Qiming 1158

Chapter 605 Don't be a prince, just be a human emperor

Zhao Xirui was not worried about being nervous at all, but very calmly accepted that Su Yonglin was going to be the emperor and she was going to be the queen.

Although this thing is quite extraordinary.

But really, Zhao Xirui really didn't feel how difficult this matter was.

Perhaps Su Yonglin had completely confessed to her the reason why he became emperor and what he wanted to do. The vaccinations had been taken in advance, so she was not so worried.

But it is impossible not to worry at all. What Zhao Xirui is worried about is whether Su Yonglin's plan can be successfully completed.

"Yuting, do you think your plan can really succeed?"

"I don't have a choice and I don't plan to have any."

Su Yonglin stood up and looked outside the palace: "Since I chose to take this path, I have no plans to leave myself any way back or make any choice.

I will go through this road to the end. I will not give myself any other choice except this road. If I have other ideas, I am really sorry for so many people who died because of believing in me. "

"I see."

Zhao Xirui walked to Su Yonglin's side and held Su Yonglin's hand: "No matter what you choose, I will always support you."

"Thank you."

Su Yonglin felt extremely lucky to have such a wife.

With the support from Zhao Xirui, Su Yonglin's heart became extremely calm, and he began to advance the work of proclaiming emperor very calmly.

The first to bear the brunt is the future Minister of Rites Kong Zheng. Kong Zheng was announced to preside over Su Yonglin's enthronement ceremony in the name of Minister of Rites, which made him inexplicably excited.

As a pervert, who has not made any substantial contribution to Su Yonglin's establishment of the country, he is very satisfied that he can be employed by Su Yonglin for this purpose.

The Ministry of Rites, the chief ritual officer in charge of various sacrificial ceremonies in the country, frequently holds major sacrificial activities and is a very conspicuous position.

Not only that, the Ministry of Rites also holds the right to hold the imperial examinations, and has the power to select talents. Power and status are very important, and it is by no means a mere word [ritual] to encompass them.

Kong Zheng knew that he had not paid anything for Su Yonglin, so he knew that he became the Minister of Rites mainly because of his family's reputation, and Su Yonglin needed his family's reputation.

He had also thought about Su Yonglin's motives, and was mentally prepared that Su Yonglin needed to use his family's fame to a certain extent to do things, but he did not expect that Su Yonglin would play such a big game.

Not long after the secret meeting, Su Yonglin found Kong Zheng alone and put forward some special requirements for his enthronement ceremony, hoping that Kong Zheng could follow suit.

Not too many requirements, just two.

But each of these two requirements made Kong Zheng feel like a big head.

The first request, Su Yonglin stated that the venue for his enthronement ceremony was not in any historical sites, palaces or places of political significance, but in the ancestral hall of the loyal martyrs by the Lugou River outside the central capital city, under the witness of all the heroic souls Enthroned as emperor.

The second requirement is that when Su Yonglin ascends the throne and proclaims the emperor, he does not worship the sky or the earth, and he does not take the principle of proclaiming the emperor as an emperor.

After Kong Zheng listened to Su Yonglin's request, his scalp was numb and his head ached, and his heart was full of worries about the uncertainty of the future, as well as the fear of Su Yonglin's generous tricks on him.

In fact, compared with the second request, Su Yonglin's first request seemed reasonable.

It is nothing more than changing the place to be enthroned and proclaiming the emperor, not in the palace, but in the ancestral hall of the loyal martyrs outside the city, saying that the emperor is nostalgic, saying that the emperor is kind, and he can barely fool the past.

But the second requirement is really a big problem.

Do not worship heaven and earth, do not be the son of the emperor, but serve the people as emperor and be the emperor.

This human emperor is definitely not a human emperor among the three emperors and five emperors. Kong Zheng can be sure of this, because Su Yonglin has said that he will not be the emperor and wants to be the emperor.

But this problem is very serious, very serious, Su Yonglin is shaking some very basic things by doing this.

