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After the Marquis, they were the earls and the most numerous group. Like the dukes and earls, these earls were also divided into civil and military officials.

The first person to be a civil minister is Chen Zilong, the Minister of Finance. Although he is the first count, Chen Zilong was very dissatisfied. The reason is very simple. If you follow Zhu Hongsan in time, you should be a civil minister second only to the four major strategists. Chen Zilong recognized Zhu Hongsan in Wuchang, Huguang, and was highly valued by Zhu Hongsan. He should be ranked first in the ranking, far before Gong Dacheng.

If we calculate based on official positions, Chen Zilong is the Minister of State, Gong Dacheng is just a governor, and even a governor can be a marquis, he should at least be a marquis. Just when there was a rumor in the court that the emperor wanted to be a title, Chen Zilong was definitely a marquis, but he knew that he would only be an earl in the end, and he still had no fief.

After Chen Zilong received the news, he immediately went to find Ma Mingyuan. Although Chen Zilong did not value such titles, he did not fight for what he deserved. Isn’t he a little stupid?

When Ma Mingyuan saw the angry Chen Zilong, he gave a reasonable explanation after listening to his statement. The reason is very simple. Although Chen Zilong knew the emperor in Wuchang, you did not stay when the emperor tried to keep you. Instead, he returned to Nanzhili for the imperial examination. When he officially joined the Zhu Hongsan Group, Zhu Hongsan was already in charge of the country.

Chen Zilong came to Guangzhou with the defeated King of Lu Zhu Yihai in the second year of Hongguang. What else do you want to have such qualifications? This principle is like people are all cadres during the Jinggangshan period and the Red Army period. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, they were naturally a marshal general. You are a cadre during the Anti-Japanese War, it would be nice to give you a major general, what else do you want?

At the same time, Ma Mingyuan also put the shit basin on Tong Yangjia's head. Now Ma Mingyuan is not a one-man show in the cabinet, and there is also a shit-smuggling stick Tong Yangjia. Tong Yangjia's nephew Tong Tuchang is a cadre of Jinggangshan. He has followed His Majesty the Emperor as early as Wuchang. He is so noble that he has only been named an earl. Don't be ungrateful!

Chen Zilong had no choice but to hear Ma Mingyuan say this. Ma Mingyuan was right. According to his qualifications, Tong Tuchang was much better than Chen Zilong, and even more military achievements were greater than Chen Zilong. Fujian instigated Li Chengdong to lead a team to the north to negotiate with the Qing Dynasty. Such contributions were not comparable to Chen Zilong, an official behind Chen Zilong, so Chen Zilong accepted his fate after thinking about it.

Standing next to Chen Zilong is the unlucky man Tong Tuchang. In fact, according to Tong Tuchang's contribution, he can be granted a marquis. However, there are already one duke and two marquises in Tong Yangjia's system. It is inappropriate to have an extra marquis, so Tong Yangjia suppressed his nephew to accept this count. Tong Tuchang had no choice but to accept reality, but Tong Tuchang was still frustrated.

Except for these two people, the count of the civil servants has no heavyweights, and the rest are some of the lower-level officials in Dongguan back then. Qian Qianyi and other surrendered officials are not in this title at all. No matter what your relationship or position you have, there is no hope at all if there is any stain.

The soldiers who were named Count of the generals were some of the soldiers who followed Zhu Hongsan back then, and after more than ten years of war, they grew into middle-level officers. However, there is another big figure among the generals and earls, that is, Jiang Pengju, the commander of the Second Division.

Jiang Pengju was born in the second group of teaching teams and was still the backbone of the teaching teams. At the same time, his current official position is the division commander, so he must be a marquis. At the beginning, Jiang Pengju thought so. He dared not think about it, and the marquis is absolutely fine.

But when Jiang Pengju was released, he was stunned. Those with the same qualifications as him were all marquises, and he was named Count by himself. After seeing the news, Jiang Pengju immediately went to find his elder brother Zhao Guodong. Then he knew that Jiang Pengju had not spoken yet after seeing Zhao Guodong.

It is very simple to say that Jiang Pengju was not named Marquis. You made a mistake back then. Is it a slight incident that Jiang Pengju raped a young widow in Nanzhili, but now it has become a crime. You, Jiang Pengju, were awesome in the past. You were from a teaching team. You were a guard for His Majesty the Emperor and fought bloody battles at the city of Xinyang. But you were just a company commander at the beginning of the Northern Expedition. According to this qualification, you, Jiang Pengju, was a bit high. It would be good to give the honorary position of the Jinyiwei Qianhu according to the cabinet. In the end, the emperor promoted Jiang Pengju to the Earl because of Jiang Pengju's great contributions.

After Jiang Pengju knew that it was the bad guys in the cabinet, he cursed Ma Mingyuan in anger. He stood up and wanted to go to King Qin Zhu Jiang to help him speak. Then he knew that Jiang Pengju was just about to leave and was grabbed by Zhao Guodong anyway, so he gave him two mouths.

Zhao Guodong's reason is very simple. Now the King of Qin himself cannot protect himself. What trouble do you want to cause? You don't go back and become your count.

