On August 24, the 26th year of Jian'an, the enthronement celebration that had been prepared for more than half a year finally began.

The ceremony was held in the southern suburbs of Xiangyang.

In late autumn, the sun rises slowly, and the cool breeze blows slowly on the earth, blowing and swaying the yellow weeds with the wind.

The southern suburbs are at the foot of Da Hyeon Mountain, there is a distance from Xiangyang City to Da Hyeon, there is a forest at the foot of the mountain, the forest grows densely, the branches and leaves of the trees hang down majestically, and the boulevard is mottled in the alley.

If you want to get to Da Hyeon, you have to go through this forest path. However, the ceremony was not on the mountain, but on the meadow outside the forest, and a high platform had been built at this time.

Groups of Jingzhou soldiers lined up in a neat line to wrap the entire ceremony venue, with three layers inside and three layers outside. The banner of the Han Dynasty fluttered in the wind, and under the breeze, a column of carriages slowly drove to the outside of the sacrificial platform in the southern suburbs.

"Kong Ming and Xiaoqing are making it lively, but pity my old bones, the road outside Xiangyang City should also be repaired, it is full of potholes, I heard that Da Xian Mountain is going to start classes again? How can you not build a good road? ”

Jia Xu got out of the carriage and complained to Xue Yong, the Nanjun Taishou who greeted him next to him.

He was wearing a purple robe, which was sent to the house the day before yesterday, saying that it was the official uniform of the new dynasty, made of Shu brocade, which was beautiful and really comfortable to wear.

It was this bumpy road that tortured the old man who was over seventy-four years old.

Xue Yong said with a smile: "Hasn't Xiangyang been fighting in the past two years? The king said that he still had to take care of the people's livelihood first, but he did not repair the road, and please rest assured, I will do this well this year. ”

"Hmm."

The new Shangshu left servant shot Jia Xu and entered the venue under the guidance of the attendants.

The list of officials was reported to Liu Bei by Shen Chen and Zhuge Liang last month, and after Liu Bei made some modifications, it was directly issued at the court meeting at the end of last month, without waiting for the enthronement to be released.

Because there is no need for this, it is normal for officials to be transferred, and the mother must not be adjusted until after she ascends the throne.

However, at present, only the list of officials has been promulgated, including the county governors, governors and important ministers of the imperial court, and the rest of the local county orders and grassroots officials have not been moved for the time being, and there are scattered officials, lords, and knights who have not yet started.

These things were intended to be used as rewards for meritorious heroes after Liu Bei ascended the throne, so the official positions were arranged first, and then the rewards were given later.

At this moment, there are already many people sitting in the venue, and a lot of mats are arranged under the venue, arranged according to the size and rank of the officials, and the people who can participate in this ceremony are at least officials of the sixth grade or above, and even Xue Yong, the Taishou of Nanjun, can only be a greeting, which shows how high the standard system is.

Jia Xu is a scholar and a servant, and he is a third product. In fact, Liu Bei wanted him to be Shang Shuling, ranking as the deputy minister of the three provinces, but the old man thought that he was not Liu Bei's old minister, and Liu Bei had many talent factions, and he was afraid of being suspicious and excluded by others, so he adopted a self-protection strategy, kept himself behind closed doors, did not interact with others in private, and resolutely did not accept the position of deputy minister.

In desperation, Liu Bei had no choice but to let him shoot for Shangshu's left servant. However, after the opening of the new dynasty, to establish the three dukes, the original only Taifu Xu Jing, now cancel the Taifu, restore the Taiwei, Situ, Sikong positions, Liu Bei let him concurrently serve as the Taiwei, so that nominally his position is the Taiwei and Shangshu left servant, from the first product, there is the post of recording the Shangshu, participating in the decision-making of the central politics.

He was placed in the first column after he got there.

Sitting in the first row, there are naturally only the prime minister, the general, the three dukes, and the hussar general, the chariot general, and the Wei general.

It's just that some of them are missing.

Zhang Fei is a hussar general recommended by Shen Chen, although the hussar general and the chariot cavalry general Wei are of the same rank, but when arranging the seats, the hussar general is often only below the general.

But Liu Bei crossed out Zhang Fei's name, changed Shen Chen to the hussar general, and made Zhang Fei the chariot general.

