Chapter 8 Tianbao
On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Hanyuan Hall met five major dynasties. Although the emperor often absent, the officials and ministers in the capital had to go there. Xue Chongxun also took a carriage to enter the palace to meet and walk around with the ministers. When the guard of honor just passed by the canal, he suddenly heard a loud "boom" sound, and water splashed everywhere on the river surface, and all the pedestrians on the shore were shocked. Xue Chongxun's guard stopped hurriedly, and the cavalry rushed to both sides of the carriage, surrounding Xue Chongxun's carriage.
A ball of black things emerged from the river water for a while. I saw a "person" wearing a black robe and a two-winged official hat standing on the water. "Here is the God of the River!" The officials and civilians on the road shouted, and many ordinary people hurriedly fell to the ground and kowtowed.
Xue Chongxun hurriedly got out of the carriage and watched the situation in the river. At this time, the black-robed god raised his arm and pointed at him, shouting, "Come and receive Tianbao!" Xue Chongxun looked surprised and slowly walked to the river surrounded by everyone.
A white thing suddenly appeared in the hand of the black-robed god. Because he was covered in darkness, he held a snow-white thing in his hand, which was conspicuous. He raised the thing in his hand and threw it on the river bank, throwing the things towards Xue Chongxun. This thing was not accurate and was a bit too high. Fortunately, Xue Chongxun was a martial arts practitioner, so he jumped and stretched out his arms and finally caught it.
Seeing this, the black-robed god suddenly got into the water and disappeared. After a while, a white crane suddenly appeared on the water surface, and flew out on the water surface for a few times and screamed and flew towards the sky.
Su Jin, who was standing beside him, reacted the fastest and immediately knelt down in front of Xue Chongxun and shouted loudly: "Heaven sends gods to the earth to give the seal. The destiny of heaven should not be violated. Please follow the destiny of heaven and rule the world!"
Xue Chongxun was surprised by it, and flipped the jade in his hand and read the words on it: "I will live forever and prosper forever." It was indeed a divine grant of power to the king.
The staff and the guards dismounted one after another, fell to the Tao and shouted: "Your Majesty will live forever."
The pedestrians and people on both sides of the Caohe River all fell on the roadside in awe. After a while, people didn't know where they brought incense and candles to light them by the river. Suddenly, the blue smoke lingered, and many people muttered. Xue Chongxun faintly heard a sentence from the wind: "The Bodhisattva blessed my son to be seriously ill and safe..."
Xue Chongxun and others stayed in Caohe for a while and continued to take a car into the court. At this time, many ministers heard about what happened by the river and persuaded them to enter in person. When they arrived at Hanyuan Hall, they saw Emperor Li Chengning standing in the hall with a jade seal in his hand, and the eunuch Yu Liben Xuan Xuan summoned him to abdicate.
Xue Chongxun was stunned in the middle of the hall, and the ministers looked at each other. Except for those who kept persuading him to ascend the throne, people did not say a word. Many people were looking forward to watching him, especially the officials and generals who often walked around the Jin Palace, who looked red at this moment.
This matter was probably caused by Su Jin and others. Xue Chongxun was stunned for a while and wondered how the "blackheaded man" on the river floated on the water. Could it be that he had made a stake in the river? It was also very hard to come out of the water in the cold winter.
He took out the jade seal he got from Hegong from his arms and took a look: Should I take the lead now?
Everything seemed like a dream. Xue Chongxun bit the tip of his tongue secretly, and a pain came immediately. He couldn't help but frown. There were many people who had taken their lives, but those people disappeared in the void, and he was still alive, and the throne above was right in front of him. He had faced many challenges, so why bother retreating at this moment?
Xue Chongxun didn't care about it, and only had one thought in his mind: I was not sitting alone in this seat. Even if some people were dissatisfied, many people wanted to maintain it.
He coughed, and suddenly realized that he was speechless: "The ministers persuaded him to advance three times, but refused to obtain... Today, he did not dare to disobey him."
...The next morning, a very novel "government handover ceremony" occurred in Chang'an City. The Mingguang army of Wugong County marched to Mingde Gate overnight, and then the drums were loudly sounded. The flag with the word "Tang" written on the city gate was slowly lowered, and then the flagpole was hung on the flagpole. Other gates followed the banners of the Tang Dynasty and fell down the flagpole one after another.
Everything went smoothly and smoothly, and there was no riot in the city. Although the footsteps of the army were always sounding on Zhuque Street, they were all mobilized in an orderly manner. The imperial guards in the North were ordered to transfer the north from Xuanzhong Gate, and the foreign troops from the South Ya came out of Mingde Gate and transferred the garrisons of the various military towns in the capital. The palace and city defense changed hands, and the Shence Army and the Mingguang Army controlled the various defenses.
After the military power was handed over, each gang posted a copy of the edict, and there were clerks there to read it so that the illiterate people could know what happened. This was called to change the dynasty in the world. The new dynasty surname Xue was, and as expected by the world, the country's name was changed to "Jin" and the year's name was changed to "Tianbao" this year. The meaning of taking the gods to come to earth to drink "Come to give Tianbao", which also means that the emperor is a person favored by God.
