Chapter 771: Preparing for the Ceremony

On February 25, there were cars in the Dongwang Mansion to transport things to the palace, all of which were some luggage of Han Jian's daughters in the palace, because the palace where Yang Li'er and others lived in the palace still needed to be sorted out and repaired, Yang Li'er and Gu Xin'er and other daughters were not in a hurry to move into the palace. Even if they want to move, they will be in batches, Yang Li'er and Han Xi, as Han Jian's concubine and eldest son, will enter the palace first, after all, Yang Li'er and Yang Rui have always had a good relationship, Song Suqing and Lin Xiaoshu will live in the Dongwang Mansion for the time being, firstly, Lin Xiaoshu is pregnant and needs to be taken care of, and secondly, Song Suqing is still responsible for some things in the Dongwang Mansion, such as weapon casting and logistics supply.

As for Han Jian's aunts, they will not move to the palace for the time being, and they will not make a decision until the enthronement ceremony is held in the palace. And Han Jian originally wanted to send Ning Xiuyan's aunt and nephew and Yang Xiuxiu into the palace, but they also refused, so Han Jian still had to run between the mansions, and the family was separated from three places, and there must be no taste of home in the past.

But at this time, Han Jian couldn't take care of these things, and suddenly Luoyang changed, although the rebellion was quelled, but there were too many officials and generals involved, and many yamen were vacant for a while. Now that he is going to ascend the throne as the emperor again, many things need him to deal with, since Yang Rui announced his abdication in the main hall of the palace, he has moved to the dormitory, concentrating on taking care of his daughter, and will not even leave the palace inner garden. In this way, everything fell on Han Jian's shoulders, which made him a little breathless.

Gu Weipan did not appear again after the rebellion, but only submitted a transcript of his resignation, which was adopted by Han Jian. Anyway, Han Jian had appointed Ning Yuan as the first and auxiliary minister without removing Gu Weipan, and all affairs were directly handed over to Ning Yuan. As for the other key figure in this incident, Yang Xi still lives in his original palace in the palace, and Ning Yuan has submitted to Han Jian the detailed process of the enthronement ceremony several times before, in the naming of the nobles of the previous dynasty and Yang Xi, the "crown prince". According to the conclusion of Ning Yuan's discussion with the officials of the Ministry of Rites, no matter what, Yang Xi's position as the crown prince should be deposed, and the crown prince of the previous dynasty could not be kept as the crown prince after changing the country name and year name, and Yang Xi himself did not have any blood relationship with the new emperor Han Jian. As for Yang Xi's Juelu, there are two opinions. One is a feudal marquis, who is assigned to a fief to be guarded and lived, and the second is to continue to stay in Luoyang, or to give it to the prince, after all, he is the younger brother of the abdicated emperor. Even if Prince Yang Xi is knighted, Yang Xi is still a caged bird, and letting Yang Xi stay in Luoyang is also to facilitate his care, so as not to prevent some people from rebelling against the court in his name.

On February 26, the palace began to dismiss the old palace people. After the change of dynasty, according to the Ministry of Rites, the interior of the palace should also be renewed. In the years that Yang Rui has been in power, the palace has rarely recruited palace maids and eunuchs, so that most of the palace people in the palace are elderly, after all, in addition to Yang Rui, Yang Xi, and Yang Yu, there are no concubines in the palace, so naturally there are not too many people to take care of them, and the palace people will use less. Now Han Jian is on the throne. Not only are there several concubines, but in the future, in order to win over the ministers of the court, they will inevitably have to accept concubines. There are also Han Song and other original princesses of the county who want to move in, and there are too many "masters" in the palace, and these old palace people are not enough to take care of them at the moment.

When Han Jian discussed with Ning Yuan in Shangshutai, he also agreed with Ning Yuan on the replacement of palace people in the palace. At this time, Han Jian did not officially ascend the throne as an excuse, although he regarded himself as the emperor, but he did not enter the palace. Ye'an Pavilion and the main hall of the palace are also vacant, and only after the enthronement ceremony is over, he will stay in the palace as the emperor for a long time, instead of running around the Shangshutai and the Yamen and Wu'an of the military station every day.

By the afternoon of 26 February, the matter of the new emperor's accession to the throne had basically been proclaimed throughout the country. It will be released to all parts of Jiangbei with a fast horse, and even the soldiers in the border areas will get the news before Han Jian officially ascends the throne. Regarding the more detailed situation of Han Jian's accession to the throne, the imperial court did not announce it immediately, but only explained that everything should be according to the old system of the Wei Dynasty, and there would not be much change in the official system, and the local officials and the soldiers and horses of various roads and states would not change.

