The reason why Lin Zhe refused to persuade him one after another and engaged in this kind of thing of covering his ears and stealing the bell is not because Lin Zhe wants to be so hypocritical, but since ancient times, if he wants to be the emperor, it has been such a process, without refusing a few times first, he has done enough foreplay, and the ordinary people who watch the play do not agree.

No, the three persuasions attracted a large number of outsiders to watch, and several foreign envoys even watched for several days, and they didn't know what conclusions they had finally reached.

Of course, this kind of persuasion, refusal, and persuasion cannot continue forever, please, everyone is so busy, it is not easy to throw down a lot of things and come up to persuade them, Lin Zhe refuses a few times, if you keep refusing, you don't have to do anything.

On February 3rd, in the face of the fourth persuasion of more than 200 ministers, Lin Zhe finally sighed and agreed, and according to the pre-arranged script, Xu Yanqing, Shi Qingxuan, Lin Anfei, Bi Yu and others next to him took out the dragon robe that had been prepared long ago, and then everyone worked together to put it on Lin Zhe directly.

Next, Lin Zhe sat on a makeshift dragon chair and accepted the courtiers' kneeling.

Watching the people under the black pressure shout in unison for long live, to be honest, this feeling is very strange, a little bit of excitement and excitement, and a little bit of funny, as if I am a puppet in some big play.

As the saying goes, without further ado, many of Yu Shengjun's civil and military generals are also very busy, especially Xu Yanqing, Lin Anfei and others, all of whom are commanders and generals of the outside army, and it is impossible to stay in Shanghai for a long time.

Therefore, on February 3, after Lin Zhe accepted the persuasion of his ministers to become emperor, only three days later, an enthronement ceremony was held.

This enthronement ceremony is naturally not something that can be prepared in just a few days, even if it is simple, but there must still be something, so in fact, since Xu Yanqing returned to Shanghai from Hangzhou and brought back the news that he had conquered the entire territory of Zhejiang, a ceremony preparation office was quietly set up in a wing room in the Generalissimo's Mansion.

Lin Zhe had clearly instructed in advance: hegemony has not been achieved, and one qiē is simple!

Then he made instructions that while still respecting the ancient rites, he should also keep up with the times and innovate ideas!

Therefore, the enthronement ceremony prepared can be regarded as a fusion of ancient Chinese rites and modern styles!

First of all, Lin Zhe's dress and the courtier's dress, there is nothing to say about this, since it follows the ancient Chinese etiquette, it is naturally mainly Hanfu, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty's kind of horse coat and robe roll as far as possible.

Lin Zhe's dress when he ascended the throne, that is, the dragon robe is similar to the dragon robe of the traditional Han people. The courtiers' dresses are divided into military attaches and civil officials, and the civil officials' robes are Hanfu official robes, which are similar to Ming-style official robes. However, the military attaché's dress was still based on Yu Shengjun's military uniform, and it was redesigned to design a military general's dress with an obvious modern dress.

Then there is kneeling, although Lin Zhe has ordered before that the monarch and the ministers are exempt from kneeling when they see each other, but at the enthronement ceremony, they still bow down, which is strongly requested by the officials of the preparatory department, saying that without this kneeling ceremony, it will not be a ceremony.

Anyway, this is also a one-time thing, and he only kneels once during the enthronement ceremony, so Lin Zhe didn't insist and let them toss by themselves.

On February 6, the Shanghai Business Zone was boiling, with many officials wearing retro Hanfu official robes, military generals wearing military uniforms, and even ordinary soldiers on duty were also dressed in new military uniforms.

From the morning, Lin Zhe began to be a puppet, but accompanied by the official in charge of etiquette, he carried out one process after another.

In these cumbersome ceremonies, Lin Zhe promulgated the edict of enthronement, which is also retro, and the words are similar to the previous edicts of the founding emperor on the throne, for example, the beginning of the sentence is: The emperor Chen Zhe, dare to use Xuanmu to announce the emperor!

