I, Altria, only want to rule China.

A few days ago, Liya was about to declare herself emperor, and a red dragon appeared in the sky these two days. Isn't the meaning of this obvious enough?

These ministers didn't know that these were all illusions created by Leah and Merlin to deceive them.

But these are not important. Once everyone has confirmed this matter, no one will care even if it is false.

Soon, with the backdrop of this red dragon, some nursery rhymes appeared in Leah's territory. These nursery rhymes, explicitly or implicitly, all pointed to the fact that Leah was the true dragon.

So under this impetus, officials went to the countryside to inspect and asked the people what they thought of the current King Arthur, and also talked about what happened in the past two days about dragons.

Under the deliberate instructions of the officials, the people quickly understood the meaning and clamored to present the Umbrella of All People to Leah.

Although their ruler is a woman now, the people don't care about that. Since they have been under the rule of Leah, they have never been oppressed by the aristocratic families and they have never been hungry.

If Liya is told not to be the emperor, they will be the first to disagree!

So one by one, their handprints were pressed on a book of all peoples. In this book of all peoples, the erroneous politics of the previous Western Jin Dynasty were first accused and criticized, which led to the Five Barbarians entering the Central Plains and constantly committing atrocities.

Then he began to praise Leah for her humble origins but her virtues of "daring to be the first in the world" and "caring about the people of the world".

Then, the book of all peoples stated that thanks to Liya's leadership in the rebellion against Wei, the rule of Northern Wei was on the decline, and the people of both Liu Song and Northern Wei were living in misery. Liya, who cared about the world, should take the initiative to stand up and recover the land of Han, so that people in the world could have a chance.

Hope.

Next, the ministers prepared a petition to persuade the emperor to ascend the throne, which listed a series of actions taken by Leah since the rebellion, all of which proved that Leah was not only a person appointed by heaven, but also a sage through the ages who was born with knowledge. It would be against the will of heaven if she did not become emperor.

Therefore, we humble servants ask His Majesty King Arthur to make Chang'an the capital, and lead us and the people of the world to recover the land, unify the Central Plains, and recreate the prosperity of China!

When Leah saw these things, she was also a little confused. Should I say that he is worthy of being a scholar? He is just good at talking. It seems that if I don’t become the emperor, I will be a sinner for all eternity.

Although she did want to be the emperor, she didn't expect to have so many excuses. In her opinion, if she wanted to be the emperor, and the people below shouted "Long live the emperor", then that would be enough, right?

Also, everyone has submitted a petition to persuade him to ascend the throne. If he wants to be the emperor, does he still have to decline the throne three times?

After thinking about it, Leah said with a guilty look:

"Although I was the first Han Chinese to rise up against the Hu regime, I was just thinking about giving the people a good life. As for the little fame I have gained, it is all due to everyone's flattery. I am ashamed to accept it. So it is better to let other virtuous people do the job of being an emperor. I am just a woman with no talent.

That blessing."

The officials rolled their eyes when they heard this. You were the one who proposed to be the emperor. We didn't force you. Now that everything is done, you say you don't want to be the emperor anymore? That's not a good thing!

But everyone was smart and knew what Liya was going to do, so Xiao Ranhe, headed by the civil servants, continued:

"Since the Five Barbarians invaded China, there have been countless founders of nations over the past hundred years, but none of them cared about the lives of the people. Only you, Your Highness, fought against the evil gentry and distributed land, and truly ensured that the people had enough food and clothing. You are the only one in the world who truly cares about the people. If you had not proclaimed yourself emperor, Your Highness,

The common people don’t want it either.”

Liya continued to evade the question, "The common people want me to be the emperor? How come I don't know that? I think you guys are just fooling me. You guys can't do this. I'm just a woman, I can't be in this position."

"Don't you know about the Book of All Nations?" the officials below thought to themselves.

Then Xiao Ranhe took out a copy of the Book of All Nations and said to Liya:

"Your Highness, look, the Book of the People is here. These fingerprints are all from the people we asked door to door, and they all agreed. It shows that the people of this world are looking forward to your Highness becoming the ruler of the world. This is not something that we officials can mess around with."

