Chapter seven hundred and forty-eight nine products and the winner of life
In addition to announcing the country name and era name, Zheng did not choose a new era name, but adopted the Western calendar, the Xia calendar, and the three chronology methods of Chongzhen era in parallel.
In other words, it is now 2022 in the Gregorian calendar, which is also the 383rd year of Chongzhen.
The reason why the Chongzhen reign was adopted instead of the Nanming emperors and supervisors who were related to the Zheng family is because Emperor Chongzhen was recognized as the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty and had extensive influence in Goryeo, island countries, Annan and other regions.
For example, Goryeo still used the Chongzhen reign title many years after surrendering to Houjin.
In the history, among the emperors and governors of the Southern Ming Dynasty, although there were some wise ones, they were unable to recover, did not make any achievements, and their influence in history was relatively low.
This point has also been generally recognized by the people of the Kingdom and overseas Xia descendants. After all, it is already a new era in the 21st century. The Western calendar is a widely used calendar in the world. Young people are too lazy to distinguish between the era name and the Western calendar.
time to convert.
The parallelism of the three calendars naturally facilitates people's daily life and work.
After the country and era names were established, the second edict began to be issued, which was to reward Zheng's clan members and officials.
The ceremonial officer read out the edict, and the canonization ceremony began in the Kingdom Parliament Building.
The first person to be canonized was Zheng Zhao Shuyuan as queen, commanding the inner palace of Anping City.
Note that she is not a princess, but an ancient queen whose status is equal to that of the king. This can be said to have given Zheng Zhao Shuyuan supreme honor.
Strictly speaking, the queen is also the king. When the king is absent or the king dies and the heir is underage, the queen has the right to act as regent, rather than the kind of concubine who could not participate in politics in the harem of later feudal dynasties.
This did not make people think there was any problem, because the Zheng family monarch of the Dongning Kingdom was an independent vassal king, similar to the external vassal king of the Goryeo Kingdom. Within his own kingdom, he was called "the king" by the ministers and even
You can call her "your majesty" instead of the county king or the king of Yanping. The latter is a title for outsiders and external parties. Therefore, Zheng Jizong's canonization of the queen instead of the county princess is completely in line with the regulations.
Then the legitimate daughter Zheng Zhixuan was canonized as the princess and crown prince of Lanfang, and she was officially established as the heir to the kingdom. In fact, the daughter of a king of a foreign vassal was usually named the princess in ancient times, but Zheng Zhixuan didn't like this.
When it comes to titles, the daughter of the princess is taken as the princess.
This does not arouse criticism at all. In this era of gender equality, even male chauvinists dare not say in public that women cannot be heirs, otherwise they will wait to be punched!
Moreover, by naming an heir like the Crown Prince as the Princess of Lanfang, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a gesture of goodwill to the Lanfang forces, those wealthy merchants and ethnic groups of Xia origin. In addition, Zheng Zhixuan is a famous beauty in Nanyang.
The pearl of Bonizhou Island, such a crown prince is naturally more popular among people.
Then came the canonization of Zheng Jixing as the auxiliary Duke of the state, the governor of the Dadudufu, and Zongzheng of the Dazongzhengyuan.
Needless to say, the title of Duke of Fu Guogong is the highest title outside the Ming Dynasty, second only to the county king. After all, the Dongning Kingdom is nominally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. The king is a county prince, and he cannot be named a prince like in the West.
, although the "prince" over there is completely different from the prince of Ming Dynasty.
As for the two official positions of Uncle Zheng, the former was established by Taizu of the Ming Dynasty and had the authority to command the three armies of the kingdom; the latter was the yamen in charge of royal family affairs and the replacement of noble titles.
It can be said that Zheng Jixing, with only these two positions, has a high position of authority in the Dongning Kingdom, where there are definitely more than one person and ten thousand people.
At the same time, regarding the clan, Zheng Jizong, the fourth-generation king of Dongning, did not ennoble the clan, but announced that he would rewrite the genealogy. The Wu family restored the Zheng surname, but only the direct line had the Zheng surname, and other collateral lines were also listed as clans.
, but you can change your surname back to Zheng or keep your surname Wu. The latter can be regarded as inheriting the incense of the maternal lineage of your ancestors, but they are all side branches of the clan that are listed in the Jade Certificate genealogy.
