In the castle in the border town, everyone sat upright and lined up in a row.

The Border Town Doctor sat on the top - although Zhang Cheng had introduced a chair to himself, it was only for himself. People in this world are more accustomed to kneeling on the table. So in this formal occasion, everyone still kneels on the table.

Five or six strangers were sitting next to each other.

This is the Gong clan who moved from afar.

Actually, it can’t be considered a long journey... but no matter what, moving to the border town is not a comfortable journey.

At this time, the war has not yet ended and the world is in turmoil. There are naturally many difficulties and obstacles in the journey. In fact, even if the world is peaceful, traveling far is not an easy task.

Like the Kunwu clan, the Gong clan was once the lord of the country who dominated one country, but now he gradually lost his status as a noble because of the ruthless changes in the world. After the demise of the country, some Gong clan members retained part of their territory and degenerated from princes to doctors. However, with the changes in political situations, as well as wars and debts, and territorial inheritance, they gradually degenerated from doctors to scholars. Now even Lu Tian has been lost. They have become a wandering scholar who has nothing except proving that he is a noble surname.

Of course, according to the standards of the earthlings, the Gongshi is not too bad. When measured by the earth's standards, it is probably enough to be at the level of the middle class. After all, the Youshi is at the edge of the aristocratic class no matter how you study, become an official, or join the army. You will be given priority. Even if you do business, you only want to live a good life for yourself, but for this world, this class is actually very desperate. Because there is a fundamental gap between self-cognition and objective reality.

The glory of the ancestors was like a mountain, pressing on the hearts of every such wanderer. The facts were cruel. Examples of Kunwu clan being able to break up the soil and become a vassal are rare. Aristocrats who became the wanderer class could rarely climb back.

Just like the Niu Niu Kingdom on Earth, the aristocratic class can only miss the glory of the past and then inevitably slowly decay.

From this point of view, Gong Bo’s concerns make sense.

The collapse of the Kunwu country left behind at least excellent smelting technology, as well as many treasures, and most importantly, the support of the great god Zhurong. The Kunwu family has always had the descendants of Zhurong from generation to generation, so today's Kunwu doctor can re-rank the princes as Xu Nan.

The Kunwu clan has so much background, it took almost a thousand years to re-rank the princes. However, the Gong clan has nothing.

After knowing this, I will not have any expectations for the revival of the Gong clan.

They themselves are very common among many countries. They have neither special technology nor special bloodline, nor special wealth. If the country perishes...then it will perish.

This is the end of most nobles. Things change and change the world. Whether it is the Xia family, the Yin and Shang destruction of Xia, the latter is the Zhou destruction of Shang, it is not a one-on-one war. There are many vassal states like Gong's country that are destroyed or newly enfeoffed, and all families like Gong's family have risen and fall... Well, in fact, in most cases, there are only falls, no rises.

The reason behind this is one: class circulation is too difficult!

This is also true. The disadvantage of the feudal system. Everyone pays attention to bloodlines. Apart from competing for their fathers, there is actually no other good way.

Not to mention normal times, even in turmoil, for example, a new dynasty is established and class improvement is difficult.

The Zhou Dynasty enfeoffed a large number of vassals, most of whom were surnamed "Ji". Only a very small number of people with other surnames could be enfeoffed.

In the final analysis, this is because of the true. Under the feudal system, the distribution of feudalism requires the most precious resources: land and population. It is not the biological son. Who is willing to share his most precious property?

So even though Zhang Cheng was just a doctor, he only gave the title of "scholars", Gong Shi still responded. Didn't he come all the way?

However, overall, this kind of thing did not arouse much suspicion. Because Zhang Cheng, the newly enthroned Border Town Doctor, had a big trouble, that is, he had no vassal under him.

Generally speaking, if someone is enthroned as a doctor, what he lacks is land, not vassals. Because those who are promoted to a doctor are all scholars, and a scholar always has retainers around him-scholars usually have no vassals (the land is too small, not enough), but they will not lack retainers.

If the master's status is improved, and one person becomes a righteous man and a chicken and a dog are promoted to heaven, the retainer will have the opportunity to obtain a fief and be promoted from a wanderer to a higher level (perhaps more than one level). This is also the motivation for the retainer to serve the monarch.

But Zhang Cheng is a rare exception. Before he achieved his position as a border town doctor, the number of retainers was very small.

