Chapter 759 Liu Xie no longer has to answer questions
Although Liu Bei had asked to keep everything simple, make it simple and fast, and not waste too much manpower, Liu Yu, the host of this ceremony, still raised strong objections.
His opinion was that the enthronement ceremony should be organized, it should be lively, beautiful, and grand.
"There is no majesty without magnificence. If the emperor's enthronement ceremony cannot be grand and majestic, how can we demonstrate the majesty of the Han Dynasty?"
Liu Yu had a profound academic foundation and had served as Taichang, so he had a good understanding of the etiquette system of the Han Empire.
As the etiquette consultant for the entire enthronement ceremony, Zheng Xuan was a leader. He was very clear about the etiquette system of the Han Empire and helped Liu Yu correct many mistakes in small details.
Then Liu Bei was asked to put on the imperial uniform that symbolized Emperor Huode.
It’s really interesting to talk about the Han Empire and the Five Virtues.
At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the imperial uniform was still red, but at the national level it still had the virtue of water.
Because the academic environment at that time was not good, Liu Bang himself was not clear about the morality of the country he founded, and he made a lot of jokes. The emperor and courtiers wore red clothes for a while, and black clothes for a while. In the end, it became a mess.
account.
It was not until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that the Western Han Dynasty changed the water virtue to the soil virtue.
Later, in order to create public opinion about the Han Dynasty, Wang Mang denied the theory that the five virtues were mutually incompatible, and instead used the theory that the five virtues were mutually reinforcing. He claimed to be a descendant of the Tude emperors, and regarded Han as the queen of Yao, and Yao as Huode, so he changed Han to Huode.
Later, folk prophecies all accepted the theory that the Han Dynasty was a fire virtue. Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty also claimed to be a fire virtue in order to prove that he was destined to do so. From then on, the Han Empire became a serious fire virtue and had "
The theory of "Yan Han".
Liu Bei ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor. It was a peaceful evolution in the form of a Zen throne, and there were no major twists and turns. It was basically smooth sailing. He was also a member of the Han Dynasty and a descendant of the great ancestor, so there was no problem in inheriting Liu Xiu's determined virtues.
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Therefore, the color of the emperor's uniform in the Third Empire of the Han Dynasty was still mainly red, and the color of the court ministers' uniforms was also mainly red. Looking at everyone in their formal attire, the entire court was filled with red, which was very eye-catching.
After Liu Bei changed into his uniform, he turned around and saw his teacher Lu Zhi looking at him with complicated eyes.
Liu Bei smiled slightly.
"Teacher, is this dress appropriate for me?"
Lu Zhi pursed his lips, sighed, and finally a smile appeared on his face.
"Appropriate, very appropriate."
"That's good."
Liu Bei nodded and looked at Liu Yu: "Situ Gong, the ceremony can be more grand, but it should be brief. If it takes too long, I won't be able to finish today's government affairs, and I will have to stay up late and work overtime at night. It will be very tiring."
When Liu Yu heard this, he smiled helplessly.
"...Your Majesty, this is the day when you ascend the throne, so you don't have to deal with government affairs."
"A country can't live without a king for a day, and a king can't live without handling government affairs for a day. If I let my guard down, the whole world will suffer."
"I... pay my respects."
Liu Yu didn't say anything else. He bowed to Liu Bei and went to negotiate with the parties involved in the ceremony.
The ceremony had been prepared for a long time, but Liu Yu did not inform other relevant parties about the real purpose of preparing the ceremony. He was just vague and asked everyone to prepare according to relatively high standards until Liu Bei said it could be notified.
, was notified until then.
The court officials who prepared the items related to the ceremony were almost frightened when they first learned about it. It took them a while to react, and they quickly lowered their heads and started to move faster, for fear of upsetting the new emperor, and they would be the first to get angry.
Burning in head.
Zheng Xuan was very satisfied with Liu Bei's clothes. He looked left and right and still smiled.
"This dress looks like it was specially prepared for His Majesty."
"Mr. Zheng praises me greatly."
Liu Bei blinked at Zheng Xuan: "I am not the emperor yet, so Mr. Zheng does not need to call me your majesty."
"That's not appropriate."
Zheng Xuan glanced at Lu Zhi and sighed: "Once upon a time, I asked you if you wanted to become a grandmaster. Now it seems that you probably looked down on a grandmaster at that time, right?"
"It's not that I don't like it, I just think it's inappropriate."
Liu Bei shook his head and said: "If it were a prosperous age, he could be a grandmaster, but at that time, it was clearly a troubled time. Becoming a grandmaster didn't mean much, and a smooth tongue was not worth a steel sword."
