eurekapd Chapter 264 Awarding Officers
Chapter 264 Awarding Officers
The group returned to Beijing under the escort of Mo Tang and the government troops.
The boats were even more majestic than the five that came with them, and like a "warship" escort, the Sheng family and their entourage arrived in Bian Jing safely.
Unlike the quiet and bustling Youyang, as soon as you enter the city, the unique heat and crowdedness of Bianjing hit you in the face.
Servants from the Sheng Mansion had been waiting at the city gate for a long time. As soon as Wang Ruofu arrived at the gate of the Sheng Mansion, he was already there with people to greet him.
After a long journey, I returned to the mansion and washed and had my meals. Listening to the maid's report, I couldn't help but sigh. Only two months have passed, but the capital is still as noisy as ever.
The Duke of Qi's mansion has been in turmoil recently.
Several maids were beaten to death, and according to rumors, these maids looked somewhat similar to the fourth young lady of the Sheng mansion.
Romantic affairs are really something to talk about.
The Sheng family was naturally extremely dissatisfied with this.
The censors headed by Sheng Hong repeatedly impeached the Duke of Qi and his son in the court, and even the Gu family, who was domineering and cruel after being demoted to a county princess and stripped of their titles.
Does the reputation of the Sheng family girl only concern the Sheng family?
no.
Otherwise, what about the children raised by the stigmatized and demonized daughter of the Sheng family, as well as the women related to the Sheng family’s allied families?
Is it true that those who are close to vermilion will be red, and those who are close to ink will be black?
Besides, the fourth daughter of the Sheng family is the favorite of their daughter and wife. If they ignore this...
Being kicked out of the house and forced to sleep on the streets was considered polite.
The emperor has many capable ministers under his command, but in fact he is not that busy. Moreover, he is old, and it is very easy for him to be dissatisfied with those powerful and wealthy who "refused to change despite repeated admonitions."
Under the extremely literary accusations made by censors such as Sheng Hong, the emperor was extremely dissatisfied with the Gu family's domineering behavior and the instability of the future successor to the Duke of Qi.
If the previous punishment was just a warning to Gu, then now it is a thunderous measure to let all the nobles know whether Lian Po is still capable of making a living at his old age.
The Duke of Qi was dismissed from office for failing to educate his children and managing his household properly.
Gu refused to change his ways despite repeated admonitions, was extremely domineering, and disregarded human life. He was stripped of the county princess's title and refused to grant the imperial decree.
Qi Heng abolished the "regular name" status and prohibited people from taking the imperial examinations for three years. If they did not repent, they would not be granted the title of crown prince or allowed to inherit the nobility for the rest of their lives.
Molan was very satisfied with the result.
Qi Heng is a man who is too "innocent" and reckless. Being liked by him is purely a sin, just like Minglan in the play, which adds to the pain.
And those maids who were only slightly similar to her in appearance were even more innocent.
Although there are definitely people who hope to change their fate through this, the majority of them are innocent women who are affected.
After all, everyone knows about the Gu family's ferocity, and everyone in Tokyo knows that Master Qi's wealth is not so easy to deal with.
Now, Qi Heng cannot be named the crown prince, and is not allowed to take part in the imperial examinations within three years. The Duke of Qi has only one son, and there is only Gu in the backyard.
As a duke, Duke Qi must be considering taking concubines and having children in order to keep the Qi family's bloodline going.
After all, if Qi Heng was not recognized as "repentant" throughout his life, and if he participated in the imperial examination again but did not achieve any outstanding achievements, then the title of Duke of Qi would not even have a chance to be transferred to a side branch.
The Qi family had few descendants, and the title of Duke of Qi was adopted from the Duke of Qi who had no descendants.
But Qi Heng is already in his early twenties, and Gu is jealous and overbearing. How can the Duke of Qi get what he wants?
The instability in the Duke of Qi’s mansion has just begun.
Conflict is inevitable.
Because this conflicts with the issues of offspring and continuation of the family line.
Did the Duke of Qi marry a concubine to give birth to a son to inherit the title in order to maintain stability, or did he gamble that the government would confer the title of Crown Prince Yun on Qi Heng's son and allow him to inherit the title?
