But even if there is a reduction, we cannot let the guys from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel run around randomly.
Su Chen is the commander-in-chief of the navy, so of course he has to come forward to explain this matter.
Just as he was about to make a few requests, before Su Chen could say anything, Li Er continued: "The matter of military meritorious officers can be postponed, but meritorious officers and soldiers do not need to be rewarded."
"This naval expedition returned with a great victory, and the credit goes to Sheji. The Protector of the Country, Su Chen, is strong-minded and well-commanded. He has been specially awarded the title of Champion General and has sealed 500 households!"
Su Chen was stunned and stepped forward to thank him.
These rewards made other ministers envious, but they didn't matter to Su Chen. Su Chen didn't live on these rewards.
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The official positions, titles, and ranks of the Tang Dynasty were independent of each other.
Official positions are divided into casual ranks and substantive positions. Sanshi is the administrative level, and substantive positions are of course actual duties.
Su Chen's title is Duke, but his official rank is Guanglu Dafu, which was given to him by Li Er when he was the governor of Guanzhou. It is a third-grade civil servant.
Later, he led the army to a feast, but it was not made public at the time, and Li Er did not give him the rank of military attache. This time, he was regarded as a third-grade champion general.
The title is hereditary, and of course the official title will be gone if you resign.
Both the official position and the title are the standard for receiving salary. You can also receive double salary. However, civil and military officials can only receive one salary. According to the higher one,
Therefore, it was useless for Li Er to give Su Chen a third-grade military attache title, and his salary was not even increased.
The five hundred actual feudal households were a huge benefit and honor to other courtiers, but they were negligible to Su Chen's family fortune.
In the Tang Dynasty, the titles of nobility were generally fictitious, that is, they only had names and no real households. Of course, the fictitious title was not useless. You could receive a certain amount of money, food and materials from the Taifu based on the number of households you sealed.
Real feuds are real feudal households. The taxes and labor provided by these feudal households are directly provided to the feudal nobles.
However, only a small number of ministers who had made great achievements could enjoy the real title. In the Tang Dynasty, there seemed to be only about forty people who could enjoy the real title of several hundred to more than a thousand households.
At present, those who enjoy the most real seals are Changsun Wuji, Yuchi Gong, and Fang Xuanling, each of whom has real seals of 1,300 households, and Cheng Yaojin has only 700 households.
Not to mention the ministers, even the princes and princesses are mostly fictitious.
King Wu Li Ke was greatly commended by Li Er for his achievements in the railway in the past two years. He only had 800 households in the real estate, and he was already the top among the kings.
Changle was so favored that she only had 600 households, which was the most among all the princesses.
Si'er's ten thousand households are still in vain. Of course, this is related to her young age.
This time, Li Er granted Su Chen another 500 additional households. Adding the previous 1,000 households, it would be 1,500 households, the most in the entire Tang Dynasty.
The rank is specifically for commending military merit. The highest rank, the second-grade Shangzhu Kingdom, requires twelve ranks of military merit.
The treatment of the honorary rank is slightly worse than that of the official rank. There is a salary, and after enough service years, it can be converted into an official rank, or it can be directly awarded an official position, but it has to be reduced to a lower rank.
The advantage of the rank is that it is not restricted by the class of origin. As long as you have achieved military merit, no matter who you are, you can immediately get the rank. This is very attractive to officers who were born as civilians.
In history, Xue Rengui performed a miraculous feat when Li Er attacked Goguryeo and became a general from a white body.
But the current Xue Rengui, despite his high official position in the navy, is still a seventh-grade captain in the court's files. This was directly awarded by Su Chen when he left Yangzhou last year, otherwise he would still be a top soldier.
Su Chen's power can also directly appoint officials below the seventh rank. Above the sixth rank, the Ministry of Civil Affairs is required. The chief officials of the three provinces have agreed. The appointment documents for officials above the third rank need to be stamped with Li Er's jade seal.
Therefore, if Xue Rengui and other naval officers wanted to be promoted, they had to wait for the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel to discuss how to promote naval officers based on military merit.
Su Chen thanked Li Er for the reward, and Li Er continued: "I have also awarded awards to other people with outstanding merits and announced the decree!"
The eunuch next to him immediately shouted: "Liu Rengui, Cheng Wuting, Cheng Chubi, Xue Li... come forward and listen to the seal!"
After a list of names in one breath, the ministers discovered that not a single naval officer was left behind in the hall this time.
What the eunuch read next made the officials marvel.
"... He risked his own sword and defeated the enemy, which was a great achievement for the Tang Dynasty. Liu Rengui was given the title of Marquis of the founding county of Lecheng, with a settlement of 3,000 households..."
Liu Rengui was overjoyed and hurriedly stepped forward to thank him.
The eunuch continued to read the imperial edict:
"...Cheng Wuting is specially granted the title of Marquis of the Founding County of Ping'en..."
"...Cheng Chubi was the founding county magistrate of Changqing..."
"... Yuchi Baolin is the founding uncle of Shanyang County..."
"...Liu Jingren was the founding son of Gaoping County..."
"...Xue Li was the founding son of Yunquan County..."
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"...Wu became a man from Wenshui Kaiguo County..."
"...Li Qi is a man from Sanyuan Founding County..."
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The only sounds left in the hall were the eunuch's voice reading out the imperial edict and the continuous thanksgivings.
At first, the civil and military officials marveled at Li Er's generosity, and immediately rewarded the Marquis.
Then two marquises, a large number of earls, viscounts, and barons came down,
He immediately stunned the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty!
Good guy!
Three marquises, two earls, two viscounts, and twelve barons in one go!
The civil and military ministers looked at Li Er dumbfounded: Your Majesty, are you having a hard time?
Is my title of Tang Dynasty so cheap?
For the 12,000-strong Royal Navy, you granted nineteen titles in one breath. If you add Su Chen, that’s twenty.
The Royal Navy might as well be renamed the Lord's Navy!
Not to mention conferring knighthoods on so many people at once, who are these knights?
I have never heard of most of the names,
An unknown soldier goes overseas to fight, and when he comes back, he becomes the great Tang Dynasty Lord!
This is too unfair to Guanlong Juntou!
A group of generals of the Sixteenth Guards looked at the more than ten naval officers in the hall, their eyes were all red!
The Sixteen Guards have been fighting in the north and south for so many years. How many people in each army are knighted?
Su Chen was also a little puzzled. Although he heard Li Ji say that Li Er wanted to confer titles on major naval generals, he didn't expect there would be so many.
None of the sixteen people who returned to Beijing this time were left behind, plus Sun Renshi and Wucheng who stayed in Basra, and Yiai who stayed in Yangzhou to see the big barracks!
Fang Yiai became a baron and didn't talk about him. Although he didn't even go to the big food, his father was Fang Xuanling!
Even Li Qi and Wu Cheng were mixed up with a baron, which made Su Chen feel that it was a bit too much.
Although these two guys are already on the promotion list, they are currently just squad leaders of the Marine Corps.
Not only did Li Er lavishly knight him, but he also acted so eagerly. Su Chen was a little confused, wondering what Li Er wanted to do?
Liu Rengui and the others just arrived in Chang'an an hour ago. After entering Chang'an City, they were pulled directly to the Tai Chi Hall to accept the reward. Li Er was too eager!
But Liu Rengui, Xue Rengui and the others were overjoyed!
He already has a title, so why should he care about military merit or not?
