The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 848 The Safest Title

Ding Yi soon found out about Liu Rushi.

Liu Rushi found Gu Hengbo and decided to feed the tiger with her body, not to let Dong Xiaowan enter the palace. She wanted to enter the palace alone and find a way to face the saint.

So Gu Hengbo found Zeng Rou, and Zeng Rou had also heard of Liu Rushi's name, so he recruited her into the palace.

Liu Rushi is good at writing poems. Zeng Rou learned to write a poem and deliberately showed it to Ding Yi.

Ding Yi didn't know until he saw it that Liu Rushi was also recruited into the palace.

Damn, I'm not a Cao thief, Ding Yi was very angry at that time.

In order to please him, Zeng Rou did a lot of things, but you don't have to do it. If you do it, what is the difference between Lao Tzu and those stupid lords in history?If this continues, Lao Tzu's reputation will be rotten.

And Liu Rushi, don't you have any points yourself?How many people have you married?
If you let me choose, I will definitely choose Dong Xiaowan.

Ding Yi thought for a while, took the poem written by Zeng Rou, and said slowly: "Concubine Zeng's poems are not bad, but we are working hard now, not in the Ming Dynasty. Learning to write poems can indeed cultivate sentiment, but it is not suitable for me. I have a thriving national power."

Zeng Rou's face changed slightly: "The concubine knows."

On the way back, Ding Yi met Wang Xiangyao, a dog eunuch, with a little maid and a woman.

"Kowtow to the emperor." Like last time, Wang Xiangyao led people to kowtow on the side of the road.

"En." Ding Yi responded without looking back, and walked away.

Wang Xiangyao stayed in the field at that time, with a confused face, and soon cold sweat appeared on his head, feeling faintly that something was wrong.

Liu Rushi lowered her head at first, but when she heard something was wrong with the voice, when she raised her head, the emperor was no longer there.

Ding Yi didn't even look at her directly, and just walked away.

After returning to Dongnuan Pavilion, Ding Yi immediately recruited Lu Chao, the Commander of Jinyiwei, and Lu Daqi, Minister of Justice.

He asked the two of them, how is the investigation of the student riot case in Yingtianfu going?
Lu Daqi said loudly, although Qian Qianyi encouraged the students to make trouble, he really didn't know about the assassination of Zhao Zhilong and others.

Money and risk are used by people.

Then look at Lu Chao.

Lu Chao thought for a while, then slowly said: "Although there is no real evidence to prove that the two were involved in the assassination, there is also no evidence to prove that the two were not involved--"

Ding Yi directly interrupted his ambiguous statement: "I said before, Dagan must rule people by law."

"From a judicial point of view, whoever advocates shall provide evidence."

"If you want to convict him of being involved in the assassination, you must produce solid evidence, and you must produce it. If you can't produce it, even if he did it, he is innocent."

Lu Daqi glanced at Ding Yi excitedly, and quickly knelt down: "The emperor is wise."

Lu Chao naturally understood, and hurriedly said: "I obey the order."

"What order are you obeying?" Ding Yi said dissatisfied: "You mean, let you go when I tell you? Kill when I tell you to kill?"

Lu Chao thought, isn’t it so?It used to be like this.

But of course he didn't dare to say it now, and hurriedly said: "The emperor is wise."

"You must handle this case impartially and seek truth from facts. If you are really guilty, you must not let it go, but you must not wrong the good person."

The two nodded, and Lu Daqi asked at this moment: "The two incited the students to make trouble, how should we be punished?"

Because this will be the big dry, and the big dry code has not yet been released.

Ding Yi was stunned for a moment: "How about Qianming?"

Lu Daqi remained calm, it was not a crime before Ming Dynasty.

In the pre-Ming Dynasty, no matter how high the social status of scholars was, it was not a problem for scholars to steal books.

This sentence is of course a joke, but it is really childish for scholars to make trouble.

So in the end, Lu Daqi was asked to come forward, scolded them, taught them a few words, and let them go.
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In September and October, the generals and governors of the world came to Beijing one after another, and they were not all in place until mid-November.

The commander-in-chief and governor of the Ming Dynasty were not originally official titles, and the commander-in-chief originally had no rank. Wherever it was necessary to lead troops to fight, the commander-in-chief or the commander-in-chief of the Dudufu of the Five Armies went down to take the rank of commander-in-chief.

The governor is generally waited on by the ministers (shangshu) or the capital censor of the imperial court, and it is called patrolling the world to appease the army and the people.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the commander-in-chief and the governor had officially become the guards and officials of the frontier.

However, due to the special situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty and Chongzhen’s chaos, few general soldiers and governors at the end of the Ming Dynasty had stayed in the same position for more than three years, especially the governors, who could work in the same place for two years. Not many.

Now Ding Yi is definitely not the same as Daming, he wants to use the governor as a high-ranking official for future generations, and he will rotate it every four years.

At the beginning of December of the first year of Rende, after the imperial court was ready, Ding Yi summoned all the general soldiers and the generals and civil officials who fought with him in Fengtian Hall, and all the governors and civil and military officials above the third rank of the capital participated. minister.

Only then did everyone know that there were only four Dukes of Ding Yi's new chief executives, who were much more stingy than the old Zhu Ke of the Ming Dynasty. Gong Li Zhongyi.

Among the four princes, Zhao Dashan and Zhang Jing are the old brothers of Ding Yi. Wang Weizhong went out to fight the most and made great military exploits. All of them have made great contributions.

