The Heavens: Starting from Traveling through Song Qingshu

Chapter 92 Martial Emperor Song Xuan!

Conquering the world is easier than staying in the world. After taking over the capital, Song Xuan directly issued an order to change the name of the capital to the imperial capital.

It is to let Li Shanchang and others arrange the follow-up matters of Jinling City properly, and lead the officers and troops of the Ministry of the Interior to the imperial capital as soon as possible.

The meaning of this move is self-evident, that is, the establishment of a new dynasty will use Dadu as its capital.

This order naturally attracted the attention of many people, and even Xu Dalanyu and the others went to the evacuation one after another, urging Marshal Song to reconsider.

They are all southerners, and they all have land properties in Jinling, so they naturally don't want to leave the prosperous place of Jinling and settle in the north.

But Song Xuan's will is extremely firm, and no one can change his decision.

More than ten days later, Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen led a group of civil officials in Jinling City, and finally arrived at the imperial capital in a hurry.

As soon as they arrived in the imperial capital, the two of them didn't even have the intention to rest, so they hurriedly went to the imperial city to meet the lord Song Xuan.

In the imperial study room, Song Xuan talked for a long time with these two most reliable civil servants, but in the end, the two still failed to persuade the founding ancestor of his determination to establish the imperial capital.

In the early morning of the next day, Song Xuan changed into a black dragon robe under the service of the servant, and then went to Daming Hall.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the Daming Hall was generally rarely used. Only when important ceremonies or important decisions were made, court meetings would be held here.

When we arrived at the Daming Hall, both sides were already full of civil and military officials.

This is the first time that Song Xuan officially held the Great Court Meeting after taking over the imperial capital.

It stands to reason that Song Xuan has not officially ascended the throne, and it is inappropriate to start wearing dragon robes directly.

But Song Xuan doesn't care about this, the whole world is down, he can wear whatever he wants, who dares to object?

Under the awe and fanatical gazes of all Chinese, military and military officials in the hall, Song Xuanyi sat on the dragon chair in a dragon robe and looked around at everyone in the hall.

The next moment, led by Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen, bowed down first.

"Long live my emperor! Long live!"

The civil and military officials then knelt down and said, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Amidst the sound of shouting long live, the first grand court meeting of the new dynasty officially started.

Then, the first topic of the Great Court Meeting was not to confer titles of marquises and generals to reward meritorious officials, but to discuss the title of the country.

The Jinling regime conquered the world so fast that Li Shanchang and others had not even had time to think about the title of the country before their lord had already sat on the throne.

Then, the hall suddenly became lively.

All kinds of messy national titles were recommended, and even the national titles such as Shenchao and Tianchao were proposed. Song Xuan read it with relish and was quite interesting.

In the end, he, the new emperor, chose the word "Wu" as the title of the country amidst the expectations of civil and military officials.

In this regard, Baiguan didn't have much opinion.

Just like Zhang Wuji started his family with Mingjiao and took Ming as his country name after founding his country, it is not surprising that Song Xuan came from Wudang School and took Wu as his country name.

Of course, the civil servant was somewhat upset.

This country name makes them feel that they are inferior to the military attache for no reason.

The name of the country is determined, and the Wu Dynasty is established at the beginning. Next, it is natural to discuss matters such as enthronement.

The emperor's ascension to the throne is a top priority, and only after the new emperor ascends the throne, can these founding heroes be rewarded.

The enthronement was very cumbersome, and some civil servants of the Ministry of the Interior quoted scriptures and said a lot about enthronement etiquette, which made Song Xuan feel sleepy and impatient.

In the end, with a wave of his sleeves, Gan Gang was arbitrary, and all the messy and complicated rituals were cancelled, except for the most important ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven.

As for the date of enthronement, it is set on the first day of January next year, the day when Vientiane will be renewed.

At the beginning of the Wu Dynasty, the civil and military teams naturally needed to be rebuilt.

During the Great Court Assembly, Song Xuan did not set up six departments as in previous dynasties, but split the Ministry of Internal Affairs into three departments.

Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Justice.

On the military officer's side, Emperor Wu Song Xuan set up a military department to take charge of the military.

The four departments are relatively independent, and the heads of departments are all first-rank officials, directly responsible to the emperor!
As for the chief officials of the four departments, Song Xuan immediately made an appointment in the court.

The chief official of the Ministry of Civil Affairs is Li Shanchang, who is regarded as the head of the hundred officials. Although he does not have the name of a prime minister, he has the reality of a prime minister.

For the position of chief officer of the Ministry of Finance, Song Xuan arranged for Hu Qian, the first minister of the dragon, to come up.

He has already given the treatment that should be given. As for whether Hu Qian, an opportunist, can secure his position, it depends on his own ability.

As for the Ministry of Justice, which has the power to supervise officials and make legislation, Song Xuan naturally handed it over to Liu Bowen.

These three civil servants, when Song Xuan was appointed, there was no sound at all in the hall, no matter the qualifications or achievements of these three people were there, no one dared to say anything more.

However, when the chief officer of the military department was appointed, there were disagreements among the hundreds of officials in the court.

In terms of military merit, Lan Yu and Xu Da are naturally the two who are the highest, but Zhu Yuanzhang and Chang Yuchun are also not far behind. For a while, it is still uncertain who should be the chief officer of the military department.

Regardless of the fact that these four people are all from Fengyang County, they have a close relationship, but the generals and officers under their command don't care about this. Who wouldn't want their own general to be the No. 1 position in the military department?

In the end, Song Xuan made the decision and Zhu Yuanzhang took over.

After all, he was the Ming Taizu in the original history, so he naturally had the ability, so there is no doubt about it.

If Song Xuan could only stay in this world for a year, this person would naturally be No.1 for him to deal with.

But the situation is different now, he can easily survive the civil and military affairs of the whole dynasty until his death, and his achievements are completely untenable here.

The four major departments in the court were established, and the civil and military officials discussed the local administrative system.

The civil officials agreed that the reason for the demise of the Yuan Dynasty was that apart from its brutal rule, there was another point, that is, the local management was too loose.

They don't care whether the people live or die. As long as the taxes are paid on time, the local gentry and even ordinary people do what they like, and the court doesn't care at all.

In other dynasties, the imperial power did not go to the countryside, but during the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial power could not even reach the county level.

Court officials lack real power, and most of the power is in the hands of local gentry and tyrants, and is not controlled by the local government at all.

Li Shanchang and other civil officials agreed that it is particularly important for the imperial power to go to the countryside to organize households for the people. All kinds of government orders from the imperial court must be clearly issued to the township level.

Song Xuan agreed with their views and divided the local administrative level into five levels: province, prefecture, county, township, and village.

The establishment of inspection stations in each township is actually similar to the township police stations of later generations. The director of the station is a ninth-rank official, which can greatly strengthen the imperial court's control over the local villages.

As a newly established dynasty, the system and the like are bound to be impossible to perfect, and there will always be various flaws.

But Song Xuan didn't care, as long as he lived long enough, he would have plenty of time to improve a little bit.

(End of this chapter)