On November 1, East China Square was crowded with people.

Today is the founding ceremony of the Chinese Empire, but according to Xia Jun's instructions, everything is still simple, and there is no great momentum.

It's just that the momentum of the masses of the people is very huge, and people from all walks of life have poured into Huadong Square to watch the ceremony, crowding the huge square to the brim, and the political axe has already activated anti-stampede measures, and a large number of policemen are maintaining order in the square.

Early in the morning, Xia Jun appeared in front of people's eyes, and the crowd immediately cheered enthusiastically, Xia Jun took off his military hat and greeted the masses.

Next to Xia Jun is Li Shijing, who also attended the founding ceremony today.

Also attending the founding ceremony were the commanders and staff officers of various military regions, as well as the officials of the administration of the East China Political Axe, and basically everything that could be reached arrived.

The high-ranking officials of the Beiyang political axe also arrived, but they were only supporting roles.

At eight o'clock, ninety-nine salutes roared, and Xia Jun began to come to the high microphone under the watchful eye, and everyone couldn't help but listen with bated breath.

"I declare that the Chinese Empire is officially established today." Xia Jun slowly shouted in a high tone: "Since the Chinese nation overthrew the rule of foreign races in the Xinhai year, it means that the Chinese nation has broken free from the suffering and shackles brought to us by foreign races, and the establishment of the Chinese Empire means that our Chinese nation has begun to move towards comprehensive rejuvenation, and the Chinese nation has ...... Banzai! ”

The crowd below suddenly boiled, and shouted after Xia Jun:

"Hooray......

"Hooray......

"Hooray......

Xia Jun raised his hand and pressed it, and the crowd that was about to be crowded in the square finally stopped cheering.

"Thanks to the people's election, Jun Jinyu took up the post of head of the empire, although he was not talented, but he could once again promise all the people that he should fulfill five requirements, first: let all Chinese people achieve food and clothing. Second, every citizen born in China should have a fair right to education. Third, under the dictatorship system, the officials are restrained and [***] is eliminated. Fourth, we will never take any action that harms the interests of the nation. Fifth, let every compatriot live with dignity. ”

"We are an imperial country, and the imperial system is a long tradition of our Chinese nation, but now it is said that the West has been introduced, and there are some differences in the country, in order to consider the opinions of some groups, so we seek common ground while reserving differences, put aside disputes, and Jun only served as the head of the empire, not the emperor. If there are achievements during the 12 years of Jun's inauguration as head of state, and the will of the people still exists, the Chinese imperial system will be completely restored. If Jun has nothing to accomplish and the people's hearts are lost, then he will retire after 12 years, and there should be no lie. ”

Xia Jun is no longer humble at this time, and since he has made a promise, there is no need to be humble.

…… The whole founding ceremony ended very simply, after Xia Jun delivered his inaugural speech, he participated in the ceremony of sacrificing to the sky, which is a custom, although it is a little cumbersome Xia Jun also took it hard.

Then, You Zhengbin delivered an inaugural speech by the first assistant of the cabinet.

The political model of the Chinese Empire has been formalized, that is, the establishment of a responsible cabinet, with one first assistant and three second assistants, and the cabinet is responsible for handling government affairs in normal times, and then handed over to Xia Jun for approval.

As the head of the empire, Xia Jun's usual decision will also be drafted by the cabinet to decide whether to pass it.

Basically, this is a system copied from the Ming Dynasty cabinet, which was an institution that had no name for the prime minister, but had more power than the prime minister, and could limit the imperial power.

The Ming Dynasty set up a cabinet, the cabinet has great power, and it is precisely because of this that the emperor will not be in chaos if he does not go to court for more than ten or twenty years, and the Ming Dynasty has actually embarked on a disguised constitutional monarchy period. The cabinet of the Ming Dynasty reached its peak during the Zhang Juzheng period, showing extremely high power.

You Zhengbin served as the first assistant to the cabinet of the Chinese Empire, and Tao Chengzhang, Yan Xishan, and Wu Yanzhang served as the second assistant to the cabinet.

