When Pei Gai had not yet accepted the edict of the Zen throne, Wang Gong warned his colleagues who were not strong-willed, saying that the matter had come to this point, even if the resistance was great, we must break the waves and move forward, and there would be no room for regression. Immediately, Pei Gai persuaded Zu Ti to return, and Pei Wei and others ordered to urgently summon the main generals of Xingtai to come to the east to formally build the government team of the new dynasty.

Therefore, except for a small number of generals such as Xun Song and Yang Qing, who still stayed in Chang'an, most of the chief officials of the twelve departments either rode horses or took cars, and hurried to Luoyang. When everyone else had almost arrived, they convened the "Preparatory Conference for the Founding of the People's Republic of China" under the auspices of Pei Gai - Xun Group, Hua Heng and others had already expressed their positions, so they naturally had to attend.

The first thing to determine is the issue of the country name, Pei Xu, Wang Gong still suggested using "Qin", Pei Wei suggested using "Tang", in addition, some people put forward: "The foundation of the Ming Dynasty was built in Xu Fang, which can be called 'Qi' or 'Xu' because of this." ”

First of all, some people raised objections to the word "Xu", saying: "Xu Nai Dongyi's name, not the ...... of Chinese princes"

Xu is an ancient Dongyi tribe, it is said that it began in the Xia Dynasty, at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty sent troops to resist the Eastern Expedition of the Duke of Zhou, "The Book of Rites Tan Gong" contains Xu Chenyun: "The first monarch and the king of the king to seek the west, help in the river." It shows that it once hit the bank of the Yellow River. In the era of King Mu of Zhou, King Xu Yan even forced his troops into Zhou, forcing King Mu of Zhou to return from the west thousands of miles to meet him, and finally forced King Yan to surrender. The state of Xu was eventually destroyed by the king of Wu.

That's why there are objections, saying, "Ming Gong has repeatedly applied for the debate of Jin Rong, how can he use the Yi name as the national name?" ”

As for the suggestion of the country name "Qi", some people retorted: "Before the Ming Dynasty, he was in Xufang, and he was only based on a few counties in Huainan. The Huainan land is actually Chu in the Warring States, and it should be called 'Chu'. ”

Of course, Chu is also many, and those who oppose "Xu" can also oppose "Chu" accordingly. However, there are also counterarguments, Jing Chu said no matter what, at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, he was named a viscount, and wasn't Han named by Chu? Since Han is not a barbarian, how can it be said that Chu is a barbarian?

Pei Caixin said in his heart, this Qi and Chu are the two numbers, there has never been a unified dynasty in history, and there are only the likes of Southern Qi, Northern Qi, and Huan Chu...... By the way, in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jurchens supported two puppet regimes in the Central Plains, just one (Liu Yu) and one Chu (Zhang Bangchang), and the lip service is really bad......

Of course, he couldn't say this to the ministers, he just coughed lightly when the ministers were undecided, and then said slowly: "Why bother to name the country after the place?" If my name is Qin and Tang, what about the Kanto people? If my name is Chu and Qi, what about the people of Kansai? Since he should include the people of the world with one person, he will see the destiny of the heavens and be the lord of the four seas. ”

Pei Xu said: "What Ming Gong said is true, but Qin also ruled the world. Pei Wei and others guessed that Pei should not be satisfied with the word "Qin", so they guessed: "Could it be that Ming Gong wants to use Xia and Zhou as the numbers?" ”

Pei Gai smiled and said: "Let's ask Qing and others, if one word is included here, what word is appropriate?" ”

Everyone is dumbfounded - what words can encompass everyone here, including civil servants, military generals, families, and poor families? Could it be that ...... "taxi"?

Seeing that no one answered, Pei Gai stood up and said loudly: "We are all well-dressed Chinese!" Even if Yao Yizhong, Liu Guang and others ......"—those Di Rong's generals were still in Taiyuan and did not attend the meeting—"I hope that they will become Chinese." Even the common people hope to be able to make Cang Liao full of etiquette, literate and know righteousness, all of them are Chinese! ”

The term "well-dressed Chinese" is indiscriminately used in "Zuo Chuan": "China has great etiquette, so it is called Xia; There is the beauty of the chapter uniform, called the Hua", the first flourishing in the Wei and Jin dynasties, is a good name for scholars, especially middle and senior scholars. "The Book of Jin and the Chronicles of Shi Le" said that Shi Le strictly forbade the Hu people to "insult the Yi Yi well-dressed Chinese", and the purpose was naturally to win over the landlord class of the former Jin Dynasty in the Central Plains, which had nothing to do with the common people.

