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Chapter 48 Sending Shun Taizu into the Imperial Temple
After the officials of the Honglu Temple blasted their whips three times, Chu Yan entered from the north gate of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, passed the Nine Dragon Screen, walked onto the imperial platform, and sat down on a chair in front of the dragon throne to indicate that he had not yet ascended the throne.

"bye!"

The officials from the Honglu Temple began to sing the ceremony, and the officials from inside and outside the Taihe Hall who were kneeling to welcome them bowed three times, stood up, and knelt down to bow again.

Because he had not yet ascended the throne, he reduced one kowtow, making it two kneelings and six bows.

Chu Yan sat in front of the dragon throne and looked at the officials in the hall. On the left stood the meritorious officials of Prince Qian's Palace, including Chu Ming, Li Changjin, Su Dingbian, Zhou Kaiyue, Xie Defu, etc. On the right stood the officials and princes of the Shun Dynasty who were above the third rank, and there were less than ten of them in total.

Xie Defu did not find out how to kneel and stand in this situation in ancient times, so it was Xu Zhiyi who decided how to perform the ceremony.

Chu Yan also agreed. China is a country of etiquette, but rituals are for show. They change with every dynasty and generation, and there is no need to follow ancient rituals for everything.

After the ceremony, Chu Yan said, "Confucius said, 'Resurrect destroyed nations, continue extinct generations, and raise up the displaced, and the people of the world will be united.'" In ancient times, King Wu destroyed the Shang Dynasty and established the Yin shrine in Luoyi. He also granted King Zhou's son, Wu Geng, the Yin fief. Now, I, too, have received the mandate of Heaven and am raising an army to destroy the Shun Dynasty. Although the Shun Dynasty has been destroyed, its shrine should not be discontinued."

Chu Yan looked at Prince Zhongshun and other members of the Shun Dynasty royal family. They all lowered their heads, looking sad.

Ignoring their feelings, Chu Yan ordered, "All officials, please go to the Imperial Ancestral Temple and follow me to offer sacrifices to Shun Taizu. After the sacrifices are completed, the late Shun Emperor will carry Shun Taizu's spirit tablet to the Temple of All Dynasties!"

During the hundred years since the founding of the Shun Dynasty, the only person who could be included in the Temple of Emperors of All Dynasties was Shun Taizu.

After he finished speaking, Chu Yan signaled to the eunuch Xia Shouzhong.

Xia Shouzhong hurriedly chanted the ceremony, "All officials, please go to the Imperial Ancestral Temple and follow His Royal Highness Prince Qian to offer sacrifices to Emperor Shun Taizu!"

Chu Ming, Prince Zhongshun, Zhuang Jin and others in the Hall of Supreme Harmony had already known about this matter, so they all knelt down and respectfully saw Prince Qian off.

But the minor officials below the fifth rank outside the palace knew about it for the first time, and there was inevitably a commotion.

It was common for the founding emperor to offer sacrifices to the emperor of the previous dynasty, but it had never happened before that the emperor of the previous dynasty would send the spirit tablet of Taizu to the Temple of Emperors of All Dynasties before ascending the throne.

King Qian wants to use this to demonstrate the transfer of destiny?

But what about the emperor?

Cold sweat began to appear on Prince Zhongshun's forehead.

……

Chu Yan left the Hall of Supreme Harmony and rested for a while in the small hall next to it. He waited until all the officials were lined up before he came to the Shunchao Taimiao.

All the officials stood in the square outside the temple. Chu Yan and the royal family of Shun Dynasty and the meritorious officials of Xin Dynasty entered the Taimiao and faced the shrine.

Inside the shrine, there are tablets and portraits of the four emperors of the Shun Dynasty, the five ancestral emperors posthumously honored by Shun Taizu, and the original empresses of each emperor.

The smoke of incense curled up, and the old ministers of Shun Dynasty looked sad.

Among the hundreds of royal family members, many were crying uncontrollably, and a few were trembling with fear.

"Where's my brother?!"

Prince Zhongshun broke out in a cold sweat.

King Qian ordered Emperor Yongning to deliver the spirit tablet to the Temple of All Dynasties, but the emperor was nowhere to be seen. Was it that he could not be invited, or was he dead?

But no matter which one it was, he had foreseen King Qian's tremendous rage, but he was just holding it back at the moment!
"Keep the ceremony simple."

Chu Yan ordered.

The sacrificial rituals such as fasting, bathing, the Eight-Legged Dance, and the bestowal of sacrificial meat were all dispensed with. The meritorious officials of the new dynasty, including Chu Ming, Xu Zhiyi, Su Dingbian and others, brought the nine tripods of Tailao, three cattle, three sheep and three pigs, and placed them on the altar.

Chu Yan unfolded the sacrificial text written by Xu Zhiyi in front of the shrine, and under the gaze of the princes and dukes of Shun Dynasty, he read:

"According to the will of Heaven, the new Lord addresses the spirits of the ancestors of the previous dynasty:

I am a commoner, rising from the fields, bearing the mandate of Heaven and the support of the people. The previous dynasty was corrupt, the ruler incompetent, the ministers treacherous, the nine provinces in turmoil, the people scorched. Wolves and jackals occupied the government, hawks and falcons pecked at the people in the streets...

Xia Jie lost the deer, Cheng Tang offered sacrifices to him; Shang Zhou burned himself to death, but Zhou Wu did not abolish the Yin rituals... If there are remnants of the previous dynasty who use your ancestral temple to mislead the people, the gods will punish them!

"The Heavens and Earth have truly heard these words. I beg you to accept their praise!"

After he finished speaking, he took the three incense sticks that Chu Ming had given him and inserted them into the copper censer.

