The preparation of the new imperial court itself is very joyful, at least including Jiaqing and the ministers, they seem to see that they have power in their hands, and they are swaying their "talents" to the fullest, formulating various new systems, of course, many of them are carried out under the "guidance" of the general headquarters of the Tang Expeditionary Force. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The reform of the military system of the new imperial court can be described as ambitious, although they have not yet actually controlled any provinces except Zhili, but this does not prevent them from starting to plan according to the territory of the Qianlong Dynasty.

The new army has a total of 50 local garrisons and about 500,000 troops. Among them, the five provinces of Beijing, Jin, Shandong, and Henan were incorporated into the North China Military Region, and the military region was stationed in 13 army towns; Hei Jifeng was incorporated into the Northeast Military Region, with a total of three towns stationed in three provinces; The two lakes of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang were incorporated into the Southeast Military Region, with a total of 15 town troops; The Southwest Military Region has two Guangyun, Guizang, and 13 town troops, and the Northwest Military Region has Shaanxi, Gansu, and six town troops.

Local garrisons are numbered by military region and serial number, such as the third town of the North China Army and the eleventh town of the Southwest Army.

After all, Jiaqing was a little difficult to let go of his safety, so in addition to the local garrison, he also asked the military department to prepare a 30,000-strong Praetorian Guard. Moreover, in Yongyan's plan, this Praetorian Guard must be equipped with full firearms and have the most powerful strength in the Qing army, and he did not say it explicitly but secretly planned that the Praetorian Guard would be dominated by Manchu children.

In addition to the Praetorian Guard, Jiaqing still felt insufficient, and also organized the Wuyi Army, which was also the size of the three towns, but Yuan Shoutong and other important ministers expressed strong opposition, believing that the change of the Eight Banners and the Green Camp to a local garrison of 500,000 had seriously challenged the finances of the imperial court. The 30,000 Janissaries, who were fully armed with firearms, made matters worse. If you compile another Wu Yi Army. Then the imperial court will not have to go by.

At this time, Bai Nan intervened, saying that the formation of the Wuyi Army could be modeled on the example of the Wuwei Army, with the Tang Dynasty contributing money and efforts, and being led by the two countries. This proposal was actually agreed to by some courtiers in the court, which made Jiaqing almost crooked his nose. He organized the Praetorian Guard and the Wu Yi Army, which was to balance the powerful Tang Army, and now the Wu Yi Army has also been pried by the Tang people. It means that he is cocooned and bound to himself.

However, what the Praetorian Guards and Wu Yijun are all things that have not been skimmed, and Jiaqing is also angry in vain.

However, Bai Nan was a little envious of this new imperial court, even if there was no money and no one, they could plan an army force with a total of more than 600,000 people, and the current population of Datang was more than 600,000. If the Tang Dynasty completely swallowed the land and population of the Qing Kingdom, the power it could generate would be absolutely shocking. It's just that now I can only think about it, and I have to eat the rice one bite at a time.

Except for the Army. Yongyan is also ambitiously preparing to build a new sailor. The Tang army came from the sea and destroyed the Qianlong Dynasty in an instant. It makes people's hearts palpitate. Without a strong coastal defense, the country is already in extreme danger. Just imagine, if the Great Qingshui Division is strong enough, even if it can maneuver with the Tang Navy at sea for a period of time, it will not let the Qing army lose so quickly.

So, I don't know who suggested it, Yongyan decided to build two major naval divisions in the North and South Seas to completely unify the forces of the naval divisions. Of course, this is only a matter on paper, because there is not the slightest concept in the imperial court of how to do it, what kind of ship to use, and what kind of cannon to use.

This is a matter for the future, and it can only be discussed in the long run.

Although many reforms and governance related to the military and local governments were planned, many of them were actually taken for granted, and the Tang people played a big role behind them. But now, the most important thing is to restore the authority of the imperial court in the whole country.

After a month of intense preparations, and no matter how many unresolved problems remained, Jiaqing, dressed in a dragon robe, officially ascended the throne as emperor on August 5, and Jiaqing was quite ambitious and complacent, but looking at the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty, he was a little unhappy. is still a matter of etiquette, due to the interference of the Tang people, Jiaqing feels that his new court is already morally degenerate. Although the whole ceremony of enthronement was still complicated and noble, from the beginning to the end, his courtiers did not bow down to him as the new emperor.

Although Jiaqing was still wearing the bright yellow dragon robe under the Qing Dynasty etiquette, the courtiers in front of him reminded him that this Qing court was no longer the same as before.

The courtiers still wore mendging clothes, but the style was very different from before. This is a kind of robe with a plate collar and right side, with a swing on both sides of the robe, and the court robe has no horseshoe sleeves, and a jade belt is added, and the cuffs are three feet wide. The ministers no longer wore tasseled warm hats on their heads, but Xuan Guan. The robe was not simply fastened with straps, but with buttons, which were not the cloth disc buttons common in Manchurian clothing, but plastic round buttons. At first glance, I would never think that they were Manchu officials, but that they were Ming Dynasty officials. Of course, it is not categorically similar to the clothing of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, there is a certain similarity between the official uniforms of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Fortunately, these official uniforms are still a uniform dark blue, not the different colors of the Ming Dynasty official uniforms, plus complements, it doesn't look too inconsistent.

