Chapter 015: That is, the throne of the monarch, and the government of the dynasty
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Outside the city of Diqiu, where Wei Zheng passed all the way, people on both sides knelt on the ground and shouted, and the sentence "Meet the prince" indicates that Wei Guo has ushered in a new era. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ ο½ο½fo
It wasn't until Wei Zheng entered the capital that Sun Gu, Ning Yuan and others got up one after another, Shi Hao followed, and the three of them all looked at the figure in front of them who were already riding their horses and were silent for a long time.
There is really no vanity under the fame, at least this is not, this young new monarch seems to have some skills, and he can be praised by King Qin, and it is really not comparable to the male strength of mediocre gentlemen.
Where will this patriotic country go in the future?
The answer to this question is what countless defenders want to seek.
The ancient city of Diqiu, the address of the current capital of Weiguo, was the ancient capital of the Xia Dynasty in ancient times. However, compared with the capitals of Xianyang of Qin and Daliang of Wei, Diqiu is too backward.
In the city, Wei Zheng rode his horse, Bai Qi always followed behind, and a group of patriotic courtiers followed in small steps, and the people in Diqiu City stood on both sides to watch.
Wei Zheng looked around at the various landscapes in front of him, Diqiu City is indeed dilapidated, even Qinyi County has more, there are more than 7,000 households, and the people are only 40,000, and the people's houses are covered with weeds, and the rubble roofs are basically owned by the nobles of the world, which is far less prosperous than the ancient city of Chaoge.
Compared with the population of nearly 400,000 in Daliang City, the largest city today, Diqiu City is even more lonely.
Approaching the city, a group of houses made of rubble stands out in the city of Diqiu, and it has its own majesty in the city.
That's the Patriotic Courtββ!
Wei Zheng dismounted, entered the palace with a group of ministers who were following behind, glanced at the entrance of the palace gate and continued to move silently.
This is the place to stay for a period of time in the future, Diqiu City is not the capital that Wei Zheng wants, Chaoge Ancient City is his ideal place, but now he can only live in this corner temporarily.
"The prince and the marquis, the country cannot be left without an owner for a day, and the minister implores the prince to hurry up the succession ceremony and announce the ββ! of the country."
"The ministers implore the king to hold a ceremony of succession and announce the ββ! of the country"
Behind him, a group of patriotic courtiers prostrated on the ground, such words were very earnest, obviously, this is the monarch's favorite words. And only after the enthronement ceremony is held, the monarch who defends the country in the name of righteousness, Wei Zheng has no objection to this, and said: "Where is the son of the clan?" β
Although the country is small, as the saying goes, even if the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of organs, let alone a country.
"The old minister is ββ!"
Wei Zheng saw an elderly sixty-year-old man come to respond, the Zhou Dynasty was a family-state isomorphic society with a close combination of patriarchal system and feudal system, that is, a feudal society with a family and a country. The clan is the core of maintaining the family world, and the chief priest of the clan is in the era of the patriarchal society that respects the Zhou rites, and the status is transcendent, although there is no real power, but even the king of a country must be treated with courtesy.
The old decay that Wei Zheng looked at was the clan leader who was in charge of the Weiguo clan.
"Many cumbersome matters such as sacrifices and enthronement ceremonies, Ji Chuan will hand over to the clan chief to work hard." Wei Zheng said with a smile, there is not much hostility towards this old decay, in other words, the representative of the clan is the ancestor lineage, and he must be on his side without any suspense, although he has prestige, he does not have much real power, so he is naturally not hostile.
Wei Zheng looked at the courtiers who were in the same position again, and said: "The country cannot be left without an owner for a day, and now I will be the king of the country, and the enthronement ceremony will be held on the next day, so as to take charge of the defense of the country and listen to the government of the courtββ! β
"The ββ! of the Marquis of Ten Thousand Years" A group of courtiers prostrated on the ground, stood up and shouted.
Identity is too important in this era, Wei Zheng can ascend to the throne of the country, identity is on the one hand, on the other hand, it is to take advantage of the situation, in a sense, this is the Qin State interfering in the internal affairs of the country, but for Wei Zheng, as long as the goal can be achieved, the way is not important.
