Half a month later, Li Min ascended the throne and became emperor. During this half month, he was already within the royal city - now it has been officially renamed the imperial city.
In fact, it was originally built according to the layout of the imperial city.
The Li family ancestral hall has been built in the imperial city.
And all the ancestral tablets of Li Shimin, Li Yuan and previous generations were placed inside.
The ancestral temple is the most important thing for a clan.
Before taking the throne, the great scholar Kong Chong was asked to offer sacrifices to the fields, ancestral temples, and grain.
Kong Chongsi was the second son of the great Confucian Kong Yingda.
Kong Chongsi had been reading poetry and books since he was a child, and he was a master of Confucianism.
When Li Min came to Golden State, Kong Chongsi felt that it was tens of thousands of miles away from the Tang Dynasty.
Confucianism must have declined here, so he spared no effort and took the initiative to follow Li Min to Golden State.
The purpose is to spread Confucianism and let Confucian etiquette shine on the world.
However, after arriving in the Golden State, Kong Chongsi was changed a lot by the culture in Huaxia City.
Kong Chongsi began to feel that many Confucian ideas were not applicable in Huaxia City.
This caused Kong Chongsi's reflection.
Kong Chongsi once consulted Li Min on this issue.
This is how Li Min explained to Kong Chongsi: "Chongsi, do you think about the productivity of the people during the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period?"
"The people were barely clothed and had no food to eat, and they were just trying to survive. By the time of Yao, Shun, and Yu, another change occurred. From then on, Xia and Shang continued to King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou."
"Are the governing methods of these sages the same? Obviously, this is not the case."
"With the development of the times, the sages will change their governing methods at any time according to the current social situation at that time."
"Everything in this world is changing. How can there be any unchanging principles that are universally applicable?"
Li Min's words made Kong Chongsi suddenly realize.
Although the ideas of the sages are good, their ideas were born in the context of their times.
It may not necessarily adapt to the society of later generations.
Therefore, Kong Chongsi became a New Confucian under the influence of Li Min.
He began to actively explore New Confucianism adapted to Huaxia City.
Now for the new emperor's enthronement ceremony, the most suitable person is naturally Kong Chongsi.
Li Min, on the other hand, put on a formal dress, went to the ancestral temple, and knelt down to worship the ancestral tablet.
And towards the direction of the Tang Dynasty, he paid homage to the Queen Mother from a distance.
Originally, it would be the best thing if the Queen Mother could be brought to Li Min's new emperor's enthronement ceremony.
However, the Queen Mother is too old and cannot withstand the turbulence of the waves.
Therefore, the Queen Mother was not brought over in the end.
As for Li Min, he could only go in the direction of the Tang Dynasty and pay homage to the Queen Mother from a distance.
After these etiquettes were completed, Li Min began to go to the Zhonghe Hall to accept the worship of the ministers.
In the Tang Dynasty, there were also dynasties before the Tang Dynasty.
Normally, ministers do not need to kneel down when they see the emperor, even during morning court.
The kneeling ceremony only became popular after the Qing Dynasty.
But during such a grand ceremony, it is necessary to kneel down and worship.
It turns out that Li Min came from a later generation a thousand years later, and he deeply hated and suffered from the kneeling ceremony.
Li Min is planning to abolish the kneeling ceremony.
However, Li Min quickly considered that now was his coronation ceremony.
He is not the emperor yet.
Wouldn't it be bad if we started to abolish the etiquette that everyone is familiar with at this juncture?
After some consideration, Li Min decided to postpone the process.
Next, Li Min began to accept the greetings of hundreds of officials, who knelt three times and kowtowed nine times.
Outside the palace, various musical instruments are displayed, including drums, square horns, clouds, flutes, pipes, flutes, stems, stick drums, cypress boards, etc.
Next, he ascended the throne and played music.
After this series of work is completed, the next step is to determine the country name and era name.
The name of the country has naturally been discussed long ago.
They decided to directly use the name of Huaxia City and the country they established was called Huaxia Kingdom.
The era name will start from the new year and be determined as the first year of Huaxia, which is also the first year of Huaxia.
Future era names will be calculated backwards from the first year of Huaxia.
