In the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival in the capital is more lively than last year. Officials, scholars, merchants and people are all excited to stroll around the lantern market in the capital, enjoying the beautiful scenery of the sky with fire trees and silver flowers all the time.

Even the Forbidden City, the Ministry of Internal Affairs began preparing before the New Year, and even the concubines of each palace brought their own palace eunuchs to participate. During the New Year, the Forbidden City also held a unique lantern competition in the Forbidden City.

The Emperor's Huangji Palace, the Empress Dowager's Cining Palace, the Emperor's Ganqing Palace, the Empress's Kunning Palace, and the Four Concubines and Nine Concubines. It is rare to have such a lively opportunity. All the palaces are very active. In the first month, various lanterns are also competing for beauty in the Forbidden City.

On the night of the 30th, Liu Jun also held an imperial banquet at the Meridian Gate, leading the concubines in the harem and the civil and military officials, officials, and nobles to appreciate the joyful atmosphere.

Since the beginning of the first lunar month, it has been raining in the capital. There have been heavy snowstorms and light snow. The snow has not yet melted and then there have been heavy snow again.

It is said that heavy snow indicates a good harvest, and heavy snow is a good thing for farmers. Heavy snow will freeze to death many insect eggs in the land for winter. At the same time, the snow water is said to contain an element that is extremely beneficial to crops. It has such benefits, so although the cold and some inconvenience caused by heavy snow, everyone doesn't care so much.

After the Chinese New Year, Liu Jun's children also increased a lot. Now he has eleven sons and thirteen daughters. The young Han emperor's ability to spread branches and leaves is indeed amazing, which is also beneficial to the emperor's favored harem. Until now, the number of concubines in the emperor's harem has long exceeded 300, even though many of them are foreign women such as Mongolian, Jurchens, and North Korea, but the number is there, and some concubines are even lucky to be pregnant with dragon seeds only once the emperor is lucky.

It’s also a good thing to have more children.

For Liu Jun, with more children, more opportunities to choose. The empire is so huge that he will naturally need an excellent heir in the future. To have more sons, there will be more choices.

The older eldest son Liu Hekun was four years old after the age of the year, and the second son of the emperor, Liu Heyuan, the prince of Korea, was three years old after the age of the year, and the princes' education issues were also put in front of him.

Liu Jun has decided that in the future, the princes will start to receive enlightenment education when they are three years old. The princes will receive education every day and gradually cannot live with their biological mothers for too long. After the age of six, they will have to formally receive boarding education, study in the private temple five days a week and live in the dormitory. Only two days a week are allowed to return to Houting's biological mother's palace.

He would never want his prince to become the kind of prince who was born in the deep palace, raised by women, and did not know the outside world. Naturally, education must start from childhood.

Even after they finished their primary school courses in the palace, they had to officially leave the palace and go to school outside the palace to study.

Liu Jun is relatively tolerant of his daughters. In this era, no matter how advanced his ideas are, the princesses cannot obtain inheritance rights, so they should be more relaxed in their education. Books are required, but there is no need to be so strict.

Empress Lu and Concubine Li were both reluctant to leave. The child was only three or four years old. He had to go to school every day, but this matter was not discussed. Liu Jun only used one sentence to make them say nothing and disagree. Then the two princes will be deposed as commoners from now on. The inheritance rights will always be robbed. Being a commoner does not require so much effort. You can do whatever you want, but you don’t do evil. Liu Jun can make them rich and idle people all their lives.

After the New Year, Mei Qing's filial piety period will also pass.

To Liu Jun's surprise, Li Zhen went to Hubei to send a letter, but received a reply from Mei Qing a year ago. Mei Qing refused to enter the palace. She asked her sister Li Zhen, hoping that she could help her convey to the emperor her plan to return to the army.

Mei Qing hoped to return to the army instead of entering the palace to be a noble concubine. This was indeed something that Li Zhen couldn't understand, but Liu Jun quickly understood. Mei Qing was a very strong woman, but now she entered the palace and there were so many concubines in the palace, so she could only be a concubine of a low-grade grade.

She did have a good impression of Liu Jun in her heart, and she still still has it now, but hundreds of women who entered the palace shared a man, which was not her personality.

Liu Jun doesn't like to force others. She respects Mei Qing's choice, although he does feel a little regretful.

He agreed to Mei Qing return to the army and issued an order to let her enter Beijing first, go to the martial arts hall for a year of further study, and then go to the army.

Mei Qing’s choice is just a small episode.

