Chapter 1012 24. Luo's World! (Finale)
The Luo family turned their family into a country, named it "Luo", with its capital in Luoyang. They used a golden phoenix on a black background as the imperial flag, a golden phoenix on a red background as the royal emblem, and the reign title was "Tianming".
These things have already been determined without the need for discussion.
At the first grand court meeting after the establishment of the Luo Dynasty, all the ministers were waiting for the empire's internal and external policies.
Sitting in the hall were ministers dressed in red and purple, all of them looking very happy. This dynasty was probably the easiest to establish a country in history.
Of course, what made them most happy was that it was Luo who sat on the throne. Although Luo often acted tough and ruthless, he was reasonable in what he did.
The reason why Emperor Taizong of Tang is missed and why the political situation was clear is because, as an emperor, he acted reasonably. And now, the world will soon have emperors who act reasonably from generation to generation.
Standing at the heads of all the ministers were Lu Chang and Li Jiye, both of whom were prime ministers.
Li Jiye's experience from emperor to prime minister is a legendary story.
There is no need to say much about Lu Chang. Everyone knows that he must be the most trusted non-official minister of His Majesty the Emperor.
Both Lü Chang and Li Jiye had received Luo Chengyun's promise in advance, one would be named King of Qi and the other would be named King of Tang, which was equivalent to the court allocating special funds every year to support the ancestral temples of the Lü and Li families.
They both knew clearly that this political move meant that the new Luo Dynasty would certainly confer titles on the kings.
After Luo Chengyun came to court, Lü and Li stepped forward and said in unison: "Since ancient times, we have never heard of anyone who could rule the country by disregarding his clan.
Now, Your Majesty rules over the five continents and four seas. Who in the world doesn't know that the children of the Luo family are the best in the world?
If you don't grant the Luo family's children a prominent position, I'm afraid that everyone in the world will cry for them. Your Majesty, please be wise and consider the world."
Upon hearing this, all the ministers followed suit and gave advice.
For the Luo Dynasty founded by the Luo family, the problem facing the Luo family is not that there are too few trustworthy talents, but that there are too many talents.
There are too many talented people within the Luo family, especially the direct descendants of the Luo family. Since ancient times, there has never been an emperor who can trust so many capable and non-rebellious descendants.
Adjusting the proportion of various official positions and positions in this world between the Luo family and other families is a national policy. It requires the Luo family to control the world for the better, while also allowing other families to see a clear path for advancement.
Facing the advice of Lu and Li, Luo Chengyun agreed directly. It would be extremely stupid not to use a clan like the Luo family.
The five continents and four seas are so vast that the total number of civil servants and clerks in all regions is tens of millions, and with the increase in population, the number may even reach hundreds of millions.
With such a huge number, if the emperor alone relied on him, there would definitely be omissions even with the help of magical instruments such as the Qingshi and the Jiuding.
It is imperative to enfeoff kings and princes in various continents and use the Luo family to monitor the world. It would be best if there is a prince of the Luo family guarding each major province.
The imperial edict was issued, that any direct descendant of the Luo family, regardless of gender, who was over fifteen years old and had passed the emperor's assessment, could be conferred the title of prince, and then be granted a province as a fiefdom to go to.
All important military and national affairs in the provinces can be decided by his single word. He can execute officials below the provincial governor first and report later, and has the power to act at his discretion. The prince will report to the capital once every five years.
The ministers were all distressed when they heard this imperial edict, but no one said anything. Two thousand years of history have proved one thing, that is, don't doubt the obedience of the Luo family's descendants to the orders of the head of the family. Now that the head of the family has become the emperor, this obedience will not change.
As a result, the emperor had dozens of tentacles extending all over the world, and the difficulty of ruling the world was suddenly reduced to a few tenths.
The ministers also heard one thing from the emperor's enfeoffment, that those princes enfeoffed in the Central Plains were relatively normal.
However, the emperor enfeoffed a large number of overseas kings, which proved that the emperor wanted to take action against those places.
Just as others expected, the Luo Dynasty would never allow any land in the world to be lost outside its territory.
