Chapter 945: Chapter 52: Promotion in Rank, Heading to Shangluo Academy! (12,000 Words) _5
"In this case, the court can only include your adoptive parents in the candidates."
Zhao Xing nodded, "Yes."
Once you reach the third rank, you cannot avoid these rewards.
Of course, under normal circumstances, they won’t affect promotions.
For instance, when Zhao Xing is promoted to the Second Grade Heavenly Fortune Realm, the court won’t disperse this power.
At key points, it won’t be affected.
It’s mainly the additional achievements and awards that are granted alongside the official appointment.
Now that Mr. Zhao has found ancient coins, he is indifferent to these aspects.
Parents, brothers, and sisters usually don’t get much.
The majority goes to the wife and son.
Zhao Xing is still young now, so these aspects are still premature.
Someone like Lao Liu has yet to get married.
"Alright, nothing more to discuss, the specific items of reward will be arranged by a dedicated ceremonial officer."
"Zhao Xing, let’s proceed first."
Wei Gongming said.
"Farewell, Duke Wei, the two True Monarchs."
At this point, only Zhao Xing and King Heavenly Destiny remained in the hall.
"Let’s leave as well."
King Heavenly Destiny said with a smile.
"Leave a clone to cooperate with the ceremonial officer, while the main soul follows me to the Military Realm Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion."
"Yes." Zhao Xing immediately split off a clone.
The confirmation involves verifying the granted land, custom-tailoring Chinese clothing and such.
...
On the way to the Military Realm.
Zhao Xing looked at the imperial decree in his arms, which had lost its mighty power but still needed to be placed at home as an offering.
King Heavenly Destiny was right, there was indeed a surprise this time.
Apart from the secondary third-rank officials.
His title, rank, and achievements all received significant improvements.
Firstly, from a third-rank Marquis to a first-class Marquis, being titled as Duke Divine Might.
This title was originally prepared for Yang An, but unfortunately, before it could be officially granted, Yang An faced many twists and turns and eventually died in the Southern Desolate, and the Divine Might Army lost its structure.
Now given to Zhao Xing, it is considered as consolation.
At least Long Xiao and Chen Shijie would be quite pleased.
Moreover, the Divine Might Army has lost its structure, and reorganizing the army will take time.
This also leaves a gap for Zhao Xing to go to the Dragon Court Ancient Land.
Anyway, Emperor Jing is not in a hurry to strengthen or expand the army, it wouldn’t matter even decades later.
Secondly, the loose rank.
Zhao Xing originally had no loose rank, and since offending Prince Liang, his loose rank was revoked.
Now it was suddenly elevated to Minister of Rites, already a quite high position.
Not only can he participate in policy discussions at the Prefecture City, but he can also correspond with Emperor Jing.
Emperor Jing might even take the initiative to write to him, seeking Zhao Xing’s opinion on state affairs.
Minister of Rites regularly receives summons or inquiries from the emperor.
Of course, Zhao Xing is unwilling to chat with Emperor Jing or be summoned.
What if Emperor Jing wants to play chess with him? He doesn’t even understand it.
Finally, the merit rank.
"I originally had a tenth-rank merit rank, which garnered around 800,000 points annually."
"Now it’s been raised to the twelfth tier in one go, excluding salary, relying solely on merit rank, each year I can get 1.76 million points from the Military Realm."
A merit rank of twenty-two tiers is already quite high.
In ten years, that’s 17.6 million; in a hundred years, 176 million.
If Zhao Xing could live for 800 years, based on the current merit rank, he could accumulate over twenty billion.
Lastly, the ’awards.’
"This time, the award list actually includes some good things, the Heavenly Sword used by dukes, Dragon Head War Chariot, Chinese clothing, Hua Gai, all to be made according to eighth rank standards."
"Other items also carry the court’s qi fortune, as long as I’m operating outside the realm, I can use these as sacrifices, as media, or for divination consumables."
Though Emperor Jing is stingy, reaching this level, things cannot be too shabby.
Emperor Jing still values the grand national prestige.
"I wonder how Long Xiao, Xia Jing, Chen Shijie, Marquis Tian, Marquis Lu are doing." Zhao Xing mused.
Now it’s only the first batch of rewards. Someone with Zhao Xing’s third rank and first-class Marquis promotion is the first to know.
"Prince, what reward will the teacher get?" Zhao Xing curiously asked.
"Liu Tianning is titled Prince Taihe, his official position is elevated to secondary second-rank Junior Agricultural Officer, transmission envoy has been removed, and a new selection drafted by the Grand Minister of Agriculture, though he continues to serve as Inspector, the position at Shangyu Bureau was removed, I haven’t paid attention to honors and loose rank." King Heavenly Destiny replied.
Lao Liu is titled prince?
This is much earlier than in a past life.
King Heavenly Destiny said, "Liu Tianning participated in the Royal City siege and during his tenure as Inspector, he gathered much evidence against Prince Liang’s Party, which greatly assisted in pacifying the rebellion."
"Of course, even without these, he was eventually going to be titled prince."
"Xu Xing of Shangluo Academy has already listed him as the first deputy dean, the leader of the three sects, who are expected to occupy secondary second levels. Now he is merely secondary rank, and in the future, it shall turn formal."
"He is soon going to find Xu Xing, he should have mentioned this to you, right?"
Zhao Xing nodded, "It was mentioned, but the specific date has not been determined."
King Heavenly Destiny pondered, "You should follow him for a trip, is three months’ leave enough?"
Zhao Xing laughed wryly, "Prince, not again."
"Haha." King Heavenly Destiny also laughed, "You are now at the first level of great success, I certainly need to monitor you, His Majesty spurs me, so I in turn spur you."
"Additionally, you need to prepare more for your journey to the Dragon Court Ancient Land, the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion has tasks for you."
"For this, your third-rank waiting for transfer status has not been publicly disclosed."
Zhao Xing said, "Three months is not enough, add two more."
"What? You actually want to rest for so long?"
"Even a donkey doesn’t rest this much!"
Zhao Xing reluctantly said, "I still have to go to Tianyong State once, to meet the main soul of Tianyang True Monarch."