The lights in Feng Quji's study were brightly lit. Feng Quji was standing tall, Feng Jie was sitting beside him, and opposite Feng Jie was a middle-aged man wearing a green robe with a dark face. It was Feng Jie who was stationed in Aocang.
Chen Ping, a retainer under the income account.
Chen Ping, who followed Feng Jie to supervise road construction in the South China Sea, also changed from a fair boy to a dark-skinned strong man.
Chen Ping assisted Feng Jie conscientiously, and the rewards he received were naturally extremely generous. He was originally a commoner, but now he has become a counselor of the Guilin Army under Feng Jie.
The position of counselor was a newly created position after Hu Hai abolished the shogunate that was originally prevalent in various military and government offices in the Qin Dynasty. After the reform of the official system, counselor was also officially included in the official examination of the Ministry of Personnel.
The shogunate is actually the staff that became popular in later generations. However, in the past, the shogunate in the palaces of the various armies and court officials in the Qin Dynasty were mostly personal staff maintained by the military commanders or court officials. It is better to say that they are staff, and it is worse to say that they are personal staff.
A retainer maintained by the minister.
Before Hu Hai reformed the official system, the first thing to abolish was the shogunate in the palaces of various court officials. The shogunates in the civil servants' palaces were all dissolved and then brought under the jurisdiction of the court; the same was true for the shogunate of military commanders. After reforming the official system, the shogunate of the high officials in the court
It was officially banned, but the shogunate personnel under the generals who led the troops outside were recognized by their positions as counselors.
These consultations must be reported to the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of War for registration and filing by each military general before he can take office. Once a military general is found to be secretly supporting the shogunate, he will be punished in the most serious case and dismissed from his post in the least case.
This is a decision Hu Hai made after carefully considering the advantages and disadvantages of the shogunate system. It will not cause any harm to the ministers of the DPRK and China. In addition to the various reforms carried out by Hu Hai previously, at least on the surface, it is
Extremely gentle.
It was decided after comprehensively considering the interests of various interest groups, so it was not opposed by all ministers.
The military counselor is actually the staff officer of later generations. In the official system, all military counselors hold the position of the fifth rank. Of course, the rank of the fifth rank is only when they are under the command of the generals. Once these counselors want to
To transfer to a local government, you must pass the civil service examination. You can only go through the formalities after passing the examination. If you fail, you will be sorry. If you still want to transfer to the local government, you will have to take the seventh-grade position instead.
Of.
For Chen Ping, who was not from a very good background and was still full of ambitions, being a member of the fifth rank was already a great honor for his ancestors.
"Father, what are your instructions for summoning your children late at night?"
Feng Jie drank a large bowl of hangover soup brought by the servant. He looked at Feng Quji who was sitting at the top and asked.
In the evening, Hu Hai held a banquet at the Royal Academy of Da Qin. A group of military commanders who had rushed back from various places, as well as leading figures in the Da Qin military such as Meng Tian, Zhang Han and others, as well as thousands of students from the Royal Academy, were all present.
The banquet attended by the emperor lasted until late at night. Feng Jie had just arrived in Xianyang yesterday. He went to the Ministry of War to report and pay the military flag. This evening should be the first time he returned to the mansion in the past two years, but he did not expect that he had just entered the house.
He was invited to Feng Quji's study by the servant waiting at the door of the mansion.
When Feng Jie came in, Chen Ping was already in Feng Quji's study, and looking at the copper case in front of the two of them, it had obviously been going on for a long time.
"My father just asked Mr. Chen about military affairs. You did a good job. But there is one thing you are all wrong about." Feng Quji looked at Feng Jie and said expressionlessly.
Feng Jie had grown up seeing his father's seriousness, so he didn't feel uncomfortable at all. However, hearing Feng Quji call Chen Ping Mr. Chen made Feng Jie feel happy.
This is the first time that the confidant who he relies on as his arm meets his father. Obviously, before he came back, Chen Ping had quietly conquered his father.
"The boss of the pavilion is serious. I definitely don't deserve this title as a low-ranking official." Chen Ping stood up in a hurry and bowed to the ground.
"Sir, I'm a talented man. I'm convinced. Sit down quickly. It's our Feng family's great fortune that our son can help me." Although Feng Quji was serious in speech, everyone could hear the joy in his words.
"The old man has resigned, I am ashamed to be a subordinate!" Chen Ping was really a little anxious now. With Feng Quji, the Assistant Minister of the Cabinet Office, saying such a thing, he was only a fifth-rank counselor.
Chen Ping was under a lot of pressure in his position.