The most discordant thing is that under the official's crown, there is a long pig's tail, and many people can't even wear their own crown. Of course, for Jiaqing, the most disobedient thing is that some officials are more thorough and actually cut their braids. Jiaqing secretly scolded in his heart, these braided hair, he was determined not to reuse them.

This set of court clothes, which already has strong Han characteristics, belongs to a kind of formal dress according to the newly promulgated Qing Dynasty etiquette system, and in daily work, officials will wear formal clothes, that is, formal clothes of the Tang Dynasty. Not only do officials wear formal clothes, but when he attends court meetings, he also wears formal clothes instead of dragon robes. Jiaqing was very resistant to this, and even wanted to contact the courtiers to oppose it, but in the end he compromised under the pressure of Bai Nan. Jiaqing has never been a person with courage and courage.

Fortunately, Bai Nan took care of the new emperor somewhat, and the tailor who came to the capital from the Tang Dynasty made several bright yellow and Kowloon embroidery formal clothes for Jiaqing, which was worth a lot of money, but Jiaqing still accepted it. In fact, Jiaqing also understands that wearing formal clothes is definitely more convenient than a dragon robe at work, since it is yellow and has dragon patterns, he also pinched his nose and recognized it.

The officials wore formal clothes in the workplace, all of which were black, and it was impossible to distinguish their status, so Yuan Zong pointed out that a female officer came up with a way to match them with brooches, brooches of different materials representing different grades, rubies for the first rank, sapphire for the second, jadeite for the third, obsidian for the fourth, and glass for the fifth.

The important members of the Tang Yuan General also participated in the enthronement ceremony, and even Bai Nan and other senior officers bowed to Jiaqing with the hundred officials, although it was not a big etiquette, but Jiaqing was also secretly cool for a long time, calming down a lot of resentment he had accumulated. In any case, he is already the emperor of the empire, and this is the most pleasing thing.

After ascending the throne, Jiaqing issued a number of edicts in succession, including the abolition of the compulsory shaving order, the abolition of the Eight Banners system, various reforms of the imperial court and local power, etc., of course, the most important thing is to carry out new edicts and retention awards for the feudal officials and magistrates.

Obviously, if you accept Jiaqing's edict, you will recognize Jiaqing's monarchy and obey his orders, and if you commit crimes against the wind and ignore him, it is obviously a rebellion against the party.

It can be said that when these edicts were issued, Jiaqing himself was very hesitant. In the following time, Jiaqing was nervous, and he almost asked dozens of times if there was any news from somewhere to feedback.

Recently, the Nanzhili area was the first to send back news. Several local prefects, provincial officials, and other officials have clearly expressed their support for the new monarch. In fact, these people have no choice, the forces of Zhili have been disintegrated by the Tang Army, and they can sit in their current official positions entirely because the Tang Army did not send troops to attack them. If they take a clear stand against the newly enthroned Jiaqing, I am afraid that there will be a war disaster immediately. Anyway, the court is still the court now, although the emperor has changed, but it can be regarded as the serious heir of the first emperor, regardless of the relationship between the new monarch and the Tang people, at least these officials are not capable of any opposition.

Then, the first official with the highest rank to support Jiaqing was the governor of Shanxi, Ba Yansan. This one himself doesn't have much ability, a typical servile character, and now there is no Qianlong, and he can't find someone else to show his loyalty. Moreover, the Mixed Yuan Sect is now gaining momentum in Jinnan, and the official army has been defeated repeatedly, and he can no longer bear it, so he just relies on the support of the new monarch to get reinforcements to solve his current crisis. At least, it was absolutely impossible for Bayansan to find reinforcements from anywhere else, and he had to rely on the new imperial court.

After Jiaqing learned that Bayansan was upheld, he was overjoyed, and immediately named Bayansan as the viscount, and promised that after the Mixed Yuan Sect was pacified, Bayansan would be directly promoted to the secretary of state of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and directly entered the cabinet. As for Bayansan's request for help, Jiaqing didn't have much to do, so he could only allocate a batch of military expenses in advance, and send a batch of grain, grass and armaments to Shanxi. The Wuwei army had not yet been trained, and the Tang army had no plans to go deep into Jinnan to fight for the time being, so Jiaqing could only inform Bayansan that the imperial court would wait another month before sending troops to Shanxi.

However, not long after Jiaqing was happy, someone made him so angry that he smashed things. Guotai, the governor of Shandong, directly tore it up after receiving his edict, and angrily denounced Jiaqing for being a son of man and a minister in vain, surviving under the Tang people, and betraying the country and harming the people. Cathay Pacific claims to have raised 100,000 elite soldiers, ready to enter the king of Beijing, abolish the puppet emperor, and welcome the true dragon. In a fit of anger, Jiaqing imprisoned Wen Shou, who had already been knighted, that is, Cathay and his father. As a result, Cathay Pacific became more energetic, claiming that it was difficult to achieve both loyalty and filial piety, and for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, it was necessary to fight with the puppet dynasty of Jiaqing.

Jiaqing was so angry that he immediately found Prime Minister Yuan Shoutong and asked him to personally take the message to the inner city of Datang Yuan, and begged Bai Nan to send troops to help him teach Guotai a traitor. (To be continued.) )