Chapter 494: Emperor Now

The establishment of the palace inner courtyard is just to better manage the more and more palace maids in the palace, and this palace inner courtyard is managed by the Empress Dowager Bai herself.

At the same time, in order to prevent these female officials and foreign ministers from colluding with each other and revealing royal secrets, it is stipulated that female officials are not allowed to take marriage leave, and they are not allowed to leave the palace without a holy decree, and if they want to get married, they are not allowed to continue to serve as female officials, and they will be expelled from the palace.

At the same time, it is stipulated that female officials have no rank, only specific positions and no specific ranks, because their positioning is not an official, but a domestic slave of the royal family!

The first batch of female officials are the old mothers and some palace maids around Empress Taibai, and these old mothers who have been with Empress Dowager Bai for a long time are still quite strong in combat.

The Imperial Courtyard is purely for the sake of royal life.

As for many of the powers that belonged to eunuchs in the traditional dynasty, they had already been transferred to the Hanlin Academy!

With the expansion of the Tang Dynasty, there are more and more departments of the Hanlin Academy, and it has now expanded to more than 20 departments, basically covering internal and external affairs such as civil and military affairs, and the cabinet, the Privy Council, the Inspectorate and other departments are roughly in contrast.

For example, the Finance Section, the Justice Section, the Industry and Commerce Section, the Civil Affairs Section, the Education Section, the Sect Affairs Section, the Internal Affairs Section, the Army Section, the Navy Section, the Ordnance Section, the Intelligence Section, and so on.

In fact, to put it mildly, even without a cabinet and a privy council, Li Xuan can use the Hanlin Academy to manage the huge Tang Dynasty!

Each of the departments in it is actually equivalent to a shrunken cabinet ministries, the Privy Council, and the departments of the Inspectorate.

Although it is said that because there are many departments, it is also very troublesome to manage, but I would rather manage it more cumbersomely, and I am not willing to set up any position such as the head of the Hanlin Academy to manage the Hanlin Academy, because if such a position is established, then it is equivalent to the emergence of a Tang Dynasty version of the eunuch who holds the seal of the master of ceremonies, and this kind of thing is what Li Xuan does not want to see.

The Hanlin Academy of the Tang Dynasty is not a eunuch institution, and the people in it are all civil officials, but there is no natural opposition between civil officials and eunuchs, if such a character appears, then it is basically the second cabinet chief, and the power will be much greater than Liu Bagou, the titular cabinet chief.

Therefore, the Hanlin Academy must be a secretarial institution that he is personally in charge of, many departments must be set up to disperse their power, and there must be no boss at the top of each department, and the direct boss of each department can only be Li Xuan himself!

This time, among the people who welcomed the holy car southward in the Liuzhou Mansion, many of them were officials of the Hanlin Academy, especially the people from the internal affairs department and the internal affairs department of Yizong, and basically the whole class arrived in advance.

This is not a trivial matter to welcome Li Xuan, because Li Xuan is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, how to greet him, and what etiquette needs to be used when greeting him needs to be considered in detail and arranged in advance.

You can't mess around, or the people outside won't know how to chew their tongues.

Nowadays, many people think that the Tang Dynasty is not formal enough, and treat the Tang Dynasty as a bandit and thief, especially in the group of scholars.

Although it is said that with the increasing expansion of the Tang Dynasty, it has defeated many main forces of the Ming army, which made some scholars change their views and devote themselves to the great rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, but more scholars still sneer at the Tang Dynasty.

Although the Tang Dynasty does not have to win over these groups of readers, it is also unwilling to let them find too many stains, especially on the etiquette that these scholars are most concerned about.

Therefore, the welcoming ceremony must conform to the traditional etiquette, so that everyone can see that our Tang Dynasty is not a bandit and a thief, but a most formal traditional dynasty.

By the time the holy car arrived in Rong County, the city of Liuzhou had a new look, and the soldiers and civilians were ready to welcome the holy car!

When the holy fleet arrived in Liuzhou City, the soldiers and civilians in the city held a grand welcome ceremony, and countless people who were forced or voluntarily came to come knelt outside the city to greet them!

Hao Bonian, who was stationed in Liuzhou City, and thousands of soldiers also changed into brand new military uniforms, and senior officers wore winter dresses and black gloves and rode on horses.

The troops lined up in a neat queue to greet the holy car!

At this time, Li Xuan also changed into his full set of equipment, based on Confucian clothes, with a dragon robe made of golden silk, wearing a crown, and a gorgeous sword hanging from his waist to get off the boat, and then sat on a full thirty-two people, extremely gorgeous sedan chair!

Then under the arch of the guard battalion, under the escort of the army, into the city!

In order to let the people along the way admire the emperor's demeanor, they also made a special detour for a few more miles, otherwise, they would be able to enter the city directly by getting off the boat.

