Can I get to the other side?

The great affairs of the country lie in sacrifice and military affairs.

Sacrifice to heaven is even more important than war.

When Liu Xie and others arrived at the altar in the northern suburbs, there was already a buzz of people around them.

At this time, a calf is burned in the southeast of the altar and a sky lantern hangs in the southwest, creating a sense of solemnity and solemnity.

When Liu Xie stepped into the altar, drums sounded and the ceremony officially began.

Kong Rong stood next to the echo wall and sang loudly: "The emperor established the yin and yang, and the good fortune spread, and the gods gave birth to the seven political affairs. The essence light, the circle covers the square, and it is a sign of good things. I dare to report to you, and I recommend you to the emperor." Emperor. Welcome the Emperor God!”

People watching the ceremony in the distance heard Kong Rong's voice through the echo wall.

Whether they were ordinary people, aristocratic families or officials, they all remained silent and did not dare to do anything that exceeded the rules, waiting for the emperor to ascend the altar to welcome the emperor.

With a solemn expression on his face, Liu Xie walked towards the altar step by step.

The altar has three floors, each with nine steps, shaped like a circle in the south and north, symbolizing a round sky and a round place.

When Liu Xie walked to the middle level of the altar to worship, Kong Rong's voice sounded.

"bye!"

Liu Xie bowed respectfully towards the Emperor Tian God tablet on the upper level of the altar.

"The music begins to calm down!"

Kong Rong sang loudly, the ancient ritual music was played at the right time, the wood stove also raised fire to burn the cattle, and the smoke went straight into the sky.

After Liu Xie finished his worship, he continued to walk up the stairs step by step, and stood on the Tianxin Stone of the third-floor altar.

On the altar on the third floor, the main seat is placed with the sacred tablet of God Huangtian.

The divine cards placed on the left are Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, the God of Ye Ming, the God of Yun Shun, the God of Feng Boy and Rain Master, the God of Thunder Master, the God of Dongyue Taishan, and Bixia Yuanjun.

The divine cards placed on the right side are the Nine Heavens Mysterious Mother, the God of Ming Dynasty, the God of the Big Dipper, the God of Wood, Fire, Earth, Gold, and Water, the God of the Twenty-eight Constellations, and the stars of the sky.

"bye!"

Kong Rong's voice sounded again.

Liu Xie walked to the throne of the God of Heaven, offered incense and bowed three times and bowed nine times.

Then he kowtowed to other gods who were assigned to him.

"Reset!"

After worshiping the main seat and the coordinating gods, Liu Xie retreated to the middle level of the altar to worship.

"Lay the jade and silk! The music plays Jing Ping's chapter!"

The sound of ritual and music changes.

Liu Xie once again ascended the third level altar.

"bye!"

Liu Xie held a jade silk in his hand and knelt down to the chief God of Heaven and the coordinating gods.

After praying, three more sticks of incense were burned.

"Offer silk!"

Liu Xie took a cup of sacrificial wine, sprinkled half of it on the ground, and poured half of it on the thatch standing on the altar to show that the gods were drinking.

Finally, he offered jade and silk and kowtowed.

Repeat this four times, and after praying four times, Kong Rong says "reset" and returns to the middle level of the altar.

"Jinzu! The music plays the chapter of Xianping!"

Accompanied by the ritual music, Liu Xie went to the altar again, knelt down in front of the Emperor's God tablet, and presented the calf in the altar.

Kowtow, level your body, and return to the middle level to worship.

The process of offering sacrifices to heaven is complicated and solemn, with a total of nine processes.

This was only the third time, and Liu Xie felt physically and mentally exhausted.

Thanks to his youth and strength, if an old emperor had come here, he would have been tortured through the entire process.

"The first gift is given, the music plays the chapter of "Feng Ping", and the dance of the relatives is performed!

The ritual music played, and Liu Xie once again ascended to the upper level of the altar.

Under the altar, sixty-four people danced the Qianqi Dance.

In front of the echo wall, Kong Rong held the sacrificial words in his hands and solemnly recited:

"Heaven and earth are in the same condition, but I have admiration for you. I am in love with the purple altar, and I am thinking about the way out.

Respectfully accept the worship of the gods, pay attention to the confusion, embroider Zhou Zhang, and accept the supreme gods.

