Chapter 543: First-class Marquis, Hereditary

We stayed in Jinhaiwei for two days, mainly to unload gold and silver. Boxes of gold and silver were unloaded from the ship and loaded onto the carriage. When Yang Zhengshan left Jinhaiwei, he was followed by more than 200 carts of gold and silver.

There were no accidents on the way to Beijing, but when he entered the gate of Kyoto, many officials from the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War came to greet him.

"Welcome to Beijing, my lord!"

The officials happily welcomed Yang Zhengshan.

They were naturally happy.

The Ministry of War would definitely have the credit for the victory.

And Yang Zhengshan brought back so much gold and silver, the Ministry of Revenue would naturally stare at it eagerly.

However, Yang Zhengshan was too lazy to say more to these people. After a few simple polite words, he said: "I still have to go to the palace to see the emperor. After I discuss with His Majesty, I will deal with other things!"

"Yes, my lord, please!"

The officials had no objection and hurriedly welcomed Yang Zhengshan into the city.

When Yang Zhengshan entered the city, many people in the city also came to watch the excitement. They heard that the court had won another victory and that Jing'an Hou had seized a lot of gold and silver. They all came to watch happily.

Looking at the carts of wooden boxes, the people talked about it, guessing how much gold and silver were in the boxes.

Yang Zhengshan rode forward and couldn't help but smile when he heard their discussions.

He brought back so much gold and silver that it would really scare many people.

And the spoils seized this time were even more huge.

No matter how poor Xingyuemen was, it was still a big force and a hegemonic existence in the southeastern sea area.

Maybe they didn't have much cash, but they had a lot of various materials in reserve.

In addition, Yang Zhengshan also wiped out dozens of pirates, and each pirate contributed tens of thousands of taels of silver, which was also millions of silver.

There were also the fifteen surnames of Xingyuemen. Xingyuemen had no money, but it didn't mean that these clans had no money. They also paid attention to the distinction between public and private.

Arriving in front of the Meridian Gate, Yang Zhengshan asked the escorting soldiers to wait on the street, and then took Xue Changan, Deng Yuehe, Wang Mingjian and Li Chengzhang into the imperial city.

As for the others, the four sea fleets had not been disbanded, including the Tenglong Vanguard, who were still in Zhaowu Guard. Xue Changan and Jinhai Guard took advantage of the fact that their base was close to Kyoto, so they had the opportunity to follow them into Beijing.

And An Yuxing and other innate warriors, they also came back, but they disappeared after arriving at Jinhai Guard.

Yang Zhengshan couldn't control a group of innate warriors.

When they went out to sea to fight, Yang Zhengshan could still command them, but now that the war was over, they didn't listen to Yang Zhengshan's command.

There was no way, he was an old senior.

In the side hall of Taiji Hall, Emperor Yanping had summoned a group of important officials to wait for Yang Zhengshan.

"Your Majesty, I, Yang Zhengshan, greet you and wish you a happy and peaceful life!"

Yang Zhengshan took Xue Changan and others into the hall to pay homage.

Emperor Yanping smiled, "Marquis Jing'an has worked hard! Haha, please don't be polite!"

Yang Zhengshan stood up and took out the account book, "Your Majesty, this is the property seized from the expedition against Xingyuemen, including 123,000 taels of gold, 3,480,000 taels of silver, 83,000 strings of copper coins, 189,000 strings of inferior coins, 84,000 kilograms of various medicinal materials, more than 104,000 pieces of weapons and armor, copper ingots, iron ingots, wood, grain, silk and other items, please have a look!"

The gold and silver in the warehouse of Xingyuemen is only a small part of the seizure this time. In fact, the bulk of it is in the mansions of the fifteen surnames of Xingyuemen.

Xingyuemen has been passed down for hundreds of years, and the accumulated wealth is actually in the mansions of the fifteen surnames. On the contrary, there is only a small part of the property inside Xingyuemen.

Among all the seized property, Yang Zhengshan not only took out 50,000 taels of gold and 1 million taels of silver to reward the soldiers, but also left some money and food for Luo Jinsong.

In addition, he also embezzled about two million taels of gold and silver, as well as many precious items.

Originally, he planned to take less, but there were too many things and he couldn't control his hands.

Today, a shipload of property was shipped, and he picked and chose some. Tomorrow, several ships of property were shipped, and he picked and chose some more. After more than a month, the hillside in the Lingquan space was already full of messy things.

The most important thing is that Yang Zhengshan took away good things, such as the Jade Dew Spirit Peach, which is worth a lot of money.

There are also precious medicines. Yang Zhengshan harvested dozens of precious medicines that he had never had before, and twelve of them can be cultivated in the Lingquan space.

This wave of Yang Zhengshan is considered to be a big profit, and of course, Darong also made a lot of money.

Hearing the amount reported by Yang Zhengshan, everyone in the hall was shocked.

Including Xue Changan, he was also shocked.

