The banquet of the previous dynasty is still going on, the emperor left, but the atmosphere of the banquet is more relaxed, when the wine is hot, the hall is already noisy, many officials leave the table to toast, push the cup to develop a little bit between the cups to hook the shoulders and drink freely. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

And after dark, fireworks were set off in many places in the whole city of Nanjing, and colorful fireworks bloomed and bloomed in the air, splitting from a moment of dazzling into countless small points of light, illuminating the night sky.

Just like the bustle in the imperial city, the whole of Nanjing was immersed in joy, and the streets crackled with firecrackers.

When Newton, Rotony, Robert Peele, Michel Crouls, François-Philippe Perrier, Robin Lustig and others came out of the palace, they saw that the whole of Nanjing was like a bright city that never sleeps. Not only are the fireworks still being set off in the sky, but the lanterns hanging high in the streets and alleys and the sound of firecrackers are all involuntarily reminded them of the Chinese New Year.

"It's even more lively than the Chinese New Year."

"This proves that His Majesty the Emperor of China is very popular with the Chinese people." Newton looked at the fireworks in the sky and thought stupidly......

Li Yu was drunkenly carried out of the palace by the attendants in a soft sedan chair, his brain was not completely confused, but his hands and feet were no longer obedient. He drank a little too much wine, and as a child of the North Korean royal family, Li Yu-ying didn't care whether he killed his brother or not, and he still had the most basic sense of shame.

China is thriving, but North Korea is defeated like this, any person with shame in this Chinese civil and military ministers laughing and drinking on the occasion of laughter and drinking will can't help but think of their motherland, Li Yu did not hold a wine glass with a hippie smile and pulled it around, but drank too much, which at least proves that he is still a little ashamed.

Tanuma Yiji glanced at the Ryukyu King Shangxi, who had been dragging himself to drink after drinking high, and waved his sleeves heavily, the villain who was rampant when he got his will, did he dare to have a trace of disrespect for the shogunate three years ago? Tanuma Yiji walked out of the palace very clearly, Chengtianmen was in front, he looked back at the magnificent palace behind him, "If that palace full of Chinese ministers of civil and military affairs caught fire, how nice it would be." Although Tanuma Yoshiji was very interested in Chen Han's promise.

"It's a pity, it's a pity...... "The allusion to the burning of Qinggong Tower is always just an allusion that circulates in the market, and it is one of the evidence of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's slander of Zhu Yuanzhang, not true history. China is like the sun in the early morning, and the current Chen Han's national strength is far from reaching its peak, but one of his eyes has already weighed down Japan and makes it difficult to breathe. When China's power is restored little by little in the 'Taiping', it is hard for Tanuma to imagine that they will still sit back and watch the Japanese emperor take the damned title of 'Emperor'.

It seems that there will be a war between China and Japan sooner or later! Because the Tokugawa shogunate, no matter how secretly suppressed the emperor, he couldn't tell the emperor what he was doing openly, and even if Hou Taoyuan died, he could only 'whine out of illness'.

Therefore, even if the Tokugawa shogunate wanted to, it would take a long time to set it up. Can the Chinese wait that long?

Japan is clearly not an opponent.

As the elder lieutenant of the Tokugawa shogunate, Tanuma Yoshiji could clearly see the post-war catastrophic consequences, but he seemed to be able to watch the Tokugawa shogunate go to disaster. It's a very painful ordeal! He is like a person who is conscious, but can't control his hands and feet, knowing that the oil lamp above his head is about to fall, and he is still piling bundles of dry firewood and straw under his feet!

Compared with the current sobriety, Tanuma Yiji is really willing to become a simple samurai, in that case, he will simply die. You don't have to go through the torture of day after day like you do now.

The next day, Chen Ming ordered the cabinet to revise the laws, etiquette, and music. At the same time, the imperial decree was issued to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and it was ordered that on the fifth day of the second lunar month, Chaoyangmen was read! Then there is the regulation of the inner palace system, the eunuch palace maid system, the latter is not allowed to interfere in politics, and violators will be killed without forgiveness. The final rule is the annual consumption of the royal family!

Although the power of the emperor of China is amazing, in terms of spending, the internal money, that is, the emperor's private money, has long been separated from the state treasury. "Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister", since the family and the country are integrated, then the emperor should no longer have any private money, and should not set up a small treasury privately. for all the whole world belongs to him. But this is true, but in fact it is not at all.

Because even the most stupid emperor knows that he will make people unhappy if he reaches out and takes people's money for no reason. And in China's history, there are many faint monarchs who used the country's tax revenues to squander indiscriminately, which eventually led to the drying up of the national treasury.

Under the mutual control of the monarchy and the power of the ministers, and then under the effect of the concept of preserving the society, the small treasury of the royal treasury finally came into being.

