Chapter 1161: Ascending the Throne
The eighth day of December arrived as scheduled. As soon as the third watch arrived, Huangfu Chaobo was awakened by the eunuchs. These eunuchs were the eunuchs who had escaped from the palace and were gathered by Luoyang City in recent years. They had always been arranged to clean the imperial city. This time they were just in time to be used. This was also what Cai Yong and several old men strongly requested when they were preparing for the ceremony for him.
After washing up, he began to put on the robes that had been prepared long ago. Well, it was put on, one by one, not like the other clothes in the game. Wearing a Yuanyou crown, a crimson gauze robe, and shoes on his feet, and finally wearing a mountain black jade on his body, plus a hanging group and a waist, a set of clothes and accessories almost made Huangfu Chaobo dizzy.
While wearing court clothes, Huangfu Chaobo hurried to eat the breakfast handed over by the maid next to him. After leaving the palace, until the ceremony was completed, he basically had no time to eat again, so the maids had already prepared breakfast and ate it during this time.
After finally getting dressed, they walked out of the palace under the guidance of several eunuchs. At this time, outside the palace, civil and military officials, royal sedan chairs, and thousands of guards were already waiting there. After arriving outside the palace, Huangfu Chaobo, with the support of the eunuchs, boarded the royal sedan chair, led by a long ceremonial team, and escorted by thousands of guards, headed for the altar at the foot of Mangshan Mountain outside the city.
One thousand soldiers from the Iron Wall Camp led the way in front, followed by the guards and the royal sedan chair, and then the Xianzhen Camp led by Gao Shun, and then the civil and military officers of the Tang State, and behind them were envoys sent by various countries and other vassal forces, and five thousand Tiger Guard cavalry guarded the team on both sides. Tens of thousands of infantrymen from the Tiger Guard Camp lined the streets along the route, blocking the crowds of people watching the ceremony on both sides of the street.
Along the way, the people in Luoyang City crowded on both sides of the street. When they saw the king's sedan chair coming, they all bowed to the ground, and the sound of cheers was endless.
An hour later, the team finally marched to the foot of the circular altar. At this time, the circular altar was strictly protected by soldiers. After arriving at the circular altar, Huangfu Chaobo got off the sedan chair, and then, under the guidance of the eunuch, he climbed the circular altar with Cai Yong.
As the most famous Confucian scholar in the world, Cai Yong was the planner and arranger of Huangfu Chaobo's enthronement ceremony. All the itinerary steps were proposed by him, and then determined after consultation with the Tang army.
The ceremony of offering sacrifices to the sky took nearly half an hour, and then the team returned to Luoyang City. The next step was to offer sacrifices to the Taimiao. The Taimiao of the Huangfu family was built in the south of the royal city, opposite the original Duke's Mansion. It took more than an hour for the team to return to the city. After offering sacrifices to the Taimiao, it was already past noon.
Afterwards, the royal carriage returned to the palace, and Huangfu Chaobo would accept the congratulations and worship of the ministers in the main hall of the palace, and then the congratulations of the envoys of other countries. This would take nearly two hours. After all this was done, Huangfu Chaobo would hold a special amnesty ceremony on the gate tower of the royal city to pardon the prisoners.
Then it was announced that the gates of Luoyang City would not be closed, and the celebration would last for three days all night to celebrate with the people. After all this was done, the next thing was to have a big banquet for the ministers and envoys of various countries.
After a day like this, Huangfu Chaobo was exhausted, but what made him feel strange was that even though he was so tired, his subordinates were all energetic and didn't look tired at all.
The banquet didn't end until late at night, but Huangfu Chaobo only accepted the toasts from the ministers and envoys of various countries at the beginning, then left the banquet hall and returned to the harem to have dinner with his one queen, two concubines, and son and daughter.
Huangfu Chaobo is the king, so he must confer titles on his harem. Jia Jing is the queen, while Mi Huan and Han Xue are both concubines. His son Huangfu Zhao is the crown prince, and his daughter Huangfu Yu is the eldest princess.
After returning to the harem, Huangfu Chaobo and his family spent the evening together, and then returned to his bedroom to rest. He was exhausted after a whole day of tossing and turning today.