Many scholars burst into tears when they heard about the change. Some of them left their official seals and took off their official robe and went back home on the same day. However, there were still no shortage of commendations. The governments in various places were also operating normally, which was gratifying that there was no violent incident for the time being. Those who claimed to themselves had to express their dissatisfaction by resigning from their officials. Few were willing to directly organize force confrontations. After all, the dynasty had a complete set of civil and military preparations, and it was meaningless to hit stones with eggs.
A minister wrote a letter to inform Xue Chongxun that he moved the capital and ascended the throne in Luoyang. However, after Xue Chongxun discussed with his advisers, he believed that after the grain transportation was smooth, Chang'an would not be short of materials, and he gained the benefits of the terrain, and he became even more royal in his profession. Chang'an was the former place of the Qin Dynasty, and the military defense of Guandong was high and the fortresses, which was very advantageous. The Jin Dynasty had to predict possible crises. As for the power of Guanlong military generals before the Tang Dynasty, they had no strength after passing through the Wuze Dynasty. Just like Cheng Qianli, he was actually considered a Guanlong noble, and obviously became a relative of the Xue family. Those who could really stand up against the new regime might be the Shandong gentry.
After some preparation, Xue Chongxun made the emperor in the Tai Chi Palace in the old Tang Dynasty. At the same time, he issued an edict to pardon the world, reduce the taxes of some prefectures and counties in one year, and the taxes of the whole world were reduced by half. Xue Chongxun wanted to save the people's hearts, but in the past few years, the number of troops used in the army was huge, and it was a problem not to collect taxes for a year. Therefore, for ordinary people, such a change of dynasties did not go through natural disasters and wars, it was a good thing to reduce taxes and crimes from the rise. It has nothing to do with the emperor and ordinary people. The farmers and pawns did not understand the national policy level.
Xue Chongxun held the throne ceremony in Tai Chi Palace because the Li Palace is located in the north of Chang'an City. However, the Tai Chi Palace is low and will be very cloudy in summer, and the political center will not be transferred. It should continue the pattern of the Daming Palace.
Sure enough, after the ceremony, Xue Chongxun moved to the Daming Palace. With him, only his wife Li Yan'er was with him. The rest of the family still lived in the King of Jin before he had time to arrange it.
Until late at night, he was still in Xuanzheng Hall and was naturally diligent in his excuses. In fact, he was so excited that he had no sleepiness. This was not the first time he came to Daming Palace, but in the past, he either sat in the audience or stood on one side. It was indeed the first time he sat high on the throne like now.
There were many memorials in front of him, most of which were praises. He didn't read a word and couldn't see it at all. He just sat here and felt his new identity. He put his hand on the armrest of the throne, and it felt like holding everything under the world in his hand. His eyes were shining without any tiredness: From now on, I would do whatever I want, and have the highest absolute power!
It was already the third update, except for some eunuchs and palace maids on duty in the palace, there were no one in the hall, but Xue Chongxun felt that the hall was still full of civil and military officials listening to his orders. There were at least tens of thousands of beauties in this palace! If one change every day, it would be for thirty years. Xue Chongxun smiled on his face, and suddenly he thought that they were all old in thirty years. The concubines of the previous dynasty could play with him? His smile gradually disappeared, and it was indeed a problem to treat the Li family. The first thing to do was to go to Huaqing Palace to meet Princess Taiping.
"Your Majesty hasn't rested yet?" A voice interrupted Xue Chongxun's thoughts. When he looked back, it turned out to be Yu Liben. Yu Liben said: "The Imperial Chef has cooked some meat soup for Your Majesty."
Xue Chongxun said, "I'm really hungry." After saying that, he pretended to pick up a memorial and looked at it, still thinking about the beauty of the Daming Palace.
At this time, Sanniang, who was standing by, stopped the palace maid who was serving the food, picked up a spoon and scooped a little into a small bowl, tasted it himself, and then put them over. Yu Liben felt a little unhappy when he saw this. Obviously, the little girl next to Xue Chongxun was afraid that the food would be poisonous. Yu Liben thought: The family is still doing internal affairs. Can the family not know how to prevent these things, and do not believe in the family?"
Xue Chongxun's mood did fluctuate a bit tonight. It may be that the sudden thing had a big impact on him. Sometimes he was very excited, sometimes worried, afraid of being driven off the throne. In short, he was both happy and worried, and mixed feelings.
After having lunch, he still had no sleepiness, so he took out a book from his arms and looked at it. "Biography of Wang Mang" and cut it from the book "Book of Han" and ordered it again. The cover was white paper and there was nothing. He has read this article several times and has many insights into the success or failure of it. He was not in the Han Dynasty. These stories were compiled by later generations based on information. I don't know what the situation is actually going on.
Seeing his face, Sanniang couldn't help but say, "Do you plan to live here?"
Xue Chongxun asked in confusion: "This is the palace. I am supported by the ministers to take the throne. Where can I live here? At this time, I must never build a new palace. The Ming Palace was originally well-built."
Sanniang whispered worriedly: "There are all people from the previous dynasty here."
Xue Chongxun immediately smiled and said, "Don't worry about this. The real danger must be not a villain (a eunuch and palace maid who has no status) but a gentleman."
Chapter completed!