Zetianmen.

The south gate of Ziwei Palace in Hanjing is also called Tianmen.

Zhang Chao ascended the throne and changed his name to China, so the most important gate of the Hanjing Palace was also renamed Zhonghua Gate.

It was bright and the regular officials in the morning court did not have to get up too early. They could sleep well, and then have breakfast before riding a horse and taking a car to the court.

When you arrive in front of the Tianmen, you don’t have to gather here to wait for the palace gate to open as before.

The morning drum has already stopped.

The routine of morning drums is to stop when the day is dawn, and you can stop if you can identify people from afar.

Ma Zhou, Fang Xuanling and other court officials got off the car and got off the horse from the distance from Zhonghua Gate and walked into the palace.

There are five door holes in Tianmen, three are close to each other, and two other doors are hidden at one and a half next to them.

When entering the door, there are neatly arranged corridors on both sides, and the door veranda forms a square and progresses layer by layer.

This highlights the majesty of the palace buildings throughout the entire China Gate.

The officials walked in groups of three or three, occasionally talking in a low voice, but no one dared to make loud noises. There were special officials to supervise the words and deeds of the officials. If they were not polite, they would be impeached.

"I heard that something big happened yesterday? Several princes of the royal family want to divorce and break the engagement."

"Well, I heard that, I was scolded by Your Majesty. Wealth and honor are not changing, and Your Majesty is right."

"It seems that Jingzhao Weidu, the Li family of the previous dynasty, the Changsun of Luoyang and other families have been preserved."

"Well, your Majesty's attitude is very obvious."

Several officials whispered, but others didn't understand what the words revealed.

The emperor did not intend to kill all the Li family and the royalists of the previous dynasty. It would be fine if everyone bites Changsun and other families.

Although everyone has bitten and attacked Changsun and others this time, and they have indeed bitten a lot of meat and took the opportunity to make a fortune, it seems that it is time to stop now.

"Your Majesty is so nice to them."

“Some are indeed.”

Ma Zhou and Fang Xuanling walked together.

"Your Majesty wants to retain Princess Changle's title, also appoint her as the crown princess, and even appoint her son as the crown princess. How does Fang Gong think about this?"

Zhang Chao wanted to grant Li Lizhi the crown princess and Zhang Sheng the crown princess. This was a major event of the Tian family and a major event of the court. Zhang Chao had already sent someone to pass the news with them first.

Fang Xuanling walked slowly with his hands in his arms.

"Princess Changle was originally the prince's Yuan Pei, so it should be natural to appoint her as the princess. As for the grandson of the emperor......" Fang Xuanling smiled. This was indeed a matter of no precedent.

But Dahua's system is the patriarchal system inherited by the eldest son.

Zhang Jing is the crown prince, and his eldest son will naturally become the crown prince in the future. Now the emperor wants to make him the crown prince in advance, and it is impossible for the crown prince in the court to be the crown prince in the court to be the case.

Fang Xuanling could guess the idea that the emperor would be appointed as a grandson at this time, so he would have decided to establish a prince and a grandson as well. This is to determine the heirs and the title of the monarch and ministers, so that other princes should not have any ideas.

"Is the housekeeper supported me?"

"Why not?" Fang Xuanling smiled.

Ma Zhou nodded and lowered his head to think deeply.

In the Golden Palace, the officials of the court stood opposite each other in two shifts.

The sound of whip opens the way, and Emperor Zhang Chao goes to the hall.

Long live the mountain.

The emperor gave him a flat body and sat down.

All the officials turned around and faced north and sat down.

Zhang Chao is quite polite to all officials. Everyone has seats for several cases, and even has tea and snacks. He won’t be able to open it for too long when he meets.

Basically, it is within one hour, sometimes even within half an hour.

The Golden Hall, which had been sitting for several months, used to be a regent, and from today on, he sat here as an emperor.

He ruled the world and was called honored to the south.

The chief officials of several major yamen, including the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, the President of Hanlin, the Speaker of the Parliament, the Censorate, and other officials took turns to report the matter.

Reporting things is just a simple report on the matter and not a discussion.

It was only half an hour before the morning court ended.