Although these things were transported back by the Jinhaiwei ship, the soldiers of Tenglong Vanguard were actually responsible for the transportation. After the things were loaded on the ship, they were sealed. Xue Changan and the soldiers of Jinhaiwei had no idea how much stuff was in it.

The only ones who were not shocked were probably Wang Mingjian and Li Chengzhang, because they knew more about the background of Xingyuemen, and at the same time, their two families also contributed a lot of these gold and silver treasures.

Yang Zhengshan was very generous and left them a lot of property, but most of their property became the spoils of Darong.

Zhang Mingzhong came over and took the account book and handed it to Emperor Yanping. Emperor Yanping looked at the contents of the account book and smiled happily.

"Good, good! Marquis Jing'an is loyal and brave, I will reward Marquis Jing'an well!"

Emperor Yanping looked at Yang Zhengshan with a smile, as if he was looking at his beloved lover, which made Yang Zhengshan a little embarrassed.

Your Majesty, that's enough. We don't like this!

"Mingzhong, announce the decree!"

Emperor Yanping said.

Zhang Mingzhong, who was standing by, immediately took the imperial edict and read it out: "The Emperor of Fengtian Chengyun decreed that I heard that Yang Zhengshan, Marquis of Jing'an, praised the virtuous and rewarded the most talented. He was virtuous and gracious, kept his integrity and took advantage of friendship to ensure the safety of the country. I highly praise him. You are successively conferred the title of the first-class Marquis of Jing'an, and are granted the title of red book and iron certificate. The title will be inherited from generation to generation without change, and you will live and die with the country..."

Yang Zhengshan was a little surprised when he heard the content of the imperial edict.

It is nothing for a third-class marquis to be promoted to the first-class marquis. It is a matter of time.

It is nothing to grant the title of red book and iron certificate. In fact, the red book and iron certificate are not very useful, and the symbolic significance is greater.

The only thing that is surprising is that it is inherited without change!

This means that the Yang family will be the first-class marquis of Da Rong for generations to come, and they will live and die with the country.

Of course, it is still difficult to rest with the country. At the beginning of the founding of the dynasty, Emperor Taizu of Darong had conferred 18 hereditary marquises, but now only the Changping Marquis family remains.

So it is enough to listen to the idea of ​​resting with the country, and never take it to heart. If you make the emperor unhappy one day, you will still be deprived of your title and beheaded.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward!"

Yang Zhengshan thanked him.

"Hahaha~~" Emperor Yanping was really happy, walked to the stone steps, and came to Yang Zhengshan, "My dear ministers, please go away first, I still have something to talk with you!"

As he said that, he actually pulled Yang Zhengshan out of the side hall.

Yang Zhengshan turned around and winked at Xue Changan, and Xue Changan took Deng Yuehe and the other two out of the Taiji Hall.

Arriving at the imperial study, Emperor Yanping casually asked Yang Zhengshan to sit down, and then the two chatted while drinking tea.

Yang Zhengshan roughly described the process of conquering Xingyuemen. After listening to it, Emperor Yanping asked, "How does Marquis Jing'an think Deng Yuehe and others should be dealt with?"

Yang Zhengshan took out another memorial from his sleeve, "Your Majesty, these are some of my ideas and suggestions, please take a look!"

Emperor Yanping took the memorial and started to read it.

He had submitted a memorial before, proposing how to deal with Deng Yuehe and others.

In fact, Yang Zhengshan's idea was to split the Lu family, Wang family and Li family, and then distribute them to the nine navies.

But in addition to these, Yang Zhengshan proposed to establish four major navies in this memorial.

The original four navies were split into the North Sea Navy, the East Sea Navy, the South Sea Navy and the Jiujiang Navy.

The North Sea Navy is mainly composed of the Tenglong Vanguard, and the Tenglong Left and Right Back Three Guards are included in it, so that all the four Tenglong Guards have become navy.

The East Sea Navy is mainly composed of the Haizhou Left Guard, and the Jiujiang Back Guard is included in it, and then two guards are selected to make up the four guards.

The South China Sea Navy is mainly composed of Leizhou Guard and Quanhai Guard, plus Zhaowu Guard and one selected guard to make up the four guards.

The Jiujiang Navy is composed of the remaining four guards of the Jiujiang Five Guards.

In this way, the four navies, each with about 20,000 soldiers, can protect the stability of one sea area or inland river.

Of course, Yang Zhengshan has selfish motives for making such a proposal. The establishment of the Tenglong Vanguard has restricted the development of the Tenglong Navy. If the other three guards are also pulled in, the strength of the Tenglong Navy can be increased several times in a short time. In this way, the Tenglong Navy has enough troops to deter the Liaohai, East China Sea and Southeast Sea of ​​​​Da Rong.

As for why there is no Jinhai Guard, because the station of Jinhai Guard is near Kyoto, it is a navy specially established to protect the eastern coast of Kyoto, so Jinhai Guard needs to be retained and cannot be easily transferred.

