Chapter 137

A day later, Ye Wenxuan finally felt that becoming an emperor in the future might not be a bad choice, and his father's so-called restrictions on imperial power had plenty of opportunities to exploit. He flew alone to Danyang for a meeting with Tan Xiaopei, Tan Weiming, and Tan Weiran, and then quietly returned to Ye Family Fort. Although he made many evasions during the meeting, he unconsciously revealed that his political vision was not bad, but his political experience was very idiotic, which only strengthened the Tan family's idea of him becoming the third-generation emperor of the empire. With this problem solved, the tense situation between the various forces under Ye Tao's command suddenly disappeared.

Half a year later, the war to conquer Chunnan, which had been deliberately prolonged, became unsustainable as large numbers of Chunnan troops surrendered and defected. Tan Xiaopei urgently summoned Ye Tao, and then, with the strength of the entire country, the army launched two major battles and swept away the last resistance in Chunnan in less than a month. Chunnan ceased to be a country and was divided into seven states. At this point, the Eastern Peace's war of unification officially ended.

Two months later, the renovation of the imperial palace was completed, and Dongping began the final preparations for the enthronement ceremony.

When the new year arrived, Tan Xiaopei officially ascended the throne and announced it to the world. Ye Wenxuan was surprisingly ranked third among the imperial family, only after Tan Weiming and Tan Weiran, and even ahead of Tan Weizai. Before a month had passed, he announced that he would abdicate in a year and pass the throne to Tan Weiming.

Tan Weiming had known for a long time that his father was going to quit. Tan Xiaopei was never an emperor who was good at governing the country. Even when the world was unified, he was still a general. He had been managing the kingdom's affairs for several years anyway. Tan Weixin also helped with financial matters. In recent years, with the gradual increase of talents from all sides, Dongping's style of governance had gradually stabilized, and he had become more relaxed. Crown Prince and Emperor... speaking of which, there wasn't much difference in this regard.

However, this kind of news could not be said in advance. As the news spread, the Ministry of Rites, which had just breathed a sigh of relief, was about to cry. Two enthronement ceremonies in a row? Did you want us to die? But there was no way, who made the Tan family like this?

Ye Tao and Tan Weixin's child was born in the first month of the year. It was because of this child that Ye Tao did not even attend Tan Xiaopei's enthronement ceremony. Naturally, the whole country knew about Ye Tao and Tan Weixin's life-and-death friendship. Although some ministers were quite dissatisfied with this, no one dared to say anything. Ye Tao and Tan Weixin's child was named Ye Wenxing... there was some confusion in this name about the future path of the two transmigrators' child. But the road still needed to be walked by these children themselves.

After resting for a while, Ye Tao and Tan Weixin finally began to deal with government affairs more earnestly. Due to his years of prestige, although Ye Tao gradually handed over government affairs to the governors of several states, he still had to hold the position of Northern Frontier Pacification Commissioner. At this time, he began to live in Danyang with his family. Ye Tao did not have a new official title... because there was really no way to give him a suitable position, so he took the position of Grand Governor to manage the national criminal law. Ye Tao was not an expert in this area, and his knowledge of law was not even good, but he had some understanding of the spirit of judicial independence. Exploring and establishing a complete set of procedures suitable for this era became his most important work. Naturally, with his qualifications in technology, economics, military affairs, and so on, it was inevitable that he would provide advice to the emperor in all aspects.

The memorial restricting imperial power was not submitted until this time. At this moment, many people had already understood that Ye Wenxuan's inheritance of the throne in the future was a foregone conclusion, and this was precisely the choice of the Tan family's fellows. Ye Tao's proposal was not aimed at anyone, and obviously would not be aimed at his own son, but was merely out of public interest. Under the mediation of various parties, the law restricting imperial power was promulgated a year later. Although it was a hundred thousand miles away from constitutional monarchy, it reduced a lot of absolute power. In particular, the emperor could no longer make judgments without evidence. No one knew what would happen in the future, but in terms of justice and criminal law, Ye Tao would be in this position for at least twenty years. He definitely had the ability and the courage to confront the emperor.

Tan Weixin no longer dealt with national finance matters, and basically only provided some advisory opinions to several financial groups that were already on the right track. Whether it was Jiuzhou (Nine Provinces), Qihai (Seven Seas), or the various chambers of commerce and cooperative organizations that were constantly established later, their overall financial strength was extremely strong now. Tan Weixin basically only needed to resolve disputes between them.

The national railway network was gradually taking shape, and airships had become a very recognized mode of travel. With a large amount of funding, the telegraph network had already been popularized to the towns by the time of Tan Weiming's enthronement. The central government's control over local areas had never been so strong, and the channels for communication between superiors and subordinates had never been so smooth.

Was everything perfect? However, there were always some people who would never be satisfied. Considering future development, talent cultivation was the most important thing. Although the Ye family's industries were now gradually being split into business groups, human resources were unified. The Ye family first came up with a series of assessments for young talents. Test papers and various complicated examinations would be completed in just four days. It was absolutely guaranteed that people would have no time to think about anything else during these four days. Not to mention cheating, it would be good enough to complete all the test questions. And on the contact information registration form filled out after completing the assessment, when everyone was most tired and relaxed, at the very end of the densely packed test papers, there was an item: QQ or email...

Perhaps one day, some sleepy-eyed guy would fill in something surprising in this item.

(The End)