I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 142
The first year of Jianwu in the Ming Dynasty, [-] AD.

March sixteenth.

Zhu Yijiong officially ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, and the Ming Dynasty was truly restored.

After all, the previous supervisory state was not justified, and from the original grass-roots team to today, it can be said that it is embarrassing.

After Zhu Yijiong proclaimed himself emperor, on the second day, as the Emperor of Heaven, he formally issued an order to the world: Nanjing should be the capital.

Along with the official establishment of the capital, there are also imperial decrees of conferring rewards to the ministers of the Great Ming Dynasty. Now the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as dominating two and a half provinces. If you include Lin Jun, the general of the Ming Dynasty who conquered the south of the Ming Dynasty and refused to obey the orders, it can basically be regarded as the southeastern province. Half of it is in the hands of Ming Ting.

It’s time to give some reward to these civil servants and generals who used to follow them when they were in a weak state, even at the risk of confiscating their homes and exterminating their clans.

Enfeoffing ministers and distributing benefits has always been a necessary process for a founding emperor, and it is also a necessary means to truly lay the foundation of a dynasty.

Zhu Yijiong was very heroic this time. Not only did he grant a large number of ministers, he also granted four hereditary marquises.

Among them, Yang Gong's Funing Bo was officially promoted to the title of Marquis of Yongyi, while Zheng Dingrui was renamed to the Marquis of Zhaowu. Although he was still a marquis, he was hereditary.

Zhu Yijiong simply took advantage of the founding of the Ming Dynasty and formally issued a decree. Unless there was a special favor, all titles in the Ming Dynasty were not allowed to be inherited and replaced. All titles were reduced until they were reduced to common people. Only the founding heroes were granted the privilege for three generations. After that, it will be reduced to hereditary status.

Moreover, Zhu Yijiong also specifically decreed that future emperors would no longer grant hereditary and alternative titles, and this was directly recorded as an ancestral system.

In a word, I can do it, but you can't.

Of course, Zhu Yijiong did not completely deny access to the titles below. Although the rank was reduced and hereditary, as long as the descendants of these people could make great contributions that were beneficial to the country, they could still be promoted.

This rule also applies to the royal family, and the same applies to future princes. Unless they have made great achievements, their rank will be reduced and their rank will be hereditary. The emperor cannot protect or promote others without merit.

Anyway, Zhu Yijiong didn't want his Ming Dynasty to spend a lot of money every year to maintain a group of manure-making machines like the previous Ming Dynasty.

In terms of civil servants, Wang Li and Liang Wenxuan, two assistant ministers of the cabinet, were also granted the title of marquis. After all, they were the top officials in the civil service. Without the title of marquis, they might not be able to suppress the generals.

Although Zhu Yijiong's Ming Dynasty relied on military force to build the country, if the military commanders were too strong, it would lead to an imbalance in the country and be unfavorable to rule.

However, Zhu Yijiong still recorded in the ancestral system that future kings would not be granted the title of marquis without military merit.

Now is the founding of the country, the civil and military forces must be controlled, but when the Ming Dynasty is passed down to later generations and the country is stable, rules must be established.

If civil servants can create marquises at will, it will also give them too much power. The consequences of excessive civil power have been demonstrated to everyone in the previous chapter.

Further down, the titles are basically earl, viscount or something. For example, Zhu Chengxun was granted the title of earl. This is due to his special status as Privy Councilor.

As for other generals, according to their military merits, those who are qualified will be awarded titles, and those who are not qualified will be given additional posts and lands.

As for the reward money, now that the national treasury is tight, let’s pay it first!
However, except for the four marquises, none of these people's titles are hereditary. There is only one Xu Jin, who has little credit but countless hard work. He is also an old minister from Conglong and was promoted to the sixth generation by Tern. From now on, he will be reduced to the rank of hereditary Zhangzhou Bo.

As for Huang Dian, this guy's title has been Duke Fu from the beginning. In addition, he has always been in charge of western Fujian and his achievements are not obvious, so he is hereditary with a reduced rank.

After the great meritorious service was awarded, the title of general title was awarded to approximately hundreds of people, and most of them were earls and viscounts.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has just been founded, the titles must not be too high or too high, otherwise they will be worthless.