At this time, a person who had disappeared for a long time suddenly appeared in the field of vision of Luoyang Baiguan. It was Yang Luochuan, the southern king who had been under house arrest by Han Jian for a long time after the soldiers and horses of Yuzhou attacked Luoyang, Yang Luochuan, as Han Jian's official "old man", and as the master of Yuzhou, the only land in Jiangbei that was not completely subdued by the imperial court, his status is different. Han Jian asked him to move back to the Nanwang Mansion to live, and at the same time strictly guarded the Nanwang Mansion, so that everyone knew that the reason why Yuzhou did not move after the attack on Luoyang was not because of the difficulties of soldiers and horses, but because the lord of Yuzhou was still controlled by Han Jian. Han Jian's accession to the throne this time, with Yang Luochuan, the "prince of the former dynasty", makes the meaning also different, at this time Yang Luochuan either surrendered to the new court, or refused to admit it, but that means that Han Jian may kill him, and then will also launch a counterinsurgency war against Yuzhou.

This has added a bit of instability to Jiangbei, which is already in an eventful season.

On February 27, it was only four days before Han Jian ascended the throne. There has been news from the Southern Qi side, saying that the envoys who came to congratulate Han Jian on his accession to the throne as emperor have crossed the river to prepare to enter the territory of the Wei Dynasty, only three days after the news of Han Jian's accession to the throne was made public, the people of Southern Qi got the news and passed the news to Luoyang, many people thought that Han Jian had premeditated to greet the people of Southern Qi. But even Han Jian himself did not think in advance that he would ascend the throne as the emperor, and the quick reaction of the Southern Qi people also made Han Jian unexpected, Han Jian guessed that perhaps the Southern Qi people had a premonition that in order to calm down the Luoyang incident, Yang Ruichan must be enthroned and he must ascend the throne. The facts were confirmed, and then Han Jian got a secret letter borrowed by Sima, and learned that it was the mysterious Jianghu figure "Li Shanye" in the Southern Dynasty who sent someone to inform the Southern Qi Emperor Xiao Zhan in advance, and asked Xiao Zhan to send someone to send the news one step in advance and send the envoy team.

But no matter what, these envoys will not catch up with Han Jian's enthronement ceremony.

On February 28, the local authorities congratulated the new emperor on his accession to the throne and pledged to support Han Jian as the new emperor in accordance with the mandate of heaven. This is also what the local government must do in order to show its support for the imperial court. According to the distance of the road, the nearest roads are basically sent, but some counties in the north of the Yellow River have not moved. Lin Ke's rebellion, after all, was carried out with the support of the local gentry of the Hebei generation, who participated in the rebellion, and afterwards they also wanted to spontaneously organize troops and horses to confront the imperial court. lest Han Jian "settle accounts after the autumn", but before they could take further action, Su Tingxia's men and horses had already begun to quell the rebellion in the local area.

With Su Tingxia's ruthlessness, all the local gentry involved in the rebellion, regardless of whether they have remorse or not, as long as they find out the truth, they will be beheaded on the spot. The money and food of the gentry family will also be directly used as military food. The soldiers and horses organized by some places in Hebei originally wanted to fight with Su Tingxia's troops, but they learned that Su Tingxia was reused this time, and there were less than 10,000 men and horses, but when Su Tingxia took his men and horses to kill, none of the cities could hold on for more than a day, either the defenders in the city opened the city and surrendered, or if they wanted to hold on, Su Tingxia sent people to open the city gate and enter the city. The north changed color when he heard Su Tingxia, and Han Jian re-gave Su Tingxia the permission to recruit troops, and Su Tingxia's soldiers and horses grew very fast.

February 29. There are still two days before Han Jian officially ascends the throne, and the palace does not know about the main hall, as well as the details of the process of sacrificing to the heavens, have all been worked out. Ning Yuan presented the detailed manuscript to Han Jian for review, and Han Jian was generally satisfied after reading it, but he was not very satisfied with the details such as Yang Rui personally coming out to bow to the new emperor and offering the jade seal. Han Jian didn't want to rub salt on Yang Rui's wounds, Yang Rui was deliberately avoiding him these days, Han Jian didn't see him several times, and Han Jian didn't want to force Yang Rui. Therefore, every time he stood outside Yang Rui's dormitory for a while and left. On the day of the official enthronement ceremony, he hoped that Yang Rui would stay in the palace all the time. The only people who accompanied him to the sacrifice to heaven were the hundred officials, and there were no women around him. Even Han Song's clan will not participate.

That is, on February 29, the Criminal Department completed the preparation of the crime of participating in the rebellion against Lin Ke and others, and submitted it to Han Jian Yulan. Among them, for Lin Ke and others, the conviction of the Criminal Department was a summary decision, perhaps considering that Han Jian had said before that there was a intention not to expand the situation, so in addition to a few leaders. The rest of the generals involved were convicted of being distributed, and their mansions were confiscated, and the families of the offending generals were also sent into slavery.

