The center of the capital, the Forbidden City.⊙.

In Kunning Palace in the palace, Empress Dowager Zhou and Empress Dowager Zhang hugged each other and cried. They sat on the bed, closed the door, and kept crying, crying day and night. The palace people were afraid that the Empress Dowager would be too sad to face the coffin of Emperor Daxing and King Ding, so they persuaded them to return to Kunning Palace.

But this was useless at all. The Empress Dowager curled up in the bed and was heartbroken.

The palace maids came and went, and brought them food, but they had no intention of eating it. They delivered all kinds of dishes, and they had never touched them, until they became cold. When the next meal was delivered, they could only remove the last meal that was not moved.

When I was tired of crying, the Queen Mother would fall asleep. When I woke up, I continued to cry.

Apart from crying, they didn't know what to do.

The emperor died unexpectedly, and the pain had not stopped. King Ding was poisoned again, and even King Yong was killed. The young empress dowager felt that his sky had collapsed.

When he sleeps or wakes up, the Empress Dowager will always dream of Emperor Chongzhen and Emperor Longwu. Then in the end, he will always dream of his adopted son Liu Jun, who will dream of him carrying a helmet and armor, and killing him with thousands of troops.

I'm dead, so she told Empress Dowager Zhang. She thought she might have to follow her husband and son, and only three feet of white silk could end this nightmare.

But there was a group of maids standing on both sides of the door. Although these people were dressed in palace maids, they were not from her palace, or even from the Forbidden City. These people were brought by Chen Yuanyuan, Shen Man and Liu Rushi, while Chen Liu and Shen were Liu Jiye's outer room.

As they watched from the side, she couldn't even seek death. The little courage she had finally raised slowly disintegrated and left her. In the end, she could only lie on the bed and cry.

Shen Man, Liu Ru and Chen Yuanyuan invited Empress Dowager Zhang, Concubine Tian, ​​Concubine Yuan and the others to come over, trying to let them chat together and resolve the embarrassing atmosphere.

But Empress Dowager Zhou didn't want to pay attention to anything.

She felt an indescribable boredom and fear in her heart.

Liu Rushi told them that Liu Jun was just to correct the situation, and said that he was completely supported by the soldiers and was not willing to do so. He also said that because the two kings of Yongding were murdered, no one followed him, and the soldiers supported him unanimously, as the son of His Majesty Chongzhen and His Majesty Longwu, he had to ascend the throne and succeed him.

"Empress, the sky must be without suns, and the country must be without a master. Looking at the world, only the King of Han will succeed to the throne is the most appropriate."

Empress Dowager Zhou wanted to refute that the King of Han was not the real Zong clan. But she couldn't say this. On the other hand, she actually had to be grateful to Liu Jun. He assisted the two emperors Chongzhen and Longwu, stabilized the decline of the Ming Dynasty. Now Wu and others plotted to rebel and poisoned the two kings of Yongding. He also helped eliminate these rebellious criminals and avenged her.

Liu Jun officially ascended the throne and became the emperor.

The first thing Liu Jun did when he became emperor was to establish his country's name.

If the world changes its master, the country's name will certainly be changed. Although Liu Jun succeeded to the throne as the son of Emperor Chongzhen and the brother of Emperor Longwu, Liu Jun was not a real member of the Zhu family after all.

Some people also advised Liu Jun not to change the country name for the time being. They will continue to use the country name for the Ming Dynasty for the time being, so that people can be safe. After all, there are many places in the world of Ming Dynasty that Liu Jun has not controlled. The royal family and vassal kings were everywhere. If Liu Jun continues to be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, then the vassal subjects from all over the country will continue to be the people of the Ming Dynasty.

If Liu Jun changed his country's name, even if Liu Jun was the brother of Long Wu, the son of Chongzhen, the people in the world would have determined that Liu Jun usurped the throne of the Ming Dynasty.

However, after thinking about it for a while, Liu Jun decided to change his country's name.

