Chapter 694 The Righteousness between the King and His Subjects
Yunshanying Village is a former palace guard, so there is not one village with one surname. Unlike some villages with one family, there are many surnames here.
After they were all guards of the royal palace, after nearly three hundred years of reproduction, many people were kidnapped by the Tatars in the previous chaos, and many people fled famine, evaded labor, and evaded taxes. Now, many of the nearly 400 families were returned after being beaten by the imperial court.
Resettlement of disaster victims.
With a population of more than 2,000, it is considered a large village.
The village has compiled four armors and forty cards. Today, the chief of armor and the chiefs of cards helped summon the villagers to the sun drying field for a meeting. Four village elders sat at the head table, all over sixty years old. These are
A highly respected old man in the village, he usually behaves fairly and speaks with weight.
Chiefs A are all in their thirties and forties and are relatively young and powerful. Compared with them, they lack some prestige. However, Chiefs have to go to the police office and township office frequently, which is not possible when they are older.
The four village elders and the four armor commanders sat in the middle as usual, but today the security chief also came down, and there were also several soldiers in military uniforms.
The old village chief stood up and pressed his hand down, and the villagers quickly became quiet.
"Since the Holy Emperor came back, our life has been getting better and better. We all share the land, and we can still earn wages by working in the Imperial Village. We have also reduced taxes and exempted ourselves from overpayments. The usurious loans we borrowed before are no longer available.
All of them are interest rate cuts, and even the rent on our previously rented land has been reduced.
As he spoke, the old village chief raised his hands and saluted eastward.
"Sage Hong En, now he is showing mercy to us again, saying that we should select from our villagers the sons of good families with good families, strong men between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one, to be the followers and guards of the King of Qin and the King of Han, as well as some women of the villagers.
, those aged fourteen to sixteen also worked as maids in the palaces of the two princes.
Those selected will receive one and a half silver dollars per month, and from the second year onwards, there will be additional bonuses.
After the girl has been married for three years, the saint can also grant marriage to the soldiers in the imperial camp. If she doesn't want to, she can also leave the house and go home to marry herself."
When the old village chief said this, the people below were surprised and delighted.
Not to mention anything else, just one and a half Silver Dragon Emperor is worth it this month, not to mention working in the palace, they all think there is a future. Looking at the treatment of people who join the imperial camp as soldiers, they can make people jealous to death.
"Everyone, please be quiet and don't make any noise. This is a gift from the saint to us. We have benefited from the honor of the saint's hometown folks. However, the specific registration requirements are that the boy should be between sixteen and twenty-one years old, and his height should be more than four feet eight inches (
1.6 meters tall), with good facial features, strong physique, no criminal record, and clean blood from three generations."
"There's another thing. If you don't want an only child, if you have two or more children, you can choose one."
"If you click on it, you will be given three Anjia silver dollars immediately and a set of clothes."
Condition is very good.
Villagers can sign up voluntarily, and then the chief security officer, chief A, and village elders will jointly issue a letter of guarantee to prove that the actual situation of these people's families meets the requirements and provide guarantees.
Those who finally pass the exam will have to be selected by the imperial camp sergeants.
Countless young people are eager to give it a try, and even the girls in the village are full of joy and want to enter the palace. Once the prince takes a fancy to him, wouldn't he fly up a branch and become a phoenix?
Zhu Rongjie is a personal guard of the Inner Four Guards, the eleventh grandson of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, a distant branch of the Chu vassal, and a clan that did not even have a name in the late Ming Dynasty.
After the promulgation of the clan law, he became a relative of the royal family and no longer enjoyed clan treatment, nor was he given titles or salaries. However, without the empty name, his actual life was much better.
He settled in Changsha and was allotted ten acres of land. He found someone to give him a name according to his generation, and he also received a sum of money from the royal family and an amount of Anjia Yin from the clan government.
Soon he was selected as a personal guard, went to the capital to study as a guard, and got another twenty acres of land.
In Tokyo, she was granted a marriage by the emperor to a gentry's daughter who was in trouble, helpless but literate. The emperor granted marriage to many such distressed women to the soldiers of the imperial camp.
They both felt good when they met, so they got married. He worked as a guard in Tokyo, his wife lived in the camp with the army, and the land in Changsha was rented out for rent.
Today, Zhu Rongjie is not an officer yet, and he has not yet been deployed abroad. However, he has completed his seniority in the personal guard, been promoted to a non-commissioned officer, and is now a staff sergeant. The military pay is higher than that of a soldier. He has served as a guard in the personal guard for two years, and he can almost go abroad.
If he is released, he will be able to be at least a second-level sergeant major. If he can perform meritorious service, he may be released directly from the ninth-grade martial arts rank and become an officer.
His future is very good.
Looking at the enthusiastic villagers in front of him, he could feel their mood at the moment, just like when he was struggling to survive in Hunan, God's grace suddenly came and rescued him from the sea of suffering.
