Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 381

Li Song pretended to decline again and again!Finally, under Dong Zhao's repeated pleas, he reluctantly agreed. After all, if he agreed so impatiently, it would be so ugly.

"Okay, in the early morning of tomorrow, I will invite Your Majesty to set up a fifth-class title." Li Song said.

"Prime Minister Shengming!" Dong Zhao was overjoyed, and said that he would join other ministers to present the form. After Li Song praised him very satisfied, Dong Zhao left.

In the early morning of the next day, Liu Xie sat on the throne as usual, waiting for the officials to kneel down and worship. Shout out, "Everyone loves you! Free from courtesy!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Long live my emperor!" After all the officials got up, the eunuch started to do the same work every day, and shouted in a shrill voice: "If there is something to do, go to court, and if there is nothing to do, leave the court!"

Liu Xie thought it would be the same as usual, and when this sentence was finished, the officials would send him off respectfully. Just as Liu Xie was about to get up, he heard Prime Minister Li Song playing a book.

Liu Xie looked at Li Song who had already left his seat, and said, "I don't know what the Prime Minister has to say!"

"Your Majesty, please follow the ancient system to establish a fifth-class nobility system," Li Song said.

In Liu Xie's heart, this melody stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and the anger in his heart can be imagined, and his whole body trembled slightly.

"The prime minister knows that since the founding of the country, I have not had a system of fifth-class titles, but only a system of [-]th-class titles and royal titles." Liu Xie asked.

Since the founding of the Han Dynasty by Liu Bang, the system of the Qin Dynasty has been followed. The [-]th rank system was originally a system used to reward military merits in the Qin Dynasty. After the Qin Dynasty fell, the Han Dynasty established the [-]th rank system.

"These ministers naturally understand, but the establishment of the fifth-class title is more conducive to the soldiers serving His Majesty." Li Song said.

"Since Aiqing knows, why bother to violate the ancestral system and forcibly establish a fifth-class nobility system." Liu Xie said.

"Your Majesty!" One person came out and bowed his hands. Liu Xie looked over. This person was Dong Zhao. The Prime Minister has achieved such achievements today."

"Only entrusting the prime minister as a duke can demonstrate the power of heaven and the merits of the prime minister. Please also follow the example of the Zhou Dynasty and establish a five-level nobility system."

"Your Majesty, please follow the example of the Zhou Dynasty and establish the five-class nobility system." All the Chinese and military officials in the palace knelt down and petitioned. Li Song looked at Liu Xie without saying a word.

Liu Xie collapsed powerlessly on the throne. Today Li thief actually forced me to come to this field. Seeing that the officials who eat my big man's salary in the hall are so persecuting their monarch, won't their conscience hurt?
Liu Xie really wanted to reject them stubbornly, but the guards in this hall put their hands on the hilt of their swords. If he dared not agree, blood might be spattered on the spot.

He was afraid, he didn't want to die, if he died, the great Han Dynasty would be over, as long as he didn't die, there was still hope of recovering the Han Dynasty, finally Liu Xie reluctantly agreed to this forced palace.

"It turns out that all the lovers are persuading me to set up a system of five ranks of nobility, and Aiqing is allowed to play, but which five ranks are these five ranks?" Liu Xie asked.

"Report to Your Majesty! According to the "Book of Rites King System": the king's system Lu Jue, the son of a prince, and the fifth class. Since the pre-Qin era, there have been monarchs who have conferred dukes. It is the Duke." Dong Zhao said again.

"Oh! If that's the case! I ordered Feng Chang to handle it with full authority." Liu Xie said.

"I obey the order!" Feng Chang hurried out of the line, bowing his hands in salute.

"Your Majesty! The prime minister has devoted himself to the country and the community, and he has made great contributions! Your majesty, please canonize the prime minister as the Duke of the State." Dong Zhaohe and a group of civil and military officials petitioned to add the title of Duke of the State to Li Song.

"The prime minister has done a lot of hard work! It should be a duke of the state, but I don't know what kind of duke it should be? My big man has never had a duke since Gaozu established the Han Dynasty." No matter how dissatisfied Liu Xie was, he could only It can smash teeth and swallow it in the stomach.

"Report to Your Majesty! Your Majesty is ready! Please take a look at it." After Dong Zhao finished speaking, he took out the edict he had already prepared from his sleeve and handed it to the eunuch, who handed it to Liu Xie.

Liu Xie unfolded and saw that the edict first praised Li Song's great achievements, and then entered the theme, canonizing him as Tang Guogong.

Tang Guogong is the result of some discussions between Li Song and Dong Zhao. Originally, Li Song was granted the title of Duke of Jin based on Qibaili, the ten counties in the Spring and Autumn Period. The country name of Tang.

In Li Song's view, the title of Jin is not good. During the Spring and Autumn Period, it was divided up by the three families of Han, Wei, and Zhao. Since then, it disappeared and withdrew from the stage of history. As for the Jin Dynasty established by the Sima family, it even caused the Eight Kings The chaos, followed by the Wuhuluanhua, this period of time is a dark age.

This is not the case in the Tang Dynasty. As we all know in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the country was rich and the people were strong during the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Through the land silk road from the capital Chang'an to the Mediterranean coast, the splendid Chinese civilization was spread all over the world. The monarchs, envoys, and Merchants, monks, scholars, craftsmen, doctors, and orchids came here one after another, and completed the integration of economy, culture, handicrafts, music and dance, and nationalities in Chang'an, and achieved the heyday of ancient Chinese culture.

What Li Song wants is such a prosperous world, not a chaotic world like the Jin Dynasty, so let me end the chaotic world and create a prosperous Tang Dynasty.

"Canonize Prime Minister Li Song as Tang Guogong, and take the ten counties and [-] miles of the old land of the Spring and Autumn Jin Dynasty as the fiefdom of the Tang Kingdom, and announce it to the world!" Liu Xie said, stamping the jade seal on this edict.

"Ai Qing, do you have anything else to play?" Li Song asked after finishing covering the jade seal.

"Your ministers have nothing to say!" Li Song cupped his hands.

"Retire!" Liu Xie said to the eunuch beside him, and the eunuch immediately stepped forward and shouted: "Retire...to court..."

Shout!Hurriedly came to Liu Xie, supported Liu Xie, and left the hall under the respectful escort of Tang Guogong Li Song and all the civil and military officials.

After Liu Xie, Emperor Xiandi of the Han Dynasty, left, the civil and military officials slowly withdrew from the hall. As soon as Fang left the hall, everyone came forward to compliment Li Song.

Li Song has been in the officialdom for a long time, so he can handle the compliments from these people with ease.

Li Song didn't stay here for a long time. After all, he had just been proclaimed the Duke of Tang, and there were still many things to deal with, such as a large banquet to reward the three armies, etc., as well as discussing whether to go to the fiefdom, and where the capital of the Tang Kingdom should be established. .

After some discussions, Li Song decided not to enfeoff the land, but to stay in Xuchang. As for the capital, it was still set up on the original capital of Jin.

As a duke of the state, if he doesn't go to his own fiefdom, he will usually send his heir to sit in the town, but Li Song's heirs are still young, so he has to temporarily send his confidants to sit in the town.

(End of this chapter)