Leah looked at it and showed an embarrassment on her face:

"Although the people respect me, this is still not possible. After all, everyone knows that I am a woman. Since ancient times, there has never been a woman who has been emperor. In addition, I am not talented and virtuous, so you should choose someone else who is virtuous."

Good fellow, the Book of All Peoples has been taken out, and you are still making excuses. Do you still want to be the emperor? If you keep pushing it like this, we really have no other options!

At this point, it’s actually not a matter of whether Liya is willing to do it or not. Everyone has made so many preparations in the past few days. Even if you don’t have that intention anymore, you still have to do it!

Xiao Ranhe clapped his hands, and immediately a maid came in holding the dragon robe and the imperial seal. Liya looked and thought, wow, these ministers are really well prepared!

So, under the refrain of a group of ministers, Leah "reluctantly" put on the dragon robe, and Morgan also put on the phoenix robe representing the queen.

Morgan didn't say a word throughout the whole process. He just watched with amusement as Leah and the ministers were blaming each other. The Chinese etiquette system is really interesting.

After three refusal and refusal, Liya became the first emperor of Dawu. She directly established her capital in Chang'an and named the country Wu, also known as Dawu or Longwu.

Then, the newly-minted Da Wu encountered his first problem.

Since Liya has become the emperor of Longwu Kingdom, let alone other places, at least the areas under Liya's rule must not use the reign titles of Northern Wei or Liu Song. Now they must have a reign title of their own.

The concept of reign title was first created by Emperor Wu of Han. The first reign title promulgated by Emperor Wu of Han himself was "Yuanfeng". The first reign title posthumously conferred was "Jianyuan", which later became a custom.

An emperor may use at least one reign title or as many as a dozen. For example, Emperor Gaozong of Tang had fourteen reign titles. Most emperors of the Ming Dynasty had one reign title each.

Now that it's Leah's turn, it's natural to pick a nice-sounding reign title. After all, reign titles are not chosen randomly, and they basically have beautiful meanings in them.

For example, the Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty implies "the country will be forever stable and the people will live in peace and happiness", while the Zhengde reign means "rectify one's own virtues, and those in higher positions should rectify themselves in order to govern the people".

Chapter 101: Of course, I have to admit my history

Of course, the issue of reign titles doesn’t only have its good side. Another side of the issue is that it can be very troublesome.

For example, Yongle has the same meaning as "Changle". In the Tang Dynasty, there was a Prince of Changle named Li Youliang who was accused of usurping the throne as the emperor's uncle and was despised by later generations. Therefore, the person who planned to give Zhu Di the "Yongle" reign title may have also intended to ridicule Zhu Di for usurping the throne as the emperor's uncle.

As for the interpretations of the silly netizens in later generations, they are even more hilarious. Some even think that the era name was chosen according to the principle of filling in what is missing.

For example, many people understand the reign title Zhengde to mean that the ministers of the Ming Dynasty felt that Zhu Houzhao was not morally upright, so they named him "Zhengde".

In fact, there were indeed reign titles that were used to fill in the gaps in something, but those titles were basically used by the Qing Dynasty. For example, Puyi once used the reign title "Kant".

In addition, there are era names like the Divine Turtle, which was the reign title of Emperor Xiaoming of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Yuan Xu, and the Elephant, which was the reign title of Emperor Jing of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yuwen Chan. These era names did not have any problems at the time, but if they were used in later generations, they would be like a group of mythical beasts.

There are also things like "Bao Dai", "Long Live Tong Tian", "Heaven-Sent Gift Sheng National Day", etc., which I will not list one by one.

In short, choosing a reign title is not as simple as some stupid netizens imagine. Generally, one has to consider what kind of person the emperor is.

For example, they wanted to prove that the emperor was appointed by heaven and that the dynasty was legitimate.

For example, they hope that under the rule of this emperor, the country will be forever stable and prosperous; they express that a new dynasty has begun and everything is new; and they praise the emperor's civil and military achievements and his moral character.

A case like Leah's is very troublesome. After all, she is the first female emperor in Chinese history, and how to name her really makes officials feel a little troubled.