Thousands of children danced into eight overflows, and the effect was good and Yu Taiyi was happy together.

The nine songs are played with great splendor at the end, and the music of the harp and the harp is accompanied by the music.

The bells and golden drums are filled with joy, and hundreds of officials are busy, each doing their own thing.

When the animals are in full bloom, they go in and smell the ointment. The gods are about to stay, and they must be shaken before they come.

The light in front of Changli shines brightly, and the cold and heat are not too severe.

The poems are displayed in response to the rhyme and the jade sounds, and the letters in the palace are vomiting horns to stimulate the Qing Dynasty.

Send Liang Yang and Yu Shen to business, creating a new sound that will last forever.

The sound and air are far away, and the phoenix and bird are flying, and the god is dying at night and enjoying the cover of the hole. "

The ritual music temporarily stopped, and the long and obscure blessing message was transmitted to all directions through the echo wall.

After Kong Rong finished reading, the rituals and music started again.

Liu Xie continued to perform the ritual of kneeling three times and bowing nine times, and went to present his title before the throne.

The ceremony of the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony was carried out in an orderly manner. After more than an hour, the seven major processes of welcoming the emperor and gods, laying jade and silk fabrics, entering the shrine, making the first gift, making the second gift, making the final gift, and removing the meal were finally completed.

"Send off to the Emperor and God, and play the chapter of peace and tranquility!"

When the process reached the stage of sending off the emperor, Liu Xie took a deep breath and stepped up to the upper level of the altar.

The prestige of the emperor he wanted, the divine right of kingship he wanted, and the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty he wanted depended on whether the "auspiciousness" after sending the emperor to God could convince everyone present.

"bye!"

After Liu Xie performed the last three kneels and nine bows, he walked to the stove, held a blessing in his hands, and read aloud:

"In the 3195th year of Emperor Wei's reign, the 400th year of the Han Yuan Dynasty, and the third year of Jian'an, on the auspicious day of May, Liu Xie, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, led hundreds of officials and subjects to prepare a memorial ceremony for Tai Lao and dared to tell the emperor The Queen of Heaven, the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, the Feng Boyu and the Master Yu, together with the Holy Emperors and Emperors of the past dynasties, said:

Alas! Only Heaven benefits the people, and the earth is supported by Heaven; Heaven has manifested its way, and its kind is only manifest. God Fuwei, Xifuxiang is in the three realms; he is high and listens to the lowly, and he is the true ruler in the ten directions.

May the unpredictable gods reveal the yin and yang to show their fullness of selflessness. The great application of magical power brings great auspiciousness; all requests are answered, there is no evil spirit, the weather is smooth, and there is no disaster. The grain is plentiful and the livestock are prosperous.

All sentient beings in the world will eventually marry; all people in the prosperous and peaceful times will all live long lives.

May the grace of heaven be extended to celebrate the longevity of the great wisdom. May the virtue of the world overflow to create a prosperous and peaceful auspicious sign.

I have chosen this day to look up to the heaven and worship the saint. The four seas will be forever peaceful, and we will be happy to move towards a well-off society.

However, since Dong Zhuo, the world has been in turmoil, and traitors have risen up everywhere, causing the country to be in danger and the people to hang in the balance. This is truly a critical moment for the survival of the Han Dynasty!

When I ascended the throne in times of crisis, I was assisted by good ministers and built the Yan Han Dynasty three times. I must be lenient to the upper and loving to the lower, running through everything, leading to justice, revitalizing the nine states, helping the dangerous and eliminating the ominous, and eradicating evil and lewdness.

I hope that the heaven will send gods to purify the majesty of the immortal palace and save the world from disasters. Not only will the great Han Dynasty receive immortal grace, but the people will also enjoy boundless blessings! I hope you will enjoy it! ”

After reading the prayer to heaven with great emotion, Liu Xie threw it into the incense burner to burn it to show his respect to God.

At the same time, he secretly threw in two chemical substances - copper sulfate and potassium iodide.

These two react at high temperature to produce a lot of purple smoke.

Liu Xie wanted to use this to create the "auspicious sign" of purple air coming from the east!

In order to extract these two things, he has been working hard during this period, returning to the time when he was studying chemistry in high school.

Copper sulfate is easy to find. There is no shortage of alchemists in this era. The gallstones in their hands are copper sulfate.