In the Qin and Han dynasties, the emperors of China implemented a dual-track system of taxation, in which the land tax belonging to the royal family went into the emperor's internal treasury, and the land tax of the people with state-owned land and non-tax-exempt privileges went to the national treasury. The land of the royal family is all anointed land, accounting for 1/3 of the total land in the world at the highest, and only a short head at the lowest. Therefore, the income of the royal family in successive dynasties was also high and low, and the income of each emperor in a dynasty was also different. It mainly depends on the emperor's greed and level of management. For example, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there were Sang Hongyang and other wealth-collecting masters to help him manage his finances, so his income was extremely high, so he could wield a big stick to knock the Xiongnu and knock on the Western Regions, but it was also because he was too ruthless, such as Bailu coins, and finally the people's power was exhausted, and he finally had to make an edict against himself. By the time of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, many policies had been denied.

Another example is the Song Dynasty, starting from the founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin, he set up a special inner treasury, called the "Sealed Pile Library", that is, the annual surplus of the state treasury was hidden in this treasury, and the original intention was also as a financial reserve to deal with national emergencies, but later it also changed its nature and became the emperor's small treasury. Although once the country encounters major events such as wars and famines, the ministers always want the emperor to break some money and take out some private money from the small treasury to tide over the difficulties, sometimes even the officials of the three departments in charge of finance will be cheeky to borrow money from the emperor, although the emperor is extremely reluctant, but he has to lend money to the government, and the government has to repay the money. Because of the economic prosperity of the two Song Dynasty, it is difficult to know how many private collections of the Song Dynasty emperor's small treasury were, and during the Song Gaozong period, it was rumored that his small treasury accounted for half of the state revenue every year.

Then there was the Ming Dynasty established by Zhu Yuanzhang. Under the life-and-death crisis of domestic and foreign difficulties, Emperor Chongzhen led his concubines to cut down on food and clothing every day, and even raised money from his ministers to save the country and save the country, and he was forced to the extreme. But at the beginning of his succession, he was also very generous with millions of taels of silver and millions of taels of silver. That's the inner money. The emperor can take flowers as he pleases, and he doesn't need to be sprayed somewhere.

There are two major sources of the emperor's internal funds, one is the imperial property, such as the imperial village, mines, and fines and confiscations; The second is that the national treasury allocates money to the royal family according to a certain percentage. That is to say, the royal family can legally obtain a part of the national tax, and the proportion that the royal family can get is different for different taxes, and the proportion of luxury jewelry is relatively high. and a cut of some government properties (as opposed to a share of taxes), such as minerals and salt, but these were not available to all emperors, so they could not be counted in the inherent income. Just like Wanli and Chongzhen!

The Chen Han royal family also has private property, a very large private property. Like the Thousand Islands, like the current West Borneo, as well as the vast Northeast Plains, and many places in the Outer Northeast have also been turned into royal private property by Chen Ming. It's an exchange!

Palaces in various places, many of the inheritances left by the Manchu Qing Dynasty were put into Chen Ming's own pockets.

And with the cabinet's concession on the imperial property, in terms of the year-to-income ratio, Chen Ming has very little, only a simple centimeter. That's one percent!

Every year, Chen Han takes an additional 1% of the national tax revenue from the treasury, and then the royal family does not have to worry about food, clothing, and rewards.

Although Chen Cong was very skeptical that his nephew's head was caught by the door, such a condition was still set, and Chen Ming joined the sermon.

No one knows what Chen Ming thinks. Is one percent still low? If Chen Han can persist until the 21st century, regardless of whether the Chen Han royal family at that time was rich or a rubber seal, not to mention one percentage point, it is one-tenth or one percent of a percentage point, which is also an astronomical amount. Compared with Britain's small fiscal revenue of 600 billion pounds, but only 7.9 million pounds of royal financial allocation, that is too much higher. As for the income of the King of Spain in a Chinese New Year's Eve, it is even more different.

The use of the royal family is not only about this, but more content regulations are related to the emperor, the queen mother, and the queen...... The quota for concubines, concubines, princesses and princesses, etc., even Chen Ming himself set a quota for himself. From a few new clothes and a few pairs of socks and shoes in a season, to how many dishes a meal and how many snacks a day.

Fortunately, there are records left by the Ming and Qing dynasties, and they can be compared with each other, plus or minus.

Seriously, Chen Ming looked down on the Manchu Qing Dynasty's calculations in small sections. Queen, queen, can only be divided into 10 palace maids, annual example: 1000 taels of silver; The imperial concubine can be divided into 8 palace maids, for example: 800 taels of silver; The lowest is always present and promised, a palace maid, a two palace maids, a year of 50 taels, a year of 30 taels. Chen Ming grinned when he saw it!

Although the Manchu court concubines would receive gifts on their birthdays. For example, on the queen's birthday, the emperor would "give 90 taels of gold, 900 taels of silver, 45 pieces of satin yarn, 9 python satin, 9 pieces of satin, 9 pieces of Ning silk, 9 pieces of palace silk, 9 pieces of yarn, 9 pieces of spring silk, and 9 pieces of silk." Much higher than the annual case. When giving birth to a child or a child is full of moon, the emperor will also give out red envelopes: 1,000 taels of silver for the queen and 500 taels of silver for the imperial concubine.

