In the autumn and August of the twenty-first year of Jian'an, Xun Yu presided over the construction of an altar in the South Palace of Luoyang, which was the place where the ancestor Liu Xiu died, in order to show that he should respond to the people and inherit the ambition of Guangwu.

The high altar is nine miles in radius, distributed in five directions, and the flag guard of honor is arranged, Liu Qi wears a new golden python purple robe, twelve crowns, and the car uniform Luan Yi has been basically equal to the Son of Heaven.

It's not that Xun Yu and others don't understand etiquette and secretly harbor the meaning of trespassing, but Cao Wei used this ceremonial guard first, and the etiquette system of the King of Han naturally cannot be lower than that of the King of Wei, otherwise where will everyone's face go?

According to the etiquette, Liu Qi wrote three words, and under the repeated persuasion of the civil and military forces, he was awarded the title of the king of the Han Dynasty, sat facing south, and was congratulated by the civil and military officials, and changed the Luoyang Palace to the Han Palace.

Liu Qi ascended the altar to burn incense in accordance with the etiquette, worshiped heaven and earth and was knighted, held a self-made seal ribbon and a festival, and set up the eldest son Liu Yong as the prince of the king, Xi Xuan as the princess, Sun Shangxiang and the foot trainer as the side princess.

Feng Yi is the Taifu, Xu Shu is the Shang Shuling, Fa Zheng and Pang Tong are the servants, Zhuge Liang is the military advisor, and the prime minister is a military minister.

The six Cao of Shangshu were changed to officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, and each ministry was appointed as Cao Peng, and Xun Yu was the chief of the book, presiding over government affairs.

The Six Cao Governance is the setting after Guangwu ascended the throne, with three public Cao, the Ministry Cao, the Mincao, the two main and guest Cao of the north and south, the two thousand stone Cao, and the official Cao of the central capital, Liu Qi took this opportunity to form the prototype of the six ministries to prepare for the later reform.

In addition, those with outstanding martial arts in the army were selected to be the generals of the Dragon and Tiger to strengthen the army:

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and Huang Zhong are the generals of the Five Dragons;

Wei Yan, Tai Shici, Gan Ning, Zhang He, and Zhang Ren were the five tiger generals.

Zhou Yu is the governor of the navy, Lu Xun is the commander of the navy, Zhou Tai is the general of the navy, Gan Ning is the general of the navy, and Yu Ban is the governor of the forbidden army, in charge of the recruitment and training of soldiers and horses in the army.

The rest of the officials, big and small, each intended to be knighted for meritorious service, the salute on the square was fired, and the crowd cheered, and a banquet was held in the Mingde Palace to celebrate that day.

On the Hanxing altar, on the high-rise building standing in the northwest, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, and Le Jin looked at this scene with complicated expressions, judging from the scene and the demeanor of the hundred officials, Liu Qi's Han King was obviously more popular than Cao Pi's Wei King at the beginning.

All the civil and military officers stepped forward in turn to salute Liu Qi, and two familiar figures appeared in the crowd: Zhang He and Yu Ban wore golden helmets and chain mail, and their bearings were extraordinary.

Zhang Hu sighed lightly on the side: "If the three elders change their minds early, there will be a place on the red carpet today." ”

"Since ancient times, kings have been defeated and defeated!" Le Qi gasped with his teeth, he had personally experienced Cao Pi's ascension to the throne, and the scene was unbearable to look back on, and he said angrily: "This is the real king's demeanor!" ”

Xu Gai frowned, looked at Xu Huang who was sinking like water, and heard that Cao Pi had ordered to kill him, Xu Huang was so angry that he threw the mountain opening axe given by Cao Cao into the flower pond on the spot, and he didn't know how he felt at this time.

Although Liu Qi emphasized that everything should be simple, it was not trivial to worship the king, the banquet in the palace was placed, the civil and military congratulations, looking at the full house of talents, Liu Qi felt very relieved.

In addition to Xun Yu, Zhang Hong, Yi Yuan, Xiang Lang and other internal affairs figures, there were Zhuge Liang, Xu Shu, Fa Zheng, Zhao Yun, Zhang He, Yu Ban, Huo Jun, etc., these people alone are enough to compete for hegemony.

If you add the few people who are locked up in Hanxingtan, their strength has already surpassed Cao Wei, not to mention that the main force is fighting outside?

Now that Adou is replacing the throne, Xinghan can also hold the handle, right?

