In the midst of the firecrackers, under the gaze of the hundreds of officials and clans attending the meeting, Jia Liu boarded the dragon chair set up on the rostrum, but he did not sit down immediately, but suddenly turned around and bowed to the participating officials.

This action surprised the officials present, and they didn't know what the new emperor meant.

Under the stage, Chang Bingzhong, the chief of staff of the army, who was sitting next to the new commander of the Fourth Army, quietly dragged the pillar: "You have been with the emperor for a long time, do you know what this means?" ”

"Uh?.Maybe we want to take care of me."

Baozhu wasn't sure if that meant it, but it seemed to be that.

Jia Liu, who was on the stage, did not explain what he meant by bowing to the hundred officials, and sat directly on the dragon chair.

Since there are no specific drawings of the standard dragon chair, the skilled craftsmen of Xiangyang City were unable to carve the dragon chair that met the standards, and the final shape was something similar to the Taishi chair.

Helplessly, Asiha, who was in charge of this matter, asked someone to paste the word "dragon chair" on the back of the chair.

It may be too sloppy, but Jia Liu does not engage in formalism.

The so-called ass of me is the world.

Therefore, he sat down calmly and accepted the congratulations of the hundred official clans.

The lower three feet of the left hand is the seat of the cabinet minister, and the lower right hand side is the seat of the six shoshu and the squire.

Due to the large number of empty members of the cabinet and the six ministries, if the seats are set according to the number of people who should be present, it will not look good.

Therefore, there are only three on the left and right.

The first on the left is Prime Minister Bo Qingyi, the second is Vice Prime Minister Lee Se-kit, and the third is Vice Prime Minister Asiha.

Ji Yun, who was on a business trip with the three of them, was called the "Four Dogs of the Restoration" by some people.

The first person on the right is Shangshu Fanwei of the Ministry of Industry, Yang Zhi, Minister of Internal Affairs, and Ding Qing, Director of the Internal Affairs Committee.

These three people were privately ridiculed as the "Three Bears of the Restoration".

The officials below Yu Shilang were all seated in the first row of the stage, and the seating order was the most expensive in the Ministry of Rites, in order.

The high-ranking military generals of the Imperial Court of the Restoration, who attended the meeting, formed their own delegations and took their seats in the middle of the venue.

A copy of the meeting hand-out sheet was handed out to the delegations when they entered.

Dong He, who was formerly Zhang Jing of the Military Aircraft Department and is now the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites, got up and bowed to His Majesty the Emperor first, then walked to the front of the stage, and said to the Wenwu and provincial delegations under the stage: "Now enter the first item of the meeting process, and ask the representatives of all provinces to raise their hands to vote on whether to support Prince He Shuorui to serve as the emperor of the Qing Dynasty!" ”

After that, the first to raise his hand.

"Brush, brush!"

Members of Shandong, Henan, Zhili, Sichuan and other delegations raised their hands one after another, and everyone could not hide the excitement on their faces.

The members of the delegations of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Gansu provinces looked at Bi Yuan, the governor of Shaanxi, who led the team, and finally raised their hands in favor under the leadership of Bi Yuan.

From east to west, except for the Wuchang delegation attending the meeting, the rest of the personnel, whether officials or clans, all supported Prince Rui to become emperor.

No, no.

The guards standing in the aisle with the word "housekeeping" on their arms looked like wolves.

Actually, this is also a formality.

This will be Xiangyang City, down to the three-year-old child, up to the eighty-year-old man knows that Emperor Qianlong is a fart, and the current emperor is called Restoration.

Because, the government has just distributed the "Restoration Calendar" to the residents of Xiangyang City door-to-door.

It's the yellow calendar, no money.

However, everyone's attention was quickly attracted by the stage.

It is not the Emperor of the Restoration sitting on the dragon chair, but the "Three Bears of the Restoration" sitting on the lower side of his right hand.

Shangshu Fanwei of the Ministry of Industry, Yang Zhi, Minister of Internal Affairs, and Ding Qing, Director of the Internal Affairs Committee, did not raise their hands!

This made the officials on and off the stage all break out in a cold sweat.

Seeing this, Prime Minister and Vice Minister Asiha, who was sitting opposite Ding Qing, thought for a while, and subconsciously put down his right hand that had been raised.

Because he thought of a sentence that His Majesty the Emperor had said in the past - "Where there is opposition, there will be progress." The same rice still raises a hundred kinds of people, where is the perfect thing in the world. ”

Dong He hesitated, but still stepped forward and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, the hundred officials and clans unanimously support Your Majesty as the emperor!" ”

Jia Liu got up.

Walking slowly to the front with heavy steps, after looking around at everyone in the audience, he took a few breaths before he spoke: "Shikai is ashamed of being loved by hundreds of officials and clans and people from all walks of life, but since everyone wants Shikai to be the emperor, although Shikai himself is very reluctant in his heart, but in order to live up to everyone, in order to make the Qing Dynasty more beautiful, Shikai has no choice but to be this emperor." ”

After that, he happily said: "After I became the emperor, my original intention has not changed, and I have always put the well-being of the people in the world first, so I will issue the first holy decree today!" ”

"Whoa!"

All the officials and clans who were sitting got up and knelt down.

Then I heard that His Majesty the Emperor's first decree was to abolish the old kneeling ceremony.

The edict is very simple, that is, in the past, everyone had to bow down when they saw the emperor, and they had to say a lot of words to bless their health, but they would not be used in the future, and they would only need to bow when they saw the emperor, and all the three bows and nine snorts would be abolished.

"Whether it is a flag officer or a Han official, it is from this system!"

Jia Liu's first decree was undoubtedly very serious and thoughtful, because this change in formalism would be the basis for the great reform of the government in the future.

Of course, this decree not only embodies the meaning of the restoration, but also has a practical effect, that is, to save pants.

As we all know, in addition to having more money, more land, and more women, the officials of the Qing Dynasty also had a lot of pants.

There's no way, you can kneel around at every turn, can you do it without spending pants.

The three cabinet ministers on the stage obviously did not know that His Majesty the Emperor would issue such a holy decree, and they were quite surprised, and they were all at a loss for a while.

In the end, it was decided to remain silent.

After all, this was the first edict issued by His Majesty the Emperor in public, and if they, as cabinet ministers, opposed it, they would really have no consciousness at all.

The sky above the venue also sounded like a mountain cry: "Long live His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty, long live, long live!" ".

This call has two characteristics, one is loud, and the other is sincerity.

Obviously, everyone present was reluctant to kneel at every turn.

The second process of the meeting was to vote on the name of the "Restoration", and then to vote on the document of the Imperial Court of the Restoration against the thief Qianlong.

and official telegrams to the provinces, the generals, and the counsellors.

The vote was unanimously passed.

There are few naysayers.

After that, according to the process of the meeting, the enthronement ceremony of the new emperor should be held.

Although the scale is small and the number of participants is small, there must be corresponding ceremonies, and even after the ceremony, the Restoration Emperor will lead hundreds of officials out of the city to worship the sky.

However, just as Dong Shilang, who was presiding over the work of the Ministry of Rites, was about to proceed according to the procedure, the Prime Minister and Vice Minister Asiha on the stage got up to interrupt him, and then bowed deeply to His Majesty the Emperor, and said in a loud voice:

"Your Majesty, the minister Asiha requests to make a report to the General Assembly on whether the four dynasties of Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong are legal, and ask the emperor for permission!"

(End of chapter)