Chapter 49: Enthronement

As mentioned last time, Xu Jing and others made a good calculation and made Guan Yinhua the queen, intending to gain Guan Gong's support.

The support of the relevant public is equivalent to the support of half of the military and civilians of Shu State, and half of it is with Zhang Fei. Of course, they also fought Zhang Xingcai's idea, but unfortunately, Zhang Xingcai had already been assigned by Liu Bei to marry Liu Hou, the key thing is that Zhang Xingcai was not in Chengdu, but went to the front line to find Liu Hou, they couldn't do anything, so they had to give up.

When Liu Hou heard this, he smiled dumbly, and said: "Second uncle don't be angry, my third brother is only eight years old, I think their so-called husband and wife are just playing in name and in name, and they don't even have a name, the so-called parents' order matchmaking words, without the consent of the second uncle, their marriage is also illegal."

The nephew will raise troops to kill Chengdu in a few days, and he will snatch back the silver bottle sister. At that time, this bullshit marriage will no longer exist. ”

"Very good, Xiao Adou, you go and snatch the silver bottle back, I will promise her to you as a daughter-in-law, although your martial arts are a little worse, but you are barely worthy of my tiger girl, how can it be better than Sun Quan's bastard son and Liu Li's little bit."

"Uh...... "Where is this, just now I was still discussing the topic of strictness, what about national affairs, why did I talk about children's family affairs in a blink of an eye, snatching relatives and wives, or brothers snatching brothers and wives.

"Second uncle, this, hehe, this...... You also know that my father has assigned the third uncle's daughter to me......" Liu Hou said humbly.

"So what? Can't you marry one more if you marry one? Where is my silver bottle not as good as the little girl who can dance with knives and guns all day long? You say, do you look down on my girl? Isn't it? Saying that, Guan Gong also raised a fist and made a gesture to fight, it seemed that if Liu Hou answered yes, he would punch down.

When Liu Hou saw this posture, his head shrank, and he hurriedly said: "No, no, don't misunderstand the second uncle, this, this, Sister Yinhua is naturally good, beautiful and virtuous...... In short, she is all right, but letting her work with Zhang Xingcai is really wronged her, I'm afraid she doesn't want to. ”

In fact, he still has a sentence in his heart: Zhang Xingcai is no longer the original barbaric girlfriend who can only dance knives and guns, shouting and killing everywhere, but now he is a science fan and a real maniac.

"Don't be aggrieved, you can make both of them queens when the time comes, and the two queens are okay. She's not satisfied? Is she not satisfied? Marriage events are all the words of the matchmaker of the parents' orders, today I, the father, will help her make the decision, and then ask the prime minister to be a matchmaker, won't we all live?

"Uh......" Liu Hou was speechless, "Prime Minister, is there such a precedent?" ”

"Uh" Zhuge Liang was speechless at this time, Rao is so knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and he doesn't know that there is an emperor in history who has two queens at the same time.

Such a precedent did not exist until the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and Liu Cong, the emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, once canonized three queens at the same time, but now it is still the Three Kingdoms era, and the strange emperor has not yet been born.

"Okay, that's it, let's not discuss these things, let's talk about military affairs quickly."

So, the topic of discussion returned to political affairs. Since everyone is in favor of ascending the throne as emperor, especially Zhuge Liang and Guan Gong, the two heavyweights, who support him, Liu Hou is no longer hypocritical.

He is not like others, he obviously wants to be the emperor very much, and he still needs his courtiers to ask three times and five times before agreeing to the throne. He knew a long time ago that he was going to be an emperor in the future, so he was mentally prepared to ascend the throne as an emperor early on.

At this time, modesty is equal to hypocrisy, and in the eyes of many readers, this very necessary step was ignored by Liu Hou, because he felt that there was no need to pretend at all, and there was not much time left for him, he really wanted to do his best to ascend the throne, and then try his best to invade Chengdu and destroy the puppet regime.

Zhuge Liang said that five days later, June 21, is an auspicious day of the zodiac, he used his best Qimen Dunjia method, combined with the Hetu Luoshu nine-star arrangement to predict the good luck, deduced some proverbs: usher in the Tianyi star, meet Pepsi Xing, use and celebrate, tea and wine welcome each other. The congenital earthquake is due east, and the day after tomorrow is due south; Seek and marry, good union is natural, good fortune is like a miracle, good and bad are very clear. It should be the right of the house, and its name is auspicious.

He said that this day should be: marriage, acceptance, alliance, opening of the market, trading, setting up bonds, hanging plaques, sacrifices, praying for blessings, opening light, making cars, hanging plaques, traveling, entering the house, migrating, making beds, installing doors, dismantling, building, breaking ground, planting, burial, breaking ground, starting drills, removing clothes, making clothes, entering the burial, erecting monuments, etc.; Don't: visiting the sick, accepting livestock, felling, raising foundations, making beams, building houses, etc.

In other words, this day is mostly suitable for civil affairs. But it is difficult to say whether such a major event as ascending the throne as emperor is appropriate. Now that time is pressing, it is impossible to wait for half a few months, so we can only rush to do our bidding, and choose this date to hold the enthronement ceremony.

So, even if the day is picked, these days, both the military and the people of Jingzhou have mobilized, intensively preparing for the ceremony of the new emperor's enthronement. There are only five days of preparation time, which is indeed a bit rushed, and many things can only be simplified again and again.

