On New Year's Day in 179 BC, Xiang Zhuang, the king of Chu, finally accepted the persuasion of all the princes after repeated resignations, first built an altar in the eastern suburbs of Luoyang to worship the sky, and then issued an edict to the world to officially succeed to the emperor's throne.

On the same day, Xiang Zhuang issued the first holy decree after succeeding to the throne and changed the name of the country to Huaxia.

There were three great controversies between the DPRK and China, and the nobles and officials and gentry of Jiangdong were extremely resistant to it, but the nobles and officials of other regions were full of praise.

The next day, Xiang Zhuang issued his second holy decree, officially implemented the imperial calendar, and designated the second year of Qin Shi Huang as the emperor's first year, that is, the fourth year BC, as the emperor's first year, and Xiang Zhuang's year of the emperor's title was the emperor's forty-second year.

In February of the 42nd year of the emperor, after more than a month of recounting and discussing merits, Xiang Zhuang officially issued an edict to reward the ministers, Baili Xian was awarded the Duke of Chu, Meng Yu was still the Duke of Qin, Gao Chu was still the Duke of Wei, Pang Yu moved to the Duke of Qi, Zhong Lifu was awarded the Duke of Wu, and Yu Ziqi was awarded the Duke of Yue, all of which were hereditary and replaced, and 10,000 stones of Shilu were the six major princes of the Chinese Empire.

Thirty-six people, including Xiang He, Xiang Tuo, Wu She, Jin Xiang, Hu Yan, Ziche Shi, Xi Qilie, and Bai Li Mao, were all hereditary and reborn, and they ate 2,000 stones.

The title and reward of the Marquis of Che are agreed upon by the Martial Academy.

The military academy is a military attache institution that Xiang Zhuang came up with, somewhat similar to the five military mansions of the Ming Dynasty, the main function is to store military generals, and the military generals in the military academy do not command the troops in peacetime, only when fighting abroad, the emperor will grant the military talisman seal letter, and then go to the counties to transfer troops, and then return the military talisman seal letter to the emperor after the war.

Of course, this is only a general procedure, and there will be special circumstances, that is, border gates.

Because the border pass is adjacent to the surrounding barbarian territory, such as Liaodong, Jiuyuan or Longxi counties, wars usually break out suddenly, if you wait for the barbarians to fight and then play the imperial court, and then the emperor sends a general to lead the army to fight for the attack, obviously the time is too late, so it is necessary to station the military generals in the border pass counties, and give the right to command the army.

Xiang Zhuang followed the example of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang in Liaodong, Jiuyuan, Longxi, Qianzhong, Minyue, Dantu set up six towns of general troops, of which Liaodong Town was responsible for attacking Wuhuan, Xianbei, Fuyu, Sushen, Goguryeo and other barbarians, Jiuyuan Town was responsible for attacking the Xiongnu branches, Longxi Town was responsible for attacking Yueshi, Qiang, Baima and other barbarians, Qianzhong County was responsible for attacking Yelang, Leaky, Ju Zhuang and other barbarians, Minyue Town was responsible for attacking Shanyue, Baiyue tribes, Dantu Town was the chief soldier of the water division.

The commander-in-chief of the border town has the right to command the army, and if it colludes with the local governor, it is easy to form a military division, so in order to avoid the situation of the division of the feudal town, Xiang Zhuang set a term of office for the commander-in-chief of the border town in charge of the military and the border county guard in charge of civil affairs, with a term of five years, and it is never allowed to be re-elected! "The dream has set sail ★ for a clear and elegant environment"

Although this system of "storing troops in the government and storing them in the court" will affect the combat effectiveness of the army to a greater or lesser extent, it can effectively prevent the emergence of warlords with heavy armies, which is conducive to the long-term peace and stability of the empire.

In addition, the princes of Wei Co, Lu Tai, Tian Heng, King of Qi, Han Xin, and Liu Heng, King of Han, were not allowed to be hereditary, in other words, these princes and kings could only ensure their own glory, and their sons could not attack the king, and could only rely on their own skills to obtain glory and wealth.

After the establishment of the military court, Xiang Zhuang immediately began to reform the civil service.

The civil service in Chinese history has undergone evolution, from the system of three princes and nine secretaries in the pre-Qin period, to the system of three provinces and six ministries in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and finally evolved into a highly complete cabinet system of six ministries in the Ming Dynasty. …,

When it comes to the six-ministry cabinet system, we can't fail to mention Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of cloth.

Later generations talk about the Ming Dynasty, the first impression is the tyrannical Jinyi Wei and the gloomy factory eunuch, as if the Ming Dynasty is the darkest and most corrupt dynasty in Chinese history, speaking of Ming Taizu, the world's first impression is the Hu Lan two case, the agent Pi Sai Cao, as if Zhu Yuanzhang is the most brutal and unkind emperor in feudal history.

In fact, this is fundamentally the slander of the Manchu Qing Dynasty against the Ming Dynasty and Ming Taizu.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty is definitely the dynasty with the clearest rule, the lowest land endowment, and the lightest burden on farmers in Chinese history, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, is definitely the most politically wise emperor in Chinese history!

If it is said that the Qin ★ Shi Huang, who laid the foundation for the integration of the various branches of Huafu into a unified nation, is the first emperor of the ages, if the Yang Emperor of the Sui Dynasty who promoted the imperial examination and built the Grand Canal is the second emperor of the ages, then the Ming Taizu who perfected the bureaucracy to the extreme is the third emperor of the ages.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang was born in cloth, his political wisdom is unprecedented!