As the emperor, Zhang Chao could interfere in the affairs of each government office or in a certain incident at the court meeting, but he did not do so today.

After the court meeting, Zhang Chao convened the cabinet and the Hanlin Academy held an imperial meeting. The prime minister and the scholars arrived together.

Zhang Chao put forward his plans one by one.

"I conferred Li Lizhi as the crown princess!"

"The eldest grandson of the emperor, Zhang Sheng, was appointed as the crown prince!"

"The clan's enfeoffment!"

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"As to propose to acquire more than 600 princes including Dayuan, Yili, Luzon, and Liuqiu as directly under the imperial court."

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One by one, even though they had received the letter sent by the emperor yesterday and learned some news, they were still very surprised when they saw that these were officially brought to the imperial meeting for discussion.

Li Lizhi was named the crown princess?

This may not be nothing, but can Li Sheng be named the grandson?

But Li Sheng is only over one year old.

But there is more than this exciting news.

The emperor wanted to collect more than 600 fiefs, including the original Zhang family fief, into the imperial territories directly under the jurisdiction of the court, and some of them would be given out to reward the princes in the future.

But the emperor also clearly stated that places such as Liuqiu, Yili, Dayuan, Kangju, Luzon will be directly under the jurisdiction of the court in the future.

Liu Qiu upgraded the new Tao, Yili, Dayuan and Kangju merged into one Tao, and Luzon also became one Tao.

Even Lijiapo will become a direct-government port for the imperial court.

After Zhang Chao handed over these rich territories to the court, the more remote places they exchanged were all replaced.

For example, the emperor's seven brothers were all promoted to princes, but they were all granted to the territory of Wei and Jingshi, which was further north of the northern part of Liao.

If we hadn't known that the emperor had a good relationship with his brothers, everyone would have mistakenly thought that the emperor was not a feudal but an exile.

In addition to the crown prince, the emperor's thirty-one sons were also separated from each other in a remote and remote manner.

South China, Western Regions, Mobei, Mobei.

"How is it?" Zhang Chao asked with a smile.

Fang Xuanling made his statement first.

"I support the enthronement of Li as the crown princess."

"What about the enthronement of the crown prince?"

"I think that Your Majesty should think about this matter again, and do not rush for a moment."

The first prince and grandson of the founding princess have been established for the first time, so at least we have to give everyone some time to consider.

"Director Fang is the old man who is successful in his country's words." Zhang Chao praised.

Ma Zhou said, "Is Your Majesty's royal family's franchise too harsh on the royal family? Moreover, for example, Liuqiu, Dayuan and other places, the Zhang family has been in charge for many years, and the current situation has been achieved. If you directly take it back to the court, wouldn't the court rob the Zhang family?"

Ma Zhou was the one who insisted that the court and the royal family should be distinguished.

Now, this behavior of turning the Zhang family's fiefdom directly into a court fiefdom seems a bit too vague.

The court is the public, while the royal family is the private.

Private property is sacred and inviolable, and this cannot be changed.

"It's not that the court robbed the royal family, but that it was a renewal. After these fiefs were replaced, the court would of course be able to compensate the kings."

"The seven princes, thirty princes, and two of the other three emperors and grandchildren were also named princes, a total of thirty-nine royal princes. This time, not only did they divide the territory, but they would also give them population, money, food, livestock, etc. to support them. These will be collected by the court and converted into compensation for the Zhang family territory and used to pay the expenses and expenses of the feudal state."

Public is public, private is private, and Zhang Chao likes this very much.

The emperor could not directly bring the imperial taxes into his own private treasury.

Of course, the imperial court could not bring the royal private property into the treasury.

Zhang Chao was willing to hand over the fiefs of Liu Qiu and others to the court, but the private land and minerals owned by the Zhang family in these territories were still owned by the Zhang family.

The court also had to give the royal family a large amount of compensation based on the wealth, size, etc. of the fiefdom that was returned to the fiefdom. The royal family used this money as a fee for giving the royal family and princes a feudal state.

In this way, the royal family divided the feudal state and did not need to withdraw money from the court, and the money used was equivalent to the private property of the royal family.

"If this is the case, I think it's pretty good."
To be continued...