At this point, the enthronement ceremony was completed, and Li Min officially became the emperor of Huaxia.
Next, it was time to reward the ministers.
After discussions between Li Min and Shangguan Yi, the Huaxia Kingdom decided to continue the bureaucratic system of three provinces and six ministries.
The system of three provinces and six ministries, in its original historical trajectory, continued from the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it must have its merits.
The democratic system and promotion mechanism of later generations are certainly more advanced than the three provinces and six ministries system.
But the current Huaxia Kingdom does not have the soil to implement this system.
For the time being, this system cannot be adopted.
On top of the three provinces and six ministries, Li Min established Wenyuan Pavilion.
In Wenyuan Pavilion, there will be academicians who will help the emperor review official documents.
and participate in decision-making on confidential matters.
The bachelor is also responsible for drafting votes for the emperor to comment on the memorials of ministers.
However, when it comes to major matters, Wenyuan Pavilion Grand Masters do not have the right to decide, they only have the right to make suggestions.
The first bachelor and chief bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion is of course none other than Shangguan Yi.
After being nominated as a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, Shangguan Yi was extremely excited, but amid the excitement, there was also a hint of disappointment, and at the same time, there was also a hint of happiness.
The excitement is naturally understandable. This Wenyuan Pavilion Grand Bachelor is also the Chief Grand Bachelor. Basically, it is the power of the Prime Minister.
For Shangguan Yi, his long-cherished wish has finally come true.
What's disappointing is that the Wenyuan Pavilion Grand Scholar, even the Chief Grand Scholar, is just a newly created position by the emperor.
It seems that he is on par with the prime minister, but in fact, his powers are much worse than those of the prime minister.
The emperor's move was tantamount to abolishing the position of prime minister.
Concentrate all rights in your own hands.
The setting of Wenyuan Pavilion made Shangguan Yi extremely convinced.
Even though the emperor usually doesn't do much, he has an extraordinary understanding of controlling his ministers and the bureaucracy, which is beyond the reach of other people.
In fact, Shangguan Yi's final feeling of joy was because he only served as the chief bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, not the prime minister.
Although the prime minister is high and powerful, in the end, it is inevitable that he will conflict with the imperial power.
By then, I'm afraid it will be the end of me.
As for the chief bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, even if he made mistakes, he was just dismissed from office.
Basically, there will be no death, and the family will not be affected.
At the same time, Li Min also promoted three officials to Wenyuan Pavilion as bachelors again.
At this point, the four bachelors in Wenyuan Pavilion have been filled.
This is tantamount to once again dividing Shangguan Yi's power.
All the other officials are human beings, so they can naturally see clearly the emperor's intentions.
In their hearts, they all admired the emperor's methods of controlling his subordinates.
Next, comes the appointment of officials from the six ministries.
Li Min appointed Wu Meiniang as the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, in charge of the promotion and evaluation of officials.
Appoint Cui Yingying as Minister of Rites, appoint...
All the original officials of Huaxia City have been granted titles and promoted.
Xue Rengui, Wang Fangyi, Xi Junmai, Cheng Chuliang, Qin Huaiyu, Yuchi Baoqi and others were all named generals.
At the same time, Li Min divided all the territory currently controlled by the Huaxia Kingdom into fifteen administrative provinces.
A number of urban areas are set up under the province, counties are set up under the urban areas, and townships are set up under the counties. Each township governs a number of villages.
Well, Li Min is totally lazy.
The division of administrative regions in later generations was directly copied.
The highest chief executive of the province is the provincial senior official and senior official.
This title continues from city to county to township.
The main leaders of provinces and cities are all appointed by the central government.
In this way, power was further concentrated in the hands of the emperor.
However, currently, there is a severe shortage of officials.
At the beginning of the founding of the entire Huaxia Kingdom, there were countless problems that needed to be solved. It was really complicated.
First of all, from the perspective of infrastructure construction.
China will have to spend more than ten years or even decades working on infrastructure.
Do you need to repair the railway?
Does the road need to be repaired?
Cities need to be built, right?
Fortunately, they captured two big cities in the Family Alliance, as well as countless smaller cities.