Since his deployment has been disrupted and he has become the emperor, he might as well just change the country's name in one step. As for the vassal subjects in various places, Liu Jun believes that those who really want to rebel will rebel no matter how Liu Jun does it, and those who don't rebel will not care about this.

There are two options for the new country name, and some people suggest using Chu. Because he is from Chu. Moreover, the troops he led over the years are also called Chu army. In the past, their party was called Chu party in the court.

Some people also suggested using Han because his surname was Liu, and the Liu family in Suokouhe, Macheng, went back to the late Tang Dynasty, and the Jiedushi Liu Jurong was their ancestor. If they traced back to the higher, then their clan was actually the royal family during the Han Dynasty, and the Liu family in Macheng was the eldest son of Liu Bang.

After two thousand years of inheritance, Liu Jun became the emperor and used the Han Dynasty as the national name, which was naturally very suitable.

In the end, Liu Jun chose Han as his country name and the year name was Long Han.

In 1640 AD, that is, the first year of Longwu, the Han Dynasty was founded and was designated as the first year of Longhan.

The Dragon and Han are the first five kalpas in Taoism. There are five kalpas in the world. The number of heaven and earth is born from the east, and it is called the Dragon and Han, which is the beginning kalpa.

The Ming Dynasty ended in 272 years.

The second thing Liu Jun did when he became emperor was to continue to respect Empress Dowager Zhou and Empress Dowager Zhang as Empress Dowager Ming, and arranged for them to move to the West Palace. All the royal vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were demoted to common people.

In the Ming Dynasty, people were still sent to guard the temple and sacrifice on time.

Then Liu Jun rewarded the heroes who supported him and proclaimed him emperor.

Liu Qiao was granted the title of Duke of Qi, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the title of Grand Tutor. Liu Yun was promoted to Changsha Marquis, the Governor of Zhili, and the title of Shaobao. Fu Shan was granted the title of Taiyuan Marquis, the Privy Councilor, and the title of Shaofu. Luo Ping'an was granted the title of Anlu Bo, the Governor of the Nine Gates of Jin, and the title of Prince Shaobao.

He added his brother Liu Jian to the Marquis of Wuchang and was appointed as the governor of Shuntian.

Governor Zhang Guowei of Guangdong and Guangxi was promoted to the Minister of War.

Wang Qianjin was the Chief of Staff of General Staff and the Marquis of Lushun.

Qin Liangyu was promoted to the Marquis of Baoning, Zheng Zhilong was promoted to the Marquis of Jianning, Zhang Shan was promoted to the Marquis of Nanyang, and Cai Yuan was promoted to the Marquis of Runing.

Liu Jun was granted the title of "Nine Marquises" by one Duke.

Liu Jun appointed Yuan Jixian as the chief minister of the cabinet, Fu Shan as the Privy Councilor, and Zhang Guowei as the Minister of War.

The two yamen of the General Office and the Military Affairs Office are retained. Both yamen are the emperor's consulting agencies. The General Office is responsible for civil affairs and financial consultants, and the Military Affairs Office is responsible for military affairs consultants.

Although it was a new dynasty, in fact, Liu Jun could not break up the entire court and rebuild it all at once. Except for some important positions that he had put into his confidant, most of the other positions were still retained.

At this point, Liu Jun realized that there were still too few people he could use.

Sitting on the high dragon chaise, Liu Jun felt that his position was not firm.

There were more than a dozen outside the Qing army outside the Great Wall, and there were bandits in the Central Plains. Now, there were former Ming royal family members and vassals scattered all over the world, as well as many officials, gentry and people. No one knew which one would rebel for loyalty or righteousness or for the sake of interests.

After some adjustments, Liu Jun, the nine governors in the world, came a new round of adjustments.