In fact, the ancient Han people did not have a unique self-designation - because of the lack of nationalism - and they were mostly referred to by dynastic names, such as the Qin, Han, Jin, and so on. In the original history, it was not until after the Wuhu Rebellion that ethnic contradictions gradually became prominent, and there was a need for a clear distinction between races, which became the names of "Han Chinese" and "Chinese".

——This "Han people" is actually not the abbreviation of the people of the Han Dynasty, but the source of the Xianbei aristocracy's contempt for the Chinese natives, Yun "a money Han", which is called worthless.

In Pei Gai's era, there were no Han and Chinese titles, only Jin people, so Chinese and foreign people were mostly called "Jin Rong", and rarely "Huayi". Pei Gai is good at inciting nationalist sentiments, and he also hopes to be able to condense the originally loose Juche nation into a whole ideologically, so he uses the popular title of "well-dressed Chinese" to put forward a "Hua" character -

"I'm going to be Huawei!"

When the ministers heard this, they were either happy or puzzled, and naturally a few of them euphemistically expressed their objections. The main reason is that Pei Gai's "well-dressed Chinese" entry point is well chosen, and there is the meaning of educating the world from Confucianism, and Pei Wei and others also feel that breaking the old convention of naming the country with a place can show the excellence of the new dynasty, at least different from the previous short-lived dynasties such as Wei and Jin. Confucianism is naturally mostly old-fashioned, but it also depends on whether there is a classical basis for this old ritual and old customs.

So after some debate, the new name was finally decided. Immediately discussed the name of the year - planned to receive Zen at the end of this year, then the Yuan can be changed on the first day of the next spring, which is not only in line with etiquette, but also does not form a window period - Pei Wei is to play the three titles discussed by the ministers, and Pei should choose one to use.

These three era names are all good words that were carefully picked out by summoning Su Confucianism, picking up history books, and carefully picking them out. The key is that Pei Gai has repeatedly ridiculed the name of Jin in private, what Jianwu and Yong'an, what Jianxing and Yanping...... I don't know who came up with it, it's too uneducated. And it's just that you collide with Han Guangwu, and you actually collide with Sun Wu and Cheng Han, how can this country be so good! Therefore, Pei Wei cares about it, and even the tyrants who have seized the regime from ancient times to the present must be avoided, and we will only play a new era name.

At that moment, Pei should open the first era name, and only saw the word "martial arts" in the book. Pei Wei explained: "The Ming Duke determines the world with martial arts, and accepts Jin Chan with virtue, hence the name. Pei should be noncommittal, he said in his heart: Will I have a second son? Will the second son kill his brother in the future? Forget it, let's take a look at the next one.

As a result, the second era name was unfolded, Pei should see it, his face couldn't help but sink slightly, his heart turned upside down, and he couldn't cry or laugh a little. Pei Wei also explained beside him: "The turmoil has been in turmoil for a long time, and everyone hopes that Jingfeng smoke will be the first and the Taiping Kangtai will be restored forever, so it can be named 'Jingkang'." ”

However, there was a melody in Pei Gai's mind - "Jingkang is ashamed, it is still snowing, the courtiers hate, when will the ...... be destroyed" Although these years, whether it is "Wude" or "Jingkang", it is indeed a new and good word, and it has not been ruined by future generations, but he must be unhappy in his heart - "Emperor Wude" is just that, I don't want to be commonly known as "Jingkang Tianzi" in the future......

Let's look at the third. Pei Wei explained: "Ming Gong was ordered by heaven to expand the land and open up the earth, which can be called 'Apocalypse'. ”

Pei Caixin said that you are really knowledgeable, no longer hit the shirt forward, but hit the backward ...... I really wonder if there is another time-traveler who specially chose these era names to test me, or even want to disgust me.

However, it is inconvenient to reject them all—if you choose one, it doesn't matter why the other two were defeated; If you don't use it at all, then people will go through the old classics and re-rack their brains to figure out the plan, and they will have to give an explanation for the retreat, right? frowned at the moment, thinking repeatedly: It's all good words after all, or I'll take it apart and reassemble it?

Kant? Naturally, this will not work...... Tianwu? I'm not the Emperor of Japan......

Forget it, anyway, the year name is not as important as the country name, but it is just a false name, as long as the four seas are peaceful, the country is Kangtai, and the country is also enjoyed for a long time, then the ugly name is also a nickname, otherwise the year name is brilliant, and it is inevitable to be scolded by the eternal generation.

So he finally pointed out the three plans and said: "I should first appease the smoke and dust, and then govern the country with virtue, which can be called 'Jingde'." ”