Except for some dissatisfaction among the side branches, everyone has no opinion on this point.
In particular, the officials of the Zheng family expressed their deep approval of this move, and the people of the kingdom and the Nanyang and other Xia ethnic groups also praised this move as wise.
After all, the problem that the bannermen of the former Ming clan and the later Jin clan were both weak in the middle and late dynasties is enough to give people a warning. If the Dongning Kingdom creates a lot of clans to eat the royal food, it will definitely bring a huge impact on the national finance.
to bear the burden.
Next was the canonization of ministers. The Dongning Kingdom inherited the Ming Dynasty's orthodoxy, followed the ancient nine-level Zhongzheng system, and established the official structure of the cabinet, six ministries, nine ministers and local prefectures, counties and towns.
Among them, the Ministry of Rites is equivalent to the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture and Propaganda; the Ministry of Personnel is in charge of the promotion of all civil servants and officials; the Ministry of War is equivalent to the General Armaments Department and the Logistics Department, and is also responsible for training new recruits; and the Ministry of Accounts is the Ministry of Finance, in charge of the national finance.
, Economy and Taxation; the Ministry of Industry is the department in charge of national construction, industry and commerce.
The last of the six departments, the Criminal Department, belongs to the Ministry of Public Security, which is responsible for national affairs such as public security police, firefighting, and transportation. It also forms the Three Law Departments together with Dali Temple and the Supervisory Office among the Nine Ministers, and implements the separation of the three powers of public law, prosecutors, and prosecutors.
Dali Temple is the highest court of the Dongning Kingdom, and the Supervisory Office belongs to the functions of the Procuratorate. The censors naturally become prosecutors.
Speaking of ancient officials, they also had similar responsibilities. The imperial examination system and this official system in China can be said to be hundreds or thousands of years ahead of Western countries in terms of functional perfection. However, they suffered from the Little Glacier climate during the Great Discovery Period.
and the catastrophe of alien invasion, so it lagged behind the West for hundreds of years.
This is what Westerners themselves said. They were shocked when they learned about the imperial examination system. However, they could not reform it immediately because of the constraints of the old system. It can be said that the subsequent civil service system was based on the imperial examination system.
developed.
The canonized official Gao Jingfei didn't pay much attention to it. After all, he was not very familiar with subordinates like the Zheng family, but there were some people he knew among them.
For example, Cheng Yishan, a descendant of the Jin Yiwei and the head of Zheng's secret department, was named the commander of the Jin Yiwei and received the hereditary title of Huaiyang Bo.
The title system of the Dongning Kingdom has restored the ancient five-level nobility system, but there are only five-level nobility and the corresponding female titles such as princess, country lady, county lady, county lord, village lord, and non-hereditary lords, but there is no individual lord.
The practice of dividing a title into first class, second class and third class is to prevent the number of titles from being overpopulated and becoming worthless.
Wei Nanping, the commander of the last southern expedition, was named Jiangning Bo. His ancestor Wei Guogong served as the garrison of Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty for a long time, and Jiangning was a subsidiary of Nanjing, so this can be regarded as restoring the glory of his ancestors.
Well, once he has made great achievements, it is estimated that the Zheng family will not be stingy in re-canonizing the Wei family as the Duke of Wei.
There was also Ang Shoulong, whom Gao Jingfei had dealt with. The director of the Public Security Bureau of the Hong Kong and China District of the Silk Road City Government was named the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and also had the title of upstart county prince.
Even his prospective son-in-law was given the title of Marquis of Danyang, which matched Gao Jingfei's destiny title in the underworld.
Somehow, Gao Jingfei noticed that his luck had changed again. The authority of Marquis Danyang, which originally only inherited the luck of several dynasties in other worlds, had further grown in this world and the underworld, and turned into a substantial one.
No longer as vain as before.
Is this the connection between the underworld and the destiny of the dynasty in the underworld?
Outsiders didn't know Gao Jingfei's contribution to the Dongning Kingdom and regarded the Zheng family's son-in-law as a knight. They only regarded it as a preparation for his future marriage with the princess, and they didn't pay much attention to it. Even though many men of the right age were interested in Gao Jingfei.
The boy was very jealous.
This is a winner in life who has both a beautiful woman and a title of wealth!