These two big cities can be used directly.
As for those countless small towns, they must be renovated and expanded.
In addition, there are countless mining areas, factories, schools, hospitals and other infrastructure that need to be built.
Which roads to build first and which areas to build first are all matters that need to be considered by civil and military officials.
In terms of software construction, there are even more.
First of all, the most urgent and important thing is the issue of law.
This must be released as soon as possible, and the people of China must know that those things can be done.
And those things cannot be done.
And if you do something that is prohibited by law, what price will you have to pay?
Legal provisions, official promotion system, education system...
Etc., etc.
The current Huaxia Kingdom has just been established and is completely blank in many aspects.
There is no precedent to learn from.
Of course, they can learn from the precedent of the Tang Dynasty.
However, this must also be combined with the actual situation of China.
In terms of law, Li Min thought about it and brought out some legal concepts from later generations.
Of course, it is not copied. After all, national conditions are very different.
Instead, move out part of the framework.
This part of the framework is also of great inspiration and inspiration to legal workers in China.
At the same time, the current urgent shortage of officials must be resolved in the shortest possible time.
Because the number of missing officials is quite large, if they cannot be filled as soon as possible, the work in major cities will not be carried out at all.
Therefore, Li Min decided to hold an encore in two months.
The reason why it was set in two months is because it would take at least two months to notify the entire territory.
As for this, there are many areas where detours from sea navigation are notified.
There is no other way, except that there are railways and roads in the west.
In other places, there is none at all.
There is not even electricity or telephone.
In this case, it would be really crazy if the speed of transmission could increase faster.
However, some simple paths still exist.
When the Family Alliance was developing these places, it also built many roads.
Now, it is actually cheaper for China.
At this time, all high-level officials from the fifteen administrative provinces and the municipalities below have been appointed.
These officials have already taken office in a hurry.
Or there are some people who were already in office.
However, they were originally just city lords, but now they have become city officials or mayors.
Next, the governors of each province were busy.
These fifteen administrative provinces and thirty chief officials are all old men who follow the emperor.
Now the emperor is nostalgic for the past and has granted them such high official positions and entrusted them with such important positions.
You know, the size of their current province is almost equivalent to that of a Tao in the Tang Dynasty.
Their positions are equivalent to one-third of the Jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty.
Because in the Tang Dynasty, Jiedushi was the master of military and administrative power.
In China, they only have military and administrative powers, which are separate.
The emperor has such trust in them that currently, the basic conditions of their fifteen administrative provinces are almost the same.
Except for the south and east, because there are two giant cities left over from the Family Alliance, their starting point is slightly higher.
The other thirteen administrative provinces are basically the same.
As the chiefs of these administrative provinces, if their administrative provinces develop slower than others in the end, they will really be embarrassed to see others.
Now, they must develop their administrative province as quickly as possible.
Of course, the problems they face are also myriad.
First of all, what they face is the serious shortage of officials.
Not to mention the officials in the lower cities, counties and villages, even the officials in their administrative provinces are seriously lacking.
If there are not enough officials, it will be difficult to carry out many tasks.
They must find someone to work for them temporarily.
After the court's Enke examination, they will be able to allocate some officials and supplement them.
Of course, the number of candidates who can be admitted to Enke this time must be very large.
After all, there are too many officials lacking now.
However, it is impossible to be so popular that you can pass as long as you register.
The first Enke test questions were relatively simple.
Those students from the Tang Dynasty could easily pass the exam.
However, the number of exams taken may not be able to meet such a large gap.
Therefore, there are positions at the bottom, ordinary officials at the county level, and positions in the township.
As for those at the bottom, Li Min decided to decentralize power to each administrative province.
They recruit personnel themselves and can use recommendation and selection methods to supplement officials.
Of course, the assessment of officials is still conducted by the imperial staff.
If the officials they select include a large number of unqualified officials, it proves that there is a problem with their selection mechanism.
Selecting people requires a lot of responsibility.
Now because of the severe shortage of talents, Li Min can only select officials through a combination of examinations and recommendations.
After the talent training mechanism is perfected in the later period, officials will naturally be selected through examinations.