Chapter 114: Enthronement
In the early morning of the ninth day of December, when the sun was rising, a group of strange soldiers in black training uniforms appeared in Chang'an City, holding a strange-shaped weapon that did not look like a short stick or a sword, wearing a black steel helmet, and a few bulging pockets on their bodies, and stepping on black cowhide combat boots, each of which looked mighty. They walked all the way from the Mingde Gate to the palace, followed by many magical cars, which could go forward without being pulled by oxen or pushed by people, and each car also had a lid the size of a grinding plate, and a thick cylinder went straight ahead, making a "boom" sound like thunder.
A group of about 4,000 people, after coming to the palace, the first person stepped forward to carry out the handover ceremony with the palace guards, and from this moment on, the task of guarding the palace was handed over to the hands of this new Xuanjia army. After the handover was completed, dozens of soldiers in the same costume occupied the commanding heights of the palace, and one person lay on the ground and set up a weapon that was longer than the other warriors and never moved again. Another person next to him immediately pulled out a novelty made up of two cylinders, put it in front of him, and began to be on guard.
Everything was carried out in an orderly manner in the curious eyes of the onlookers, and I saw that they soon dispersed on the road from Taichang Temple to Chengtianmen, and set up a cordon, and when everything was ready, they stood straight and did not move. The bold people couldn't help but step forward with curiosity in their hearts and asked: "This military master, which unit are you from, when did our ** team appear such a majestic unit of yours?" ”
The soldier showed him the armband on his left arm and said, "We are the Xuanjia Army, today is the day of the new emperor's accession to the throne, so you can wait on the side to watch the ceremony, and you must not cross the yellow line." There will be a danger to life! ”
When the man heard that it was Li Shimin's pro-army, he was so frightened that he hurriedly took a few steps back, and was only a little relieved when he was several meters away from the cordon set up by the Xuanjia Army.
At about nine o'clock in the morning, several strange big birds that looked like they were made of steel suddenly appeared in the sky, they had no wings, but they could fly in the sky, and there was a rapidly rotating thing on their heads that kept making a deafening sound, a total of ten big birds were scattered around the imperial city, hovering a hundred meters above Chang'an and then did not move, and the people could still faintly see someone sitting on it holding the same weapon and scanning below.
The people of Chang'an were not calm for a while, and they only felt new when they saw the Xuanjia Army at first, but now there are people who can fly freely into the sky! This is the first time in the world! One spread ten to hundred, and soon the people of Chang'an all ran to the outside of Huangcheng to watch the big bird that could take people to the sky!
At 9:40 a.m., the auspicious time that Si Tianjian Lao Dao deduced after 7749 days was about to arrive, and Li Shimin, who was wearing a brand-new prince python robe, finally came out of the Qin Palace, and a team of Xuanjia soldiers in black clothes and black boots were guarded by him, and the two helicopters above slowly followed, one left and one right, and the attendants in front set up the prince's honor guard and slowly set off towards Taichang Temple.
Along the way, the people all bent down and shouted: "Long live" Li Shimin stood in the convertible car specially made for him by literature and art, smiling and waving to the people in return. It can be seen how unpopular Li Jiancheng is, and he has been completely forgotten by the people of Chang'an in just half a year...
At ten o'clock in the morning, a male duck voice came out in Taichang Temple: "The auspicious time has arrived, please sacrifice the new emperor!" ”
Li Shimin solemnly walked up to the Temple of Heaven and meticulously completed all the procedures for worshipping the heavens. At this time, I saw the eunuch standing in front of a short thick stick shouting again: "Pardon, #@¥#" It means that I am old and have no energy to continue to deal with the government, and now I want to abdicate and give the virtuous to the crown prince Li Shimin. And then there is a gorgeous touting article, which will not be described in detail here~
Li Shimin took the jade seal from the eunuch (not Qin Shihuang's, that one was still in the hands of Empress Dowager Xiao) and showed it to everyone, even if half of the enthronement ceremony was completed. The next step is to change into a dragon robe, put on a crown and gold ornaments, and reward civil and military officials in the Taiji Palace. First, there was a decree to seal Li Yuan as the Taishang Emperor's residence in Da'an Palace, and another holy decree to seal Wenyi as the temporary first prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, the eldest grandson Wuji, and Wei Zheng as the prime minister in charge of the three provinces and six ministries (I want to say here that after Wei Zheng was originally snubbed by Li Jiancheng, the old friends of Tiance Mansion came to him every day to drink, and slowly Wei Zheng's resistance to Li Shimin faded, when Li Jiancheng was still the prince, he refused to vote to Li Shimin for the sake of face, and now the overall situation has been decided, In addition, Li Shimin often went to his house to drink tea and talk to him during this time, and finally agreed to be an official again).
In the future, all the pieces will be sent to the four prime ministers to get along, and after the four prime ministers have dealt with them, they will select the important ones and submit them to the literature and art for review, and then the literature and art will select the appropriate pieces and submit them to Li Shimin for approval.
