Changle Palace.

Zhang Chao and Fang Xuanling came to visit the emperor.

The Beigong was much deserted. Before, Changsun Wuji and a bunch of people were busy here, and Emperor Chengqian was still somewhat emperor-like.

Now, the eldest son Sun Wuji has left the palace to sell his family property.

The huge Beigong is very deserted.

"Your Majesty has lost a lot more weight." After seeing the ritual, Fang Xuanling looked at Cheng Qian with a little distressed feeling. The emperor in his early twenties is still a child.

Cheng Qian sat under the front of Changle Hall, leaning against the red column, and directly sat on the ground, wearing a robe and one leg hanging down to the corridor.

He didn't care about Zhang Chao and the others' gifts at all.

"There have been two emperors living in Changle Palace. I thought I would be the third emperor to move in."

Zhang Chao stood aside.

"Your Majesty doesn't want to be this emperor anymore. If you don't want to be the emperor, you will be the King of Tang. When you arrive in the Tang Kingdom, you will follow your Majesty no matter how you want to do it."

Cheng Qian snorted dissatisfiedly. He now had no favoritism for Zhang Chao.

The friendship between master and apprentice for more than ten years has long been turned into yesterday.

"Regent, why hasn't I been able to divorce the queen and the concubine?"

"I asked the two sisters Xia Hua about this. They are still pregnant. How did Your Majesty say such things as divorce? They don't want to divorce, and they are willing to follow His Majesty to Africa. Whether they go to the ends of the world or the corners, they are willing to follow His Majesty."

"They want to, but I don't."

Fang Xuanling persuaded him, "Why should your Majesty say such anger? The two empresses are so firm and determined, and your Majesty should be happy."

Zhang Chao also sat down. He ignored Cheng Qian and just looked at Beigong who seemed a little deserted.

"If you really don't want to leave the Central Plains, you can stay here, and this Changle Palace can always live."

"Then I'd rather go to Africa."

Staying here is a thorn in Zhang Chao's eyes. Although it is good to be a thorn in Zhang Chao's eyes, he does not want to implicate other royal families.

After a while.

Chengqian took the initiative to ask, "How is the place I am going to?"

"It's not bad. Compared with the U.S. and the Duke of Australia, the land may not be so fertile, the climate is not so good, but the transportation is much more convenient. The imperial court has colonial territories in northeast Africa, and there are also bustling trade routes there. His Majesty's territory is in the south of Africa, but it is more convenient to sail along the coast to the north. Although it is still far away from the Central Plains, at least it is not alone in a distant foreign land."

Cheng Qian nodded.

He asked Zhang Chao a question he had always wanted to ask.

"I heard that you made a law with the princes and officials and were still drafting the Magna Carta? Can you really do it?" Cheng Qian thought, how could the emperor do that?

However, Zhang Chao said, "I took the initiative to propose the Constitution, and I took the initiative to propose the Magna Carta. Moreover, the first part of the Magna Carta is that the Constitution is above everything else and above the imperial power. Your Majesty, in fact, the Charter limits a little bit of imperial power, which is not a bad thing."

"Isn't it a bad thing?" Cheng Qian was confused.

"Of course it's not a bad thing."

"In a few days, the draft charter will be drafted. I will ask Your Majesty to refer to it. When the law is officially established, all the princes, congressmen and senior officials will also sign and seal it. You will also ask Your Majesty to sign a seal at that time."

The Constitution is not only a constraint on the imperial power, but also a constraint on the imperial system and on the princes and officials, landlords, merchants and the people. After the promulgation, everyone must abide by it.

The Constitution constrains both imperial power and protects imperial power. The Constitution also constrains princes and protects princes.

"Your Majesty, the cabinet has drafted the time for the abdication ceremony, which is scheduled for the eighth day of the eighth month." Fang Xuanling finally mentioned this matter.

Cheng Qian's face froze and nodded with difficulty.

"I understand!"

July is already in here, and the heat is unbearable.

Zhang Chao greeted Cheng Qian and went to see his two daughters.

Xia Hua and her sister both have big belly and are both six or seven months pregnant.

Zhang Chao came, and the two of them called him to sit down.

"Or why you might not take good care of you here if you stay home for a while."

Xia Hua shook her head, "The married daughter is the water that is poured out. She will marry a chicken and follow the dog. No matter if he was an emperor in the past or a commoner in the future, we will follow her."

"Did you blame me?"

"Yes."

Xia Hua answered very directly. In her opinion, whether her father was the Grand Tutor, the Prime Minister, or the Father of the State, he should help her husband maintain his throne, but his father usurped the throne.

She couldn't understand why this was the case.

"Actually, it's not my original intention now. If Cheng Qian was willing to listen to some of my advice, he wouldn't be what he is today. He has only been two years since he ascended the throne, but he has never received the support of the court officials. Why do you think?"

"Isn't my father unwilling to support me? My father is the leader of all officials and the head of princes. If my father is willing to support me, who can object?"

Zhang Chao smiled bitterly.

Things are not that simple.

"We are all at the top of the wave, and we can only follow the trend, not go against the trend. When we returned to Beijing this time, I didn't think about what to do, but many people told me that I would be able to serve the Tang Dynasty, and they said Chengqian was not possible. Do you know how dangerous it is for more and more people to say these words, especially when many real-power civil and military officials said it?"

"Xiahua, even if I am, I can't go against this wave."

Looking at Xia Hua's tense face, Zhang Chao didn't want to explain anything else.