Replacing the prime minister with cabinet scholars, replacing the metropolitan governor's office with the capital governor's office of the five armies, giving low-grade imperial historians the privilege of having nothing to say and impeaching the powerful, setting up a brocade guard to supervise hundreds of officials, and setting up the east factory to check and balance the brocade guard, all of which reflect the extraordinary wisdom of Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of cloth.

In particular, the establishment of cabinet scholars to replace the prime minister is a classic.

The prime minister is responsible for assisting the emperor in handling national affairs, one of the most important powers is the appointment and dismissal of personnel, through the appointment and dismissal of officials at all levels, the prime minister can easily cultivate a system that is only loyal to himself, and then empty the imperial power, and when the power of the prime minister penetrates into the army, the change of dynasty may be inevitable.

From the time of the appearance of the prime minister in the pre-Qin period to the end of the Ming Taizu, no emperor in more than two years could come up with a way to effectively restrict the power of the prime minister, but Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Taizu, did it.

Replacing the prime minister with a cabinet scholar is not as simple as distributing the power of a prime minister to multiple scholars, the key is that the academic scholar himself has only five grades, and the emperor has a lot of choice when appointing and dismissing the cabinet scholar, in other words, as long as the officials with low qualifications and low prestige have the emperor's trust, they can also serve as scholars.

In this way, the cabinet has in fact become the secretary team around the emperor, if you do not use the imperial power, the cabinet will not be able to suppress the six ministries at all, and it is impossible to challenge the imperial power.

Therefore, Xiang Zhuang decided to learn from Ming Taizu and adopt the six-ministry cabinet system.

Of course, the reform of the civilian apparatus is much more complex than that of the military attaché.

The martial arts academy is just a very general institution, to put it bluntly, it is to build a few courtyards, so that those national dukes, Chehou and young generals who graduated from Taixue have a place to drink tea and chat, and the military rank division in the martial arts academy is also simple, in addition to the national prince and the marquis, there are three military ranks below, generals, lieutenants, and captains.

The civil service is different, with six ministries, the Metropolitan Prosecutor's Yuan, and a large local body in addition to the Cabinet.

Xiang Zhuang began to reform the civil service at the beginning of the 42nd year of the emperor, and it was not completed until the winter of the 43rd year of the emperor.

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In the spring of the forty-fourth year of the emperor, Xiang Zhuang called the emperor to inspect Jiangdong for the first time.

However, the first stop Xiang Zhuang arrived at was not the tomb, but the camp of the Dantu Water Division.

The first major event that Xiang Zhuang did after becoming emperor was not to immigrate from Jiangdong, Bashu, and Hebei to fill the border fortress, let alone send troops to recruit the Xiongnu and Yueshi, but to draw a map of the Pacific Ocean under the pretense of the god Tuomeng, and ordered Jiang Ji, the first chief of the naval division in Dantu Town, to lead fifty large ships to go across the ocean to find the American continent. …,

As a traverser, Xiang Zhuang is well aware of the huge returns that can be brought by the failure of Dahang Shipping.

The spices of the South Seas, the silver of the Americas and the gold of Africa are still secondary, but the key is that the high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn in the Americas must be obtained!

In the true history, whether it is the strong Han or the Tang Dynasty, can not make the actual rule of the Chinese civilization beyond the Yellow River, the Yangtze River two major basins, although the strong Han defeated the Xiongnu, but simply unable to complete the actual control of the desert, although the Tang Dynasty in the Middle Asia had a military presence, but the continuation of the time is very short, there is no time to assimilate the Central Asian ethnic groups.

The reason for this is that the biggest shackle is the population, whether it is the Qiang Han or the Tang Dynasty, her population size is not enough to support the actual domination of the surrounding regions such as Mobei, Central Asia, the Far East, and Southeast Asia.

If the Qiang Han or the Tang Dynasty had a population base of hundreds of millions, then the living space of the surrounding barbarians could be gradually eroded through a huge immigration project, and the living environment of the Chinese nation would be greatly improved. ★

The traditional sphere of influence of the Huaxia people is concentrated in the two major basins of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River.

Some people have calculated that in the Qin and Han dynasties, the two major basins of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River can feed about 50 million people, and 60 million people is the extreme value, and exceeding this limit will cause a serious famine, which will lead to a series of sharp social contradictions, and the Yellow Turban Uprising in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was triggered by famine.

If Xiangzhuang wants to get rid of the shackles of population, it must introduce sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn!

Therefore, after Xiang Zhuang became emperor, the first major thing he did was to send sailors to travel across the ocean to South America to find sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn, which was the material basis of the population explosion of the Chinese nation

Jiang Ji's sailor fleet set sail from Dantu Port in the spring of the emperor's forty-second year, and now two full years have passed, just when Xiang Zhuang thought that this sailor fleet had been wiped out in the storm in the Pacific Ocean, half a month ago he suddenly received a flying pigeon message from Xuanyiwei from Panyu, and the sailor fleet had returned to Panyu Port!

Xiang Zhuang was overjoyed when he heard the news, and immediately arranged for Tai Xianzi to stay in Luoyang, but he hurried to Dantu Port to personally welcome Jiang Ji's triumphant return...... ）