Those who came with Li Yan were indeed Shi Tianze, Zhang Rong, Zhang Rou, Dong Wenmo, and several other envoys from the Hanhou family in the northern region with a smaller influence. ☆→ However, the Xiao family on Shanxi Road, the Yelu family on Xuande Road, the Wang family on Gongchang and Liu Heima from Shaanxi did not send anyone to attend the wedding of Chen Dexing and Zhao Liner.

The Han Hou in the Northern Land seemed to have differentiated at this time. Some people stood on the side of Li Yu, while the other people chose Kublai Khan!

And Li Yan's arrival seemed to be a signal. For the following period, ships arrived almost every day.

Zhao Kui of Jiankang Mansion sent his grandson to bring generous gifts, Cheng Dayuan, Yangzhou and Li He from Zhenzhou came in person, Xiagui from Huaixi sent his brother Xia Bao, Gao Dada from Xiangyang sent his godson Gao Degong, Lu Shihu, the representative of the Lu family, also brought a generous gift of 300 soldiers, Yu Xing, the governor of Yizhou, sent his son Yu Dabao, and Yang Wen from Bozhou to send his clan brother Yang Zhengnan who had a relationship with Chen Dexing. As for Liu Zheng, Zhang Jue, Zhang Sheng and other town lords, they also sent their children from the clan to come. Even the Southern Song court in Lin'an also came to watch the ceremony with Wen Tianxiang and Wang Yan.

These visitors were not alone. Most of them brought guard Yuan Sui, and the most were Li Yu, including the navy paddlers. They brought 5,000 people. Chen Dexing and Zhao Liner's wedding was also Li Cuixian! Of course, Li Yu had to bring more people to boost his daughter's momentum. The rest of the families were 200, 300, and there were 50,000 or more. All of them were added together, including Li Yu's people!

There was no place to station in the vast Jianghua Island City, and tents were set up outside the city. Representatives from more than a dozen towns from the Southern Dynasty all raised the banner. The colorful and lively. However, only the Yidu Li family publicly launched the Red Coat Army flag - not the Yidu Provincial Minister, but the Red Coat Army commander Li Yan!

When you see such a banner, people from all over the north and the south are still unknown?

The Han Marquis, who had the most soldiers in the north, Li Ju, Yidu, was determined to fight against Mongolia! The war in the north will soon escalate!

However, what surprised them was that Chen Dexing did not immediately hold any alliance with the envoys of all heroes, but was busy handling another seemingly insignificant thing - Feng Shi!

And it was not that the matter was sealed quietly, but that the ceremony was held with great fanfare. Representatives from all walks of life could go to the scene to watch the ceremony. Sometimes, there were also civil and military officials from the Goryeo Kingdom to see it.

...

Jianghua Island City. Outside the suburbs.

The flag was waving. In a large open space, there was a tiger like a forest.

About seven or eight thousand soldiers of the Northern Expedition Army, wearing felt hats and neat red battle jackets, Su Li, without saying a word, set up twelve brigade square formations and thirty-six battalions square formations, forming a perfect lineup.

Such a lineup and such a killing are all expected by everyone. It is considered like this to be able to defeat Mongolian Qiexue and kill the powerful soldiers of Mongolian Khan!

But everyone who came to watch the ceremony clearly felt a sense of pride, a kind of pride that should not have appeared in the army! It seemed that these seven or eight thousand men were not fighting men who licked blood from the knife. They were superior, as if seven or eight thousand men were standing here!

Yes, they are scholars. Every one is!

During this period, the instructors of the Northern Expedition Army kept telling them this idea - these soldiers of the Northern Expedition Army were not inferior "thieves and soldiers", but had a higher status than scholars who read the books of sages!

Because. They are the heroes of the country and the heroes of the nation! The country can lose tens of thousands of scholars, and that's nothing. There are no people reading sages on the Mongolian grasslands. Isn't the Great Mongolian Kingdom also prosperous?

But the country cannot be without them, those who serve in the army, and if they do not have it, the country will be destroyed!

War is a major event in the country and a way to survive and die!

However, since the Song Dynasty, the social status of soldiers who were involved in the survival of a country and the rise and fall of a nation was lower than one day!

What has been reduced by using literature to control military officials is not only the status of military generals, but also the ordinary soldiers are reduced to the same level as prisoners, all of which are about to be tattooed on the face and hands. The sense of honor of soldiers has disappeared! How can an army that has completely lost its sense of honor compete with the world's number one Mongolian army?

On the Mongolian grassland, which man is not proud of being a warrior of the Khan?

And in the Southern Song Dynasty, which good man was a good man to be a big soldier?

Comparison between the two, the difference is different!

A nation that does not regard being a military officer as glorious is destined to lack the spirit of martial arts. A nation that loses the spirit of martial arts is destined to be unable to become a strong man in a world where the strong prey on the weak!

If using literature to control the military was to castrate the spirit of the soldiers, then the rapid decline of the status of the soldiers during the Song Dynasty was to castrate the spirit of the people.

