Edo Traveler

v12 Chapter 65: And the story of the previous generation

Three to three!

Chuemon is a general, so of course he can make a final decision and force this matter forward. But now that the new regime is established, a great situation of stability and unity will be formed. It is always inappropriate to break this situation suddenly.

After Ooka Chugu's voice fell, the hall fell into an indescribable silence. Only the sound of everyone's breathing seemed so clear and heavy.

"Everyone, everyone, why don't you take a step back? Okay?"

After being quiet for a while, Zhu Liu saw that the scene was too deserted, so he took the initiative to speak. Although he is a confidant of Chuemon, a good brother of iron, we grew up together for 16 years. However, in the Makuge, not only is the status lower than that of the older Oka Tadashi or Matsudaira Qimin, but even lower than the ranking defined by Shimadzu.

In the usual imperial meetings, Suke Liu generally served as the so-called "curtain-picking military aircraft". That is, in the next door with the Qing military aircraft, the military aircraft minister (or walking in the military aircraft) who did not exist.

That's right, it's Durham. Because his father Du Shoutian assisted Emperor Xianfeng to ascend the throne, and then died of illness not long after Xianfeng ascended the throne. Therefore, Emperor Xianfeng deeply loved and mourned his Master Du. In addition to the posthumous title of "Wenzheng", it was also given to the "Taishi Grand Scholar". Anyway, all the honors of the Manchu officials, except for their share, were basically accounted for.

Due to his father's grace, Du Han miraculously was promoted to the minister of the Ministry of Personnel in just 14 months, serving as the minister of military and aircraft, and was then appointed as one of the eight ministers of Gu Ming.

Purely relying on his father, he actually also made a military aircraft. People of that time laughed and called him a "military plane with a curtain", secretly saying that he did not have much talent, and even if he entered the military plane, he did not have great power.

Sukeroku's situation is somewhat different from his, but the main reason for entering the Makue is indeed that he is very close to Chuemon. Those who come up by grace are naturally ranked lower. Of course, when Assistant Six slowly takes power, the ranking may change.

In the past, when he spoke, maybe not everyone listened. But now that the situation is deserted, you might as well listen to what he has to say.

"Maybe I can avoid kneeling as one of the favors, and follow the story of the former Han, who did not follow the court, but walked up to the palace with swords, and praised and praised." that group of people.

Naturally, he knew a lot about Chinese and foreign allusions, ancient and modern news. It is precisely because I read a lot that I can see things so clearly.

"Details." Songping Qi Xuan finally spoke.

"For example, if you have a first-class military merit, you can be given a chance to be promoted to the hall and be exempted from worship. Also, for example, the old and middle-aged, the old and the virtuous, you will be given the reward of being exempted from worship." Zhu Liujian everyone looked at him, but he was also generous and got up with everyone. Talk about it.

As soon as he said what he meant, it was clear that Chuemon's idea was to directly abolish the ceremony of kneeling on a large scale. Continue to use it only on some special occasions, and keep it. The rest, even if the minister sees the general, only needs to bow.

But now, because of the great resistance to doing so, there are only three senior middle school members who hold clear objections in the curtain wall. Pushing it forcibly is not beautiful. Then we might as well take it step by step and deal with this matter in a silent and moisturizing way.

Changed "no kneeling" into a reward. The soldiers of the training team fought outside and made military achievements, in addition to being promoted to non-commissioned officers, or rewarding family members, and rewarding money. It is also possible to make him meet the general in a Western-style military worship, instead of the cumbersome kneeling and kowtow in front of Chuemon. Gu Yang

A very standard reward, a manifestation of grace!

Like the stories of the former Han Dynasty, it is more appropriate to award military merit. No one can say no, this is a precedent for the Han Dynasty. As long as there are precedents for feudal dynasties, it can be said that the ancestors formed the law, and it can be successfully implemented at once. I don’t know how many times.

In addition to making military achievements, you can also be like the one next door with Qing. For civil and military ministers over the age of 60, the qualification of "riding the Forbidden City" is granted. Although it is said that the Forbidden City is riding a horse, it is generally impossible for ministers to actually ride a horse. After all, horses are just animals, and there may be cases of disobedience.

If you bump into a noble or something in the palace, it will be troublesome. Therefore, the "Forbidden City horseback riding" with Qing is actually just riding a sliding pole carried by two people and entering the palace all the way.

Afterwards, Li Hongzhang and others had this kind of treatment. Not only because of their meritorious service for the country, but also because they are old and inconvenient to move. If they walked all the way from outside the palace to the Qianqing Palace, especially if it was still three o'clock in the morning, in the freezing cold wind of the capital in winter, it was estimated that within three days, more than half of the old ministers would fall down.

The shogunate can also imitate this so-called reward treatment and give older shogunate ministers the qualifications to see the emperor exempt from worship. In the future, there will be no need to drag an old cold leg and limping to kowtow to Chuemon.

"Hmm..." Zu Liu's suggestion made everyone think deeply.

"It seems that the shogunate also has such a precedent..." Songping Qixuan thought for a while, and helped.

"Oh?" Songping Qimin looked at his own younger brother.

"When the shogunate of the previous generation was there, there was a saying that the ministers would not be worshipped."

Who said it? Naturally, it was Narita Nagata who was beaten by Kenshin Uesugi in various forged military records in the Edo period. This big countryman, one of the seven Musashi parties, had his ancestors mixed with Taro Yoshiya Hachiman, and received the reward of not bowing to the king.

So at the ceremony of Uesugi Kenshin's inauguration as Kanto's leader, he didn't give Uesugi Kenshin any face at all, he sat high on the horse and looked at Uesugi Kenshin. Then he was dragged down by Uesugi Kenshin, beating and scolding.

The authenticity of the matter will not be discussed for the time being, but since there is such a thing, then if you want to come to the previous shogunate, there is also such a precedent. Today, although it is said to be the Edo shogunate, and the Miao character of the general is also Tokugawa, the clan has always been the Genji.

For the three shogunates, all the elders of the Genji served as generals. In a sense, the old Yuan family has always been in charge of the world. Tokugawa Ieyasu also recognized Genji as his ancestor and inherited the foundation of the old Genji family. The previous generation was able to confer such privileges on his subjects, and the current generation's Chuemon, naturally, also has the power to be bestowed.

"So that's the case..." Songping Qimin's complexion changed greatly after he changed his words for the same thing.

It turns out that the ancestors of our Laoyuan family had such a saying, and the Han Dynasty next door also had such a precedent. There are precedents, right? That shows that the ancestors also thought it was good and good to do so. The ancestors have said it, it must be really good.

(Thanks to readers Dajiangdong for the suggestion of going to Lang Silent! Thanks!)