At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

What the person sitting on the emperor's throne needs is the talent that everyone agrees with, the virtues that everyone respects, and the proud achievements, but he has nothing. In this chaotic world, he deeply feels that he should not sit on the throne. on the throne.

The Han Dynasty has gone through a long period of time, experienced many crises, and has been saved continuously. This is the result of the virtues of the previous emperors of the Han Dynasty, and it is also the result of the struggle of the benevolent people of the past dynasties at the expense of their lives. Liu Jian would like to thank the people of the world here.

But things have come to this point, and he feels more and more that the Han Empire is no longer enough to continue to rule the world. The continuous occurrence of disasters and celestial phenomena show that the lifespan of the Han Empire has come to an end. Now that it has ended, the most important thing to do is Buried in peace.

He can't continue to be the emperor. It will not do any good for the world if he continues to be the emperor. His talents and virtues are not enough to lead everyone to move forward. emperor.

Under the leadership of Guo Peng, the ministers shouted no, Liu Jian insisted, Guo Peng shouted twice, Liu Jian continued to insist, Guo Peng shouted three times, Liu Jian still insisted.

During these three visits, the ministers bowed down to the ground under the leadership of Guo Peng, crying loudly to express their nostalgia and reluctance for Liu Jian and the Han Empire.

Of course, for some people, this may really be a final farewell, not just a political show, and Guo Peng doesn't mind making them cry for the last time for the Han Empire.

After some political performances, the real drama came.

Cheng Yu took out the Zen edict, which was an important legal basis for Guo Peng's ascension to the throne.

He unfolded the abdication edict and began to read it.

The meaning is also very clear. Liu Jian believes that although he abdicates and will no longer be the emperor, he was once the emperor and the holy son of heaven after all. He has a responsibility to the world.

He wants to elect a king who has both ability and virtue, and is brave enough and benevolent enough to be the emperor. He will continue to lead everyone forward, open up a new era, lead a new trend, and let the people of the world enjoy peace and happiness.

As the last emperor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Jian elected to the people of the world the great general of the Han Empire, Guo Peng, king of Wei, to take over the throne as the new emperor, establish a new dynasty, and lead everyone to move forward. Liu Jian believed that this responsibility was due to Guo Peng.

Then, Liu Jian explained his reasons, listed Guo Peng's contributions to the Han Empire, and told what Guo Peng had done for the Han Empire, how many rebellions he eliminated, how many times he protected the Han Dynasty, and even The credit for rebuilding the Han Dynasty.

Liu Jian kept these credits in mind, and often felt that Guo Peng should be rewarded with the best things. After thinking about it, Liu Jian believed that only the throne could repay Guo Peng's kindness to the Han Empire.

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In order to express his gratitude, Liu Jian decided to cede the honorable imperial throne that he had occupied for three years to Guo Peng, a great hero who had contributed to the rebuilding of the Han Dynasty.

Chapter 774 Birth of the 780 Trinity Empire

After the edict was read out, what Liu Jian had to do had been done.

The next highlight belongs to someone Guo.

Mr. Guo quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Liu Jian, shouting no, Liu Jian stood up and walked in front of Mr. Guo according to what he had rehearsed before, and asked Mr. Guo to stand up and accept his abdication.

Mr. Guo didn't stand up and said loudly that he couldn't do it. Liu Jian asked him to stand up again, but Guo Peng refused again.

Seeing that Guo could no longer refuse, he had no choice but to accept Emperor Liu Jian's abdication with tears in his eyes, and took over the throne.

With excitement, Cheng Yu presented the two edicts to someone Guo with trembling hands. Someone Guo bowed to accept them, took them with both hands, and expressed his thanks to Emperor Liu Jian of the Han Dynasty for the last time.

Liu Jian encouraged someone Guo, and then with a wave of his hand, two teams of servants appeared in the hall.

One team was in charge of taking off the emperor's uniform for Liu Jian and changing into the official's uniform, and the other team was in charge of taking off the courtier's uniform for someone Guo and putting on the emperor's uniform.

The two teams operated together, and seeing the proficient appearance, it was definitely not the first time to operate like this.

Of course, no one will stand up and ask them stupidly - why are you so proficient?

They skillfully dragged off the emperor's crown uniform for Liu Jian, and replaced it with the crown uniform used by the courtiers - the style is similar to that used by a certain Guo when he became the Duke, but the color is different.

A certain Guo was also skillfully removed from the king's crown and put on the emperor's crown. The style is not different from that used by Liu Jian, and the color is also different.

The crown uniform used by Liu Jian is red, while the crown garment used by Guo is yellow.

The Han Dynasty advocated fire virtue, known as Yan Han, while the Wei Dynasty Han, according to the theory of the five elements, should be the virtue of the earth, so the color of the land is the national color.

After putting on the crown clothes, Liu Jian handed over the six seals of the emperor and the jade seals of Chuanguo that he owned, including seven pieces of jade seals and the tiger amulet for dispatching soldiers, to someone in Guo.

