Daming: I help my wife be the empress

The third step in the enthronement ceremony is to issue an imperial decree in the name of the new emperor, announcing the succession of the new emperor and the new year name.

Aimee Zhu has completed this step.

After a half-hour break after lunch, Auntie Zhu changed into the empress uniform that Hao Guangming had customized for her in later generations, and headed to the original Beijing Camp in the northwest corner of Nanjing City, which is also the No.11, No.12 and Four Towns of the Border Guards Camp of the Nanjing Garrison.

Accompanying him were part of the Royal Forest Army, some soldiers from the First and Second Towns of the Imperial Guard, and most of the generals in Nanjing today.

As for the civil officials, there are only the accompanying secretary Zheng Sen and several low-level officials and officials of the Military Affairs Council in Nanjing.

The first thing Aimi Zhu will do on this trip is to give a general citation and a general award to all the soldiers who have made great contributions to her since she left Beijing.

There are two main forms of rewards: one is to promote the ranks and ranks of the meritorious officers and soldiers who can still stay in the army and even enter the ranks, to reward silver and Bu Shang "treasures" and to issue military medals; Military meritorious service officers and men of the normal team distribute military merit fields and issue military merit medals.

The "Military Merit Field System" can be regarded as Zhu Yuxi's further control over the army under his command, as well as further rewards and incentives for the soldiers.

If those who died in battle had no heirs, Daming would choose orphans to succeed them, inherit their military exploits, and pass on their incense.

For disabled veterans, Daming will try his best to arrange suitable jobs and help them hire people to take care of the military field.

The minimum military field is five mu, depending on the quality of the distributed field, the maximum can be ten mu.

On this basis, for every level of military merit, the military merit field will be divided into five acres, but the amount will no longer be changed depending on the quality of the field.

The highest level of military merit can be accumulated up to level nine, that is to say, in the case of ten acres of basic military merit fields, a maximum of [-] acres of military merit fields can be obtained.

Here, at the same time, the new military merit system conceived by Aimee Zhu was conceived based on the situation reflected by the Military Affairs Academy and the generals under her command in the past year.

It summarizes the military merit systems of previous dynasties, and draws lessons from the military merit systems of later generations, cancels the beheading record system, and uses the completion of combat tasks as the main criterion to evaluate military merit.

The meanings of military merit and military merit here are different. Military merit is a quantitative noun in units of "levels", while military merit refers to specific merit.

Military achievements are mainly divided into two categories: "collective military achievements" and "individual military achievements".

Among them, the highest collective combat merit can only reach special merit, while the title of combat hero is only awarded to individuals.

In the exchange of military merit and military merit, a third-class merit can be exchanged for first-level military merit, a second-class merit can be exchanged for second-level military merit, a first-class merit can be exchanged for third-level military merit, and a special-class merit can be exchanged for fifth-level military merit. Can be against the tenth level of military merit!

Merit can be accumulated without limit.

The military merit field below the tenth level of military merit will be rewarded once it reaches the tenth level, and it will be knighted, and the military merit field will also be increased to one hundred acres!

And a hundred acres is the limit of the military field.

Moreover, from the very beginning, Zhu Yuxi and Hao Guangming considered the issue of limited land, so it was expressly stipulated that the shares of Daming government-run companies could be used to replace military meritorious land.

In other words, in the future, there will not be enough land in the country and even overseas territories for rewards, and the shares of government-run companies can also be used for rewards.

Fields can be passed on to future generations to continue to generate income, as can shares. The nature of the two is roughly the same, and the soldiers will not refuse after understanding it.

Even in the future, when Ming Dynasty opens up to overseas markets, shares may be more popular than military fields, because at that time, the shares of some government-run companies will definitely be much more profitable than fields.

After accumulating military merits to the tenth level, they will be granted a title. Naturally, Zhu Yuxi will not use the past Ming Dynasty's seemingly stingy third-class system of titles of princes and uncles, but choose to learn from the Qing Dynasty after the system was complete.

When talking about this issue at that time, Hao Guangming once said with a smile, "Take the path of the Qing Dynasty, so that the Qing Dynasty has no way to go."

Aimee Zhu objected, "With me here, the Qing Dynasty would never appear, and there is no need to find a way."

Moreover, the system of the Qing Dynasty was also summed up and inherited from the experience of the feudal dynasties of the past dynasties, and it was not created out of thin air, so Auntie Zhu had no psychological obstacles in copying it.

However, under Hao Guangming's suggestion, she did not copy it completely.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were nine grades of titles for heroes with different surnames. The Chinese titles from low to high were Enqiwei, Yunqiwei, Qiduwei, Qingcheduwei, Baron, Viscount, Earl, Marquis, and Duke.

What's more disgusting is that the Qing Dynasty still started with the title of Captain Qingche, and divided it into first, second and third ranks...