Jiang Pengju left Zhao Guodong's mansion with anger, stood on the street, Jiang Pengju swore that he would be the duke in the future and let those stinky old ninths see that I was not a vegetarian! What Jiang Pengju didn't know was that his confidence would bring great trouble to King Zhu Jiang of Qin in the future.

Jiang Pengju had no choice but to be the count honestly, but he was really angry. He glanced at a commander beside him and whispered: "Damn, what are you? Stay away from me!"

The leader knew why Jiang Pengju was angry, so he didn't mess with him, so he moved his position to the side and stayed away from Jiang Pengju, the unlucky guy.

These 107 people stood outside the Meridian Gate and waited for the ceremony to begin. Time passed quickly. After a while, the sun rose. Then the Meridian Gate opened. The etiquette team composed of three thousand generals of Han came out to stand at the door. The eunuch Li Chengen in the palace was the host of today. He first stood at the door and read the imperial edict of Emperor Zhu Hongsan, and then shouted "The ceremony began!"

The team of one hundred and seven people was divided into nine columns, each with a duke leading him, entering from the Meridian Gate in a row.

For the ceremony today, Zhu Hongsan spent a lot of money to renovate the Beijing Imperial City. The Fengtian Hall, the number one in the three major halls, was also repainted, secretly celebrating inside and out.

Because today is a grand ceremony, Fengtian Gate, which is only the emperor can walk, was opened today. The emperor issued a special order to allow these heroes to enter through the main gate of Fengtian Gate.

Entering Fengtian Gate is the square in front of Fengtian Hall, and it is also the largest square in the palace. One hundred and seven heroes led by nine dukes to the steps, standing here solemnly, waiting for the emperor's imperial edict.

At this time, the eunuch Li Chengen came out again. After reciting the imperial edict to sacrifice to heaven, the next step was to enthrone the imperial edict.

The first imperial edict was to enthrone nine dukes. When everyone heard that Ma Mingyuan had 10,000 households, they were envious and jealous. Ten thousand households! There were not many in Chinese history!

The second imperial edict is the imperial edict to be a marquis, the third one is the earl, and the last one is the enthronement of other honorary positions, such as the Governor of the Jinyiwei, the Assistant of the Jinyiwei, the Qianhu of the Jinyiwei, etc.

Every time the edict was recited, the heroes who were read the name had to kneel down to thank him, then accept the edict and the iron certificate of the alchemy, and finally follow the etiquette officer to enter the Fengtian Hall. After more than a hundred people's trouble, it was already noon.

After the imperial edict was read out, Zhu Hongsan looked at the people standing in the hall. Eighty percent of them were raised from Huguang with him. Looking at the familiar face Zhu Hongsan was really imaginative!

When Zhu Hongsan traveled over, he was just a remote royal family whose grandmother was not close to his uncle and did not love him. His only function was to live and wait for death. Fortunately, he knew the historical direction of this country, so he could organize his team to escape from heaven in Wuchang. Originally, Zhu Hongsan had no ambitions, but just wanted to organize his own armed forces. If he really couldn't, he could escape to Nanyang. But he didn't expect that his ancestors would be blessed, and he ended up getting things done, occupying Beijing and expelling the Qing Dynasty and becoming the Ming Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan said with emotion: "I started a military campaign from Wuchang. There were only a few hundred people at that time. I never thought I could have such a big career! At that time, I was thinking about living, and living a day by day! If someone told me at that time, you could occupy Beijing in the future and become the leader of Zhongxing, I would definitely beat that guy up to be paralyzed!"

After hearing what Zhu Hongsan said, the people below laughed. The civil servants were all intellectuals, just smiled. But the generals were different. If these guys were not bandits or refugees who went south, the best ones were the local self-cultivated farmers in Wuchang, and a few of them were the gangsters in Wuchang County. What culture do they have?

Now I heard the emperor say this, a few guys with big eyes and big hearts said with a big mouth: "Your Majesty, don't say that Your Majesty didn't expect it, we didn't expect it! At that time, we would be just refugees who went south at the end of the year, and they would not even have enough food. Where can I think that in more than ten years, I could also be like Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and others to be granted a title of marquis?"

This guy was unrestrained, which made all the civil officials look at each other, but Emperor Zhu Hongsan liked to listen.

"You are right. I didn't expect it back then, and you didn't expect it! I can have this foundation today, and you have made most of your contributions! So I hope you don't learn from the heroes and nobles of the previous dynasty, and you must pass on your courage. If you encounter any war in the future, you still need to fight for me, or your descendants!"

When the civil servants heard what the emperor said, they bowed and said, "Please rest assured, I will devote myself to my whole life until I die! I will live up to your Majesty's grace!"

Those generals did not have such a high level of education and shouted one by one: "Please rest assured that there will be war in that place in the future. As long as we, the old guys, live for one day, we will rush to the forefront. Even if we all die, our sons and grandsons will continue to die for His Majesty!"

Zhu Hongsan was very happy to hear these people say this, and stood up and said, "Okay! I promise you! As long as you don't let me down, I will definitely let you down! You and your descendants will be fellow practitioners of the country! Li Chengen! I will send an order to build a meritorious official building in Wuying Hall, and hang the portraits of me and 107 meritorious official in it, so that my descendants can remember that they can have an emperor and they are all defeated by these meritorious official, so that they should not forget their roots!"
Chapter completed!