After Guo took over the seven jade seals and the troop-dispatching tiger talisman, it symbolized that the handover of imperial power was over. At this time, the time was just right, and the time-telling official announced that the hour had arrived.

So someone Guo exchanged positions with Liu Jian in a timely manner.

A certain Guo stepped on the stairs and stood on the high platform occupied by the emperor, and then walked to the side of the throne where Liu Jian was sitting. Looking at the unusual throne, he took a deep breath, stepped forward, turned around, and lifted his hands. He swung forward, bent his knees forward, and knelt on the throne.

Then he opened his hands, waved his sleeves, then retracted his hands, placed them on his thighs, and sat upright.

Guo Peng, the emperor of the Great Wei Empire, is seated!

At this moment, Guo Jin has quietly stood at the head of the queue of officials, waiting for the conferment.

Cheng Yu, as a courtesy officer, also stood under the steps, and together with Liu Jian, Guo Jin and other officials, knelt down to the new emperor Guo Peng.

"My lord, my majesty, long live my emperor!"

All the ministers shouted loudly with one voice, and they all knelt down on the ground, expressing their submission and loyalty to the new emperor.

The sound spread from inside the hall to outside the hall, and then from outside the hall back to the inside of the hall.

The hall can accommodate only top officials, and the rest of the officials can only stay outside the hall, waiting for the birth of a new dynasty in the cold wind.

It can be regarded as suffering them.

Finally, they waited for this moment, so they knelt down with the people in front, and then shouted Long live in unison, offering blessings and loyalty to the new emperor.

Outside the hall, drums and horns sounded again, heralding the establishment of a brand new country.

Seeing such a scene and hearing the voice of surrender, Guo Peng was deeply moved.

The rehearsal has been rehearsed many times, and this seat has also been seated many times, but seeing such a scene with his own eyes and ears, Guo Peng still couldn't help but get excited.

He now understands what Liu Bang felt when he became emperor.

Today I know what it's like to be an emperor.

There is still a big difference between the actual emperor and the real emperor. The righteousness plus power is the emperor who can sit in the public and accept worship.

At this moment, a new dynasty is established, and the old dynasty is over.

The Wei Empire was born, and the Han Empire came to an end.

The Han Empire died and was buried safely.

Guo Peng felt the prestige of being an emperor, then he sorted out his mood and raised his hands.

"All the gentlemen are flat."

He announced in a deep and magnetic voice.

The ministers shouted "Thank you, Your Majesty", and then stood up one after another, and then the civil and military officials were divided into two sides, the civil official was on the left, and the military officer was on the right. on the cushions that belonged to them.

Keeping your mouth shut and not looking sideways, the entire hall was silent.

The officials outside the hall also got their own cushions and sat down one after another, at least to relieve the soreness in their legs.

Then Guo Peng, in order to take care of these courtiers who were blowing cold wind outside the palace, and show the human touch of the new dynasty, he also specially ordered the servants to serve a bowl of hot ginger soup to the courtiers outside the palace to warm them up. As for being frozen.

The ministers outside the hall were grateful for the ginger soup, and they expressed their gratitude to the new emperor Guo Peng outside the hall.

After expressing thanks, it's time to get to the point.

Announcing the founding program, the changes that need to be made, and the rewards.

This is what the founding emperor must do, the summary of the old dynasty, the expectation of the new dynasty, and the rewards for the heroes.

Guo Peng had already made overall arrangements for these matters before proclaiming himself emperor.

He wants to make major changes, and make major changes to the political structure and military system of the Han Dynasty.

But first, the royal family must be sealed.

Several servants stood in a row, holding up the edicts used by the emperor in their hands, and dedicated them one by one to the host of the ceremony, Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu picked up the first imperial edict and unfolded it.

He solemnly and solemnly announced that the country name of the new dynasty is Wei, and the new year name is Yande.

The three years of Han Jian'an have ended, and this year, the new year, is the first year of Wei Yande.

Then came the second imperial edict, and Cheng Yu announced that since the new Han Dynasty was established as Tude, "Luoyang" was changed to "Luoyang", and Luoyang was the capital of the Wei Empire.

Then there was the third edict, the new emperor Guo Peng named Liu Jian, the Han emperor who had abdicated the throne, as Duke of Shanyang in Wei State, with [-] households in the township, and changed Shanyang County into the Kingdom of Shanyang. The first emperor, who obeyed Zhengshuo of the Han Dynasty, did not need to be a minister, and did not need to kneel down when receiving the imperial edict.

The newly-baked Shanyang Gong Liu Jian was very happy, and immediately knelt down to accept the edict. Guo Peng immediately stood up and went down the steps to help Liu Jian himself.

"I just said that Lord Shanyang doesn't need to be a courtier when he submits an imperial edict, and he doesn't need to kneel down when he receives an imperial edict. In this world, I share with Lord Shanyang."

Guo Peng held Liu Jian's hand tightly, and Liu Jian expressed his gratitude.

