Chapter 999: The Seven-Day Dynasty, the First and Twenty-Four Concubines
The last time the founding of the country was in a hurry, and even caught everyone off guard, and after the fact, some remedies were made, and it can be said that the last time the founding of the country was described as sloppy is not an exaggeration, for this reason, there are many people who have complaints.
And this time the founding of the country, naturally it is impossible to be as hasty as before, three days after Leng Zhuo returned to the court, Dachu held the largest court meeting since the founding of the country, and it was seven days as soon as it opened.
This is the most important chapter in the annals of the Great Chu Empire, in the records of later historians, the seven days from April 9 to April 15 in the fifth year of the founding of the Great Chu Kingdom can be said to be the most important turning point of the empire, and it is also the empire, and this event is also known as the Seven Days Dynasty, which laid the cornerstone of a new empire and affected the time of the Great Chu for hundreds of years.
During the seven days of the seven-day court meeting, the cabinet ministers, the ministers of the military aircraft department, and even the princesses of the secretariat also listened in the side hall and were allowed to speak, and in addition to these important ministers of the Great Chu civil and military affairs, several representatives of public opinion from various strata of scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants were also selected to be allowed to join the court meeting, which can be said to be a precedent for all dynasties and greatly stimulated all strata.
You must know that the court meeting is a solemn occasion, and it is also the most important meeting of a country, and it is also the core of a country's politics, where major events in the world are decided, and those of them who do not even have a grade can be fortunate enough to join this court, and it is also the founding of the dynasty, and they are allowed to speak in the court, which is a huge shock to several strata, and the various strata that are already interested in Dachu are ignited by Leng Zhuo's measures this time, and it can be said that they are even more desperate for Dachu.
Although the seven-day pilgrimage was large in number and included representatives of all walks of life, they participated together, but the whole court meeting was not chaotic, because as early as these three days, the various topics at the court meeting had already been decided, and the people who came to the court meeting only voted on these issues, or put forward their own ideas and suggestions, and then after some voting, to determine the plan.
And the first thing to be determined by this dynasty is naturally the name of the country, in this regard, Leng Zhuo did not make many changes, and still used the Great Chu, but after this Great Chu, the empire was also added, so as to stand side by side with the Tianlong Empire, rather than the second-class kingdom.
Determine the country name as Zhengshuo, this is not too much debate, after all, there are only a few country names selected, after some voting, it was quickly determined, this year will still be continued in the fifth year of Jianye, and next year the country name will be officially replaced, that is, the empire 565, Tianfeng Era 3078 is the first year of the Great Chu Empire.
The banner on behalf of the empire is set as the five-clawed golden pan dragon flag, and the dragon is the national beast of the town country, but this national beast has not yet landed, but according to the words of the Yimu Teng snake, on the holy mountain in the depths of the 100,000 mountains, there is still a giant dragon, but that dragon is the peak of the holy beast, half a foot into the god level, and it is not so simple to catch it back as a town and country beast.
After the name of the country, the name of the country, and the national flag are set, the most important thing is the civil and military official system, before the Great Chu continued to use the imperial set, but it was a half-hanger, so this time it was considered to have improved the official system, the aristocratic system, and the inheritance system, this topic was the most controversial, and this topic alone took more than half of the time of the court meeting.
After some discussion, the Great Chu Empire broke the inherent institutional model, after all, the situation in Great Chu is different from that of previous dynasties, especially the existence of the Great Chu Ping An Bank.
The inner court does not care about the government and does not involve military power, and is only responsible for taking care of the royal bank of Dachu, that is, Ping An Bank, that is to say, the inner court has financial power, and the outer court is divided into two cabinets, the Wen Cabinet governs the government, and the Wu Pavilion controls the army, and does not interfere with each other.
The functions of the household department have been weakened, and most of the functions have been replaced by banks, but the household department has the functions of supervision, budgeting, auditing, etc., and supervises the people's livelihood and people's livelihood.
