My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 313 Reviewing the Three Armies

"The Zen ceremony has been completed, and all the officials entered the palace to meet the new emperor——"

A loud voice echoed across the sky.

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The sky clouds floated across the blue sky. Queen Mother Jiang Wan took her son Bei Gongshu and walked to Su Chen who turned around slowly. She pressed her son's shoulders and saluted the new emperor.

"Young Master Yan, there is no need to salute. You, mother and son, will go down first. Someone will accommodate you."

Jiang Wan held her son's shoulders and walked towards the stone steps. When she went down, she stopped and glanced at the man over there. She lowered her pretty face and walked down the high platform with Bei Gongshu. Then she was led away by two eunuchs.

A large number of palace maids and eunuchs also came over at this moment. Under the assignment of the guards, they carried wooden buckets and cloth towels to clean the blood stains on the ground.

Under the Zen table, a group of civil and military personnel stood in two lines and had already left for Chengyun Hall, leaving only a chair and the slumped old man on the chair.

He stared at the sky without blinking. A guard came over to take a breath, shook his head at his colleagues, and then carried him away with the chair.

On the Zen teaching platform, Zheng He and Wang Lang came forward to pay homage, "Greetings to Your Majesty!"

"Thank you both, let's go and follow me down!"

The bead curtain swayed, and Su Chen held up the two's hands with both hands, and then walked in front, striding down the stone steps, recalling the emotions that the First Emperor had just aroused in his heart.

The feeling of saying something to dominate the world is so overbearing and enjoyable.

All the court officials below have gone to Chengyun Palace, and the soldiers also exited the imperial city campus in an orderly manner under the command of the general. As for the foreign envoys over there, they are still standing there, and the officials of Honglu Temple are communicating with them. Then he invited them to follow him to Chengyun Palace.

The decapitated corpse was being thrown into a cart and taken away by Imperial City soldiers.

Su Chen walked down the Zen table, and a group of generals came up. There was no one else around at this time, and their faces were full of smiles. Li Bai took a sip of his drink and said, "Congratulations, Your Majesty!"

"Ha ha!"

Su Chen removed his tense expression, smiled and raised his hands to the generals, "Without you, how could I be where I am today!"

After saying this, he called all the generals to go to the Chengyun Hall together and ordered: "Dian Wei and Xu Chu clear the way!"

Xu Chu and Dian Wei looked solemn, and immediately raised their hands and shouted: "Here!"

The two men picked up their own weapons and led the shield warriors to the front. The palace guards also followed the emperor who was guarding the generals here, forming a huge torrent extending into the distant hall.

Along the way, everyone asked Su Chen how he felt about ascending the throne. They also talked about how their respective lords who assisted them in the past achieved the emperor's career, and how they told the emperor, the queen, and the people of the world just like today.

When they arrived outside the Chengyun Palace, everyone's pace slowed down a bit, and the conversation shifted away from the matter of ascending the throne and started talking about what Su Chen would do after ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor.

Lu Bu was walking in the front row of the crowd. Now he stepped out of the shadow of the White Gate Tower. After two years, he had already been transformed and was galloping towards another road.

He looked at the civil and military personnel entering the palace gate in front of him one after another, and whispered: "In the past two years, almost half of the time has been spent fighting and killing. Although we are not tired, my subordinates are exhausted. What are you planning to do next? What if you want to do this? Fight, I will wait for the general to take the order naturally."

"We're not fighting for the time being. To unify the north, it's time to nourish the people and build momentum, reorganize the internal affairs, and accumulate troops." Su Chen was guarded by the generals and walked slowly with his hands behind his back. His eyes were serious, "...I'm so Soldiers who are capable of fighting will be the middle and lower-level generals who will expand the army in the future and can bring out more troops."

Li Jing looked over from the side: "In fact, you can conquer the world in one go."

"I can't afford it..." Guo Jia shook his head and interrupted Li Jing, "After years of fighting, the Northland can't hold it anymore, especially if it wipes out the world in one go, the people can't hold it anymore. It's true that the Central Plains is rich, but they haven't returned home yet. , if the conquest lasts for a long time, there will be a civil uprising... which will damage your majesty's foundation at this time."

Under the long eaves, Qin Qiong pressed his two maces on his waist with both hands, and said in a heroic voice: "Feng Xiao's words are wrong. When we followed Taizong and established the country, we still fought in the same way. We also destroyed countless countries, and in the battle of founding the country, How can it be less? Otherwise, how can we conquer the world!"

If the civil and military officials over at Chengyun Palace heard the conversation of the generals here, they would break out in cold sweats. There is no such a warlike group of military generals in the world today. It is as if they cannot fight enough.

In front of him, Su Chen was wearing an imperial uniform with dragon patterns on a black background. He pressed his sword and continued walking. The expression on his face did not change, and he narrowed his eyes for a while. After that, he still sighed, "The national conditions are different. I would like to imitate the First Emperor." He tried to unify the world in one go, but Guo Jijiu was right about one thing, the foundation of the North was weak and the people could not hold on."

"Let's rest and recuperate for a year or two."