What really makes What troubled him was potassium iodide.

Potassium iodide, unlike copper sulfate, cannot be found directly in nature.

Liu Xie first used iron filings and iodine to generate ferric hexaiodide, then added potassium carbonate, heated and concentrated it, and then obtained potassium iodide.

As for the potassium carbonate used to synthesize potassium iodide, he used the oldest plant ash method to extract it from the plant ash burned from various plant shells. The efficiency was extremely low and it took him a lot of effort.

In order to successfully create the auspicious sign of purple air coming from the east, Liu Xie tried no less than a hundred times.

"Look at the fire, and play the chapter of peace!"

As soon as Kong Rong finished speaking, Liu Xie immediately walked to the position of looking at the fire and watched the sacrificial text burning in the furnace.

At this point, the whole process of the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the sky was completed as long as the sacrificial text was burned out.

Just as Kong Rong was about to shout "Play the chapter of peace and peace, and return to the palace. "At that time, a string of thick purple smoke rose from the incense burner.

The purple smoke became thicker and thicker, and soon spread to a large area, covering Liu Xie's head.

"Purple air is floating on the top of the head!"

Kong Rong was shocked and stared at the scene in front of him with his eyes wide open.

His eyes were as big as copper bells, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

When Guo Jia saw this scene, he was stunned at first, and then his face was full of excitement.

The emperor offered sacrifices to the sky, and such auspicious signs appeared.

Doesn't this show that the destiny is in Han, and doesn't this show that the destiny is on the emperor on the altar?

Guo Jia shouted loudly to the people around him, regardless of the fact that the ceremony had not yet ended: "The purple air is floating on your majesty's head. This is a sign of a saint. Your majesty is really the reincarnation of the Purple Star Emperor! "

Under his leadership, Zhang He and Gao Lan reacted instantly and excitedly shouted in unison with the imperial guards.

In this era, the Purple Star Emperor occupies an important position in folk beliefs.

Even though most of the people are ignorant and don't know what the purple air coming from the east is, they know the Purple Star Emperor.

When they saw that there was indeed thick purple smoke covering the emperor's head, and heard Guo Jia and the imperial guards shouting that the emperor was the reincarnation of the Purple Star Emperor, they immediately knelt down excitedly.

Xun Chen and others hoped The representatives of the state families were all staring at each other, and were also shocked by the scene before them.

The so-called "auspicious signs" were nothing more than foxes howling at night, turtles carrying stone tablets floating out of the Luo River, etc.

They all knew that these auspicious signs were artificially fabricated, with the purpose of fooling the ignorant people.

But as soon as the emperor burned the tablets to offer sacrifices to the sky, a thick purple smoke rose above his head. They could not explain this scene at all, and they had no idea how to fake it.

"Your Majesty, may you live forever and have eternal joy! "

When many representatives of noble families stared at the auspicious sign with their mouths wide open, Xun Chen, like the common people watching the ceremony, knelt down to worship Liu Xie.

He started, and the representatives of noble families in Jizhou also knelt down in unison.

For a moment, the eight words "Thousands of years, long live forever" resounded throughout the altar.

In front of the echo wall, Kong Rong had come back to his senses, kneeling heavily on the ground, staring at Liu Xie with an extremely hot gaze.

With trembling dry lips, he shouted: "Your Majesty, thousands of years, long live forever! "

Purple air is floating on the top of the head!

In front of this auspicious sign, even if Liu Xie is fake, so what? There is no need to distinguish between the real and fake emperors!

In the crowd, a young man with eagle eyes and wolf eyes stared at Liu Xie on the Temple of Heaven with burning eyes, and knelt on the ground with the people watching the ceremony.

He shouted for thousands of generations, and the eternal joy.

"I always feel worried about the world. The emperor offers sacrifices to the heavens, and the purple air is floating on the top of the head. Isn't this the wise ruler I am looking for? ”

……

On the altar, Liu Xie was filled with emotion. If you learn physics and chemistry well, you won’t be afraid to travel around the world.

Although the chemical reaction just now was simple and could be done by middle school students, the effect was surprisingly good.

Not far away, the attendant and the historian were both writing furiously.

The attendant: …The emperor offered sacrifices to the heavens, and the heavens were moved. The purple air was vast, and all the spectators were shocked. They all said that the emperor was the reincarnation of Ziwei.