The enthronement ceremony is just a process, and more important things are in the next few days, so he must keep his spirits up to deal with the things that come later.
On the ninth day of December, the first grand court of the Tang Dynasty began. Huangfu Chaobo has officially ascended the throne as king, so the next thing is a very important thing, which is to reward his civil and military officials and generals. This is the main thing of the first court meeting of the Tang Dynasty.
As for how to arrange the official system of the vassal states in the game, according to the news on the official website, it took a long time to consider before it was finally decided. According to history, since the Han Dynasty was founded 400 years ago, since Emperor Wu of Han implemented the Enfeoffment Order, the court's control over the vassal states has become increasingly strict, so that later, the vassal states were only a county with several cities, and the prime minister, the chief historian, and the national lieutenant were all arranged by the court. In this way, the princes had almost no rights.
But now in the game, it is definitely not possible to operate in that way, so after several discussions, the game decided to borrow the system of three palaces and nine ministers, and add the Shangshutai to limit the power of the three officials. This operation is also considered that players are not familiar with the ancient official system, in order to reduce the burden on players.
As early as after getting the edict of enfeoffment, Huangfu Chaobo had been considering the arrangement of officials in the court of the Tang Dynasty, and in addition to the transfer of generals, it took more than a month to arrange everything properly, and today is the moment when all the mysteries are revealed.
Huangfu Chaobo sat on the throne. After receiving the kneeling worship of the officials and generals of the Tang Dynasty, he led the eunuch to announce the appointment of Wang Zhao.
The Three Dukes of the Tang Kingdom are Tian Feng, the Prime Minister, Zhu Jun, the Lieutenant of the State, and Lou Gui, the Chief Imperial Officer. In order to distinguish them from the imperial court of the Chang'an Emperor, the three Dukes of the Kingdom in the game are also called the Prime Minister, the Lieutenant of the State, and the Imperial Prime Minister, corresponding respectively to the Prime Minister, the Grand Lieutenant, and the Imperial Guard. Dr. Shi Sangong.
In fact, in Huangfu Chaobo's mind, if Lu Zhi had not died, he would be the best candidate for the state minister, Huangfu Song would be the best candidate for the state captain, and Zhu Jun would be enough to serve as the censor Zhongcheng. It is a pity that both Lu Zhi and Huangfu Song passed away successively, leaving Zhu Jun alone among the three generals of the Han Dynasty. As a last resort, Huangfu Chaobo had to use Tian Feng as the prime minister and Lou Gui as the censor Zhongcheng.
The nine ministers under the Three Dukes are Guang Luxun and Xu Shu, who are in charge of the Suwei Palace Gate; Wei Wei Huang Zhong is in charge of the palace gate guards. However, because Huang Zhong was originally a general of the Tang Army and was responsible for leading troops outside for a long time, Huangfu Chaobo also A lieutenant was set up, and Huang Wudie served as it. Although Huang Wudie was also the commander of Huben Camp, she rarely led troops into battle, so it was most appropriate for her to be in charge.
Although Xu Shu was Guang Luxun, he still had other duties, so in the final analysis, the guard duty of the entire palace was handed over to Huang Wudie.
In addition to these two positions, Cai Yong, the minister of Taichang Temple, is in charge of the rituals, music, society, and ancestral temple etiquette. He is also in charge of Luoyang Academy; Emperor Zongzheng Jianshou is in charge of the relatives and nobles; Kong Rong, the minister of Dahonglu Temple, Responsible for receiving guests; Jushou, the Tingwei, is in charge of criminal law and prison litigation; Han Fu, the minister of Taipu Temple, is in charge of horses and livestock; Kong Min, the minister of Shaofu Temple, and Mi Zhu, the young minister of Shaofu Temple, are in charge of royal property; Da Si Nong Zaozhi is responsible for taxation, money, grain, salt and iron, and financial revenue and expenditure.
As for the most important Shangshutai, Huangfu Chaobo appointed Xun You as Shangshu Ling, Pang Tong as Shangshu Pushe, Guo Jia as Shangshu Lang, and Lu Su as Secretary Lang. The four of them managed the government together with the Sangong and Jiuqing.