The season of the year lies in spring. Two years of the Dragon and Han Dynasty have passed, and three years of the Dragon and Han Dynasty have come, and the court has more things to be busy.

As the king of a country, Liu Jun would not be busy with everything, he only focused on the general direction. But even so, it would not be easy. After the New Year, the war in the south was fully launched. But this matter was not the first major event in the court.

Just after the New Year, the first major event of the court was the official change in the central structure of the court.

The cabinet was fully in charge of administration, the newly established censor-led imperial judicial system, and the newly established Imperial House of Representatives, all of which surprised many officials who knew about this change for the first time.

The official news of this change was announced at the Prime Minister's meeting, and the emperor announced it personally, and then the Prime Minister immediately agreed. The reconciliation between the emperor and the Prime Minister made other Prime Ministers feel that they were unable to let go.

Almost undoubtedly, the plan to reform the central government system launched by the emperor and the prime minister was approved by the Prime Minister's meeting.

The chief assistant Yuan Jixian still led the cabinet, but his power was much greater than in the past. In the past, the cabinet group auxiliary system was now completely responsible for the chief assistant. The other secondary assistants and group assistants were completely his assistants and deputy.

As one of the three major systems, the newly established position of the Censorate was directly handed over to Liu Zongzhou. This former minister of the former dynasty who was originally at home, Ding You finally accepted the imperial edict from the Emperor of Han and went to Beijing to take office. Liu Jun chose Liu Zongzhou to be the first Censor because of Liu Zongzhou's character and character, and was relatively stubborn, but he was also considered to be more persistent and ethical among the ministers.

Liu Zongzhou was in charge of the Censorate and commanded the Censorate and Dali Temple.

The former Zuodu Censor Ni Yuanlu failed to serve as the Censor, but was transferred to the House of Representatives by Liu Jun and appointed him as the Senate Doctor. Yao Minggong, the former Cabinet Grand Secretary, resigned from his position as the Cabinet because of his age. Liu Jun appointed him as the House of Representatives and presided over the House of Representatives. In fact, he was arranged to go there to retire and hold a name.

After these three systems were established and separated, the departments and offices in Beijing were also assigned to the cabinet.

The Censorate, Dali Temple, Jinyiwei, and Dongchang were all assigned to the Censorate.

Most officials from the Six Clinics and the Secretariat were converted to senators.

The two special yamen, the General Office and the Military Affairs Office, remain. They continue to exist as the emperor's administrative and military consulting agencies.

The Privy Council does not belong to the three major systems, and exists alone, and directly belongs to the emperor.

The chief minister of the cabinet, the second assistant, the censor, the left censor, the minister of the Dali Temple, the chief of the Senate, the subordinate speaker, the left Privy Councilor, and the supervisor of the rank of prime minister.

The Privy Councilor of the Left and Right Privy Councilor, Minister of War, Chief of General Staff, Governor of Zhili, Admiral of the Personal Army, and Seven Admirals of the Nine Gates were appointed as the Counselor of Military Machinery.

With the support of the emperor and important officials, the reform at the top was implemented very smoothly. Soon, the three major systems were separated, and each department was affiliated with the new superiors.

The personnel changes were not large, and Yuan Jixian continued to be the chief minister, while the second assistant was promoted to the position of the former Minister of Civil Affairs Li Banghua. The following seven auxiliary groups were appointed as the Secretary of the Five Ministry of Affairs, the Secretary of Finance and the Secretary of Taxation.

The House of Representatives was also quickly established. The quota of 100 senators in the Senate was directly filled, and the quota of 1,000 senators were quickly completed. The quota of senators, farmers, industry and commerce were fully in accordance with the emperor's wishes, to participate in politics and politics. Therefore, there were retired senior officials, some Jinshi Juren who had not yet served as officials, some gentry, landlords, merchants, even craftsmen and farmers, as well as some Mongolian princes, such as monks and Taoists, etc. In short, all kinds of people have them.

Those who received the title of the House of Representatives were very happy. Especially those who were originally not in high status, such as landlords, merchants, craftsmen, farmers, veterans, etc., were very excited.

In the busy month, the capital is very lively.

The people read newspapers during the day and enthusiastically discussed the changes in the court pattern, and at night they took their wives and children to go to the lantern festival.

A new cabinet was established, and a new House and House of Representatives was established.

According to the new imperial system, the cabinet must report last year's fiscal expenditure to the Senate and submit this year's fiscal budget to the Senate for review.

