Chapter 227: Great China

Originally, some people in the staff department also believed that after taking the Nanzhili Mansion, the Xingtian Army should gather troops and send troops to Nanchang, Jiangxi, after all, there are still considerable troops under Fang Guoan's command, sitting in the area of Nanchang Mansion, which can directly threaten Jiujiang Mansion to the north, and it is easier to threaten Wuchang Mansion to the west, so the staff officer thinks that after solving Fang Guoan's people first, he will occupy Jiangxi first, and then seek Zhejiang.

But Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin both believe that although Fang Guoan has some strength at hand, but at this time Jiangxi is only left with such a fighting army, if the Xingtian Army does not go to find trouble with Fang Guoan, Fang Guoan will definitely not dare to leave Nanchang Mansion to find trouble with the Xingtian Army, and Zhejiang is prosperous, if Zhejiang is defeated, Nanzhili will basically be decided, and it will not be too late to return to attack Nanchang Mansion at that time.

Moreover, the details of Nanchang Mansion also sent back the news, saying that after the Xingtian Army took Nanjing, the Fang Guoan Department of Nanchang Mansion had already messed up, and the generals under Fang Guoan were very pessimistic, thinking that the next step was to attack Nanchang Mansion, so a large number of officers and soldiers immediately became deserters, making Fang Guoan busy with this matter during this time, and because his army was stationed in Nanchang Mansion, the financial pressure on Jiangxi was very great, and the Jiangxi Political Envoy Department could not take out enough food and salary to Fang Guoan. So much so that the officials and soldiers were even more complaining, and Fang Guoan had now decided to abandon Nanchang Mansion and go south to Ganzhou to avoid the Xingtian Army.

With the support of this intelligence, Fang Guoan's department did not become a problem to worry about, so Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin put their main forces on the direction of the attack on Zhejiang.

Turning his head, Xiao Tianjian continued to discuss with the ministers about the establishment of the country, and the ministers Chen invited Xiao Tianjian to live in the palace in Nanjing, Niu Jinxing and proposed to carry out a renovation of the Nanjing Palace, Xiao Tianjian had no opinion on the matter of staying in the palace, but he rejected Niu Jinxing's proposal to repair the palace, and he couldn't waste his money at this time! What's more, the imperial palace in Nanjing has been quite large-scale, although it has been abandoned for many years, but the Ming Dynasty has been kept to take care of the eunuchs, but it is not too dilapidated, although the palace of this war is damaged in many places, it only needs to be repaired simply, and it can be used.

And Xiao Tianjian thinks that he doesn't have many wives and concubines, and he doesn't need too much place to live, and now the three wives and concubines are in Luoyang, because they are close to Fan Yutong and Die'er are close to giving birth, and they are tired from long-distance work, and they need to wait in Luoyang for delivery, and they can only come to Nanjing City after giving birth, so they don't need to talk about any pomp and circumstance for the time being, and they will spend a lot of manpower and material resources to do this now.

Niu Jinxing touched his nose again, so he had to obey the order, but all the ministers thought that Xiao Tianjian had the image of a Ming Jun, knew that he was sympathetic to the people, and he was very economical to himself everywhere, and the future of the founding of the country would definitely become a generation of Ming Jun, and these people who were from the dragon, as long as they worked hard in the future, they could also achieve a career, at least there was no problem in flowing through the ages, so they were very happy.

So this matter was put down, but Xiao Tianjian put forward one more thing, that is, from him, abolish the eunuch system, and from then on, he will never allow people to be castrated into the palace as eunuchs, and at present, there are many eunuchs left behind in Nanjing, and these people are all dismissed and are no longer allowed to stay in the palace.

This incident caused an uproar among the ministers, and some people thought that it was really incomprehensible to do so, where could the emperor not need to be served by eunuchs? If all the men left in the palace in the future bring them, wouldn't they be careless, and they would fornicate with the palace?

Regarding the worries of the ministers on this point, Xiao Tianjian smiled and said: "I, Xiao, am not a faint king, why do I want so many wives?" Now I have three wives and concubines, which is enough, too many wives are too tired! Is it possible that you think that I, Xiao, can't control my wife? This matter is my private matter, and you don't need to ask about it, how can you manage the heavens and the earth in my home? Do you need eunuchs, Xiao has his own plans, and he needs to explain to you? ”

However, this decision made some of the ministers very happy, there have been eunuchs in power in all dynasties, and the matter of disrupting the government and government, the Ming Dynasty is even more at its peak, how many eunuchs have been in control of the government in the entire history of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention, only to say that Wei Zhongxian more than ten years ago is enough, and now Xiao Tianjian has abolished the eunuch system, which is undoubtedly a very good thing for them.

So the eunuch matter was settled, and then everyone began to discuss the matter of the country name, in Chinese history, all dynasties and dynasties have their own country names, and most of them are because of the continuation of fiefs or titles in the early stage, for example, the country names before the Song Dynasty were basically selected in this way, only the Yuan Dynasty used the "Yuan" in the sentence "Dazai Qianyuan" on the Book of Changes, which has the meaning of big and first.

The name of the Ming Dynasty is because Zhu Yuanzhang believed in the White Lotus Sect, which declared that "the darkness is about to pass, and the light is coming" in order to inspire the people to oppose the dark rule of the Yuan Dynasty. Therefore, it is also called the "Bright Sect", and Zhu Yuanzhang also admitted that he was a branch of the White Lotus Sect, so after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he took the Ming name in the word Guangming as the national name.