Then there are obscure words and phrases throughout, saying that the Manchu Emperor can no longer represent the world and become the co-master, such as today's chaos, only I, Lin Zhe, can calm the world and let the people live and work in peace and contentment.

Interestingly, this edict said how bad the Manchu Qing was, Emperor Xianfeng was immoral and incompetent, etc., but only Hong Xiuquan was not mentioned, this is because they did not recognize Hong Xiuquan as the king of heaven or the emperor at all, and in the eyes of Yu Shengjun's civil and military officials, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was just a group of exiles and thieves, and they could not be put on the stage.

After pulling more than 600 words, the end is the old routine of the founding edicts of the previous dynasties, with 'I will always have China.' But the spirit is a feast.'" Closure.

If it is in diplomatic documents, especially with Western countries, then this country name is "Great Chinese Empire", and the honorific title of Lin Zhe in diplomatic documents should be "Great Chinese Empire".

Although a series of rituals are slowly retro flavor, but in fact this is only the surface, according to some plans made by Lin Zhe in advance, this newly established Chinese dynasty is different from the ancient system in its bones.

For example, in the inner palace system, although Lin Zhe canonized his wife Chen Jing as the queen, he refused to let his subordinates build a system of 72 concubines in three palaces and six courts, and at the same time did not use eunuchs as internal servants, but should use the female official system in the palace.

And the more important thing is naturally reflected in the official system, Lin Zhe did not follow the example of the ancients to set up prime ministers, six books and the like, but tried his best to override public opinion, and still directly applied the original generalissimo's mansion.

The Prime Minister's Cabinet system was established, and the Cabinet consisted of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of Patrol Police, and the Organization Department.

The Cabinet consists of one Prime Minister, two Associate Ministers, one Minister for each ministry, and two Ministers for each ministry.

Each ministry has its own divisions, divisions, sections, etc.

In addition to the cabinet, a separate 'Metropolitan Procuratorate' and '** Yuan' were set up. The Metropolitan Procuratorate is in charge of supervision affairs, and the ** Court is in charge of adjudication affairs.

The most basic executive, supervisory and judicial powers are independent of each other.

In the military, Lin Zhe set up the 'Supreme Command', with the emperor himself serving as the supreme military commander, and the Command Department consists of: Joint Staff Department, Military Affairs Department, Military Training Department, Ordnance Department, Quartermaster Department, Logistics Department, Navy Department, Quanxu Division, Military Medical Department, General Affairs Department and other institutions.

Among them, the Joint Staff Department is responsible for the command of operations and exercises of the navy and army.

The Ministry of Military Affairs is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the Army.

The Military Training Department is responsible for army recruitment, training, military academies and other affairs.

The Ordnance Department is responsible for equipment research and development, procurement and other affairs.

The Quartermaster Department is responsible for the procurement of military supplies such as army food and uniforms, as well as the construction of barracks.

The Logistics Department is responsible for the Army's logistics and transportation affairs.

Among the above-mentioned institutions, quite a number of departments are only responsible for army affairs, and as for the navy, except for the operational command authority, which is controlled by the Joint Staff Department, and the power to appoint and dismiss generals, which is controlled by the Quanxu Division, the rest of the powers are under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department.

The reason why the War Department and the Navy Department were not simply set up is because at present the main body of Yu Shengjun's army is the army, and the navy has only a few thousand people, which is quite weak.

In order to prevent a certain general from controlling the power of the army, Lin Zhe simply split many departments of the army directly and placed them under the direct jurisdiction of the high command, although this will cause a decline in administrative efficiency, but it is not worth mentioning compared to preventing a certain army general from sitting down.

In addition to the great differences between the above-mentioned central institutions and the ancient system, the local government institutions also changed greatly, and with the reappointment of the only provincial-level official, Bi Yutong, the governor of Zhejiang, as prime minister, there were no provincial-level officials in the Chinese Empire.

