In the thirty-fifth year of the Great Jin Dynasty, the enthronement ceremony of the new monarch on April twenty-fourth officially began, before Mu Sheng ascended the throne, although the year name Yongning had already been set, but as the new monarch's Yongning year name only after the spring of the next year, it could be officially announced to change the yuan, in order to see the new atmosphere of the new dynasty.

The fourth emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty is about to officially succeed to the throne, at this time, the square in front of the palace of Jianzhang Palace, the crowds of people, the ministers of the court, and the royal family are all wearing grand dresses to participate in Mu Sheng's enthronement ceremony, and the faces of everyone in the square swept away the solemnity of the state funeral in the past.

In the East Palace, Mu Sheng wore a crown suit and went out of the palace to board the Son of Heaven carried by twenty-eight people, hundreds of brightly armored guards on both sides, holding gilded ceremonial vessels, hundreds of people in the palace raised umbrellas, and the banner followed the emperor's imperial chariot, this is the emperor's guard of honor, and now he is also qualified to use it.

Seeing the emperor ascending to the imperial chariot, the person in front of the salute officer shouted, "Get on." The procession slowly walked to the front of the Four Seas Return to One Temple.

Before the emperor's guard of honor passed through the square, the ministers had serious faces and bowed slightly to show respect.

Mu Sheng entered the main hall under the imperial chariot, ascended the jade platform under the guidance of the celebrant in the hall, and stood in front of the throne, which symbolized the highest power of the empire.

Under the guidance of the palace guards, the ministers of the imperial court entered the hall and stood on both sides, and at this time, the prime minister led the crowd to ask the emperor to ascend to the throne on behalf of the hundred officials.

Huo Zheng, the prime minister of Zuo, stepped forward and bowed slightly: "The first emperor collapsed suddenly, returned to the five elements, Your Majesty inherited the emperor's order, the saint's Hong Xiu, and obeyed the order of the emperor of Daxing. ”

The right prime minister, Wang Yi, stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty respectfully asks Your Majesty to ascend to the throne and succeed the emperor." ”

The ministers set an example and said to the prime minister, and all the civil and military ministers stepped forward one after another to congratulate in unison: "The ministers respectfully ask Your Majesty to ascend to the throne and succeed to the emperor's throne." ”

When Mu Sheng heard this, he bowed slightly and saluted: "The first emperor trusted, I dare not forget, I first ascended to the treasure of virtue and talent, and I still rely on the pro-virtuous, from now on, the pro-virtuous ministers, far villains, listen to the words and accept the advice, and the Qing's family will work together to seek new governance, and assist the government and Anbang." ”

After three resignations, Mu Sheng sat on the emperor's throne, and the ascension ceremony was over.

At this time, the person who praised the salute raised his voice and sang: "Licheng, all the ministers pay homage to the new king." ”

In the four seas returned to one hall, all the ministers knelt on the ground and said in unison: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live." ”

The ministers stood up, and the salute continued to sing: "Worship." ”

All the ministers knelt on the ground again and said in unison: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live my emperor, long live, long live......"

After kneeling three times and bowing nine times, the ceremony is completed, which means that the respect and inferiority have been divided, and the upper and lower orders are in order.

Mu Sheng raised his hand slightly and said, "Zhongqing is flat." ”

The ministers said, "Thank you, Your Majesty." Then His Highness and the ministers got up and sat down.

In this era, the most solemn bow ceremony, only when the emperor ascends the throne, the ministers will kneel, or the sacrifice of heaven and earth will bow down, on general occasions, the minister sees the emperor bowed slightly to look respectful, the status of the monarch and the minister in this era is relatively equal, the king does not regard the minister as a slave, but a kind of workplace cooperation, unlike the Ming and Qing dynasties, the courtiers usually have to kneel when they see the emperor, and they have to kneel to receive the record, which shows that the imperial power has developed to an extreme extent in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The salute of the salute stepped forward again and sang: "The new king succeeds to the throne and promulgates the edict." ”

After the official words of the salute, Fengchang Zhang Xi, one of the nine Qings, came out of the column with the edict in both hands, and he came to the center of the hall with a serious face and read the edict of succession of the new emperor in public.

"When the day is good, I was ordered by Zi Ming, and the edict said: I am the emperor, the inheritance of the unification, and the succession of the ancestors. Feng Chenhan, palm prints, ribbons, bowing to administrative affairs. At that time, the country was not stable, the people's customs were not governed, the dynasty was undecided, and the country was not strong. Over the years, the Qi Qi has been rumbling, and I have only been vigilant, striving to govern the country, to glorify the prestige of the country, to maintain the people's livelihood, and to boost the people's morale. Now that he has suffered a major event, he will succeed me to the throne, that is, the emperor. Relying on the blessing of heaven and the conspiracy of the ancestors, when the world is peaceful and peaceful, they will be able to share the blessings of tranquility with hundreds of millions of people, release the proclamation at home and abroad, and make the Xian envoy know that the twenty-fourth day of the fourth month of the thirty-fifth year of the great unification ......"

