Chapter 96 Ascension to the throne and rewarding the officials!
Chapter 96: Ascend to the throne and reward ministers!
Song Xuan chuckled, "Hey, the fight is over!"
"Okay, you can bear it now. You dare to do anything outside my palace."
"Master!"
Xiao Zhao quickly stood up from the ground and said with some anxiety: "Xiao Zhao knows that he is wrong!"
Song Xuan stepped forward and touched her swollen face and said, "It seems you are the one who was beaten, right?"
Xiao Zhao nodded a little aggrievedly.
Just because she showed off that she had served the young master in his bath before, she received the most severe beating.
Song Xuan walked up to Liu Qinglian and looked at her again, making sure that she had no injuries, and said: "It seems that although you didn't get beaten, you didn't win either, right?"
Liu Qinglian casually threw the two broken swords on the ground and said frankly: "I lost!"
Not far away, Zhou Zhiruo said quickly: "Sister Liu's martial arts is better than mine. I just relied on the power of Yitian Sword to take advantage of it. It can't be considered a win!"
Liu Qinglian said unhappily: "If I lose, I lose. You don't need to pretend to be a good person!"
With that said, she said to Song Xuan helplessly: "Brother, from now on you don't have to worry about who will be the queen. Sister Xiao Zhao and I will no longer compete with Zhou Zhiruo!"
Song Xuan rolled his eyes at her, "When have I ever felt sad?"
Liu Qinglian smiled and said: "Yes, yes, you are not in trouble, you are the most wise and powerful!"
Song Xuan then nodded with satisfaction and said: "Only this time, let me know which of you will do it in the future, don't blame me for throwing you into the cold palace!"
Zhou Zhiruo nodded quickly and said, "Zhiruo remembers it!"
Liu Qinglian looked at Zhou Zhiruo, then at herself, and then said dejectedly: "That's all, you are indeed more suitable for the position of mother Yitianxia than me!
I am only suitable to be a demon concubine who brings disaster to the country and the people!"
Song Xuan ignored the waiter and said, "Okay, let's all disperse. Go and do what you have to do. I still have a lot of things to deal with over there.
The first thing I did when I came to the throne was to deal with the affairs of the harem. If you tell me, you will be laughed to death!"
"We haven't slept together yet, so we can't be considered members of your harem!" Liu Qinglian retorted.
"Then you all go back and wash your hands. After I have dealt with the previous matters, I will come and deal with you one by one!"
After saying this, Zhou Zhiruo's face immediately turned red with embarrassment, she covered her face and returned to the door.
Xiao Zhao touched his red and swollen face and said hurriedly: "Sir, I'm going back to heal my wounds first."
She has been honest with the young master a long time ago, and she doesn't feel shy, but her image is too ugly now, and she is not suitable to show up in front of the young master.
Only Liu Qinglian burst into laughter, stepped forward and took Song Xuan's arm, blew into his ear and said, "Master, your practice has been perfected. Do you need a female Bodhisattva to give you alms?"
Song Xuan turned around and looked around, but saw that the guards and maids were all far away, with their backs turned to them, so he lowered his voice and said: "Fairy, let's see how I deal with you tonight!"
As he spoke, he took his arms out of Liu Qinglian's arms, straightened his dragon robe, looked down at his body and saw that there were no traces, and then stepped outside.
There are still a bunch of meritorious officials waiting eagerly to be knighted in the Taiji Hall. Where can I find the time to flirt with this little goblin now?
After leaving this place, Song Xuan looked up at the sky, feeling happy.
Others had a harem after traveling through time, but he had a harem as a matter of course after becoming emperor, and no one would find it awkward.
Well, this evil feudal society is so wonderful!
When Song Xuan returned to the Tai Chi Hall and sat on the dragon chair, there were hundreds of civil and military officials gathered below the hall, guards and honor guards were everywhere, and everyone had been waiting for a long time.
Then, all the civil and military officials began to kneel down and worship the mountain three times in a row. After that, the officials stood up and returned to their seats in Song Xuan's "flat body".
At this point, the coronation ceremony of Song Xuan, the founding emperor of the Wu Dynasty, was completely over.
When a new dynasty begins, according to the rules of past dynasties, the first step is to grant amnesty to the world.
Song Xuan did not directly pardon all of them, but asked the Ministry of Justice to re-examine various death penalty cases and promptly correct wrongful convictions. However, prisoners such as rape, murder, and trafficking of women and children were not allowed to be pardoned.
Naturally, all the officials in the court had no objections to this.
What they are more concerned about now is the program of awarding meritorious officials that they like to see after the amnesty.
"Are you impatient?"
Looking at the eager ministers below, Song Xuan laughed, then glanced at the eunuch waiting beside him, and said: "Let's begin!"
The eunuch agreed, took out the imperial edict that His Majesty had prepared a long time ago, and read loudly: "By God's will, the Emperor has said: I have been ordered by Heaven to restore China, and all your ministers will be worthy ministers.
Feng Li Shanchang, the Duke of South Korea, hereditary Duke, was given an iron certificate of alchemy and an annual salary of five thousand dan."
Li Shanchang was so excited that he trembled all over, "My lord, please accept the order and thank me!"
All the officials looked at it with envy. This was the first person to receive a reward from the founding of the country. This shows how prosperous the Holy Family is.
Many people feel that this world was conquered by Xu Da, Lan Yu, Zhu Yuanzhang and others, and the first person His Majesty rewards is most likely a military general.
But I didn't expect that the first person to be rewarded by His Majesty would be a civil servant.
In this regard, Song Xuan had no intention of explaining anything.
As a superior, he knows best who made the greatest contribution in the Jinling regime.
Li Shanchang did not have the great wisdom of Liu Bowen, nor did he have the ability of Xu Da or Zhu Yuanzhang to lead troops in war, but only Song Xuan knew what role he, the great logistics manager, played in it.
To put it bluntly, with Song Xuan's virtue as a hands-off shopkeeper, if Li Shanchang had not coordinated the logistics support work of various departments for him, and given the scale of the Jinling Army's attacks, the logistics system would have collapsed long ago.
"Feng, Liu Bowen, the Duke of Chu, a hereditary Duke, was given an iron certificate of alchemy, and an annual salary of five thousand dan."
The second meritorious official to be awarded was a civil official.
If Li Shanchang was the chief steward of logistics, Liu Bowen was the God of Wealth of the Jinling regime. If he hadn't been in charge of taxation and finance in Jinling, Song Xuan's family would have been completely wiped out at the speed at which he was burning money.
"Feng Zhu Yuanzhang, Duke of the Ming Dynasty, hereditary Duke of Wusi, granted an iron certificate of alchemy and an annual salary of five thousand dan."
"Female Xu Da, Duke of Wei, hereditary Duke of Wei, grant him an iron certificate of alchemy, and an annual salary of five thousand dan."
Song Xuan created four hereditary and irreplaceable princes in one breath, two civil servants and two military officers. It was considered a bowl of water.
After reading this, the voice of the old eunuch who announced the decree paused. After the four people thanked the emperor for his kindness, he continued to recite.
Next, Hu Qian, Lan Yu, and Chang Yuchun were also named dukes, but they were hereditary marquises, which was quite different from the previous four hereditary dukes.
A few people didn't have any opinions on this.
Hu Qian in particular did not dare to complain. He knew that his own abilities were far behind those of Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen.
But His Majesty, out of consideration for his first attachment, gave him the title of Duke, and even the hereditary title of Marquis to pass on, and he was extremely satisfied.