In March 459, the day of Qin Dong's enthronement finally came. On the 15th, it is the official enthronement ceremony, and it is also the day when the Hu Empire held the founding ceremony, the previous Xiongnu Empire is gone, for the Xiongnu Empire to change its name to the Hu Empire, the Huns also know that there is no way to change now, under the rule of Qin Dong, in addition to the Huns, there are many nationalities, the Huns are only a small part, and now in the army, the Huns are only a small part, mainly cavalry, but the cavalry is not only the Huns, especially the heavy cavalry troops, Almost all Germanic and Slavic peoples, there were also people of other nationalities, and the Hun cavalry was mainly light cavalry and archers.

The life of the people under the rule of Qin Dong was better, so the Xiongnu people were indifferent to the matter of changing the country name, they only cared about who could make them not freeze to death in winter, have food, and livestock not starve to death, in addition to this, another reason why the Xiongnu did not oppose the change of the country name was that Qin Dong allowed all ethnic groups to retain their own national characteristics and customs, and fully respected.

Holding the enthronement ceremony is a very cumbersome thing, the Xiongnu king's formal enthronement deliberations are also very cumbersome, all the following officials must be present, including the left and right Xian Wang, the left and right Gu Li Wang, the left and right Dadu Lieutenant, the left and right generals and other cadres must rush from their respective territories to participate, and there must be shamans to the Kunlun God to pray for blessings and pray for the new Da Dan Yu, and to bless the Huns under the leadership of the new Dan Yu to live a good life.

Now it's Qin Dong's turn, and his enthronement ceremony can't be sloppy. Although the whole process was extremely cumbersome and complicated, Qin Dong himself demanded that the rules and etiquette be used to restrain the unruly people under his subordinates, so as not to cause trouble if those people were not controlled. With etiquette, people know that the Huns are not without etiquette, but their etiquette is very primitive, and full of barbarism, so the Huns often fight between tribes, and their subordinates rebel against the rule of Da Danyu. And now Qin Dong has abolished a series of original official positions of the Xiongnu Empire, such as the Left and Right Xian Wang, the Left and Right Guli Wang, and returned the power to the central court to prevent local forces from sitting on the throne and disobeying the orders of the imperial court.

A few days ago, Qin Dong had officially appointed the main officials of the Third Yuan, the Sixth Department, and the Jiuqing, as well as many officials such as their subordinate deputies. In these days, the three courts, six departments, and Jiuqing have successively put up the shelves of various hospitals, ministries, temples and other institutions, and the offices of various departments are ready-made, and they still use the former yamen. It's just a different name. The official positions and personnel of the government office have been significantly changed.

If it is a normal succession or enthronement, the ceremony will be held on an auspicious day within a month after the death of the old emperor, while the former Xiongnu Empire was the day of the death of the old Danyu, and the new Shan Yu succeeded to the throne, and was respected by the ministers as the Great Shan Yu, and the enthronement ceremony was also held on the same day or the next day.

China's Han Dynasty generally had to wait for about a month, the Tang and Song dynasties often held the enthronement ceremony the day after the death of the first emperor, and the Ming and Qing dynasties often took about half a month (Kangxi is more special. The enthronement ceremony was held on the third day after Shunzhi's death). The Han Dynasty, the Ming and Qing dynasties succeeded to the throne first and then held the enthronement ceremony, while the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Tang and Song dynasties held the succession and enthronement ceremonies at the same time.

In ancient times. In most cases, when the old emperor dies, the next generation of emperors and ministers will be by his side, and as soon as the old emperor dies, the ministers will immediately pay homage to the new emperor, which is actually considered to be enthroned; After the death of the first emperor and the period before the enthronement ceremony, the new emperor (although he did not hold the enthronement ceremony) was still referred to as the emperor by the ministers. After the enthronement ceremony is held, he will be the rightful emperor.

On the morning of the 15th, under the auspices of many officials such as Zongzheng Temple, Ministry of Officials, Guanglu Temple, Taichang Temple, Honglu Temple, etc., Qin Dong took Martha and several other women and children to the newly built Taimiao to worship the ancestors, this set of etiquette down, more than two hours passed, the children were still held by the maids, there were food and drink, no crying, and Martha and several other women who participated in the worship ceremony with Qin Dong were tired half to death, and all kinds of musical instruments played and played for most of the day before finally ending the worship ceremony of the Zongmiao.

After the worship ceremony of the Jongmyo Temple, it is necessary to go to the altar to worship the heaven and the earth, praying for good weather and abundant crops for the empire. This set of etiquette is more cumbersome, Qin Dong is wearing a big fur, wearing a gown, the gown is decorated with the sun, moon and stars, mountains, wolves and other ornamental patterns, wearing a crown with twelve crowns hanging from the front and back, inserting a big gui in his waist, holding a town gui, facing the west and standing on the southeast side of the mound. The ornamental pattern on Qin Dong's uniform is not a dragon, but a wolf, which follows the wolf totem of the Huns, the wolf is a very fierce and united animal, and Qin Dong took this meaning to let people have the pattern of the wolf on the uniform.