"Father, Sir, you two should stop complimenting each other. You'd better tell me what I did wrong." Feng Jie interjected from the side.
"Master Chen, please take a seat." Feng Quji waved his hand and asked Chen Ping to take a seat, but the title had quietly changed. It is impossible to say that Feng Quji could be called sir in today's Qin Dynasty, at least Chen Ping would definitely not be able to afford it.
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"Thank you, Mr. Ge!" Chen Ping breathed a sigh of relief.
"I already know what happened in the academy today. Your Majesty is really smart in his actions." Feng Quji did not answer Feng Jie's words, but sighed and turned the topic to what happened in the Royal Military Academy today.
"Well, in five years our Guilin Army will definitely be crowned with the word 'royal'." Feng Jie was convinced.
"Okay, don't act stupid in front of me. Don't tell me these useless things." Feng Quji rarely showed a human expression when he heard Feng Jie's words, which was contempt.
"Well, I haven't seen my father for a long time. I forgot about it. I forgot." Feng Jie touched his bald head and smiled very shyly.
"You and Han Xin are really at odds with each other?" Feng Quji glanced at Feng Jie's bare head and said slowly.
"It doesn't really count, it's just that we never interact with each other until we die."
"When I return to Nanhai in the next year, I will lay off all the Feng clan members you have placed in the army and place them beside you as personal guards." Feng Quji said slowly without answering Feng Jie's words.
"That's what Father said." Feng Jie's face became much more serious.
Obviously, after what happened today, everyone knows that it will never be possible to turn the Jiuyuan Army into his own private army like Meng Tian took control of the Jiuyuan Army, and the emperor will never allow anyone to be like Meng Tian again.
It has far more influence over a certain army than the emperor.
Granting a military flag with the emperor's seal is obviously not the emperor's first step. There must be a follow-up move. If there is another unscrupulous person who wants to control an army like Meng Tian, then the consequences waiting for him will be extremely terrible.
of misery.
What's more, with the military flag bearing the emperor's seal becoming the military soul of the legion, the influence of the generals of each legion on an army is no longer important. What each general needs to consider most is how to avoid losing the military flag on the battlefield.
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After all, even if the battle is not defeated, if the military flag is lost, then there is no need for this army to exist.
No one doubts the authenticity of what Hu Hai said: "If the military flag is lost, the army will be destroyed."
"Will your Majesty summon you tomorrow?" Feng Quji knew that his son actually understood everything and could only speak to the point.
"We have never. My father must also know that many of us in the army are married. Your Majesty has called me back to Xianyang at this time. I think you want those who are married to continue the family line."
"Okay. Well, tomorrow you and Counselor Chen will go to the fiefdom of your father and son and bring back all the account books and people in charge of the fiefdom."
"Father, why is this? If all the people in charge are called back, who will manage everything on that land?" Feng Jie asked in confusion after hearing Feng Quji's words.
"no need!"
"no need?"
"At the court meeting in three days, I will submit to His Majesty the handover of all the fiefdoms that His Majesty gave to me and my son." Feng Quji slowly leaned on the brocade stool and looked at the red charcoal fire in the study.
A faint road.
Feng Jie couldn't help but be startled when he heard Feng Quji's words. He thought about it for a long time before saying, "Your Majesty wants to take back all the fiefdoms of my Feng family?"
Feng Jie knew very well what a fief meant to a family. If the emperor had not wanted to take it back, then Feng Quji would have taken the initiative to hand over the fief, which was related to the rise and fall of the entire family, only if he was a fool.
Nowadays, the property of most aristocratic families is nothing more than various types of land. After all, if you have land at this time, you will have everything, and you can have everything. And the reason why so many people eagerly want Gao Jue and Marquis is because
What? Not for those fiefdoms?
Everything in the fiefdom is arranged by the owner of the fiefdom himself, and there is no need to pay taxes or tributes. The real harvest is guaranteed during droughts and floods, and it is a cornucopia of golden rice bowls.
"It's not that His Majesty wants to take back the Feng family's fiefdom, but that I want to hand it over myself."
What surprised Feng Jie was that Feng Quji actually said that he wanted to hand over the fiefdom.
"Father, why is this? The fiefdom of my Feng family has been handed over. Is my Feng family still the Feng family?" Feng Jie suddenly became a little anxious.
"Your Majesty said yes, our Feng family is still the Feng family, and no one dares to act recklessly on our Feng family's head; Your Majesty said no, our Feng family is nothing even if we dominate those fiefs! What's the point of these fiefdoms coming?
use?"
