Chapter 459: Enthronement and Becoming Emperor
That's the end of the beauty pageant.
Liu Yu finally ruined the image of a good man by himself, and accepted two more beauties as concubines to enrich the harem.
Countless women in the world who have not come out of the cabinet are hysterical, why are these two people, not them.
At the same time, there are one or two stories about how Cai Yan and Zhen Mi met Liu Yu, and then went through various plots and coincidences to get married. The story is full of various moving plots, so that the girls in the boudoir are all looking forward to meeting Liu Yu.
Liu Yu's reputation has recovered, and Li Gui, who spread the matter, hid in the dark and stroked his beard and smiled, he couldn't watch his good image of his lord for so many years shattered.
After Cai Yan and Zhen Mi stayed in the palace for a while, they slowly became familiar with Liu Yu's personality and hobbies. Huang Die also intends to fulfill it, after all, Huang Die sometimes really can't meet Liu Yu's needs.
Cai Yan and Zhen Mi were also accepted by Liu Yu in the harem, and it became a good thing, as for the process, let's make up for it by ourselves.
Liu Yu has to solve a problem next, that is, how to get the jade seal of the country into his hands to be considered normal.
After a night of consulting with his advisors, Liu Yu decided to devise a mythological story.
It is said that on a sunny day, Liu Yu and his subordinates rarely went out to hunt in the suburbs of Luoyang, showing force and pastime, and finally hunted a lot.
When Liu Yu was about to go back, an old man stood in the middle of the road holding a brocade box and shouted, "I have something to give to the Son of Heaven personally." ”
The generals did not dare to disobey and hurriedly invited Liu Yu.
Liu Yu came to the old man in person and said softly: "What does the old man have to do? ”
The old man smiled slightly, held the brocade box with both hands, and said respectfully: "The true son of heaven will succeed to the throne, and the old man will give him something in his hand." ”
Liu Yu took the brocade box suspiciously, but the old man suddenly disappeared out of thin air.
Everyone was shocked and gathered around Liu Yu one after another to prevent accidents.
Liu Yu opened the brocade box, and it was radiant for a while, and it was actually a jade seal of the country!
Well, this is the mythical story of the immortal seal awarded by Liu Yu and others. In fact, this is a routine of plagiarizing the historical jade seal of Qin Shi Huang and recovering it.
It was such a story that spread in Liu Yu's territory through the propaganda of the "dark department", and soon spread all over the world. The immortal conferring the seal, isn't it more proof of Liu Yu's destiny. Adding a mysterious aperture to the fact that Liu Yu got the heirloom jade seal is not more convincing.
The people are convinced that the things of the gods are very important among the people today. And the prince is about to become the emperor, there is no need to deceive others. Whether people in other places believe it or not, the people under Liu Yu's rule believe it anyway.
The people in other parts of the Han Dynasty were also skeptical.
The end result was that the legitimacy of Liu Yu's claim to be emperor became justified.
The princes were much more sensible, and they finally knew that the jade seal of the country was obtained by Liu Yu. But they can't openly claim that it's false. Because now many princes are using similar means to appease the people. If they openly debunk Liu Yu, they are undoubtedly slapping themselves in the face.
Under the scrutiny of the princes, it was found that Liu Yu was always ahead of others, and the siege of Yuan Shu many years ago was planned by Liu Yu, and Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Ce and other princes worked for Liu Yu in vain.
Hearing the news that Liu Yu had obtained the jade seal of the country, Liu Bei was the most crazy and almost bulldozed the vegetable field he had carefully cooked. He really didn't expect that he would work hard to eliminate Yuan Shu, but he wouldn't get any benefits. In the end, there was nothing, and he was the worst among the princes who besieged Yuan Shu together. Liu Yu, who had never sent a single soldier, got huge benefits, and Liu Bei was a little unbalanced.
"Why is this happening?" Liu Bei kept sighing in his heart, he knelt down to God, hoping that God would give him a chance to turn over.
Sun Ce doesn't care, anyway, he is not interested in who is the emperor, he is now bent on reviving the Sun family's majesty, avenging his father, and working against Liu Biao. If Liu Yu's army is killed in the end, his little overlord Sun Ce doesn't mind a duel with Liu Yu.
The other princes were waiting and watching, and what they were most concerned about now was whether Cao Cao would react and whether he would send troops to intervene and force Liu Yu to give up his preparations to become emperor.
Cao Cao, the focus of everyone's attention, was the most calm one, and he had long known that Liu Yu had the heirloom jade seal in his hand. Although all signs indicated that Liu Yu was about to become emperor, Cao Cao did not make any moves, even if Dong Chengfu asked Cao Cao to send troops to intervene after speaking, Cao Cao also found several reasons to shirk.
