Li Xuanqing ascended the throne in Chang'an and became the emperor, opening the Yuan Dynasty. This news spread rapidly throughout the Central Plains with the newspapers of the media group, and was immediately walked by Xuan Yingwei's people to various parts of the south of the Yangtze River, and the reactions were mixed for a while.

However, compared with the embarrassing position of the feudal towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the Tang Empire began its own arrangements on the second day of its establishment. The Ministry of Civil Affairs was upgraded to become the center of the imperial administration, and the former officials of the departments at the department level were promoted to one level, and the ministries were established to exercise the supreme power. Li Xuanqing convened the first meeting of the cabinet to discuss the basic principles for the establishment of the cabinet after the reorganization of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The first is the cabinet rotation system, which means that the cabinet, as the highest administrative organ of the empire, rotates once every five years, and the prime minister's term of office does not exceed two terms, and he cannot be re-elected after the time limit, so as to prevent the phenomenon of monopoly of power by ministers. We will also establish an electoral system when necessary.

Secondly, all cabinet members are appointed by the prime minister after they are established, and then reported to the emperor for approval before forming a cabinet, and will be automatically dissolved after the term of office expires, and wait until the next round of prime ministers to form a cabinet.

The third is the establishment of the basic hierarchy of the Cabinet ministries and the leadership relationship between the Cabinet and local administration. At this point, Li Xuanqing transferred the ruling concept of the later republic and handled it with the relationship between local and provincial political envoys and cabinet ministers at the same level. In this way, the administrative department of the Tang Empire is divided into the following major parts: the emperor enjoys the highest power, but does not interfere too much in the daily affairs of the cabinet, the prime minister is responsible for leading the cabinet to exercise the highest administrative power to form an administrative central system, and the provincial level is headed by the political envoy to lead the states and is responsible to the cabinet. And so on up to the county level. The township system was established below the county level, and the two levels of the township were no longer divided into too many departments, but formed an administrative service center similar to that of later generations, and centralized office to handle township affairs.

Under such a big pattern, Cen Tianshi submitted his first cabinet members: Prime Minister Cen Tianshi, Deputy Prime Minister and Governor of the Northeast Special Region Tuoba Siji, Minister of Industry and Commerce Murong Hanhai, Minister of Finance Qi Hong, Minister of Civil Affairs Yang Qiu, Minister of Agriculture Wang Jingyu, Minister of Water Resources and Environmental Protection and Political Envoy of Hexi Province Zhang Quanfu, Minister of Education Yuan He, Minister of Foreign Affairs Zhang Han, Minister of Construction Zhu Laichen, Minister of Communications Wu Zuodong, and Minister of Security (formerly renamed Patrol and Arrest Department) Zhang Qi. After the basic members of the first cabinet were determined, the original building of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, a total of seven buildings, began to be divided into divisions, and the names of their respective departments began to be hung up, and the members of each ministry began to gather their own subordinates to establish each department and officially work.

After the cabinet members were confirmed, Cen Tianshi submitted the list of political envoys from various provinces to Li Xuanqing for examination. After Yang Qiu took over as Minister of Civil Affairs, the political envoy of Guanzhong Province was handed over to Xu Ningxiang, the former assassin of Ningzhou; The political envoy of Hexi Province is still concurrently served by Zhang Quanfu; The political envoys of other old provinces and regions have not moved. Several newly established provincial-level provinces in the Central Plains of the new area are, and the former political envoy of Youzhou was succeeded by Zhang Jianzhong, the assassin of Tianjin; The political envoy of the Central Plains Province was succeeded by Wang Yanlai; The political envoy of Henan Province was Xu Ning, the former minister of Xuanwu Army who had been rebelled by Xuan Yingwei at a critical moment; Shandong Province's political envoy is the first to be captured by Chen Yu in Lingzhou Chen Wenyuan, this guy has been working in the logistics department of Tiance Mansion since he was captured, with the growing power of the Tiance Army, there is no longer the meaning of repeating, in recent years, it can be regarded as diligent and diligent work, and this release to Shandong can be regarded as giving him a way to go up. Huainan Province political envoy handed over to Yang Xingmi, these days he is thinking about how to govern Huainan, during the Chang'an period even visited a lot of people to ask for advice on the concept of Tiance Mansion governance, Chang'an's School of Administration is almost every day to listen to lectures. As for Northern Jiangsu Province, in Li Xuanqing's impression, it should be expanded to the south, but it was not taken down at this time, so it was only tentatively located in Northern Jiangsu Province, and the political envoy was transferred by Gyeongju Assassin Shi Qiaoming.

