Chapter 68: The Enthronement Ceremony
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On the eighth day of June in the first year of China, it is a sunny day, although it has reached the end of summer, the hot weather with a hint of breeze, blowing on the face can feel its soft caressing. The sky is cloudless, and the sky is clear, with the occasional few beautiful birds passing by.
Changshan City is like a festival, the people are dressed in festive costumes, holding small dragon flags in their hands and waving constantly. The small vendors on the street closed their stalls early and went home, and the shops along the street were like a market, and the customers crowded up to the second floor, lying on the window, waiting for the big event to come.
At noon, nine cannons rang out. A large group of cavalrymen wearing golden armor and riding pure white war horses walked slowly along the street in the direction of the imperial city at a uniform pace. The drums were loud and the high-pitched music raised the cheers of the people again. Behind the horse team, all kinds of colorful flags are waving in the wind, dazzling people's eyes.
Li Hui did not sit in the car, but rode the wind and followed behind the flag bearer with a brisk pace. Today's Li Hui is completely different from the raunchy man of the past. Dressed in a golden battle armor, covered with a purple 'colored' stop sign, a sword hanging from his waist, and a foot-long red tassel on a handsome helmet swayed up and down with the movement of the war horse.
"Hooray......! Banzai......! Banzai......! "The people made a loud noise from their chests, and it shook the whole sky. Fresh 'flowers' and ribbons flew down from the upper floors on both sides, flying in the air one by one, and the sunlight against the background kept flickering, like a flash of stars, jumping happily on Li Hui's golden armor. From the Imperial Palace to the Fengzen Tower, you need to pass through the entire Changshan Castle, and the streets are all occupied by the people. They are all testimonies to this special day.
The Fengzen platform is nine zhang high, with a total of eighty-one steps. Li Hui dismounted, step by step on the high platform, first to worship heaven and earth, Jiang Wan read the sacrifice aloud, Li Hui knelt three times and bowed nine times to heaven and earth, and completed the worship.
The drums stopped, and Jiang Wan picked up a piece of bamboo slip from scratch. Read aloud: "Heavenly Father and Earth Mother, today there is a son Li Hui kowtowed, the Han family nudged, the heroes rose together, thousands of people were displaced, fortunately the heavens were compassionate, the son Li Hui turned the tide, saved the people and water and fire, won the love of the people, obeyed the will of heaven and the people, succeeded to the emperor's throne on the same day, and ordered the world to promote the prestige of our country!" ”
"Hooray......! Banzai......! Banzai......! "The whole rally is at its best. All the civil and military officials present knelt down and kowtowed upwards to thank Heaven for giving them Li Hui.
Jiang Wan put several pieces of sacrificial texts into the brazier and incinerated them. walked up to Li Hui, took off Li Hui's handsome helmet, and gently put a Nine Dragon Crown on Li Hui's head. There is Zhao Yun holding a tray covered with yellow cloth, which contains the long-lost 'jade' seal of the Han Dynasty. Youwen Chou untied Li Hui's sword, and handed over the sword inlaid with various gems and engraved with nine golden dragons to Li Hui.
The whole ceremony went very smoothly, and the people were a little crazy by the 'agitation' again and again. Some elderly people even wept and couldn't cry anymore. For three whole days, Changshan City was silent in great joy, people sang and danced, drank all night, and Changshan became the first city in the world that never sleeps.
Back at the palace, Li Hui sat on the dragon chair. Jiang Wan held out the first holy decree, this is an appointment even, everyone is quiet, waiting for their reward.
"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said! Cai's Wenji is virtuous and virtuous, her godson is well-giving, the queen of Fengzheng Palace, Mrs. Fengying of Yuan's family, Mrs. Fengxin of Mi's family, Qiao's family, Murong family, Zhen's family, Tao's family, Lu's family, Sun's family, Zhu's family, and she is named a beauty! Set up the eldest son Li Jing as the crown prince and assist in the government! ”
As for the appointment of the minister, it was the result of careful discussion between Li Hui and Jia Xu. Jia Xu served as the left prime minister and supervised the military department, Liu Ba served as the right prime minister to supervise the Ministry of Government, and Lu Su served as the imperial historian and supervised the Ministry of Supervision. Xu Shu is the head of the Ministry of Human Resources, Guo Jia, Pang Tong, and Zhuge Liang are the deputy ministers, and Zhao Yun is the Great Sima to cooperate with Xu Shu to deal with the affairs of the Ministry of War.