Su Chen stepped onto the stone steps and walked towards the main hall step by step. He paused for a moment and looked up at the imperial throne above the imperial steps in the hall: "...However, we can let the Western Regions and Xirong harass Qi and Liang, and then , I want to go to Luyang in the Central Plains." "Luyang?" Everyone was confused.

"Invite the four countries to show off my mighty troops and perform martial arts!"

The moment the words were spoken decisively, Su Chen shook off the hem of his robe and led everyone into Chengyun Hall.

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"The new emperor enters the palace, and all the officials bow down -"

In the Golden Palace, civil and military officials stood on both sides in an orderly manner according to the previous queue. Now, in addition to the Minister of the Ministry of War and the Minister of Justice, there are five ministers who are permanently absent.

The civil and military officials in the palace were very excited. Most of them were newly promoted officials by the King of Xia. They had never witnessed the birth of a new dynasty. Only during the Beigongye period, there was no such big scene.

The entire hall was so quiet that you could hear breathing, waiting for the arrival of the new emperor. Not long after, a eunuch's voice shouted outside the hall: "Your Majesty, enter the hall!"

Outside, there was a sudden sound of heavy footsteps. Teams of soldiers followed the two giant men to clear the way and lined up in two formations outside the palace gate. There was a loud bang and the sound of weapons clashing.

A figure wearing a dragon-patterned black robe with gold trim and a large cloak walked in. Next to him were the mighty and tall generals Lu Bu, Li Xuanba and other military generals. Then he stood in front of the queue of military ministers. Dian Wei, Xu Chu and Xu Chu followed Su Chen directly to the imperial steps, then walked about seven or eight steps to the left and right, standing on both sides of the imperial steps.

Among the civil and military officials, Wang Lang and Li Bai bowed first and led the ministers to say: "I will pay homage to Your Majesty!"

Only then did the officials, large and small, on both sides react and shouted in unison: "Greetings to Your Majesty——"

"Get up."

Su Chen didn't have so many pretentious imperial words. He said something casually and raised his hands to everyone. He walked up the imperial steps with great strides. He took off his cloak and threw it to Wu Zixun. He bypassed the dragon case and stood directly on the golden floor. He sat down on the dragon chair, put his hands on the armrests on both sides, and leaned back.

Below, everyone saw him sitting down, and then they all stood up straight.

"I ascend the throne today and hold my first court meeting. I don't want to listen to flattery, and I don't have time to listen to petty factional disputes between parents."

Su Chen leaned on the dragon chair and raised his hand: "I am different from ordinary emperors. I like my words to be simple and clear. You must remember them in the future."

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The ministers on the left and right responded in unison with their hands raised.

A moment later, Su Chen's voice came from over there and echoed in the hall.

"Today I want to say a few things. The first one is that after I capture Xirong, I naturally have to manage it. It's not just that the battle is over and they bow down and become vassals. When the time comes, the soldiers and horses they raised will be strong and they will come to harm the north again. I The soldiers died in vain. Therefore, I want to set up the Xirong Administrative Department in the grassland, set up administrative envoys to supervise Xirong, assist the tribes in managing people's livelihood, and strengthen trade and culture!"

Su Chen raised his hand and raised his second finger. While the bead curtain was swinging, he stood up slowly, "The second thing is to change the characters and books of Yan State. No matter in the North or the Central Plains, everyone should practice Chinese writing. I will He sent Wang Yushi to his post to personally supervise the matter, changed the fonts, revised the classics, and established the imperial examination. From now on, everyone who studies will take five subjects, and the top three in each subject will be selected for the imperial court."

Just one or two things were already earth-shattering reforms, which shocked the courtiers in the palace into cold sweats.

Their expressions seemed to be captured by Su Chen, and he smiled: "Don't worry, anyone who is an obstacle will be swept away. Their property will be confiscated and their family members will be enslaved. There is no need to discuss it."

"As for the third thing, I want to support the people. I need to cultivate the land. All states, counties and counties must open new fields, report the number of cultivated land, the number of people who apply for recruitment, and the way of merchants. Although merchants are of low status, they must also cultivate people. However, businesses in various states rely on them to travel north and south to meet the needs of the people. You should not underestimate them in the future.

There is also sowing of new grains. This autumn, Yanzhou will try to sow ten new grains. The Ministry of Industry must keep an eye on me to ensure that there are no mistakes. This new grain will affect whether the people in each state will starve in the future. Do you understand? ? "

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Cao Xinsu, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, came out to respond.

"One last thing."

Su Chen stood behind Long An and glanced below, "I want to go to the Central Plains to review the three armies."

Outside the palace, the spring sunshine shone on the earth, and the brand-new imperial flag with the character Xia was raised on the top of the city. It was in the shape of a white dragon pattern on a black background, waving in the wind with the attitude of dominating the world.

Three years have passed since Kaigan, and the first year of Yuanxing began.

Su Chen ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, and moved his imperial convoy to Luyang in the Central Plains to inspect the three armies. Soon after, Zhongshu Province used the seal, and the news rushed out of the imperial city on horseback, spread throughout the states, and quickly went south.

(End of this chapter)