This appointment was personally drafted by Xia Jun, You Zhengbin is diligent and obedient, and he has made great progress, which is enough to be qualified as the first assistant of the cabinet. Tao Chengzhang is old-fashioned, although he is more conservative, but it is essential. Yan Xishan is scheming and calculating, well versed in the golden mean, many headaches can be dealt with by him, Wu Yanzhang is the former minister of industry, the future is to take the industrial route, Wu Yanzhang served as the cabinet deputy assistant, mainly dealing with industrial problems.

The work of the Minister of Education was taken over by Zhang Taiyan, and the Minister of Industry was held by Zhen Yucheng, who was a college student who had just graduated from school for two years, and had been honed at the grassroots level for two years, and was promoted by Xia Jun at the speed of a rocket. Zhen Yucheng has passed the theoretical knowledge and has a very enterprising spirit, as Xia Jun's proud disciple, at this time when talents are scarce, he is naturally able to jump directly to the Minister of Industry at rocket speed.

Yan Xishan was appointed as the deputy assistant of the cabinet, which surprised many people, Yan Xishan was not the first group of elders, but jumped into the cabinet, which also means that Yan Xishan will be one of the core high-level leaders of the Chinese Empire in the future.

Of course, this is also related to Yan Xishan's sale of all his assets to Huadong Group, if Yan Xishan still has huge personal assets, there is no room for growth at all.

After You Zhengbin delivered his inaugural speech, the three assistants also delivered inaugural speeches one after another.

The institutional structure of the Chinese Empire was basically determined, with the head of the empire as the leader, the head of the empire in charge of military and political power, and the cabinet in charge of handling government affairs.

And then there are the departments that deal with their own affairs.

At the beginning of the empire, there was always a lot to deal with and implement.

On the issue of religion, Xia Jun put forward the policy of establishing Taoism as a state and restricting Buddhism's accumulation of wealth, which is basically the policy of learning from the Nanyang Republic.

The bill was then sent to the newly formed cabinet, and Yau Zhengbin discussed it with the three deputy assistants, believing that the religious treatment policy of the Nanyang Republic was indeed meritorious.

Since Buddhism is for monks, the state can provide them with food, clothing, and clothing, but it cannot accumulate social wealth, and if you want money to return to the vulgar first.

"It is unlikely that Buddhism will be completely banned from collecting money, because pilgrims often give money, so it is better to prohibit monks from collecting money outside the temple, and the money of the pilgrims inside the temple will be nationalized and some of it will be left for them to repair the temple. A Buddhist institution can be set up specifically for management. Yan Xishan said.

"That's a good idea."

"Seconded."

The cabinet quickly wrote a proposal, and then asked people to send it back to Xia Jun, who read the cabinet's approval, stamped it with the seal of the head of the empire, and officially took effect.

The Cabinet soon ordered the establishment of the 'General Office for the Administration of Buddhism', which would register and manage Buddhist temples and monks in the country.

On the premise of ensuring that the monks' food and clothing supply is sufficient, it is forbidden for the monks to collect money outside the temple, and the wealth collection projects within the temple will also be managed, and the money of the pilgrims will be divided in half, half of the political axe, and half of the temple.

At the same time, the temple cannot use this money freely, and the money is kept by the General Office of Buddhist Administration, and if the temple wants to use this money, it must make a clear report on what it is used for, and at the same time it must be supervised. Any monk who embezzles will also be punished according to the crime of embezzlement.

Buddhism is a religion that is indeed capable of solving the troubles of pilgrims, so it can flourish in China, where everyone believes in everything and believes in nothing.

Now that China is rich, the practice of praying to God and worshiping Buddha has become more prevalent, many pilgrims have been bold, and the practice of collecting money in temples has begun to recover.

Monks are originally monks, and treating money as dung is a criterion that they should have, and the political axe restricts this, and does not shake their interests, but only makes Buddhism more pure, and eliminates those fake monks who cheat money everywhere from Buddhism.

If you want money, don't leave home, and no one will stop you, right?

So the restrictions on Buddhism are very reasonable, and Buddhism itself cannot oppose it.

At the same time, the Chinese Empire provided free food and clothing for the monks, and a little food and clothing is only a drop in the bucket for today's huge empire with rapidly growing productivity.

As the presiding officer of a temple, you are short of food and clothing, as long as you make a report, the political axe will be sent to you immediately.