Historian: In the third year of Jian’an, on the third day of May, the emperor offered sacrifices to the heavens in the northern suburbs of Yecheng. He burned the tablets to the heavens, and purple air rose from the incense burner, reaching the top of the emperor…

Liu Xie tried hard not to wipe his eyes that were about to cry from the smoke. He turned around and looked at the large group of emperors, ministers and people kneeling under the altar, and a great feeling of pride rose in his heart.

"Everything in the world is the land of the king, and the shores of the land are all the ministers of the king."

"However, since Dong Zhuo, rebellious ministers and traitors have brought chaos to the court, causing people all over the world to live in dire straits."

"Sometimes loyal ministers say that Wu Fu is so heroic that no one in the world has ever seen him. He is still famous for killing thieves in the court, and he will be called a man for eternity!"

"Although Dong Zhuo has been eliminated today, there are still constant disputes in the land of Kyushu."

"Liu Biao in Jingzhou did not obey the imperial edict. Zhang Lu in Hanzhong did not respect the royal power. Sun Ce in Jiangdong resisted the king's army. Cao Cao in Yanzhou pretended to be the emperor."

"Since taking over the throne, I have worked hard to relieve the sufferings of the people and dare not slack off in the slightest."

"But to make the people happy, I will not hesitate to suffer in hell."

"As the saying goes, everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. At this time of crisis, it is the time to employ people. I have issued a special edict, called recruiting talents."

After Liu Xie finished speaking, Guo Jia stood up with an imperial edict, stood in front of the crowd, and read loudly:

"Since ancient times, the kings who have been appointed to the Zhongxing Dynasty have never been able to rule the world with virtuous gentlemen! Even if they have gained virtuous people, they have never left the alleys. How can they be lucky enough to meet each other? The people above do not ask for their ears. Today, the world has not yet decided. This is a time of great urgency to seek talents... How could Qi Huanqi dominate the world?

Is there anyone who catches the brown jade in Weibin today? How can there be no robber sister-in-law who receives money without encountering an ignorant person? The second and third sons and their assistants are humble and humble, but they are only capable and I can make use of them. "

The imperial edict, which is eloquent and has hundreds of words, progresses through the examples of Duke Huan of Qi reusing Guan Zhong, King Wen of Zhou meeting Jiang Shang on the Wei River, and Emperor Taizu Gao reusing Chen Ping.

The meaning expressed is obvious. In the past, when monarchs recruited talents, they either sat back and enjoyed the success, met by chance, or chose people with both ability and political integrity.

However, how many such people are there? The emperor believed that in extraordinary times, people should be employed based on merit, and his morality was secondary. Just like Emperor Taizu Gao said to Chen Ping, it is "when you are in urgent need of talents!"

This was originally Cao Cao's initiative after the Battle of Chibi, but now it was stolen by Liu Xie in advance.

This recruitment order changed the imperial court's selection criteria in one fell swoop.

From the previous priority of morality, from the previous promotion of filial piety and integrity, to the promotion of meritocracy.

If this edict had been issued at the time of Emperor Ling, Guan Yu would not have wandered around incognito, and would have been placed in important use by the court long ago.

This move is naturally risky, as it will recruit a group of talented people with bad morals, which will lead to some negative consequences.

But even the Han Dynasty, which had always pursued filial piety and honesty, also gave birth to rebellious officials and traitors such as Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shu.

Many places even sell filial piety quotas with clearly marked prices!

After weighing the pros and cons, Liu Xie believed that the pros outweighed the cons.

At worst, we can make improvements one day after the country is unified.

Among the people who watched the ceremony, many people suddenly showed surprise after hearing the imperial edict.

Previously, they had no way to serve the imperial court.

Those who rose to great heights were either of noble birth or recommended by others.

Without a family background, it is almost impossible to get ahead.

Now the imperial edict clearly states that as long as you have talent, regardless of your noble or humble background, you can be reused.

This undoubtedly gives the grassroots in the world and those with stains a way to rise.

Among the crowd, the young man with eagle eyes and wolf eyes was shining brightly.

He thought to himself: "With this imperial edict, talented people from all over the world will flock here! Although the emperor is young, he will definitely be the master of the renaissance of Yanhan! Why don't I help the emperor, show what I have learned in my life, and be a minister who obeys the dragon?"