Chapter 98 Unification of the World and Ascension to the Throne
Chapter 98: Unification of the World and Enthronement
After a sleepless night, Hao Shuai got up early the next morning to practice martial arts.
After breakfast, Hao Shuai called his men and asked about the situation in the capital. After learning that the capital had returned to normal and the merchants were open for business as usual, Hao Shuai nodded with satisfaction. At the same time, Yao Qisheng, Yu Chenglong and other officials from Jinling had already set off for the capital.
As for Long Er and Dongfang Bai, after pacifying the south, they left 200,000 robots in the south to stabilize the situation and continued to advance westward, preparing to capture the western provinces, and then set off for the capital.
After listening to the report from his men, Hao Shuai ordered them to lead the troops to continue to clear the remnants of the Qing Dynasty in the northwest and northeast, and emphasized that after occupying Jincheng, they should catch the so-called eight imperial merchants in one fell swoop and leave no one alive.
The eight imperial merchants refer to the merchants in Jin Province Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yunfa.
Fan Yongdou and other eight wealthy imperial merchants were actually traitors in the eyes of today. They often traveled back and forth between the interior and the exterior of the Great Wall before the Qing Dynasty entered the Great Wall.
At a time when the Ming Dynasty was becoming increasingly corrupt and socially turbulent, the merchants' unique keen sense of smell made them see the rise of the Qing Dynasty and its ambition to unify the world. So, in addition to normal trade, they secretly transported military supplies to the Qing Dynasty, provided various intelligence inside the Great Wall, and engaged in political business.
When Hao Shuai read history books in the past, his hatred for these traitors was even greater than that of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty could be said to have slaughtered the Han people for the benefit of its own nation and to consolidate its rule, but these eight imperial merchants simply sold out their own nation for money, which made people hate them even more.
Therefore, Hao Shuai asked his men to uproot them and eradicate them completely!
According to Hao Shuai's order, the army set out soon. A week later, it occupied Jin Province. According to Hao Shuai's instructions, all the eight imperial merchants were confiscated and exterminated, and a total of 30 million taels of silver and a considerable number of antique calligraphy and paintings were obtained.
Two weeks later, the army eliminated Wang Puchen, who was entrenched in Shaanxi Province, and officials such as Yao Qisheng and several women such as Dongfang Bai also arrived in the capital, took over the government affairs in an all-round way, and began to prepare for the coronation ceremony of Hao Shuai.
A month later, Hao Shuai's army eliminated all the remaining forces of the Qing Dynasty and occupied the entire base of the Qing Dynasty. At the same time, they attacked northward and annihilated the Russian army that was greedy for land and planned to take advantage of the civil strife in the Qing Dynasty to eat for free.
Even Wanwan Island was taken down by Shi Lang's navy. Hao Shuai spared the Zheng clan members on the island for the sake of Zheng Chenggong, but they all had to move inland.
At this point, Hao Shuai officially unified the country, and his subordinates also formally submitted a memorial hoping that Hao Shuai would ascend the throne and become emperor.
When Hao Shuai opened the memorial sent by the Ministry of Rites and saw that it was densely written with the coronation process that the Ministry of Rites had prepared for a month, Hao Shuai's face turned black on the spot.
If the Ministry of Rites followed the procedures, it would take at least one day to complete the task. How could Hao Shuai, who didn't like trouble, agree to this? He immediately rejected the memorial and asked the Ministry of Rites to prepare according to Hao Shuai's requirements.
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Three days later, an auspicious day
The morning of this day was clear and refreshing, and a touch of golden sunlight covered the ancient capital of the three dynasties with a layer of golden light, just like the beginning of the world.
Hao Shuai, dressed in gorgeous clothes, led the civil and military officials to the Temple of Heaven to offer sacrifices to the heavens, officially proclaimed himself emperor, named the country China, took Beijing as the capital, and changed the system to the first year of China.
After the sacrifice, the group returned to the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Hao Shuai, wearing a dragon robe and a nine-dragon crown, slowly came to the dragon chair symbolizing the throne and sat down.
"Long live the emperor, long live the emperor, long live the emperor!"
The moment Hao Shuai sat down, the civil and military officials who had been standing on both sides immediately bowed and chanted long live the emperor under the leadership of Yao Qisheng and Yu Chenglong.
