The time has entered July, and the weather has become slightly colder, but in Suiyang City, it is still a hot scene at this time.

All this is because today is the day of Song Junziyan's accession to the throne.

When Dai Yan recovered the Xiangyi Coal Mine, he had completed the unification of the entire Song Kingdom, and at this time he had an extremely powerful prestige in the entire Song Kingdom. From the noble officials of the Song State to the peddlers and pawns, they all know that in the absence of a monarch in the Song Kingdom, he is the best candidate for the monarch.

Even so, Dai Yan still did not rush to the throne, but gave priority to adding a procedure: let the members of the left and right houses of the Song State vote, and after obtaining more than two-thirds of the votes, he had to agree to accept the "people's choice" and agree to become the monarch of the Song State.

To tell the truth, in today's era, the succession to the throne of the monarch, if it is a legitimate monarch, does not need "the recognition of the people" at all; And if it is like Dai Yan, a person who seizes the throne of the monarch by force does not need such a step at all. So why did Dai Yan do so many things and have to let the members of the left and right houses vote for confirmation?

His actions, not to mention that the princes and nobles of foreign countries could not understand it, and even the parliamentarians who voted did not understand it. In today's Song Kingdom, it can be said that except for Taoqiu, which belongs to Dai Yan's official fiefdom, the other regions are basically fought by him! This kind of beaten down country should have belonged to him in the first place!

The cause and effect of this matter is only clear to Dai Yan himself: no matter how he covers it up, he belongs to the usurper who seized power. Now that such a voting procedure has been added for the parliamentarians, his seizure of power has a veil of legitimacy, which gives Song Guo a new Taoism: the will of the people!

In the past, the legitimacy of the entire world came from the Son of Heaven. Whether it is the three families divided into Jin, or the Tian family, they all need to be canonized by Zhou Tianzi. Now although he has seized the throne of the Song Kingdom from his elder brother, but with the addition of such a new procedure, his actions are completely legal! His approach is much more clever than the practice of several generations of Qi countries through the establishment and development of the Jixia School Palace, and the practice of spending decades to wash white!

Moreover, in the documents he sent to various countries, he also explained the reason why he ascended the throne and became the king of Song in a very legitimate tone: this is the will of the people and must be followed!

And the logic behind this approach is actually very clear: it represents the will of the group. A decision made by a real group, no matter how ridiculous it may be, is legitimate!

Originally, the enthronement ceremony of a small country like the Song State should not be of interest to too many countries, but this time Dai Yan's enthronement ceremony, in addition to the Chu State and the Wei State, Qi, Zhao, Qin, Han, Yan, Zhongshan and other countries all sent envoys to congratulate them.

All of this is naturally because the Song State performed too well in the war that just ended! A small country actually mobilized more than 200,000 troops to fight a decisive battle with the Chu State, and was able to gain the upper hand on the local battlefield and finally recover the country's territory. Although there is the diplomatic help of Qi State, this also really shows the strength of the Song State, such as today, all countries have regarded the Song State as a medium power equal to the strength of Han, Yan and other countries!

If it weren't for the fact that Chu had just had a war with Song, Wei was also an ally of Chu, and became an enemy of Song in disguise, and did not come to Song to congratulate him, and all the great powers in the world came. However, behind these congratulatory envoys, there was Dai Yan's slightly worried face.

Just before the meeting with the envoy of the Zhao State, the envoy had already mentioned that he knew that Dai Yan was going to marry the princess of the Qi State. Judging from the diplomatic rhetoric of the envoy of Zhao State, Zhao Houyong was quite dissatisfied with him, and he could no longer gain the same high trust as Zhao Guo before.

This is really helpless for him. Limited by the lack of strength, he had to accept Qi Guo's request, but Zhao Yong didn't care about these at all, he only knew that his sister had been wronged in Song State, and his anger was transmitted to Dai Yan through Zhao Envoy. Fortunately, Zhao Yong's anger turned to anger, but his reason was still there, and he also knew that the power of the game behind this was Qi State, and it was Zhao State's strength that was inferior to Qi State, so that a powerful country that was originally inclined to Zhao State was forcibly pulled to the side of Qi State!

The State of Qi would not allow a powerful ally of the Zhao State, the Song State, to remain in the upper reaches of the Jishui River wantonly, and the best way was to win over the powerful influence of the Zhao State through marriage. Although the means were brutal, their goal was achieved.

No matter how Dai Yan assured Zhao Envoy that he would lean towards Zhao as much as possible in the future situation in the world, he would not be able to gain the trust of Zhao Envoy and even the Zhao State behind him. And now during the critical period of his ascension to the throne, his wife Zhao Xue ignored him at all, and was not even willing to come to Suiyang from Taoqiu!

The loss of his wife, and even the absolute support of Zhao Guo behind him, also made Dai Yan really feel a trace of danger, and at the same time remained vigilant against the upcoming princess of Qi State!

In this kind of folk excitement, the world is looking sideways, and in his own deep worries, Dai Yan officially ascended the throne in Suiyang, and thus became the monarch of the Song Kingdom!