Since Zhang Fei was still guarding Xiliang, he was absent.

It's not just Zhang Fei.

Guan Yu and Huang Zhong, the generals guarding the border passes, did not come.

However, Xu Shu withdrew from Hanzhong, and is currently appointed by Liu Bei as the secretary of the disciple, and Pang Tong and Fa Zheng are the chief officials of the three provinces.

Soon there were more and more people at the venue, and they all arrived.

According to convention, it should have been Baiguan who got up early and followed today's protagonist Liu Bei to the venue.

Then there are some steps before the ceremony begins, such as Liu Bei arrived at the venue with hundreds of officials, the honor guard played music, the soldiers of the three armies opened the way, and the rear officials followed, sprinkling water along the street and moving all the way.

But that rule was a bit torturous, only the Son of Heaven could sit in the Luanyu carriage, and then the prime minister, the general, and the three dukes could ride in the carriage or on horseback, and the rest had to walk.

In order to take care of some old people who followed him to fight the country, Liu Bei ordered everyone to go to the venue by themselves before the ceremony began, and there was no need to go through this process.

At this moment, in the first row below, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, Taiwei Jia Xu, Situ Xu Jing, Sikong Huangzhu, Hussar General Shen Chen, and Wei General Ma Chao, six people were already sitting in their positions.

The second and third rows are the second and second products, the head of the nine Qings, Taichang Qing Lai Gong needs to preside over the ceremony, and the new Guanglu Xun Mi Zhu, Shaofu Zhang Song, Zongzheng Liu Yan, Tingwei Wang Mou, Taifu Zhou Lin, Dasi Nong Li Hui and others have all been present.

There are also Shangshu Ling Pang Tong, Zhongshu Cheng Fazheng, and Xu Shu under the door, Zhao Yun, who was meritorious in killing Cao Chunwei and Huainan in Dongxing Embankment, was promoted to the rear general, and the later general Huang Zhong moved to the former general, and Wei Yan and Pang De broke Wu Ligong and were promoted to the left and right generals.

However, Wei Yan and Pang Deju were not here, they were following Guan Yu to guard Jiangdong at this time, and only Ma Chao and Zhao Yun followed Liu Bei back to the court, so the four generals were currently absent from three people, and only Zhao Yun was present.

The rest of the officials below the third grade are different, and at present, in the Liu Bei group system, the Yuancong faction and the Jingzhou faction still occupy a high position.

For example, Jian Yong, Sun Qian, Mi Zhu, Mi Fang, Shiren, Liu Yan, Yuan Qi, Xiahou Su, these old people who followed Liu Bei when he was in Youzhou or Xuzhou, have always held high positions, even if their abilities are not outstanding, their qualifications still give them great help.

For example, Liu Yan was a general in history, Yuan Qi was a general in the west, and Shiren and Mi Fang's status in the Jingzhou period was only below Guan Yu, so they were generally around the third to second rank.

However, at present, Jian Yong, Sun Qian, and Xiahou Su have been sick and died for several years, and if they are there, the positions of the three princes and nine kings may have to be changed.

There are also Jingzhou factions.

If you follow Yin Ji, Li Yan, Han Ran and others earlier, their status is not bad, at least they are also at the third-grade level. Yin Guan, Xiang Lang, Xi Zhen, Ma Jun, Ma Liang, Pang Shanmin, Kuai Qi and others are also county guards above the fourth grade, and belong to the middle and high levels.

On the other hand, the Yizhou faction is much worse.

In addition to Fa Zheng, Meng Da, Zhang Song, Li Hui, Pang Xi, and Wu Ban, who took the initiative to surrender in the early days, it was Wu Yi, Fei Guan, Zhang Yi, Wu Lan and others who surrendered to Liu Bei in the Battle of Zigui had a higher status.

The rest of Yan Yan, Yang Huai, Gao Pei, Deng Xian, Leng Bao, Zhang Ren, Liu Bi, Fu Ban, Xiang Cun, Lei Tong, Yang Ren, etc., all belong to the third-line intermediate generals.

Basically, they are between the fourth and fifth grades, and at present, Yan Yan Zhang Ren is the general of the fourth grade, and the rest are either from the fourth grade from the general, or from the fifth grade or from the fifth grade of the general, General Pi, etc.

