Then, Jiang Yao got another piece of news.

Jiang Zhengyi did not proclaim himself the crown prince, but directly ascended the throne. His edict stated that his mother-in-law had ordered him to ascend the throne immediately and officially ceded his throne to him.

Jiang Yao became more and more puzzled. Concubine Silkworm Yao was the master of Jiuyan, and Jiang Zhengyi was just the young master. For such a big event as the founding of a country, shouldn't we wait for Concubine Silkworm Yao to come back?

You must know that Concubine Canyao has a high prestige in Jiujiang. She can be said to be the leader of the order for eternity, not just a decoration.

Even if Concubine Can Yao is involved in something important and cannot come back, then as the son of a human being, Jiang Zhengyi should respect Concubine Can Yao as the emperor and himself as the prince, right?

But Jiang Zheng directly succeeded to the throne. Moreover, the ministers of Jiujiang had no objection.

Jiang Zhengyi's character seems to be that he doesn't do anything, but does it to the best of his ability. He didn't call himself King of Chu or King of Qi like Pan Ding and Haiyun Chi did, but directly proclaimed himself emperor and emperor!

The young master of Jiujiang, Lord Qing, suddenly transformed into the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty!

As a result, Jiang Zhengyi became the only "Emperor" and "Emperor" in the real world.

Although this supreme position is only recognized by Jiu Jin, he is the only one at present after all.

For Jiang Zhengyi to do this, he obviously understands history better than Pan. Of course, he did this to seize the opportunity of orthodoxy.

Considering the current situation, whoever proclaims himself emperor first may really gain the upper hand.

The opening chapter of the imperial edict he published emphasized: "The world has been divided for a long time, the turbid waves are overwhelming the sky, the poisonous flames are burning the earth, and the love is the Qing Dynasty..."

This is very interesting.

He totally spoke of being the savior of the world, thinking that destiny was his own, so the reign was named "Destiny".

What made Jiang Yao even more uneasy was that the content of Jiang Zhengyi's founding edict included a lot of detail on the system of "our Qing Dynasty" and seemed relatively complete.

It was different from the Chu State, which had a crude system and had a simple system. Judging from Jiang Zhengcheng's "Edict on the Founding of the People's Republic of China", the system of "I, the Qing Dynasty" was relatively more refined.

And the minister who assisted in drafting the "Great Edict" turned out to be Qinglu!

Qinglu is familiar with Jiang Gong's reforms.

First of all, Jiang Zhengyi made it clear that the emperor and the way of heaven came into being, and he was the emperor. The emperor was appointed by the way of heaven, and he was supreme and was in the ninth position.

He emphasized the sacred status of the emperor from a legal perspective. In terms of throne design, he was superior to the King of Chu and King Qi.

Secondly, the "Great Edict" clarified the official and military systems of the Qing Dynasty. Like the Ming Dynasty, it also formulated a nine-rank official system.

The central government established a political forum and selected eight powerful men from among the twelve nobles as ministers. The political forum became the highest central organization in the Qing Dynasty and was directly responsible to the emperor.

The function of the political discussion platform is called the political discussion platform meeting, and the emperor personally presides over it.

By appointing and dismissing ministers, Jiang Zhengheng could firmly control the council meeting. The imperial power was further concentrated. At the same time, a gap was opened in the natural unity of the great nobles when facing the monarch.

The minister of political affairs is the Congyipin, and the Zhengyipin is not established for the time being.

Under the political forum, there are nine offices. They are Sima, Li, Fu, Xing, Yao, Zhen, Fu, Qi, and Cha.

The two officers of the Nine Prefectures are called the Left and Right Prefects, and they are of the second rank.

In addition, more than a dozen small institutions have been set up to assist the central high-level institutions.

One Taiwan and Nine Prefectures were the central government system of the "Qing Dynasty".

The emperor himself also had an imperial agency called the Shiyufu, which was actually Jiang Zhengyi's personal advisor. According to the "Da Zhao", officials from the Shiyufu were on standby to prepare for the emperor's advice.

It seems that it does not have much power and cannot be compared with the political forum.

But Jiang Yao, who was well versed in ancient Chinese politics, knew that the Imperial Palace was actually like Kang Mazi’s Shangnan Study Room in his early days and the Military Aircraft Department in his early Yongzheng reign.

One day, this Imperial Palace will replace the political forum controlled by the twelve great nobles.

It can be seen from this that Jiang Zhengyi is very sophisticated. Among them, Qinglu must have had many ideas.

At the local level, Jiang Zhengyi, like the Chu State, changed the situation without changing the medicine, and only established nominal local government offices, such as county governors and county magistrates.

These local officials were also held concurrently by the original local nobles.

In Jiang Yao's view, the central system of the Qing Dynasty was relatively complete, but it mainly lacked the Ministry of Rites, which was in charge of ethics and scientific examinations.

However, at the local level, "We, the Qing Dynasty" are still clan-based politics, and the monopoly of local resources and power by tribal nobles has not fundamentally changed.

This is like the aftermath of the Later Jin Dynasty before the Qing Dynasty entered the Pass.

Jiang Zhengyi probably did this on purpose. He had no intention of shaking the ruling foundation of the Wu family aristocracy, and he had no intention of promoting the interests of the poorer class.

Jiang Yao can see from Jiang Zhengyi's "Great Edict" that Jiang Zhengyi is still a reactionary ruler. What he wants is to unify the world at the lowest cost, not to fight against the martial arts families in the world.