After the sacrifice, Chu Yan turned around and faced them.

"Where's my brother?!"

Prince Zhongshun cried out, almost crying, "Why hasn't my brother arrived yet?"

The royal family members finally realized that the emperor had not arrived yet!
"Where is Emperor Gushun?" Chu Yan asked.

Ceremonies are performed for show. If the emperor does not complete the final ceremony, something will always be missing.

The eunuchs could not enter the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Xie Defu replied, "We sent someone to invite them this morning, but they haven't returned yet."

Chu Yan glanced at Prince Zhongshun and said, "In half an hour, I want to see the emperor and the retired emperor come to the imperial temple." Prince Zhongshun almost jumped up and said, "Prince Qian, calm down. I will go and invite my brother right away!"

After saying that, he took a few members of the royal family with him and was about to go.

Chu Ming called him: "The Queen, the princes and princesses are in the side halls. Ask them to go and invite them together."

Ma Ji grinned and said, "If you can't invite him, then kill his son. If you don't dare to kill him, I will kill you!"

Under the threat, the descendants of the Shun Dynasty royal family almost crawled out of the Taimiao and ran to Wangjiang Tower to invite the emperor.

……

"Please Queen, save us!"

Qinghe and the emperor's sister-in-law were staying in the side hall of the Taimiao. When they saw their brothers, uncles and elders, they ran to them and knelt down in front of them, crying.

The young prince and princess were greatly frightened, and Qinghe's legs were held tightly by the fourth princess Huainan.

Empress Zhang said in embarrassment: "I may not be able to persuade the emperor, so you take them away." Pointing to Emperor Yongning's children, she said that if the emperor died, they would not be able to survive.

Seeing that she didn't want to see Emperor Yongning anymore, Prince Zhongshun and others didn't force her anymore and took a group of princes and princesses to Wangjiang Tower.

Qinghe also followed him, feeling mixed emotions, wondering how to persuade his brother.

When they arrived at Wangjiang Tower, Princess Qinghe stayed downstairs while the others went upstairs. After waiting for a while, she saw her brother walking down from the upstairs with a blank expression on his face, surrounded by many people.

His hair was still disheveled, and there were many new wounds on his body, which seemed to be caused when the eunuchs came to invite him in the morning. Now that everyone came to invite him, the emperor finally agreed to come down.

They didn't care and just pushed Emperor Yongning forward quickly.

Qinghe hid aside, intending to remain silent, but her brother suddenly turned and looked at her: "Qinghe, did all my concubines go to the Qianqing Palace to sing and dance for him last night?"

Qinghe subconsciously thought: Who told my brother?

Yes, it must be those eunuchs who came to persuade us who were gossiping!
"My queen... also went to sleep with me?!" Emperor Yongning's voice trembled.

Qinghe's face was filled with shame and he didn't dare to answer.

Even though the Emperor's sister-in-law didn't sleep with him last night, she couldn't escape that man's hands, and even she was...

No wonder the emperor's sister-in-law refused to come and see him.

"The Chu thief deserves death, I..."

Seeing the expression on her face, how could Emperor Yongning not guess? He cursed with gnashing teeth.

The kingdom was taken away and the wife was slept with

"Go, go, go!"

Prince Zhongshun realized that something was wrong and quickly covered his mouth. He called out to all the royal family members, and they hurriedly lifted the emperor up and rushed to the Taimiao.

There was a lot of noise and clamor along the way. When they arrived at the Taimiao, all the civil and military officials watched as the former emperor was pushed into the main hall of the Taimiao by a group of princes. The emperor looked even worse than a beggar.

Before this, the retired emperor in the Eastern Palace was also brought in by several eunuchs. The old saint who had practiced Taoism and taken elixirs had become older than before, and the eunuchs almost dragged him here.

"So obey the unfilial descendants and offer sacrifices to the ancestors!"

Officials from the Honglu Temple chanted the ceremony, and a group of loyal ministers knelt on the ground crying. Loyal ministers such as Shi Nai, Han Mujie, and Song Rui, who had originally refused to attend the morning court to kowtow to Prince Qian, also knelt outside the Taimiao and cried together.

Qinghe was in the side hall, watching the ceremony with Empress Zhang, her eyes red and swollen from crying. The young princes were also brought into the Taimiao to kneel and worship, leaving only the female relatives in the side hall.

for a long time.

"Please follow Taizu's spirit tablet out of the Taimiao!" The official from the Honglu Temple sang the ceremony again.

Surrounded by a group of royal family members, Emperor Yongning carried the spirit tablet of Emperor Shun Taizu out of the Taimiao and was pushed, stumbling towards the Temple of Emperors of All Dynasties.

The remaining tablets and portraits of the emperor and empress in the Taimiao were taken out by the meritorious officials of the new dynasty and temporarily placed in a room.

Finally, the gate of the Taimiao was locked, and all officials paid homage to King Qian and the court was dismissed. Four days later, King Qian offered sacrifices to heaven in the southern suburbs and ascended the throne.

"The Shun Dynasty is dead."

Qinghe took a deep look at the locked door of the Taimiao, and returned to the harem with the emperor's sister-in-law with heavy hearts.

They could do nothing but barely preserve themselves, serve the new emperor with their beauty, and keep a trace of bloodline for the Chen family.

The news that Prince Qian offered sacrifices to Emperor Shun and asked the spirit tablet to leave the Taimiao quickly spread throughout the palace. Some palace maids and eunuchs were also crying secretly. After all, there were still a few people loyal to the Shun Dynasty.

But everyone knows that the Shun Dynasty has indeed perished and there is no possibility of restoration. From today on, Prince Qian Chu Yan will rule the world.

(End of this chapter)