August 1st, sunny, beautiful weather.

Before dawn, the atmosphere of the entire Wuchang City became different from before, and every family got up early, had breakfast, and prepared their best clothes to put on.

Like others in Wuchang City, the family of five in the palace also got up early, today is the most important day of the People's Army, as the Governor of the People's Army, it is also the most important day for Fangnan, today Fangnan will officially establish the Xia State, and become the emperor of the Xia State.

Officials, soldiers, businessmen, etc., the people of Wuchang City are all preparing.

Today is the founding day of the People's Republic of China, and the city defense army and military intelligence department are worried that there will be remnants of the Ming court to destroy the founding ceremony today.

Fang Nan didn't care too much, the Ming court had fallen, and the entire land of China was under the control of the People's Army, even if there were still remnants of the Ming court, it was very difficult to come to Wuchang City, even if he could enter Wuchang City, it was impossible to carry firearms, explosives, etc., let alone bring weapons to the palace or even the parade venue.

At dawn, the people of Wuchang City walked out of their homes and gathered in the new city, even if they could only watch the military parade, they went to the venue early to wait.

Compared with the ordinary people of the other ten provinces, Wuchang City was occupied by the People's Army as early as three years ago, and in more than three years, the ordinary people in Wuchang City have already devoted themselves to supporting the People's Army, and the People's Army is about to be founded, and they spontaneously went to celebrate.

Today's first item is to worship the emperor in the palace, and there are thousands of people who participate, mainly government officials, military officers and other people who will be knighted, and the person responsible for presiding over the ceremony is Cheng Xinyuan, the minister of etiquette.

In the morning, a group of high-level officials of the Xia Kingdom gathered inside and outside the altar in the palace, Cheng Xinyuan presided over the ceremony of sacrificing to the sky, and Zhou Lei read the sacrificial text.

In fact, some of the contents of the sacrificial text are the same as those of the "Letter of Emperor Fang Nan of the Xia State to the People of the Whole Country", the main content is to tell the Heavenly People's Army the road it has traveled since its establishment to this day, and the second is to inform the Heavenly People's Army that the Xia State will be established and Fang Nan will be the emperor.

After Zhou Lei finished reading the memorial text, under the auspices of Cheng Xinyuan, Fang Nan personally announced to everyone that today the Xia Kingdom was officially established, and he became the first emperor of the Xia Kingdom and accepted the high-level worship of the Xia Kingdom.

Saluting is a normal bowing salute, at least in the Ming Dynasty, there has not been a minister kneeling to the emperor, and Fang Nan will not want to see this place.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"The Qing's family is flat."

Fang Nan felt that the courtiers all got up, and as soon as possible, this end made Fang Nan a little embarrassed, and the high-level people of the Xia Kingdom felt nothing, but Fang Nan was a human being, and these words sounded uncomfortable when they came out, but fortunately, words like this would rarely appear in front of Fang Nan in the future.

After accepting the courtiers' salutes, Fang Nan, as the emperor of the Xia Kingdom, issued his oath to the heavens, the courtiers, and the people (representatives): "I will lead the Xia Kingdom to become strong, I will make the lives of all the Xia people better and better, I will lead the Xia Kingdom/army to resist all enemies, protect the lives of all the people of the Xia Kingdom, I will ......"

Just became the emperor, Fang Nan did not use the self-title of "I", he still used "I", using "I" will make the emperor approachable, and the word "I" Fang Nan had understood a saying in his previous life.

"I" may be the self-title of Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng, the pronunciation of "Zheng" and "I" is very close, but when Liu Bang was called the emperor, Liu Bang did not learn and did not know how to use "I" for the emperor's self-title, which was passed down to the Ming Dynasty.

Fang Nan couldn't be sure whether this statement was true or false, but he didn't want to continue using "朕" either.

After the end of the emperor's oath, he entered the second item of today, the great seal of meritorious heroes, also presided over by Cheng Xinyuan and read by Zhou Lei.

There are three first-class dukes (dukes), namely Hu Zhuang, minister of war, Wang Shengrong, commander of the First Group Army, and Zhou Lei, secretary general. (1st class hereditary replacement, 2nd class decreasing hereditary, 3rd class lifelong)

There are a total of ten first-class marquis, namely Zhao Hong, Ding Wei, Cheng Xinyuan, Shen Minghui, and Wang Mu, five ministerial-level ministers, and five high-level military officials, Zhou Yi, He Yan, Yan Han, Xiong Jian, and Han Lin.

There were a total of thirty-six first-class uncles, mainly deputy ministers of government, high-ranking officials, and the remaining deputy commanders in the army, as well as the commanders of ace divisions.

There are a total of one hundred and twenty-five first-class sons, a total of seventy-eight first-class men, and a total of two hundred and fifty-two nobles who have to be hereditarily replaced, or two hundred and fifty-two nobles, as long as these nobles do not take the initiative to die, they will follow the Xia Kingdom to pass it on.

From the duke to the viscount, all of them are hereditary, starting from the baron, the descending hereditary second-class male and the lifelong third-class male appeared, the second-class male and the third-class male together together the total number of people is as high as 627, and the last benevolent lord is only lifelong, a total of 321 people.

This time, Fang Nan divided a total of 1,200 nobles, and it will also be the largest division of nobles in the Xia Kingdom.

After that, every year Fang Nan may give knights to people who have contributed to the Xia Kingdom, but the number of knights every year is not too much, more than double digits, less than single digits, this year can give 1,200 people knighthoods at once, mainly the founding of the country.

It can be seen that there is no hereditary decreasing and lifelong title above the baron, and all the nobles who have obtained the hereditary title of replacement have made great contributions to the Xia Kingdom, either politically or military, they are not students of Fang Nan, or students of students, it can be said that the People's Army is under their leadership to become stronger, and finally establish the Xia Kingdom.

Every dynasty has to seal the meritorious heroes, Fang Nan felt that there was nothing to give to the meritorious heroes, so he made such a thing as "nobles", the privileges of the nobles were almost none, but every year they could receive a fortune from the Xunguiyuan, and one percent of the annual financial revenue of the Xia government was given to the royal family, and one percent was given to the Xunguiyuan, which was issued to the nobles.

One percent of the financial revenue, all the nobles combined, according to the rank of the distribution of money, Renjue belongs to the "honorary" nobles, there is no money, as long as there is this money, the nobles can live a more decent life.

In addition, Fang Nan would ask the nobles with a lot of income to take the initiative to give up their money and continue to hand it over to the Xia government, and the Fang Chamber of Commerce would take the nobles to do business and make money.

Even ordinary people have the qualifications to be given the title of nobility by Fang Nan, and it is easier to make great contributions to the Xia Kingdom by joining the army, politics, or even engaging in scientific research, as long as you work hard, you will have a chance, and if you don't work hard, everything will be in vain, and it will depend on various public opinion propaganda in the future.

As long as they find a good direction, the "aristocracy" can also promote the people's efforts to strive for progress and promote the development of science and technology.