Chapter 356: In the Name of Xia
On the seventh day of the first lunar month, the central government of the People's Army in Guangzhou City, General Fang Nan presided over two high-level meetings of the government and the army, and no one was absent from the high-level leaders of the people's army, politics and the army.
Attending the high-level government meeting were a number of high-ranking officials of the People's Army, including Fang Nan, Zhou Lei, ministers of the six ministries, and senior officials of the five provinces.
The army is responsible for fighting wars, but the army alone cannot effectively rule a country, and the main task of the army is to defend the country, and the task of governing all localities is entrusted to governments at all levels.
It is expected that with another expansion of the KPA this spring, the total strength will exceed 1 million, and in the next war, the KPA will commit at least 800,000 troops.
The dispatch of 800,000 troops, especially the large number of firearms troops, is very crucial, and the army's logistical task is mainly to cooperate with the governments at all levels of the People's Army and hire young men to transport logistical supplies.
The army is attacking the city in front, and the captured land needs to be immediately dispatched to establish a people's military government, govern the area, and let the local people's lives quickly return to normal.
You must know that there are a total of fifteen provinces in the land of China, the People's Army only has five provinces, and the Ming Court still has ten provinces, and the People's Army needs to mobilize enough officials in order to effectively govern the next ten provinces that will be occupied one after another.
At least two-thirds of the officials in the People's Army Government are now being transferred, and this is a rather arduous task for the People's Army, and it is necessary to determine where the transferred officials will be sent to take up what official posts, and the task is very large, and it is necessary for the central government and governments at all levels to cooperate in accomplishing this task.
After the establishment of the People's Army Government in the newly occupied areas, it is necessary to quickly restore the normal life of the common people, among which commercial trade is a very important one, and every time the People's Army occupies a place, it will raid the homes of the evil gentry and merchants, and the gentry and merchants who can survive are not even one-third of the original.
Even if this time, in order to quickly end the war, the People's Army granted "exoneration" to many landlord armed forces, there are still a large number of wealthy gentry and businessmen who will be raided by the People's Army.
Especially when the People's Army occupied Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Huguang provinces, a large number of wealthy gentry and merchants fled, and they would have no way to escape in the next war, unless they were willing to flee to the territory of the aliens and put their lives in the hands of the aliens.
Compared with other wealthy people, merchants are very important to the production and life of the people in a region, and it is impossible for this region to be self-sufficient in everything, and it is also necessary to transport some things that cannot be produced locally from other places to sell, which is the role of merchants.
The number of merchants has been greatly reduced, which has a relatively large impact on the lives of ordinary people, and even those who survive are likely to be afraid to do business in a short period of time.
The People's Military Government needs to summon the merchants under its rule to make preparations for the resumption of commercial trade in the newly occupied areas after the occupation of the new territory.
One of the most important aspects of the high-level meeting of the government was the establishment of the People's Republic of China after the destruction of the Ming Dynasty and the unification of the Ming Dynasty.
At the meeting, it was determined that the People's Army did not need to be so urgent in establishing the country, and that it could wait until the army occupied most of the land of China, and the People's Military Governments in various localities were established to restore local order, and at this time the central government of the People's Army in Guangzhou City would move to Wuchang City on the south bank of the Yangtze River, with Wuchang City as the capital of the new state.
After the relocation of the capital, the central government can resume operation, and the state can be officially established.
At the meeting, Fang Nan did not say what kind of constitutional monarchy, federal system and other unheard of institutional countries, Fang Nan did not have a very big desire/hope for the emperor's throne, others wanted to be the emperor because they fancied the supreme power of the emperor, they could kill whoever they wanted, and they could have any beautiful women they wanted.
For Fang Nan, the emperor has supreme power, but while becoming the emperor, Fang Nan also has to bear a lot of responsibilities, two of which are important responsibilities, one is to make the country stronger, and the other is to make the people live a better life.
If he could choose, Fang Nan would still be willing to live a leisurely and leisurely life.
It's not bad to choose to be a president with a clear term, work for eight years and ten years, and change someone else to be president, at this time Fang Nan will be completely relieved, and he will have enough time to take his wife around the mountains and rivers.
Fang Nan has enough contribution and influence for this country, if the country goes crooked, Fang Nan can stand up and correct it at any time, and after Fang Nan's presidential term is over, the country may have developed to a certain extent, the people's wisdom has been opened, and it is extremely difficult to return to the era of feudal dynasties.
But now, the influence of traditional culture on the land of China is still too strong, and you don't need to ask Fang Nan to know that your students also want to make themselves emperors, even if Fang Nan can convince his students, but the officials of the People's Army, the soldiers of the army, and the ordinary people who support the People's Army cannot accept it.
In this case, the founding of the country and the emperor is the only choice, and the people's wisdom will be greatly opened in the future, if the people think that the country does not need a real emperor after a few decades, then Fang Nan will change the country's system and become a constitutional monarchy or a presidential system.
At the meeting, Fang Nan made a decision that the country established by the People's Army would be named "Xia", and Fang Nan would be the Xia Emperor.
Xia, that is, the first hereditary dynasty recorded in the Chinese history books.
"Summer" is actually derived from an insect – the cicada.
The cicada is the most common insect in summer, and as one of the characteristics of summer, it is true that the cicada can be used to represent summer.
The word "spring" in the oracle bone inscription indicates the appearance of grass birth, "autumn" is the appearance of the ripening of the farmer, "winter" is the appearance of branches and fruits falling off, and "summer" means cicada.
The four seasons are expressed in a tangible way, and when it comes to summer, it is known that it is called in summer, which is also in line with the meaning of what we mean by cicadas singing in summer.
Cicadas are insects, but they can metamorphose and reincarnate, this kind of mysterious phenomenon of repeated and continuous circulation undoubtedly symbolizes the continuation of life, and many jade cicadas or cicada patterns have been found in some archaeological sites as early as the Xia Dynasty.
In traditional Chinese culture, the cicada symbolizes nobility, eating and drinking, singing high and far, and will not be infected by the filth and deceit of the world.
Ancient literati and ink writers spoke highly of cicadas, Cao Zhi wrote "Cicada Fu" to highly praise cicadas, Tang Dynasty calligrapher Yu Shinan, also has a poem "Cicada" to show the cicada's high wind and bright festival, "weeping ears drink dew, flow out of the dredging tree." Raising his voice from afar, not by the autumn wind. "Tang Poetry Don't Carry" "Every time the cicada sings its voice, this is the only way to respect its character." ”