With the spread of the news, the people of Diqiu City, from the hundreds of officials and courtiers, to the dawn, all knew that the new monarch of the country would ascend to the pole and listen to the government in the future.
The enthronement ceremony is imminent, and in the newly renovated palace, several court maids surround Wei Zheng and wear crowns.
The Son of Heaven is called the king, the heirs of the Zhou family are called princes, and the Wei Guo is the chief of a large prince, the title is to the duke, and the heirs of the princes are called the princes, regardless of the geometry of the title.
But Wei Zheng's cheap grandfather, Wei Chenghou, saw that Wei Guoguo was small and weak, so he degraded himself to Hou, which is equivalent to nominally being a lot shorter than all the countries in the world, and he can't sit on an equal footing.
According to the weekly rite "The princes of the world, the princes of the world wear nine chapters, the princes wear seven chapters, and the princes wear five chapters", and now Wei Zheng's crown clothes can only follow the "seven chapters of the princes' crown clothes".
"Prince, the auspicious time has come!" Soon after the crown, an attendant came in to make an announcement.
At that time, Wei Zheng accompanied the inseparable Bai Qi and a group of attendants to the place of sacrifice outside the hall, where the courtiers of the country and the nobles of the clan all gathered.
The new monarch's enthronement ceremony, there is a rare festive atmosphere in Diqiu City, in ancient times, especially in the era of respecting Zhou Li (etiquette system), Wei Zheng was helpless, these extremely cumbersome processes had to go through a strict procedure, and after the ceremony, he was the only legitimate monarch who was justifiable, and he had to endure it for this.
After all the cumbersome etiquette passed, Wei Zheng realized that the Zhou Dynasty had died, the Qin State had swept away the eight wildernesses and destroyed Liuhe, and after the unification of the four seas, he abolished the crown rites of Zhou Li's lush humanities, Zhongzheng and peaceful, subtle and deep, dignified and elegant one by one, and cut off five of the six kinds of rituals in the Zhou rites and used the crown dress system for thousands of years, leaving only the smallest ritual scale and the lightest ritual in the ceremony.
These rituals are so cumbersome that they can be a headache.
Although the country is small, it also respects the Zhou rites, and the country is becoming more and more degraded, but these mundane etiquette and trivial matters are one of the things that have not been left behind, it can be seen that the country is already very sick, Wei Zheng can't wait to abolish these systems immediately, but he also knows that now is not the time.
The enthronement ceremony, the end of the sacrifice, and finally the last process, the issuance of the new monarch's succession to the throne to the heavens.
"Xuan!" Wei Zheng stood at the top of everyone, and said plainly, young but free and majestic.
I saw a palace attendant bowing his head and holding a brocade silk in both hands to send it, this is the edict written by Wei Zheng himself, so he took it and opened the brocade silk, only to hear its voice:
"Emperor God, Houtu Zaide, favor and surrender, Chuan dare not be. Ji Jin usurped the throne and brought disaster to the country. With the help of God, the ministers supplemented him, Ji Jin's blood, the society was restored, the whole country was favored, and the country was fortunate. Now that the chaos can be set right, Chuan must rise up and strive to be strong. Martial arts, strong country and people, Zhongxing Sheji, Qin this"
At the end of the speech, there was an uproar, and the nobles and common people of the patriotic families all knelt on their knees.
"The ββ! of the Marquis of Ten Thousand Years" "Defending the country for thousands of yearsββ!"
"The ββ! of the Marquis of Ten Thousand Years" "Defending the country for thousands of yearsββ!"
From today on, Wei Zheng will be the new monarch of the country.
The eighth male lord of the Warring States officially started the road to rise from today, and a new era officially began.
Wei Zheng looked down at the subjects at his prostrate feet, stretched out his arms high, and the light flashed between his eyes and gave rise to a world-shattering heroic spirit.
The stars arch over the moon, the stars shine brightly, and they are gone, and they are one of the nine.
Zhen Chang strategy and control the universe, unify the four seas and control the eight wildernesses, combine the princes of the nine roads, and dominate the world in the Warring States.
In the world of great contention, where there is flesh, there must be contention, and the king wants to dominate the industry, which begins.