If the emperor really wants to recruit escorts for the two princes, it is actually very simple. Not to mention the imperial soldiers, even if they are selected from the auxiliary camps, provincial camps, outer towns, regiment training, and post soldiers, they are all ready-made
, I have also been trained and my physical and other conditions are better.
However, the emperor still planned to select some villagers from his hometown of Yanzhou to give to the two princes. He even specifically requested that those who had never served as soldiers before and had no food, let alone those who had been bandits, should be a group of farmers, homesteaders.
Any son of a tenant farmer can do it.
Be young and simple.
These people are like a blank sheet of paper, more malleable.
The emperor recruited a group of young people from the village and gave them to the two princes, and also asked them to personally train and train this team. I heard that the emperor told the two princes that when they become adults in the future, they will be given border fiefdoms and vassals established for them.
The imperial court opened up territory and expanded territory, and guarded the borders and suppressed the vassal state.
So these escorts will be very important to them in the future.
After receiving the certificate, the big and second guarantor Qiangzi looked excited, but the third Qiangzi looked disappointed. Originally, the three brothers should be considered three families, but because they had never been divided into households, there were eleven people in their family.
, but they are still one family. Of the three Qiangzi brothers, one is left, and the other two can sign up.
The third child also wanted to sign up, but he was the youngest and couldn't compete with the top two and the top two, especially since he was not four feet eight inches tall, so he couldn't compete even if he wanted to.
The pole erected by the village elder cannot be repaired by the lake.
The two powerful men who had obtained the guarantee came to Zhu Rongjie and others with a smile.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The selection is also very simple. Take off your shirt to check your body, and then simply test your strength. Although the villagers are thinner, their strength is not small.
The Great Qiangzi is so powerful that Shi Suozi can throw and catch flowers.
The second best is not bad either. He can walk as fast as he can with a weight of 200 kilograms.
In the end, Zhu Rongjie stamped their approval on both their registration forms.
"Go over there. There are prepared clothes, shoes, socks and hats. They will give them to you according to your size. Remember to wash yourself first before changing. After changing your clothes, you will be given a uniform amount of money."
I was prepared in advance and even brought my clothes.
There are nearly 400 households in Yunshanying Village with a population of nearly 2,000. In the end, only 20 young people were selected as bodyguards and ten young girls were selected as maids.
The big Qiangzi brothers are lucky, they were all successfully selected.
When they washed their bodies in the village entrance pond and put on their brand new clothes.
He wears a blue-grey double-breasted Gebu jacket and trousers of the same color, a cowhide belt, and black cloth shoes. The clothes and trousers are close-fitting and narrow for easy movement, and the hat is a Fanyang hat.
As soon as I change my clothes, I feel very energetic.
The villagers looked at this group of young people in the village and felt a little afraid to recognize each other, while their parents, brothers and sisters were surrounding them with great joy.
"When you arrive at Yanzhou and everyone is here, you will divide the camp and give it to the two princes to command.
Now, say goodbye to your family. We won't be able to see each other often in the future, so we can only write letters home."
The silver dollars were taken out.
Each selected young man or woman will be given five silver dollars as housing allowance.
For some villagers, this is a lot of money.
Second Master Sun held nine silver dollars, and his eldest daughter also chose it.
"Dad, why are you crying? We have made a profit now and are going to enjoy the blessings. Don't pay back the loan for buying the land with this silver dollar. The interest is not much, so it is not worthwhile to pay it back. I will tell the third brother first about this money.
Regarding the marriage, even though he is only sixteen, if he had told her earlier, he would have had a baby earlier.
The rest is to prepare the dowry for the second sister and find a suitable family. We don’t want to wrong the second sister. We must find a good family and the family conditions are acceptable. Don’t let the second sister suffer in the past. We also don’t want to bear it.
When it comes to dowry, you can't be worse than others, otherwise you will be embarrassed and unable to hold your head high when you get married in the future."
Da Qiangzi told his father and uncles, "Dad, please take more care of my mother. She has a bad mind and is pitiful, but she is also a hero of our family. Without my mother, our family would not be like this."
"Don't worry." Mr. Sun only said three words.
"Don't worry about us, we are going to enjoy the blessings. Don't worry, I will definitely become an officer in three to five years."
Uncle Sun held Ergou's hand, feeling a little reluctant to part with him. His brother adopted him and raised him since he was a child. Now that he is leaving him, he feels empty in his heart.
The brothers are most worried about the eldest girl, "Otherwise, let's forget it. You are from a girl's family, so we are worried."
But girl Lancao's heart had already flown out. She worked in the Huangzhuang workshop for half a year, which opened her eyes to a wider world outside.
So she wanted to go out.
"Dad, I'm going to work in the palace. Don't worry. I'll settle down and write to you. I'll pay you the salary and send it home. Then I'll pay back the land purchase price and build a few new houses."
"Send your money back and we will save it for you to use as your dowry in the future. You will be seventeen or eighteen years old when you come back in three years."
Lan Cao never thought that he would come back in three years.
Afternoon.
The village also specially prepared a farewell banquet for thirty men and women, each with a bowl of pork dumplings.