The civil officials are headed by the Wenge, and the scholars of the Wenge are odd, with as little as five people, as many as nine people, and they are called university scholars, ranking in the first grade, and then there are eight ministers of Shangshu, ranking in the second grade, and the Great Chu sets up the provincial county system, and the province sets up the patrol envoy, and the official is the third grade, which is the highest grade of the feudal officials.
Below, there are county guards, five grades, and then below, county orders, seven grades, and the subordinate officials of provinces, counties, and counties have their own grades, and the genuine products are nine, and the subordinate products are nine, that is, the eighteenth level of civil officials.
Wu Cabinet, the highest authority is the Military Aircraft Department, also known as the Wu Cabinet, the Minister of Military Aircraft is listed in the same category, under the General Staff Department, the Logistics Department, the Military Department, the Intelligence Department of the four major departments, of which the military department is the largest, under the jurisdiction of the forbidden army, the four major corps, the navy three relatively independent military existence.
There are different levels of military generals, handsome is the most, will be secondary, after the captain, the soldier is the base, the handsome general is the four levels, the soldier is divided into three levels, the upper, middle, and lower three levels, the lieutenant is accurate, the lower, the middle, the upper, will be the same lieutenant with the four ranks, the handsome is the most, it is the highest title, can only add honor, not in the grade, that is, the military attache level is twelve.
After the civil and military attaché is formulated, it is the title of nobility, and the nobility still adopts it, and the prince and prince are the seventh rank of male honor, but the title of nobility can enjoy the title, but it cannot be sealed, that is to say, if you are rewarded as a baron in a certain place, then you will get a share of the tax here, and have a royal mansion, and you are not allowed to meddle in local government affairs, you are not allowed to intervene in local military affairs, and you only enjoy certain privileges.
It can be said that this title is a glorious title, and it enjoys some privileges and exemptions in taxes and so on, and at the same time, there are strict restrictions on the private army of the nobles, which is less than the number of private soldiers of the nobles of the Heavenly Dragon Empire.
After getting these done, the next step is to re-delineate the provinces, counties, and counties, and the empire divides the world into nine states, with prefectures under prefectures, prefectures under prefectures, prefectures under counties, and counties under counties, that is, prefectures, prefectures, counties, and counties.
And Leng Zhuo directly integrated the state capital level, for him, the state is too big, the government is too small, and if there is one more level of units, there will be countless more officials, in fact, there are not so many people to work at all.
Now Leng Zhuo occupies Chuzhou and Yangzhou, and after the founding of the country this time, the southern part of Qingzhou does not intend to continue to cover up, so these territories, Leng Zhuo has divided eight provinces, and Chuzhou has three provinces, namely Xiangxi Province, Henan Province and Ping'an Province.
Xiangxi Province covers the hometowns of Songling Mansion, Xiyan Mansion, Jiuchuan Mansion and Jialin Mansion, and consists of 19 counties.
Henan Province, covering the four northern provinces, Poyang Province, Guangling Province, Xiaoxiang Province, and Dongchang Province, consists of 21 counties.
Ping'an Province, covering Zhuque Mansion, Shanglin Mansion, Dawan Mansion, Nanlin Mansion, Nanxing Mansion five prefectures, under the capital of 23 counties.
Yangzhou is divided into three provinces, Songjiang Province, Donghu Province and Fuhai Province, Songjiang Province includes Jinfeng Province, Songjiang Province and the western part of Ningbo Province, under the jurisdiction of 18 counties.
Donghu Province, including Yangzhou Prefecture, Taicang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture three hometowns, under the jurisdiction of 16 counties, Penglai Islands is one of the counties.
Fuhai Province covers the vast coastal areas of Hangzhou, Fuzhou and Ningbo, and has 21 counties under its jurisdiction.
Chu, Yang Six Provinces, and Qingzhou are also in place in one step this time, divided into two provinces, Hebei Province, and Huainan Province.
Hebei Province is composed of Gaoyou Province, Heze Province and the southern part of Qubu, with 15 counties under its jurisdiction.
Huainan Province is temporarily composed of Jiyang Province and Huainan Province, but Laiwu Province, which is still in the hands of the empire, will definitely be included in Huainan Province in the future, and the land of twelve counties will be temporarily established.
