At the end of the ceremony, Cheng Qian was very tired, but he was very excited.

The new emperor called Prime Minister Zhang Chao to accompany him, and now, the emperor has officially moved to the palace, and Li Shimin still lives in Changle Palace in Beigong. And the newly canonized crown prince Li Xian is still too young, so the East Palace is temporarily empty.

"Yuanfu, the Emperor Taishang was able to come to the ceremony today, and he was so cooperative throughout the whole process, I am very surprised. What did Motosuke say to His Majesty? ”

"Actually, it's nothing, it's just a heart-to-heart. talked about the difficulties of Datang's entrepreneurship, and said that Zhenguan has worked hard for more than ten years. His Majesty is very emotional, but he is also a person who lifts up and down. His Majesty was relieved to know that he would be able to travel to the Americas in three years. ”

Cheng Qian sighed, "That's good, to be honest, I feel guilty about today's situation." ”

"Yuanfu, have you thought about this new dynasty name?"

Zhang Chao replied, "The ministers and the ministers of the cabinet have discussed preliminarily, and everyone has put forward some suggestions for the era name. ”

"Motosuke, what are you mentioning?" Cheng Qian asked.

"Kaiyuan." Zhang Chao explained, "This comes from the Hanshu Li Xun biography, the Han Xing has been 200 years old, the era of the beginning of the century, the emperor descended from the heavens to the right of the material, and the Han Kingdom was ordered again. This is the beginning of a new era and a good start. The minister thought that Kaiyuan was the name of His Majesty's year, which was very appropriate. ”

"Kaiyuan, it's really good, the first coin I minted in Datang was Kaiyuan Tongbao. Yuanfu, is the first month of next year the first year of Kaiyuan? ”

The minister suggested that this year be the first year of the new century. ’

The fourteenth year of Zhenguan is not a good year in the hearts of the people. There was another war between the North and the South, a shortage of money, a depreciation of paper money, an economic depression, and a great flood in the south.

Zhang Chao proposed to directly change the Yuan Kaiyuan this year, and also wanted to let the people accept the new emperor and the new court as soon as possible. Zhenguan has passed, and now it is Kaiyuan, and it is also a new dynasty.

The new dynasty has a new atmosphere, and after the implementation of the new policy, the resistance of the Zhenguan Dynasty will naturally be smaller.

In most cases, the new emperor does not change the name of the previous emperor in the first year of his succession. But now the situation is special, Li Shimin is not dead, he is the emperor, or he was driven down by the mutiny.

Zhang Chao said that of course, it is okay to change the name this year.

What's more, the slogan of governing the country put forward by the imperial court is no longer to govern the country with filial piety, but to rule the country by law.

"Okay, then I will issue an edict to the world today and officially change the yuan, and now it is October of the first year of Kaiyuan."

A new emperor ascended the throne, and the empress and crown prince were also canonized.

The cabinet, the Hanlin Academy, the Parliament, the Imperial Historical Tower, the Dali Temple, and the Privy Council were determined before the emperor ascended the throne.

At the beginning of the new dynasty, the new central institutions can be regarded as officially starting to operate.

The new cabinet yamen is under the Zhongshu Gate in the original imperial city. The Hanlin Temple, on the other hand, was moved into the front court of the palace city, on the side of the square in front of the Zhenguan Palace, which was to facilitate the emperor's consultation and assist the emperor in handling the recital.

The House of Representatives is located in the inner city.

The Imperial Historical Tower, Dali Temple, and the Privy Council are all located in the Imperial City.

Zhang Chao returned to the cabinet and convened the remaining eight prime ministers to discuss together.

The emperor did not attend, nor did anyone else, and it was a closed-door meeting of the cabinet.

The second prime minister, Fang Xuanling, spoke first.

"Now that the new emperor has ascended the throne and all parts of the world are stable, I think that the hundreds of thousands of troops who are now focused on Gyeonggi should be sent back to their homes."