If Cao Cao wants to send troops, there is absolutely no problem, but what can this change. Cao Cao was unable to break through the Tiger Prison Pass and enter Luoyang, Liu Yu had already deployed heavy troops in the Tiger Prison Pass, and Cao Cao couldn't stop Liu Yu from doing anything at all. In this case, Cao Cao might as well respond to all changes with the same and make all kinds of preparations first.
The princes of the world have done their own things, and Liu Yu is rarely pure and constantly preparing for the emperor.
In addition to the snake sword and the jade seal of the country, the emperor of the Han family also had two treasures that must be had, that is, Wang Mang's head and Confucius's clogs.
These two things were now placed in front of Liu Yu.
Confucius clogs are a rare treasure, the clogs worn by the sage Confucius since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "deposed a hundred schools of thought, respect Confucianism", it has become a holy object in the hearts of the people of the world.
The influence of Confucius has not stopped for thousands of years until later generations, and Liu Yu is very heavy on this thing, and he carefully packed it in a brocade box.
And Wang Mang's head is not treated so well.
When Liu Yu saw this dead man's head, he looked disgusted, he didn't know what the use of this dead man's head was, and all that was left was a skull.
Confucius was a sage, and his position in the hearts of scholars was supreme, and a sentence of teaching without class was enough to push Confucius to the highest position. The things used by Confucius are barely considered holy relics, and they are very collectible. But Wang Mang is a traitor to the Han Dynasty, and he is still the biggest traitor. What's the use of keeping his head?
"What are you doing with this Wang Mang's head! Take it out and burn it! "Liu Yu didn't want to stare at a skull, it felt weird.
"My lord, no. This Wang Mang's head has been an important item held by the Son of Heaven since the beginning of the Emperor, and it must not be destroyed. Chen Gong and the others hurriedly stopped Liu Yu.
When Liu Yu asked what was the use of this, Chen Gong and the others didn't know.
Liu Yu didn't think that this dead man's head was anything good-looking, since it was owned by the Son of Heaven, then stay eight. Fortunately, you don't have to hold this for a ceremony when you ascend the throne, otherwise Liu Yu will die of disgust.
In the end, Liu Yu left it, whether it was the emperor of the Han family in order to remember the lesson of Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han, or what other meaning, it was not much of a hindrance to keep it, Liu Yu put Wang Mang's head in the treasure house and put it in a random place.
There is still a period of time before Zhang Luxuan's auspicious day of the ninth month of September, and all preparations have come to an end.
The Luoyang Imperial Palace has been uninhabited since Liu Xie left. Liu Yu has his own palace, and he doesn't want to be caught by the princes, so there are only some cleaning personnel arranged by Liu Yu in the palace. Now that Liu Yu is about to ascend the throne, the palace will begin to be used. A large number of manpower and materials were put into it, preparing to create a grand ceremony for Liu Yu to become emperor.
Chen Gong, Fu Zhu and others also hope that Liu Yu will change his name, after all, the word "jade" will often be used in daily life, and the name of the emperor in ancient times should be avoided, if the name is not changed, the people's life will be very inconvenient. It is not impossible to be arrested and put in prison for calling the emperor by name.
Liu Yu broke this tradition, he was not ready to change his name, and the people could be exonerated by calling him by his name.
Chen Gong, Fu Zhu and others didn't agree so much.
"After this king became the emperor, the world is the biggest in this king. Change it to avoid trouble, so let's go about it as usual. And the people should not change their lives because of this word, just do business as usual! Liu Yu directly dropped this sentence.
Chen Gong, Fu Zhu and others had no choice but to admit this matter.
On the morning of the sixth day of the first month of September, Liu Yu was wearing an earthy yellow Son of Heaven costume, a snake-cutting sword hanging from his waist, and a Son of Heaven hat with twelve pearls on his head, and was sent to the palace of Luoyang City by Baiguan Gong in the palace of King Zhao.
The Han Dynasty advocated black, because Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was influenced by the idea of five virtues and luck in the early days of the founding of the country, and believed that the Han Dynasty got the world only by virtue of water, so the clothes of the Son of Heaven were mainly black.
Liu Yu felt that he was actually not a child of the Han family, and it was a bit inappropriate to continue to wear a black Tianzi suit, and Liu Yu also hated black. Therefore, Liu Yu instructed Zhang Lu to publicly propose the matter of the rotation of the five virtues, where did Zhang Lu dare not do it, in the routine morning meeting, he immediately followed Liu Yu's instructions, talking about the cycle of the five virtues, the water virtue is weak, and the soil virtue rises.
Zhang Lu's words, of course, set off a burst of crusades, and many old ministers looked at Zhang Lu with ill will. Zhang Lu's face was as usual, he did what Liu Yu ordered, what can these people do.
Most of the ministers advised Liu Yu not to listen to Zhang Lu's fallacies, and to immediately push Zhang Lu out and behead the public.
This matter was originally ordered by Liu Yu, how could he punish Zhang Lu.
