The Holy Emperor also maintained a tolerant attitude towards the handling of Duke Levice's family. He only cut off the titles of the two brothers, demoted them to civilians, and then imprisoned them in the prison. At the same time, he also dismissed Duke Levice's post in the military, took back the royal merchant controlled by Li Weikang, and disarmed the private armed forces. For the rest of the Li family, those who should be demoted, those who should be exiled, those who should be exiled, and those who should be exiled. In short, adhering to this principle, only the house was confiscated and the clan was not exiled.

After all, the Li family has too much influence in the court and the country. General Li, the founding marshal of the country, was simply the totem in the minds of the emperor. His image of gods has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and legends about him have also been widely circulated among the people. In the eyes of most people, the people of the Li family are "behind the loyal ministers and good generals". If they are exterminated, it is not what the people want.

No matter what, the Holy Emperor's strategy of tolerance to the Li family won praise in the court and the people. The people said that they used to think that Prince Zhong was a "virtuous king", but they did not expect that it was an illusion. Now they discovered that the Holy Emperor was the real "genius master". They had a broad mind and ambition.

People who can see clearly, such as people like Song Li, naturally know that this is actually a political strategy. Don’t want to kill Prince Jing and Prince Kang? Don’t want to kill Brother Levice? Just kidding, the Holy Emperor must have thought it better than anyone else.

Song Li could see from the Holy Emperor's eyes how much he hated these people who participated in the rebellion. From the beginning of fighting for the throne, Prince Zhong and the Holy Emperor had been entangled for more than 20 years, while Prince Jing Kang and Li Weiss were the pioneers of Prince Zhong, who repeatedly caused trouble for the Holy Emperor. He said that the Holy Emperor did not hate them, and the passing cows would die of laughter.

However, excellent politicians can always allow reason to control emotions. After the chaos, people are panic. If he raises his butcher's knife and kills it hard, it may aggravate this panic. Prince Zhong's gangsters hidden in the court and the country may be anxious and cause trouble. Moreover, the infamy after slaughtering his brothers and loyal ministers and generals is not very nice.

The Holy Emperor chose to be tolerant, chose to keep the enemy alone and not kill, and won the good reputation of "a wise lord" in the court and the public, and also allowed the empire to recover from the shadow of mutiny as quickly as possible. Why not do it?

Although these traitors are still alive, they cannot pose any threat to the Holy Emperor.

Song Li felt more and more that the Holy Emperor was indeed not simple. Prince Zhong lost without any wickedness.

Taking this opportunity, the Holy Emperor decisively eliminated the party forces of the Li family in the army, which caused turmoil among the troops across the country, but these officers had nothing to say. Who made your boss participate in the mutiny and failed? After clearing the Li family's military power, the Holy Emperor took the opportunity to stuff the direct line he trained into these troops.

From then on, Lord Saint Emperor can finally sleep peacefully. Because for the first time he felt like he had the feeling of keeping the empire firmly in his hands.

In the past, when Prince Zhong and the Li family joined forces, the Holy Emperor always felt a sense of crisis that a tiger was sleeping soundly on his side, but this time, he could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

For the other nobles who participated in the rebellion, the living were only demoted to civilians and imprisoned, and the dead were buried with civilian courtesy. Some officers and soldiers of the rebel army were treated the same.

This is extremely tolerant. Just imagine the royal coup in the history of the empire. Whenever the successful ones waved their butcher's knife and killed all the losers. The scene of the imperial capital flowing into a river is vivid in my mind.

It is rare to be kind to just keep the enemy from killing him like the Holy Emperor. However, before everyone had not yet grasped the current intention of the winner. Several nobles who were anxious to flatter him wrote a letter to propose severe punishment for rebellion, but the Holy Emperor ignored him. Only then did they realize that they had flattered the horse on the leg.

During the reorganization period between the City Defense Force and the Guard Force, the defense work of the imperial capital was mainly jointly responsible by Wei Qianli's Storm Field Army and the Imperial Capital Public Security Department. After completing the task, Zhanlong's 200,000 troops retreated to the south of the Holy River without waiting for the Holy Emperor to issue an order.

The Holy Emperor issued a series of decrees again, but this time it was commendation. After all, the coup was like a robber's meeting, and after it was over, it was naturally time for the winners to share the spoils.

To everyone's surprise, the one who ranked first in this award order was the name of Wei Qianli, the supreme commander of the Storm Legion.

No matter how you look at it, during this coup, the person who had the greatest impact on the entire battle situation and contributed the most was undoubtedly Song Li.

If he had not been on his mission to Nanzhou, King Zhan Long would have been pulled onto the Holy Emperor's warship. Without his series of plans, Prince Zhong would have been fooled, so he would have been informed of the entire plan, giving the Holy Emperor a plenty of time to deal with it. If he had not released the powerful fire and thunder to defeat the black undead mage and burned the resentful spirits, the imperial city would have probably become a dead city. If he had not helped him rescue, Chi Ying and several guard masters would have been tortured into a walking corpse by the undead poison.

He still didn't know what method he used to destroy the most mysterious and terrifying base of Prince Zhong, the Dead Soldiers, to save the empire from the future troubles.

