Chapter 1182 The Emperor's Heat
As the father-in-law and mother-in-law came to the door together, Chen Xu naturally had to entertain him well, so he quickly asked the kitchen to prepare a sumptuous lunch. At the same time, he also asked someone to take out the tea leaves he had just delivered and brewed it again, and chatted with Meng Yi, who was holding his granddaughter and reluctant to let go.
"Have you ever named your granddaughter?" Meng Yi kept talking to his granddaughter for three words, and suddenly asked after less than half a cup of tea.
"It's not yet. According to common sense, it is usually only after a hundred-day wedding banquet. The Si Niang was born for only three days, so the son-in-law hasn't thought about it yet!" Chen Xu said with laughter and cry.
"A name for a hundred days is an ordinary person. My granddaughter is a fairy descending to the earth. How can I follow the common etiquette? The earlier the name, the better. This is auspicious!" Meng Yi said with his eyes that were big with cow eyes, and then he turned his head, "Son-in-law, I have thought of a name for my granddaughter..."
"Dad!" Meng Wan, who was sitting next to her, interrupted Meng Yi's words with dissatisfaction.
As the daughter of the Chen family, Chen Xu naturally should have this name himself. Although there is no regulation that grandfather is not allowed to name his grandson, what should I do if it is not nice? Even if my husband doesn't like his daughter in the future, what should I do if he ignores his daughter in the future? Meng Wan was very worried that his father's random intervention would lead to a reduction in his status in the Chen family. It was already awful enough to have a daughter.
"Husband, let the son-in-law choose the name himself. Don't be troublesome!" Meng Yi's increasingly excessive behavior made his wife unable to bear it.
"Women's opinion, how is this a turbulent thing? How can I not name my granddaughter..." Although Meng Yi said it was tough, his daughter and his wife's face of hatred against each other, his voice finally softened, "Okay, you can choose the name of a virtuous son-in-law yourself, but the sooner the better. This matter cannot be delayed. Famous masters have good fortune. Only when you have a reputation have a foundation and get noble. It is not a lowly people in the mountains and fields..."
Seeing that his father-in-law raised the importance of naming to such an important level, Chen Xu could only nodded quickly: "Don't worry, my father-in-law, I will think about it carefully in the past two days and give Si Niang a good name!"
"It will take a few days to go. Today I have to think about it. Otherwise, I don't know the name of my granddaughter yet. Wouldn't it be a joke if it is spread out?" Meng Yi's eyes glared and went crazy again.
"Husband, Doctor Meng is right. You can choose the name of Sanniang and Si Niang earlier, don't take into account the ordinary etiquette!" Shui Qingrou also spoke softly next to her.
Meng Wan and Ying Shiman also looked at Chen Xu with anticipation at the same time.
Well, Chen Xu also felt that his daughter was indeed different from ordinary mountain village men. It was very necessary to choose a name in advance to suppress the luck of life. So he put down the teacup and grabbed a few sparse beards on his chin and began to ponder.
The first daughter was born, and the name made Chen Xu very excited and troubled. He spent hundreds of thousands of brain cells to think of the word Xi. But when he was the second daughter, he found that he had some experience in naming the name. Although the word Qiuyue was very ordinary, it was still very suitable and meaningful, and it also gained recognition from many people. After the second daughter named Qiuyue, it has been circulated everywhere among the people that followed Qiuyue to name his daughter, just to use Qinghehou’s reputation as a fairy family.
Ying Shimansheng's second daughter was not yet full of a month, and her name was still not taken. Therefore, Shui Qingrou reminded her to name her together and not to favor one or the other.
"Sanniang was born at the end of January. She gently calculated that the five elements were missing from the time. It happened that the earth was in spring and the grass and trees were fragrant, so I took the word "花六博"!" Chen Xu said after pondering for a moment.
"Fangfei, the name Sanniang sounds nice!" Shui Qingrou smiled and said.
"Thank you, my husband, for giving Sanniang a name!" Ying Shiman's nervous face softened instantly, and she happily hugged her daughter to salute Chen Xu.
"Congratulations to Madam, Sanniang will have a name in the future!" A group of maids smiled and congratulated Ying Shiman.
"Chen Fangfei, this name is indeed good. Not only is it suitable for the times, but the plants and trees are also considered to be the complement of the five elements!" Meng Yi twisted his beard and pondered for a while, nodded repeatedly, and then looked at his granddaughter in his arms. "How can I get the name of my granddaughter?"
"Si Niang was born in mid-spring, and it is estimated that the five elements lack fire. Moreover, Si Niang was born at the beginning of the morning at Mao. It was just dawn. The top of Taiyi Mountain was filled with smoke and radiating clouds. If there was a fairy light coming, it was really rare to see the scenery. Therefore, it was named Yanxia. I wonder what Wan'er and his father-in-law thought?"
"Yanxia... with smoke and spitting clouds, if there is a fairy light coming... Okay, haha, okay, the name of my granddaughter does have the aura of a fairy family. I am very satisfied!" Meng Yi pondered slightly and smiled happily. After a moment, he looked at Chen Xu with satisfaction and said, "Yes, the son-in-law has the talent for naming. The names of the daughters in the house are different. It seems that I want you to have a good sense of naming!"
Chen Xu:...
It turns out that he is an extremely shameless old hooligan. I am a compliment to me. His face is probably about the same thick as the city walls in Xianyang.
"Puchi~~" Looking at Chen Xu's astonished expression, Shui Qingrou and Ying Shiman couldn't help but cover their mouths and sneer the flowers trembled.
"Dad, you still want..." Meng Wan was angrily ready to say bad things about her father, but her mother pinched her back.