However, as the saying goes, there is no harm without contrast.

It is true that the Yizhou faction has been slow to rise due to late joining, poor qualifications, and other reasons. But compared to them, at least some people are at the bottom.

Yangzhou faction.

If Liu Bei hadn't ignored Zhuge Liang's opposition and forcibly promoted Zhuge Jin to the left servant of Zhongshu, maybe the Yangzhou faction didn't even have more than one positive fourth grade.

But it can't be helped.

The official position is a turnip and a pit.

People join early, have deep qualifications, and have a lot of credit, so they naturally occupy a high position.

The Yangzhou faction supports Sun Quan, and he resists stubbornly, even if he doesn't punish him, it's not bad, and he wants to be promoted quickly, which is obviously unlikely.

Therefore, in the future, we can only wait for talents to make great contributions, otherwise the Yangzhou faction will not be able to raise its head.

Of course.

Because they had to guard against Cao Wei and some ethnic minorities in the southwest, most of the generals were not present.

There were hundreds of people in the venue, most of whom were civilian officials.

Such as the prime minister, the three princes and nine qing, the prince and the prince, the great Changqiu, the prince and the young master, the general master, the chief official of the three provinces, the left and right servants, the six Cao Shangshu, the middle book, the door, the Supervision Yuan, the imperial history platform, the three princes and their subordinate officials and so on.

For example, Lu Xun is currently serving as Shang Shulang of Shangshutai, and he was shot by Shangshu Ling, left and right servants in Shangshutai, Shangshu left and right, and Liucao Shangshu were in charge, according to the previous rank of 400 stones, and now it is from the seventh grade.

However, being Shang Shulang is not a bad thing, although Shang Shulang, Zhongshu Secretary, and Menxia Shi of the three provinces are only the lowest positions, they are not miscellaneous officials in the three provinces, but staff officers who can follow the chief officials of the three provinces to meet the emperor and show their faces in front of the emperor.

Once you are able to put forward constructive suggestions, you will be promoted soon if you don't say well.

Therefore, many officials are vying to become members of the three provincial ministries, hoping to participate in the highest political decision-making of the central government. It's just that not everyone in the three provinces can be a member of the ministry, and there must be a strategy.

Therefore, at present, Liu Bei's staff group is the majority, such as Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Fa Zheng, Jia Xu, and Xu Shu.

There are also Ma Liang, Huang Quan, Li Yan, Liu Ba, Yang Yi, Deng Zhi, Zheng Du, Jiang Wan, Yin Guan, Xi Zhen, Liao Li and other strategists who also live in the three provinces, or war staff officers, or government affairs strategists.

Even Ma Zhong, who later became the general of Shuhan Zhennan, is currently the right man under his door.

Don't think that Ma Zhong is a military general, in fact, he is a civil official, and he is filial piety and honesty, but he can get on the horse to fight and get off the horse to calm the people, which can be described as both civil and military, so he gradually became a senior general of Shu Han later.

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At this moment, the crowd is bustling, and now the official is divided into nine grades, and Shen Chen originally planned to divide them into three grades with nine to six grades, six to three grades, and two to one grades.

But Zhuge Liang thought it was inappropriate, so he reclassified and designated the nine to seven grades as township and county-level officials, all wearing green robes. The sixth to fourth grades are state and county-level officials, all wearing red robes. Three to one is a state-level official, wearing a purple robe.

Because at present, there are only four states under Liu Bei's hands, Jingzhou, Yizhou, Yangzhou and Jiaozhou, and the pastoral positions of these four states are high, and they should not be at the state and county level, but should belong to the deputy national level directly under the central government.

Therefore, now the officials above the third rank are wearing purple robes, the sixth rank and above are red robes, and the ninth rank and above are green robes.

A moment later, with a shout: "The king has arrived!" ”

The ministers suddenly stopped whispering to each other, and instead looked to the side.

I saw that the carriage stopped outside the venue, and surrounded by Chen Zhi, Xue Yong, who was in charge of the order of the venue today, Lai Gong, who was in charge of the ceremony, and others, Liu Bei got out of the carriage and walked into the venue.

He still wears the robes of the princes, because one of the contents of the ceremony is to change the crown, so he must first wear the robes of the princes and kings before he can replace them with clothes that symbolize the Son of Heaven.