"At that time, I felt that this was not your intention, but I didn't expect that you had already seen the chaos in the world."
Zheng Xuan sighed: "Now it seems that you did the right thing. The Han Dynasty does not need more masters, but it lacks an emperor who can truly bring the Han Dynasty back to the top. After becoming the emperor, you must be cautious.
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"Keep Duke Zheng's teachings in mind."
Liu Bei looked at Zheng Xuan and felt more and more that this little old man was still the interesting little old man.
Time passed little by little, and as the sky gradually became brighter, Liu Bei gradually learned the results of various operations in Luoyang City.
Zheng Tai was captured, Jia Xi was captured, Dong Chong was captured, and Shi Chang was executed.
All the forces, families, officials, and staff belonging to them were also swept away and eradicated, leaving not a single opponent left to continue to exist in the court.
The most likely opponents were eliminated by Liu Bei in a simple and crude way. Naturally, they could not express any objections to Liu Bei's proclaiming emperor in the court. The remaining people did not support it, at least they hoped to force it.
Liu Bei came to power.
At this point, Zheng Xuan didn't ask anything. Lu Zhi just asked what Liu Bei planned to do with Zheng Tai and the others.
"If they do such a thing, they will naturally have no future. I plan to deal with them in the same way as the Jinwen School. Teacher, don't you support me?"
Lu Zhi sighed after hearing this.
"How can I not support it? It is forbidden to do evil if it is done by God, and it cannot be ignored if it is done by oneself. I have nothing to say. My only hope is that too many innocent people will not be implicated."
Liu Bei smiled.
"Teacher, there are no so-called innocent people involved in this matter. This is a fight of life and death. There is no tenderness at all. I will never let them go and will definitely eradicate them completely. Don't worry, teacher.
, they are also obstacles to the cultivation of fields."
When the word Dutian was mentioned, Lu Zhi was speechless.
Dutian is his last expectation when he stays in the imperial court. If there is anything else that he must accomplish, Dutian is definitely one of the most important ones.
He had even thought about it. After his time in the fields, he would retire and return home, no longer caring about worldly affairs.
He has seen enough of all these years.
After Han Ning and Han Ning had almost changed into the dress, Empress Dowager Dong was also carried on a large sedan chair to the main hall where the ceremony was held.
Her health was still very bad and the situation was very bad, but her spirits were a little better today, so she offered to attend Liu Bei's coronation ceremony in person, support Liu Bei, and provide some off-site services to the little emperor Liu Xie.
assistance.
Liu Xie is thirteen years old this year. According to the traditional concepts of the Han Empire, he is no longer a simple child. He has also understood a lot of things over the years and is no longer the ignorant person he was at the beginning.
When he first mentioned that he would lose his position as emperor, he seemed to be very frightened and uneasy, and Mrs. Dong could not comfort him very well.
So Liu Bei went into battle himself.
He promised Liu Xie that from now on, he would never have to do questions or take exams again.
Liu Xie's eyes lit up on the spot.
"Uncle Emperor, is it true?"
"Really, all these things were done so that you could become an emperor better. Since you don't have to be an emperor now, naturally you don't have to take the exam."
Liu Bei smiled and said: "But if you don't want to, you will have to study for another seven years, do seven years of exercises, and take seven years of exams. There will be more and more homework and higher and higher requirements. You need to
You will learn more and more things, what do you think?"
Liu Xie thought about such a gloomy future.
To be honest, he dare not say that he can survive these seven years.
The past five years have been very painful for him.
Liu Bei arranged a series of subjects for him such as mathematics, astronomy, geography, physics, chemistry, etc., so that he could receive a quasi-modern education system under the education of outstanding teachers.
Then there is a lot of homework every day, and it is basically difficult to complete it within an hour and a half. Sometimes it takes two hours, but it is not impossible.
And he finished his homework every day when the sun was setting. After completing his homework, it was time to go to bed. There was no time for free play. He also had to take homework exams every quarter with the children who went to school normally.
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If you fail, you will need to increase the number of assignments, increase the number of assessments, and take "make-up exams" until you pass.
This was really painful for the young Liu Xie.
Normal officials have three or four days of vacation a month, but Liu Xie is different. He only has two days of vacation.
During ordinary New Year's Day and some more traditional holidays, normal students still have ten or twenty days of vacation, but Liu Xie is different. Even on the most important New Year's Day, he only has three days of vacation.
Then there is the endless mountain of books and sea of topics.