Whether it is the results of fiscal expenditure last year or the fiscal expenditure budget this year, they were actually completed before the New Year. This time, in the Cabinet's view, it was just a sign of respect for the House of Commons and a formality.

But the result was that after the cabinet's report was sent to the Senate, it was embarrassed by the senators.

The new senators, mainly the six-character scholars, were very dissatisfied with the results of last year's fiscal expenditure, and were also dissatisfied with this year's fiscal expenditure budget report.

In their opinion, both reports are very problematic.

The result is naturally that it will not be approved.

According to the new imperial system, the cabinet was responsible for administration, and they were responsible for taxation and spending money. However, after taxation and other imperial income were collected, they had to enter the treasury of the Imperial Bank. Then, although the money was in the hands of the cabinet, how the money was spent was reported by them, and finally passed by the House of Commons.

As long as the House of Commons feels that it is not possible, then you can't use it even if you have money. If you don't have the consent of the House of Commons, the money in the treasury cannot be paid, and if you dare to spend the money without the consent of the House of Commons, this is a big problem. At the very least, you will lose your official position and be imprisoned.

The House of Assembly created by Liu Jun is not just about the separation of powers, but is to truly achieve the effect of supervision, checks and balances.

In the imperial city, the Senate is not far from the cabinet's yamen. The court has planned to build a new parliamentary yamen, including the Senate and the House of Representatives. The new yamen will have a special hall, a main hall that can easily accommodate at least two or three thousand people, a central hall that can accommodate thousands of people, and a small hall that can accommodate hundreds of people.

Early in the morning, the cabinet chief Yuan Jixian and the second assistant Li Banghua brought the cabinet group assistant and the five ministers, as well as the ministers, the Shaoqing, the director, etc. to the Senate.

Hundreds of people came, but the momentum was quite high.

The guards of the parliamentary office hurriedly ran to report to Senate Ni Yuanlu.

"The Chief Auxiliary came with all the officials of the cabinet. It seems that the visitors are not good!"

Ni Yuanlu put down the pen in his hand and smiled distractedly, "Don't let it go. We are just following His Majesty's will to carry out administrative supervision and review power, and we are not deliberately making things difficult for the cabinet. What are you afraid of? Don't weaken your own momentum. Go and notify all the senators at home and follow me to the door to welcome the adults of the cabinet!"

When the young senators heard that the cabinet had come to smash the situation, they even rolled up their sleeves and rushed over.

"The cabinet is indeed coming to the door." Senator Chen Mingxia looked excited and looked at the senator companions Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu next to her.

"The people in the cabinet will not do anything like that. Don't just see the wind and rain. Let's see what's going on." Huang Zongxi was more steady.

There are many people in the cabinet, but there are also many people in the House.

There are currently 100 senators in the Senate, and there are also many officials serving the senators. Even in the House of Representatives who have rushed to Beijing to accept the commission of appointments have not left here. When they heard that there was a lively look, they all came to cheer for the brothers who were also members of the Congress.

So, the door of the House opened, and Senate Ni Yuanlu led the way, next to it was the House of Representatives Yao Minggong, followed by hundreds of members of the House of Representatives, and a large group of officials stood behind.

Outside the door, the cabinet chief Yuan Jixian and the cabinet chief Li Banghua also stood there with hundreds of people from various temples in the cabinet.

"Lord Yuanfu mobilized all his troops. Is he trying to attack our House of Representatives?" Ni Yuanlu stood at the door and was very imposing. As a senator, he was at the same level as the chief minister of the cabinet, so he was naturally worthy of Yuan Jixian.

The chief assistant Yuan Jixian bowed, "I dare not, I dare not. I am just because both cabinet reports were refuted in the House of Commons. Today, I came to listen to the explanation of the House of Commons. What exactly does our report do not conform to the court system and where needs to be changed? It is necessary to figure it out. The budget report will be approved one day earlier, and our cabinet can also withdraw money one day earlier. All places are waiting for rice to be put into the pot. The plan for the year is spring, so I dare not delay it."

Ni Yuanlu smiled, "Yuan Fu's words are justified, and they are all for the sake of official business. We also want to pass the report as soon as possible, but the report submitted by the cabinet is really hard to accept. We are also loyal to our ministry and dare not neglect our duties. Lord Yuanfu, do you think?"

"Of course, I believe in the Senate's integrity. Today, I came here with all my colleagues in the cabinet to listen carefully and see where there is something wrong with our report. Let's discuss it carefully."

"Okay, then please come in." Ni Yuanlu sideways and stretches out his hand to signal. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!