Hearing a long horn sounding, the drum music suddenly sounded, Liu Bei slowly walked into the venue, and climbed the high platform used for the sacrifice step by step along the steps.

"Salute!"

The celebrant shouted.

Pleasure pauses.

The ministers stood up, bowed to the high platform, and said, "Meet the king!" ”

"Excuse me, sit!"

Liu Bei pressed down with both hands.

"King Xie!"

The ministers sat down in response.

Taichang Qing Lai Gong said: "Welcome to God! ”

The process of the emperor's sacrifice to the gods of heaven and earth and the ancestors is the same.

The firewood of the burnt wood stove is lit first to let the smoke rise, which signifies the meaning of communication between the world and the heavens.

Then bow to the ancestors of the gods and spirits on the altar, and then offer jade, silk, three animals, grains, wine, and so on.

This process has nine procedures according to the Zhou ceremony, which is divided into welcoming the gods, laying jade silks, entering the gods, first offerings, sub-offerings, final offerings, removing food, sending gods and wishing for fire.

In addition to sacrificing to the gods, there are also ancestors.

In addition to raising the spiritual throne of his father Liu Hong, Liu Bei was the twenty-fourth emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Under the guidance of Lai Gong, Liu Bei continued to pray to his ancestors in accordance with etiquette.

At the end, the sacrificial ceremony is over, and the enthronement ceremony is completed.

Because the previous sacrificial ceremony is actually Liu Bei praying to the heavens and the ancestors, telling them that the Han was usurped by Cao Pi, and now he must assume the responsibility of reviving the Han Dynasty, convey the matter to the heavens and the ancestors, and pray for the permission and protection of the gods and ancestors.

So now after this matter is passed to God through sacrifice, then it is equivalent to the above already knowing and getting permission, and Liu Bei can officially ascend the throne.

Seeing that Lai Gong burned the jade silk letter written by Liu Bei himself, and passed the news to his ancestor Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and the wise emperors such as Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bei took out a new jade silk letter and began to read it below.

"On the afternoon of August in the autumn of the twenty-sixth year of Jian'an, the emperor dared to use Xuanmu to announce the emperor God and the earth god: the Han has the world, and the history is boundless. Wang Mang usurped the thief, Emperor Guangwu was angry and punished, and the society was restored. Now Cao Cao hinders the soldiers and forbears, and Zi Pi carries his fierce rebellion and steals the artifact. The ministers and soldiers thought that the society was degraded and abandoned, and it was appropriate to repair it, and the two ancestors of the heirs, Gong Xingtian punished. Prepare only for virtue, fear of the emperor's throne, ask the common people, and the barbarian monarch, and say that the mandate of heaven can not not answer, the ancestral industry can not be replaced for a long time, the four seas can not be ownerless, the rate of the soil is hopeful, and there is one person in preparation. Afraid of the power of the sky, and afraid that the Han State will be annihilated to the ground. I would like to choose the first day, go to the altar with hundreds of bureaucrats, and receive the emperor's seal. Cultivating burnt disease, telling the great gods. Only the great god is still feasting! Zuo Yu Han family, forever Sui all over the world. ”

After speaking, he threw the jade silk in his hand into the burnt wood stove and burned it, indicating the situation to the heavens.

Since then, the explanation has been completed.

This was followed by the official enthronement ceremony, with music, dancing, bells and drums.

Liu Bei went to change his clothes and put on a crown dress, and when he returned to the stage, he had already put on the costume of the Twelve Chapters of Heaven.

Lai Gong sang again.

This time, the hundred officials will bow down with their hands raised and their eyebrows, and their mouths will be long lived, and they will be called ministers to play and establish the distinction between kings and ministers.

After that, Liu Bei officially promulgated the edict of enthronement, and at the same time announced the change of the yuan, amnesty to the world, and then gave a banquet to the ministers, and the ceremony lasted until the afternoon, and it was finally over.

Since then.

After the collapse of the old Han regime in September last year.

A new Han regime was established in the south in August of the twenty-sixth year of Jian'an, which was also the first year of Zhang Wu!

This period of time.

Therefore, it is also called the Han and Wei Southern and Northern Dynasties!