After determining the list of political envoys in various provinces, Li Xuanqing and Cen Tianshi were also relieved, the appointment of these provincial officials is really not simple, everyone needs to be carefully considered before they can be appointed, so the two of them are still a little dissatisfied with this list, but Li Xuanqing's rise is too short, and the talents he has cultivated are seriously insufficient, and many people cannot achieve the position of provincial officials with their current qualifications and abilities, and many other famous ministers in history are not in agreement with their own governing concepts and cannot be used.

"Your Majesty, let's slowly cultivate the old with the new, there will always be new people." Cen Tianshi also smiled bitterly, but he, the prime minister, had a way to relieve himself, and it was nothing if the ministers of the cabinet went out to run around more.

"But the emperor, there is one more thing that the minister still wants to say." Cen Tianshi glanced at Li Xuanqing and said, "Now that the institutions of the empire are basically sound, the rest of the tinkering is almost done." But only the royal family is a bit of a problem. ”

"What Mr. wants to say is that the royal family is thin and needs to be added?" Li Xuanqing smiled: "But Mr. also knows that I was born as an orphan, where did I come from?" Don't mention this matter for the time being, and besides, when the empire is first built, it is better to spend your energy on governing the country. The royal family I have established may not be the same as before, so I will not mention this for now. There is one more thing I would like to discuss with my husband today. Li Xuanqing said the title issue he had been thinking about for the past few days, and the two discussed this matter in the cabinet conference room, until Huan Jiu came to shout outside, and he didn't know that it was dark all of a sudden.

"Your Majesty, the minister feels that if it is not unified today, it can be ignored for the time being, and according to what the emperor said, this title is only an honorary title to commend those who have made great contributions to the country and the people. We don't lack this now, and it's not too late to wait until the real reunification to confer the knighthood. ”

"Well, as you say. Let's go, it's getting dark, go to my place to eat, cook today. Li Xuanqing stood up, stretched and smiled.

"Haha, that's a good idea. I didn't expect Qiaoxi to cook after becoming a queen, so I can eat more. The two looked at each other and smiled, and after walking out of the cabinet building, they went back to the Hall of Ten Thousand Blessings, and Qiaoxi really made a table of dishes and waited. After a few people had dinner, they didn't say anything all night, and the next morning, Li Xuanqing took Qiaoxi for a walk and began to ponder the economic development of the Central Plains.

"Big brother, it's already October now, and it should be winter on the Central Plains side and our Guanzhong, and now Mr. Cen should just make plans and wait until next year to start. But I think we can still lay out in advance. Nowadays, the amount of steel required for railway construction is getting larger and larger, and with the addition of shipyards, construction steel, etc., the output of several steel mills simply cannot keep up. The Yuwen family can enter Zhengzhou and other places in advance to build factories, and the logistics department can build several iron mines and coal mines in the future, so that they can be laid out before the plan of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Qiaoxi also planned to move the BMW Group to Zhengzhou or Bianzhou to concentrate on the production of large vehicles, and the Changan headquarters will be used as a research and development center. Qiaoxi smiled.

Li Xuanqing nodded, agreed with Qiaoxi's idea, and said with a smile: "In this way, Yang Yi can be allowed to concentrate his construction headquarters in several provinces in the Central Plains in advance to be on standby, build large-scale transportation infrastructure, dredge rivers, renovate straight roads, and then let the Railway Division repair the railway, and then the two railways in the north and the railway from Chang'an to Luoyang in the east-west direction." ”

"That's right. In fact, the business community is no longer thinking about what it used to be, and they are thinking more than we are now. During this time, people from the industrial group came to report that many businessmen in the Guanzhong area began to come to us to cooperate. Qiao Xi smiled: "Now as long as we build the infrastructure, those people don't need to be greeted by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and they will go." I think that when the time comes, we will think about how to regulate the development of industry and commerce. ”

Qiaoxi's words also made Li Xuanqing relax for a while, and said with a smile: "It's been three or four years, right?" We don't need to guide this industry and commerce. It's okay, let's go fishing by the Yellow River after a busy few days, right? I heard that the Yellow River carp in winter still tastes good. ”

Qiaoxi couldn't help but smile coquettishly when she heard what Li Xuanqing said: "Big brother, is he planning to dredge the river section from Weinan to Luoyang?" There is too little water in this section of the river in winter, and it is actually of little significance to repair it. Moreover, the terrain of Guanzhong is generally much higher than that of Luoyang, and it does not play a role in discharging floods to the Yellow River. ”

"I'm not going to build a river, I'm going to build a railway." Li Xuanqing said with a smile: "Find a convenient way for the materials in Guanzhong to go out of the Central Plains." ”

"I'm afraid that the Ministry of Finance won't have enough money." Qiaoxi smiled, and didn't say anything else, after the two returned to the Qianqiu Palace, after breakfast, Qiaoxi went to take care of Xiao Tianqi, and Li Xuanqing went to the cabinet to participate in the Central Plains Development Planning Conference. Taking advantage of the fact that several political envoys had not yet left Chang'an to take office, Cen Tianshi planned to finalize the development plan of the Central Plains in advance.