And this huge team is also a great shock to the people along the way!

Let's not talk about the army first, just the guard battalion that surrounds Li Xuan's body, all of them are wearing ceremonial clothes and marching forward with their heads held high, and in order to make the team more powerful, they also specially dispatched the tall grenadier troops to form a phalanx to open the way in front!

Then there were more than a hundred cavalrymen of the Guards Battalion, and after the cavalry were the infantry of the Guards Battalion, and Li Xuan was in the infantry phalanx of the Guards Battalion.

In the rear are the infantrymen of the 5th Infantry Regiment!

The mighty army of thousands of people almost circled outside the city before officially entering the city!

And the city has long been prepared, the troops have already controlled the whole city and martial law, the streets where the holy car passes are guarded by a few meters apart, and the soldiers are followed by the people who welcome the people, of course, these people are also strictly guarded, the people in the front row are basically old and young, women and children, young and strong, in order to avoid trouble.

However, before entering the city gate, everyone found a more embarrassing thing, that is, Liuzhou City is only a small inland city, some streets are relatively small, and the sedan chair carried by thirty-two people is relatively large, of course, the sedan chair must be able to pass through the street, but it is difficult to arrange many soldiers around it to protect.

Faced with this time, Li Xuan immediately said two words to Liu Bagou, Liu Bagou hesitated a little after hearing it, but he quickly nodded and trotted down to order.

It didn't take long for Li Xuan to change into a set of specially customized military clothes in a large sedan chair with a cover, and then continued to wear a sword around his waist, put on long leather boots, and wore black gloves on his hands, and then turned over directly after coming out and rode a batch of green jujube-colored tall horses!

Subsequently, more than 100 cavalrymen of the personal guard battalion also surrounded him in the middle!

At this time, the holy car is to continue to move forward!

So when Li Xuan entered the city, what the soldiers and civilians in the city saw was not Li Xuan sitting on a sedan chair carried by thirty-two people, but the emperor Li Xuan riding a high war horse and wearing a military uniform!

This outfit and the rather special ceremony of entering the city reminded people that their emperor was not an ordinary emperor, but an emperor who led the Tang Dynasty to fight continuously!

This is an instant emperor with great military merits!

This scene gave many people in the city, especially those gentry, landlords, merchants and other social upper-class groups a great shock!

When they saw Li Xuan in military uniform, they slowly understood why the Tang Dynasty developed so rapidly, and why the Tang Army won more with less many times, beating the Ming Army like a dog.

This is because they have an emperor with excellent martial arts!

Although it is said that Emperor Zhengde in the north also led the troops many times when he was young, but compared with Emperor Zhengde's several personal expeditions and Li Xuan's personal expeditions, it was simply child's play!

The Tang Dynasty has such an emperor and such an army, maybe it will really be able to divide several provinces in the future!!

Even if none of them think that the Tang Dynasty can replace the Ming Dynasty, many people think that the rise of the Tang Dynasty has become a foregone conclusion, and if the imperial court wants to destroy the Tang Dynasty in the future, I am afraid that it will take many years to exhaust the strength of the whole country, and it may not be successful.

Perhaps, in this Tang Dynasty, you can also find your own place!

At this time, many unambitious scholars and even some middle and low-level Ming Dynasty officials and generals had this thought!

The ceremony of entering the city is completely a show, not only for outsiders to see, but also for oneself.

When the officials and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty saw such a majestic emperor and army, they would have greater confidence.

After the show, Li Xuan finally arrived at the Liuzhou Palace to stay, after entering the palace, looking at this luxurious and rich garden with southern characteristics, Li Xuan showed a satisfied look, the environment of the Liuzhou Palace is much stronger than the palace of Xingquan Mansion, that is, the original Xingquan Mansion Mansion, not only much stronger, but even can not be compared at all.

Of course, the environment of this palace is like this, Li Xuan actually doesn't care much, as long as he can settle down the royal family, he is more concerned about other affairs.

For example, when will the workshops of the Ministry of Industry be mass-produced, and when will the cabinet ministries that are traveling south resume their official offices.

These things must be done quickly!

He went south to Liuzhou, not just to change places to live, but to relocate the entire political, industrial, and military centers, and this relocation must bear fruit, otherwise the southward movement will lose its original meaning.

So that night, when Li Xuan invited the ministers, he said directly, since they have all gone south, then all departments must settle down as soon as possible, and then deal with various affairs, especially the workshop of the Ministry of Industry must form a large-scale mass production as soon as possible.

All departments, especially the people in the Ministry of Industry, are naturally patting their chests to make all kinds of guarantees!

The people of the Ministry of Industry have put down their wild words, the workshop of the Ministry of Industry has been opened in Liuzhou for more than half a month, and it has recently started trial production, at most half a month to start mass production, at most one month, its output can be comparable to the previous Xingquanfu workshop!