MTL - Chastity Layman-Chapter 1465 take oath
Chapter 1465 Taking the oath
"Kneel down!"
Qin Lang drew out his sword and ordered majestically.
Qin Cunxiao, known as the head of the Qin family's thirteen Taibao, knelt in front of Qin Lang on one knee, and the elders of the Luzon Advisory Group watched and witnessed.
Qin Lang held the sword, and tapped Qin Cunxiao's shoulders on both sides with the side of the sword.
"Gu, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty conferred the title of King of Lusong, please obtain the imperial power charter, and now Tweet entrusts Qin Cunxiao, the great general of Zuo Shenji, as Marquis of Xinzhangqiu.
Xinzhangqiu County, located in the southwest of Macheng Peninsula in the southeast of Luzon main island, belongs to Xinzhangqiu Island in Taixing Islands, one of the three major Luzon archipelagos.
New Zhangqiu Island is one of the top ten islands in the Taixing Islands, covering an area of 5,000 hectares.
Although the island is dominated by hills and mountains, there are now seven pioneer townships on the island, and the population is not bad. Qin Cunxiao himself had fiefdoms and manors on the island before, but now, Qin Lang bestowed the entire island to Qin Cunxiao as a The fief of their family.
Qin Lang held the sword and continued to read to Qin Cunxiao the land entrusted to him and the accompanying rights and obligations.
The fiefdoms owned by Qin Cunxiao and the manors he developed on the island are still privately owned by him, while the ownership of other lands owned by the Luzon government and the royal family remains unchanged. Likewise land ownership remains unchanged.
But the rest of the wasteland will all belong to Qin Cunxiao in the future, and the mountain forest land and mineral resources on the island will also belong to Qin Cunxiao.
In addition, as a feudal lord, Cunxiao also enjoys one-third of the island's tax revenue, whether it is his own or the land owned by the government, the king's or other immigrants, according to the Luzon tax law. The Song government paid taxes, and one-third of them were finally handed over to Cunxiao.
Cunxiao also obtained the title of Shifeng Xinzhangqiu County Magistrate, which means that he and his descendants have part of the administrative power, the right to assist in tax collection, and the right to hear general civil lawsuits, as well as part of the military power. .
According to the standard of one knight from five hundred acres of land, Qin Cunxiao is obliged to train so many knights from the King of Luzon (not necessarily cavalry, after all, Luzon's conditions are not suitable for training a large number of cavalry, nor suitable for large-scale cavalry operations). When the king conscripted, the Marquis of Xinzhangqiu was entrusted with the land, and he had to provide soldiers not exceeding their maximum strength according to the specifications, and even had to bring their own weapons, food and grass.
In addition, Qin Cunxiao, as Marquis of Xinzhangqiu, also has the power to grant grace to lower-level vassals and vassals. As a marquis, he can entrust vassals who do not exceed the rank of earl, but to entrust vassals, he must also entrust land.
Among them, the lowest vassals are knights. The minimum standard for conferring fiefdoms for a knight is 500 acres of land. It can be directly allocated 500 acres of land to the knight, or the tax collection right of 500 acres of land can be given to the knight. But as a sealed knight, you can inherit the title and land, but you must provide the corresponding knights and followers. For example, a knight fief is a standard five hundred acres of land, at least one fully armed cavalry or infantry must be provided, and then there must be at least two accompanying light infantry.
If the knights cannot provide standard weapons and equipment and accompanying soldiers, then the lord has the power to deprive them of their titles and take back their fiefs.
Qin Lang bestowed this island covering an area of 5,000 hectares to his righteous son Qin Cunxiao, allowing it to be hereditary, and even gave him the post of new Zhangqiu county magistrate, which was also allowed to be hereditary, which was tantamount to handing over administrative power to them.
And this part of the judicial power to hear civil lawsuits, plus part of the military power to have knights armed.
The power of this lord is still great.
You can also enjoy part of the right to tax, but you don’t have the legislative power. You have to abide by the various systems and regulations established by the King of Luzon, and you have to perform military service and pay taxes to the King of Luzon.
However, some powers such as hereditary territories are guaranteed. If they fulfill their obligations as vassals, the king has no right to deprive them of their fiefdoms at will.
For this article, the Luzon Academy of Knights is a guarantee, where all the nobles can jointly maintain the power and obligations between the king and the vassals.
Lord, this is a fiefdom with much greater power than before.
Qin Cunxiao didn't expect such a great power to be entrusted this time. He knelt on one knee and didn't even react for a long time.
Qin Lang has finished reading.
"Qin Cunxiao, are you willing to accept the title and fief granted to you by Gu, are you willing to accept the power and obligations between the king and the lord?"
Qin Cunxiao's children and grandchildren stood in the distance, watching this scene, all of them felt ups and downs.
This island is still very big. Now there are only seven pioneer townships and dozens of small villages, but there will definitely be a lot of development potential in the future, and gold and copper mines have been discovered on the island, even if these two mines have been They are mining, but this island is their fief, and they will be able to get one-third of the mining tax in the future, which is not a small number.
What's more, they can also find ore veins in the future and mine them by themselves, so their income will be higher.
One more thing, Qin Cunxiao can redistribute the island to his descendants and even retainers. In that way, other descendants of Qin Cunxiao's eldest son will also have the opportunity to get a share.
Even if it is a knight fief, whether it is directly giving 500 acres of land, or paying one-third of the 500 acres of land to oneself, that is not bad.
"My minister Qin Cunxiao thanked His Majesty the King!"
"Since you are willing to accept, then take an oath!"