Many people are looking forward to this big show.
All the excitement in the world is for the benefit.
The Duke of Qi's Mansion is now a piece of fat meat.
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Sheng Tang was instrumental in suppressing bandits and had accumulated considerable military merit over his many years of military service. With the strong praise of his superiors and the recommendation of other frontier governors and defense historians, he came into the eyes of the government.
The adopted son of the Sheng family joined the army when he was young and has been training on the border since he was a small soldier. The Sheng family has never mentioned his contributions to the country, nor asked for any official position or reward, nor has they used their position to interfere with his position or treatment in the army.
This is great loyalty.
Or it would not be an exaggeration to say that it is a bit blindly loyal.
I didn't expect that Sheng Hong, a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, actually has such a sincere side.
The emperor himself admired Sheng Hong very much, and now he had even more praise for him.
He carefully recalled the trivial matters of all sizes when Sheng Hong was an official in Beijing over the years. When he worked in the Censorate, he was upright, strict and a lone minister.
The few times he formed a clique, one was to seek justice for his eldest daughter, and the other was to seek justice for his second daughter...
He is still a doting daughter.
The emperor has a scale in his heart, and the older he is, the more he tends to act according to his own feelings and judgment.
He felt that Sheng Hong and the Sheng family were loyal, so even if all the civil and military officials in the court said in front of him that they would die in front of the palace today, he would not change his mind.
The idea in your mind and the compromise in your actions are two different things.
And now, there are almost no voices of opposition to the Sheng family in the court.
and so……
After considering for a while, the emperor gave Sheng Tang a reward.
He was granted the rank of "Dongshanghemenshi", a sixth-rank military officer, and the title of "Chaofengdafu", a fifth-rank official.
(ps1: The ceiling for the Song Dynasty's imperial guards was the fourth-rank 'Deputy Commander of the Palace Front Department', and the rank of envoy was not granted.
The third-rank Jiedushi is the highest military rank.
The military ranks of military officers and military officials in the Song Dynasty were different. Military officers were military positions that combined rank and position, while military officials just sounded better.
Military officers were given the title of civil officials because the title of civil officials was mainly awarded to foreign officials in the Song Dynasty.
Only after returning from "Dingyou" (if a court official's parents die during his tenure, no matter what official position he holds, he must resign and return to his ancestral home to observe mourning for his parents for 27 months from the day he learns of the death) would some military officers with special merits or "senior" status be granted the title of "Yunhui General", a third-rank military official.
In other cases, most military officers were appointed as civil officials. The biggest use of civil officials was to decide what color clothes to wear when attending court and how to distinguish between three, six, and nine.
The Dongshanghemenshi was a military officer in the inner court. In the Tang Dynasty, only eunuchs held this position. In the Song Dynasty, it was called an "important official" and was not included in the military officer examination and transfer (which can be directly understood as "a way of assessing the officials' performance, appointing and using them").
The position of Chaofeng Daifu was a civil official, which meant that Sheng Tang could wear the second-class scarlet official uniform when attending court.
1-3品紫色，4-5品绯色，6-7品绿色，8-9品青色。
The official positions in the Song Dynasty were complicated, and during the reign of Emperor Huizong of Song, there was another major change. Even though both dynasties were the Song Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties were different.)
Being an official in Beijing, she didn't have to leave the capital unless she was assigned to an overseas post. This made Old Lady Sheng very happy. She sighed repeatedly, "Tang'er, the hardship has finally paid off."
……
Not many days later, Changbai got married and Hai came into the family.
Hai's personality is gentle and generous, and her appearance is bright and dignified, which makes the elders in the Sheng family very satisfied.
Wang Ruofu wanted to establish her authority and set some rules in front of her daughter-in-law.
But when she tossed and turned that night, she couldn't help but wonder if she was using her daughter-in-law to vent her unrelieved self-esteem.
In this family, she doesn't actually have many rights.
Lin Qinshuang is the head of the household, and Old Lady Sheng is the face of the female family and the pillar of support. There aren't many things that she can be in charge of.
She...thinks this way, which is a bit inappropriate.