A few days later, the emperor's guards finally arrived at Bocheng, the former capital of the Jin Kingdom, and the chief steward Yang Jin helped the emperor to get out of the car carefully, and at this time, the officials who had been waiting outside the city for a long time greeted him.

The first official is Li Ping, the local parent official Bocheng Ling, Mu Sheng was a little stunned when he saw that it was him, he was the deputy envoy who followed him to the mountain puppet, but he didn't expect him to come here to be the leader of Bocheng.

When Li Ping saw the emperor arrive, he was excited, and led the officials of Bocheng to come forward and salute and said: "Minister Li Ping, long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

Mu Sheng smiled slightly and said, "Zhongqing is flat." ”

Li Ping took the opportunity to congratulate the new monarch on his succession to the throne, and stepped forward to explain the local customs and customs for the emperor, he knew that this was his opportunity to perform, not to mention the old friendship with today.

Mu Sheng asked: "Li Qing's family, I and Qing have had a friendship with colleagues in the past, I haven't seen each other for so many years, and I didn't expect you to be a parent official here." ”

Li Ping was flattered when he heard this, and said: "Your Majesty still remembers the events of the past, Weichen was flattered, and now that the minister has gone out of Beijing to become a magistrate, he naturally wants to take it as his responsibility to be kind to the people." ”

Mu Sheng bowed his head and said: "By the way, I remember that Li Qing was a counselor in Beijing at the beginning, and he was very trusted by the first emperor, why did he go to Bocheng to do the Bocheng Order now?" ”

The reason why Mu Sheng asked this question is because ordinary promising people in Beijing will not easily go out of Beijing to become officials, and once they are far away from the center of power, it will be difficult to come back.

When Li Ping heard this, he didn't give a positive answer, but just glanced at Huo Zheng, the prime minister of Zuo, who was following the emperor.

This small action naturally couldn't hide from Mu Sheng's eyes, and he instantly understood in his heart that Li Ping must have been squeezed out by Huo Xiang for some reason, so he had to be sent here.

Now that Huo Xiang is dictatorship, Mu Sheng can't say anything, just wait until he sits in a firm position in the future.

Accompanied by Li Ping, the commander of Bocheng, the emperor went to the palace of Bocheng to live temporarily, just waiting for the pro-government ceremony to begin.

The emperor's guards entered the old palace of Debo City, and after coming to the old palace, the scale here is much smaller than that of Qingyang Palace, after all, the Jin Kingdom in the early Warring States period was only a second-tier vassal state, and its national strength was limited.

Naturally, the old palace also has palace people who are responsible for sprinkling and cleaning every day, because it is the old palace, and there are no royal family members living here for a long time, and the number of staff in the palace is also very small.

Mu Sheng was also here for the first time, and he was naturally driven by curiosity, so he had to take a good look at the palace back and forth.

The old palace of Bocheng changed the name of the country to Jin from Jin Huigong, moved the capital to Bocheng, built the palace room, and now has experienced more than 500 years, the beams and pillars of the palace are obviously old, the weeds are overgrown between the floor tiles, but it seems quite a sense of desolation, except for the occasional few old palace people who are shuttling back and forth, all seem quiet and abnormal, as if a certain dynasty suddenly disappeared.

Mu Sheng looked around along the way, and sighed in his heart, this is the trace of history, this old palace has witnessed the whole process of the people in this land working hard and forging ahead, and also witnessed the whole process of the rise of this country for hundreds of years.

Bocheng Ling Li Ping, who accompanied the emperor to observe the words and expressions left and right, saw that the old palace was ruined, so he stepped forward to report: "Your Majesty, after I moved the capital to Qingyang, the old palace of Bocheng is indeed in disrepair, only the main palace to hold a pro-government ceremony, the imperial court has always had special funds to maintain every year, our local financial resources are limited, if there is no imperial court appropriation, the other palaces in the old palace can only barely maintain the old appearance." ”

Mu Sheng bowed his head slightly, he couldn't say anything, now that Huo Xiang is in power, the financial power is naturally the final say from the Prime Minister's Mansion, and he can only go back to discuss with Huo Xiang about the matter of appropriating funds to repair the old palace, and he has no decision-making power.

