Changle Palace.
Zhang Chao and Fang Xuanling came to visit the emperor.
Beigong is a lot deserted, and a bunch of people such as Changsun Wuji were lively here before, and the emperor Cheng Qian, who still has a bit of an emperor's style.
And now, even the eldest grandson Wuji has left the palace to sell his family business.
The huge north palace is very deserted.
"Your Majesty has lost a lot of weight."
After Fang Xuanling saw the ceremony, he looked at Cheng Qian and said with some distress.
The emperor in his early twenties is still a child.
Cheng Qian sat in front of the Changle Palace, with his back against the red pillars, sitting directly on the ground, dressed in a casual robe, and one leg hung down under the corridor.
He didn't care at all about Zhang Chao's salute.
"This Changle Palace has lived in two emperors, and I thought that I would be the third emperor to move in."
Zhang Chao stood aside.
"Your Majesty doesn't want to be the emperor anymore, don't be the emperor to be the king of Tang, and when you arrive in the Tang Kingdom, you can follow Your Majesty as much as you want."
Cheng Qian snorted dissatisfiedly, he didn't have the slightest affection for Zhang Chao now.
More than ten years of mentoring and apprenticeship have long since turned into yesterday.
"Regent, why haven't I divorced the queen and the concubine yet?"
"I asked the Xia Hua sisters about this, both of them are still pregnant, how did Your Majesty say such a thing as divorce, they don't want to leave, and they are willing to go to Africa with Your Majesty.
No matter whether they go to the end of the world or the cape, they are willing to follow His Majesty. ” "They want to, but I don't."
Fang Xuanling persuaded on the side, "Why did Your Majesty say such angry words, the two ladies are so determined, Your Majesty should be happy." ” Zhang Chao also sat down, he ignored Cheng Qian, and just looked at the Beigong, which seemed a little deserted.
"If you really don't want to leave the Central Plains, you can stay here, and this Changle Palace can stay forever."
"Then I'd rather go to Africa."
Staying here, that is Zhang Chao's thorn in the flesh, although it is not bad to be Zhang Chao's thorn in the eye, but he doesn't want to involve other clans of the royal family.
After a while.
Cheng Qian took the initiative to ask, "How about the place I'm going to?"
"It's not bad, compared to the United States of the Emperor and the Australian Princess's Australia, the land may not be so fertile and the climate is not so good, but the transportation is much more convenient.
His Majesty's territory was in the south of Africa, but it was easier to sail along the coast to the north, and although it was still far from the Central Plains, at least it was not alone in a distant foreign land. ” Cheng Qian nodded.
He asked Zhang Chao a question he had always wanted to ask.
"I heard that you have made a covenant with the princes and officials, and you are still drafting the Magna Carta, can you really do it?"
Cheng Qian thought, how could the emperor do that Unexpectedly, Zhang Chao said, "I took the initiative to propose the law, and I also took the initiative to propose the Magna Carta, and the first article of the Magna Carta is that the constitution is above everything else and above the imperial power."
Your Majesty, in fact, the charter restricts a little imperial power, which is not a bad thing. ” "Isn't it a bad thing," Cheng Qian was at a loss.
"Of course it's not a bad thing."
"In a few days, the draft charter will be drawn up, and I will have your majesty refer to it then.
When it is officially enacted, all princes, parliamentarians, and high-ranking officials will have to sign and seal it, and then ask Your Majesty to sign a seal as well. ” The constitution was not only a constraint on the imperial power, but also a constraint on the imperial system, on the princes, on the officials, landlords, merchants, and common people, and everyone had to abide by it after it was promulgated.
The constitution both constrains and protects imperial power.
The constitution also binds and protects the princes.
"Your Majesty, the cabinet has drawn up the time for the Zen Concession Ceremony, which is set for the eighth day of the eighth month of August."
Fang Xuanling finally brought up the matter.
Cheng Qian's face froze, and he nodded with difficulty.
"I know" At this time, it was already July, and the heat was unbearable.
Zhang Chao said hello to Cheng Qian, and went to see his two daughters.
Xia Hua and her sister both have big bellies, and they are both six or seven months pregnant.
Zhang Chao came, and the two beckoned him to sit.
"If you don't go home and live for a while, I'm afraid you won't be able to take care of it here."
Xia Hua shook her head, "The daughter who marries is the water that is spilled, marrying a chicken from a chicken, marrying a dog with a dog, whether he is an emperor in the past or a commoner in the future, we will never leave him." ” "Do you blame me?"
"Yes."
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Xia Hua replied very directly, in her opinion, her father is the Taishi, the prime minister, or the national ruler, he should help her husband maintain his throne, but her father usurped the throne.
She couldn't understand why she was doing this.
"Actually, it's not my intention so far.
If Cheng Qian had listened to some of my advice, he would not be where he is today.
He has only been on the throne for more than two years, but he has not been able to get the support of the courtiers.
"Isn't it that my father refuses to support my father, who is the head of the hundred officials and the princes, if my father is willing to support it, who can oppose it" Zhang Chao smiled bitterly.
It's not that simple.
"We are all on the cusp of the wave, we can only go with the trend, not against the trend.
When I returned to Beijing this time, I didn't think about what I was going to do at all, but many people told me to let me act as a substitute for Tang, and they said that Cheng Qian couldn't do it.
Do you know how dangerous it is for more and more people to say these words, especially when many powerful civil and military people say them?"
"Xia Hua, even if it's me, I can't go against this wave."
Looking at Xia Hua's tense face, Zhang Chao didn't want to explain anything.
"Wait until next May, when you will ride the monsoon south.