Originally, the Ministry of Rites required that everyone kneel down to congratulate, but Hao Shuai rejected it and issued an imperial decree requiring that from now on, everyone only needed to kneel down to the sky, the earth, and their parents, and no one else needed to kneel down to anyone else.
Hao Shuai did not want the people under his rule to kneel down at every turn, because it was easy to stand up after kneeling for a long time.
"Everyone, please stand up!" At this moment, Hao Shuai, looking at the officials below who were bowing down to congratulate, was still a little excited in his heart, but he still maintained a calm appearance. After looking around, he said majestically.
After the officials stood up, the female official next to Hao Shuai took out an imperial decree and read it out in public.
This was an imperial decree ordering Dongfang Bai, Long'er, A Ke, Daxiao Shuang'er, Jianning, Qiqi, Yilin and Thirteenth Aunt to be imperial concubines. Originally, Hao Shuai planned to make Dongfang Bai the Queen of the East Palace, Long'er the Queen of the West Palace, and the others as imperial concubines.
But Dongfang Bai and Long'er were worried that they would make other sisters unhappy and affect the stability of the harem, so they took the initiative to refuse.
Therefore, Hao Shuai made all of them imperial concubines. As for whether this was against etiquette?
After Hao Shuai directly demoted an official of the Ministry of Rites who wrote a letter of opposition back to his hometown, no one had any objections.
As for why Hao Shuai did not take Qi Lanlian and Bulma with him, it was mainly because they all lived in modern times and he was afraid that they would not be able to accept Hao Shuai's feudal life for a while.
As for Thirteenth Aunt and Yi Lin, it was much easier. Thirteenth Aunt herself was from the Qing Dynasty (although it was the Qing Dynasty more than a hundred years later), so after Hao Shuai apologized several times with his own hands and foaming at the mouth, she begged for mercy and forgave Hao Shuai.
Yilin was easier to deal with. She took Dongfang Bai to confess her life story to her. Then, at the request of her only sister and her lover, Yilin followed Hao Shuai and his men obediently. Hao Shuai personally came to her house one night to check her physical condition and gave her her favorite Buddhist scriptures.
After that, the female official read out the second imperial edict. Because the new dynasty followed the Ming Dynasty system, set up a cabinet and established six ministries, this was an imperial edict to appoint Yao Qisheng and Yu Chenglong as cabinet ministers and let them lead the cabinet.
After the imperial edict was read, the entire enthronement ceremony was completed.
The officials were helpless about the enthronement process set by the emperor himself. Who made them have such an emperor who didn't like trouble!
Moreover, this emperor didn't like to use eunuchs and sent all the eunuchs in the palace out of the Forbidden City.
Hao Shuai disliked eunuchs mainly because he thought it was too inhumane, so he ordered that no new eunuchs would be recruited in the future. At the same time, Hao Shuai opened a textile factory outside the palace, and gathered all the eunuchs in the palace and sent them to the textile factory as workers, so that they could support themselves.
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After becoming emperor, Hao Shuai, who thought he could live a life of a tyrant, faced the newly pacified world, and under the pressure of his own conscience, he could only start to handle political affairs with the assistance of officials.
The first thing was to send officials to measure the land in the world, nationalize the land, count the population in the world, and implement the land policy previously implemented in Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces nationwide.
The second is the issue of education
The third is to crack down on bandits, bullies, and unscrupulous landlords
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Although there was the help of Dongfang Bai and other civil and military officials in the promulgation and implementation of these policies and decisions, Hao Shuai was still very busy, and even had no time to realize the big quilt that Hao Shuai had always longed for.
Fortunately, Hao Shuai had trained a large number of grassroots officials in the three provinces of Zhejiang before, otherwise, these policies of Hao Shuai would probably not be implemented well.
Finally, one day, Hao Shuai took the opportunity of a grand banquet for all the ministers to get all the women of Dongfang Bai drunk, and carried them into the super-large bed specially built by Hao Shuai, realizing his long-cherished dream.
The next day, Hao Shuai rubbed his sore waist and found Hong Hou, and asked her to change into his appearance to handle government affairs. He was afraid that Dongfang Bai and the women would settle accounts later, so he flashed and left the Lu Ding world without pausing the time of the Lu Ding world.