In the early morning of the next day, Mu Sheng changed into a crown dress, surrounded by a group of civil and military officials, he went to the main palace of the old palace to hold a ceremony to confer the seal and ascend to the palace.

In the square, the drums rumbled, the trumpets sounded, accompanied by solemn auspicious music, the people who praised the officials led the crowd out, singing the sacrificial text of the sacrifice to heaven and earth: "Fortunately, heaven and earth have a way, the sun and the moon are orderly, the sky rains down, and the earth grows grains; Mountains and rivers are affectionate, breeding ten thousand kinds, fortunately the gods are in place, and the rivers and mountains are eternal; Heavenly virtue ......"

After reading the sacrificial text, the emperor took the meat handed over by the ceremonial officer, climbed the high platform to offer the sacrifice, and led the ministers to worship heaven and earth.

After worshipping heaven and earth, the three saluting officials carefully held four trays in their hands and sang: "Ten thousand years of the Great Jin Dynasty, the new monarch's heir, please pay your respects." ”

Under the gaze of a group of civil and military officials of the imperial court, as well as the royal family, the praise official first held a palm-sized, simple jade beast to offer, this jade beast was passed down from the Liang era, is a magic weapon to verify the royal bloodline of the surname Jiang, first passed this pass, in order to carry out the next step, the seal ceremony.

The salute officer took out a piece of silver and saluted respectfully to Mu Sheng and said, "The minister is dead, please stretch out your index finger and take a drop of essence blood." ”

Mu Sheng stretched out his hand when he heard this, but the praise official pricked it with a silver needle for a long time, and he couldn't get it in, so anxious that his forehead sweated, and all the ministers and royal relatives in the hall also looked at each other.

Seeing this, Mu Sheng reacted and said, "I am a monk, and my body is different from ordinary people, so I can come by myself." ”

After that, Mu Sheng took the silver needle, poured spiritual power into the index finger and pricked it gently, a drop of essence blood dropped on the ancient jade beast, the essence blood was instantly absorbed by the jade beast, at this time the jade beast vibrated slightly, slowly suspended and rose, the jade beast's internal law pattern was looming, there seemed to be a streamer leaking out, it seemed that the jade beast seemed to be opened, extremely beautiful, suddenly the jade beast slowly flew into Mu Sheng's hands from the tray before gradually disappearing the divine light, and everyone at the scene breathed a sigh of relief, which proved that the bloodline of the new monarch is no problem.

The jade beast flew into Mu Sheng's hands, and he found out that this ancient jade beast was actually a magic weapon, and it could only be activated if it had the royal blood of the Jin Kingdom flowing on its body, but this magic weapon only had this one function, which was to confirm whether the successor was a royal bloodline, if not, then it would be a big problem.

It is said that this verification method is also handed down from the era of the Yu Dynasty, the Warring States Period, the countries used to verify the royal bloodline in a variety of ways, most of the princes and royal families will choose a jade magic weapon medium as the legal carrier of the royal bloodline, because the jade that can be refined into a magic weapon is very rare.

The magic weapon carrier or jade jue, there are also jade gui, jade beasts, of course, there are also jade seals, after the founding of the Jin Kingdom, the jade beasts that were passed down by the Liang State to verify the bloodline have been passed down to this day.

The succession of the monarchs of various countries in the Warring States Period has to go through this link, if it can't be passed, it will be a big chaos immediately, the royal bloodline can not be contaminated with a foreign surname, if there is a scandal in the inner palace, this is also a great scandal for the countries, unless it is a change of dynasty, it doesn't matter, the founder of the new dynasty will re-refine the jade beast that verifies the bloodline and pass it on to future generations.

However, this kind of thing rarely happens in history, because when the prince was born, the Zongzheng Mansion, which was in charge of royal affairs, would send a special person to verify the prince's bloodline, and there would be detailed file records, the process was extremely rigorous, and it was extremely difficult to falsify.