Just when Zhu Yijiong established his capital in Nanjing and enfeoffed his ministers, the news of his official founding of the country and proclaiming himself emperor soon spread along the Yangtze River to Anqing Mansion in Anhui Province.

Also passed out was a document to be announced to the world.Longkoduo, who had just arrived in Anqing Prefecture a few days ago, was shocked. He had thought that the puppet Ming Dynasty might make a big move after falling into Nanjing.

But he didn't expect that this action was really too big.

He established his capital in Nanjing, ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, and founded Yuan and Wu.

Each of these items, taken individually, is a slap in the face of the eternal sage Emperor Kangxi, and it makes a loud slap.

Longkodo almost didn't dare to think that if the emperor in Beijing knew about this, he would be so angry that he would go crazy on the spot and mobilize an army to go south to put down the rebellion.

This result sounds good, but it is not a good thing for Longkodo.

After all, he was the one who escaped in the face of battle... well, he strategically and voluntarily abandoned Nanjing, and also caused the death of many feudal officials, including the governor of Liangjiang, in Nanjing.

If this were the case in the past, it might have been okay. Given his status and background, the most he could do was to be dismissed from his post and questioned.

But now...

In addition, Zhu Ni, the pseudo-Ming Dynasty, pretended to be emperor in Nanjing, which would definitely have a great negative impact under the Qing Dynasty.

After all, the former Ming Dynasty already had a good market among the people of the Qing Dynasty today, but this pseudo-Ming Dynasty fought continuously and successfully, and now it has captured Nanjing and claimed the title of emperor.

This is not only equivalent to telling the world that they are no longer the rogue rebels of the past, but a true separatist regime, and can even challenge the Qing Dynasty to compete for the world.

Not only that, with this lesson learned from the past, I am afraid that many hidden careerists among the people will rush to show up.

Chaos is coming!

For a moment, the word popped up in Longkodo's mind, but he quickly put it behind him and stepped up the defense of Anqing's front line.

At the same time, the main force of the Yangtze River Navy was mobilized to block the Yangtze River waterway from Caishiji to Hezhou to prevent the counterfeit Ming Navy from going down the river to attack Anqing.

Dai Kun, the former commander-in-chief of Wenzhou Town, was beaten to death by Long Keduo for the crime of losing his land and city, but he was immediately given a temporary official position as a regiment training envoy, responsible for the training tasks of the rural warriors in southern Anhui.

Longkodo's move was quite clever. First, he used the power of the governor and the concept of dismissal and secret exchange to help Dai Kun escape the death penalty. Then he used the empty position of regiment training envoy (there were no regiment training envoys in the Qing Dynasty) to let him use his talents to help him in the future. Troop training in southern Anhui.

Of course, Longkodo also gave him a political promise. As long as Dai Kun can make meritorious deeds, he will speak favorably for him in the memorial and recommend his reinstatement. It is not impossible to even go one step further.

Longkodo, on the other hand, was in Anqing Mansion, using his treasury and even donating money from wealthy gentry households to recruit and train troops and retrain his own Zhili army.

The original Green Camp was reorganized into an army after eliminating the old and weak.

Longkodo has finally learned his lesson. Although he is anxious now, as long as the imperial edict is not issued, he will not use his troops again and will try his best to defend.

Otherwise, apart from a little bit of bravery and spirit, the combat effectiveness of the untrained rural warriors would be incomparable to the regular troops of the puppet Ming thief army.

In the previous battle in Changzhou, even if he calmed down a little and trained for half a month to a month, the results would probably be improved.

Not to mention a great victory, at least it would not be a huge defeat and even Nanjing would be lost.

After all, when it comes to war potential, he owns the three provinces of Jiangnan and has a population and wealth several times that of Fujian and Zhejiang. He can kill these pseudo-Ming thieves with hard labor!
　Work overtime at nine o'clock tomorrow

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　　(Tip, Jiangnan Province even contributed one-third of the country’s taxes during the heyday of the Qing Dynasty, so it was split into Jiangsu and Anhui)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)