4. Baqiao incinerating car
On both sides of the long Baqiao, the people who came to watch the ceremony of cheering and sealing the Zen were like clouds, and in a short rest, the emperor got off the chariot, but saw the chariot next to him.
What was on the cart was an inner coffin.
The inner coffin and the outer coffin are opposite, so the shape looks smaller, more suitable for the emperor's body, and the paint on it is still very bright, so the emperor saw this inner coffin alive, and it appeared in his eyes, and then thought of himself at the gate of the country, and saw the prince who knelt down to supervise the country, and boundless fear and panic suddenly came to his heart.
He asked the officials of the Ministry of Rites around him with some excitement, what is this inner coffin!
"Etiquette, when the Son of Heaven ascended the throne, there was a chariot, painted once a year, if the Son of Heaven had something to do with the territory, he would follow with the chariot."
The Emperor only felt dizzy.
When he first ascended the throne, all he thought about was controlling the world, and all he thought about was civil and martial arts, where would he have thought that in a certain corner, while he was at the peak of the country's power, there was a coffin carrying a coffin, always there, silently waiting for him?
What I am afraid of is that when the Son of Heaven patrols and hunts, the mountain collapses in the middle of the way, so I prepare this thing.
So when Qin Shi Huang died, the corpse stinked, Li Si and Zhao Gao stuffed abalone into the "car" to cover up the smell, this car is likely to be a chariot, that is, the body of the first emperor at that time may have been collected in the chariot, and Li Si and Zhao Gao lied to the outside world that the first emperor was still alive and still sitting in his car. Otherwise, if they always stuffed abalone in the emperor's imperial car, wouldn't there be no three hundred taels of silver here, and in vain they would arouse suspicion? Therefore, Li He's poem "Ying Zhengzi coffin fee abalone" should be in line with the facts.
On the side of the bridge, the emperor suddenly lost his temper and said not to take the chariot on the road, never.
However, both left and right said that this move was in line with the previously revised Zen Sealing Ritual Note, and His Majesty had to abide by it.
The emperor began to rise up hysterical.
"In the past, when Emperor Xuanzong visited Taiyuan, when he passed the Taihang Mountain, the chariot was blocked by the pass, and Emperor Xuanzong ordered the chariot to be burned for convenience. His Majesty is only sealing Zen Huayue, no more than 300 miles away from Beijing, and has not yet left Xinjiang, what is the use of this chariot? This was really a mistake on the part of the officials who wrote the notes. At the critical moment, Gao Yue came and made the final decision.
Liu Zongyuan and others hurriedly apologized to the emperor and Gao Yue.
Gao Yue asked the emperor to officially burn the chariot.
After losing his temper, the emperor looked at Gao Yue with complicated eyes, and suddenly became dependent on Gao Yue again.
Eventually, a group of Shenwei soldiers raised torches, bowed to the chariot a few times, and then piled up flames and burned the chariot.
Soon, the Feng Chan team entered Weinan County, the county order came to welcome, the emperor and the people under the guidance of the county order, worshiped the local land and the sages and martyrs of Weinan, and then on the grounds of not disturbing the people, the car stayed between the tomb and the Buddhist temple, and the next day set off from the Weinan Stone Bridge, entered the first state of Jingdong, the boundary of Huazhou.
Huazhou is in the south of Weishui, and there is Huayin County.
And Taihua Mountain and Shaohua Mountain are located in the south of Huayin County.
The Yellow River is at Huayue, from the north to the south, and suddenly turns to the east, the river flows through Huayue, so Huayue has a legend since ancient times, it was split by the giant spirit god, of course, it later evolved into the story of agarwood splitting the mountain to save the mother.
In advance, the imperial court had ordered the local officials in Huazhou, and requisitioned the Shence soldiers from Shaanxi, Jinshang, Chen Xu and other places to build a huge "Xianlin Pavilion" next to the temple of King Jin for the needs of the Fengzen team.
When the emperor's team entered the Xianlin Pavilion, tens of thousands of fathers and elders in Huazhou all bowed down on both sides of the road, and the mountains shouted long live.