Unlike the Dukes of the Ming Dynasty and previous dynasties, the four Dukes had no fiefdoms, only titles, and enjoyed the [-] mu of land entrusted by the imperial court, but they also had to pay taxes, only [-]% of them.

In addition, the annual salary of the Duke of the State is three thousand shi (or equivalent silver). For example, if Zhao Dashan has the position of the Minister of the City Affairs Department, and takes the salary of the Minister of the City Affairs Department, it is equal to two salaries. 50 people, and no more than 30 servants and maids can be hired.

There are six Marquises, Song Fei, Lu Chao, Ruan Siqing, Shen Shikui, Xu Fuzuo, and Zheng Zhilong.

Originally, Ruan Wenlong's merits could also be granted the title of Duke or Marquis, but Ding Yi chose Ruan Siqing and only one of the Ruan family's father and son.

The Marquis has 30 mu of land entrusted by the imperial court, pays 20% of the tax, and has a salary of [-] shi each year. Those who have positions get double shares. The Marquis's mansion has [-] guards from the court, and no more than [-] servants and maids can be hired.

There are more than 20 earls, like Chen Youfu, Xu Wei, Xiang Huailai, Du Ruhai, Zhong Zhennu, Xu Zhi, Yao Xinhan, Wei Jiye, Shang Kexi, Xu Erxian, Cao Bianjiao, Xie Zhiliang, Yuan Youcai, Yan Xiong, Liu Yuan, Yuan Gui , Wu Sangui, Xilao Jing, etc. are all named uncles.

The earl entrusted [-] mu of land, paid [-]% of the tax, and had a salary of [-] shi every year, and those who had positions got double.

Then all titles will be hereditary.

What does it mean?
Zhao Dashan is the Duke of the state. In the future, his son will be hereditary and will be reduced to marquis. In the future, his grandson will inherit it again and be reduced to earl. After three generations, the Zhao family will have no title.

The nobles of the Ming Dynasty have been passed down for hundreds of years, and after that, every household eats fat and has countless fields and property. In the end, it is the common people who suffer.

Ding Yi changed to hereditary demotion, which was similar to the Tweeting Order of the Han Dynasty. It kept weakening nobles. After three generations, there would be no nobles in the Dagan Dynasty.

Some people say that when you fight against the world, don't you just want to benefit future generations?
But Ding Yi himself wants to put the power of the royal family in a cage. Do you still think about future generations?
As soon as the awards and regulations came out this time, the world was in an uproar. Everyone felt that this kind of duke and marquis was useless, far inferior to the previous Ming Dynasty and even the past dynasties.

Possibly the least valuable knighthood in history.

However, most of the rewards are Ding Yi's founding heroes. As long as the heroes have no objections, who will have any objections? Everyone wishes for them to do so.

The next day the imperial court's "World Affairs" newspaper headlined an article: "On the Ming Dynasty's death-free coupons and the princes."

The article said that when Lao Zhu founded the country, he gave a lot of iron coupons without money, but he killed so many people one by one as soon as he turned around.

He also said that from the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, what did the descendants do?
Apart from hoarding grain fields and enjoying high welfare, what contribution have you made to the country?
In short, it is desperately belittling Qianming.

There was a voice among the people that the title of Daqian might not be worth much, but it was definitely the safest title.

There is basically no dissatisfaction with the rewards and regulations this time, because Ding Yi has already met with Zhu Wenwu separately before, and there is no privilege for the title of grand cadre, and only money is the most real. Future generations will not worry about food and clothing.

After conferring the meritorious officials, Ding Yi readjusted the general soldiers and governors of the world. These people will return to their fiefdoms after staying in the capital for half a month at most.

At this time, the world was adjusted, and the fifteen inheritances of North Zhili, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, South Zhili, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Huguang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou of the Ming Dynasty were announced. The Department of Political Affairs was changed to nineteen provinces.

Northern Zhili was changed to Hebei Province, Huguang was changed to Hunan Province, Southern Zhili was changed to Jiangnan Province long ago, and now it is changed to Jiangsu Province, and then Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou Zhaojiu.

There are also Dayuan Province, Annan Province, Tai O Province, Luzon Province, and Liaodong Province. Among them, the overseas provinces have separate governors.

Jeju Island was returned to Shandong Province and changed to Jeju Prefecture.

The provincial governors are the second rank, and the local civil and government officials are changed every four years. They retire at the age of 60. If they can be promoted to the first rank, they will retire at the age of 63. If they can be promoted to the cabinet, they will retire at the age of 66.

The pension is adjusted to the sum of the salary during the two years of service, and the previous monthly benefits of receiving rice are cancelled, and a lump sum of money is taken away without any benefits, just like ordinary people.

But retired at cabinet level, retaining the guard for three years.

The original left and right political envoys were equivalent to deputy governors, and they and the governor were three provincial officials.

Among the three local divisions of the Ming Dynasty, there was also the Commander Division.

Now some of the commanders and envoys of the local capital have been transferred to the Department of Urban Affairs of the Ministry of Urban Affairs, the Urban Affairs Bureau, and some of them have been transferred to the local Jinyiwei.

The former is equivalent to the police\police and urban management, and the latter is equivalent to the security agency.

Among the original three divisions, according to the Procuratorate Division, some were assigned to the Ministry of Justice, and some were assigned to the Ministry of Punishment.

After such reforms, the original situation where the three local divisions of the Ming Dynasty stood side by side is gone, and there are only three provincial officials at the provincial level, the governor and the left and right chief ministers.

The following are the department-level (department-level) departments corresponding to the seventeen ministries of the Central Committee.

(End of this chapter)