Not to mention the rest, let's just say that the crown and dragon robe that Liu Hou wore when he ascended the throne were difficult to make in just five days. The crown uses a lot of pearls, jade, and gold, and fortunately, Jingzhou was originally a special place in the trade of the three countries, among which there are still some jewelers, and the personnel in charge of the preparation have gone to many jewelry stores to get enough materials to make the crown.

Then he spent a lot of money to gather the best jewelers from various jewelers, and let them work overtime for five days before they could make the crown.

Due to the rush of time, the workmanship of this tiara is a bit rough and a little flawed. But it doesn't matter, the emperor is alone, everyone is far away when they worship the emperor, and if they are far away, they will naturally not be able to see some details clearly, and the flaws in the crown will naturally not be seen by them, and the emperor's face will not be lost because of this.

The dragon robe is not easy to do, there are so many patterns in a dragon robe, how can it be enough to embroider for five days? Later, Liu Hou came up with an idea, divided the whole dragon robe into many parts, invited more than a dozen embroiderers, each responsible for a small part, and after embroidery, the parts were spliced into a dragon robe, so that it could be completed in time for five days.

Of course, the consequence of this is that the entire dragon robe becomes a beggar's outfit, made of countless pieces of cloth spliced together. However, under the skillful splicing of the skilled tailor, the traces of the splicing are not very obvious, and for the reason mentioned above, it is far away, and no one will notice.

It can be said that this enthronement ceremony is the most shabby enthronement ceremony in history, and the other flags, honor guards and other things are as simple as possible, and the location is selected on a ready-made high slope 5 miles outside the city, because there is no time to build a high platform, and can only be replaced by a not very regular hillside.

Early in the morning, a group of subjects came to the foot of this small hill early, the army lined up on the periphery, the ministers and some representatives of the people in the inner layer, Liu Hou climbed on a high platform temporarily built with wood on the small hillside in full view of everyone, and began to worship heaven and earth.

The sacrificial text was written by Zhuge Liang a long time ago, and Liu Houhua memorized it overnight, at this time, as long as he recited it out loud, this point is difficult for Liu Hou, who has read books for decades in later generations, and it is not too difficult to memorize an ancient text.

After the sacrifice, Zhuge Liang read out Liu Bei's edict, declaring that Liu Bei passed on the throne to the crown prince Liu Chan. Only with an edict can the legal status of Liu Hou, the new emperor, be proven, otherwise people will question how you came to be the emperor.

Of course, this edict is fake and forged by Zhuge Liang. On such an occasion, there is no blind person who will jump out and say that he wants to check the authenticity of the edict, unless he has the kung fu of Zhao Zilong, and can come and go freely in the surrounding tens of thousands of troops.

After reading the edict, Zhuge Liang handed over the edict, jade seal and other things representing imperial power to Liu Hou, who held these things and climbed onto the dragon chair and sat facing south. The ministers, the people, and the generals all pushed the gold mountain and poured the jade pillar, kneeling down to pay homage to the new king.

Tens of thousands of people bowed three times and bowed nine times at the same time, and the scene was still very spectacular, Liu Hou sat on it, looking down at a sea of people and bowing up and down, and his heart was surging.

First, this kind of grand scene is really rare, and secondly, I think that from now on, I will become an emperor, and I will have the power to kill and seize tens of millions of lives, and the resources of the whole world will be taken and desired. In the future, you can do whatever you want, and you don't have to do things like before.

Of course, this is Liu Hou's own assumption, he thinks that the emperor can do whatever he wants, and there is no constraint at all. But what he didn't know was that the emperor was actually less free than ordinary people.

Not to mention the chaos in the world now, his power can only be exercised on his own one-third of an acre, even in the peaceful era, the world is unified, and most of the emperors are just prisoners locked up in the palace. Not only political affairs, but also many things in life, they can't help themselves.

Even what happened outside relied on his subordinates and eunuchs to report to him, and if others wanted you to hear anything, you would hear it, and if others didn't want you to hear it, you would be deaf.

After the subjects finished paying homage, and then Zhuge Liang read out the holy decree of the new emperor, it was nothing more than something like amnesty for the world and rewarding hundreds of officials. After that, there will be nothing to do, and this enthronement ceremony will be completed.

Of course, this enthronement ceremony was much simpler than the elaborate enthronement ceremonies of other emperors, but it was also considered to have completed the basic procedures, and now Liu Hou was a formal and legitimate emperor.

There are a lot of people who are rewarded this time, basically those who can be named by Liu Hou's subordinates have been rewarded, among which Zhuge Liang is still his prime minister and has been crowned as the Marquis of Wuxiang; Guan Gong is still a former general, a lieutenant of the commander, and a marquis of Hanshou Pavilion; Zhang Fei was a general of the chariot cavalry, a lieutenant of the commander, and a marquis of Xixiang; Pang Tong is the imperial historian, the marquis of Guannei; Zhao Yun was the general of Zhendong and was named the Marquis of Yongchang Pavilion.

Liu Hou originally wanted to confer a few dukes, but Zhuge Liang said that it is not appropriate to reward too much now, otherwise there will be a situation in the future where there will be no title after meritorious service.