The first holy decree is expected for hundreds of officials, but the second holy decree is a little violent, from today onwards, literature and art can leap from a niece and son-in-law of the Qin Wangfu to a powerful figure above 10,000 people under one person in the Tang Dynasty! However, except for a few officials from poor families who were indignant, those officials from various families seemed to have expected it and did not say a word of opposition at all. It can be seen that literature and art are busy this month to pull sponsorship and send business is still very effective!
The third decree is a bit strange, it is for the former crown prince Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji and Princess Pingyang, and Li Jiancheng is the third elder of the Royal Council of Elders, responsible for the safety of the imperial city and supervising all members of the royal family; Li Yuanji was appointed as the fourth elder of the Royal Presbyterian Church, responsible for supervising all the schoolwork of the children of the royal family; Princess Feng Pingyang is the honorary elder of the Royal Council of Elders and the commander of the Guannai Province, commanding all the troops of the Guannai Province and guarding Chang'an.
It can be described as an amazing word, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji are already dead people in the hearts of hundreds of officials, their whereabouts are unknown since the change in Xuanwumen, even if they are not dead, it is impossible to appear in everyone's field of vision again, who would have thought that Li Shimin would give them a position, although I don't know what the royal elders' meeting is, but it definitely doesn't sound ordinary!
Then the fourth decree is the first step of the New Deal: reform the military system! The whole army is divided into 10 military regions according to 10 routes, each military region is responsible for the safety of the whole region, and the head of each military region is called "commander." In the future, the title of general will no longer be used as a job title, but as a symbol of rank. The smallest unit of the army is no longer called "sh", but "squad"; Five squads are "platoons"; Five platoons are "companies"; five companies were "battalions"; five battalions were "regiments"; five regiments were "brigades"; The brigade and above are "divisions", and the specific brigades are determined by the division depending on the situation of each province; Above the division is the "army", that is, the major military regions, and the number of divisions in each military region also depends on the situation of each province.
In addition to the army, the air force and navy are set up, which are under the jurisdiction of the General Staff. The commander of the General Staff is Li Shimin.
In addition, there is a "commissioner" from the commander to the company level, who is mainly responsible for the ideological work of the soldiers in the army, and has no right to interfere with the orders of the military commander. At the same time, it is clear that in the next five years, the government military system will gradually be replaced by the compulsory military system and the volunteer army system.
The generals had been called by Li Shimin to hold many military reform meetings before, so they only patiently waited for Li Shimin to reappoint them, and they did not feel unhappy at all.
Kong Yingda and other old masters are even happier, and the future Confucian students can not only be civil officials in the DPRK and China, but also go to the army as a committee member, which can be described as a political and military master! Everyone praised in their hearts: Li Shimin is really a good emperor! The resentment of letting this hairy boy be the first prime minister has long disappeared. In their opinion, the one who can come up with the idea of letting Confucian students enter the army must have been done by this kid with wild ideas, since it is his own people, why should he oppose it? As long as you have a good relationship with him, you are afraid that there will be no greater benefits in the future?
When these major events are decided, it doesn't matter if the next hundred officials are rewarded, just listen to what benefits you have gained, as for the others, hehe...
When the various rewards were read, it was close to dark, and Li Shimin gave an order and held a feast! Baiguan, who had been hungry for a day, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and if he didn't open his meal, he would definitely starve a few old guys!
To be honest, it was very unpleasant to eat with the leader, although the current boss of literature and art is still Li Shimin, but this palace banquet is the most unpleasant time to eat literature and art, everyone just raised their glasses, and soon after everyone raised their glasses, many old guys came to their side, first a sycophant, and then "I did it, you are free!" "But looking at the old guy who can be his grandfather, how can literature and art be really casual, drink a cup of fine wine. Fortunately, Li Shimin did not stuff the donkey at this banquet, but made all grapes, otherwise literature and art would definitely be carried out!
Although he is now the first prime minister, he still lives in the Qin Palace, Li Shimin is also very good, he moved into the palace and directly replaced the big signboard of "Qin Wangfu" with "Wenfu". Literature and art are happy, he is used to living in the Qin Wangfu, let him change another place, it is estimated that he will have insomnia for a few days to adapt to the new home, and the current Qin Wangfu has directly become his mansion, where to find such good things? I can only say that I followed the right good boss! Although Li Shimin didn't give him the title of marquis, he paid his respects! You must know that there is only one prime minister younger than himself in history, and Ganluo is still an honorary prime minister with no real power, how can he be as powerful as himself, and he can freely spend ink on the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in the Tang Dynasty!
The next day was still a big court meeting, and this time it was mainly for foreign envoys to meet the new emperor and let them know: Datang has changed its master, you all be careful!
There are countless countries around the Tang Dynasty, and there are more than 50 people in literature and art, except for the Turks, no one came, and envoys from Goguryeo, Gaochang, Dongying and other countries were all present. Thousands of times the same singing of merit and virtue made you drowsy when you listened to literature and art, and secretly scolded the bastard officials of the Ministry of Rites in your heart, can't you write about sycophants seriously? Dongying's sycophants are exactly the same as Gaochang's! It's really lazy and hassle-free!
After Li Shimin listened to the sycophants of the envoys below, he prepared to issue an order to invite the envoys from all sides. At this moment, Dongying's envoy jumped out again, lying on the ground and crying: "Your Majesty the Great Tang Emperor, please help us!" ”