At the same time, considering that the control area of the Chinese Empire is still very small, although there is the level of governor, there is no governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang for the time being, but the mode of sub-patrol of the central government is temporarily adopted.

As for the various roads, they follow the various military preparation roads and sub-patrol roads of the former Qing Dynasty, which are collectively called a certain road, such as Hangjiahu Road, Susong Taidao, Changzhou, Zhenjiang and Jiangning three prefectures are combined into Changzhenjiang Road.

There are still prefectures, prefectures, counties, etc. below the province.

However, although there was little change in the official positions on the surface, Lin Zhe asked the local governments to reformulate their departments, and to follow the example of the central government to set up various institutions, and in the most basic counties, to set up various sections, such as the Civil Affairs Section, the Industry and Commerce Section, and the Education Section.

At the same time, in order to consolidate the financial power of the central government, the local government took back the power to collect taxes, and ordered that all taxes, such as cents, levies, and customs, should be collected and appropriated by the central treasury, and that the local government should not collect taxes privately in any name.

Due to the creation of the dynasty, many systems can only be regarded as a paper plan for the time being, and the operation of the entire dynastic regime is actually still carried out according to the model of the previous Generalissimo's Office, and it will take a lot of time to change the whole thing.

After the establishment of the emperor, Lin Zhe rewarded the ministers in a big way, and the titles that were sealed out were generally low, this is because the dynasty was established at the beginning, and there must be meritorious ministers and generals in the later period, so it has to leave room for future rewards, otherwise a few kings will be sealed now, how to seal it in the future, is it difficult to seal the title of emperor?

Therefore, the first batch only sealed three earls, namely Xu Yanqing, Lin Anfei, and Shi Qingxuan. In addition, there were seven viscounts, including Bi Yutong, Shen Chiyun, Shi Langyi and others. and twenty-three barons.

The above titles can be reduced to hereditary, that is to say, if you are made an earl, after you die, the eldest son can be a viscount, and when the son dies, the eldest grandson will inherit the baron, and the baron's lowest title cannot be reduced, so the eldest son cannot inherit the title after the death of the baron, but directly cut off the title.

Of course, this is only the worst-case scenario, and if the descendants of the family have meritorious service, it is also possible to be promoted to the knighthood.

At the same time, the princes and nobles who were feuded did not have fiefs, and could only receive a fixed annual salary every year, and did not have any other political privileges except for some preferential treatment in etiquette.

In addition to these heroes, according to the management of the dynasty, Lin Zhe also had to give himself some titles such as family members and relatives.

For example, he gave his eldest daughter, who was born in September last year and now can't even walk and speak, to 'Princess Shuchun', and gave several nobles to other chaotic relatives, mostly barons and viscounts, and they are all non-hereditary titles.

As for the son, Lin Zhe hasn't yet, last year, Chen Jing was pregnant and gave birth, and only gave birth to a daughter, no one thought anything at that time, because there was no rebellion at that time, and few people cared about Lin Zhe's offspring.

But now, a lot of people are concerned about Lin Zhe's descendants, and even many people have the idea of stuffing dozens or hundreds of women into Lin Zhe.

Lin Zhe didn't insist on opposing it, shouting about monogamy, if he met someone who looked at him, he wouldn't mind accepting him as a concubine, but he didn't want to accept a woman sent by someone else.

Enthronement ceremony, change of official position, lavish rewards, etc., Shanghai is bustling here!

However, behind this excitement, many of Yu Shengjun's senior generals who had been sealed quietly left Shanghai and went to their respective defense areas.

And with them left, there were also a lot of arms and supplies!

Even Lin Zhe, who had just ascended the throne as the emperor, did not stay in the palace to enjoy himself after being called the emperor, and Lin Zhe hurriedly embarked on the journey again after half a month on the throne, taking the First Infantry Division and the Fifth Infantry Division, which had not yet fully formed an army, and was only organized into more than 7,000 people to the front.

And all this shows that the next wave of large-scale military operations of Yu Shengjun is about to begin! (To be continued.) )