Qi uses the character Xia in the shape of a cicada as the country name, probably because he is interested in the cicada representing these mysterious and beautiful meanings. Which king does not want his country to last forever and last for generations and stay far away?

Of course, these are all inferences. Anyway, Fang Nan thought that the Xia Kingdom he established could last forever, last for generations, and stay far away.

Xia is the country name, which can be called Xia Kingdom, Daxia, Daxia Empire, etc. If the country has names, it should have a year name under normal circumstances, but Fang Nan intends to abolish the year name system.

The year name is usually initiated by the monarch. In order to distinguish the previous monarch from the ancient Chinese king, the new monarch recalculated the number of years in order to distinguish the previous monarch.

There was no dynasty name before the pre-Qin period to the beginning of the Han Dynasty, and when Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty ascended the throne, adding a commemorative name before the number of years was the beginning of the ancient Chinese year names.

The Book of Han records that in October of that year, Emperor Wu of Han went out to hunt and caught a unicorn Bai Lin. The ministers believed that this was auspicious divine object and worthy of commemoration. They suggested that they be used to remember the year, so they named the year "Yuanshou", calling that year (122 BC) the first year of Yuanshou.

However, after six years, a three-legged treasure tripod was obtained in Fenyang, Shanxi. The ministers believed that it was an auspicious divine object and suggested that it be used to record the year, so they changed the year name to "Yuan Ding", calling that year the first year of Yuan Ding.

Later, people called the beginning of this year of recording the age "epoch", and changed the year name (or the first year of the emperor's year) "changed the year".

Emperors of all dynasties encountered major events such as "auspiciousness from heaven" or internal strife and external worries. The year names of the emperors usually changed. The year names used by an emperor ranged from one to more than a dozen, such as Emperor Gaozong of Tang.

This year is the 20th year of Wanli, and it is the 20th year of Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun becoming emperor.

For Fang Nan, one of the purposes of abolishing the year number is that the chronological method of adding the year number is not convenient to use. If there is no year number, it can be directly used in the first year of the Xia Li calendar and the second year of the Xia Li calendar.

When Fang Nan proposed to abolish the year number system, several people expressed objections when the meeting was held. However, under Fang Nan's explanation, they all expressed acceptance. Compared with the national system, the abolition of the year number system is just a trivial matter.

In addition, Fang Nan also stated at the meeting that after the establishment of the State of Xia, two calendars will be used, divided into solar calendars and lunar calendars. The lunar calendar is the current lunar calendar, and the solar calendar is a calendar formulated by Fang Nan himself.

The Gregorian calendar sets the year to 365 days, add one day every four years, and divides one year into twelve months, with a clear number of days, and every seven days is one week.

In fact, as early as 1281 AD, it was written that "365.2425 days are one year old", which is only 25.92 seconds away from the modern observation value of 365.2422, and the accuracy is relatively high.

Anyway, the lunar calendar is not just abolishing it, but using the two calendars together. Everyone in the conference room felt that there were some inconveniences in the lunar calendar, and it seemed that it would be much more convenient if it was replaced by the solar calendar.

Fang Nan made the decision mainly. The meeting only gave a rough plan. The specific plan must be formulated by six ministries and five provinces. The first high-level government meeting ended in one morning at the beginning of the year. The next six ministries and five provinces will hold their respective meetings.

In the afternoon, Fang Nan once again presided over the high-level military meeting. The senior military leaders attended the meeting include Hu Zhuang, Zhou Yi, Wang Shengrong, Xiong Jian, Yan Han, He Yan and other generals, and Li Zhen, director of the Military Information Department, also participated in the meeting. As the Minister of War, Hu Zhuang also attended the high-level government meeting in the morning.

Compared with government meetings, military meetings are more direct, and the themes of the meeting are tasks for three periods of time before, during and after the war.

As the new year begins, the People's Army will expand its army again, and the total force will increase to more than one million. After the meeting is over, the army will increase its preparations for war.

You should know that next is a great war. The People's Army will fight from the south of the Yangtze River to the north of the Yellow River. Especially when the war breaks out, it is already late autumn. If the time is fast, the war will end before the New Year comes. However, the winter in the north is not ordinary cold, and cold-proof materials have already begun to be prepared.

Prepare the supplies and wait for the armistice agreement to expire and the war breaks out. The People's Army troops attack the Ming-ruled Area in different directions. The People's Army's troops divide the attack areas, which is more than the Third Army responsible for occupying Yunnan Province and Guizhou Province, and Yan Han's Second Army responsible for occupying Zhejiang Province and the eastern region of Nanzhili.

The focus of this final battle is in two places, one is the natural danger of the Yangtze River and the other is the natural danger of the Yellow River. The former is the most important. The Ming court arranged the most troops in the natural danger of the Yangtze River, and a large number of naval ships are in the Yangtze River. If the natural danger of the Yangtze River cannot block the People's Army, the natural danger of the Yellow River cannot also block the People's Army.

In order to allow the army to cross the Yangtze River smoothly, the People's Army made a lot of preparations, mainly divided into three items:

The first is to prepare ships on the south bank of the Yangtze River. The People's Army can take these ships to cross the Yangtze River. Some of the People's Army have conducted boat combat training. The most important thing is musketeers, who can attack the north bank of the Yangtze River between six or seven hundred meters from the ship. Since it is not a warship, several artillery cannons cannot be placed on the ship;

The second is the persuasion of surrender by the Military Intelligence Department. Many armed and Ming army forces stationed on the north bank of the Yangtze River have surrendered to the People's Army. Even some of the Ming Navy in the Yangtze River have surrendered to the People's Army. As long as they do not rebel, the People's Army will not be killed or injured, and they will be able to climb the north bank of the Yangtze River;

The third is the People's Navy. This time the People's Navy will also go to war. The main force of the People's Navy stationed in Guangdong Province, plus the "troop transport ships", will move to Fujian Province before the war breaks out. After the war breaks out, the fleet will continue to move north. When the army captures most areas south of the Yangtze River and prepares to march into the north of the Yangtze River, the navy cooperates with the army to act together.

The number of ships in the People's Navy is far from comparable to that of the Ming Navy. However, the ships of the People's Navy are equipped with a large number of howitzers and rely on howitzers and rockets. As long as they do not fight decisively with all the Ming Navy, the People's Navy has a very high confidence in victory in local wars.

After the People's Army arrives at the north bank of the Yangtze River, it will advance in multiple directions and sweep northward, eventually destroying all areas of the Ming court occupying China.

However, after unifying the land of China, it does not mean that the war will end. The top leaders of the People's Army have not forgotten another great enemy of the Ming court, the Tatars on the northern prairie. If there were no Tatars as an enemy, four or five years ago, the Ming court could have mobilized more elite border troops to encircle and suppress the People's Army. The People's Army could withstand it, but its own casualties would not be small.

When the Ming court was destroyed, the People's Army would replace the Ming court to guard the northern border. With firearms troops there, it would be no problem to defend the northern border. However, it is not the character of the People's Army. The only lancer division of the People's Army would take the initiative to enter the grassland to find fighter jets to weaken the Tatars.
Chapter completed!