It is said that before the emperor was lucky, the wheat fields, mulberry fields and even forest land here were sold for three to five times the price of the past, and the merchants and the big clans flocked to it, and the peasants who originally owned this batch of land made a windfall.
Then, in the Xianlin Pavilion, the emperor summoned the officials who accompanied him above the fifth rank and began to approve the route of the Zen seal.
The ceremonial envoy Lu Zhen was in charge of all this, and he immediately told the emperor:
There is a difference between the monarch and the minister, Huayue is in the valley seven miles, there is a stone adoptive parent temple, there is no steep high flat land, the circle platform and the altar are set up in the other place, by His Majesty and one or two close ministers to bring the book of heaven to this sacrifice, the first offering; At the bottom of the wide valley under the temple of the stone adoptive parents, there is a sealing altar, and the king of Pu and the king of Tong lead all the ministers and ministers, and at the same time perform the sub-sacrifice and the final sacrifice to the heavens;
Then His Majesty went to the Golden Heavenly King Temple, performed the ritual of sacrificing to the earth, and canonized the Golden Heavenly King;
His Majesty stayed in the Golden Tianwang Temple for one day, and the next day ascended to the "Upper Palace" at the highest place of the West Peak of Huayue, where the two apprentices of Sima Zunshi and Princess Lingxu assisted to set up a Jiao to worship the gods of the Nine Palaces, and returned the Yellow Silk Book of Heaven;
Then His Majesty can go down the mountain, return to the Xianlin Pavilion, accept the worship of the ministers, promote the meritorious people, and the Zen can be completed.
What the emperor is most concerned about is actually the candidate who "has one or two ministers to accompany him" when he ascended the throne.
The emperor wanted Hun Ying to accompany him.
However, most of the ministers disagreed, on the grounds that although Hun Yang was a high Wu Long, the so-called close ministers must have served as the ruler of the Pivotal Balance, and Hun Yang had always handled military affairs in various local towns, which did not conform to this.
Hun Xuan was very regretful, saying that he was a martial artist after all, where did he know what etiquette, so this time he accompanied His Majesty to the throne, and he could only thank Bumin.
And Wei Gao also modestly set the tone, saying that although I am a Zhongshu order, I am a school inspector to show the favor of the imperial court, and I have not been in power in the center, so I can only retreat.
Du You was also silent.
The emperor trembled, and the final candidates were Du Huangsheng, Lu Zhen and Gao Yue.
His fingers slowly raised, and finally moved to Gao Yue.
Then it moved to Zheng Qi.
"Then let Gao Lang and civilization accompany me, and make the first dedication to Dengfeng."
Because the emperor had an idea in his heart, he hoped that Gao Yue would answer him well.
But what the emperor is most afraid of is still Gao Yue, he is looking forward to it, but he is even more afraid of the answer in Gao Yue's mouth.
As for Zheng Qi, the emperor knew that there would always be a rift between himself and Lu Zhen, and Zheng Qi's character was still pure.
On the ninth day of the seventh month, in the Xianlin Pavilion at the foot of Huayue Mountain, the emperor and his ministers all bathed and fasted in order to prepare for the Dengfeng gift in the coming day.
In the middle hall where the emperor is located, Du Huangshang, Lu Zhen, Du You, Gao Yue, Zheng Qi, Wei Gao, etc., first presented to the emperor more than 10,000 pieces of Ganoderma lucidum comfrey handed over from all over the country, which can be said to fill the entire hall.
And the emperor also gave you the ceremonial clothes of the Zen seal, and the chapter clothes that Gao Yue accepted were crowns, seven chapters, and five chapters, and took the sword from His Majesty to the seal.
The next day, the sun is not clear, the dew is dyed with frost, the whole Xianlin Pavilion, the bells and drums are solemnly ringing, the emperor wears a crown of heaven, wears a silk robe, sits on the golden chariot, and he gives the first order: let Zheng Qi serve the jade book and jade, and take the first step to climb the Huayue Circle Platform and make preparations.
Zheng Qi received the order, and after half an hour, the chariot and driving procession of the emperor and his ministers set off from the Xianlin Pavilion and began to move in the direction of the stone adoptive parents' ancestral hall.