In this enthronement ceremony, Dai Yan deliberately distinguished from the previous enthronement method, completely abandoning the enthronement method of Zhou Li, and replacing it with the way of courtesy! In the past, when monarchs of various countries ascended the throne, especially such improper monarchs, most of them had to invite Zhou Tianzi, so that Zhou Tianzi could send envoys to observe the ceremony and preside over the enthronement ceremony, which was legal. And this time, Dai Yan didn't mean to invite Zhou Tianzi at all!

The one who presided over Dai Yan's enthronement was the great witch of the Song Kingdom, and the main god of the sacrifice also abandoned the shrine god and the Ji god, and only sacrificed to the god of Xuanniao! Behind this abnormality, what it actually represents is the consciousness of Dai Yan's intention to break off from Zhou culture and return to Yin Shang culture!

Dai Yan's approach naturally attracted the attention of the envoys of the countries, but only the two countries of Yan and Zhongshan had opinions on this matter, and the other powerful countries did not have much opinion!

After thinking about it for a while, Dai Yan was able to understand the psychology of Yan Guo and Zhongshan Kingdom.

Yan Guo is a descendant of Zhao Gong at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, the upper class of this country, with a noble bloodline, but the subjects all over the country are all Rong Di's subordinates. For Yan Guo, if there is no appeal of Zhou Tianzi and the existence of such a noble bloodline of the Zhou family, then Yan Guo may soon be reduced to the country of Rong Di!

However, the ideas of Zhongshan and Yan are just the opposite. They themselves are the countries established by Rong Di, and it is precisely because of Zhou Tianzi's recognition that they have allowed the whole country to find legitimacy. In order to maintain this legitimacy, Zhongshan even disregarded practices that would weaken the country's strength, and trumpeted Confucianism throughout Zhongshan Kingdom!

However, Dai Yan ignored the opinions of these two countries at all! No matter how much these two countries jump, they are deeply influenced by the Qi State and controlled by the Qi State. Now that the State of Qi has openly expressed its support for his ascension to the throne, and does not care at all about Dai Yan's practice of restoring Yin Li, why should Dai Yan care about these two countries?

Qi did not object to the Song State's practice of restoring Yin Li, which was actually expected by Dai Yan. Since Jiang Taigong was sealed in Qi, Qi had little interest in performing Zhou rites in order to be able to rule Dongyi. And this simple policy of Qi has always had the upper hand in the struggle with its strong neighbor Lu for hundreds of years to come!

And now the ruler of Qi is the Tian family, which is the descendant of the son of Chen Guo, and it can be traced back to Shun, which has nothing to do with Zhou Li. Even from Dai Yan's point of view, Qi Guo's practice of taking Huang Laoxue as an official school in the Jixia School Palace is to wish that someone could contradict Zhou Lilai!

As for Dai Yan's practice of reviving Yin Li, the most interested is the Qin State located in the west! Because the Qin State has always been located in the west, it has less contact with the Central Plains. It has really attracted the attention of the countries of the Central Plains since the Shang Dynasty reform, and so far, it has only been more than 20 years!

Therefore, the Qin State completely retained the nature of its original Dongyi tribe, and the nobles of the Qin State generally wore the jade ornaments of the Xuanniao, and the commoners of the priest Xuanniao were all over the Qin State! One can imagine how happy the envoys of the Qin State would be when they saw a state guest of the Zhou family, the Song State, who originally respected the Zhou rites and had a noble status, began to abandon the Zhou rites and replace them with the Yin rites!

Regarding the kindness of the Qin State, Dai Yan was moved in his heart. Today's Song State is a remnant of the Yin Shang Dynasty, and the ancestors of the Qin State and the Zhao State were also prominent nobles in the Shang Dynasty. It can be said that the Song Kingdom, the Qin State and the Zhao State all have the same cultural tradition! Perhaps, in the future, through this special connection, a cultural alliance of three merchants can be established?

However, such a thing still needs the Song State to have sufficient strength to do it! Now under the control of the Qi State, Dai Yan also put down such an idea for the time being, but he still expressed special concern to the envoy of the Qin State, and was extremely interested in the establishment of a special relationship between the two countries that the envoy of the Qin State had privately proposed!

After all, this time the Song State was able to defeat the Chu State, and the Qin State helped a lot behind it! Dai Yan, who knows the history of later generations, can certainly know how powerful the Qin State can burst out in the end!

If he hadn't traveled to this era, according to the direction of history, the Qin State would have unified the world. Now that he has become the king of a country, it seems that Qin State, a country of tigers and wolves, and a mad demon that destroys the country, is the most dangerous enemy?

Dai Yan doesn't see it that way at all! Who destroyed the Song Dynasty in history? It's not the Qin State, it's the Qi State! Moreover, the Wei and Chu states around the Song State are all accomplices of the Qi State! Especially the Wei State and the Chu State, after all, although the Song Dynasty was destroyed, these are the two countries that finally shared the most territory of the Song State!

It can be said that the Qin State does not have much interest in the Song State, but Qin Prime Minister Wei Ran snatched Taoqiu from the mouth of the later Five Nations Alliance Army for personal gain!

The two countries of Qin and Song did not share a border geographically, and before the Song State became strong, a country like Qin that was far away from the Song State was the best natural ally of the Song State! It is the most important guarantee for the Song State to get rid of the Qi State in the future and obtain true independence!