Because the coronation ceremony will be held after the New Year, this New Year has been boring and everyone's hearts have drifted to the period after the New Year.
With such eager anticipation, the day of the coronation ceremony finally arrived.
In the middle of the night, Gu Nanxi got up and prepared for the ceremony.
She put on a black phoenix robe, wore a crown on her head, and prepared to set out on that road alone.
The imperial robe is an unprecedented design.
The base color is black, as deep as midnight. A huge phoenix embroidered with gold thread, red silk thread and rare black feathers spirals up from the corner of the robe, covering the entire back and reaching the shoulders.
The posture of the phoenix is not the traditional peaceful dance, but it carries a sense of power that fights wind and thunder, and is reborn from the fire. Its golden eyes are sharp, looking straight ahead, as if they can penetrate the Yangtze River and reach Yingtianfu!
The edges of the robe sleeves and the lapels are cleverly woven with abstract wolf and cloud-thunder patterns in grassland style, symbolizing Yunzhou, the northern capital.
Gu Nanxi looked at herself in the full-body mercury mirror and felt vaguely strange.
This woman who was full of majesty and looked down upon the world turned out to be herself.
When I first entered the book, I just wanted to give up and wait for death.
How did I get to this point and become the empress?
Gu Nanxi pursed her lips tightly. No matter what happened, she was the empress of the Yun Dynasty, shouldering the heavy responsibility of the people of the world!
"The auspicious time has arrived!" The sharp and piercing voice of the eunuch in charge of ceremonies was like a sharp blade that cut through the silence, transmitted layer by layer, and echoed inside and outside the palace.
In an instant, the deep, desolate and distant sound of the grassland horn rang out, like the north wind sweeping across the wilderness, bringing with it the ruggedness and wildness of Yunzhou.
Then, the sounds of metal and stone from the Central Plains classical music, such as chime bells and jade chimes, solemnly joined in, and the mighty drum beats fell steadily.
The two completely different musical sounds were miraculously combined under the exquisite arrangement of the musicians, playing an unprecedented piece of "Xuanfeng Poyun Music".
The music is magnificent and majestic, with both the vastness and vigor of the grassland and the grandeur of the Central Plains.
Flags fluttered on both sides of the long imperial road.
The elite Yunzhou cavalry in distinctive armor stood like a steel forest, with long spears like a forest, solemn and silent. Only an invisible murderous aura filled the air, pressing the air so hard that it seemed to solidify.
Gu Nanxi walked along the imperial road step by step, and walked up the 981 steps under the enthusiastic gaze of the crowd.
With every step she took, the black gold phoenix robe did not move in the wind, only the phoenix on the robe seemed to spread its wings silently as she walked.
The entire square was in complete silence as Gu Nanxi recited the prayer in a sonorous voice: "…To the Lord of Heaven, the gods of Hou Tu, the spirits of the great kings of China, and the ancestors of the Gu family of Yunzhou, on the tenth day of the first lunar month, I will ascend the throne of the Emperor in the Diligent Administration Hall! I will give the world the title of Great Yun!"
After reading the prayer, according to normal etiquette, someone should present the imperial seal and conduct the seal-receiving ceremony.
But Gu Nanxi didn't do that.
The jade seal was placed directly on the altar. Gu Nan reached out and picked it up, facing everyone, and held the jade seal high.
Her cold and majestic voice resounded clearly in every corner.
"I am appointed by heaven!"
"Dayun, stand!"
The square was filled with enthusiastic cheers, as continuous as a tsunami.
All the Yunzhou cavalrymen raised their spears in unison and slammed their spears into the ground, making a uniform roar that shook the earth.
"Dayun! Dayun! Dayun!"
The civil and military officials who were kneeling on the ground shouted at the top of their lungs: "Long live the emperor, long live the emperor, long, long live the emperor!"
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After the entire coronation ceremony, Gu Nanxi was almost exhausted.
Fortunately, completing this ceremony is like completing the most important task, and everything is slowly getting back on track.
Gu Nanxi did not directly confer the title of prince on his three children.
She hoped that the children could rise step by step based on their merits, but she did not treat them unfairly.
The mansions, money, and official positions have all been prepared for them, and the rest is up to them.
Gu Nanxi changed the time for court meetings, changing it to a small court meeting every three days and a large court meeting every five days.
The court meeting started at nine in the morning, and officials no longer had to get up before dawn and go to the court meeting in the dark.
The officials wholeheartedly agreed with this.
When the Great Cloud was first established, everything was done by trial and error. Most of the original officials were promoted to a higher level, and they were full of vigor and enthusiasm, but more of them were uneasy.
Gu Nanxi's shortcomings in selecting talents without any restrictions gradually became apparent.
Officials promoted from the grassroots level are not able to adapt to their new positions, which results in the government's efficiency being lower than before.
Niu Jinyi was transferred from Shuozhou to Kyoto, and his current position is considered a secretariat staff member.
Gu Nanxi's arrangement for him was to first gain experience in Kyoto for a year or two to broaden his horizons and form a sense of the overall situation, and then be transferred to the local area to take over Cui Sanlun's position and become the new governor of Shuozhou.
Similarly, there are many students who graduated from the first batch of Baichuan Academy.
They were either assigned to the secretariat or to various departments of the six ministries.
This group of people is commonly known as the "youth cadres training class."
On days when there was no court session, memorials from officials would be sent to the secretariat.
The Secretariat will classify memorials according to their importance.
The most urgent and important memorials will be handed to Gu Nanxi first.
Ordinary greetings letters will be approved by the secretariat.
Those that are not very important but require decisions from various departments will be distributed to the cabinet ministers after consulting Gu Nanxi, and they will carry out the implementation.
To be honest, this process has loopholes. The Secretariat has too much power. Once they collude with the cabinet, it is easy to undermine the emperor.
It’s the same old saying, there is a shortage of talent, and Gu Nanxi is too busy to handle all the big and small matters in his own hands.
Therefore, we can only use the Secretariat as a transition.
"Many of the memorials today are about impeaching grassroots officials," said a young official from the secretariat nervously.
Niu Jin flipped through several impeachment memorials and his face gradually darkened.
The other party's impeachment was well-founded and not a deliberate frame-up, but this was a small mistake that was neither big nor small.
The reason why the other party made a fuss about this small mistake was simply because the Queen promoted young grassroots personnel and this affected some people's interests.
Only after Gu Nanxi had almost finished his work did Niu Jinyi hand over the memorial.
Gu Nanxi looked through it and thought that it was more of a mistake than a mistake, and it didn't have much impact.
Some officials quickly made amends after the fact.
She put the memorial aside and said, "Jin Yi, after your shift, please take some time to go check on them for me."
"good."
Officials who do something wrong can be criticized verbally according to regulations.
Gu Nanxi sent Niu Jinyi over to tell them not to be afraid of making mistakes while doing practical things, and she has a high tolerance rate for officials' mistakes.
Of course, she would not criticize those who impeached.
The officialdom needs such people who are serious about things, no matter what their purpose is. (End of this chapter)
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