When he was drinking, he saw Zhuge Jun limping in with an old Taoist, wearing wooden shoes, carrying a wine gourd, gray beard, and black and gray face, it was Zuo Ci.

Liu Qi hurriedly got up to greet him, and let Zuo Ci sit beside him, not to mention that Chen Liuxiangrui Zuo Ci made a lot of efforts, that is, in the past ten years, he has sold medicine in Shaomu Mountain, but he has made a lot of money from the Cao Wei clan.

To build Luoyang Palace, Zuoci alone donated as much as 500 million, but he did not leave much, which was much purer than those wealthy families.

After seeing the ceremony, Zuo Ci presented a brocade box: "This is the new elixir of the poor road in recent years, and it is specially given to the king, may the king live a long and healthy life, and continue to be Hanzuo." ”

Liu Qi took it and opened it, and a scent of honey came to his nose, only to see five finger-sized pills, shiny and smooth, and asked, "I don't know what the name of this pill is?" ”

"This is the Five Elements Pill!" Zuo Ci was quite complacent, pulling his beard and said: "In the past, the poor road refined the five stone powder, often because the fire was not available, there was always residue, and later added some saltpeter to make thunder fire, and finally practiced this five elements pill!" ”

"Five Elements Pill?" Liu Qi's heart jumped, it turned out to be an advanced version of Wushisan, this thing is similar to that pineapple cake.

Quietly put it on the table, but he was more concerned about the thunder fire he said, the fire dragon and thunderbolt in the sky above Chen Liu, that is, Zuo Ci's thunder fire and Zhuge Liang's Kong Ming lantern were completed together.

Xie Guo Zuo Ci asked, "How could the Dao Chief's previous immortal wind Dao bones drift out of the dust, how could they become like this?" ”

Zuo Ci sighed: "Alas, the king doesn't know, the poor way to control thunder and fire, not overnight, but constantly trying, adding all kinds of fire-causing things, and once again accidentally caught fire, the Dan furnace exploded, and almost drove to the west!" ”

Liu Qi was excited for a while, and hurriedly asked, "Do you remember what the Daoist used to start the fire that time?" ”

"How?" Zuo Ci glared at Liu Qi with one eye: "The king still wants to let the old way feather again?" ”

"No, no, no, there is no such intention, this king is just curious!" Liu Qi waved his hand, thinking that it was probably Zuo Ci who had tried the gunpowder formula.

Although he also knows that one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal are gunpowder formulas, this is not something that can be completed by simply mixing a few things, and the mining and smelting technology of this era is not up to standard, and even most of the weapons in the army are bronze, not to mention the production of firearms.

But Zuo Ci inadvertently made black powder, and it seemed to raise the smelting temperature, which made Liu Qi move his mind again, the Central Plains is about to be unified, if there can be firearms to help, wouldn't conquering the alien race be an autumn wind sweeping the leaves?

Zhuge Liang accompanied Zuo Ci on the side and asked: "Liang once studied astrology in Wudang, only peeked into the doorway, and watched the chaos of the sky up close, and the displacement of the stars, I don't know what the solution is for the uncle?" ”

Zuo Ci said with a smile: "Poor Dao is looking at the heavenly phenomena today, crape myrtle rises between the bull fights, and the stars are hidden in the sky, indicating that Han Zuo will be prosperous!" Cao Mengde rose to prominence because of the Yan Han, but died in the water, which shows that his fate does not match, and the person who prospers the Han Dynasty is none other than the King of Han. ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and they all toasted Zuo Ci, and the drum music rose again during the banquet, and in the sound of silk and bamboo bells and chimes, Liu Qi was planning to set up a firearms battalion, even if there were no muskets and cannons, and a few earthen cannons were used to bomb the city wall, which was also subversive in this era.

When he was celebrating, suddenly Shi Ajian walked into the hall, passed the dancers regardless of etiquette, and delivered a secret letter to Liu Qi, everyone realized that the situation was urgent, and they all stopped unconsciously and looked at the hall.

Liu Qi read the letter and handed it to Fa Zheng beside him, but Fa Zheng smiled slightly, hugged his fists and said: "The lord is crowned king and knighted today, and he sacrifices to the gods of heaven and earth, so there is no need to miss the good day and auspicious day because of some trivial things." ”

Liu Qi understood, motioned for Shi A to step back, raised his glass and looked around, and laughed: "Today's banquet, if you don't get drunk, you won't return, then play music, and then dance!" ”