Chapter 341: Enthronement Ceremony
The undercurrents in the mainland are surging and the situation is unpredictable, while in South America, as the time for the enthronement ceremony is approaching day by day, various preparations are proceeding in an orderly manner.
The opera troupe and jugglers went to Beijing to perform to congratulate, and the various troops participating in the military parade ceremony have completed their rehearsals one after another, looking forward to the good performance at the enthronement ceremony............
Under the expectation of local officials and ordinary people, the time slowly set to December 26, 1879.
At 7:40 in the morning, on the outskirts of Chang'an (Córdoba), on the newly completed round mound platform, Li Mingyuan wore a bright yellow crown dress of 12 chapters, and walked up to the high platform step by step.
The flags on both sides of the high platform are swaggering in the wind, one side is the imperial flag with red as the background and the black retro Chinese character "漢" in the center, and on the other side is the red dragon military flag, surrounded by the seven divisions of the army and the eight-pole divisional flags of the Praetorian Guard Division.
Civilian officials, military generals, the phalanx of the troops under review, and the people watching the ceremony were distributed around the high platform of the sacrifice in turn, with a huge team of more than 40,000 people, standing in an orderly manner in the vast open space, waiting for the official opening of the enthronement ceremony.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the bronze bell rang three times, and Li Mingyuan stood in the center of the high platform of the round hill, took the bright yellow edict of enthronement in the hands of the guards, and solemnly recited it
"I am the king of China, since the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Jurchen Tatars have stolen the Central Plains, broken hair and easy to obey, and destroyed the 5,000-year-old civilization of the Han family.
Bloody everywhere, China is sinking, pity the people of my Han family, in the midst of fire and water, bad luck, the country is difficult, the kingdom of heaven is destroyed in an instant, loyal sons and daughters are overseas, fortunately the sky is endless, Haotian God trusts dreams in me, preaches the law of governing the country and rejuvenating the country, chooses the hometown of the Yin people in South America as the foundation, and lives to recreate the Yanhuang civilization in a foreign land!
In the world of great contention, the great powers competed for power, after the king came out, the son of the Chinese heroic spirit, blessed by Haotian God, the spirit of the ancestors, then raised a three-foot spear, led the Han family in a dangerous place, gathered the heroes and sages in the left and right, overcame thorns and thorns, overcame the barbarian Bai Di, restored the majesty of China outside the territory, and collected 20,000 miles of splendid rivers and mountains as the foundation, where Chang'an (Córdoba City), Songjiang Mansion (Buenos Aires City), Huaiyang Mansion (Rosario), Xinjing Mansion (Porto Alegre), Songzhou (Buenos Aires Province), Jinju (Katamarca and Tucumán provinces), Linju (Chaco and Formosa provinces), Kim State (Chubut province), Unju (Corrientes province) ............
The land of one capital, one city, three prefectures, and twenty-three states is the newly established empire.
Raising the great cause in South America, the soldiers used their lives, the people supported them, and repeatedly ordered the generals and sons to conquer foreign enemies, raise their might, and the Quartet was stable, and the people were stable and the country was stable.
In order not to lose the expectations of the people, he urged the people to follow the invitation of the people, and on December 26 of the year of his own year, he offered sacrifices to heaven and earth in the sun of Taihua Mountain (Andes), that is, the emperor is located on a high platform. There must be the name of the world called Han, Jianyuan Jianye. Gong Yi Taimiao, posthumously respect his father as Emperor Gaozu Cheng, and his mother as the queen,............ (Posthumously crowned four generations of emperors and empresses.) )
The Great Shrine was established in Chang'an (Córdoba), and the Wu family was canonized as the empress and the Zhang family as the concubine. Announce to the world, and make the salty envoy known. ”
"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!"
The enthronement edict was announced, and deafening cheers suddenly rang out around the high platform.
The Han State has long abolished the kneeling ceremony, but in the arrangement of the enthronement ceremony, whether it is the civil ministers, military generals, soldiers, or ordinary people, they all insist on performing three kneels and nine bows to congratulate Li Mingyuan on his ascension to the throne and proclamation as emperor.
After everyone finished saluting, Li Mingyuan continued to read
"Since I have been doing things for eleven years, loyal ministers and generals have followed the left and right, loyal to the king, and abide by the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, his heart can be clear, and his merits can be seen.
Liu Pu, Luo Linshan, Zhao Yongzeng, Wang Dashan, Wang Xiaoshan, Li Dawei, Liu Yongfu, Ye Chenglin, Chen Zongbai, Wu Fengdian, Chen Sen, Li Han are hereditary earls;
Chen Shangfa, Luo Zhongguo, Feng Guoan, Qiu Mingzhang, Sun Bin, Zhao Yan, Feng Changqing, He Yanliang, Mei Dongxing, Chen Jinzhong............ Sixteen of Huyaki were hereditary viscounts;
Shen Fushan, Liang Xing, Huang Naishang, Huang Shengui, Chen Xingui............ Xi Zhengpu is a hereditary baron.