In fact, many regions have now voluntarily come to submit, and there is no need for the empire to conquer them. Only some diehards want to resist stubbornly, but they are just like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
It is the common understanding of everyone that the world will inevitably be reunified soon, and the entire world will be under the emperor.
After enfeoffment of the kings, the emperor established the cabinet system as the main political system of the empire. The cabinet was the emperor's auxiliary agency. There was no fixed number of cabinet members, but there were at least three of them, all of whom were first-rank officials responsible for leading various ministries. They were the direct superiors of the ministers of various ministries, that is, the traditional prime minister. There were five cabinet prime ministers in the early days, in charge of the 30 ministries of the empire.
However, the prime minister is not necessarily directly responsible to the emperor. Among the ministers in the cabinet, there is usually a prime minister from the royal family, who is a prince of the Luo family who is not sent to a fiefdom. If the prime minister has difficult matters to decide, the prime minister from the royal family can make the decision at his discretion, that is, he is the vice emperor of the empire appointed by the emperor.
Generally, only matters that even the vice emperor finds difficult to decide will be reported to the emperor for resolution. The vice emperor is not the same as the crown prince, because there is more than one vice emperor.
From this institutional arrangement, it can be seen that the Luo Dynasty actually implemented a democratic system within the Luo family at the highest level.
The emperor's power to decide life and death in the empire does not come from the imperial system, but from the fact that he is the head of the Luo family.
The head of the Luo family has the power of decision-making and veto. This has been the case since ancient times. However, due to the special circumstances within the Luo family, the Luo family has always been very democratic. Now it is just integrating this system into the country's management system.
In terms of administration, there is a royal prime minister, and the same is naturally true for other aspects related to law, supervision, etc. Generally speaking, the royal family exists largely as a judge to correct the imbalance of the system and make up for its shortcomings.
The empire required everyone to obey its laws, but at the same time, from the time of its establishment, it was clear that the emperor was above the law and could amend the law at any time, change the definition of the law, and use newly revised laws to trace past mistakes.
In this way, Luo bluntly told everyone not to try to exploit loopholes in the law to accomplish some ulterior motives, and not to try to use the shortcomings of the law to trample on human morality. If there are loopholes in the law, someone will naturally plug them.
It goes without saying what kind of people are those who would exploit legal loopholes to achieve some ulterior motives. The moral character of the Luo royal family is recognized by people all over the world, so the people naturally applaud and welcome them.
The Luo royal family established educational centers in major cities in various regions of the world and implemented the most universal compulsory education system. Through a strict scoring system, they allowed them to enter universities, and every student could pass the exam to become an official.
Then, the imperial examination was implemented to select the best from among tens of millions of officials to select Jinshi.
At the same time, the Jinshi examination was also opened to some of the top universities so that the best people could quickly participate in the political life of the empire and become talents serving the empire.
The university system did not have much impact because of its large enrollment, but the Jinshi system had few people on the list, and the royal family, including the princes, were generally interested in the exam.
This resulted in a large number of places being occupied, which had a huge impact on the system. Finally, the emperor ordered that the examination should first be organized within the royal family, and royal family members who were rated first or second were not allowed to participate in the Jinshi examination. The people praised the emperor for his wisdom.
The Luo Dynasty always regarded combating corruption as the top priority of the country, preventing it from happening and never allowing the bureaucracy to collapse.
The princes stationed in various provinces also regard the reorganization of the official team as the most important task.
Thanks to the rapid development of technological products, this work has become much easier. In addition, with the spontaneous reporting by the people, we can basically catch every criminal and it is difficult for it to develop into a large-scale incident.
During the Luo Dynasty, Luo's Money House experienced real great development. After taking power, Luo spent several years banning all money houses except Luo's Money House, regardless of how much benefit others had in them.
In Luo's view, other money houses completely violated the principles of money houses. The initial economic crisis was closely related to these money houses. After banning these money houses, Luo's Money House opened branches in almost every county town.
This move made the world's financial system much more stable, and also put the economic flow of the entire empire under the control of the Luo royal family.
After all, as long as it is a large-scale financial transaction, it is impossible not to use a money bank. As long as a money bank is used, Luo's huge system can analyze those things that are wrong and then catch the big fish.