"When you wait until May next year, you will go south by taking the monsoon. Go south by taking the monsoon and then westward. It will be much faster along the way. I will arrange a group of people to go there first, build a castle for you, open up some arable land, and grazle some cattle and sheep. Then you will not be so difficult after you pass."

"Dad, if you really love your daughter, don't exile Your Majesty to Africa!" Ruohua said.

"If he wants, of course he can stay, but he doesn't want to stay, and I won't force it."

The Eighth August Jue Ceremony.

There is less than a month left.

In the court, during this period, Zhang Chao has been making various personnel and organizational adjustments.

The current adjustment is basically to prepare for the new dynasty. Those who come up will be people from the new dynasty in the future, and even the yamen structure that is now adjusted will be the later dynasty in the new dynasty.

Changsun Wuji and others have resigned from their positions in the cabinet. Now Ma Zhou is the second prime minister, Chu Suiliang, Cen Wenben, Yu Zhining, Yang Shidao and others are still group assistants, joining Wang Gui, Tang Jian and Zheng Shanguo as assistant ministers.

The Hanlin Academy removed the right to criticize the redemption and changed it to the right to refute it, and the parliamentary aristocratic school dismissed the six divisions.

The Hanlin Academy has appointed Fang Xuanling as the Hanlin Bachelor's Imperial College, and eight others, including Kong Yingda, Lu Deming, Li Shousu, Yu Shinan, Cui Gan, and Sun Fujia.

The Censorate is responsible for supervising affairs, has the power to report news and supervise impeachment, and also set up a prison for the trial of special cases. It is called the Three Laws together with the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Department.

The two houses of parliament have legislative power, the right to review and pass fiscal budgets, and the power to supervise the executive.

One pavilion, one courtyard, one station and one meeting, has formed a new empire power pattern today.

The cabinet made a decision to rule, the Hanlin Academy reviewed and rejected, the Censorate inspected and impeached, and the parliamentary legislative supervision.

The power of the Censorate is also constantly strengthening, and is now standing by side with the Cabinet, the Hanlin Academy and the Parliament, fully demonstrating the importance of this yamen in the New Dynasty.

You can be more polite. After Zhang Chao became the emperor, as long as he could control the Censorate, he would be able to keep an eye on the cabinet. If any prime minister or bachelor does not meet Zhang Chao's wishes, he would be able to use the Censorate to pull him down.

The emperor doesn't need to come forward, just drive the censors to keep a close eye on it.

In fact, Cheng Qian lacked this method and only knew how to use the emperor's authority to force it. This was considered a poor person.

The emperor's clever approach is always to control the ministers under his command to check and balance each other, so the emperor himself needs to take action.

First go up and then go down. Over the period of time, the center has been rectifying and adjusting personnel, and the personnel have been almost straightened out. Everything that should be taken has been taken, and everything that should be replaced has been replaced. Now we are starting to adjust personnel in the local area. From the Dao level Xuanfu envoy to the left and right governors to the censors to the commander commander, then the governors and admirals of the border ranks, then the governors, chiefs, Sima, Liu Cao, etc., the adjustments have been almost done, that is, it is time for Zhang Chao to fully control the world and officially ascend to the throne.

Everything was orderly, and the commander Sun Wuji compromised, and no one was ignorant.

The days of receiving Zen are approaching day by day.

The country name, year name, etc. are all being determined.

There are two national names: the Chinese Empire, or the Chinese Empire. The full name is the Chinese Federation Empire, or the Chinese Federation Empire.

Zhang Chao personally prefers the name of the Chinese Empire. China can also be simply the central country and the central Chinese Empire.

In this era, China and the barbarians should still be divided into relatively clear areas.

To divide the princes means to respect the king and expel the barbarians.

As for the year name, since Emperor Wu of Han, the year name after the throne was adopted. This year's calendar method actually has some shortcomings, such as the conversion is more troublesome.

The West now adopts the Julian calendar that replaced the old Roman calendar, which was executed by Julius Caesar, the dictator of the Roman Republic. This calendar was reformed by the Roman church several hundred years later and turned into the later AD.

Zhang Chao had an idea, intending to implement a new calendar, not the calendar of emperors in traditional Chinese history, but the year that can link the entire Chinese history.

There are two choices before him.

First, the year when the Republic was ruled during the Western Zhou Dynasty was the first year of the Republic. From then on, this is the beginning of the official record of the dynasty in Chinese history.

The other type starts with the year when Confucius was born.

One is the Republican calendar and the other is the Confucius calendar.

The first year of the Republic was 841 BC, and now it is the third year of Kaiyuan. It should be the thirteenth year of Zhenguan in history, and it should be 639 AD. If calculated based on the history of the Republic, it should be the 1400th year of the Republic.

If Confucius is used to record the year, then this year will be the 1190th year of Confucius' calendar.

There is another kind of chronology that has been used in later generations, but if calculated based on the Huangdi Era, it should be the 5017th year of the Huangdi Era. This chronology is far less accurate than the Republican Era and Confucius Era, and lacks sufficient historical document support.

Therefore, Zhang Chao personally prefers the republican calendar or Confucius calendar, and he can also choose a calendar and then add the imperial calendar to the year name to perform together.

For example, on August 8 this year, Zhang Chao ascended the throne and the emperor could change the era this year. This year is the 1400th year of the Republic and the first year of the revival of the Chinese Federation.
Chapter completed!