Qin Lang made a book, but it is the three rites in the official Nine Classics, the three rites of Zhouli, Book of Rites and Yili are compiled together, and the three rites, Sanzhuan and Yishu poems are combined into the Nine Classics, which is the most popular book in the world today. Nine Confucian classics that Tang students must read.
Among them, the three rites record and preserve many etiquettes of the Zhou Dynasty. Among them, the Zhou rites emphasize the political system, the etiquette emphasizes the behavior norms, and the book of rites emphasizes the explanation and discussion of specific etiquette. The sum of the various etiquette systems involved in these three rites , which is the whole content of the ceremony.
Confucian rituals, hoping to make a formula for all generations, are for people living in different spaces and times. Therefore, rituals must have strict operating procedures, including the time and place of saluting, the candidates and costumes of the characters, standing posture, etc. The location, the rhetoric used, the route, the ritual utensils used, and the order of saluting, etc., are the etiquette.
In feudal society, etiquette is the most important.
Because etiquette is the foundation of society, and order is the origin of everything.
Without the law of etiquette, there will be no three cardinal principles and five ethics, and the patriarchal clan system, social system, and national political system will not be able to maintain.
Qin Lang chose the three rites as the book for the vassals to take the oath, which also expresses this deep meaning.
The re-enfeoffment of Luzon is to establish a brand-new political system, to educate the world through feudalism, to establish a class order, and to maintain the system of the Luzon Kingdom.
Qin Cunxiao took over the "Three Rituals" and held the "Three Rituals" to solemnly swear!
After taking the oath, the enfeoffment ceremony is completed.
Qin Cunxiao stood up, the man who was the head of the 13th Taibao of the Qin family, now he was suffering from injuries and illnesses, and his beard and hair were gray. He looked like a sick old man in his seventies. The golden mace, single-handedly took the head of a general among thousands of horses, known as the enemy of the Qin family.
His fierceness and ferocity are even higher than Qin Lang's. He is said to be the man closest to Qin Qiong. Now Qin Shisanlang, who is very famous in the Qin family, was actually trained by his righteous brother Qin Cunxiao. Yes, but there is still a huge difference from Cunxiao at the peak.
But at this moment, the wolf king on the battlefield had moist eyes.
"Grandpa treats you too much!"
"Big head, you deserve this." Qin Lang patted his 70-year-old adoptive son, "You are my first son!"
Sixteen-year-old Qin Lang adopted Cun Xiao as his adoptive son, becoming a father for the first time. This is indeed a very special feeling and memory, so at Qin Lang's entrustment ceremony today, he specially chose Cun Xiao as the first recipient. seal up.
Qin Jun is Qin Lang's biological eldest son, but Cun Xiao is Qin Lang's first son.
Next, Qin Lang conferred several foster sons.
The order of his conferred titles is basically not based on his concubines, nor his biological adoptions, but in the order of adoption and birth, regardless of whether his biological or adopted, whoever comes to the Qin family first will be conferred first. seal up.
This move made Cunyi and other foster sons very excited. They didn't mean to compete with Qin Lang's biological sons, but they felt that in the mind of the adoptive father, although they changed their surname to Qin, after all, People who have no blood relationship with the Qin family can still be favored by Qin Lang, this feeling is what excites them the most.
Old Huang, Qin Yong, and Qin Yong are Qin Lang's elders. They are all over a hundred years old at this time. They are all holding crutches, and their bodies are a little weak, but they still hold on to their spirits.
"These little **** are so worthless, and they are still crying, shame on you." The old horse head A Huang said with a curled lip.
The silver-faced Wei Tuo now has a silver face with a dry old face full of gullies, and his eyes are cloudy. Looking at the scene of entrustment, he seems to think of the time when he and Mr. Sledgehammer worshiped Qin Qiong as their adoptive father and fought with Qin Qiong. The eventful years.
"It's a pity that King Zhongwu can't see these."
Master Sledgehammer was leaning on crutches, and his teeth had long since fallen out, "We're going to see King Zhongwu soon, and we'll talk to Grandpa personally when the time comes."
Old Huang said, "King Zhongwu is now the sage emperor who governs the nine heavens of the Milky Way. We are afraid that we will go to the Underworld after death, and we are afraid that we will not see King Zhongwu."
Qin Yong laughed and said, "I, Qin Yong, have been upright all my life. After I die, I will definitely go to the Heavenly Palace to meet the King Zhongwu. But you, Old Huang, did all the bad things when you were a horse bandit. * People, even cannibals, were subdued by King Zhongwu and worked as grooms for a few years, but later came to southern Xinjiang with Saburo, but resumed their old jobs, conquering Lingnan and conquering the barbarians. Ah, even now that I am over a hundred years old, I still have to take several young and charming women as concubines every year, and for doing so many sins, I am sure that I will go to hell."
Old Huang disagreed.
"Anyway, I am not the adopted son of King Zhongwu. I still sometimes dream in the middle of the night how King Zhongwu raided my camp, single-handedly picked off my god-brother, and knocked me off the horse with the last blow. Well, it doesn’t matter if you don’t go to Tiangong, even if you go to Jiuquan Youming, my old Huang will just recruit those horse thieves from back then, and try to grab a palace of Hades as well, hehe.”
"Qin Jun, are you willing to accept the conferment of Gu Zhi, and are you willing to swear allegiance to me?"
King Dongsheng, Shifeng Governor of Dongsheng Mansion Qin Jun knelt on the ground on one knee, raised his head, and replied loudly, "I am willing!"
(end of this chapter)
