After Li Xuan led the hundred officials and the guards into the city, he officially issued an edict to the world on the new palace centered on the original Zhaoqing Mansion: Zhaoqing will be the capital division!

After the capital was officially determined, the Tang Dynasty was also announced to be on the official track!

There are many other holy decrees that set Zhaoqing as the capital teacher, most of which are rewards, and after the capital of Zhaoqing is established, it is natural to reward the ministers.

The official position and grade of civil officials, the positions and ranks of military generals are naturally not easy to promote, because the Tang Dynasty, regardless of civil and military, has already formed a set of promotion systems that are not perfect, but are already in use, and it is naturally impossible to move casually, so it is naturally a title that can be rewarded.

This time, Li Xuan is also rare and generous, just the marquis is to seal out three, there are more than a dozen counts, and most of these people who are knighted are military generals, except for a few civil officials.

In terms of civil officials, only Liu Bagou, Wang Wenhua and Qian Mengjiu, the three oldest civil officials, were awarded the title of earl, and several others were named viscounts and barons.

Because Li Xuan has already stipulated that the third-class title of the prince and the marquis will not be awarded for non-military merits. Liu Bagou and Qian Mengjiu and Wang Wenhua can be crowned, that is an exception, who made them the founding heroes, without the three of them, especially without Liu Bagou, the Tang Dynasty would not be established.

The rest of the marquis and earls are all military generals, Hao Bonian, Li Chunjing, Fang Xitong and these three people were named marquises, Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren, Chen Butcher, Wang Danxu, Zeng Ziwen and other generals who were very early in Long were also awarded earls, and a group of generals such as Chen Keqiao, who emerged from the new ranks, were also named earls.

However, none of the above-mentioned titles are hereditary, and all of them are reduced inheritance.

Because the hereditary reckless replacement of this kind of big killer weapon cannot be easily thrown out, otherwise it will easily cause the proliferation of nobles, and it will make the title worthless.

If you really want to obtain this kind of hereditary title, it is estimated that you can only really gain a firm foothold, at least you must be able to confront the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and you can only seal it out when you are not afraid of the Ming Dynasty's counterattack.

Well, it's still too early!

In addition to the three marquis and more than a dozen earls, the viscount and the baron were even more, there were about twenty viscounts and more than forty barons, and there were civil and military officials of these two ranks.

According to Li Xuan's preliminary assumption, at present, in order to ensure the scarcity of nobles, the number of nobles is at least controlled within a few hundred, and a large part of them are barons who will be removed after death and can only inherit the title of one generation, and the titles of counts and above should be controlled within thirty.

After the complete unification of the whole country, this number can be increased a little, but not too much, otherwise, too many nobles will cause the title of nobility to be worthless on the one hand, and on the other hand, it will also affect the people's livelihood.

Although the aristocratic titles of the Tang Dynasty only had the necessary courtesy, and there was no fief and political power, it was still a great threat to the common people, and if the number was too large, it was easy to cause large-scale social injustice.

When Li Xuan set the capital in Zhaoqing and rewarded the ministers, the news from Zhaoqing was also quickly transmitted to Guangzhou through the Xijiang waterway.

When Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, heard that the puppet Tang thief army had captured Zhaoqing, and the puppet emperor took Zhaoqing as his capital, his face was very ugly.

Although it was his personal decision to give up Zhaoqing, and he also expected that Zhaoqing would soon be conquered by the thief army, what he didn't expect was that these pseudo-Tang thief troops would actually regard Zhaoqing as the capital.

At first, he thought that the capital of the puppet Tang thief army was in Xingquan Mansion, and later after hearing that the hundred officials of the thief army went south to Liuzhou, he thought that the thief army would be in Liuzhou.

Later, after the thief army seized Wuzhou, he thought that the thief army would set the capital in Wuzhou, after all, Wuzhou was the residence of the governor of Liangguang before, and it was also the residence of many high-ranking military and political dignitaries in the Liangguang area, and the political status was quite high.

But what he didn't expect was that the thief army didn't want to let Wuzhou, but had to go to Zhaoqing Dingdu.

Zhaoqing in this era is not a big city, at best it is just an ordinary city along the Xijiang River, and it is naturally far inferior to Wuzhou City in terms of prosperity, and even the city defense is not as easy to defend and difficult to attack as Wuzhou.

But why Li Xuan still chose to be in Zhaoqing, it is because if he chooses to be in Zhaoqing, on the one hand, he can take into account the military affairs of the two regions, and on the other hand, in Li Xuan's heart, the main development direction of the Tang Dynasty in the future is still to the east and north, mainly facing the South China Sea, Jiangxi, Huguang, and Fujian, and to attack these places, it is necessary to take Guangdong as the rear.

At the same time, Guangzhou thought that it was too close to the sea and more dangerous, so Zhaoqing was chosen under the trade-off.

As for the city of Zhaoqing, which was originally relatively small, these factors were generally not important for the defense of the city, because what Li Xuan wanted was just an administrative and military center, and as for industry, Zhaoqing was barely able to establish a preliminary handicraft workshop industry by relying on the Xijiang River.

