At some point, a general suddenly came over with a bright yellow dragon robe and draped it directly on Mo Qian's back.

Mo Qian looked down at his robe, and immediately asked Li Banghua beside him: "Gong Li, is this Chen Qiaoyi?" Even though I set myself up as king today, how have I ever heard that a king can wear the clothes of an emperor? ”

Li Banghua immediately realized that this was an omission, he glanced at the soldiers and motioned for the soldiers to retreat, and then ordered someone to find a blue robe, Li Banghua personally draped the robe on Mo Qian's body, turned around and led everyone to kneel in front of Mo Qian.

"Wechen meets the king!"

"Meet the King!"

On the second day of the second lunar month in the tenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, on the day when the dragon raised its head, the governor of Jiangnan of the Ming Dynasty accepted the persuasion of his subordinates in Wuchang City, and issued an edict in the Wuchang Governor's Mansion to announce the world and officially claim the king.

On the title of king, Mo Qian discussed with a group of ministers for a long time.

Li Banghua suggested that Mo Qian call himself the king of Chu, because Wuchang was in Chu, and it was most appropriate to use a fief to claim the king.

But in this way, those veterans in the army disagreed, they said that the king started in Jiangxi, and it was not appropriate to call the king of Chu, and he should be called the king of Jiangxi.

Mo Qian felt that this King of Gan sounded weird, and did not agree to use this title, but he also felt that it was inappropriate to call him the King of Chu, and he made it seem that he didn't remember the people of Jiangxi with this as the king's name.

Mei Zhizhao thought of a trick for this old minister, and he said to Mo Qian: "King, since Chu and Jiang are not good, the king is called King Yuan, Yuanzhou is the land of Longxing, and it is most appropriate to use the land of Longxing as the title." ”

This proposal was unanimously agreed by everyone, but Mo Qian disagreed.

He said: "Although Yuanzhou is the place where I started my army, if I use this as the name of the country, it will be very inappropriate, Yuan is a surname, and it cannot be the name of the country." ”

Mo Qian disagreed, and this time the ministers fell into meditation.

After thinking about it for a long time, everyone thought of more than a dozen king names, some said King Jing, some said King Ji, and some proposed to be called King Wu.

At the end of the discussion, there was no suitable title.

Mo Qian saw that everyone had been discussing here for a long time and there was no result, so he immediately patted the golden dragon chair given by Zhu Yuanzhang to the King of Chu and said, "No need to argue, just call King Han!" ”

"King Han?"

When everyone heard this title, their faces changed.

Secretary for Civil Affairs Cao Guoqi was the first to object.

"King, the title of King Han is inappropriate!"

"What's wrong?" Mo Qian asked him.

"When Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang fought for the world, Chen Youliang called himself the King of Han, but was defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang in Jiangxi, and then lost the world, the lord now happens to sit in Wuchang, where Chen Youliang once sits, and he wants to use the title of King Han, isn't it ....."

Cao Guoqi's meaning is very clear, that is, he thinks that the title of King Han is unlucky.

Mo Qian waved his hand and said: "Since you want to be the king, then you should shout the loudest slogan, I am the king, the nation is Han, the Han people occupy ninety percent of the world's population, called the king of Han, and Chen Youliang has nothing to do with these people, I call the king of Han, all because I am a Han person, and the title of the matter does not need to be discussed, so it is decided!" ”

Well, the king is arbitrary, and there is nothing to say as a courtier.

Li Banghua helped Mo Qian personally draft the edict of the king, and in the afternoon of the same day, notices were plastered inside and outside Wuchang City.

Mo Qian, the governor of Jiangnan, the king of Mo in the mouth of the people, is really the king this time!

Mo Qian proclaimed himself the king of Han, established the Han state, and issued his first will since he became king, that is, to ask for Zhu Ming's royal family.

Mo Qian claimed that he was in accordance with the mandate of heaven, so he rebelled, and his ultimate goal was to let the people of the world live a good life.

Anyway, there are a lot of beautiful words, Li Banghua, a scholar from Jinshi, has a sharp humanistic pen, and after reading an article, he simply blackened the Zhu Ming Dynasty.

After reading it, the people talked about it, but most of them were praised, and many scholars who did not join the righteous army scoffed at this, calling Mo Qian a national thief.

The news of Mo Qian's claim to be the king spread all over the south of the Yangtze River, and the people of Jiangxi, Huguang, and Guangdong provinces all passed it on from one to another, and the army feasted for three days to celebrate the marshal becoming king.

Mo Qian set the capital of Wuchang, and the tentative country name was Han, and the Wang Banner still used the traditional flag with black characters on a yellow background, but this time the Mo character on the flag became Han.

The marshal became the king, and the civil and military cadres under his command naturally had to be added to the ranks.

