When everyone arrived at the main hall of the Later Tang Palace, they only saw Zhang Zifan holding Li Siyuan's head, and Li Xingyun had quietly left before everyone arrived. After all, in the eyes of the world, his identity was already a dead person.

With the death of Li Siyuan, the entire Later Tang Dynasty naturally collapsed. Next, they were discussing who to nominate as the emperor.

Some of the remaining ministers of the Middle Tang and Northern Tang took the lead in proposing to welcome Li Changyi or Li Shengxiang to be the new emperor. As a result, as soon as they opened their mouths, they were immediately criticized by others. After all, except for Ren Huan and Zhao Ge, these ministers of the two Tangs had shown their spineless side before.

These spineless Tang ministers were scolded away by others for their plan to support the new emperor, and then others recommended their candidates.

While everyone was arguing, Zhang Zifan, who had gained unprecedented prestige by killing Li Siyuan, stood up and strongly recommended the King of Yan to be the new ruler of the world.

As soon as Zhang Zifan made this proposal, the ministers of Yan immediately responded in agreement, but the others all chose to remain silent.

Seeing this, Zhang Zifan knew that the current time was not ripe, so he never mentioned his previous suggestion in front of everyone.

In this way, with everyone deadlocked, the position of the ruler of the world remained vacant for a whole year, and no candidate that everyone would be satisfied with was found.

During this year of vacancy, although there was no more war in the world, there were a lot of frictions and disputes.

During this period, there was a group of people who had stayed in various vassal states all over the world for a period of time. In the end, they all felt that only when they stayed in Yan State was they felt the happiest moment.

Therefore, when this group of people finished their journey around the world, they wrote a personal travelogue, writing down what they saw and heard in various vassal states in the world, and then one travelogue after another with different styles spread throughout the Huaxia (anti-harmony) land.

When the people of the world saw these travelogues, they all went to live in the territory of each vassal state for a period of time according to the description in the book. As a result, they all agreed that the description in the book was correct: Yan State was indeed the happiest place in the world!

In this way, the reputation of Yan State and King Yan was spread more and more widely through word of mouth among the people of the world. When the time was almost ripe, Zhang Zifan appeared in front of the world again and recommended King Yan to be the current ruler of the world.

This time, with the people of the world as a foundation, those former Tang officials could only make a choice that conformed to public opinion.

So, Zhang Zifan led the Tang officials and other princes to the State of Yan with drums and gongs.

"We respectfully ask the King of Yan to follow the will of the people and take charge of the world!" Zhang Zifan led everyone to kneel in front of Bei Rong.

"How important is the position of the Lord of the World? I am not talented enough to take on this important task! You should ask someone else!" Bei Rong rejected the request of Zhang Zifan and others.

"King of Yan, this is the choice of the people of the world, please don't refuse it again!" Zhang Zifan said on behalf of everyone.

"I am really incompetent and incapable of governing a State of Yan! Let alone the whole world?" Bei Rong refused for the second time.

"King of Yan, as the saying goes, if you can't clean up your own house, how can you clean up the world? Under your rule, King Yan, Yan has become the happiest place in the world! It can be seen that you, the ruler of the world, are already the one that everyone wants!" Zhang Zifan said this, citing classics.

"Well...Okay! In that case, I will agree to your request first! Let me make it clear in advance that if I don't do well enough by then, you must choose another wise ruler!" Bei Rong used a retreat-to-advance approach and agreed to everyone's request with a "reluctant" look on his face.

"We pay our respects to the emperor! Long live the emperor!" Zhang Zifan and others, as well as the courtiers of Yan, shouted "Long live" to Bei Rong on the main seat!

In this way, after a standard process of three requests and three concessions, Bei Rong became the one that everyone wanted. Three days later, he officially announced to the whole world: From now on,From now on, Yan State will be the Great Yan Dynasty!

Bei Rong can discuss other structures of the Great Yan Dynasty with the court officials in an orderly manner, but the only thing that has caused the most controversy is where to set the capital.

According to Bei Rong's own ideas, he must want to set the capital of the Great Yan Dynasty in Jizhou City.

However, many court officials have pointed out that this place is too close to the land outside the pass. If there are any changes in the land outside the pass, the capital will become very dangerous.

Yes, the ideas of these court officials are not unreasonable, although there is still friendly exchanges between Mobei and the Central Plains today.

However, as time goes by, no one dares to guarantee that Mobei will maintain such a friendly relationship with the Central Plains forever. If one day, Mobei suddenly wants to enter the Central Plains, the consequences will become unimaginable.

Therefore, after much discussion between Bei Rong and the court officials, they still decided to set the capital of the Great Yan Dynasty in Luoyi, which was valued by many dynasties.

However, although the capital of the Great Yan Dynasty was set in Luoyi, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun was also a top priority. For this reason, Bei Rong personally appointed sixteen reliable generals to guard the land of Yanyun.

After all matters were settled, Bei Rong officially ascended the throne as the first emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty in the palace of Luoyi amid the calls of the people.

After Bei Rong became the emperor, Bei Luo naturally became the emperor, Kaisha also became the empress dowager, and Li Yunji was awarded the title of the Holy Mother Empress Dowager. As for Beisha, her title continued to be the Princess of Tianyun!

After becoming the emperor, Bei Rong's first fire was again those princes. This time, he adopted a relatively moderate strategy.

The titles of these county kings remained unchanged, but their fiefs were increased. Their fiefs would become as large as their territories when they were princes. However, as their fiefs increased, part of their real power would be returned to the court.

Among them, the biggest change in the real power of the county kings was the military power in their hands. Bei Rong added a county governor and a governor in their fiefs.

Then the military power of these county kings would be divided into three parts and evenly distributed to themselves, the county governors and the governors.

For Bei Rong's sacred proposal, the county kings did not show much resistance. After shouting "Your Majesty is wise!", they accepted the emperor's sacred proposal.

After solving the problems of the county kings, Bei Rong set his sights on Meng Zhixiang and Li Maozhen.

After a period of discussion, Meng Zhixiang and Li Maozhen both agreed to receive the same treatment as the other princes.

Bei Rong was not stingy with the two sensible kings of Shu and Qi. While taking back some of the power of Meng Zhixiang and Li Maozhen, he also added the Hanzhong area and the Qinling area to the fiefs of the two princes!

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