This is still the era of paper money. If one day even paper money is gone, then it can really be said that all economic activities of everyone will be inferior to those of the Luo royal family.
For ordinary law-abiding people, this does not matter, after all, the money they earn is clean hard-earned money. But for others who are not clean or have something to hide, this is very scary.
So many of these people use cash, but the problem is that Luo naturally knows about this. In the later stage, those who frequently withdraw large amounts of cash will also be secretly checked.
In the Luo family's world, the biggest difference from the past is actually only one, that is, the most ordinary people always have hope.
No matter what injustice they encountered, no matter what suffering they went through, they believed that as long as they found the royal family, the royal family would give them justice and let them know that there is still fairness in this world.
This is indeed the case. The royal family has never disappointed anyone. "The holy scar shines brighter than the sun in the sky." This is what the common people say from the bottom of their hearts. Among the more passionate and creative students, they affectionately call the emperor "the defender of order and goodness", "the guardian of the world and people's hearts", and "the executor of the King's decree."
There may be no real utopia or true world of universal harmony in this world, but the Luo Dynasty must be the country closest to that utopia. The enlightened monarchy of the divine family has made the entire world continuously develop towards a perfect country without stopping.
The belief in Su Wang flourished in the world. Xuanmen was the state religion of the Luo Dynasty. It was a typical polytheistic religion whose main doctrine was cause and effect and the cycle of reincarnation.
The King of Su is in the sky watching everyone.
Good deeds will be rewarded with good, and evil deeds will be punished with evil. Doing good deeds can accumulate merits and enjoy happiness after death. Doing bad deeds will be cruelly punished after death, and fall into the underworld or even the eighteen levels of hell, never to be reborn.
There is no such thing as reincarnation in this world. Ji Zhao believes that human memory is part of the person, and if one loses his memory, he becomes a different person. Doing good deeds in this life will bring happiness in the next life, doing evil deeds in this life will bring misfortune in the next life or even being reborn as an animal are all false.
So in the world after death, there is no reincarnation, but there are really eighteen levels of hell, and there is really a paradise.
This is what he hoped that the Luo family members who awakened from Valhalla would find in the countless years to come.
In the foreseeable future, the population will continue to grow, although most people are ordinary people who will neither go to hell nor enter paradise.
But as time accumulates, the final number will still exceed most people's imagination. For example, now in Valhalla, there are already a large number of people from Zhuxia who followed the descendants of the Luo family to die.
All we can say is that fortunately, the descendants of the Luo family also died one after another and then entered Valhalla, so a balance was maintained.
…
After completing the transformation of the heaven and the underworld, Ji Zhao looked at the world with satisfaction. The three realms of heaven, earth and man were all operating stably.
The two realms of heaven and earth are spaces opened up by Ji Zhao's great power. They are two sides of the same coin as the human world and can never be observed from the human world.
The human world is the true main body of the three realms. Without the human world, the two realms of heaven and earth will eventually become empty.
The rule of the Luo Dynasty was like time, it seemed to have become a habit, and every citizen was accustomed to the presence of the Luo royal family in every aspect of their lives. They respected the Luo royal family more and more, and even regarded the Luo royal family as gods.
As the empire ruled for a longer time, the technology of the entire society continued to improve, and morality continued to strengthen. The Luo royal family became more and more reclusive. Although they were rarely seen, the presence of the Luo royal family was still reflected in all aspects.
As the popular saying goes in the Empire, "There are three things that an Imperial citizen cannot avoid in his life: air, water, and the royal family."
The Luo royal family was like water, completely integrated into everyone's bones and blood.
As for the achievements of the Luo royal family's rule over the world, perhaps the increasing number of people in heaven and the decreasing number of people in hell year by year can serve as the most powerful proof.
Luo's world.
This is the world of Luo.
Ji Zhao tightly grasped the Jade Disc of Creation (system) in his hand.
My name is Zhao, and my name is the same as Tao. I was born before the heavens. Here I practiced the false and realized the true. I am the master of the three realms. I admire you!
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