As the president of the Taoist Association, Chen Yingning also submitted a report on the constraints of Taoism, which put forward restrictions on Taoist feng shui, fortune-telling and other activities.

Taoism does not have a Buddhist system, and if a cultivator wants to obtain the food and clothing needed for life, in addition to his own family conditions, he has to rely on fortune-telling and feng shui to make money.

There are also many people who cheat and cheat money by looking at feng shui and fortune telling, and Chen Yingning suggests that feng shui masters and fortune tellers should be professionally evaluated and licensed to carry out these social activities.

At the same time, Chen Yingning suggested that Taoism should also enjoy the benefits of free food and clothing, so that cultivators can cultivate with peace of mind, and at the same time, the state should give Taoist priests food and clothing, and after cultivating supernatural powers, they should repay the society.

At this time, the Chinese Empire had a MI2 department, which was equivalent to a 'Strange Ability Bureau', which specialized in absorbing those who were not cultivators.

The abilities possessed by these naturally awakened supernatural abilities can only be said to be insignificant compared to the supernatural powers of those monks. But the monks were detached from the world, so it was impossible for most of them, except for a very few, to be recruited by the political axe.

However, since the state pays for them, it is very easy to ask them to do one or two small things that can be done with their hands, so it is also necessary to register those monks who have cultivated supernatural powers.

Chen Yingning's proposal was quickly approved by the cabinet, and sent to Xia Jun again, Xia Jun carefully read the report, and wrote his opinion on the report, that is, to establish Taoist temples in various places, and then use the Taoist Research Institute of the Institute of Chinese Studies to select people who are proficient in metaphysics to go to various Taoist temples to preach in various places, so as to expand the group of cultivators. Then it was stamped and sent back to the Cabinet, which again stamped the opinion of the Führer and then sent it down.

Many people think that Taoism has basically no other contribution to society than to live a little longer. This is a mistake in thinking that Taoism has played a unique social role since ancient times.

Now that the Chinese Empire pays for them, it doesn't cost much, even if there are millions of Taoist priests, they can afford to raise them, and the expenses of cultivators are very small.

The support of the state has also created a good monastic environment in society. And it is also guiding these monks to make greater contributions to society, and they themselves are capable of contributing.

Even in later generations of China, there was a policy of support for Taoist priests, but only a small part of the support, and it was also for the high-level service.

With the rapid development of society, the abundance of materials, and the amount of information increasing, the cultivation of the Tao will enter an 'era of the end of the Dharma'.

This name was put forward by Buddhism in later generations, and the reason why it is called the era of the end of the Dharma is not because of the exhaustion of spiritual energy, but because people's consciousness is getting stronger and stronger, and it is not easy to cultivate the original spirit.

People are divided into primordial gods and knowledgeable gods, the primordial gods are innate in power and have no consciousness, and the gods are acquired in power and exist consciously.

As the cloud in the "Yellow Emperor Yin Fu Sutra": people know their gods and gods, but they don't know the gods who are not gods.

This means that the conscious consciousness seems to be God, but is not really God, and the unconscious primordial God does not seem to be God, but is a true God.

Ancient society was not so complicated, people's thinking was relatively simple, and the power of the gods was unstable, so the original gods were easy to cultivate, according to Buddhism, it was Huigengao. With the development of society, people's thinking has become more mixed between the rampant flow of material desires, and the power of the gods has become more stable, and it is not easy to cultivate the original gods. That's why it's called the 'age of the end of the law'.

In this era of the end of the Dharma, people's ** is stronger, there is a comparison, a person suddenly quits the world and goes to cultivate, what will relatives and friends think? First of all, there are restrictions on movement, and then there is a need for life in the cultivation of the Tao, and the material aspects are again restricted.

If there is the recognition and support of the state, then the practice of escapism will not be regarded as a monster, and there will be no material restrictions.

When the era of the end of the Dharma comes, the state should give a certain amount of support in order to avoid the blow of social development to the monastic community.

Now that agricultural productivity has skyrocketed, will there still be food and clothing? By giving the cultivators a reasonable social status, they can avoid the 'era of the end of the law'.

The 'era of the end of the law' is not an absolute disaster, and in the "Yellow Emperor Yin Fu Sutra", there is another cloud: the surname is clumsy and can be hidden.

