There is no doubt that the Tang Empire needs a strong central power to protect the interests of the entire empire, and having a big government is also the inevitable result of thousands of years of Chinese civilization. Only in this way can we unify the administrative decrees on such a vast land and concentrate our efforts on doing great things. Any deviation from the highest center to create small hills and small areas is absolutely unacceptable.

Li Ze is very clear about this. The division and rule of the festival in the last years of the old Tang Dynasty has fully illustrated this fact.

What Li Ze has to do now is to use a ruling group to replace the family and surname of the past country. It would be the best choice to pocket all the elites of the Tang Dynasty, and then pick out the best ones from these elites to govern the country.

Of course, Li Ze also understands that the reform of any political system must inevitably adapt to the times, and pulling out the seedlings to encourage them will only be counterproductive. So every step he takes, he is cautious, walking on thin ice. A little temptation, a little progress.

Yixing Society has existed and developed for more than ten years, and after more than ten years of hard work, at least in the north, Yixing Society has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and has established a high prestige in the hearts of the people. And on this basis, he began to slowly integrate the Yixing Society with the local government of the Tang Dynasty. Let the people have such a feeling, that is, the Yixing Society is the government, and the government is the Yixing Society. From going to Yixing Society to be the master when there is something, to going to the government to be the master when there is something.

This is easy to say, but it is not easy to implement.

Over the years, experience has taught the common people that they will never go to the government unless they have to. Because looking for the government means that there is a possibility that the four major ones are empty.

So in the past, they relied on clans to solve problems.

After the clan was strongly attacked by Li Ze, it was slowly changed to find Yixing Society to solve the problem.

Now, Li Ze is working hard to transition to the third stage.

If the third step is completed, Li Ze can proudly say that most of the tasks in his life have almost been completed.

Nothing can be expected to be done in one step.

Although he had established the official status of the Yixing Society and established the power of the Supreme Council, it was still impossible to truly play their role in a short period of time. In the eyes of many people, the Yixing Society is just a tool for their own monopoly of power. This kind of cognition needs to be slowly resolved in a long period of practice. What I have to do is to slowly build up the prestige of these committees for a long time to come.

Li Ze has decided that, apart from military affairs, he will not touch other government affairs in the coming time, and he will let the chairmen of those committees establish their own authority, and gradually develop the consciousness of competing with him and being able to check and balance each other.

Of course, under such a form, Li Ze still has to explore how to rule such a large country, and the chairmen of the major committees that are about to be freshly released also need to slowly explore and adapt. However, Li Ze was extremely confident, because as long as he was alive for one day, he would be able to stand in God's perspective and look down on the progress of these major reforms, and if there was a deviation, he could rely on his great prestige to bring them back to the right path.

Only you can do this.

After himself, it is impossible for any emperor to have such prestige.

And when everything is on the right path according to what you think and think, Yixing Society itself will have a strong ability to tolerate and correct mistakes, and at that time, it is time for you to really retire.

The new Tang Nirvana was reborn, like a phoenix bathing in fire, spreading its wings and flying high. For the people who have thrown their heads and blood into all their struggles in the past ten years, it is necessary to pay for their merits.

It is necessary to be promoted to the rank of knight.

However, compared with the addition of officials and knights in the new dynasty in the past, the new Tang Dynasty has made great changes.

The titles of Datang are divided into eight ranks.

First Class: Wang. This only applies to the descendants of the Lee family.

Second class: Guogong.

Third class: Founding Prince.

Fourth class: Founding county princess.

Fifth class: Founding county.

Sixth class: Founding county uncle.

Seventh class: Founding county.

Eighth class: Founding county male.

There is no hereditary system for the eight levels of titles, and such a thing as a wife and a shadow has been completely canceled. Only those who have made great contributions to the country will be able to receive knighthoods based on their great strides of merit. And these titles, if they are not wrong, will continue until their death.

Those who have received the title and title no longer have a food estate, because this is contrary to the most fundamental national policy of the Tang Dynasty, the land policy. Each title corresponds to a corresponding political treatment and economic income, and the economic income is completely converted into money.

Titles are completely separate from positions. A person who has a knighthood does not necessarily have a formal position. In other words, in the new Tang Dynasty, the title has almost become an honorary title. He represents how much you have contributed to the empire in the past.