His corporals, sergeants, and doctors jumped too fast, and they had no time to gather the retainers. In fact, from beginning to end, Zhang Cheng never gathered the army that he served for the monarch. When he was a corporal, he gathered all the chariots, but did not gather all the soldiers. After the sergeant, he almost immediately set out to capture the great witch.

Anyway, he is now a bare-headed doctor with many retainers, but no vassals.

And we cannot directly promote a few of the current group of retainers because we do not have enough identities.

Normal people can only enthrone retainers who know the truth or make great contributions as vassals.

In terms of status, the one who was most qualified to be enthroned was Huang Lang because he had the status of a Youshishi and was a two Sima, which means he had the status of a "lower lord".

However, Huang Lang’s first experience is too shallow under Zhang Cheng’s subordinates, second, his past experience is stained, and third, his own talents are not particularly outstanding.

Another one is Jia. Although he is diligent and trustworthy, his weakness is that his status is not high enough. Although he is a retainer, he is just a "very man", that is, a commoner. Although he is not easy for a wandering scholar to be appointed as a subordinate, it is even more difficult for a commoner to be appointed as a scholar. The former only depends on whether the lord himself is willing to give up his territory, while the latter is not only a matter of territory, but also involves public opinion.

In fact, in the eyes of Zhang Cheng and the little girl, there is no need for vassals. But even if it is not necessary, you need to find a few retainers to serve as the storefront to avoid being criticized.

Everyone has heard that the doctor wants to enthrone a few vassals - this is a reasonable thing.

Because their conditions were not suitable, the doctor found a few old friends to serve as his vassals.

There are always various distant relatives such as marriages and friendships between different families. So Zhang Cheng made this announcement. Of course, this did not affect the deep jealousy and envy of the people looking at the distance of the Gong clans.

There is no way, this is a real enthronement.

He "breaks the soil" directly from the lord and becomes a formal vassal.

Among the five Gong clans, the one at the front is called Gonghui, who is also the direct line of the Gong clan and the current patriarch. There are three brothers, and the other two are cousins ​​who are slightly far away.

Although his face was very calm, it seemed that the ancient well was not waved. But you could tell the true meaning just from the joy deep in his eyes. At this moment, he was extremely happy and excited.

Five people, he was named a sergeant, the other two were named a sergeant, and two were not immediately granted the title of a retainer. Well, now Zhang Cheng is in urgent need of educated subordinates.

He knelt on the ground and gave a great gift in the most respectful posture. A servant brought the enthronement documents and the corresponding ritual vessels to him. He stood up and received them, and then held the ritual vessels in his hand again, and saluted Zhang Cheng, who was far younger than him. When he gave this ceremony, his whole body trembled slightly, and he was obviously extremely uneasy. After losing Lutian for many years, Gongshi obtained another place to settle down.

From then on, both sides decided the title of monarch and minister. As a sergeant, he had to provide the monarch with an army commensurate with his territory in war, and he also had to serve the monarch himself.

But all this is worth it. No need for anything else. Just look at the envy, jealousy and hatred of Zhang Cheng's retainers around you. It is witnessed and witnessed by everyone, and proved that the Gong family and the other two obtained corresponding land from Zhang Cheng, a border city doctor. This is also the most orthodox enthronement ceremony. Relatively speaking, the enthronement ceremony that Zhang Cheng accepted at the time was much simpler, and many of the ritual procedures were simplified by Dr. Kunwu. After all, Dr. Kunwu was very busy at that time and was always preparing for war.

After being granted the title, the ceremony ended, and the three vassals next had to take over their fiefdoms. However, Zhang Cheng did not announce the dissolution directly, but looked at the queue of his vassals. The first few were the people he was most familiar with.

"Jia, come out of the list." Zhang Cheng said.

Jia came out of the team, faced Zhang Cheng head-on, and gave a bow. His heart was beating wildly, knowing that he would either win the jackpot or be in trouble!

Because the common people...even the retainers who are officials who are officials are not qualified. It is just a matter of being officials who are scholars. After all, scholars are just small nobles and cannot be too picky. Public opinion will not be harsh. But the doctor is already the lord of a city and a land, and his retainers are at least a wanderer, right?

In modern Earthlings, it sounds a bit a bastard, but in this society where blood is born, things are just so bastards.