"Report, Marquis, a palace servant came to pass the order!"
Just as everyone in the room was holding her cheeks flushed and they were burying Meng Yi in their hearts, the guards rushed to report again.
"Haha, it seems that I am still running one step faster than His Majesty. Why is the virtuous son-in-law in a daze and not going to greet the messenger!" Meng Yi smiled and handed the baby in his arms to his wife, then stood up to urge him.
The emperor's envoy sent an order, so naturally he could not be as casual as welcoming Meng Yi. Therefore, Shui Qingrou Ying Shiman, Meng Wan and others all stood up to tidy up their clothes, and then went out to greet them together.
Without guessing, the emperor must have heard the legend of the Seven Fairies and came to take advantage of the popularity.
Soon, Chen Xu met the envoy from the palace at the gate of Qinghe Villa. The palace servants read out the emperor's edict. The content was indeed to praise the young master's family for being blessed by the immortals. The fairy descended to earth and reincarnated into the Chen family. In the future, they would definitely protect the prosperity and stability of the Qin Dynasty. Therefore, they not only verbally praised it, but also gave the same number of silk brocades, regardless of the legitimate and illegitimate illusions. The most amazing thing is that each daughter was given a fief of 300 households.
"Mr. Marquis, your Majesty reminds you that if the weather is warm and the scenery of the pink and green willows in the Imperial Garden is just right today, I will definitely ask you to take a few fairies to the palace to play. Please take the imperial edict and let the subordinates return to the palace to serve!" After the palace maid finished promulgating the edict, he rolled the imperial edict and stuffed it into Chen Xu's hand in a daze.
"Oh, okay, come here, send the messenger!" Chen Xu came back to his senses and raised his hand to call the butler. The butler took out a handful of purple Tai Chi Tongbao and stuffed it into the hands of the palace servant, and then sent the palace servant who was smiling from ear to ear to the carriage and left.
"What does Your Majesty mean? It's fine to reward silk, gold and silver, but also to grant food fiefs?" Even Meng Yi was well-informed and had a lot of knowledge about this matter.
From ancient times to the present, there has never been a precedent for a woman to enfeoff her fief.
Because the fiefs of the ranks must be given, and they are also titles above the throne of the Duke and the Doctor. Although the fiefs of the 300 households are the lowest standard, they have entered the ranks of real nobles. The titles below the seventh level are only corn and land, and these are all allocated by the imperial court. There are no more, and it is often the case. However, with fiefs, they are basically the landlord class.
The landlord class belongs to the ruling class during the feudal rule.
I am not panicked when I have food in my hands. The Chinese feudal rule for more than two thousand years is that the most serious contradiction is that the contradiction between the poor peasants and the landlord class is the most acute. In fact, the fiefs of the fiefs are concentrated in the hands of the nobles. A large number of farmers lose their land and finally form hired farmers and tenants. In the end, the self-cultivated farmers become exploited classes, which leads to social turmoil.
However, the Qin Dynasty was somewhat different from the feudal rule in later generations. The Qin Dynasty's laws protected the private ownership of farmers' land, and the peasants who had enfeoffed fiefs did not lose their land. They just handed over the grain tax to the fief owners. The only loss was the court tax, which actually had no impact on the farmers.
It is precisely this kind of rewarding title enfeoffment that made the Qin army's combat effectiveness explode, and they all killed the six countries like red-eye disease. However, after the war, Qin Shihuang found that the country's land was not enough and food was not enough, because once the feudal was divided, the country's tax revenue was almost reduced by half, so he was reluctant to fulfill the rewards of military titles, which gradually caused the morale of the army to be a little out of control. When the Qin Dynasty collapsed, the Qin army basically did not have much combat power.
However, after Chen Xu's reform, it is different. The promotion of iron farm tools and new farming methods has greatly improved the productivity of the land. The release of millions of surrendered soldiers in the six countries has also added a million strong main labor force to the Qin Dynasty. In addition, it has continuously streamlined the army, dismissed and resettled generals through special terms, replaced feudal policies such as positions and salary, etc., so that the rewards that were almost impossible to be fulfilled at the beginning can be quickly discounted. Therefore, all the abolition generals and soldiers willingly obeyed the arrangements of the court.
Therefore, by now, the Qin Dynasty has almost perfect solutions to fulfill its military merits. Now the taxes in the court are getting more and more abundant, and the emperor is becoming more and more generous. The rewards are all about money and grain, and basically no longer have much fiefs, unless it is some high-ranking and very special contributions.
For example, Chen Xu tamed those Dayuan BMWs a few days ago, which made the emperor's face greatly. He was happy to reward one thousand households with fiefs. But today, for an inexplicable rumor, he actually awarded three hundred households with fiefs to each of Chen Xu's daughters.
This news not only made Meng Yi's mind full of confusion, but Chen Xu was also confused.
"Son-in-law, what do you mean by Your Majesty?" While eating, facing the delicious food on the table, Meng Yi was still considering this problem that confused him. He felt unpleasant to eat and drink.
"I don't know why. I think your Majesty wants to express his mercy on the son-in-law's future, and he is afraid that I can't afford to raise him!" Chen Xu explained while eating and drinking.
"Fuck, how much can my granddaughter eat? Do you know how many people the 300 households need to support!" Meng Yi browed.
"Dad, you are here again!" Meng Wan put down the spoon with laughter and cry.
"Then I don't know. The 300 households have a fief and don't know where the ban is. My father-in-law is so worried. Come on, my father-in-law, please drink a cup!" Chen Xu raised his glass indifferently.
Chapter completed!