sweeping the world

Chapter 921

Etiquette is a code of conduct for a certain occasion. After a civilized society enters a certain standard, different forms of etiquette are formulated for various reasons.

No one is born to be knowledgeable, all are born to learn, and then they know what rules to follow on what occasions.

To put it simply, the behavioral norms of the Han people are acquired, and they do not cross the line based on what kind of punishment they will encounter after crossing the line.

All kinds of laws and regulations restrict what can be done, and what kind of punishment will be given for what is done, which has created a social environment in which Han people seem to follow order.

People with hundreds of officials and titles who have reached a certain level have been staying in Miyagi since last night. In previous years, they only participated in Miyagi activities for New Year's Eve. Waiting for the ceremony to start in the city.

There is no shortage of places to rest in Miyagi, but very few people slept last night.

Officials who are responsible for certain ceremonies need to be busy with the day's work, and confirm certain links repeatedly so that no mistakes can occur.

People who are not responsible, most of them are extremely excited, the state of excitement coupled with the environment, they would rather chat with people all night than spend their time sleeping.

At three o'clock in the morning, teams of palace maids in Miyagi marched at night with lanterns. The loud ladies shouted what time it was. Those who fell asleep got up to wash and get busy, and those who didn't sleep also went to wash and make their own preparations.

Before the fish white appeared in the east, everything that should be prepared had already been completed.

The city of Chang’an last night was also a city that never sleeps. In fact, every New Year’s Eve is a sleepless night for the Han people. There is a custom of vigil. The people who sleep are usually the elderly and children. Even if they are bored, the middle-aged people will stay awake.

According to legend, the Nian beast in ancient times would come out to eat people on the last day of each year. It is not safe to burn bonfires and make explosive noises to deter the Nian beast. Someone needs to be on duty all night. Once a danger is found, it is good to warn everyone to resist or avoid it. The custom has been handed down.

As early as midnight last night, people came to the square outside Miyagi one after another.

Every night in Miyagi Square, the stone lamp stands will be lit to illuminate the square. The square is not lacking in light. People will not go near the city walls or palace gates after they come, and they will not even step on the aisle. They or their families choose a place to sit. Next, or get together with people you know.

As more and more people come to Miyagi Plaza, the space naturally becomes crowded, and people cannot sit down leisurely and have to stand up.

Every night in Miyagi there are people on duty, including the square and the city walls, and the most heavily guarded are the palace gates.

The imperial guards did not drive away the people who came, not only during the Chinese New Year, but also during the daytime as long as they were not within a hundred meters of the palace city, but they did not allow people to come at night.

The New Year's Eve is quite special. People coming to Miyagi Square is considered an act of joy between the king and the people. People are no longer restricted from coming to the square at night, but they still cannot get closer than [-] meters.

At four or five o'clock in the morning, there are crowds of people on both sides of Miyagi Square, including Qinglong Avenue facing east of Miyagi.

No one makes a loud noise, but even if they speak at a normal volume, too many people talking will create a noise, just like the "buzzing" sound made by a swarm of bees that never stops.

After the fish white appeared in the east, the left gate of the palace gate was slowly opened with a loud "creaking" sound.

The first ones to come out of the palace gate were teams of imperial guards. They stood one person at every meter along the aisle, forming a cordon of soldiers.

After the palace gate was opened, the people who were talking were quiet, and everyone acted eagerly towards Miyagi.

About half an hour later, the main gate and the right gate of the palace gate were slowly opened again with a loud "creaking" sound. People outside looked inside and could see the queue standing quietly in costumes.

I don't know who was the first to shout out the first cheer, and then someone followed, and soon there was a mountain of cheers like a tsunami.

Amidst the cheers, Ji Chang and Xu Zheng stepped forward side by side and walked out of the palace gate, followed by the people behind them.

The people who walked out from the main entrance were all wearing marquis-level mianfu. In the early days, it was the formal attire of princes. The biggest difference between the style and the emperor's mianfu lies in the crown and ribbon, and then the seal and patterns. Not much different.

