The sixth day of the first month of the first year of Zhenguan.The Taiji Hall held a large court meeting, and all officials and chief officials of the seven grades and above in Beijing were present at the meeting.At today's court meeting, the officials attending the meeting all discovered a very peculiar thing.The imperial case in the Taiji Hall has been replaced with a tall one.Correspondingly, the cushion behind the imperial case has also been replaced with a high-legged chair.Li Shimin sat behind the imperial case, his body looked taller, and the emperor's momentum was also more sufficient.This high-legged royal case and seat are naturally the new furniture produced by the furniture factory jointly founded by Zhao Yunze and Cheng Yanjin.The imperial case and seats of the Taiji Hall were designed by Zhao Yunze himself.The reference is the furniture system of the Qianqing Palace in the Palace Museum in later generations.A few years ago, the furniture factory finally made all the new furniture required by Li Shimin on the 25th day of the lunar month.Yesterday, many of the palaces were replaced with new furniture.Including the Taiji Hall and the Liangyi Hall as the palace of the court, the Wude Hall of Li Shimin's daily office, as well as Li Shimin's bedroom Lizheng Hall and Li Yuan's bedroom Ganlu Hall.Because it is the royal furniture, the materials and workmanship of these furniture are extremely high-quality.The furniture factory hurried up, and the number of finished products produced only met Li Shimin's minimum requirements.As for the furniture of other palaces, it can only be postponed and replaced.At the court meeting, Li Shimin issued several edicts in succession.Among them, there is an edict that evaluates the previous merits of civil and military officials.This is also the first time that Li Shimin has officially evaluated the merits of officials since he ascended the throne.Li Shimin's eldest brother-in-law, the eldest grandson Wuji, was designated as the first meritorious hero, and he was enshrined as the Duke of Qi, with 3,000 households in the food estate, 1,300 households in the actual seal, and the Ministry of Relocation was still in the book.Zhao Yunze, who had just been an official for four months, was awarded the founding viscount of Jingyang County for his three merits because of the method of offering horseshoes, establishing the arsenal and offering pure salt, and was awarded the title of Viscount of the founding of Jingyang County, with 500 households and 180 households.The rest of the heroes also have many rewards.In fact, Zhao Yunze's credit is far more than the three points mentioned in the edict.There are also four merits that Li Shimin cannot be rewarded.One is to offer a cultural invasion of the Turks; the second is to propose the establishment of a lecture hall; the third is to propose the "opening of the Chinese law"; The fourth, and the biggest credit, is a plan to assassinate Liang Shidu and force Liang Luoren to secretly surrender to the Tang Dynasty.These four merits, the cultural invasion of the Turks and the conspiration of the Shuo Fang, cannot be shown for the time being; Many ministers of the DPRK and China did not agree to the establishment of the lecture hall, and it was Li Shimin's arbitrary and rigid implementation of the Qiangang, so it could not be mentioned in the edict.As for the "Open China Law", it is not yet time to implement it, and it is necessary to wait for the salt works of the imperial court to produce refined salt, and with the temptation of physical goods, those salt merchants will take the bait.It is precisely because many of Zhao Yunze's great achievements cannot be shown in the edict that the officials who participated in the court meeting were a little surprised when they heard that Zhao Yunze was actually made a viscount.But the edict has been issued, and the matter has become a fact.In addition, today is the first big court meeting of the New Year, most of the officials have been rewarded, and the hall is full of joy, so no official has raised objections to Zhao Yunze's knighthood at this time.Besides, many of the main officials in the DPRK and China know about the big things that Zhao Yunze has done.Since the bigwigs have acquiesced to Zhao Yunze's knighthood, the little shrimps will not be stupid to take this head to give their opinions.I didn't see that even Wei Zheng, who loved to look at the emperor's heels, remained silent, and the Tang Dynasty was divided into nine ranks.One is called the king, the food is ten thousand households, and it is a product; The second is the heir king, the county king, 5,000 households, from one product; Three are said to be the princes of the country, and there are 3,000 households in the food district, from one product; Fourth, it is said that the founding county is the prince, with 2,000 households and two products; Five said to be the founding of the county, 1,500 households, from the second grade; Sixth, it is said that the founding county marquis, thousands of households in the food district, from the three products; Seven said the founding county uncle, 700 households, is on the four products; Eight said to be the founding county, 500 households, is on the five products; Nine said that the founding county male, 300 households, from the five products.The official titles of the Tang Dynasty were only divided into positive and subordinate above the third grade, and there was no upper and lower.The four grades below are divided from top to bottom.The so-called title is only a symbol of nobility and has no actual rights.Those who hold the title receive income from the land they have feuded for.The so-called food is the tax field.The number of households in the food town is the number of households allocated by the state to the person with the title.However, the food town corresponding to the rank of the knighthood is only a false name, and the real income depends on the actual seal.For example, the eldest grandson Wuji, whose new title is the Duke of Qi Guo, according to the rank of the title, should enjoy 3,000 households of Qidi, but Li Shimin's actual feudal food of the eldest grandson Wuji is only 1,300 households.Therefore, the eldest grandson Wuji can only enjoy 1,300 households.In fact, in the Zhenguan Dynasty, the 1,300 households of the Guogong were already the largest.Zhao Yunze's founding viscount of Jingyang County actually sealed 180 households, which means that he can enjoy the taxes and land endowments of 180 households in Jingyang County every year.This income is not fixed, but changes with the level of state taxes and land endowments.In the Tang Dynasty, the largest income of those who had a title was not the food estate, but the Yongye Tian granted with the title.The number of Yongye Tian is the same as the rank of the knighthood, which is prescribed.At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, because the war had just ended, people's livelihood had not yet recovered, and a large number of fields were uncultivated.Because there are many idle fields, the Yongye fields corresponding to the titles are all granted.In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, because of the serious land annexation, the newly titled Yongye Field was no longer granted, but was changed to rent per mu and directly paid grain and rice.This is equivalent to a decrease in the income of the aristocracy.Zhao Yunze's viscount title can be obtained Yongye Tian Baqing.In ancient times, one hectare was fifty acres.In other words, Zhao Yunze can also get the 400 acres of Yongye land that has been granted.Adding the 120 acres of land in Zhaojiazhuang before, Zhao Yunze has 520 acres of land.is already an out-and-out landlord.In addition to being knighted, Zhao Yunze's loose title was also promoted from the captain of Yilu on the seventh grade to the captain of Zhiguo on the seventh grade.Promoted two levels in a row.Zhao Yunze was injured and was unable to attend the court.But yesterday he knew that he would be rewarded today.In order to facilitate the officials of the relevant departments of the imperial court, Zhao Yunze was transferred to his home yesterday evening to recuperate from his injuries.On the afternoon of the day of the grand court meeting, the officials of the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, and the Sinong Temple jointly came to Zhao Yunze's house to handle the relevant procedures for him to be knighted and promoted to the official rank.The seal and documents of the captain of the fruit were sent; The five-grade official uniform, seals, and documents of the founding viscount of Jingyang County were also issued; As for the 400 acres of Yongye field, Li Shimin took good care of Zhao Yunze, and it was also zoned in Jingyang County, just south of Zhaojiazhuang, about 30 miles away from Chang'an City, and only a dozen miles away from the Arsenal Special Office.This place is also the junction of Jingyang County and Wannian County of Chang'an City
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