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In the Weiguo court, Wei Zheng listened to politics for the first time.
"Qin envoy to ββ!"
"Xuan!"
"Xuanqin envoy to meet ββ!"
Wei Zheng, who has become the monarch of the country, sat on the top of the main hall of the court and looked at the front of the main hall, and looked around at a group of courtiers and dignitaries.
Qin Guo came to give himself courage, Wei Zheng couldn't help but be happy in his heart, he really wanted to thank King Qin, but I don't know what kind of feelings King Qin would have after learning that he had cultivated a huge tiger plague with his own hands and could no longer be checked and balanced, Wei Zheng had a somewhat playful expression in his heart.
After a while, the envoys of the Qin State arrived, stood on top of the main hall and bowed, and said, "The contemptuous ministers have seen the Marquis of Weiββ! β
"Qin envoys don't have to be polite." Wei Zheng on the seat stopped and smiled.
The envoy of the Qin State responded with a bow, and then continued: "My king specially sent his ministers to congratulate the Marquis of Wei on his restoration of the country, and he gave a small congratulatory gift. My king sent his contemptuous ministers to tell the Marquis of Wei that the Qin State is willing to marry the Qin and Jin dynasties with the Wei State forever, and then continue the beautiful talks! β
At the end, I saw a team of people carrying a basket of heavy heavy boxes into the main hall, and the Qin envoy waved his hand, and the boxes were opened one by one.
It is full of heavy gifts such as strange pearl treasures, at least worth more than 100,000 gold, King Qin is really generous, Wei Zheng is happy when he sees this batch of congratulatory gifts, the first task at the moment is to train a new soldier, the military consumption is a huge gold-swallowing beast, the more money the better, now the most lacking is money, King Qin is really heartwarming.
The courtiers looked at each other and talked in low voices. Many people were surprised that the new monarch of the country and the king of Qin had such a close relationship, and they actually gave such generous gifts, and there were also some people among them, who could see that this was the king of Qin giving the new monarch courage and deterring some unscrupulous people.
Immediately afterwards, the Qin envoy said again that the hall was shocked, and the Qin envoy took out a piece of brocade silk, which was a copy of the national letter, and said: "Back to the Wei Hou, this is a copy of the alliance proposed by my king Qin Qin, the Qin State is willing to form an iron alliance with each other in the Wei country, and the discord with the Wei Hou is the discord with my king, and the evil with the Wei country is the evil with the Qin State, and the one who defends the country is the Qin State!" β
The hall was shocked, even if Sun and Ning heard the words of the envoys of the Qin State, they were a little uneasy, the King of Qin was so supportive? With the support of the Qin State, who would dare to move? The minds of many people in the court began to come alive. In fact, it has always been the domestic nobles who control the government, and all the monarchs after Zhuang Gong are incompetent.
It seems that this patriotic country may be about to change.
"The King of Qin is so kind, the Marquis admires it, and the Qin envoy must thank the King of Qin on behalf of the Marquis after returning to Qin, and he will definitely be rewarded for defending the country in Japan. Never let King Qin downββ! Wei Zheng laughed loudly, this good newspaper is to put a quotation mark, but no one heard the true meaning of this word, Wei Zheng added: "Wei Guo is willing to form an iron alliance with Qin State, and it is good to marry Qin and Jin forever!" β
The book of the covenant has been submitted, and Wei Zheng signed the covenant as soon as he finished speaking. Sent it back to the hands of the Qin envoy again, took a look at it, put away the alliance book, and then bowed his hand and said: "The contemptible minister has told my king that this trip has achieved its goal, and the contemptuous minister will resign." β
"Qin made a slow walk. Huhββ! Wei Zheng stretched out his hand and watched the envoys of the Qin State walk out of the main hall, until the news was in the field of vision, he turned his eyes to the ministers in the court, as soon as the envoys of the Qin State left, the courtiers of the Wei Ting Dynasty all bowed their hands and shouted to the seats: "Congratulations to the princeββ! "Patriotic ββ!"
Wei Zheng looked around and looked down at the group of ministers, the bright smile on his face never subsided, but he was sneering in his heart, how many of these courtiers were sincere congratulations?
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