Han Jian basically has no objection to this verdict. Han Jian didn't want to keep Lin Ke alive, although he hadn't discussed this matter with Yang Rui in the past few days, but since Lin Ke rebelled. Yang Rui's attitude is also obvious, Lin Ke and the others must die, otherwise rebellion will still happen in the future. Han Jian immediately agreed to the drafting of the confiscation of the mansions, which made the families that had been banned and not raided finally finalized. The Criminal Department, together with the Tingwei Mansion, began to raid the families, but the families of the offending officials were not imprisoned, but were repatriated to their hometowns.

On the first day of March, the day before Han Jian ascended the throne. Various places in Luoyang City have also arranged for the enthronement ceremony on the second day and the garrison on the path of the sacrifice to the sky, and the road will be closed from that day, and the people will not be allowed to come out to watch the ceremony. After the enthronement ceremony, the imperial court will announce a series of measures, including amnesty and light tax reduction.

But on this day, Ning Yuan asked Han Jian several times about the country name and the year name, but he did not get a definite answer, which made the court and the generals of the original Eastern Wangfu system a little anxious. Han Jian's accession to the throne is imminent, but he has never been prepared to change the yuan, which is the most unstable factor in front of him. For this reason, Ning Yuan also went to the East Palace's Mansion to ask for a meeting with Han Song, and wanted to ask Han Jian through Han Song's to let Han Jian give a clear attitude. But by the end of the night of the first day of March, the imperial court still did not receive a reply from the side of the Eastern Palace.

Han Jian was preparing for his enthronement ceremony for a few days, and he had too many things to be responsible for, and many times he didn't bother to ask about them. The soldiers and horses of the Xianbei people in the north were still gathering, and Lin Zhan had sent him several secret letters requesting additional troops and horses to guard the border, and at this time, Su Tingxia was busy exterminating the local rebel forces and had no time to go north, making the situation in the north precarious.

The Xianbei people will not let the previous preparations go to waste because of the change of the royal family of the Wei Dynasty, the Xianbei people are ready to invade the Central Plains, and what they didn't get last time is also ready to get it back this time. The previous arrangement arranged by Han Jian to use soldiers and horses to sneak out of the grassland to attack the Xianbei soldiers and horses to disrupt the Xianbei people's military arrangements was also canceled due to Luoyang's rebellion and his accession to the throne. All indicate that only the Great Wall on the first line of Beiguan can fight with Xianbei soldiers and horses, but some key passes in Beiguan were destroyed by Xianbei people before, and they have not been repaired yet, as long as Xianbei people find weak links to attack, the long Beiguan line, even if Lin Zhan has three heads and six arms, he can't do a comprehensive defense.

Just when Ning Yuan and the people in the imperial court were preparing for the enthronement ceremony on the second day, Han Jian also held a military meeting in the yamen of the military station overnight to discuss the border defense of Beiguan. Because of the previous changes in Luoyang, there are also many soldiers and generals in Luoyang City who were recruited back from the north by Han Jian, these people are very familiar with the situation in the north, and they have followed Lin Zhan to the east and west all the year round. When they reported the weaknesses of Beiguan's defense one by one, many people were also surprised. The defense line of Beiguan originally stretched for more than 2,000 miles, after the last invasion of the Xianbei people, hundreds of city walls were destroyed in sections, and many passes were even smashed, in more than a year, although Lin Zhan organized people to repair, but now, the defense of the Beiguan defense line is not even as good as three percent of two years ago. But this time the Xianbei people have recruited the most men and horses in history, and the more than 200,000 horses of the Xianbei people are ready to go, not including the more than 20,000 people and horses who are attacking Guanzhong at any time in the old land of Xiliang.

The military meeting lasted until late at night, and Han Jian was originally going to stay overnight in the yamen of the military station, but the next day was his enthronement ceremony after all, and he had to go back to the Dongwang Mansion to make some preparations.

When Han Jian returned to the Dongwang Mansion, he found that the women of the family were all gathered in the front hall, which was also the last night of Han Jian's transformation from the East King to the Emperor, Han Jian was too busy to prepare, but for the women in the mansion, this was the most important night in her life, and she had no sleep at all.

"Your Majesty is too, why did you come back so late?" At this time, Han Song's clan no longer directly reprimanded Han Jian as before, and stepped forward, "The imperial court has sent people to ask for instructions many times, but Your Majesty is not there, and the concubines and others dare not make up their minds. This is the statute of the ceremony that Ning Taishi just sent over, if His Majesty is not satisfied, he can let someone revise it overnight! (To be continued......)