After reading the memorial, Emperor Yanping thought for a moment and said, "It will cost a lot of money to build three powerful navies!"

Yang Zhengshan said, "Your Majesty, the cost of the navy can be fully compensated by the taxes collected by the Maritime Customs. The navy can not only deter pirates, but also crack down on private smuggling trade and increase the taxes collected by the Maritime Customs."

"Take the Tenglong Navy as an example. The reason why the maritime trade in the Liaohai Sea area can develop is because they escort merchant ships. Similarly, the taxes collected by the Liaoan Maritime Customs are so high because they guarantee that there are no smuggled merchant ships and cargo ships in the Liaohai Sea area!"

Emperor Yanping nodded slightly, "I will submit your proposal to the cabinet and the Ministry of War for discussion. If they have no objection, it can be implemented!"

In fact, Emperor Yanping has already agreed with Yang Zhengshan's proposal, but this involves the adjustment of many guards, so Emperor Yanping needs to consider it carefully.

"Your Majesty is wise!" Yang Zhengshan praised.

...

It was almost dusk when Yang Zhengshan came out of the imperial city.

The convoy in front of the Meridian Gate had already left and was taken away by the people of the Imperial Commercial Department.

Why the Imperial Commercial Department?

Because if the silver money went into the Imperial Commercial Department, Emperor Yanping could get 30% of the treasury, but if it went into the Ministry of Revenue, Emperor Yanping would not get a penny of silver.

When the money and grain were allocated to the Four Seas Navy, Emperor Yanping took out a lot of silver from the treasury, and now he naturally had to take it back with interest.

And Deng Yuehe and his people also left, and the court would naturally arrange their food and accommodation, and also reward them.

These things have little to do with Yang Zhengshan.

The matter of conquering Xingyuemen has ended, and the Zongli Yamen of the Four Seas Navy should be abolished. The rest of the things basically do not need Yang Zhengshan to intervene.

Yang Zhengshan does not want to intervene, because there are many troubles.

With so much money and valuables, all the ministries and government offices would definitely fight for it. I guess the cabinet would also fight for it, and Emperor Yanping would also fight for it. Now Emperor Yanping is very greedy for money and would try every possible way to get money into his own treasury.

Yang Zhengshan had already received what he was supposed to receive, and the rewards he was supposed to receive, so he planned to keep a low profile during this period and not get involved in the struggles in the court.

When Yang Zhengshan returned to the Marquis' Mansion, Yu Qingyi had already prepared a family dinner for him.

In the evening, the whole family had a lively family dinner.

This was really a big family, with four tables full of people.

Including Jiang He's family of six, Liang Jinyan's family of five, Lin Zhan was not in Kyoto, but Lin Zhengshi came with her three children.

There were also Wang Mingzhe's family of three, Lu Wenyuan's family of five, and An Chenhui.

A group of children were playing in the yard, the adults were chatting in the hall, and the whole family was sitting together happily.

The family dinner ended at 11 pm, and after everyone dispersed, Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi returned to the back hall.

Qingxia brought tea, and Yang Zhengshan relaxed on the Luohan bed, while Yu Qingyi read the imperial edict over and over again.

"Haven't you seen enough?" Yang Zhengshan smiled at her.

"I will be the wife of the first-class marquis in the future!" Yu Qingyi said happily.

Yang Zhengshan didn't have much feeling for the first-class marquis. In his eyes, the first-class marquis and the third-class marquis were the same. He didn't care much about the hereditary title.

But Yu Qingyi liked these very much. This was related to her background. She came from the underworld, so she naturally valued these empty titles more than Yang Zhengshan.

"When is Wanqing's wedding date?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

He had been away from Kyoto for half a year, and Yang Wanqing's marriage should have gone through the procedures.

"April 18! I deliberately set the date a little later, just to wait for you to come back!" Yu Qingyi said.

Yang Zhengshan's mouth curled up slightly, "Xingguogong is not in a hurry?"

"Hehe, how can I not be in a hurry? Xingguogong wanted to get married before the New Year, and I have been dragging it until now!" Yu Qingyi laughed.

"You are right. Wanqing is getting married, and I must personally send her off!" Yang Zhengshan said.

The Xingguo Mansion is in Nanjiang Town, so the wedding must be held in Nanjiang Town. Yang Zhengshan will definitely go to Nanjiang Town in person.

He wants to go to Nanjiang Town to take a look, and at the same time, he also wants to support his granddaughter, so that Wanqing will not be bullied by her husband's family in the future.

Yu Qingyi looked at Yang Zhengshan with beautiful eyebrows and smiled, "I know you want to send Wanqing off!"

"Well, your cultivation has not broken through yet?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

"It's still a little short, I always feel that it's a little short, but I don't know what it's short of!"

Speaking of cultivation, Yu Qingyi was a little depressed.

Yang Zhengshan reached out and took out a jade box, "Eat this!"