The general idea of the edict is what the new emperor will do after succeeding to the throne, which is equivalent to the declaration at the beginning of the reign, the succession edict is read, and the palace salute officer takes the edict and turns around to the palace guards who are on standby outside the palace, and transmits the emperor's succession edict to the palace outside the palace to officially promulgate the world, so that all counties and counties across the country know that the emperor has been replaced, and it will be a new dynasty in the future.

The ministers congratulated the new monarch on the throne, because the state funeral has not officially ended, the congratulatory table is inconvenient to preach in public, just placed on the emperor's imperial case, and then Mu Sheng got the throne again and went to the palace to climb the platform to worship the heaven and earth, and sacrifice to the ancestors of the temple, the new monarch succeeded to the throne The ceremony was officially over, and Mu Sheng was officially on the job.

In the early morning of the next day, Mu Sheng just got up and went out of Changchun Palace, breathing fresh air outside the palace, and now he has officially succeeded to the throne, and the widows of the first emperor in the palace have moved out of Qingyang Palace one after another, and he also took the only woman around him, Princess Ruimuyi of the Dongyue clan officially moved from the East Palace to live in the Inner Palace.

At this time, Ruimuyi silently came behind Mu Sheng, put a coat on the emperor, Mu Sheng turned around and pulled Ruimuyi's jade hand, and hugged her into his arms, Ruimuyi looked happy and obediently snuggled in his arms.

After a while, she raised her head and saw Mu Sheng looking into the distance in a daze with a solemn face, and asked, "Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?" ”

Mu Sheng came back to his senses and said, "It's nothing, I just remembered the past when my father was still there......

When Rui Muyi heard this, he thought that Mu Sheng was still grateful for the first emperor, so he didn't ask more.

I don't know why, after Mu Sheng officially took over, he had long lost the excitement of inheriting the throne in his heart, and some just felt endless confusion and loneliness, all of a sudden, the pillars of the entire empire were gone, and he had to fulfill his duties as the king of a country from now on, which made him feel pressure in his heart, he didn't know if he could govern the country well, although he didn't say it now, it was Zuo Prime Minister Huo Zheng who actually ruled it, but he knew in his heart that sooner or later the baton of the empire would still have to be handed over to him, and it was not easy to fight the country. It's harder to defend the country.

At this time, Yang Jin, the head of the inner court, saw that the emperor was at the gate of the palace, so he trotted forward and said: "Your Majesty, the pro-government ceremony has been prepared, please move your Majesty." ”

Mu Sheng bowed his head and said, "Okay, I know." ”

After Mu Sheng left the palace, Shi Shiran boarded the dragon chariot, which was once a luxury carriage that his father was only qualified to ride, the carriage started slowly, the emperor's guard of honor went out of the palace gate, the chariot of the court's important ministers and civil and military officials, the chariot of the royal family, and the lieutenant army guarding the emperor, thousands of people went to Bocheng, the old capital of the Jin Kingdom.

The reason why the pro-government ceremony should be placed in Bo City, is that the Jin State was in the early Warring States period, Bo City is the capital of the Jin State, many Jin Dynasty tombs and temples are in Bo City, the historical significance is very important, the previous Jin monarchs succeeded to the throne in Qingyang City, accompanied by the important ministers of the imperial court, personally went to Bo City to hold a pro-government ceremony, and the leadership group was officially completed.

Since the Jin State changed the law, the Jin State as a whole has undergone a major historical change, the Jin Dynasty Wugong era, the Wu Gong appointed Xiling Jun Wei Yang to change the law, the strength of the Jin State soared, the then Central Plains overlord Song State defeated and lost, a lot of land in the west of the Song State belonged to the Jin State, and the Jin State finally stepped on the remnants of the former overlord and became one of the first-line powers in the Warring States Period.

Qingyang City, the heart of the empire, was originally just a military fortress in the west of the Song Kingdom, and after the Jin State swallowed the entire western border of the Song Kingdom, under the auspices of Wei Yang, the king of Xiling, the capital of the Jin Kingdom was moved to Qingyang City, and Qingyang was able to expand on a large scale to form such a glorious appearance today.

The emperor's guards slowly marched towards the old capital Bocheng, along the way, Mu Sheng lifted the curtain to look at the thousands of miles of fertile fields in this pass, the fields are longitudinal and horizontal, endless, he sighed in his heart, now there is a thin layer of residual snow on the ridge has not completely melted away, the people in Guanzhong have begun to go out in groups for spring planting, the people on the ridge saw the emperor's guard of honor coming from afar, immediately stopped the farm work in their hands, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, until the emperor's guard of honor was far away, and then began to be busy with the work in their hands again.

In this era, there are people with grain, in fact, not only by virtue of the grain production area of Guanzhong, but also by virtue of the era of the third Zhaowu Emperor, the Yuezhi County, Gan County, and the Yunzhong County developed to the southwest, are fertile thousands of miles, rich in the country of abundance, it can be said that whoever controls these places rich in grain, this world is who's.