open government expenditures. The biggest problem with this is that the expenses of the imperial court will rise wildly.

The Ming Dynasty, and even many ancient dynasties, used this set, not because they were unaware of the benefits of including all expenses in the official expenses. After all, when the money is sufficient, it is easy to do things below, and this has been the case since ancient times.

But why, the imperial court doesn't have so much money at all? The financial expenditure of the imperial court is simply not enough to maintain the existence of the unified imperial court, and this compromise method is used to deal with various affairs.

Many people can't understand it, and only one thing to say, that is, grain transshipment, some places are thousands of miles away

The freight of grain transshipment has already exceeded the price of grain itself.

Instead of that, it is better to give some people some privileges and let them solve these problems on their own.

There is no way to do it.

If there is no income dividend brought by the industrial revolution and He Xi's financial reform, He Xi's reform is simply a poison, a poison that will kill Daming.