When Li Xuanqing arrived, everyone else had already arrived, and after seeing Li Xuanqing, they began to salute, and several newcomers originally planned to kneel but were stopped by Li Xuanqing.

"This kneeling salute can be exempted after that, we are a new atmosphere of Datang, everyone is equal, there are not so many rules, everyone sits." Li Xuanqing waved his hand and asked everyone to sit down, and then said: "I will attend the work meeting of several provinces and regions in the Central Plains held by the cabinet today, and I also want to hear what you feudal officials think about economic development. ”

Cen Tianshi said with a smile: "Before the emperor came up just now, we also chatted for a while, but several of them were crying poor one by one, and they were all counting on the cabinet appropriation." As soon as he said this, the others were immediately embarrassed, but the Central Plains had just ended the war, and the displaced people were everywhere, and because of the huge consumption of materials to support the war, many treasury had been emptied by Zhu Quanzhong before, and even such a rich place in Xuzhou was also bitter.

"Your Majesty, although there are difficulties, I think we can still overcome them." Yang Xingmi suddenly spoke: "Weichen now has some ideas that I would like to ask the lord and the prime minister to correct. ”

Cen Tianshi nodded, he knew everything about Yang Xingmi's actions in Chang'an during this time, and said with a smile: "Brother Xingmi, please speak up." ”

"Although the Huainan Province in charge of Weichen is now poor and weak, but it is very pleasant to cooperate with several large businessmen in the early stage, during this time I have discussed with Minister Murong and several others, as long as the government envoy Yamen opens, they will sign a bulk material procurement agreement with Huainan Province, in exchange for funds to support the poor and weak, and new mineral resources, open factories, and attract displaced people to develop industry. Some Huainan farmers will be trained as workers to reduce the difficulty of transferring agricultural labor. Yang Xingmi took out a dense stack of paper written by himself and said: "Recently, Wechen has seen a lot in Chang'an, and many things that I didn't dare to think about in the past are commonplace in Chang'an, so Wechen thinks that agriculture is to let the people solve the problem of food and clothing, but if you really want to make the people rich, you still need to develop industry and commerce, so I have thought about it in Huainan Province, and I want to create conditions to attract businessmen to open factories and shops, so that Huainan will really develop." ”

Yang Xingmi's words were a little confused, but Cen Tianshi, Murong Hanhai and the others still couldn't help nodding, at least in a situation where he was just in contact with this economic development model, it was really not easy to think of so much, and looking at the amount of paper in his hand, it was obvious that these ideas had their own implementation steps behind them.

"Brother Xingmi, your idea is good. Honestly, how many people have been invited to drink in Chang'an to learn how to do it? Li Xuanqing said with a smile: "Do you have any ideas about economic development?" ”

Li Xuanqing's title of Yang Xingmi startled the other party, and he hurriedly stood up and wanted to say something, but was stopped by Li Xuanqing waving his hand, "Don't care about these details, you are older than me, I should call you brother, although you and I are now monarchs and ministers, but in terms of serving the country and the people, they are actually equal." ”

After calming Yang Xingmi, who was flushed, Li Xuanqing nodded Chen Wenyuan, who stood up and saluted Li Xuanqing and Cen Tianshi, and said: "Wenyuan has been in the logistics department for more than two years without being abandoned by the lord, and he has not learned anything else, but there is one thing that he feels deeply, that is, to build roads. Chen remembered that there was a famous saying in the logistics department that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. Therefore, the roads in Shandong are in disrepair, and if the roads are repaired, they can be connected to the canal inside, and the economic development of the province can be stimulated by the canal, and all kinds of coastal products can be sold to other places, and the economic development will gradually rise. ”

Wang Yan even brought his previous experience in Sichuan to support the development of small folk workshops and small factories.

"Well, everyone is right, and the opinions are proven to work. Now let the Prime Minister and Minister Murong promulgate the economic development outline that the Cabinet has drawn up for you, and you can selectively develop a few of them after comparison. If you have enough energy, you can implement it all. Li Xuanqing summed up and smiled.

In fact, the cabinet has a complete plan for the economic development of the Central Plains, but most of the political envoys of the Central Plains New Area are newcomers, and it is inevitable that there will be deviations in the understanding of the model implemented by Li Xuanqing and Cen Tianshi, and it is really uneasy not to listen to what they say.

And Cen Tianshi also wants to polish these provincial-level leaders who are about to go to the Central Plains to take office, so that they can understand Chang'an's economic policies as much as possible.

After Murong Hanhai heard Li Xuanqing's words, he stood up and began to lay out the economic development outline of the Central Plains, Li Xuanqing looked at Murong Hanhai's confident posture and words on the stage and showed a knowing smile.