There were not too many people who had already been conferred Marquis earlier, but today there are quite a few people wearing Marquis's crown and lined up. Some people curiously counted as many as 37 people, which is more than the Marquis he knew before. There are more than twenty more.

In the past, Liu Yan was very stingy with the feudal lords. Having the main credit for participating in the destruction of the enemy country was the foundation of the feudal lords, which led to very limited people.

Those who are not marquises today but can walk in the queue wearing the marquis's uniform, they also benefited from the main contribution in a war that wiped out the enemy country, but those who were conferred more than before must have water .

Today's Han Dynasty is more cautious than the previous dynasties in conferring marquises, and it is also doomed that the marquises are full of gold and weight.

For example, during the founding of the Western Han Dynasty, there were eight kings with different surnames, and there were as many as 140 Chehou and Guanneihou.

Liu Bang named Wang and Marquis with different surnames not based on credit. For example, Zhang Liang, the three outstanding figures in the early Han Dynasty, was ranked No. 60. Han Xin, who helped Liu Bang win half of the country, was ranked No. 20. Xiao He was ranked No. [-]. But Xiao He is Liu Bang's township party, and Cao Shen, Zhang Ao, Zhou Bo, Fan Kui, etc. are all ranked in the top ten. hanging tail.

The merits of the unified dynasty are determined, and the merits of the founding of the Western Han Dynasty are determined not by merit but by distance and closeness. It is only reliable in the evaluation of the founding heroes of the Eastern Han Dynasty. One of the Sima clans also adopted distance and closeness.

Liu Yan was a loner, and even if he wanted to be close and distant, he couldn't do it. He adopted a strict merit determination, but there was no ranking.

In fact, today's Han Dynasty still has a credit ranking, but it's not Liu Yan's ranking, it's an unofficial recognition.

The queue that seems to be lined up is based on that recognition level. Ji Chang and Xu Zheng walked side by side. The Shaofu and Tingwei are in the third row, the fourth row is the rest of the Jiuqing's official positions, and the rest are in the back. The whole queue has a total of five rows.

If Liu Yan wants to become emperor, he must send a big gift package. The three princes and nine ministers had no marquis before, as long as they didn't really have no basis for merit, today finally there is one who counts as a marquis.

Those who also enjoy the big gift package also have some people who lack credit in the first place. If you carefully evaluate, there may be a little bit of distance before you can be named a marquis or a noble. The person who was promoted to the rank was promoted when he was judged.

The whole city of Chang'an resounded like a tsunami of cheers.

Hundreds of officials and nobles who came out from the palace gate stepped on Qinglong Avenue, enjoying the cheers and attention from the people, and everyone had an expression of pride.

They are indeed worthy of pride. They expelled the Tartars and recovered the Han family, took revenge on all the races that had harmed the Han family, and executed the spiritual and physical extermination of the Jie people. A powerful era once.

It’s just that the recovery of the old land of the Han family and the restoration of glory are all worthy of pride. Then the old land was opened up and the land was conquered. There is a territory under the sunshine, which created the era of the Han people's sun never setting. Can't we be a little proud?
The officials and nobles walked towards the Temple of Heaven on foot. About half an hour later, the cheers that resounded throughout the city were covered by the ringing of bells.

The bell was rung at the same time, and the source of the sound was Miyagi and every highest place in the city.

In fact, those bell towers are also ringing in normal times, mainly used to tell the time on the hour during the day, and they will also ring if there is an invasion.

Today, one hundred and eight bells will ring together, not only in Chang'an, but in every county and county within the Han territory. As long as there is a bell tower, one hundred and eight bells will ring, which is a notice to everyone. The Han people reappeared with the dual identities of the emperor and the emperor, the "royalty of the world".

From a long time ago to a long time later, people living in this land have always been inseparable from the "royalty of the world".

Even the "Royal of the World" is not a single "Son of Heaven" or "Emperor", and there can only be one "Royal of the World".

When the bell rings, there is only the sound of the bell in the whole country.

At that moment, everyone was full of emotions, and some especially emotional people had moist eyes. They had waited for too long for their own son who held the emperor and the emperor who had dual identities as the emperor.