Feng Quji's voice suddenly became high-pitched and he looked at Feng Jie with burning eyes.
Feng Jie was immediately speechless.
"Have you never discovered that the few marquises granted by His Majesty, including Jiuyuan Gong, do not have any fiefs? Jiuyuan Gong already has fiefs, so it is okay to no longer have fiefs, but those who have been granted the title of marquis, the concubine and the chief
, has anyone in the position of a doctor ever been granted a fief by His Majesty?
General White Tiger, General Qinglong, General Han Xin, General Ba, and General Nanhai Yu Ziqi, have any of them ever been given a fief when they were awarded a title by His Majesty? None, no one has ever had a fief.
Wu Mahou Linghu Fan was so powerful in Hanoi at the beginning. His Majesty said that his title was gone and his son died tragically. On the second day after Linghu Fan was captured, the Ministry of Revenue had already sent people to Hanoi to investigate the people in Wu Mahou's fiefdom.
One should register the population, heaven and earth.
This time, His Majesty ordered more than ten ministers from the six countries stationed in various places who were awarded the title of Marquis for their good deeds to Qin to come to Xianyang to pay an audience. In my opinion, if they are sensible enough to write to Your Majesty to hand over their fiefdoms to the honest people,
Just stay in Xianyang, if you don't know what to do and want to go back and be a happy prince, humph." At this point, Feng Quji sneered twice before continuing: "I'm afraid I'll never be able to leave Xianyang again."
"Father, are you saying that Your Majesty wants to kill all those dozens of marquises?"
"I don't think your Majesty will kill them. After all, their titles were conferred by the First Emperor himself. They have indeed contributed to our great Qin. But your Majesty will definitely not let these people go to the fiefdom again."
"My father, Ma Xing, Zhao Ping, and Du He are all generals who command the army. Although they only have a few thousand troops, they are still enough to cause trouble for one side. You must know that those soldiers all use our Da Qin standard weapons.
It’s not like Wei Bao’s rabble.”
"So what? What will happen if Xiang Liang has hundreds of thousands of troops? What's more, I'm afraid that your Majesty's messenger has already arrived at the camp where you and other military commanders have just left the camp."
Feng Quji twirled the gray beard under his chin and said quietly.
"Father, your Majesty has never said that he wants to take back the fiefdoms of each marquis?"
Feng Quji glanced at Feng Jie in surprise.
"It is precisely because Your Majesty has never said so that I have to take the initiative to hand over the fiefdom."
"Father, those ministers of the Six Kingdoms are trying to gain glory by selling themselves to others. They are both snakes and rats, and they are causing trouble for one side. They levy excessive taxes in the fiefdom and do not pay any taxes to the court. It is natural that your Majesty should take over their fiefdom, but my Feng family is not.
The merits of the Great Qin Dynasty and the fiefdoms were all granted to my Feng family when the First Emperor was still alive. What can Your Majesty do to take back our fiefdoms?"
"It is precisely because Your Majesty has no reason to take back the fiefdoms granted to us by His Majesty the First Emperor, that I have to give Your Majesty a reason."
At this point, if Feng Jie didn't understand clearly, then Feng Quji would probably hit him on the head with a wine bottle.
The emperor seems to have been doing or hinting at taking back the fiefdoms originally given to his ministers, but it is difficult to do so for various reasons. The Linghu Fan incident has just begun, and the emperor wants to continue to take back the fiefdoms originally given to his ministers.
There is no better excuse for human fiefdom.
However, Feng Quji's return of the fiefdoms to the emperor would inevitably make the Lao Qin clan who followed the emperor's footsteps follow suit. With them pushing behind him, the emperor could not only take back the fiefdoms of Ma Xing and others in an open and honest manner, but also take advantage of the opportunity to take back the imperial court.
The fiefdoms of various marquises.
The emperor agreed to Feng Quji's request. Naturally, others could refuse to pay. But the consequences of not paying should be clearly thought out.
In other words, his father not only wanted to give the emperor a reason, but also wanted to give the emperor a scapegoat.
If this thing really happened, I am afraid that the Marquis Yiqian of Great Qin, whether Ma Xing or someone else like Mengtian, would naturally not hate the emperor. The only thing they would hate would definitely be Feng Quji, the instigator.
Feng Jie was a little unbelievable. Is this still his father?
If the emperor does not have such an idea, but is just wishful thinking of the father, then I am afraid that the Feng family will no longer be human inside and out.
"If this is accomplished, our Feng family will be able to prosper within a hundred years. However, if this is to succeed, it will not be enough for you and me, father and son. We will also need the help of two people." (To be continued...