On the second day of Li Ze's accession to the throne, a large number of knighthood rewards were released.

There is only one person who has received the title of king. That is, Li Ze's uncle, Li Anmin.

There are two people who have won the title of Guogong, namely Zhang Hui and Gongsun Changming.

The number of founding county dukes was a little larger. Including Cao Xin and Yang Kai, the twelve generals except for Li Mi all received the title of Duke of the Founding County.

And Han Qi and Xue Ping were rewarded by the founding county prince, which also made everyone have nothing to say, you must know that these two guys, in the beginning, have always been at odds with Li Ze. This means that Li Ze can tolerate them, and change to another monarch, but I am afraid that the grave grass of these two people will grow taller than people.

To everyone's surprise, in the list of awards, there are still many names that the world doesn't know at all, if it weren't for the fact that the Datang Weekly announced their achievements at the same time when announcing the names of these people, everyone is afraid that they still don't understand what these people are.

Let's say Jin Yuan. He obtained the title of Founding County Prince, although it was only the fifth class, but it had already made countless people envious. And he can get this award because he has been committed to the development of medicine, the training of physicians, and the construction of the Datang medical system for more than ten years.

If Jin Yuan was rewarded with a knighthood, everyone was still relieved, but in this list, there were actually a lot of farmers, craftsmen, and merchants, although they only got the eighth-class founding county men, but they also amazed everyone.

It turns out that under the new Tang Dynasty, getting a knighthood is really just what you have done for this empire, and it has nothing to do with your past identity.

Shen Heiniu, a farmer, crossed the rice seeds obtained from Champa with local rice varieties to obtain a new rice seed that tripled the yield, and was awarded the title of the baron of the founding county. The current Datang, on the whole, is still a matter of eating. The substantial increase in grain output has undoubtedly contributed greatly to the country.

The craftsman Shen Congxin was awarded the founding county man, but his exploits were not mentioned, and it was said that they involved secrets.

Compared with the rewards of these titles, Liu Ruyan became the queen of the Tang Dynasty, and Xia He became the imperial concubine, but it was calm and calm, which made the people talk about it, but the newly enthroned emperor did not open the harem and accept beauties from all over the world into the palace. There were many rumors in the market, and the deeds of the queen and the imperial concubine were dug up one by one.

The two on the left and right are both celebrities of the Tang Dynasty, one is a general, and the other is a household secretary, after figuring out the lives of these two, the people are also relieved.

These are the two fierce wives who are alive, no wonder the emperor does not dare to accept the harem.

No matter what folk legends are, Li Ze doesn't care anyway. The common people like to pass it on, so let them pass it on. Anyway, it's not a matter of a day or two for them to pass on their own anecdotes. Earlier, when Zhang Hui was still working as his personal secretary, in order to increase the sales of Datang Weekly, he also made a special edition of his own son and daughter, and recorded their growth diaries every day for the pastime of the people, and the effect was immediate.

Even if he is really shaped by the people to become a strict wife-style emperor, it will still be very helpful for Liu Ruyan to improve the status of women in the future.

It is said that Datang women are strong, in fact, externally, when facing their own men, in fact, their status is really not high, Li Ze has no confidence in saying anything about equality between men and women, even after more than a thousand years, he can't do it. But let women come out to work, come out to be officials, and come out to make money, these can be done.

Half of the workforce! It's a pity to be so abandoned at home. Today's Datang, the labor force is very poor! There are more women out of the house, and that's something that can't be desired.

Moreover, economic status determines family status, and political status also determines family status, and gradually everyone will become accustomed to the fact that women can do the same things as men, and maybe do better than men. But men may not be able to do what women can do.

Let's say having a baby!

Even for this goal, Li Ze doesn't care about the loss of his reputation.

A flesh-and-blood emperor can definitely be loved by the common people more than a cold-blooded and ruthless emperor. In the former, everyone will respect and love, while the latter will only make everyone feel afraid.

After finishing these things, his entire attention has completely shifted to the Yixing Society Congress, compared to his previous enthronement ceremony, the Yixing Society Congress is an important thing that really lays the foundation of the Tang Dynasty in the future.