Although the failure of the Eastern Crusade dealt a heavy blow to Li Yuan, compared to the huge pressure brought about by the accession to the throne of the Li Dynasty, the failure of the Eastern Crusade was really nothing.

When the news of the preparation for the establishment of the dynasty came out, at least more than sixty percent of the officials opposed the hasty opening of the country, including Li Yuan himself felt that the time was not ripe, but the Guanlong nobles could not wait any longer, and they exerted great pressure on Li Yuan, so that Li Yuan had to submit.

In the Tang Palace, Pei Lin was reporting to Li Yuan on the preparations for the Zen Concession Ceremony, "Your Highness, the various ceremonial preparations for the Son of Heaven Zen Rang have basically ended, the Zen Concession Ceremony is held in Chengtianmen, and His Royal Highness's enthronement is held in the Daxing Palace, the difference between the two is about an hour, according to the requirements of His Royal Highness, the Zen Concession Ceremony will be slightly simpler, the content is mainly to hand over the national seal and sacrifice heaven and earth, and the enthronement ceremony of the Daxing Hall is carried out in accordance with the normal Son of Heaven enthronement ceremony, which also includes canonization and feast of the ministers"

Li Yuan remained silent, there was no expression of joy on his face, although it would be his Zen concession and enthronement ceremony in one day, but Li Yuan's mood was still very heavy, and doing this kind of deposing the emperor and ascending the throne without taking advantage of the time, place and people would bring great harm to his reputation, which Li Yuan knew very well in his heart.

Pei Lin could understand Li Yuan's mood, he saw that Li Yuan was depressed, so he comforted him: "The Sui Dynasty has only been established for more than 30 years, and it is far from being orthodox, the people in Jiangnan have always refused to accept it, and the Qingzhou area of Hebei is indifferent to it, just like the Qin Dynasty that unified the world, Qin destroyed Han Sheng, maybe of course there are many people who say that Han Gaozu is not orthodox, but now? How many people still remember the Qin Dynasty? There are still a few people who will say that the Han Dynasty is unorthodox, His Royal Highness is eloquent and strategic, and if he wants to do great things, how can he look down on the Sui Dynasty under the nose, establish his own dynasty, revitalize the world, and reproduce the glory of the Han Dynasty, after a thousand years, who will say that the Tang Dynasty is unorthodox? Why should Your Highness be arrogant! ”

Pei Lian's words made Li Yuan's heart feel a lot more comfortable, in fact, he himself did not resist Chan Rang's accession to the throne at all, his heart knot came from the fiasco of the Eastern Crusade, from the fear of Zhang Xuan, just like a person who was pushed to the top before he found the way down the mountain, there will be an indescribable hesitation in his heart.

Li Yuan nodded, and asked again: "Qingzhou moved the capital to Anyang, has the time been set?" ”

"I heard that it was in the second half of the first month, and the palace and government offices over there in Anyang were basically built."

Li Yuan sighed, "It was a mistake to set up a king to ascend the throne at the beginning, if I also set up a young clan child like Zhang Xuan, I will be the regent, and wait for a few years when the time is ripe before ascending the throne, I estimate that the effect will be much better than today."

In the end, Li Yuan's voice became lower and lower, and even he knew that it didn't make any sense to say this kind of thing now except for complaining a little.

At this time, a maid bowed in the hall and said, "Lord Qiqi, someone from the Ministry of Rites has come, does the prince want to see him?" ”

This should be the person who explains tomorrow's etiquette to himself, Li Yuan had to nod, "Please let him in!" ”

Before dawn, Yang Yu, the son of heaven, was called up early by the eunuch, and then followed the eunuch to bathe and change clothes, and then the people from the Ministry of Rites entered the palace and told him some basic etiquette, such as where should he stand? How to hand the national seal to Tang King Li Yuan and so on, but Yang Yu didn't listen to a word, even if he didn't follow the etiquette, what did it matter, couldn't Zen let it go?

At this time, Yang Yu is like a walking dead boy, his tears have long been cried, his hope has long been cut off, and his will has been destroyed, whether it is a palace maid or a eunuch, whoever asks him to do anything will obediently do it, he is like a marionette, a puppet that will be stored in a wooden box forever, and in another hour, Chang'an will have nothing to do with him.

Yang Yu sat alone in the corner of the palace waiting for the Chan Rang Hall to begin, at this time there was no palace maid or eunuch willing to pay attention to the soon-to-be-abdicated son of heaven, and everyone was trying to figure out how to please the upcoming new master of Daxing Palace.

At this moment, Yang Yu suddenly felt quiet, relaxed, and free, even if he stripped naked and yelled, no one would interfere with him.