In history, the martial spirit of the scholars and the people had not been restored until the end of the Qing Dynasty. During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japanese soldiers went to the front line with cheers of "Long live the army and the navy", while the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty (except for the Eight Banners' soldiers) were something that people disliked, because good Chinese men were not in the army...

In the past three years, Chen Dexing's soul has been passed through, and he can feel a sense of inferiority everywhere in the Southern Song army - military officers cannot raise their heads in front of civil servants, soldiers cannot raise their heads in front of scholars, and most military personnel cannot afford to look at them. They themselves think that it is time for scholars to wait!

Such an army cannot make China stand out in the world again! Therefore, it must be changed!

The prescription Chen Dexing prescribed was to grant his military generals aristocrats, making them superior aristocrats - this is not whimsical, but to follow. Not to mention those foreign countries that had implemented the aristocratic military system, even in the later Shihong Dynasty, among the 99 components, revolutionary soldiers were the best! Even the good origins of the eighteen generations of poor peasants were all **spread in front of the revolutionary soldiers.

For a long time, Chinese revolutionary soldiers were nobles, tall, handsome and rich, and superior!

And in the 13th century, people are divided into hierarchies! Everyone is equal... Well, it is the Red Dynasty hundreds of years later. Can a fourth-class man think about equality? Since it is not equal hundreds of years later, Chen Dexing will not pursue any equality in the 13th century.

Since people have ranks, then the people who follow him to conquer the world are naturally superior. Even if they are just soldiers, they should be nobles!

"Northern Expedition Navy Private, Naval Scientist of the Northern Expedition Military Academy, Zhou Xiaoqi stepped forward to listen to the seal!"

"Northern Expedition Navy Private, Naval Scientist of the Northern Expedition Military Academy, Han Laosan stepped forward and listened to the seal!"

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Several men with loud voices shouted and called out! The military men who were called out all took a deep breath, suppressing the excitement in their hearts, and ran to the high platform like flying, kneeling in front of Chen Dexing on one knee.

When Zhou Xiaoqi and Han Laosan knelt down, they were trembling. One of them was a pirate and the other was a pirate from the Danhu family. They were the most despicable figures in the entire Song Dynasty, and now... they were about to become nobles!

"I can really be a noble..."

"The sacred house can also be a nobleman!"

There was only such an idea in the minds of both of them.

Chen Dexing stood up and just looked at the 10 nobles kneeling below. He signed 10 at a time and 1,000 people as nobles a day. He needed to pronounce their names loudly and declare them "scholars". He also sent them the swords and gold books that rewarded and symbolized the identity of "scholars". This is really a physical job...

"Zhou Xiaoqi!" Chen Dexing looked at the list in his hand and said loudly: "My commander of the Northern Expedition Army, the Northern Expedition Army, the Northern Territory Recruitment, Haidong, and Liaodong Jiedushi Chen Dexing, appointed you as a soldier. You should be loyal and strive to carry forward the spirit of the genius! Fight bravely for the country and nation, and perform your duties!"

"Little..." Zhou Xiaoqi bowed, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he found that he had said something wrong, so he quickly changed his words, "My minister Zhou Xiaoqi thanked the Lord for his great kindness, but he had the right to do so, Xiaoqibai would never refuse to die!"

Chen Dexing focused his head, took the gold book, sword, cloth and bronze from the servants beside him, and handed it to Zhou Xiaoqi one by one, and then said with a gentle voice: "Xiaoqi, now you have no contribution, I can only make you a soldier. When you make great contributions in the future, I will be awarded the title of you again until the Duke and Mausoleum, and will be reunited with the country!"

"I will definitely die!" Zhou Xiaoqi quickly answered loudly according to the instructions of the instructor Dayi.

The entire ceremony of enthroning scholars ended here. A lowest-level nobleman in Chen Dexing's system, the scholar, was released in this way. Such a ceremony was simply repeated countless times, until the more than 50,000 military generals and literati and some military craftsmen who followed Chen Dexing, all of them were enthroned as nobles!

In this way, Chen Dexing had an unprecedented army! Everyone in the army was a noble, or a preparatory noble - Chen Dexing issued a promissory note, and the nobles had been sealed! But the country had not yet been conquered.

If everyone really wants to cash out this promissory note, then work hard! Not only will there be nobles, but also farms, and then it will be noble for generations!

For the guests who came to watch the ceremony, the long and boring ceremony of enfeoffment was carried out from morning to night, day after day until the more than 20,000 Northern Expedition Army and Navy soldiers who had arrived on Jianghua Island were enfeoffed!

This process is of course nothing to the people watching the fun, but in the eyes of any keen politician, it means a drastic change.

Chen Dexing is creating a huge military aristocratic class!

The 50,000 soldiers who followed him all became superior soldiers. Perhaps the scholars in Jiangnan would only be a joke when they heard this news, but the 50,000 soldiers of the Northern Expedition Army seemed to believe that they were nobles, they believed that they were scholars, and they believed that they could use the swords in their hands to turn the illusory titles on their heads into real noble titles...
Chapter completed!