From the moment Liu Yan called the emperor, it represented that the Han people had their own guardians again, and he did fulfill the responsibility of exterminating and expelling the Hulu.

Liu Yan, who was called the Son of Heaven early, did not ascend to the throne until nine years later (he was called the Son of Heaven in the third year of Yuanshuo).

If the emperor is the guardian of the Han people, then Liu Yan regards the emperor's work as the whipper of foreigners.

The current state of Han is already in the process of conquest and development, but in Liu Yan's view, it is just a small fight. The army sweeps all the way to the west until it reaches the end of the western world. It will be carried out during his career as emperor. .

The chimes sounded every two seconds and stopped after nearly 4 minutes.

Another imperial guard appeared at the gate of the palace. The one walking in the front was a burly man who held high the banner of the nine-headed bird, and behind him were groups of equally burly imperial guards.

The totem of the nine-headed bird is the totem of the old Liu family today, and the standard name is "Wang Banner". It also conforms to the tradition passed down from civilization, using birds as totems.

After the army phalanx on foot, the knight phalanx on horseback came out from the palace gate.

Every knight is wearing the latest style of plate armor, with a bright red cloak behind him, and his mounts are also wrapped in vests. They are a phalanx of armored riding equipment.

The sound of orderly footsteps was added to the sound of orderly footsteps, and the onlookers waited with bated breath for the most solemn moment.

Liu Yan wore a twelve-chapter crown and rode on the chariot. The appearance of the chariot made the people who had been brewing for a long time burst into the voice of "ten thousand years" with all their strength.

The cry of "Wan Nian" appeared from Miyagi and spread to the entire city, waves of voices swept across the vast world.

When the chariot passed by, the people on both sides knelt down and worshiped, still shouting the word "Wan Nian".

Kneeling is not an official requirement, and no one at the scene commanded the people to kneel. It is on this special day, with a solemn atmosphere and a feeling of heart, no one asked to do such a move.

On non-major ceremonial occasions, the knees of the Han people are not so soft. The common people bow down to Liu Yan today, perhaps as a way of expressing their obedience to authority?
Liu Yan, who was in a kneeling posture, kept looking forward, his expression on his face was blocked by "旒".

When the shout of "Wan Nian" was shouted out, people everywhere knew that Liu Yan's chariot had left Miyagi, and the people performing their duties raised their spirits 12 points, and everything was only waiting for Liu Yan's chariot. The chariot arrived at the location of the Temple of Heaven.

The Temple of Heaven was built in the eastern city of the city. It was built not only for today's proclaiming emperor ceremony, but also for holding rituals to sacrifice to heaven. It will also be used if the successor ascends to the throne.

After Liu Yan came here, what he saw was still a sea of ​​people. He walked up the steps to the top of the Temple of Heaven, turned around and looked at the hundreds of officials and nobles standing in line at the bottom, and at the foreign envoys on the side. , nodded to Ji Chang who had been waiting for a long time.

In Zhuxia, there is a link in all major ceremonies, and that is the step of "burning the watch".

There was a very huge four-legged tripod on the scene. The tripod was rectangular and was burning inside.Today, many vessels, utensils, and things will be thrown into it.

Ji Chang may have been too excited, and he worked hard to force his trembling to be less serious, and took a deep breath before starting his duties.

"Since ancient times, the emperors have come to rule the world, and they have lived in China to control the barbarians, and the barbarians have lived outside to serve China. It has never been heard that barbarians live in China to rule the world.

Since the fall of Jin Zuo, the Hulu ruled China, and within the four seas, no one will submit. This is not a manpower, but a gift from heaven.At that time, the emperor was wise and his ministers were good enough to guide the world, but the people with lofty ideals still lamented that their crowns and shoes were upside down...

...The imperial court is the foundation of the world; the propriety and righteousness are the great defense of the world.

If they behave like that, how can they be taught to future generations in the world!

And his descendants sank into wasteland, lost the way of monarch and ministers, and imposed the prime minister's exclusive power. Due to human affairs, it is also when the heavens hate its virtue and abandon it..."

(End of this chapter)