But Chen Ming really felt ridiculous.

Compared with the reduction in the number of food and clothing, in terms of age and treatment, Chen Ming has never treated his women and children badly. The prince who has not yet reached the age of the double ten weak crown receives the official gift of the country, and at the same time receives the knighthood of the prince.

Then on the fourth day of the second month, Chen Ming officially issued an edict to open Enke.

This is already a regular practice. From the Song Dynasty, prevailed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and every time the court celebrates, special examinations are held.

Now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, this is an unspoken rule, a must. As early as a few years ago, thousands of people came to Nanjing and abroad. Now in the officialdom of Chen Han, in order to deal with the time problem of the incumbent officials' scientific examination, a rule has been specially promulgated, and those who sign up for the scientific examination will be given three to six months of vacation depending on their level and distance.

During this period, the employee will be placed on leave without pay and will remain eligible, subject to results after the examination.

The meaning of this sentence is easy to understand on the surface, what really matters is the unspoken rules, which are the most fatal. You used to be the full-time magistrate of Wupin, and you want to take the Jinshi exam, you can. But this official position will not be reserved for you, and it will need to be filled immediately. Only their rank and seniority are reserved for serving officials participating in the expedition.

To use a very simple example as an analogy, it is like 'Ding Wei'. You went home to keep filial piety for three years, and after filial piety, you are still at the level of those few products, but there is no real shortage in hand.

This regulation has greatly discouraged the interest of incumbent public servants in taking the imperial examination, especially those who have no background but are capable and have already mixed good officials.

It's a matter of trade-offs.

It's like the current 'Ding worry system'. Chen Ming was unimpressed with Ding Wei at first, but he took into account the environment of this era. The decision was made to leave the choice of 'Ding Wei or not Ding Wei' to the officials themselves. Although every official who has died in the past two years still chooses Ding Wei, Chen Ming believes that people who are 'not Ding Wei' will appear sooner or later.

He is not slandering the traditional virtue of 'filial piety', but he is dismissive of this system of moral kidnapping.

Taking the previous Daqingguo as an example, there are countless officials in Ding Wei, how many of them are honest and honest? What is the ratio? How many officials were qualified to be 'taken away' by the emperor in the entire two or three hundred years of the imperial dynasty? How many of them are corrupt officials, and how many are upright?

This concrete manifestation of the traditional Confucian concept of filial piety cannot really elect a real 'righteous man and gentleman'. When a moral concept is concretely expressed by specific rules and regulations, the taste has changed.

On the fifth day of the second month, it was early in the morning. It was not yet six o'clock, and the sky was still hazy, and the pale blue sky was inlaid with a few remnant stars, and the earth seemed to be shrouded in a light gray veil. The whole city of Nanjing is already noisy, like a pot of porridge boiling. Especially in Xuanwu Lake, Wuyi Lane and the many compounds of the Praetorian Guard, the Logistics Department, and the Grand Governor, the houses are crowded with people.

No way, today's big parade. The location is in Chaoyangmen, as the high-level officials of the Chen Han court and the military dependents of the soldiers, the Grand Parade Headquarters has a place for these people to observe the ceremony in the surrounding demarcated area.

No one wants to join in the fun. There are Janissaries to protect the perimeter, nothing can happen, and it is not uncommon not to be allowed to bring maids. And these ladies are likely to be able to see their children, because the student representatives of Sungkyun Public School will also be present today.

Chaoyangmen is named because it is located in the east of Nanjing, and is the first to welcome the sun. As the first city gate to be repaired, there was a heavy eaves mountain gatehouse on the platform of Chaoyang Gate last winter. Before, it was just a brick single-ticket gate.

The big parade was not placed in Tongji Gate, nor in Jubao Gate and Sanshan Gate, with the three highest specifications of the Inner Urn City City Gate. Because of the topography, and because Chen Ming likes the name Chaoyangmen.

Pan Chang's home.

Qian looked at Pan Qian, who was dressed in good spirits, and her eyes were full of envy, she couldn't go to the ceremony today because she was pregnant with a child in her belly. And Pan Qian Wang Zhizheng and his family, who came to Nanjing a year ago, did not return to the army after the New Year, and received a letter from the Medical and Health Department under the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and he was selected.

And Pan Qian has the care of Mr. Bai, and she doesn't have to go back to the army alone. Staying in Nanjing, looking forward to the military parade has become the hottest wish after watching the emperor's enthronement ceremony.

One by one, individuals came out of the houses and gathered on the playground of Compound Five. The number of people is not large, there are only thirty people in total, and the five compounds are gathered, and there are only one hundred and twenty people.

When Pan Qian and the others lined up and were pulled to the predetermined place in a public carriage, the red sun had already risen from the east, and the warm sunlight shone on everyone, making people feel comfortable.

In the distance, the weeping willows on the shore of the Crescent Lake are gently blowing, the breeze is rising, and the waves are jumping, stirring up the broken gold all over the lake. (To be continued.) )