Chapter 357: Abolition of era names

Qi uses the cicada-shaped Xia character as the country name, probably because the cicada represents these mysterious and beautiful meanings, which king does not want his country to be endless, eternal for generations, and lofty and far-reaching

Of course, these are all inferences, anyway, Fang Nan thinks that the Xia Kingdom he established can be endless, eternal for generations, and lofty and far-reaching.

Xia is the name of the country, which can be called the Xia Kingdom, Great Xia, Great Xia Empire, etc., the name of the country is there, and under normal circumstances, there should be an era name, but Fang Nan intends to abolish the era name system.

The era name is generally initiated by the monarch, which is a system in which the new monarch recalculates the number of years of reign in order to distinguish the previous monarch when the new monarch ascends the throne in ancient China.

From the pre-Qin to the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there was no era name, and Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty ascended the throne, adding a commemorative name before the number of years, which was the beginning of the ancient Chinese era name.

It is recorded in the Han book that in October of that year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty went out to hunt and caught a unicorn Bailin, and the ministers thought that this was an auspicious artifact, worthy of commemoration, and suggested that it should be used to record the year, so the year was named "Yuan Hunt", and that year was called the first year of Yuan Hunt.

However, after six years, a three-legged Baoding was obtained in Fenyang, Shanxi, and the ministers thought that this was an auspicious artifact, and suggested that it should be used for the year, so they changed the year name to "Yuan Ding", and called that year the first year of Yuan Ding.

Later, people called the beginning of this recorded era "era", and changed the name of the era or the era of the emperor to change the name of the first year to "change the yuan".

The emperors of the past dynasties encountered major events and important events such as "auspicious from the sky" or internal strife and external worries, and generally had to change the era name, and the era name used by an emperor was less than one, and more than a dozen, such as Tang Gaozong had 14.

This year is the twentieth year of Wanli, and it is the twentieth year of Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun as emperor.

For Fang Nan, one of the purposes of abolishing the era name is that the year name plus the number of years is not very convenient to use, and if there is no era name, it can be directly the first year of the summer calendar and the second year of the summer calendar.

At the meeting, when Fang Nan proposed the abolition of the era name system, several people expressed their objections, but under Fang Nan's explanation, they all expressed their acceptance, and compared with the state system, the abolition of the era name system is just a trivial matter.

In addition, at the meeting, Fang Nan also said that after the establishment of the Xia Kingdom, two calendars will be used, divided into the solar calendar and the lunar calendar, the lunar calendar is the lunar calendar currently used, and the solar calendar is the calendar formulated by Fang Nan himself.

In the Gregorian calendar, the year is set as 365 days, with one day added every four years, and the year is divided into twelve months, with a definite number of days, and every seven days is a week.

In fact, as early as 1281 A.D., it was written in the time calendar that "3652425 day is one year old", which is only 2592 seconds away from the 3652422 of modern observations, and the accuracy is relatively high.

Anyway, it is not to cancel the lunar calendar directly, but to use the two calendars together, and everyone in the conference room faintly feels that there are some inconveniences in the lunar calendar, and it seems that it will be much more convenient to change to the solar calendar.

The meeting only gave a rough plan, and the specific plan had to be formulated by the six ministries and five provinces, and the first high-level government meeting at the beginning of the year ended in one morning, and the next six ministries and five provinces will hold their own meetings.

In the afternoon, Fang Nan once again presided over a high-level meeting of the armed forces, which was attended by high-level military leaders such as Hu Zhuang, Zhou Yi, Wang Shengrong, Xiong Jian, Yan Han, and He Yan.

Compared with government meetings, military meetings are more direct, and the topics of the meetings are tasks in the three time periods before, during, and after the war.

In the new year, the KPA will expand again, with a total strength of more than 1 million, and after the conference, the army will increase its readiness for war.

You must know that the next big war is a big war, the People's Army will fight from the south of the Yangtze River to the north of the Yellow River, especially when the war breaks out in late autumn, if the time is fast, the war will end before the arrival of the New Year, but the winter in the north is not ordinary cold, and the cold materials have already begun to be prepared.

Prepare the supplies, wait for the armistice agreement to expire, the war broke out, the People's Army troops attacked the Ming ruled area in separate ways, and the various units of the People's Army divided the attack area, for example, the Third Army was responsible for occupying Yunnan Province and Guizhou Province, and Yan Han's Second Army was responsible for occupying Zhejiang Province and the eastern area of Nanzhili.

The focus of this final battle lies in two places, one is the Yangtze River natural danger, the other is the Yellow River natural danger, the former is the most important, the Ming court deployed the most troops in the Yangtze River natural danger, a large number of naval divisions and ships are in the Yangtze River, if the Yangtze River natural danger can not stop the People's Army, the Yellow River natural danger can not stop the People's Army.

In order for the army to cross the Yangtze River smoothly, the KPA made a lot of preparations, which are mainly divided into three parts:

The first is to prepare ships on the south bank of the Yangtze River, on which the People's Army can forcibly cross the Yangtze River, and some of the People's Army have already been trained in boat combat, and the most important thing is the musketeers, who can launch an attack on the north bank of the Yangtze River from a distance of six or seven hundred meters on the boats, and since they are not warships, they cannot place a few artillery pieces on them;

The second is the persuasion of the Military Intelligence Department, many landlord armed forces and Ming army forces stationed on the north bank of the Yangtze River have surrendered to the People's Army, and even some of the Daming Naval Divisions in the Yangtze River have surrendered to the People's Army, as long as they do not rebel against the water, the People's Army will not be able to climb the north bank of the Yangtze River without many casualties;

The main force of the People's Navy stationed in Guangdong Province plus the "troop carriers" will be transferred to Fujian Province before the outbreak of war, and after the outbreak of war, the fleet will continue to go north, and when the army occupies most of the area south of the Yangtze River and prepares to march north of the Yangtze River, the navy will act together with the army.

The number of ships of the People's Navy is far from being comparable with that of the Daming Naval Division, but the ships of the People's Navy have been equipped with a large number of howitzers, relying on howitzers and rockets.

When the People's Army came to the north bank of the Yangtze River, it would advance in parallel and sweep northward, eventually destroying the Ming Dynasty and occupying all areas of the Chinese land.

However, after the unification of the land of China, it does not mean that the war is over, and the top leaders of the People's Army have not forgotten the other great enemy of the Ming Court, the Tatars in the northern steppe, if there is no Tatar enemy, the Ming Court can mobilize more elite border troops to encircle and suppress the People's Army four or five years ago, and the People's Army can resist it, but its own casualties will not be small.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the People's Army will replace the Ming Court to defend the northern frontier, there are firearms troops, and it is not a problem to hold the northern Xinjiang, but it is not the character of the People's Army to only defend and not fight, and the only lancer division of the People's Army will take the initiative to enter the steppe to find fighters to weaken the Tatars.