"You are all the pillars of the Han Dynasty, and you always have the entire Han in your heart, and this king knows it very well in his heart. But what Zhang Xian said is very reasonable. Now four hundred years have passed, and water virtue has begun to weaken, so there are things such as the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Dong Zhuo's chaos. Now that the king is about to ascend the throne, it is time to take this opportunity to change the world. Liu Yu affirmed the loyalty of the ministers and agreed with Zhang Lu's statement.
The ministers are stupid, and this explanation! But they can't refute it, so many things have passed, and it would be bad if Liu Yu was worried about it because of this matter.
Of course, there are still some old stubborn conservatives, and these people were invited out for tea by Liu Yu's guards.
As a result, the ministers all acquiesced to Liu Yu's statement. And Liu Yu's loyal subordinates, such as military generals, are the only ones who look forward to Liu Yu. Although Chen Gong, Fu Zhu and other strategists felt that Liu Yu's sudden change of tradition was a bit inappropriate, it was an opportunity to form a strong contrast with Liu Xie in Xuchang, so they also agreed.
Tude advocates yellow, so the first thing Liu Yu changed was the clothing and supplies of the Son of Heaven, all of which were changed to yellow. Yellow became the exclusive color of the Son of Heaven and was not allowed to be used by others.
So now Liu Yu is dressed in a yellow Son of Heaven costume.
Liu Yu sat in the emperor's special car, and the war horses pulling the cart were all white horses without a trace of miscellaneous hair on their bodies, symbolizing the nobility of the Son of Heaven.
The people on both sides of the road knelt on their knees and worshiped their new Son of Heaven.
Liu Yu began to understand Liu Bang's emotion when he saw Qin Shi Huang's frame. That's how it should be for a husband.
Unknowingly, Liu Yu came to the palace.
The guards of the palace all bowed down and said, "Meet Your Majesty!" ”
As soon as they walked into the palace, both sides were already full of civil and military ministers who came from the territory, and they looked at Liu Yu's frame with solemn faces, and their eyes slowly moved with the movement of the frame.
Came to the end where the frame could walk, here were one hundred and eight steps, and above the steps was his throne, which was already full of people, all of whom were Liu Yu's henchmen and important ministers in the court.
Liu Yu took a step and stepped onto the steps.
Scenes of the past are all in my mind, from being just born to pretending to be dumb in the palace, to walking out of the palace and leaving Yanmen, and then the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and so on, until today. Although the world has not yet been unified, Liu Yu is still the emperor. He is not a descendant of the Liu family, and he is a sinister who doesn't know who his biological father is, but he is about to sit in the supreme position of this big man.
Halfway through, Liu Yu looked back at Wenwu, who was kneeling on the ground behind him, and smiled slightly.
Yes, he can only be Liu Yu in his life. He will keep this secret forever. And if Tian Feng and the others can guess this secret, then other resourceful people can definitely guess it. But these people don't have any evidence, and they can't do anything about him.
Liu Yu walked one hundred and eight steps, came to the throne and sat down.
As a representative of the important ministers of the court, Yang Biao took out a roll of yellow cloth and read aloud the words of Wen Crepe, which meant how benevolent and noble Liu Yu was, and was now elected as the son of heaven of the Han Dynasty by hundreds of officials and the people.
After reading it, Yang Biao took out the jade seal of the country, knelt in front of Liu Yu, and said respectfully: "Minister Yang Biao, I respectfully ask Your Majesty to take over the jade seal of the country!" Succeed to the throne of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty! ”
Liu Yu took the jade seal of the country, held up the jade seal of the country with both hands, and said with a holy face: "I Liu Yu and Liu Boxuan will be the son of heaven of the Han Dynasty from today on!" Heaven and earth learn from it! ”
"Your Majesty, St. Ann!" All of them knelt down and prostrate.
And Steward Li in the crowd was excited, he was able to live to see Liu Yu ascend the throne and become emperor. His life is worth it.
Huang Die led Liu Xuan, who was wearing a prince's suit, and Liu Hua, who was wearing a prince's suit, to Liu Yu's side, and accepted the bowing of all the ministers of civil and military affairs.
All the civil and military continued to bow their respects, singing the praises of their emperor.
Liu Yu looked into the distance, thinking that now was just another beginning.
On the sixth day of September in the eleventh year of Jian'an, Liu Yu, the eldest son of Emperor Xiaoling of the Han Dynasty, ascended the throne in the Luoyang Imperial Palace, called the emperor, set the capital Luoyang, changed the Yuan Shenwu, and next year was the first year of Shenwu. Canonized Huang Die as the queen, Cai Yan and Zhen Mi as concubines. The eldest son Liu Xuan is the crown prince, and the second son Liu Hua is the king of Zhao.
In later generations, Liu Yu was also known as Emperor Shenwu, one of the three holy lords of the Han Dynasty.