After the bloodline ceremony, the second tray is placed since King Wu accepted the former dynasty Yu Tianzi Zen let, said that the first emperor began to pass down the jade seal, it is said that this jade seal is the treasure of the previous dynasty Yu royal treasury collected for hundreds of years, after the fall of the Yu Dynasty, the royal family dedicated this treasure jade to King Wu of Jin, King Wu accepted the Zen let called the first emperor, then carved this jade into the heirloom jade seal, after the second emperor, the third emperor, after three generations of emperors passed to the present, all the emperor's edicts, can only be stamped with this seal, in order to promulgate the world.

The salute officer stepped forward to present the jade seal of the country and sang, "Your Majesty, please grant the seal." ”

When Mu Sheng heard this, he ceremoniously took the jade seal.

After the emperor received the seal, the salute of the salute presented a third tray and sang: "Your Majesty, please give me the sword." ”

Hearing this, Mu Sheng placed the jade seal in his hand in the tray next to him, he respectfully took the Wang sword, stroked the bronze ancient sword, and then tied it around his waist. Sword, also called Liang Jun sword, see the sword such as the face of the king, only the monarchs of the Jin Kingdom can wear, usually every major festival, or the great court, the emperor will wear this sword, this sword is also from the Liang State founder Jiang Boyong officially after the official seal handed down to the present, this sword is the former dynasty Yu Tianzi personally given, is also one of the world's famous swords, more than 800 years of history, put aside the future generations, that is to be displayed in the museum tempered glass after the visit of the national treasure, it represents even more than the national jade seal.

The salute brought a fourth tray and presented it to the emperor, singing, "Your Majesty, please grant the tiger talisman." ”

This fourth plate is the only tiger talisman that can mobilize the world's soldiers and horses, now in such a situation, the symbolic meaning of the tiger talisman is far greater than the actual meaning, really want to mobilize the soldiers and horses, you have to cooperate with the imperial court edict with the seal, hold this tiger talisman to mobilize the soldiers and horses, want to use the country's heavy weapons must pass through the imperial court.

As for the forbidden army armed Lang Wei, palace guard, and lieutenant army belonging to the emperor, they have long been controlled by Huo Xiangguo's cronies, both inside and out, and now Mu Sheng is basically equal to the commander of the light pole, unless he can be sure that he can completely control Qingyang City, the power given to him by this tiger talisman will be meaningful.

Mu Sheng stepped forward and held the tiger talisman with both hands, which meant that he could theoretically have the right to mobilize the world's soldiers and horses.

The salute of the salute salute sang: "The ceremony is completed, and the ministers pay homage to the new king." ”

The ministers bowed slightly and saluted: "Ten thousand years of the Great Jin, long live my emperor, long live my emperor, long live it......"

From today on, Mu Sheng is officially pro-government, but it is only a pro-government on the surface, he succeeded to the throne too suddenly, and he took up the post in just a few months, there is no one in the court to rely on, and there is no ruling team of his own, everything still has to go according to Huo Xiangguo's wishes.

After the pro-government ceremony, Mu Sheng boarded the chariot to the temple of Bocheng to pay homage to his ancestors under the support of the palace people, and his affairs in Bocheng came to an end.

Before Mu Sheng boarded the dragon chariot and returned to Beijing, he exhorted Li Ping, the local official of Bocheng, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the people of Bocheng are now able to live and work in peace and contentment, thanks to the use of psychological politics by the princes, and I am very relieved. ”

Li Ping heard this, his heart was excited, this is a kind of affirmation of his achievements by the leader, Li Ping stepped forward and saluted: "Your Majesty praised, Weichen is flattered, in the future, Weichen will encourage diligent government, for Your Majesty, for the court to share worries." ”

Mu Sheng bowed his head slightly when he heard this, and then he got on the dragon chariot, and at this time, the horns of the emperor's guards sounded in unison, and finally set off on the way back to the capital.

Li Ping and the other officials bowed slightly to send the emperor's guards away, until the guards gradually disappeared into the sky......