The duke is the head of the fifth-class aristocratic title, and he cannot be lightly awarded unless he has the merit of saving the country and rejuvenating the country. ”
Gifting nobles and rewarding meritorious heroes is an indispensable environment at the enthronement ceremony, headed by three retired veterans Li Sandou, Chen Guozhu, and Zhang Ansong, a total of 51 newly sealed hereditary nobles, stepped forward to the secondary steps of the high platform of the sacrifice to the sky, lined up in two columns, and received the canonization edict, gold coupon book and other tokens from Li Mingyuan's hands as hereditary noble title certificates.
After completing the ceremony of conferring the title of nobility, Li Mingyuan then made rank adjustments to the central government officials and army generals.
Appoint the chief official of each station in the mainland as the governor of the central bank, and control the power to issue the national currency.
Wang Youtian, the head of Chinese engineering affairs in the United States, was transferred to the Imperial History of the Inspectorate and concurrently served as the president of the Royal Bank!
Zheng Huaide, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Households, was transferred to the President of the Legislative Yuan!
The position of prime minister is to be vacant, with reference to the five halls and two pavilions under construction in the palace of Chang'an City, seven cabinet scholar positions are established, namely Zhongji Hall Scholar, Jianji Hall Scholar, Daming Hall Scholar, Tai'an Hall Scholar, Wu Yingdian University, Wenyuan Pavilion Scholar, Dongping Pavilion Scholar, and the rank of deputy cabinet level, in the absence of the prime minister, and the ministers jointly assist the emperor in handling state affairs. Among the seven scholarly positions, only Liu Pu was temporarily appointed as a scholar of the Middle Pole Temple and the minister of commerce, and the other six positions were vacant.
After the adjustment of official positions, the positions of the principal officials of the agencies directly under the central government are as follows:
1 Zhang Guanghai, Minister of the Household Department (Born as an official of the Annan Imperial Examination, he was the former additional secretary of Guanglu Temple in Annan, and was promoted from the deputy minister of the household to the full minister)
2.- Ministry of Finance: Zhao Yan
3-Ministry of Officials: Zheng Qiru (a native of Mingxiang, Annan, born in Jinshi, and served as the prefect of Fulong in Annan)
4-Ministry of Rites: Zhang Fanglin (Nanyang Chinese businessman)
5- Ministry of Education: Sun Bin
6- General Staff: The protagonist is concurrent
7-Criminal Department: Zhang Huaijin (Annan Guo's second-class jinshi, former Guangtian Zhixian)
8: Ministry of Industry: Chen Shen (Langzhong, former Ministry of Industry of Annanguo)
9- Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Hu Yaji, Director of the Department of African Colonization of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Huang Naishang
10-Ministry of Commerce: Liu Pu, Vice Minister Chen Jinzhong (Nanyang Chinese businessman)
11- Inspectorate: Wang Youtian
12-Legislative Yuan: Zheng Huaide (born in Annan Jinshi, former left deputy capital imperial history)
Mei Dongxing, Governor of Nanyang
The list of the main generals of the army is as follows:
The First Division of the Han Imperial Army, Division Commander Luo Linshan, with the rank of lieutenant general,
The commander of the second division, Zhao Yongzeng. Rank of Lieutenant General,
Wang Dashan, commander of the 3rd Division, with the rank of lieutenant general,
Fourth Division Commander Wang Xiaoshan, with the rank of Major General,
Liu Yongfu, commander of the Fifth Division, with the rank of major general,
Ye Chenglin, commander of the Sixth Division, with the rank of major general,
Commander of the 7th Division, Wu Fengdian, with the rank of major general,
Commander of the Praetorian Guard Division, Chen Zongbai, with the rank of Major General.
Commander of the Nanyang Corps, Li Wencai, with the rank of major general, Chen Shangfa, deputy commander on the left, with the rank of colonel, and Chen Xingui, deputy on the right, with the rank of colonel.
Commander of Special Forces: Sun Qisheng, with the rank of Major General.
Artillery division commander Luo Zhongguo, with the rank of major general.
Commander of the First Fleet of the Navy Chen Sen, with the rank of Rear Admiral, Commander of the Second Fleet of the Navy Li Han, with the rank of Rear Admiral, and Commander of the Marine Corps Feng Guoan, with the rank of Colonel.
Liang Xing, Minister of Military Intelligence, with the rank of Major General
Minister of State Security Shen Fushan, with the rank of Major General.
Wu Tiaoqing, the head of intelligence in the mainland region, has the rank of colonel.
The officials and generals who started with Li Mingyuan have different titles and positions according to the size of their merits.
Worship Haotian God, posthumously crown the fourth generation of grandfather as the emperor, posthumously crown his uncle Li Xiu, who was killed by shaving his head, as the king of Wu, loyal to King Wu Lie, and ordered the intelligence agencies in the mainland to find the descendants of Li Xiucheng who may survive among the people, and demote him to inherit his father's title.
Due to the breakdown of the four-nation alliance, no foreign heads of state attended the enthronement ceremony for Li Mingyuan, and only Germany and Austria-Hungary were invited to send diplomats in South America to attend and congratulate Li Mingyuan on behalf of the emperors of the two countries.