He was in so much pain that he resisted several times and skipped school and homework. However, what awaited him was only harsher discipline and more arduous schoolwork. In the end, he gave up resisting and could only grit his teeth and persevere.
To be honest, he had wondered several times whether being an emperor was such a painful thing. If so, how did his poor father survive until adulthood?
Thinking that such painful days would continue, Liu Xie was really frightened.
So he gritted his teeth and decided to give up his position as emperor in exchange for Liu Bei's generous treatment of making him a marquis, and he could enjoy the highest level of salary. He no longer had to answer questions, and could start enjoying the "retirement life" of Empress Dowager Dong.
Already.
Liu Bei promised him that he could play whatever he wanted, eat whatever he wanted, and drink whatever he wanted.
He will no longer be restricted in the amount of fried food and apple wine he can eat, he will no longer be forced to complete so much homework, nor will he be forced to give up his vacation to make up for a missed exam.
Make-up exam.
From now on, the hellish study life will be far away from him, and he will just enjoy himself.
As for the painful thing of being an emperor, let the emperor do it for you, but you have to remember to thank the emperor. You cannot but thank the emperor - I, the emperor, am very reluctant to do this!
In the end, Liu Xie even cried and thanked Liu Bei, confiding to Liu Bei the depression in his heart for many years and telling Liu Bei how difficult it was for him.
It can be seen that the child suffered terribly from being oppressed by Shushan Tihai. Once he was liberated, his whole person was sublimated.
Mrs. Dong watched this scene from the side with some complicated feelings in her heart.
While Liu Xie was wiping away his tears and celebrating that he was finally out of the sea of suffering, Liu Bei came to Mrs. Dong's side, knelt down and held the old lady's hand.
"The Queen Mother, there is something I want to tell you."
"Is it about Dong Zhong?"
Mrs. Dong seemed to have expected something. She sighed and said slowly: "Is he dead?"
"No, I just caught him."
Liu Bei shook his head: "He is your nephew after all. I will not kill him without your permission. Of course, if you don't want him to die, I don't have to kill him. And to be honest, originally, if he really let go
I won’t touch him, I will keep him well-fed and well-fed as a thank you to you, but..."
"I know that this child is dissatisfied with you and has too many opinions about you. Sometimes, the old lady doesn't even know where these opinions come from."
The old lady sighed: "Instead of letting him be killed by you after the old lady is dead, it would be better for you to catch him while the old lady is alive. In this way, he can still save his life, and if you can not kill him,
Just don’t kill him, give him a bowl of rice and let him die of old age or illness, okay?”
"Can."
Liu Bei nodded and agreed to the old lady's request, and the old lady patted Liu Bei's hand.
"Don't call me the Queen Mother. The old woman is no longer the Queen Mother. Her bones can't hold on for long. If you can give me a good ride, I'll thank you. As for the road ahead, you can
It’s time to go on your own.”
Liu Bei nodded slowly.
"I will never forget your teachings, but you will always be the great empress dowager of the Han Dynasty. No one can threaten your status, so don't worry."
"Don't worry, don't worry, I don't trust anyone, and I can't trust you either."
The old lady smiled bitterly and said: "I just don't know how I can help you tell this matter to the late emperor after you die? You don't believe in ghosts and gods, but the old lady does. The old lady has also heard someone say that if you believe it, there will be something, and if you don't believe it, there will be something."
No, I believe the old woman, she will definitely be able to see the late emperor. When the late emperor asks, what will the old woman say? Just tell the late emperor everything you said before? Will the late emperor believe it? "
"The late emperor will definitely believe it."
Liu Bei smiled and said: "To say the least, even if the late emperor has doubts, you are the late emperor's mother. How could the late emperor blame his own mother?"
Mrs. Dong was silent for a while, then suddenly relaxed her expression and smiled.
"That's all, it doesn't matter. Our family was originally a small sect that became a big sect, and it was lucky enough to get the throne. It's nothing to regret. The throne shouldn't have been our family's turn in the first place, but now it's our turn. And
Two people have been emperors, what is there to be dissatisfied about?"
"If you can think of it this way, that would be great."
"Of course you think it couldn't be better."
The old lady rolled her eyes at Liu Bei and said nothing more. She just asked Liu Bei to work faster. She was a little tired and wanted to rest.
So Liu Bei did not delay. After learning that Luoyang City had been fully controlled, he sent an order to let all officials and officials in Luoyang City, large and small, enter the palace to prepare for the ceremony of the little emperor Liu Xie's throne and the new emperor.