So the officials came up with a bunch of names and wanted Leah to choose one herself.

Leah looked at the reign titles brought up by the officials for a while and didn't like any of them. She thought that since reign titles were so troublesome, it would be better to forget about them.

Since it's so troublesome, why not just abolish it and directly adopt the modern AD recording method? Isn't it the beginning of 452 AD now?

Then let’s call it AD.

Liya thought about it, and then said to the ministers: "Starting from the Wu Kingdom, the reign titles of future emperors will be abolished, and all future generations will adopt the Gong as the reign title."

Anyway, the reign title was originally a name used to record the year. Its main function was to let the people know who was sitting on the dragon throne. In addition, it could be used to indicate the year. For example, Liu Heng did not have a reign title, but it did not affect his posthumous title of "Emperor Xiaowen".

"Your Majesty, what is this AD era name? What is its meaning?" The ministers were stunned.

Liya thought about it and explained the meaning of the year name AD. This is actually the Yellow Emperor era. The first year of the establishment of their Wu Dynasty is called AD 1, and the year before the Wu Dynasty is called BC.

In order to facilitate future generations to record the year number and to facilitate globalization, Leah directly chose the algorithm of later generations.

According to the Gregorian calendar, the first year of Xuanyuan was 2697 BC, and now it is 452, which means that the official year is 3149.

Although the West does not acknowledge that China has a 5,000-year history, we ourselves must acknowledge it, right?

However, since the AD era was set by her, in order to distinguish the years, Leah specially created two era names for future generations to understand, one is 3149 BC, and the other is 1 AD.

Moreover, as long as she recognized the era of Huangdi after the Wu State, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors after Huangdi and the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties would become ironclad history.

It also saves us from foreigners talking nonsense like the Xia Dynasty never existed.

As for whether future generations will be able to find the time when Huangdi actually existed during future archaeological excavations, or whether it is a myth, that is completely beyond Leah's consideration.

However, it is not so easy to use the Yellow Emperor's calendar. First of all, it is difficult to determine the time when the Yellow Emperor ascended the throne. It is impossible for Liya to say that the Yellow Emperor ascended the throne 3149 years ago and everyone must accept it, right?

Because the chronology involves too many things, it needs to be carefully studied. Our Dawu Kingdom is not those barbarians, and we can't do such a despicable thing as forging history.

Of course, the exact time when Huangdi ascended the throne cannot be determined for the time being, but it does not prevent the current year from being 1 AD. The future years can be calculated according to this. As for things before BC, there are classics in all dynasties, so they can be calculated slowly in the future.

Anyway, under Liya's insistence, the emperor's reign title was abolished in Wu State, and from then on, the reign was simply based on the Yellow Emperor's reign.

Then, this matter was announced to the world to let the common people know that their Wu State no longer had a reign title, but was now 1 AD.

After solving this problem, Leah promoted the generals and civil officials under her one by one to fill all the vacant positions.

After doing all this, Leah said to His Highness's civil and military officials.

"Speaking of which, although I have almost unified the Western Regions and renamed it Xinjiang Province, most of the people in Xinjiang Province are still barbarians, to put it bluntly, and they don't know much about our Han culture. So I need some civil officials to educate them. I wonder who is willing to take on this important task?"

After Leah finished speaking, the civil officials below looked at each other, but no one said anything.

After all, Xinjiang is located in the Western Regions. According to historical records, the journey to Xinjiang is not only long, but one also has to cross hundreds of miles of desert to get there.

What's more, the language over there is different from this side. How can we teach? To put it bluntly, that place is a barren land and no one wants to go there.

Seeing that none of the ministers below wanted to speak, Leah frowned immediately.

Although she knew that no one wanted to go to that kind of place, the fact that no one took the initiative to petition gave her a new understanding of these civil officials.

"Your Majesty, I have a few candidates here." Morgan said to Leah.

"Oh? I wonder who the candidates for the queen are?" Leah looked at Morgan.