Liu Yun was promoted to the Governor of Zhili, Hou Xun was appointed as the Governor of the Pass, Li Chunjiang was appointed as the Governor of Sanjiang, Li Shuchu was appointed as the Governor of Central Plains, Qu Shixi was appointed as the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Liu Qiao was appointed as the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Qin Liangyu was appointed as the Governor of Sichuan and Lake, Fang Kongqi was appointed as the Governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and Zheng Zhilong was appointed as the Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu.

Liu Jun issued an order to double the salary of all officials of the Han Dynasty on the basis of the original basis.

The officials' adjustments were constantly issued from the palace.

Liu Jian was appointed as the governor of Shuntian, Liu Yunzhen was the commander of the Five Cities Military Command, Feng Sheng was the commander of the Jinyiwei, and Zhang Guozhu was the admiral of the guards' personal army.

Zhang Guodong was transferred to the admiral of the garrison army, Marquis of Zhenjiang, Changsheng was transferred to the admiral of the garrison army, Marquis of Denglai, Marquis of Jin.

The former left-level censor Ni Yuanlu walked out of the gate of the imperial prison. The strong sunlight made him unable to open his eyes. He stretched out his hand to block his eyes that were no longer used to the sun in the dark prison for many days.

Li Banghua, the Minister of Revenue next to him, shook his head and sighed.

"It's a day."

"Yes, the weather has changed, and the days have changed. Now it is already the Han Empire, and I still can't believe it." Jiang Dejing sighed.

Around them were a large group of senior officials who had just been released from the imperial prison.

The Han Dynasty founded the country, the new emperor ascended the throne, and the world was amnesty.

Prisons in various places were cleared. Prisoners like Ni Yuanlu and others who were guilty of treason were not included in the pardon, but the new emperor issued a special amnesty order to specifically pardon these people.

Fu Shuxun, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, said, "But the new emperor may not be a foolish monarch. After he ascended the throne, he issued an order for all provinces in the world to reduce rent and interest rates, and ordered the cleanup of tyrants and miscellaneous levies to be added. He also issued an edict to double the salary increase for officials in various places, and asked Sihai Bank to open loans to help the people to help the people and rent seeds and oxen to plow the oxen. This seems to be a wise move."

Zhang Jinyan, the Minister of War, also nodded. Although they were imprisoned during this period, in fact, prisoners of their level lived well in prison and had family care. In addition to not being free, they were convenient for reading books, newspapers, and even drinking and tea.

"I read the newspaper that the new emperor also ordered the grain purchase protection price for grain farmers in various places. He also introduced a new law, which will collect silver from the two taxes every year, and will change the tax time from the two summer and autumn to the two autumn and winter every year, so as to ensure that the people have enough time to sell the harvested grain and then hand over the silver."

"He is indeed very courageous. The grain purchase and protection price alone is quite big. In this way, the people no longer have to worry about the sharp drop in grain prices during the grain harvest season, nor do they have to worry about the government raising taxes, which makes them have to sell grain at a low price and then pay taxes with the silver."

Li Banghua, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, is from Jiangxi and he knows very well about these.

"If you really want to do what the new policy says, the price is not small. First of all, the court must have so much money to prepare. Otherwise, even if there is a protective price, you can't pay the grain money if there is a silver option. Would you give the people a blank note?"

Ni Yuanlu couldn't help but say, "Silver and money preparation are second. The most important thing is how to ensure that officials in various places will not have policies and countermeasures? Even if the officials are as clear as water, they are afraid that officials will be as slippery as oil. Many good policies will eventually become policies that disturb the people and harm the people. Why? No matter how good the system or laws are, they have to be implemented by these lower-level officials. Now the administration of officials is very bad. I suspect that these laws will be distorted after they finally arrive at the local area."

Qiu Yu sneered a few times, "I said you guys are really worried. We are just a group of common people who have just been pardoned. How can this new court policy and local officials have a half-paid relationship with us? Why should we worry about this? "

Ni Yuanlu, Li Banghua and others looked at each other, with nothing to say. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!