"What the prime minister said makes sense, and he was about to talk about it today. The Tang Dynasty military system was originally a government soldier system, and Gaozu also had a Yuan Cong Forbidden Army, but this Yuan Cong Forbidden Army was actually equivalent to a government soldier, because Gaozu granted them land around Chang'an, and they were also on duty as guards. ”

When Zhang Chao talked about the military system of the Tang Dynasty, he also talked eloquently.

Later, the Zhenguan Dynasty became stronger, and it was also in order to meet the needs of the war. Emperor Taishang deliberately set up a standing forbidden army, and now there are left and right Yulin, left and right Shence, left and right Shenji, and the sailors subordinate to the Beiya, adding up to 100,000 people. This is a standing army, which is also equivalent to conscription. ”

"In addition, the imperial court has 720,000 government soldiers, and 800 military governments are stationed in various places."

The eldest grandson Wuji sat there, his eyes slanted at Zhang Chao. He knew Zhang Chao's intentions very well, and the first backlash he took office was to come to the army.

Before the new emperor ascended the throne, he had already done enough work in personnel and planted party henchmen. Now, again, the army has been attacked.

"His Majesty and many people of insight have discussed for a long time, and they believe that the military system of the imperial court in the past is actually not in line with the current development of the Tang Dynasty. The government military system is difficult to ensure the training time and battle time of soldiers, and this military system cannot adapt to the development war of the Tang Dynasty today. Therefore, I have a proposal here on comprehensively reforming the military system of the Tang Dynasty and formulating a compulsory military service system based on the conscription system. Ladies and gentlemen, take a look at it first. ”

As the prime minister, Zhang Chao is the convener of the cabinet meeting, and at the same time, he is also the arranger of the cabinet ministers in charge of the work.

At present, Zhang Chao has not arranged the scope of his responsibility for the prime ministers.

Unlike the cabinet members of the Ming Dynasty, there is a practice of concurrently serving as six Shangshu, and now Zhang Chao has not set this precedent. But he plans to follow some practices in later generations, that is, let the prime ministers each be in charge of a piece.

For example, Prime Minister Zhang Chao naturally leads the overall work of the cabinet, and he is also in charge of personnel, finance, military, supervision, and auditing.

These are also the most important powers.

Fang Xuanling is the second minister, and the authority that Zhang Chao plans to give him is the standing work of the cabinet, as well as taxes and people's livelihood. Because Zhang Chao, the prime minister, has a lot of opportunities, he also assists Zhang Chao in charge of supervision and auditing.

The other auxiliary ministers are naturally in charge of the six departments. Of the seven auxiliary ministers, there were only six ministries in the imperial court, so there was one left, which was responsible for dealing with the parliament, the Hanlin Academy, the Imperial Historical Observatory, and the Dali Temple, which were not subordinate to the cabinet.

Zhang Chao is responsible for this cabinet division of labor.

Now that he hasn't scored, then the power of this cabinet is even more grasped by Zhang Chao.

Zhang Chao doesn't divide this work for a day, so an auxiliary minister like the eldest grandson Wuji is not even as powerful as the six books.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhang Chao not to divide labor all the time, but it is okay to delay it first.

"The prime ministers should also know that the recruitment system implemented by the prince's mansion before, professional officers plus professional non-commissioned officers, and then compulsory soldiers, which allows the imperial court to have soldiers available at any time, and at the same time ensures that the elite of the officers and non-commissioned officers in the backbone and skeleton of the army are excellent, and such a recruitment system will not delay the fighter plane because of the temporary transfer of soldiers, let alone delay production, etc."

The eldest grandson Wuji directly contradicted it.

"Isn't the current 100,000 Beiya Forbidden Army of the imperial court enough to be a standing soldier?"

Zhang Chao said with a smile, "Of course, the standing army of 100,000 forbidden troops is not enough, and the system of forbidden army also has shortcomings, such as the lifelong system of soldiers, which is easy to send troops." In our new military system, soldiers are compulsory, and when they go home after three years, they can be promoted to non-commissioned officers. Even non-commissioned officers and officers have a set number of years of service at all levels, and if they perform well during the length of service, they can be promoted if they have military merits; if they cannot be promoted, they must be discharged from the army and go home, so as to prevent the appearance of ruffians and soldiers, and to keep the army always maintaining an upward momentum. ”

In any case, if the Tang Dynasty wants to open up, there will definitely be many troops who have been fighting abroad for a long time in the future, and even troops stationed in the colonies for a long time. The temporary conscription of peasant soldiers in the government military system is not suitable, and this kind of army is suitable for defense and not for attack.