Just yesterday, he was still crying bitterly, hating himself for living up to his grandfather's expectations and burying the Great Sui Sheji, but now he suddenly figured it out, the Great Sui Sheji was never in his hands, so how can he talk about the burial?

In fact, when the emperor's grandfather died in Jiangdu, the Great Sui had already perished, and Zhang Xuan's new Sui was just a Sui name, but the emperor was already surnamed Zhang, and Luoyang's second brother may be a little better than himself, but it was only a little bit, and even he, who stayed in the deep palace, knew that the real owner of Luoyang had changed his surname to Wang, not to mention the people of the world.

At this time, Yang Yu couldn't wait to hold a Zen concession immediately, and he didn't even need to hold any Zen concession, he directly threw the jade seal to Li Yuan, and then he turned around and fled desperately, far away from this long-defunct Sui Dynasty, and let everything go to hell!

"Your Majesty!"

The deep voice behind strangled Yang Yu's thoughts that he was running wildly, and he slowly turned his head, it was Shangshu's right servant who shot Pei Lian, and behind him was Xi Fu Lang Dou Xun, who was holding a jade box in his arms, that was the national seal.

Both Pei Lin and Dou Xun looked at him coldly, Pei Lin saw that Yang Yu had not come back to his senses, and reminded him coldly: "The ceremony will start soon, Your Majesty, please!" ”

Yang Yu finally understood, he stood up with great difficulty, sat cross-legged for a long time, his knees were numb, but Pei Lin ignored him at all, turned around and left, two strong eunuchs stepped forward to support Yang Yun, almost dragged him out of the palace, Yang Yu's throat moved silently, he felt that he didn't even have the dignity of scolding.

Chengtianmen, here is the solemn place where the emperor holds the enthronement or canonization ceremony, the ground is paved with smooth stone strips and stone slabs, the building is extremely solid, there is a tall and majestic building view on the door, there are east and west halls outside the door, the south is directly facing the Suzaku Gate, Mingde Gate, there is the Chengtianmen Square of 300 steps in the north of the gate, and the opposite side of the square is the main hall Daxing Palace.

On the square, a splendid Zen platform was built, four zhang high, the lower floor was nine zhang wide, it was pyramid-shaped, there were three hundred honor guards standing under the Zen let stage, holding all kinds of long-handled weapons, all of them were full of spirit, the instrument was magnificent, there was a large group of civil and military officials standing in the distance, there was no joy on their faces, there was no disgust, but there was a look of impatience, they did not care about this meaningless Zen ceremony, they only cared about the enthronement ceremony that would be held in an hour.

But for Li Yuan, this Zen ceremonial ceremony is very important, far more than his enthronement ceremony, which shows that his imperial power does not come from usurpation, but from a virtue, a kind of order left by the era of Yao Shunyu, the world is only virtuous people can live, it is the Great Sui Emperor who willingly let himself take the throne, and he handed over the ruling power to himself for the benefit of the people of the world, which is a noble act.

"Zen let open, sacrifice heaven and earth!"

In the rumbling drums, the ceremony of sacrificing heaven and earth began, and hundreds of palace maids holding sacrifices walked past Li Yuan in turn kneeling on the sacrificial platform, worshipping God in front of everyone, as if his power, his throne, everything about him was given by God, he represented God, and at this time, the other protagonist Yang Yu was not important, he stood in the corner and seemed more and more insignificant.

"Zen let the ceremony open, since the three emperors and five emperors"

Pei Lin stood on the Zen platform and read aloud the Zen book written in the name of Yang Yu, sometimes in a suppressed tone, sometimes impassioned, as if Li Yuan refused to accept the Zen concession, he Yang Yu would be ashamed of the ancestors and ancestors, and he would be guilty of God, and his emotions were so sincere that Li Yuan was teary-eyed, and looked at Yang Yu with a blank face from time to time.

The moment of Chan Rang finally came, when Li Yuan held high the national seal that he received from Yang Yu's hand, there was a cheer all around, but Li Yuan had a little regret in his heart, but unfortunately this was not the real heirloom jade seal, the real heirloom jade seal fell into Zhang Xuan's hands.

The thirteenth year of the great cause has just ended, Li Yuan accepted the Zen concession of Yang Yu, the son of heaven in Chang'an, ascended the throne as the emperor, and formally established the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan accepted the worship of hundreds of officials in the Daxing Palace, and at the same time canonized his wife Dou as the queen, the eldest son Li Jiancheng as the crown prince, the second son Li Shimin as the king of Qin, the third son Li Xuanba as the king of Zhao, and the fourth son Yuanji as the king of Chu.

At the same time, the Zhongdu Palace also knocked the last wedge, officially announcing the completion of the construction of Ziwei Palace, and before that, the Zhongdu has also been built, and the relocation of the capital of the New Sui Dynasty has also kicked off. (To be continued.) )