"Chief Censor Zhu Ziran and his students have been familiar with Confucianism since childhood and are knowledgeable. I think it is very appropriate to let them go." Morgan said this with a smile on his face.

As soon as Leah saw it, she knew that Morgan wanted to get these Confucianists who were nagging in front of her all day away from her sight, but Leah also felt that it was the best choice for the Confucianists to go to Xinjiang.

And her and Morgan's choice to keep Confucianism was based on this point. Although Confucianism cannot be used as a national policy, it is a very good choice to deal with other people.

Chapter 102 The Role of Confucianism

Although Xinjiang is currently under her rule, it is not stable at the moment, and Confucianism is still needed to temper their rebellious nature.

Moreover, there are too few people who can teach Han history and culture there. If these Confucians don't go there, who will?

It takes a thousand days to raise an army, but only a moment to deploy it. It's time for these Confucianists to be put to use!

Thinking of this, Leah and Morgan smiled knowingly and took over the conversation on the spot.

"What the Queen said is right. I have always felt that Confucianism is very good. It can be seen from the previous dynasties that Confucianism is profound and extensive. It is really the best choice to tame the barbarians."

"This..." From what the two said, are they really planning to send me? Zhu Ziran looked embarrassed.

He is willing to promote Confucian culture, but it depends on the place, right?

"Zhu Zhongcheng, I have always believed in Confucianism. Since he was able to gain the support of Emperor Wu of Han, it shows that he has something extraordinary. Therefore, the task of taming the people of Xinjiang must be done by you Confucians. Otherwise, you can't ask me to send the military strategists, legalists, Mohists, and Yin-Yangists, right? To be honest, their academic knowledge cannot do this.

a little. "

Liya said directly.

Although what Leah said sounded nice and was very useful to Confucian students, after all, Leah clearly stated that Confucianism is more powerful than other academic disciplines.

But thinking about where he was going, Zhu Ziran still couldn't be happy, but he still responded reluctantly: "I obey your order.

"Don't worry, Zhongcheng Zhu. As long as you can serve there for a few years and teach the people of Xinjiang to be like Han people, I will remember you as the first merit!" Liya continued.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Hearing this, Zhu Ziran felt full of strength again.

It is not easy for civil servants to be promoted. With Liya's words, when he comes back, won't he be one of the Three Dukes? After all, he is now Zhongcheng, which is one level lower than the Three Dukes, so the Three Dukes will definitely not be able to escape!

Isn't it just taming some barbarians? In a few years, I will make sure that they all understand what it means to be well-educated and well-mannered.

Seeing the other party's look, Liya knew that he had been fooled. However, there was nothing wrong with conferring a title of the Three Dukes. If the other party could really make the people of Xinjiang loyal to the Han Dynasty, it would be a real great achievement.

But since he is a Confucian after all, we cannot give him too much real power. It would be good to use him as a diplomat in the future.

Next, Leah issued a lot of orders.

The first thing is to let local officials pave cement roads in their jurisdiction. The houses of the people are currently made of wood and adobe, and most of them are in disrepair due to years of neglect.

Leah does not require everyone to change houses immediately, but the urban area needs to be re-planned and then modified, and all houses will be made of cement in the future.

Of course, these houses were all built by the government, and the government could not take the people's money. These built houses still belonged to the people, which was equivalent to the court paying to build new houses for the people for free.

In addition, Leah took out some private things, such as the methods of making some seasonings, which required planting certain plants to obtain those materials.

After all, the people can't just grow crops, right? That way there's no money.

Moreover, some plants do not require fields to be planted, they can be planted directly in the mountains. In this way, people can plant other plants while planting rice and wheat.

In this way, they can earn a lot of extra money and have more money in their hands. The most important thing is that everyone's food will be much better in the future.

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The news that Leah established Chang'an as the capital and ascended the throne as emperor reached the ears of Wei and Song in a short period of time.

Originally, the Song State had always been on good terms with Liya and her group. After all, Liya was also flying the banner of the Han Dynasty, and they hoped that Liya would side with them.

After all, Liya is just a woman. If the emperor of Song can marry her in the future, the territory conquered by Liya will not be considered as Song's, right?