If it were the Kunwu Doctor, Jia had another trick, which was to mix into the Kunwu family. Because the Kunwu family had a large number of people in Kunwu City, if Jia became a retainer of Kunwu Doctor, it would be easily misunderstood and was "automatically grafted" into a noble, and automatically possessed the identity of a Youshi. This is also a common way of promotion. Although it is not very legal, it is actually a common way of promotion. Even if you are not, at least your descendants can mix into Youshi. You will be regarded as a branch of the Kunwu family.

But Zhang Cheng is different. He only has himself in the border town and has no same clan! Even if he wants to play a border ball, he has no way to start.

What's worse is that the status of a commoner is no longer high, and Jia still has a disgraceful history of being demoted to a slave. And it cannot be justified, because once you investigate, you will know that Jia is a soldier of Kunwu Doctor but does something that he has to do. That would be even more disgraceful.

So Jia has been working very hard and never slacking off. On the one hand, this is loyalty to Zhang Cheng, and on the other hand, he is also afraid of his heart and wants to use his own efforts to cover up his past disgrace.

Everyone couldn't help but hold their breath and looked at Zhang Cheng's mouth. Everyone knew that Jia's fate depends on Zhang Cheng's decision.

"Since you followed me, you have made great contributions!" Zhang Cheng said. "I decided to confer you as a corporal and to entrust Sawamura to you!"

Jia opened his mouth wide and couldn't close his mouth for a long time.

Although he knew that Zhang Cheng valued him very much, he almost thought he had heard it wrong.

"Congratulations!" Huang Lang took the lead and was the first to express his congratulations. Others also congratulated each other.

Jia finally controlled himself and did not get lost in ecstasy and did anything stupid. Like the Gong clan and the others just now, he immediately knelt down and saluted. Then, the maid next to him brought several related items to him.

Everyone could see his hands holding these items trembled so hard that they almost knocked over everything.

These things are actually very simple. A document representing the canonization was written and signed by his monarch Zhang Cheng himself, accompanied by a spell mark to prove it. A rough map painted the location of the land he was granted. Several jade artifacts meant that he could wear it on himself as a scholar (the common people did not have this qualification). A wooden box containing blocks of soil symbolically means that he had obtained ownership of the land. A bronze ingot indicates that the nobles had the qualification to cast ritual instruments.

But when these simple things are put together, it is not simple, because when they are added together, they represent a dream. A dream that is extremely difficult to realize in this class society. It is simply the final version of the dream of the common people!

He finally became a nobleman! Just as he dreamed of in his most unrestrained dream, he was granted the title of Ze Village. From then on, there was an insignificant little nobleman in the Zhuxia noble system, the corporal "Ze". He was the ancestor of the origin of Ze.

Although insignificant, it is a real and irrefutable noble family of the Xia. This is a high reward worthy of a commoner who can only get through life and death, risk all possible risks, or even die.

This is also a scene that only appeared in countless dreams on countless nights. Now that his dream has come true, how can he not be happy and excited?

Jia held the item and bowed again. Her eyes were already filled with tears. This was not tears of pain, but tears of joy.

At this point, the etiquette is completed!

Zhang Cheng looked at you and said in a very calm voice. "Congratulations!"

Gonghui immediately left the team. He knew very well that he would welcome the first task of his lord. This is also an important task that must not be made mistakes. Otherwise, his status and ability will be greatly questioned. If he messed up, it would be normal for the fief to be taken back.

"I have a pair of white dogs and a pair of white raccoons," said Zhang Cheng. "I was hunting and planned to offer it to the emperor. You can go there for me!"

Of course, the people here in the border town knew very well that this "Son of Heaven" was talking about Wang Zi Yijiu, not Wang Zi Yuchen. Gonghui immediately bowed his head and accepted the order. This appointment itself also shows the lord's importance to him.

Zhang Cheng watched two pet cats and pugs bought from the pet market put in wooden cages and delivered to Gonghui. These are not worthwhile on earth, but they are definitely rare things in this world.

"The other lords should work harder!" Zhang Cheng said. "I will never be stingy with the reward!" After that, he waved his hand and signaled that everyone could disperse.

"Brother Zhang Cheng, are you going out?" The little girl next to her noticed Zhang Cheng's actions.
Chapter completed!