In addition, Zhao Yun concurrently served as the governor of the cavalry, Xu Rong concurrently served as the governor of the infantry army, Tai Shici served as the governor of the archers, and Gan Ning served as the governor of the navy. All of them have the rank of general and are responsible for the training of the army in peacetime. Zhou Cang served as the head of logistics, handling all logistics matters and ensuring the supply of the army.
Feng Zhang He was the general of the expedition to the north, Zhang Liao was the general of the expedition to the west, Xu Huang was the general of the expedition to the south, and Yan Liang was the general of the expedition to the east. Because Xu Rong was old, he was transferred to Changshan and served as the general of the expedition.
At the same time, there are six major military regions in the world, the first military region is Gyeonggi Changsan, the general Wei Yan is the chief general, and the jurisdiction includes Youzhou, Jizhou, Bingzhou, and Qingzhou, and Guan Hai, Pang De, and Sun Kang are the deputy generals. The Second Military Region was led by Zhang He as the main general to defend Saiwai, Sanhan and Wadao, with Mi Fang, Yan Rou, and Sun Guan as deputy generals. The Third Military Region has Yan Liang as the main general, and its jurisdiction includes Jingzhou, Yanzhou, Sizhou, Yuzhou, and Yongzhou, with Zhang Ren, Ma Dai, and Wu Dun as deputy generals. In the Fourth Military Region, Zhendong General Hua Xiong is the main general, with Yangzhou, Xuzhou, and Dongwu under its jurisdiction, with Ma Tan, Lu Xun, and Ling Tong as deputy generals. In the Fifth Military Region, General Zhennan brought the 'Dong' as the main general, and the jurisdiction included the three brothers of Yizhou, Hanzhong, and Nanban, with Jiang Wei, Wu Yan, and Lei Tong as deputy generals. In the Sixth Military Region, Zhang Liao was the main general, and the jurisdiction included the Western Regions, Liangzhou, and Qinchuan, and Deng Ai and Wu Yi were deputy generals. Gan Ning is the minister, and Jiang Qin and Pan Zhang are the auxiliaries, and they continue to open up overseas battlefields.
In addition to these large armies, a special subordinate 'gate' was set up under the command of the emperor, the Imperial Forest Army. Theoretically, there are 50,000 people in total, including Wen Chou, Xian Yufu, Chen Dao, Gao Shun, Zhang Xiu and Ma Zhong. These five men have no official position and are no longer in the army.
The Ministry of Agriculture is headed by Zhao Yan, the Ministry of Industry is the most special, the Ministry of Commerce is handled by Huang Shuo, and the Ministry of Commerce is naturally Mi Zhu, and Li Hui of the Ministry of Education has handed over the responsibility to Jiang Gan, Huang Quan and Zhuge Jin, and the Ministry of War is appointed by Xu Rong, and the Ministry of Medicine needs a cold-faced and ruthless person, Cai Yong and a group of old guys such as Cai Yong are reliable, so they gave them and used Ma Liang to run 'leg'.
Li Hui did not continue to assign the last 'door' supervision department, and the special 'nature' of this department's 'door' lies in not being acquaintances. Only fresh faces can be ruthless and investigate and deal with those black sheep. Lu Su and Zhuge Jin are all smart people, they know what Li Hui means, and at the beginning of the city, they found a group of "stunned young people" from schools around the world to help them, and the effect was surprisingly good.
For these people, Li Hui's conditions were very high, each of them was ten times higher than that of officials at all levels at the same level, and the conditions were also very harsh; as long as they were found to have done things in violation of the rules once, all their property would be confiscated, and they would not be allowed to be appointed by any ministry for the rest of their lives. This ensured the purity of the pair and became the first favorable barrier for the entire empire.
The excitement that had lasted for a whole month finally slowly subsided his temperature, and the last question was on the table, since the empire had been established, it must not allow the existence of a state within a state.
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