Without his good relationship with the Alchemist Guild, the Holy Emperor would never have received help from the Alchemist Guild. Because since the founding of the country, the Alchemist Guild has remained neutral in his attitude towards the royal coup. This time, it made an exception, entirely for Song Li's sake.

As for the credit for eliminating the drug guru, they are all insignificant little sex.

That's right, Wei Qianli was also very brave in the battle to defend the imperial capital, but his work could be replaced by others. If it weren't for the Storm Legion, but another army was ordered to come to help, it would probably not be as clean and neat as the Storm Legion, but in the end he could still defeat the Guards' defense.

In other words, Wei Qianli's role in this coup is not irreplaceable, but Song Li is completely irreplaceable. Without him, the imperial city would have been sucked into a dead city by those resentful spirits. Moreover, Wei Qianli is just the executor of some plans, while Song Li is the decision-maker of the overall battle situation and one of the planners. Is it necessary to say more about which one is more important?

However, Wei Qianli was ranked first on the list of awards for the Holy Emperor, and even the most hard-core direct lineman of the Holy Emperor could not stand it.

Wei Qianli was a hunter and belonged to a civilian. He climbed to a high position in the army with his extraordinary ability, but his glory was limited to the army. In fact, he did not belong to the category of aristocratic families.

Because he only has a position, no title.

For people in the upper class, having a title is the symbol of your entry into the aristocratic circle. People like Wei Qianli who only have positions but no titles are just nouveau riche in the hearts of all the nobles. Even a baron with the lowest level can despise him.

Wei Qianli has made great achievements in his military affairs and has never been awarded a title. In addition to his background, of course, there are also the consequences of obstructing the noble officers in the army. Grandma, you have all the limelight. If you are given the status of a noble, then won’t we have a way out?

With these people's obstruction, Wei Qianli had a long way to go if he wanted to be awarded the title.

However, this coup became his best opportunity.

The commendation order of Lord Saint Emperor is clearly written: Wei Qianli, the Supreme Commander of the Storm Field Army, made contributions to suppressing the rebellion, and was promoted to the Left Minister of War, awarded the rank of general, and was granted the title of Duke of Wei.

What made all the wealthy nobles almost glared at the eyes was that the title of duke Wei Qianli obtained was still "hereditary".

hereditary!!!

The news almost immediately blew a strong wind in the noble circle of the imperial capital.

There are two types of titles in the Holy Lion Empire, hereditary title and lifelong title. Lifelong titles are just awarded to me, not hereditary, and have no territory, so I cannot form a private army. Once I die, the title will naturally be cancelled.

Generally speaking, such titles are often willing to be rewarded by the royal family because they spend a small amount of money, only glory, but not much real power.

But hereditary titles are absolutely impossible to be awarded. A hereditary title means that the person who is enfeoffed can obtain his own territory, collect taxes on his own in the territory, and form his own private army, and pass them on from generation to generation. This means that there is another country in the empire. The holy emperors of all generations are not fools, and of course they understand that the fewer such hereditary titles, the more stable their empire can be. Therefore, unless they are a minister with great bloodline and great contributions, they will never be awarded any hereditary titles.

Otherwise, the more hereditary titles are enfeoffed, and more and more territories will be rewarded. Even if the territory of the empire is vast, there will always be a day of enfeoffment.

War Dragon is a living example. Because of his achievements as a dragon, and his family background and numerous military achievements, he was awarded a hereditary title by the Holy Emperor. Now, he has almost become a thorn in the Holy Emperor's heart.

But unexpectedly, with the lessons of Zhanlong, the Holy Emperor once again appointed a hereditary duke as the general in the army.

General Wei, who was originally just Bai Ding, became a hot new nobleman in the imperial capital.

And not only was he awarded titles, he was also promoted to the Left Minister of War. This was the position second only to the Minister of War, which means that from today on Wei Qianli became the second largest figure in the imperial side. According to Song Li's understanding, if the Minister of War was equivalent to the Minister of National Defense in his previous life, then the Left Minister of War was the Deputy Minister of National Defense.

As for the rank of general, it is nothing compared to the first two. However, before that, the imperial side had only two ranks of general, one was Zhanlong and the other was Luo Bin, the Minister of War. From today on, the third rank of general was born. Wei Qianli became the youngest general in the history of the empire at the age of 28.

After each coup, the aristocratic circle in the imperial capital will be reshuffled, some old aristocrats who are in the wrong team will be cleaned up, and the newcomers who stand on the side of the winner will rise in time. All discerning people can see that Wei Qianli is one of the biggest beneficiaries of this coup. From then on, overnight, Duke Wei's name will resound throughout the aristocratic circle in the imperial capital. There is no doubt that he is the political star who rapidly rises in the imperial capital.

Wei Qianli also officially replaced Levitra and became the upstart of the imperial side. Although Luo Bin's official position was higher than him, in a comprehensive manner, Wei Qianli's popularity had surpassed Luo Bin. After all, Luo Bin is only a marquis so far. Wei Qianli's title is higher than his. In the noble circle, the title is more important than position.

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