There are 135 counties in the Eight Provinces, and each county has five counties, so it can be said that the number of officials to be used in these places alone is not a small number, 135 county-level yamen, and more than 600 county-level yamen.
The three provinces of Chuzhou are the easiest to solve, and the counties are already in their hands, and after these few years, the local envoys appointed by the Great Chu have also replaced the county yamen in exercising various rights in the county, and when they occupied the prefectures of Chuzhou, these envoys also sat in the yamen for a period of time, so the Chuzhou side almost straightened out the envoys from all over the country and let them return to the yamen to do errands, and the change was not big.
Yangzhou side, Songjiang Province is easy to solve, after all, it has been in the hands of Da Chu, so it is easy to transform locally, but Donghu Province and Fuhai Province are much more troublesome, after the Great Plague, and the disaster of military chaos, plus Da Chu's foundation in this place is not deep, so there are many affairs, and the status of these two provinces is also very important, especially East Lake Province, which is the richest place in Yangzhou, not only Yangzhou, but also Jintaicang, and Suzhou, so the next will definitely be the focus.
These two provinces will definitely send a large number of grassroots officials, and the county level can be postponed for some time, but the specific plan is not discussed in the court, but by the Ministry of Cabinet officials first, and then the cabinet ministers discuss, and finally submitted to Leng Zhuo for approval.
The time of the founding ceremony of the Great Chu Empire, the style of court clothes and official uniforms, the compilation of the harem, and the most important compilation of the law of the country, these are all busy matters for the Ministry of Rites, and they are also the most urgent matters.
The official founding ceremony is scheduled for October, after all, there is a big move in the local area, and the founding ceremony also needs time to prepare, after all, this is a matter of the face of Chu, just the Chu Palace will be expanded, it can be used improvised, but this is upgraded to the empire, and the current Chu Palace is too unusual, although more than half a year is very urgent, but it is enough to build some major halls and the like, and the rest is slowly expanding!
And the harem is also divided into upper and lower levels by the people of the Ministry of Rites, one queen, four nobles, eight concubines, sixteen concubines, and then there are talented people and the like, this has been promoted to the empire, and the harem can't be as up and down as before, there must be rules, but as soon as this regulation comes out, it makes Leng Zhuo Dan hurt.
After this, there is no problem, it must be Wei Zhilan, but the problem is how to distribute this concubine, concubine, and concubine, which is embarrassing.
Count carefully, there are a lot of women around Leng Zhuo, Wei Zhilan, Nangong Yuhu, Lu Chanyue, Nanfeng Ling, Ye Linglong, Long Wushuang, Bai Shuang, You Ji, Sophia, Li Yaer, Qin Liangyu, Liang Hongyu, Beicheng Bingxin, these are all skin to skin, which is a full fourteen.
In addition, there are Dongfang Fu, Ximen Wan'er, Wang Qingya, and his eldest son's mother Tang Die, although the two are now strangers, but after all, they are the biological mother of one of Leng Zhuo's two sons, and Wang Ruotong, who has no news so far, think about it, there are nineteen.
I don't know if I don't know this, I'm scared when I count it, my harem is really not small, nineteen people, even the first level of the concubine can't stop it, and the first level of the concubine is obviously too low, let you be a concubine, let who is a concubine, who is a concubine, this is a big problem, it's not good, the harmonious harem is going to be discordant, and when the time comes, this noise, he won't have a headache to death.
The palms and backs of the hands are all meat, it is absolutely impossible to divide it like this, this is a dead person's drop, no problem after that, you can't ask for this level of concubine, you have to treat everyone equally, then you will be named a concubine, well, eighteen is not good, just set up twenty-four concubines, so that everyone is the same, and there is surplus.
After Leng Zhuo made such a decision, he immediately sent the decree to the Ministry of Rites and asked them to be responsible for the operation, and the seven-day dynasty ended like this, and in the court, the great Chu civil and military forces who had already divided the work began to prepare intensively for the founding ceremony.