Referring to the institutions of the Ming Dynasty and later generations, Mo Qian set up a State Advisory Council in the central government, with a president and four vice presidents.

The State Council commanded the civil affairs of the whole country, with Li Banghua as the first president, Mei Zhizhao, Cao Guoqi, Cheng Zhidun, and Shi Zhanglie as vice presidents.

The Senate comprises the traditional Civil Affairs Department and the Integrity Division, and the Criminal Law Department is excluded from the Senate because of its special organization.

Mo Qian established the State Court outside the State Council, with Wang Zhongyi, director of the Criminal Law Department, as the first president, and the names of the original three departments of the Criminal Law Department remained unchanged, and the three directors still performed their respective duties.

The duties of the courts include law-making, prison, arrest, and trial.

The last three responsibilities are the responsibility of the State Court, and the law is formulated by the officials of the State Council, and the new law is submitted to the State Council and the King for joint deliberation, and after more than two-thirds of the officials of the State Council agree, it is then handed over to Mo Qian for final decision.

In this way, the judiciary is independent and a different team is formed.

The level of the State Court is at the same level as the State Advisory Yuan, which is equivalent to the six departments of the Ming Dynasty.

In the Military Affairs Yuan, a set of military divisions was tentatively established, with each province as a separate military division, and the supreme commander of the military division was the commander.

Qian Dayou is the commander of the Guangdong Military Division, Lu Zhao is the commander of the Huguang Military Division, and Peng Jinhong is the commander of the Jiangxi Military Division.

When the territory is bigger, the other veterans will slowly arrange it.

In order to prevent the commanders of the provinces from having trouble when they were in power, Mo Qian stipulated that the commanders of the provinces should be transferred to each other every three years, and they were not allowed to bring their followers or subordinates, but could only bring ten members of their own army to their posts.

However, Mo Qian didn't say this directly, he just secretly wrote it down for the time being.

At present, he is still alive, and his veterans can still command, in case he hangs up, his son is alive and grandchildren, because the commander of a certain province has military power, in case of rebellion, it will become a domain town of the Tang Dynasty.

When the world is stable, Mo Qian will immediately add this article to prevent the situation of separating the feudal towns.

The grass platform team was basically established, and although the civil and military officials did not wait for the knighthood, basically everyone had an official official title.

After the establishment of the administrative organ, Li Banghua raised the issue of the era name.

Regarding this issue, Mo Qian did not give everyone room to discuss.

Mo Qian directly picked up the brush and wrote two big characters on the table, and after writing, he ordered someone to pick it up and show it to the ministers.

When everyone looked at it, they saw two very simple characters on the paper.

Valley "open? ”

When everyone saw this era name, they were puzzled.

"King, what is this?" Someone came forward to ask questions.

Mo Qian got up and walked to the hall, looked around at the ministers, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, we are now in the midst of the tide of change in history, and what we are doing now is not only to change the dynasty, but also to carry forward the past and forge ahead for the Chinese nation.

We not only want to build a new country, but we also want to give China a new future, we must inherit the essence left to us by our ancestors, and we must open up a new road for China. ”

In the hall, everyone saw the impassioned words of Mo Qian, and immediately admired the five bodies in their hearts.

Lao Chen Mei's call was even more tearful, and he said even more: "China will finally have the Holy Lord!" ”

"Long live the king, long live, long live!"

.......

The governor of Jiangnan, who was canonized by the imperial court, established himself as the king, and called on the world, and for a while both sides of the river, north and south Kyoto knew the news.

In the Forbidden City of Beijing, I learned that Mo Qian had captured Guangdong and established himself as the king of Han in Wuchang. Emperor Chongzhen was furious.

He once again knocked out a high-grade pen holder produced by the official kiln in Jingdezhen, and scolded in his mouth: "Rebellious ministers, thieves, everyone will be punished!" ”

Yang Sichang, the new secretary of the military department and a member of the cabinet, looked at the emperor who lost his temper and couldn't help but be secretly surprised.

"It's really my good son-in-law, you dare to be the king of the land of the three provinces, and you are not afraid that the emperor will raise the world's soldiers and horses to conquer you!"

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong revived, Emperor Chongzhen was unable to support it alone, Lu Xiangsheng was pinned down by the Qing soldiers at this time, and the soldiers and horses could not go south, and the task of suppressing bandits in Shaanxi, Henan, and Shanxi provinces was all pressed on Hong Chengchou alone.

Hong Chengchou was unable to support himself, and Emperor Chongzhen looked at the ministers and found that these courtiers would only flatter each other in addition to dancing and writing all day long.

They don't have the ability to govern the world, but they are very capable in the brothel of the Qinglou.

Emperor Chongzhen remembered Yang Sichang, who had been the governor of Xuanda, and it happened that Yang Sichang gave him another lesson at this time.

Emperor Chongzhen took a look. I suddenly felt that it was too late to see each other.