The new emperor is so benevolent, and the deposed emperor is so grateful, which shows how much the new dynasty has people's hearts.

After watching this scene, the officials were very impressed, and felt that the new dynasty had great prospects.

After Liu Jian received the award from Lord Shanyang, Cheng Yu began to read the fourth imperial edict.

The fourth edict is the edict to enshrine the royal family of Guo Wei.

Guo Peng respected his grandfather Guo Yong as Emperor Xi Zuren and his grandmother Zhao as Empress Ren.

Guo Pengzun's biological father, Guo Dan, was the Supreme Emperor of the Wei State, and his aunt, Yang, was the Supreme Queen of the Wei State.

Guo Peng made his wife, Cao Lan, Queen of the Kingdom of Wei, and his eldest son, Guo Jin, the crown prince of the Kingdom of Wei.

In the former Han Dynasty, there were fourteen grades of harem regulations. After the Guangwu Zhongxing, in order to show frugality, the later Han only had the titles of queen and nobleman, and the titles of beauty, palace man and Cainu were added later.

Guo Peng decided to inherit the system of the Later Han Dynasty. He named his concubines Mi as a nobleman, his concubines Xiahou and Tian as beauties, and his concubines as Qiao and his sisters as palace servants.

His brother, Guo Yang, was granted the title of King of Zhao, with three thousand households in the city, and he lived in the capital, but he was not a feudal clan.

The number of Guo's direct royal family is indeed not many.

His grandfather Guo Yong gave birth to several sons, and only his father, Guo Dan, survived. When Guo Peng grew up, all the relatives of Guo Dan’s generation passed away, and Guo Dan himself had only two sons, one Guo Peng and Guo Dan. There is one Yang, so it is simple, and the division is completed.

Except for Guo Jin, none of Guo Peng's children had grown up, so he was not in a hurry to become a king. The Guo family's royal family was just established, and they didn't need too many people.

None of the collateral relatives got the prince, not even the duke. Only Guo Hong got the first-class marquis because of his status and merit, and Guo Jia got the second-class marquis because of his merit.

Guo Peng restored the fifth-class title system in the Spring and Autumn Period, abolished the [-]-level title system implemented in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and added three grades to each class under the fifth-class title system, gradually increasing from the third class to the first class, and the highest is the first class. Wait for the Duke, the lowest is the third baron.

Similarly, someone Guo decisively tore up Liu Bang's White Horse Alliance, but he made his own White Horse Alliance very hypocritically and shamelessly.

Only the Guo family can be a prince, and the highest title of a minister is a first-class duke.

Except for Guo Hong and Guo Jia, only Guo Rui, Guo Yi, Guo Lie and Guo Dong, who served as senior officials and military positions, were awarded the title of second-class earl.

The rest of the Guo family's children who held general positions only got the third-class viscount at most, and there were some barons, most of whom didn't even have a title.

It seems that Guo Peng does not intend to enshrine the kings of the Guo family in order to defend the royal family.

These are not the main events, but they also made some keen courtiers aware of Guo Peng's dissatisfaction with the Han system and what he will do in the future.

It seems that Guo Peng was very dissatisfied with the chaos of the Seven Kings of Han Dynasty, and decided to restrict the clan by conferring the king instead of the vassal.

The Qin Dynasty did the same, but Qin II died.

The Han did not do this, but it is true that the chaos of the Seven Kings must be investigated.

So for this kind of thing, there may be debates in the future, but right now, it's not too much discussion.

The most important thing right now is what the courtiers want and what the new emperor Guo Peng plans for the future of the Guo Wei Empire. This is what they care most about.

Chapter 775. 780 Big Changes to the Four Ministers

What the officials are looking forward to is the detailed content to be announced in the fifth edict and the sixth edict.

The fifth edict is very detailed, with a lot of words and a lot of information.

The main thing is to entrust civil servants and ministers.

The main theme of this award is to introduce the central and local power regulations of the Wei Empire planned by Guo Peng, as well as the old or newly added heads of various departments, promotion or salary increase, neither promotion nor salary increase, give The title reward, anyway, everyone has it.

Undoubtedly, Guo Peng continued the basic system under the Sangong Jiuqing system in the central government, but although Guo Peng established the Sangong Jiuqing, he virtualized the Sangong Jiuqing more directly than the Eastern Han Dynasty.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the status quo that the power belonged to the Shangshutai and the Sangongs were mostly political vases gradually formed, and Guo Peng went a step further.

Among the entire Sangong Jiuqing, only Situ Caiyong and the eunuch Xian Yuyin are in office, and the other ten seats are all vacant.

Except for Xian Yuyin who got the position of eunuch because of raising horses, there was no one else in Jiuqing. As for Sangong, Situ Caiyong was obviously a political mascot.

What is certain is that at the level of the central government, Guo Peng completely abandoned the Sangong and Jiuqing, and took Shangshutai, Yushitai, and Staff as the main administrative core.