This means that even though the conditions for meritorious promotion were relatively loose in the Qing Dynasty, it was still difficult for the duke who wanted to be promoted to the top.

Aimee Zhu and Hao Guangming both felt that the rank of first, second and third was disgusting, so they only kept the rank of duke.Instead of simply using first, second, and third grades to distinguish the dukes of the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's national, county, and county cents are retained (mainly based on the prefix of XX).

However, the method of limiting the number of times some titles can be inherited is adopted.

That is to say, titles are divided into two types: hereditary succession and descending succession.

Hereditary non-replacement means that, like those princes of the Ming Dynasty in the past, they have been rich and honored for many generations, and it can be said that they will live and die with the Ming Dynasty.

The rank of Xijue is also different from that of the Qing Dynasty.

In the Qing Dynasty, because the last seven titles were divided into first, second and third ranks, the first-class dukes could inherit 26 times, and then decreased in turn.

Auntie Zhu did not classify individual titles, so the number of inheritances naturally chose to be reduced accordingly.

The lowest Enqiwei can only inherit once, and then push up in turn, and the non-hereditary duke can inherit eleven times (passed to the twelfth generation).

But in general, Aimee Zhu is still much more stingy than the Qing Dynasty in terms of rewards for meritorious service.

Because in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the huge lords with different surnames, plus the salary of the Eight Banners and the clan, also became a heavy financial burden for the country.Even after the Qing Dynasty, due to modernization and innovation, the fiscal revenue reached hundreds of millions of taels a year, and it had to renege on these descendants of these lords.

In addition, Auntie Zhu also knew that the nobles and nobles would probably become a defeated feudal force in a few hundred years, and they might not be able to pass it on for 300 years from now on.

That being the case, she simply made the rewards and succession conditions for the title more stringent from the very beginning.

However, compared with the original system of meritorious titles in the Ming Dynasty, Aimee Zhu's system is still much more generous.

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After arriving at the camp, Auntie Zhu explained to nearly [-] soldiers in the entire camp the conditions and methods for distributing the "Military Merit Field" and the new military merit evaluation and statistics system in person on the campus grounds.

Afterwards, he reiterated the previous guarantees for the soldiers of the army.

Finally she said: "I have ordered to build a 'Daming Heroes' Cemetery' and temples on the west side of Zijing Mountain, so that all the heroes who died for my Ming Dynasty will enter this cemetery, and together with Emperor Taizu, they will be used by us. Daming Incense Offered!
At the same time, I also ordered that a 'Monument to the Heroes of the Ming Dynasty' be erected in the square outside the Hongwu Gate of the imperial city.

Engrave the names of all the soldiers, generals, civilian righteous men and other heroes who died for the Ming Dynasty on it, so that they will be remembered by the world forever, and their glory will be immortal! "

Originally, the full payment of military salaries and the retirement guarantee system in the new army have already satisfied many soldiers.

Today, after hearing about the "Military Merit Field" system and the system of accumulating military merit to the tenth level, the hearts of the soldiers became even more intense.

After Aimee Zhu finished talking about the "Graveyard of the Heroes" and the "Monument to the Heroes of the Ming Dynasty", all the soldiers present felt that it was worth fighting to die for Aimee Zhu immediately, even for Daming.

But there was no battle here at this time, so under the leadership of some generals, nearly one hundred thousand soldiers in the entire camp knelt down one after another, shouting in unison——

"Long live Daming!"

"Long live my emperor!"

"Long live Long live Long live!!"

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Afterwards, Zhu Yuxi personally awarded the military medals to the soldiers who had won the first-class and special-class merits.

There are no more than ten such people in the two guards and the border guards in the two towns combined.

And it also included the tiger sparrow from the Suzaku Camp—she was the only one present who received special merit.

As for the Nanjing Garrison Army, they haven't had the opportunity to make meritorious service yet, so this time they can only act as spectators.

There are hundreds or even thousands of recipients of the second and third class merits. Because there are too many of them, and Auntie Zhu has other things to do, she handed them over to Hong Niangzi to award them for her.

After returning to the Forbidden City, Aunt Zhu came to the apse of the Hall of Martial Ying.

The secretariat and telecommunications staff who stayed here immediately came out and bowed to salute—it was Zhu Yu who asked to avoid kneeling and saluting when they met in normal times.

"See Your Majesty!"

"Flat body."

After the simple etiquette, Auntie Zhu asked, "Have all the telegrams been sent?"

Yu Weixin, who is temporarily acting as the director of the Telecommunications Department, responded: "More than half of them have been sent, and the rest are still being sent."

Auntie Zhu nodded, "Then continue."

The official decree issued to all the meritorious ministers, Zhu Wei can let the generals send people to various places slowly, but she has to convey the "Military Merit Field", "New Military Merit System" and the new "Nobility System" first by telegram For several major local officials and generals.

Of course, by the way, she also revealed to these people the rewards she gave to them after she ascended the throne...