I will arrange for a group of people to go there first, and build you a castle, open up some arable land, and graze some cattle and sheep, and then it will not be so difficult when you pass. ” "Dad, if you really love your daughter, then don't exile Your Majesty to Africa," Ruohua said.
"Of course he can stay if he wants to, but he doesn't want to stay, and I won't force it."
August 8 Zen let the ceremony.
There is less than a month to go.
In the court, during this time, Zhang Chao has also been making various personnel and organizational adjustments.
The current adjustment is basically to prepare for the new dynasty, and the people who come up will be the people of the new dynasty in the future, and even the yamen structure that is adjusted now will also be the structure after the new dynasty.
The eldest grandson Wuji and others have resigned from their cabinet posts, and now Ma Zhou is the second minister, Chu Suiliang, Cen Wenwen, Yu Zhining, Yang Shidao, etc. are still group assistants, and Wang Qi, Tang Jian, and Zheng Shanguo are added as auxiliary ministers.
The Hanlin Yuan cut the right to approve the red and changed it to the right to refute, and the House of Nobles of the Parliament removed the six sections.
The Hanlin Academy takes Fang Xuanling as the bachelor of Hanlin, and Kong Yingda, Lu Deming, Li Shousu, Yu Shinan, Cui Gan, Sun Fujia and other eight people are bachelors.
The Imperial Historical Observatory is responsible for supervising affairs, having the power to supervise impeachment, and also setting up a Taiwan prison, which is responsible for the trial of special cases, and is called the Three Law Division together with the Criminal Department and the Dali Division.
The two houses of parliament have legislative power, the power to approve the budget, and the power to supervise the executive.
One cabinet, one courtyard, one meeting, has formed a new imperial power structure today.
The cabinet makes decisions and governs, the Hanlin Yuan deliberates and refuts, the Yushitai pickets and impeachment, and the parliament supervises legislation.
The power of the Imperial Historical Observatory is also constantly being strengthened, and now it is placed alongside the Cabinet, the Hanlin Yuan, and the Parliament, which fully demonstrates the importance of this yamen in the new dynasty.
It can be said politely that after Zhang Chao became the emperor, as long as he could control the Yushitai, then there was such a supervisory body, and he would be able to keep an eye on the cabinet, and if the prime minister or bachelor did not meet Zhang Chao's wishes, he could use the Yushitai to get him down.
The emperor doesn't need to come forward, just drive the imperial historians to keep an eye on it.
In fact, Cheng Qian lacked this kind of means, and only knew how to use the emperor's authority to suppress it, which was considered to be inferior.
The emperor's smart approach is always to control his courtiers to check and balance each other, where the emperor needs to come out in person.
First up and then down, during this period of time, the center has been rectifying and adjusting, and the personnel has been almost straightened out, everything that should be taken has been taken, and everything that should be replaced has been changed, and now it is beginning to adjust the personnel at the local level.
From the Xuanfu envoy at the provincial level to the political envoy to the left and right political envoys to the envoys to the commanders, then the governors and admirals of the frontier territories, and then the assassins, long histories, Sima, Liucao, etc., in the Central Plains states, and so on, and so on, it is almost time for Zhang Chao to fully control the world and officially accept Chan to ascend the throne.
Everything is in order, even the eldest grandson Wuji has compromised, and there is no one who is no longer ignorant.
The day of meditation is approaching day by day.
The country name, year name, etc. are all being determined.
There are two country names, the Chinese Empire, or the Chinese Empire.
The full name is the Empire of the Federal Republic of China, or the Empire of the Commonwealth of China.
Zhang Chao personally still prefers the name of the Chinese Empire, China China, which can also be simply the country of the central government, the central Chinese Empire.
In this era, Huayi still has to be relatively clear.
Dividing the princes means respecting the king.
As for the era name, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the year name and year method after ascending the throne have been adopted, and this year method actually has some shortcomings, such as the difficulty of conversion.
The West now adopts the Julian calendar, which replaced the old Roman calendar, which was implemented by Julius Caesar, the dictator of the Roman Republic.
This calendar was modified by the Church of Rome a few hundred years later to become the Common Era.
Zhang Chao had an idea to implement a new calendar, not the traditional Chinese history of the emperor's calendar, but the chronology that could string together the entire Chinese history.
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There are two options before him.
First, the year of the republic's reign in the Western Zhou Dynasty was taken as the first year of the republic, and from then on, it was superimposed in this way, which was also the beginning of the official chronological record in Chinese history.
The other is to start with the year of the birth of Confucius.
One is the republican calendar, and the other is the Confucius calendar.
The first year of the republic is 841 B.C., and now it is the third year of Kaiyuan, which corresponds to the thirteenth year of Zhenguan in history, and it should be 639 A.D., so if it is calculated according to the republican calendar, it should now be 1400 years of the republican calendar.
If we use the Confucius year, then this year is the year 1190 of the Confucian calendar.
There is also a kind of era, which has also been used in later generations, but if it is calculated according to the era of the Yellow Emperor, it should be the year 5017 of the Yellow Emperor era.
This chronology is far less accurate than the republican chronology and the Confucian chronology, and lacks sufficient historical materials to support it.
Therefore, Zhang Chao personally prefers the republican year or the Confucius year, and he can also choose a year and then add the imperial year name to do it together.
For example, on August 8 this year, Zhang Chao ascended the throne, then this year can be changed to the yuan, then this year is the year 1400 of the Republic and the first year of the revival of the Federal Republic of China.
Holding a pen, Zhang Chao wrote on the paper a few lines of words in the year 1400 of the Republic calendar, 1190 years of the Confucius calendar, and the first year of the revival of the Empire of the Federal Republic of China. t1706231537: