The founding ceremony is a grand but troublesome thing, especially Yang Rui's requirement that the ceremony must be combined with ancient and modern, and the ancestor worship and military parade must be reflected after this process. However, the military parade in later generations was on Chang'an Avenue under Tiananmen Square, and now Tianjie is there, it is impossible to parade on Chang'an Street, and it is impossible to demolish the entire Tianjie, so the military parade finally thought that it might be arranged under Zhengyangmen.

Having said that, but as soon as you arrive at Zhengyangmen, you know that Zhengyangmen can not hold a military parade, that Zhengyangmen is not a straight street under the building, but an arc-shaped street, the east and west sides of the urn city are still railway stations, the east is to Tianjin, the west is to Baoding, and the two stations have a railway through the main gate. Even if the street under the Zhengyang Gate is straightened, the front building of the Zhengyang Gate must be demolished, because this is originally a military place, there are those archery holes, and everyone will not be able to watch the ceremony during the parade, and compared to the Chengtian Gate of 60 meters, the front building of more than 30 meters is too narrow, that is, the building above is demolished, and there are not a few people standing when watching the ceremony.

Tianjie demolished Zhang Taiyan and everyone was not happy, because this is a symbol of imperial power, there is no emperor without Tianjie, and this will also change the old view of history - the Jinshui River under Chengtianmen will be covered, the jade belt bridge will be demolished, and even Huabiao will be moved, and Yang Rui will not agree with the changed appearance in the end; And Yang Rui was unwilling to demolish the building in front of Zhengyang Gate, this is a historical monument, and he can't move it at all; Finally, there is a way to build a city tower similar to the size of Chengtianmen behind Zhengyang Gate and in front of Daming Gate, and then widen Qipan Street, so that nothing is demolished, but the problem is that the east side of Qipan Street is the envoy area. Even if a city tower is built to watch the military parade, the military parade can only read the west half, and the east side cannot pass at all.

There was no way to hold a military parade at the founding ceremony. This is something that Yang Rui did not expect. can't parade, that is, can't show muscles, can't deter foreigners, which makes him very dissatisfied. When the representative of the National Assembly mentioned that the emperor must have an era name, Yang Rui suggested that those literati must add the word 'wu' to the era name to show the momentum of New China. The Prime Minister has an order, and everyone has to obey. They finally selected the word 'Shenwu' from the sentence 'Ancient Wisdom and Knowledge, Shenwu and Husband Who Doesn't Kill', and made the name of the year at the same time. also slapped Yang Rui's sycophant, which means that the Prime Minister is wise and extraordinary, and he is a god of martial arts. Of course, some people came up with the word 'holy martial arts', but they were immediately rejected by Zhang Taiyan. It's the same as 'Zhaowu'. It is a year name used by anti-thieves and rebellions, which is very unlucky.

Yang Rui didn't expect the intentions of those literati, he just wanted a mighty era name to show the prestige of the country, Shenwu was not as good as Zhu Yuanzhang's Hongwu at first hearing, but that is what it means, he felt that it was okay at the moment, but he didn't pretend to set the era name by himself, and only threw this matter to the Congress and Zhu Kuansu to think. In the end, under the 'martial arts', they still chose the word 'divine martial arts'.

Thousands of officers and soldiers who came to the capital from all over the country to confer medals were unable to participate in the parade. It had to be inspected in this way on both sides of the main road of the imperial city on the day of the ceremony. Only a small number of them will enter the Imperial Palace to receive knighthoods after the founding ceremony is completed, while the rest will be awarded medals by Yang Rui himself in Prince Zheng's Mansion. The knighthood is just a holy decree, and the award is to hang the medals one by one, but fortunately, this is not awarded by Yang Rui alone, otherwise he would not be able to award nearly a thousand people until dawn the next day.

In addition to the knighthood, the regulations of the Taimiao of the new dynasty have also been changed, before the Taimiao was only the emperor's relatives and some civil and military officials, and now the regulations are as long as they die for the country, they can enjoy the Taimiao and be worshipped. Yang Rui was not interested in this kind of virtual thing, but when he saw Zhang Taiyan put it forward, Li Zilong, who was listening, actually stopped breathing, and immediately understood the attraction of the Taimiao system to people in this era. This is not an era of thick black worship, but an era of heavy courtesy and humiliation, if the war dead can also enter the Taimiao, then what will be the combat effectiveness of the troops? I'm afraid I'm not going to become a death squad.

The founding ceremony of 1912 seems to be a copy of the founding ceremony of the previous dynasty, but in fact, it was no longer the civil and military ministers who followed Zhu Kuansu to worship the sky, but 600 members of the National Assembly. Although this has the meaning of reflecting that the imperial power will be granted to the Congress, Yang Rui does not want to get up in the middle of the night and follow Zhu Kuansu to the Temple of Heaven to kneel and worship.

On the ninth day of the ninth month of March, the officials of the Ministry of Rites on the side of the Temple of Heaven began to be busy, and the officials such as the Suburban Society Order and the Liangyu Order put the sacrificial wine in the honorable man, and the great official also put the jade coins used in the sacrifice in the bamboo basket, and the chief official ordered the people who led the people to eat to put all kinds of food in the ritual vessels such as the bamboo bowl, beans, gui, and fang. On the fourth watch, Feng Lilang led several praisers into the altar, and then these praisers led the Taizhu, Lingshi, and the deacons into the altar, and after three bows, they offered sacrifices and took their places.

The Temple of Heaven is full of parliamentarians standing under the Temple of Heaven, fortunately the weather in early spring is not cold, otherwise standing here in the middle of the night and being frozen by ordinary people probably can't stand it. When the sacrifices on the Temple of Heaven were finished, the Praise Officer began to guide the 600 councillors to wait in a line, just waiting for the musicians and dancers to enter the Lexian and the Temple of Heaven above and clean it again, and when the drum music sounded, the councillors entered the Temple of Heaven according to the previously rehearsed procession and stood in the designated area.

The Temple of Heaven is busy, the Forbidden City is also very busy, the garrison has already lined up the formation of the grand ceremony during the third watch, only at the end of the fourth watch, Zhu Kuansu went out of the palace in the sound of the servants, and was invited by the guards to go straight to the Temple of Heaven in the jade chariot. The night near dawn is the darkest, but for the ceremony, from the imperial city out of the Chengtian Gate, then out of the Daming Gate, Zhengyang Gate, until the Temple of Heaven is brightly lit, and even the whole city is lit up with fire, everyone knows that this is the new dynasty's sacrifice to the heavens.

Fang Junying got the rifle yesterday and hid in an attic that had been rented in advance on Zhengyangmen Street. The assassination of Yang Rui was not her advocacy, but an order from the party. She understands that Cheng Ying will be even more sad after Yang Rui's death, but this is a revolution and cannot tolerate any warmth. Although Cheng Jiatao arranged a safe retreat for her - after the assassination, she quickly fled, entered the diplomatic quarters to escape the arrest, and then left Beijing in a diplomatic carriage, but she did not want to do so. In addition to not wanting to be attached to the Japanese, she also felt that she was sorry for Cheng Ying, and only hoped that she would die early after the assassination. This is also a life for a life.

If you have a set of minds, then things will naturally be neat. When the Temple of Heaven was not ready, she entered the hiding place outside the attic in the dark, she just wanted to wait for Yang Rui and the others to finish worshipping the heavens, and find an opportunity to shoot when they returned to the Forbidden City. is the easiest moment to assassinate.

Fang Junying waited hard, while Yang Rui was sleeping peacefully, and he pushed the matter to the Provisional Congress on the winter solstice last year. He thinks that the civil and military officials are just buddies. The representative of Heaven is the Son of Heaven, and the representative of all the peoples is qualified to worship the Heavens, because they are the masters of the country, and the government is the servants of the masters. Servants are not qualified to worship the heavens. His fallacies and heresies would have been heresy if they had been placed in the previous dynasty. However, in the new dynasty, such a statement is a manifestation of the people-oriented, which is not only agreed by the parliamentarians, but even Liang Qichao, who has always opposed the policy strategy of the Renaissance Council, echoed it, saying that this proposal reflects the meaning of the people first and the officials first, but I am worried that Beijing can do this, and I am afraid that the states and counties below Beijing will not be like this, after all, there are too many bureaucrats who claim to be public servants but are actually masters.

At the founding ceremony arranged by the Ministry of Rites, civil and military officials will not appear at all. Just wait for the next day of parliament to convene and the members of parliament to vote. Yang Ruicai will be officially appointed as the Prime Minister of Greater China and form a cabinet on the same day; The members of the Imperial Court will be nominated by them and appointed by a vote of the National Assembly. Unlike the term of office of the Prime Minister, the term of office of the court lieutenant is extremely long, to be precise, as long as he is in good health, this court lieutenant will continue to be in this position.

When Yang Rui got up on this day, the sky in the outer city of Beijing was already bright, it was a rare sunny day, in the early spring when the rain was continuous, the weather was good and only people couldn't believe it. At this time, Zhu Kuanji, who had already changed into a great Qiu and a crown to worship the heavens, began to take the stage to worship the heavens under the leadership of Dr. Taichang, and after constantly kneeling, laying the foundation, kneeling and worshipping, and ripening, Zhang Taiyan, who was already exhausted in the morning light but took on the post of Taizhu, began to read out the blessings of the heavens:

"The fourth thousand and 10th year old Emperor of Wei Huangdi, the first day of March, the ninth day of the first month, Xinwei, the heir of the Son of Heaven, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, the representative of the Shangshu Ling, dared to declare to Yu Haotian God: 'Since the Qing has lost his way, the four seas are crossing, and the power is humiliated and the country is humiliated. Fortunately, there are righteous people who rise, raise swords and bow brigades, the first to march, support the wings of thousands of miles, and become a great industry. The lonely book is the remaining vein, the lotus is merciful to the heavens, the sea pushes each other, respects the great treasure, and settles the world. The new dynasty is opened, follow the ancient sage, return the power to the people, there must be the name of the world called 'Great China', change the Yuan Shenwu, Gong Yi Taimiao, posthumously respect the four generations of Kao Yan as the emperor and queen, set up the Great Society and Daji in Beijing, and take the book Bao Lifei Zhang as the queen. On the ninth day of the first month of March this year, I would like to sacrifice heaven and earth in the garden altar, and I dare not tell you. ’”

After reading the text of Zhang Taiyan's sacrifice, after becoming mature again, the musicians in Le County began to play music, Hong Zhong Da Lu, the text dance came out and the martial dance entered, only waiting for this section of the Cloud Gate dance to finish, and there was the speaker of the National Assembly, the vice speaker, and then according to Zhu Kuanji's appearance to re-sacrifice the emperor again. After the three offerings, it is to give the gizzard, open the fire, light the firewood only when the firewood is halfway burned, Tai Changqing shouted that the ceremony is over, and the sacrifice to heaven and earth is over.

To sue the heavens is to burn the offerings to the heavens with fire, and to sacrifice to the ground is to bury the sacrifices to the ground. Fang Junying, who was in the attic, watched the fireworks rise in the south, and knew that the ceremony had reached the beginning of the fire and was about to end. Sure enough, in less than half an hour, I saw Zhu Kuanji's jade chariot coming from afar, estimating that the person was about to arrive, Fang Junying slowly lifted the rag that covered the barrel, and the bullet was gently pushed into the load, and the person began to adjust evenly according to what he had been taught before, waiting for the target to appear in the sniper scope, and then hit accurately. But at this moment, a flash of light suddenly flashed somewhere on the opposite side, and she suddenly felt a pain in her head in surprise, and then she didn't know anything.

More than ten minutes later, Bai Ru broke into the room with several agents of the Security Bureau, and saw Fang Junying in a pool of blood, she stiffened her face and did not speak, and one of her companions took a photo and looked at Fang Junying's face, and then said to her, "It's her!" ”

"Pack this up and see if you can find anything." Bai Ru commanded, and when she was about to go out after speaking, she sighed, and then advised, "Bury her well." ”

"Yes! Sir. The subordinate said respectfully. Yesterday, the director of the bureau reported that he should pay attention to sniper assassination, but everyone searched and searched but still did not find where the assassin would hide, and in the end, Bai Ru chose a place on Zhengyangmen Street with his experience to watch around. At the moment when Zhu Kuanji's chariot was about to arrive and Fang Junying took out the gun, she was keenly and immediately discovered the reflection of the sniper scope here. Before Fang Junying could shoot, she shot him without hesitation.

The news of Fang Junying's killing reached Yang Rui's ears in less than ten minutes, and Yang Rui asked with an unchanged face after listening to it: "It is impossible for Fang Junying to be assassinated alone." Chen Qimei must have a back-up move. ”

"Sir, I guess it's the same, but in Beijing, only Fang Junying came out, and several other people were hiding in the embassy area, and Fang Junying didn't find any evidence on him, although the gun was a Japanese rifle. However, there are many Japanese such golden hook rifles in China, and it is difficult to determine that this was done by the Japanese. Liu Boyuan was very angry when he thought of the embassy area, if it weren't for the fact that people couldn't be arrested there. He had already arrested Cheng Jiaqi and a few others.

The envoy area is a foreign country, Yang Rui also understands this, seeing that there is really no news from Liu Boyuan's side, Yang Rui had no choice but to say: "That is, keep an eye on it." Don't let up. There is also Cheng Jiata's telegram that says 'West Wind and Rain'. That's actually a code word used by the Japanese. It means that the situation on the western side of Japan, that is, on our side, is not good, and the rain is likely to mean war. ”

Yang Rui, who has watched too many World War II films in later generations, is very taboo about Cheng Jiata's sentence of 'west wind and rain', according to history, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor is 'east wind and rain', what is the west wind and rain now, and it is difficult for Japan to sneak attack itself? So as soon as this word came out, it only made Yang Rui's nerves tense.

Yang Rui knows a lot of things that ordinary people don't know. Liu Boyuan had long been accustomed to this, and he saw Yang Rui mention going to war. Then he said: "Sir, do you want us to find a place in the envoy area, and arrest people in it for interrogation, so that we don't want to bring people out, just bring the news out." ”

"Just arrest and interrogate people inside?" Yang Rui said strangely, "Then if we don't act secretly when arresting people, wouldn't it be that our people will also be caught by foreigners, and we can't admit that this is our people?" ”

"That's right. Mr. Liu Boyuan was also helpless to come up with such a solution.

"Let's forget it first. What if Cheng Jiatao itself is a trap that lures us to the bait? Yang Rui asked rhetorically, "No country has recognized us yet, and there must be no accident in the envoy area, otherwise it will be detrimental to diplomacy." ”

"Understood. Mr. Liu Boyuan also knew that this method was not very easy to use, he just said it in a hurry. That sir, what if Fang Junying's matter is ...... What should I say if Madame asks? ”

Yang Rui didn't know that Fang Junying was going to kill herself, thinking that she was going to kill Zhu Kuanji, so when she heard the words, she said: "Don't care about her, you know if you know, and if you don't know, you don't know." If Bai Ru's gun is fired one second later, Zhu Kuansu will see the Emperor of Heaven. By the way, speaking of evidence, you can think about how to introduce fingerprints to solve the case," Yang Rui thought of something, and suddenly talked about the topic more and more mysterious, seeing that Liu Boyuan couldn't understand it, he had to explain: "Everyone's fingerprints are different, on that rifle and on the wooden box with the gun, there will always be some fingerprints left by accident, find a way to remove these fingerprints, and then correspond to the suspects one by one, then you can find out the murderer." ”

What Yang Rui said was according to the principle of fingerprints, although Liu Boyuan understood, but when he heard that he had to correspond to the suspects one by one, he also gasped and said: "Sir, this fingerprint is so small, if you go to correspond one by one, can you correspond to it?" ”

"You'll find out if you try it." Yang Rui feigned anger and said, "There are only ten fingers, how many suspects are there?" The Security Service acts in the country and can not always be messed around. It's not enough for you to recruit some servants over there, and you have to be scientific in handling cases. ”

After Yang Rui taught Liu Boyuan a lesson, he went to wear a dress alone, and he was knighted after a while, and he was indispensable. Originally, he didn't want the title, but he didn't want revival and no one dared to ask for it, so he had to agree in the end. Different from the Mongolian people, in addition to Zhu Kuanji's relatives on the Han side, the highest person who was sealed was only a duke, and the previous members of the revival association were all dukes, but Wang Jitong and Yu Zixun did not accept it, Zhang Taiyan was pleased, and several other people did not accept it or be happy, but in addition to the Mongolian vassal king, what other feudal palaces, dukes' mansions, and earl's mansions were built only to build a memorial arch first, and it was better to draw the land for the mansion, and wait for the country to build it when it was rich.

After a toss in the Imperial Palace, the officials of the Ministry of Rites read the holy decree, and the chaotic vassal kings, dukes, candidates, uncles, sons, and barons were freshly released. Yang Rui was not happy about this, but a little regretful, he thought that the military parade would not be realized in any month, so it couldn't be put outside the Yongding Gate. It's already the outer city of Beijing, and if there is a railway running through the city, it's too far.

Yang Rui has a mind here, but Zhang Taiyan, who has been busy for a day, is indescribably happy, for him, the revolution has been completed, the country has been established, and the knighthood has been sealed, and there will be no big regrets in this life. At the banquet of the Emperor's Palace, he saw Yang Rui frowning, and gasped with soft legs: "It turns out that today should not have something on your mind, after all, it is a day of great joy, and we all have to be happy." ”

When he said this, he only attracted the attention of everyone next to him, and Yang Rui had no choice but to laugh when he saw this. Although they are all an organization, his preferences do not represent everyone's preferences, and people's values will be different in each era, and there are some similar things that he can impose on others, but there are some outrageous things that he cannot impose. For example, the founding military parade, in the view of Zhang Taiyan and others, this is actually a kind of military salute, a major event of the country, in the worship and Rong, the day of the founding of the country should be a ritual, not a military salute.

"Uncle Mei, aren't you sleepy?" Yang Rui asked with a smile, he knew that Zhang Taiyan hadn't slept at all all in order to worship the heavens, he was just a literati, he was over forty years old, and his energy was no longer as good as that of a young man.

"Don't be sleepy! Not sleepy! Zhang Taiyan's eyes were red, and he forcibly swallowed back the yawn he was about to make. He may be physically tired, but mentally excited, "Actually, let me ask you, when you return to the Forbidden City after the sacrifice, why are there still gunshots?" ”

"Gunshots?" Yang Rui thought of Bai Ru's blow and said bluntly: "Yes." Someone was going to assassinate him, but it's okay now. ”

As soon as Yang Rui said assassination, Zhang Taiyan's face was full of anger, and he said in a low voice: "Did Sun Wen send someone to do it?" ”

"It's someone from the former Alliance, but it's not from Sun Wen's faction, so I don't know for the time being." Yang Rui said.

"I don't know what it means for the time being, it's obviously something he did. He's going to be the enemy of the whole world! Zhang Taiyan said angrily. Is the assassin dead? ”

"Dead." Yang Rui said, "Uncle Mei, don't worry." Now that the ceremony has ended, Sun Wen just wants to make trouble, and he won't be able to make any trouble for a while. ”

"I'm going to write a rebuttal when I go back!" Yang Rui was not shocked, but Zhang Taiyan was resentful, "On the day of the founding of the country, he actually sent someone to assassinate the king of a country, which is simply unbearable!" ”

"Uncle Mei, you better save some pen and ink." Yang Rui said. "Do you know what Sun Wen said in Japan? He said, 'All the people in China are waste, and I am the only one.' I am the savior of China, and whoever obeys my commands will come. I think this man is already crazy, and the best way to deal with such a madman is to make the country more and more prosperous. The day of China's rejuvenation was the time of Sun Wen's demise. ”

"But you can't cheapen him!" The more Zhang Taiyan thought about it, the more he hated, today's sacrificial ceremony took him countless efforts, but he didn't want to almost become a comedy and a tragedy.

"He has destroyed again and again, and people have died one by one, and there is nothing more painful than slowly becoming a loner like this. The more we don't take him seriously, the more manic he becomes. I don't think it's better not to announce today's assassination. Yang Rui said. He really wanted to know how Sun Wen would react to China's victory and Japan's defeat in the Sino-Japanese War, Taiwan's liberation and Korea's independence, and then go back to the United States to wash dishes?

When Yang Rui thought of this, the music started again. The Ministry of Rites made it a great feast of the Ming Dynasty, making it impossible to tell whether this was a meal or a salute. During the ceremony, music is played every time a jue of wine is entered, not only music, but also singing and dancing several times later. Only after the ninth lord played the song of the six dragons and performed the dance of the Hundred Flowers team, did he start to withdraw the wine and eat. The etiquette of the Ming Dynasty was extremely cumbersome, and although Yang Rui asked it to be simple and simple, this meal was extremely uncomfortable. However, the banquet is troublesome, but the dishes are very delicate and mellow, and they can't be compared to the food in the past. At this point, Yang Rui couldn't help but think that if the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a global Chinese food chain, then the business would ......

Yang Rui went to the banquet in the Imperial Palace, Liu Boyuan, who was in a hurry, trotted all the way into the imperial city with a token, he didn't care about any etiquette at this time, he came to Yang Rui in the clothes of a eunuch, and said in a heavy voice in Yang Rui's difference: "Sir, Yuan Shikai was stabbed!" ”

"What!" Yang Rui was shocked when he heard this. He has been guarding against Song Jiaoren, but he doesn't want it to be Yuan Shikai.

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The end of the volume. (To be continued......)