Militaryly, the "Great Edict" clarified the mixed military system of the Four Banners Army and the tribal army. The Four Banners Army was incorporated into the Qing Forbidden Army and became the first main force of the Qing Army, commanded by the Qing Emperor himself.

The tribal soldiers were led by major nobles, and were awarded new military officer titles, such as governor, general, commander, etc., and were nominally under the jurisdiction of the military commander's office.

The core of the military system is the flag soldier system.

Each banner only has 40,000 soldiers and horses, and the four banners only have a total of 160,000 soldiers, which doesn't seem like much. But the problem is that all the soldiers are veterans with a cultivation level of Jindan (Wuzong) or above! Even the commanders are Nascent Soul monks

!

Generals with holy level cultivation can all be assigned to the Wan Chang level, and the flag owners are all great saints!

With a large-scale army with such a high average cultivation level, the Four Banners Soldiers that are about to be formed may be the only ones in the entire True Realm.

The flag masters of the four banners are all served by important ministers with the level of the Great Sage. Under the banner masters, there are four arrow masters in the east, south, west and north. Each arrow master is served by a saint-level powerhouse.

According to this configuration, there are actually 20 saint-level powerhouses among the mere 160,000 soldiers of the Four Banners, including four great saints!

By doing this, Jiang Zhengyi was able to incorporate half of the elite soldiers and generals of Jiujiang into the Four Banners Army. He was confident in commanding such powerful soldiers and horses, and it was obvious that his own cultivation was also very strong.

Otherwise, he wouldn't even be able to operate the military seal.

The "Edict of the Founding of the People's Republic of China" strengthened the emperor's military power through the four-banner military system. In order to appease the nobles of various tribes, a title system was introduced.

Jiang Zhengyi created the fifth-class title for male princes and uncles, and prepared to reward them generously, in an attempt to use the title to calm the dissatisfaction of the twelve major families and win people's hearts.

After Jiang Yao read the long "Edict on the Founding of the People's Republic of China", his expression changed unpredictably.

If the Qing army suddenly entered the Witch Territory from the Jiujiang exit and stabbed the Chu army in the back, Panchu would definitely suffer a big loss.

When will the Qing army "come out"? And where will the attack be?

Is there only one exit in Jiuyan’s small world that Nioni knows about?

More importantly, is the "Wanxiang Gu Jing" still in the Qing Dynasty? Tiangong? Has it been taken away by Concubine Silkworm Yao?

Thinking of Concubine Silkworm Yao, Jiang Yao felt itchy with hatred.

Jiang Yao was thinking about this when suddenly a palace official entered the Yinming Leng Palace and reported: "Master Du, the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty invites Master Du to attend the enthronement night banquet. The palace has specially prepared ghost food for you."

The big ghost smiled sinisterly and said: "Okay, I finally have blood food to enjoy."

I followed the palace people to the Yuanqing Palace in the Qing Dynasty Palace. The palace was already filled with drums and music, and everyone could see the nobles of the "Qing Dynasty".

The palace was splendid and magnificent, surrounded by fairy clouds. High-end wines and delicacies were placed on the table, the atmosphere was solemn and warm, and the palace banquet was grand and orderly.

As for the person who served as the master of ceremonies at the palace banquet, it was Qing Lu.

Ginger medicine was led to the front position. There was no fine wine or food on the table, only a few cold clay pots, which contained the high-level souls that ghosts loved to eat, waiting for the fate of being devoured by ghosts.

In the eyes of ghosts, these souls are all high-end and delicious, and they are considered good ghost food.

It's really not a bad treatment.

Amidst the sound of bells and cauldrons, Jiang Zhengyi, wearing a green dragon robe and a Liuheyi unified crown, stepped onto the throne.

What's ridiculous is that even though Jiang Zhengyi has ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he still wears a mask.

Wearing a mask to be the emperor, Jiang Zhengyi has been through the ages!

Jiang Zhengyi wore an ancient and gorgeous blood-red ring on his hand. When Jiang Yao saw this ring, he suddenly felt a little familiar.

Hmm? This ring...

He thought for a moment and suddenly remembered the origin of the ring.

It turned out to be the ring on the human skin in the Immortal Burial Lake in Daogu Mountain.

That is the ring of the Six-fingered Immortal!

However, Jiang Yao clearly remembered that the Immortal Burial Slough was snatched away from Yiyi's hands by Yu Kuan.

Logically speaking, this ring should be in Yu Yan's hand.

But why was it worn on Jiang Zhengyi’s hand?

Could it be that Jiang Zhengyi snatched it away from Kuner again?

When Jiang Yao saw the ring, she felt extremely dazzling and worried.

He didn't know that it was Pan Kang who snatched the Immortal Burial Slaughter from Yu Kan, and then Jiang Zhengheng snatched it from Pan Kang.

At this time, Qinglu, the master of ceremonies at the palace banquet, said loudly: "His Majesty the Emperor has arrived, and all the ministers kneel down to welcome him!"

What? Kneel down to welcome him?

The faces of saint-level experts, especially the great saints, are hard to look at.

Yes, since Queen Yaofei succeeded to the throne, the royal power has indeed become much more powerful. Even the holy ministers will kneel down to welcome the queen.

But the problem is that His Majesty, the newly enthroned Emperor, is also a saint-level cultivator like them, and is not yet a great saint. Why should they kneel down to greet him?
To be continued...