For example, the traditional political concept of Confucianism and the rationality of the ruler's rule based on this.

The Han Confucian Dong Zhongshu developed the idea of ​​the unity of nature and man into a complete body, thus adding the buff of [Godly Grant of Sovereign Power] to the emperors who were not from traditional blood nobles, and stabilized their dominance.

This is very important.

In the pre-Qin era, the political model of Chinese society was aristocratic politics. The natural aristocrats monopolized all political power and ruled in an orderly manner. Their rule was logical, and no one suspected or broke it.

It was not until the rise of the class of taxis that were not noble, their appearance began to break the blood circulation model of aristocratic politics, and the political model of China began to shift from aristocratic politics to gentry politics.

And this shift has also brought an unexpected result, that is, the democratization of the supreme ruler.

After the failure of Qin II's rule, Liu Bang, an aristocrat of the Wei state, successfully stood out under the siege of many nobles and became the final victor, becoming the first emperor who was not so noble and noble in history.

Although the concept of the emperor had already existed at that time, the concept of the emperor at that time was shaken by the great changes in the Warring States period, and the ancient gods such as Huangdi were no longer recognized as gods, but only as emperors of humans.

Therefore, for the rulers of that period, even if they were able to find a blood relationship with the Yellow Emperor and his family members, it would not make much sense. It was very difficult to prove that he had the blood of the gods, and it was very difficult to rule the world as a son of the emperor.

Fortunately, Liu Bang was powerful enough to convince the people of the world. He used powerful force to prove that he was the true ruler. He also used the oath of beheading the white horse to add a ruling line of defense for himself and his descendants.

But this ruling line of defense is still artificial after all. No matter how awesome Liu Bang is, he will eventually die. Later emperors of the Han Dynasty are constantly worried and annoyed about the rationality of their rule.

It was not until the ensemble of the idea of ​​the unity of nature and man, that Dong Zhongshu carried forward this idea, and the concept of the Son of Heaven returned to the mainstream public opinion again.

After that, it is the greatest legitimacy for the emperor to govern on behalf of the sky. Whoever dares to question the emperor is against the sky, and even if he is not physically destroyed, he will die.

The emperors no longer need to find the blood relationship of the ancient gods for themselves to justify their rule. As long as they admit that they are the sons of Tian and Tian is their father, it is enough to rule the foolish people.

Because the foolish people are really fooled into believing that the emperor is the son of the emperor, who is in power on behalf of the heaven.

No matter how infighting or changing within the ruling clique, they will never give up the fundamental claim of ruling from Heaven.

But now, Su Yonglin wants to change this status quo, give up the title of emperor, and become the emperor again.

This... Isn't this giving up the strongest legitimacy of the emperor's rule?

Isn't this a naked claim that he was enthroned as an emperor by force?

What is the difference between this and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms?
After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the unprecedented chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms almost destroyed the sanctity of the imperial power that the predecessors painstakingly maintained. After that, the people of the Song Dynasty spent more than 100 years trying to reshape the sanctity of the imperial power. When it came to Su Yonglin, he... unexpectedly Want to turn back the wheel of history?

Kong Zheng was completely incomprehensible.

You Su Yonglin have become emperor, don't you think about your descendants?
Yes, you are awesome, you are invincible, you dominate the world, you can force yourself to be emperor by means of powerful force, no one dares to oppose you, but you are going to die, you are dead, why should your son be the emperor?

You are comfortable as a human emperor, and the world listens to your words, but why should they listen to your son's words?
Why should we listen to your son?
Your son has also conquered the world?
Without this layer of deterrence, why would he hold the supreme power?Why govern?
If you are not a prince, can you, the emperor, still be able to open the coffin and stand up for your son at the critical moment?

Don't you, Su Yonglin, understand these things at all?
Even if it is not for Su Yonglin, but for the interests of these vested interests, they must cooperate with [the Son of Heaven], the biggest political scam and political pua action in ancient China.

Because vested interests most need not only interests, but also [stability].

(End of this chapter)