The way of cultivating the truth is to adopt the innate and the acquired, and all the clumsy surnames are hidden and not used. As long as there is enough perseverance, even the most stable consciousness can be hidden.

…… After the establishment of the Chinese Empire, the East China embassies of various countries were changed to the Chinese Imperial Embassy, and the diplomatic relations were still the same as the previous East China political axe, because the Chinese Imperial political axe evolved from the East China political axe.

When the empire was founded, the embassies of various countries in China sent them to celebrate, and since the founding ceremony was only set up ten days after the news was announced, many national missions did not catch up.

The Arab Kingdom of Rashid, as the main junior brother of the Chinese Empire at this time, immediately sent an embassy to pay tribute after hearing of the establishment of the Chinese Empire.

The Rashid Arabs had firmly established their dominance on the Arabian Peninsula, and the country's industry and agriculture had developed. Initial self-sufficiency in agriculture has been achieved, but it is heavily dependent on the high-yielding crops provided to them by China. In industry, the main development project is oil refining.

As for pollution, apart from China's concern, other countries in the world have not paid enough attention to it at all, let alone the Arab Kingdom of Rashid.

With the development of the economy, the life of the royal family of the Arab kingdom of Rashid began to be luxurious, but their military investment was not large, and they were heavily dependent on China.

The main reason for the visit of the Arab Kingdom of Rashid to China was to sign a contract with a Chinese security company to merce troops.

With the outbreak of the First World War, the Arab Kingdom of Rashid also realized the crisis.

On 3 November, the Rashid Arab Kingdom delegation arrived in Hangzhou, China, and Xia Jun personally received the Rashid Arab Kingdom delegation.

Rashid Arabia, as the first regime to be supported overseas by the political axe of East China, was a relatively successful attempt.

At the same time, oil on the Arabian Peninsula is extremely important to China.

In order to be able to firmly control the Arab Kingdom of Rashid, the Arab Kingdom of Rashid will be the first stop of Huaxia Society's external expansion.

At the same time, it is also the first step for China to promote Chinese culture to the outside world.

The first thing to implement is Chinese!

After receiving the Arab Rashid mission, Xia Jun quickly reached a mercenary agreement with them, and the Snow Leopard Security Company would send a mercenary force of 20,000 soldiers to Rashid Arabia.

The cost of hiring this mercenary army is only a regular expense, and although the economy of Rashid Arabia has developed, it is still relatively fragile, so China will provide a loan of 100 million revival dollars to the Rashid Arab Kingdom.

For a small country, 100 million renaissance coins is already a huge loan.

In fact, this money is earned by China giving it to Rashid Arabia for free, so China extracts oil in Rashid Arabia for free, and there is no export tax. It is equivalent to saying that in terms of oil exploitation, the Arab Kingdom of Rashid basically gets a penny except for the oil refining that can get some wages.

It's all a bully clause, but the current price of oil in the world is low, and it is not said that it has entered an era of huge energy consumption, and the understanding of the important surname of oil is not strong enough, so China can take advantage of the loophole.

It is too ...... for Xia Jun to send additional troops to Rashid Arabia, and it is too to ask others to pay for it It's so cool, since people have put it forward, there is naturally no reason to refuse.

After the main purpose was achieved, the delegation sent by the Rashid family was handed over to the following to receive and discuss other issues.

The newly appointed Minister of Industry, Zhen Yucheng, quickly approached the Rashid Arab Mission and soon reached an agreement with them to build a rare earth refinery.

The Arab Kingdom of Rashid was developing its economy, and when they heard that some people had set up factories in their territory, they were naturally overjoyed, thinking that China had benefited them.

China is a country rich in rare earth resources, but at this time China does not mine rare earths, and the main mining is concentrated in the United States.

At this time, the United States did not have the system and awareness of strategic mineral reserves, let alone the awareness of the protection of strategic resources, and the United States did not have relevant laws and regulations to prohibit the mining of these rare earth resources.

The mining of rare earths is mainly carried out by the Abrot Group, and whoever mines it is the same anyway, and China is buying cheap rare earths all over the world.

If China restricts exports and mines other countries' rare earths, the economic development of other countries will be severely restricted.

(To be continued)