At this time, the drums sounded in unison, announcing that the Emperor of Heaven had come to enjoy the sacrifice. Then Qin Dong led the livestock dedicated to the Emperor of Heaven and tied them to three pillars, the livestock were three cattle and sheep and pigs, and an official of the Ministry of Rites came over with a wooden plate with a sharp and heavy chopping knife in it, Qin Dong reached out and took out the chopping knife from the wooden plate and walked to the pig's side, and when it was still screaming, he stabbed it from the pig's neck with both hands with a knife, and then immediately pulled it out, and the pig's neck wound suddenly spurted out of countless Yin Hong's pig blood from the neck, and an official immediately brought a wooden basin to pick up the fresh livestock blood that spurted out, Qin Dong didn't care about this, he walked to the side of the cow and sheep again, and slaughtered the cow and sheep one by one, and then a soldier came over and put the slaughtered three animals on the firewood stack along with the sacrifices such as jade, jade, and silk, this work of slaughtering livestock must be done by the emperor himself, and no one else can do it for him, if there is no heroic spirit, there is no ruthlessness, and the weak emperor cannot complete this sacrifice ceremony.

Another official of Taichang Temple sent a lit torch, and Qin Dong took it and stretched it out under the firewood stack, which quickly burned. The fireworks rise high in the sky, so that the Emperor smells the smell, which is the burnt, and then welcomes the "corpse" on the altar in the music, and the corpse is decorated by a living person, as the incarnation of the Emperor of Heaven, on behalf of the Emperor to accept the sacrifice. The corpse sits, and in front of it are various ritual vessels such as jade, ding, and gui. At this time, the blood of the livestock is first offered to the corpse, and then several different qualities of wine are offered in turn, after the first two offerings, the whole animal, meat juice, and salted vegetable juice are offered, and after the fourth offering, the millet diet is offered. After the offering, the corpse thanked the sacrificer with three kinds of wine, and Qin Dong danced with the dance team. Finally, Qin Dong also had to share the liquor used in the sacrifice, and the corpse would bless Qin Dong and others. Qin Dong also donated the sacrificial meat to the clan and his subordinates, and it was not until this time that the entire sacrificial process was completed.

After returning to the palace, the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple had already set up a yellow case with an edict on the east side of the government affairs hall in advance, and a yellow case in the middle of His Majesty. At the same time, the Ministry of Rites set up the Dragon Pavilion and the Incense Pavilion outside the gate of the Government Affairs Palace, the Ministry of Industry set up a platform in the middle of the battlement of the palace tower, and set up the Xuanzhao platform in the first room in the east of the palace tower, and prepared the wooden carved phoenix painted golden yellow and the wooden plate carved into the shape of a cloud. The edict officer (the official who received the edict) and the edict official (the official who read the edict) were dressed up and waited there in advance.

According to the code system formulated by the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple, Qin Dong issued the edict of ascending to the pole, and after the edict ceremony began, a Roman scholar wore court clothes and respectfully held the edict and placed it on the yellow case on the east side of the government affairs hall. After Qin Dong covered the imperial seal, he went through a set of cumbersome etiquette, and then the Ministry of Rites Shangshu used a cloud disk to undertake the edict in the government affairs hall. At this time, all the civil and military officials were lined up in the square outside the gate of the palace according to their ranks.

After the edict was given, the Ministry of Rites was taken out of the government affairs hall and placed in the dragon pavilion carried by someone outside the government affairs hall. Then, escorted by drums, honor guards and civil and military officials, he went out of several palace gates and went to the city gate tower on the outer wall of the palace. After the edict official knelt down and bowed three times, he held the edict to the Xuanzhao Taihuang case. The edict proclaimer stood on the stage facing west and read the edict. Because it is high up and very "sacred", it sounds like a heavenly sound. At this time, on the square under the gate of the palace, the civil and military officials and those who acted as the "elders" of the people, according to the order of official positions, lined up in order to face the north and kneel, and knelt three times and bowed nine times to thank the "emperor".

After reading the edict, the edict is rolled up by the edict official, put it in a wooden plate that resembles a "cloud", and comes to a "wood carved golden phoenix" in the middle of the battlement of the city tower, puts the edict title in the mouth of the "wood carved golden phoenix", and then hangs the "golden phoenix" with a yellow velvet rope from the middle of the battlement of the palace gate and slowly descends from the middle of the battlement, in order to show the emperor's order to descend from the sky from the sky by the golden phoenix by the clouds. At this time, there were already officials of the Ministry of Rites kneeling below with a cloud disk. The edict in Jin Feng's mouth happened to fall in the "cloud disk", which was called "cloud disk edict".

After receiving the edict, the edict should still be put back in the dragon pavilion in front of the palace gate, and then carried out of the Daqing Gate by the canopy, the guard of honor, and the drum music as the forerunner, and sent to the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites.

At this time, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites had already ridden back to the Ministry of Rites, led the officials to kneel in front of the door to welcome the edict, and placed the edict in the lobby, respectfully listed the incense case, and bowed three times and bowed nine times. Subsequently, a number of copies were transcribed on parchment paper, distributed to various places, and announced to the world, so far, the entire enthronement ceremony was officially completed, and now Qin Dongzai is really the emperor of the Hu Empire.

Then all the officials entered the palace and went to the government affairs hall, and after arriving at the government affairs hall, the officials and generals stood in order according to the size of their official positions and military positions, standing on both sides of the Dan Majesty, and the middle was vacant.

A long trumpet sounded from the eunuch in the chamberlain: "His Majesty the Emperor has arrived-", all the ministers of civil and military affairs saluted in the direction of His Majesty, and then saw Qin Dong wearing a robe embroidered with a heavenly wolf and walked up to His Majesty Dan and sat on the emperor's golden throne.

"Long live Majesty-"

After Qin Dong sat down, he stretched out his hand and said, "Zhongqing, get up!" (To be continued......)