During this time, the Han Dynasty was surging, and while quietly setting off the Han version of the Renaissance movement, more Confucian disciples took the opportunity to join the ranks of participating in politics. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Since Liu Hou felt that this was their specialty, he did not deliberately stop them, but just called the officials in charge of legislation and instructed them to formulate and improve some laws for supervising officialdom, and at the same time summoned the supervision of the imperial history and asked them to strengthen the supervision of officials to prevent people from abusing their power.

At the beginning of the world, there are so many things to deal with, and the affairs of the court are simply complicated, and the most recent major event is about changing the yuan. After decades of civil strife, the Han finally announced its reunification, and ministers wrote letters suggesting that the era name be changed.

The most basic function of the era name is the year, and later developed into a prayer, praise and commemoration of the change of dynasty. Some emperors have only one era name, some emperors have multiple era names, and some strange emperors like to change the era name at every turn to play, such as encountering "auspicious luck from the sky" or internal strife and external worries and other major events, important events, to change the era name.

Therefore, some emperors use as many as a dozen era names, such as Tang Gaozong has 14, they are fun, but those who need to calculate the years and months are miserable, especially those who study history, sometimes just counting the years and months of an emperor's reign has to be painstaking.

Such a big thing as unifying the world far exceeds the meaning of those auspiciousness, and the courtiers will let go of this opportunity to please the emperor and praise the emperor, so they can all write to suggest changing the yuan. Changing the yuan is also a form of singing the praises of virtue.

Liu Hou was right when he thought about it, such a big thing should indeed be commemorated by changing the era name, so he ordered the ministers to discuss what era name to change. For this reason, a group of old scholars was specially organized to study.

These so-called old scholars are actually great Confucians, and many of them were originally ministers who surrendered from Wei and Wu. For example, Wang Lang, Wang Su and his son, and then the great calligrapher Zhong Xuan, as well as Zhuge Jin of Eastern Wu and so on.

These people used to be important ministers of Wei and Wu, and at the same time, they were also well-known in the cultural circles, and they were all very learned people. After they surrendered, Liu Hou could not immediately put them in an important position, so he got a cultural department to do some idle work for them, and it happened that they would be needed for this yuan change.

Since the system of three provinces and six ministries has not been successfully reformed, most of the official positions are still the official system of the Han Dynasty, and these old scholars were all thrown by Liu Hou to Fengchang, one of the nine Qings. Fengchang is in charge of the temple sacrifices and the ceremonies of the state, which is equivalent to the Ministry of Rites in the Six Ministries of the Three Provinces.

In addition to setting the era name, Liu Hou also asked them to calculate the chronology of the Yellow Emperor. Although Liu Hou agreed to change the yuan, he did not plan to continue to use the era name as a method of chronicling, because he felt that it was too confusing and troublesome to use the era name to record the year, so he just took the opportunity of this change to solve this problem in one go.

In the end, Liu Hou chose "Shi Chang" as the new era name from the suggestions of many ministers, taking the meaning of "the beginning of the year, and the renewal of Vientiane". Although the current country name is still the Great Han, this Great Han is actually a completely new regime, and if it is more serious, this new Great Han is very different from the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty.

The new era name was implemented from the second year (228 AD), and at the same time, Liu Hou issued an edict from this year to officially use the Yellow Emperor era.

Liu Hou had already wanted to use the Yellow Emperor era a long time ago, but at that time it was still in the war period, and there were no conditions to implement it. Now that peace is finally in place, there is also the manpower and material resources to carry this thing forward.

Those old scholars did not disappoint Liu Hou, and after some hard research, they finally determined that this year was the 2925th year of the Yellow Emperor's accession to the throne and the creation of the calendar, and they soon created the Yellow Emperor's chronology.

From this year onwards, it is the first year of the first year (i.e., 228 A.D.), which is recorded as the year 2925. This epoch method put an end to the chaotic epoch method of mixing the chronology and the sexagenary branches, which was very beneficial for the folk to calculate the years and months, and also provided great convenience for future historical research.

After solving the problem of era name and chronology, Liu Hou began to work on institutional reform again. It was also a long time ago that he wanted to carry out institutional reform of the imperial court, and asked Chen Qun to study the new system in advance, but it was still shelved because of the war.

Because of political affairs, Liu Hou was tireless, and in order to ease his work, he first had to reform the center of the imperial court, the highest government agency. He modeled on some of the later dynasties and made a cabinet.

There are five or seven cabinet ministers, and when an odd number of ministers needs to vote, there will be no tie. Zhuge Liang served as the first cabinet assistant, and the other cabinet ministers were Pang Tong, Ma Liang, Guo Youzhi, Deng Zhi and Fei Yi.

Fei Yi, who was far away in Lingnan, was also summoned back to serve as a cabinet. Pang Tong just put on a name, and he himself was still assisting Zhang Fei in the war in Tibet. It is precisely because Pang Tong is temporarily absent from the imperial court, when something needs to be voted, he cannot participate, in order to ensure that there is a singular number of ministers to participate in the vote, so this time there are a total of six cabinet ministers, and there are five people who remain in the court.

If Pang Tong comes back in the future, the number of ministers will inevitably be readjusted. Liu Hou also ordered people to formulate laws and ensure the operating rules of the cabinet in the form of laws. These cabinet ministers usually discuss and handle ordinary matters, and when there is a difference of opinion, they vote.

The key point is that the term of office of the first and second members of the cabinet is five years, and after five years, whether you do a good job or not, you must be reappointed, and the cabinet must be dissolved and reorganized. And the same person can only serve a maximum of two consecutive terms. That is to say, no matter how powerful a person is, he can only be the prime minister for ten consecutive years. Ten years later, it must be replaced.

This system of virtual monarchy almost entrusts government affairs to the cabinet, which is very similar to the constitutional monarchy of later generations. However, this cabinet system is different from a constitutional monarchy. First of all, the emperor is not completely ignorant of political affairs, and he still has to take care of major affairs, and the emperor has reserved the right to intervene in political affairs at any time and overturn the decisions of the cabinet.

In addition, cabinet ministers are still appointed by the emperor and are not elected by vote. The emperor could also dissolve the cabinet at any time and reappoint and dismiss his ministers. Of course, Liu Hou also intends to reform on this point, but the reform should be carried out step by step, and it is not advisable to take too big a step at once, otherwise it is easy to get an egg.

For this reform of the cabinet, it is expected that Liu Hou wants to build a constitutional monarchy system for future generations, or that he is too lazy to deal with those complicated government affairs and wants to be the shopkeeper. With this cabinet, he can be freed from the government affairs that cannot be dealt with every day, and he only needs to grasp the general direction. That way, he has a lot of time to do what he wants.

Originally, Liu Hou was worried that such a large-scale institutional reform would arouse strong opposition from the courtiers, but he did not expect the process to be surprisingly smooth. There were not many ministers who opposed it, and most of them were in favor of it, and praised Liu Hou, saying that he was a once-in-a-lifetime Ming monarch.