He immediately issued a holy decree to Yang Sichang, and Yang Sichang was quickly promoted to the secretary of the military department, and soon entered the cabinet as a university scholar.

Yang Sichang's entry into the cabinet was unanimously opposed by the ministers, and even the first assistant Wen Tiren jumped out directly to stop it.

However, Chongzhen had lost trust in these incompetent ministers at this moment, and he insisted on stuffing Yang Sichang into the cabinet despite the opposition of the Manchu civil and military forces.

After Yang Sichang entered the cabinet, he quickly put forward several very key suggestions to Chongzhen.

He proposed that peace should be negotiated with the Qing soldiers outside the customs immediately, and the soldiers and horses from the border passes should be transferred to the Central Plains, and first make every effort to exterminate the Liukou in the Central Plains, and then fight a decisive battle with the Qing soldiers outside the Guan, so that the foundation of the Ming Dynasty can continue.

The two chatted all night in the imperial study, and the more Emperor Chongzhen listened, the more he felt that he and Yang Sichang hated to see each other late.

In addition, Yang Sichang is not a member of the Donglin Party, but a lone minister in the court, and Chongzhen is even more satisfied with Yang Sichang.

He quickly agreed to Yang Sichang's strategy, first negotiate peace, and then concentrate his forces to exterminate the Liukou.

It's a pity that the plan has just been established, and the news of Mo Qian's self-establishment as the king of Han came from Wuchang.

Emperor Chongzhen almost vomited blood without giving up, and he immediately announced Yang Sichang into the palace.

"Aiqing, Wuchang Mo thief, actually dare to be the king, Aiqing, this thief has ridden to my neck and, how can you let me be good, how is it good?"

Yang Sichang looked at the emperor's angry and sad appearance, and sighed in his heart.

"Son-in-law, you can make Your Majesty miserable!"

However, as a courtier, Yang Sichang had to give Chongzhen an idea at this time.

"Your Majesty, the situation in Huguang and Jiangxi is already unsolvable, unless the imperial court can quickly eliminate Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the Central Plains, and then rely on the Central Plains and Nanzhili as the foundation to raise troops and support the people, within three years, I will be able to have the ability to annihilate this thief, Your Majesty, now that the situation in the south of the Yangtze River is erosive, it is commendable to be able to keep Zhejiang Nanzhili.

Now Sichuan Nanzhili is still there, these two places are the foundation of the source of tax in our dynasty, these two provinces must not be chaotic, the top priority, or immediately negotiate peace with the Qing State, it is best to reach a peace with Mo Wen in Wuchang. ”

"What does Aiqing mean? Let me recognize the Qing and Han kingdoms? Chongzhen looked at Yang Sichang with complicated eyes.

Yang Sichang nodded helplessly, "Your Majesty, now the situation can only be like this, my Daming can only support the war all the way at most, if the war starts on three sides, I am afraid that within two years, Daming will ....."

Yang Sichang didn't say any more of the following words, and Chongzhen could understand what he meant.

Hearing Yang Sichang's suggestion, Chongzhen burst into tears after a while.

"I'm incompetent, I'm incompetent, the ancestor's country has been passed into my hands, but it has become what it is now, what face do I have to meet my ancestors!"

"Your Majesty, cheer up!"

Looking at the crumbling Chongzhen, Yang Sichang hurriedly stepped forward to support him.

"Aiqing, am I really the faint king?" Chongzhen took Yang Sichang's hand and asked with his eyes firmly on him.

Yang Sichang was furious when Chongzhen saw it, and looking at Chongzhen's expectant eyes, he replied stubbornly: "Your Majesty, you are not a faint king, but those corrupt officials who are faint are those corrupt officials who are eating vegetarian food, and they have harmed you?" ”

"Aiqing, I know what you said, and now there are rumors outside, saying that the number of Ming Qi has been exhausted, Aiqing, what do you think?"

What do I think?

Of course, I can only see with two eyes open!

Yang Sichang really wanted to scold Chongzhen, if it was him, his father would not have been confiscated to Yuanzhou Mansion, and his daughter would not have gone to Yuanzhou to take care of his grandfather.

If he doesn't go to Yuanzhou, then he, a dignified cabinet scholar, will not become a thief's father-in-law in a daze.

Yang Sichang's heart is bitter, under the education of the perennial loyalty to the monarch, he wants to confess to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, I'm sorry, I am the father-in-law of the number one thief in the Ming Dynasty!" ”

But he can't say that, if he really says so, I'm afraid that the day when the whole family will be beheaded is today.

Yang Sichang could only say with his conscience: "Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty is not exhausted, the Ming Dynasty still has two capitals and ten provinces, as long as you give us time, Your Majesty will definitely be able to annihilate the thieves and rejuvenate my Ming Dynasty again!" ”

"Aiqing, what you said is true?"

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