And these factors are naturally unknown to Wang Yue, and even incomprehensible.

But it doesn't matter if you don't understand it, the important thing is that after the puppet Tang thief army officially settled in Zhaoqing, it will set off a great political negative impact, and this news is estimated to be spread to Beijing in a short time, and at that time, I am afraid it will cause a big earthquake in Beijing!

Throughout the ages, there have been many ignorant villagers who have rebelled, but only a handful have really succeeded, even if they can occupy an area of 100 miles, but the current puppet Tang thief army has swept through the three provinces, has more than 100,000 troops, and is still the capital of Dingdu.

This nature is almost the same as that of the rebellious emperor establishment in the past, and the puppet Tang thief army after the official establishment of the capital can really be called the emperor system in front of outsiders, rather than just a group of thieves and bandits as before, so it will have a major negative impact.

Although everyone knows that the puppet Tang thief army has been established as emperor in Lijia Village as early as the 39th year of Zhengde, in fact, no one, including Wang Yue, takes this matter seriously, and still thinks that these puppet Tang thieves are just thieves and bandits from the bottom of their hearts.

But now the puppet Tang thief army is actually the capital, what does this mean?

This means that the puppet Tang Dynasty thief army wants to divide the place and rule the locality, once the puppet Tang thief army successfully controls these places for a year or two, and after laying a solid foundation, this puppet Tang Dynasty will become the henchman of the Ming Dynasty, and even the enemy of life and death.

Wang Yue's worries are actually an important reason why Li Xuan, Guangdi, Liu Bagou and other officials of the Tang Dynasty agree and even can't wait to settle the capital in Zhaoqing.

After the capital is officially determined, this will give a clear signal to outsiders, especially the people of the world, that is, our Tang Dynasty is not, at least no longer a thief and bandit, but a formal dynasty with ambitions in the world.

If you want to be glorious and rich, don't hurry up and take your sword brush to join the Tang Dynasty!

Come here, you will be able to realize the ideals and values of life!

Come here, it is not a dream to be promoted and make a fortune!

After the capital of Zhaoqing was settled, it also means that the Tang Dynasty has been preparing for a long time, and it has always been afraid to open it, and the imperial examination, which is afraid of being ridiculed by the world, has finally entered the countdown.

After the capital of Zhaoqing, Li Xuandu had not yet settled the people in the harem, and Xie Waqian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said that the Ministry of Rites had been preparing for many months, and believed that the objective conditions for opening the imperial examination were ripe, and the world should be announced that the imperial examination would be officially opened, and the first imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty would be preliminarily scheduled to be held this spring.

After reading the plan submitted by the Ministry of Rites in detail, Li Xuan believed that it was indeed feasible to hold the imperial examination now.

Because the information sent by the Ministry of Rites shows that after a long period of preparatory work, it is certain that when the imperial examination is held, at least more than 100 scholars will come to participate in the imperial examination.

This figure is not based on a blank statement, but is the result of an unannounced investigation by the Ministry of Rites.

In order to avoid that no one will take the examination after the imperial examination is opened, and even more so to avoid forcibly grabbing scholars to take the examination at that time, so as to be ridiculed by the world and affect the prestige of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty is extremely cautious about the first imperial examination.

Until there is no certainty that there are enough people to take the examination, there will never be a rush to open the imperial examination.

Although it is said that at least some of the 100 scholars mentioned by the Ministry of Rites are only talents, and even many of them are just children, and there may not be any of them, but this is enough.

After all, the political significance of the imperial examination this time is the most important, as for whether it can recruit outstanding talents, it is not important, the Tang Dynasty has developed to this scale, and even the officials from the Ming Dynasty can surrender to him, not to mention what to raise people and show talents.

As long as the person is willing to surrender to him, he will not need the imperial examination, and he will be directly given a position above the county order.

Therefore, this time the imperial examination is of greater political significance!

After careful consideration, Li Xuan officially approved the imperial examination plan of the Ministry of Rites and prepared to open the first imperial examination in April!

It's March now, and the imperial examination will be held next month, so naturally it will not be too late for all the people in the control area who are willing to come to participate in the imperial examination to take the examination, but this is still not important, because when this autumn comes, there will be a more formal autumn examination.

This spring's spring examination will be the first to ascend to Enke, and the township examination to be held this autumn will be the official imperial examination.

This time, the spring test of Enke is all to send a signal to the people of the world: the Tang Dynasty has opened the imperial examination, so why don't you hurry up and join the Tang Dynasty to make contributions!

Its political meaning and meaning are actually similar to Dingdu, both of which belong to a kind of political propaganda, and this is why the Ministry of Rites must ensure that someone dares to open the imperial examination after someone comes to participate in the imperial examination, because once it is messed up, it is not positive political propaganda, but it becomes negative propaganda.

After the announcement that Datang was going to open Dengji Enke was posted, the scholars in the control area of the Tang Dynasty behaved differently, some laughed at it, some scolded it, and some people packed up their baggage and embarked on the road to Wuzhou!