When leaving the village, the boys and girls were full of joy, but their families were so happy that they wept reluctantly, and many women even followed them and cried.
There were also their younger brothers and sisters chasing after them.
Thirty lucky people, draped in big red flowers, bid farewell to the village full of hope.
Zhu Rongjie was also bidding farewell to the villagers. He told several village elders and security chiefs, "They are lucky enough to be selected to work in the palace, and they are also serving the country. The local authorities in the countryside should take care of their families so that they have no worries."
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"Please rest assured, Master Jun, we will take good care of the family for them."
"This is His Majesty's hometown. Some of you were once His Majesty's tenants. You don't have to worry about these children. They are His Majesty's fellow villagers and His Majesty's subjects. This time is also a great blessing and opportunity for them. They
I will definitely be able to return home in glorious glory in the future.”
June.
Zhu Yihai visited his hometown of Yanzhou, not only going deep into various counties and villages, but even going down to country estates.
A thousand young men were also selected from the countryside of Yanzhou and given five hundred to each of the two princes as bodyguards. These rural young men were allowed to study, practice martial arts, and grow up with the two princes.
"Your Majesty, Governor Qi of Sichuan urgently reports that Duke Qin Liangyu of Shu has passed away due to illness."
The emperor who was eating was stunned when he heard the news.
After a long time, there was a long sigh.
"Old General Qin is a heroine, but it's a pity that the year never ends."
Zhu Yihai called the bachelor to draft an edict.
"I posthumously named Duke Qin Liangyu of the Kingdom of Shu as the Prince of Fuling County. He was given the posthumous title of Zhongzhen. I gave him the title of Taibao. I also gave him the title of Zhongzhen, a man who had made great achievements in establishing a saint and establishing the country! He was buried with the ceremony of a prince!"
"Being buried in the imperial mausoleum, he was entitled to enjoy the imperial temple, and all civil and military officials were in mourning. They stayed away from court for five days and the whole country mourned!
"As a posthumous gift to Ma Xianglin, the Stone Pillar Xuan Comfort Envoy, the Admiral of Sichuan, and the Duke of Shu."
"It is specially intended that Qin Liangyu's eldest grandson Ma Wannian be granted the title of Duke of Shu and be granted the title of Admiral of Sichuan."
Qin Liangyu passed away at the age of seventy-five. He also died with full merit and deeds. But for the imperial court, this was a big loss. The southwestern pillar of heaven collapsed.
This female chieftain general was very loyal and had fought for the country for many years. She was also a loyal member of the family. No reward, commendation or condolence was too much.
"Bring me my plain clothes, I also want to express my condolences to the prince!"
The kindness that has always been fulfilled, the righteousness of the king and his ministers, the virtues of the past recorded by the sages, and the beauty of life, glory and death, are listed in the annals of history to show the future.
It is also a kind of grace and honor for ministers to leave the court to express condolences.
In the Ming Dynasty, only Dukes, princes, and first-grade officials enjoyed the benefits of leaving the country for a day.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Records of the Ming Dynasty record that officials dropped out of court a total of 175 times, including 146 times for military attaches and only 29 times for civil servants.
"Every newspaper publishes an obituary notice to deeply mourn the death of Prince Qin."
Zhu Yihai requested that Qin Liangyu's coffin be transported to Nanjing and buried under Zhongshan Mountain. That is where Taizu Xiaoling Mausoleum is located, and Zhu Yihai had planned to bury him in Zhongshan Mountain next to Xiaoling Mausoleum in the future.
Being buried in the imperial mausoleum is even more of an honor.
Qin Liangyu served as a frontline for Zhu Yihai, and went down to Jiuquan to recruit his old troops and build territory for him. He was buried there after his death.
Not to mention being able to enjoy the Ancestral Temple.
The emperor of each dynasty usually selects a few civil servants and generals who have made great achievements to share with them, and they will continue to work together as emperor and ministers underground in the future. The requirements for being selected are extremely high, and there are not many.
To enjoy the Imperial Ancestral Temple with the emperor, when future emperors come to offer sacrifices to this emperor, they will also have to kneel down and worship the meritorious ministers next to them. How great an honor is this for the ministers?
Qin Liangyu, a woman, was finally able to be granted the title of duke during her lifetime and the king after her death. She could also be buried in the imperial mausoleum and enjoy the ancestral temple. It can be said that Zhu Yihai gave Qin Liangyu the highest honor he could give to his ministers.
This is not only a tribute to Qin Liangyu's lifelong loyalty and meritorious service, but also an example for the world. It also declares that Zhu Yihai is generous in rewarding meritorious ministers.
In the past, Huang Degong was named King of Jingnan after his death, and now Qin Liangyu is named King of Fuling.
"Register the Baigan Sichuan soldiers who followed the King of Qin and died in state affairs over the years. Each family member will be given ten silver dollars as a pension. Each of the Baigan Sichuan soldiers in active service will be rewarded with five silver dollars."
"The Baigan Sichuan soldiers have fought for the country over the years and have shed too much blood and sacrificed their lives. Their achievements must be remembered and commended."