Now that Xiao Tianjian wants to establish a country, he naturally can't avoid the matter of choosing the country name, but everyone is not clear about Xiao Tianjian's place of origin, Xiao Tianjian has been taboo about this matter, and has never said where his home is, so some people think that the Xingtianjun really started to form an army in the area of Fengyang Prefecture, Huangyang County, these two place names have Yang, and the Xingtianjun is sitting in Yangcheng County, there is still a Yangzi, and the meaning of the word Yang is also good, you can take the country name Yang, and the country is called Dayang State.

As soon as Xiao Tianjian heard this, his mind immediately remembered the plaster flag of the small country in the northern sea that made all Chinese disgusted and hated home, and he was immediately disgusted to death, so Lima denied this yang character, and the Dayang country accidentally became the sun country, although it sounds good, but Xiao Tianjian can't accept the sun on the flag anyway.

Everyone then proposed that the punishment word of the Heavenly Army be taken as the name of the country, but immediately some people objected, saying that the punishment word is yin, and there is a sense of killing, and the punishment word is not appropriate.

After discussing and discussing, some people suggested that since Xiao Tianjian had been mentioning the Han nation, it would be better to use Chinese characters, and it would be better to call it the Later Han Dynasty, but it was refuted by many people.

In the end, Xiao Tianjian became impatient and said: "There is no need to discuss this matter anymore, the country name will be taken in Chinese characters!" In the heaven and earth, we Han people have always liked to call themselves in the world, and the meaning of the middle also represents harmony, and the country name is Zhong, and it will be called Great China in the future, which is better than anything else! ”

As soon as everyone heard it, yes, this world was shot down by him Xiao Tianjian, he said that the country name is Zhong, that is, Zhong, and Great China sounds good, not to mention that China is the meaning of the world, and there is nothing bad about it, so the country name was also set.

These things make Xiao Tianjian very draining, originally he still wanted to set up a cabinet out, let a group of shrewd and capable people be responsible for the overall management of national affairs, so that he will have time to be lazy in the future, and can spare more time to be busy with some other things, but looking back, it is obviously not appropriate to get this now, the cabinet minister Daming has, and it has played a certain role in the early stage, but in the later stage, it has become the center of the struggle for power and profit, and the courtiers have not to mention the great infighting in the cabinet. also restrained the power of many emperors,

Now that he has not ruled the world, he needs to control the power in his hands, and it may not be appropriate to set up a cabinet now, so this matter has been put down for the time being, as for the people below who proposed to restore the prime minister, Xiao Tianjian did not agree, and this matter was temporarily suppressed.

These major events have been decided for the time being, and the next thing is for the ministers to prepare some ceremonial things, Xiao Tianjian threw this matter to Li Jinde and they were responsible, in short, it was both grand and economical, and finally he put forward an opinion, that is, a big military parade in front of the palace, as a ceremony for the founding of the country.

On the one hand, such a ceremony of the military parade can boost morale, and on the other hand, it can let the people who watch the ceremony see the majesty of his Xingtian army, which is conducive to gathering the hearts of the people, and secretly show the people of the world that he Xiao Tianjian is a martial arts world, and he will establish the country with martial arts, laying the foundation for the next step of unifying the world.

So although the ministers felt that it was a bit abrupt and out of place, Xiao Tianjian had no choice but to make up his mind, and this matter could only be decided.

After all, the founding of the country is not a trivial matter, and Xiao Tianjian wants to have a military parade in Nanjing, just Liu Yaoben and Luo Li's soldiers will not be happy, and the officers and soldiers of other departments will definitely not be happy, and feel that they are doing it together to fight the world, why this kind of glory is given to Liu Yaoben's guards division and Luo Li's generals, so it is necessary to let the soldiers and generals from all over the country come to participate in the parade and share this glory.

Xiao Tianjian thinks about it, but all the ministries are now all over the country, who will be transferred to Nanjing to guard the current territory? Therefore, he ordered that among the soldiers and horses in each town, only 500 soldiers with outstanding merits were selected to go to Nanjing to participate in the military parade for the founding of the country, which could be regarded as a kind of commendation for the soldiers of these towns, and it would not affect the deployment of troops in various places, so that it would not cost too much.

So once this matter was decided, Xiao Tianjian conveyed this order, and at the same time he also proposed that after the founding of the country, the Xingtian Army can no longer be called the Xingtian Army, but after the founding of the country, it will be renamed the National Defense Army, and in the future, the town will be used as a unit to be managed by the Ministry of War.

The reason why it was renamed the National Defense Force, Xiao Tianjian said very clearly: If there is a country, there must be defense, and the army should be set up to defend the country, not just Xiao Tianjian's private soldiers, but the army of all Chinese, and their main responsibility will be to open up territory for Great China in the future, so that foreign prisoners will not dare to have the slightest covetous heart for Great China, and they cannot wait for the enemy to attack and harass them before they counterattack, as they did before, but they must eliminate external troubles in the bud and ensure the long-term peace and stability of Great China.

So in the end, after the establishment of the Xingtian Army, it was decided to change its name to the National Defense Army, some people don't understand it very well, but they can only listen to Xiao Tianjian's orders, but if you think about it carefully, if you have a country, you must have defense, and the main responsibility of the army will be external in the future, and it is appropriate to call it the National Defense Army.

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