If you let the government soldiers be away all the year round, who will do the government soldiers.

The reason why the government military system in the history of the Tang Dynasty collapsed was that there was no rotation in the foreign garrison for a long time, and later there was not enough land, and it was impossible to exchange merit rewards, so everyone was unwilling to be a government soldier. Those officers and landlords' children did not go to serve as government soldiers, and the government military system was rotten, and in the end there were no soldiers available, so they could only implement the recruitment system.

However, this later conscription system was basically a lifelong military system.

The treatment of these recruits became worse and worse, and even in the late Tang Dynasty, the soldiers were all those criminals who were arrested locally, etc., and even tattooed words on their faces in order to prevent the soldiers from escaping.

From the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, everyone competed to be a government soldier, and there was a future when they became a government soldier, but in the late Tang Dynasty, being a soldier became an inferior person, like a prisoner, how could such an army be useful? Even if many armies in the late Tang Dynasty could fight, they had no military discipline and no ideals, and rebellion was as casual as commonplace.

It was an army without a sense of honor.

Zhang Chao hopes to build an elite group, the army is the elite, there can be an upward channel in the army, but there is also survival of the fittest.

Those who can stay are elites, and the treatment will be very good, so that they can maintain a good sense of honor as soldiers.

Even if they are retired conscripts, veteran non-commissioned officers and officers who come out of the army, Zhang Chao also hopes that these people who have experienced the transformation of the army's furnace can become the local elite and model in Datang.

Zhang Chao's proposal for the reform of the military system was very detailed and prepared.

It is planned to change the original five metropolitan governors of the Tang Dynasty unchanged, but the former north and south ya, changed to the army and navy. Then the six armies of the South and the Twelve Guards of the North Mansion were changed to various armies.

The deployment and distribution of the army were readjusted, and these troops were stationed in various parts of Datang in battalions and regiments. Brigades, divisions, and armies only retain one headquarters in peacetime, and they cannot directly command troops, just like the 12 guards in the past.

In the event of a war, the emperor selects generals, the cabinet and the Privy Council transfer troops, and the military department gives soldiers a talisman and is responsible for logistics and supply. Depending on the scale of the war, troops should be mobilized to form combat units.

Compared with the previous system of guarding the government, the separation of soldiers and generals has not changed, and the power to command, transfer, and send troops is still separated.

This is also done to ensure that the sharp sword of the army must be completely controlled.

The biggest difference between this change in the military system is that in the future, Datang will have a standing army, and soldiers will be stationed and trained for a long time, and the imperial court can be used at any time.

As for the number of Tang troops after the reform, Zhang Chao planned to reduce the number of more than 200,000 and retain the number of land and sea by 600,000. However, compared with the past, the combat effectiveness is several times higher, because these 600,000 troops are all standing troops.

The Tang Dynasty has a population of more than 60 million and a standing army of 600,000, and the ratio of 100 to 1 is actually not high, especially with the financial income of the imperial court today, it is completely affordable.

Of the 600,000 standing troops, 5 percent are officers, 20 percent are noncommissioned officers, and 75 percent are conscripts.

This means that in the future, Datang will maintain 30,000 military attachés and 120,000 non-commissioned officers for a long time, and the number of conscripts will reach 450,000.

The iron-clad battalion, the flowing soldiers, and the largest number of conscripts will also be the most mobile.

Along with this, the imperial court will also establish many military schools and non-commissioned officer schools. Training of command, staff officers, technical officers, non-commissioned officers.

"I'm against it!" After only a cursory look at it, the eldest grandson Wuji threw it aside and objected loudly.

"Shangdang County King, please tell me your reasons." Zhang Chao said to him without hurry.