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Chapter 885 Your Majesty, Your Minister Will Make a Report
While the firecrackers were going off, Jia Liu boarded the dragon chair on the rostrum under the watchful eyes of all the officials present at the meeting, but instead of sitting down immediately, he turned around suddenly and bowed to the officials present at the meeting.

This action surprised all the officials present, not knowing what the new emperor meant.

Under the stage, Chang Bingzhong, the Chief of Staff of the Army who was sitting next to the new Admiral of the Fourth Army Baozhu, quietly tugged Baozhu: "You have been with the emperor for a long time, do you know what this means?"

"Huh? Maybe it means asking us to take care of you."

Bao Zhu wasn't sure if that was what he meant, but it seemed to be what he meant.

Jia Liu on the stage did not explain why he bowed to the officials, and sat straight on the dragon chair.

Since there is no specific drawing of the standard dragon chair, the skilled craftsmen in Xiangyang City were unable to carve a dragon chair that meets the standard, and finally formed something similar to the Taishi chair.

Helpless, Asiha, who was in charge of this matter, asked someone to paste the word "Dragon Chair" on the back of the chair.

It may be too sloppy, but Jia Liu does not engage in formalism.

The so-called my ass is the world.

Therefore, sit down calmly and accept the congratulations from all officials and clans.

About three feet below the left hand is the seat of the cabinet ministers, and the lower right hand is the seat of the six ministers and ministers.

Due to the large number of staff in the cabinet and the Six Departments, if the seats are set according to the number of people, it will be sparse and ugly.

Therefore, there are only three handles on the left and right.

The first person on the left is Bo Qinger, the Prime Minister, the second is Li Shijie, the Deputy Prime Minister, and the third is Athha, the Deputy Prime Minister.

Ji Yun, who was on a business trip with the three of them, was called "the four dogs of the reform" by some people.

The first ones on the right are Shangshu Fanwei of the Ministry of Industry, Yang Zhi, Minister of Internal Affairs, and Ding Qing, Director of the Internal Affairs Committee.

These three people were ridiculed in private as the "three bears of reform".

Officials below Yu Shilang were all seated in the first row under the stage, and the seat order was the most expensive in the Ministry of Rites, and they were arranged in order.

The senior military generals of the Restoration Court who attended the meeting formed their own delegation and sat in the middle of the venue.

A copy of the meeting schedule has been handed out to each delegation when they enter the venue.

Dong Gao, the former Zhang Jing of the Military Aircraft Department and now the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, stood up and bowed to His Majesty the Emperor, then walked to the front of the stage, and said to the military and provincial delegations under the stage: "Next, we will enter the first item of the meeting procedure, please. Representatives from all provinces voted with a show of hands whether to support Prince He Shuorui as the emperor of the Qing Dynasty!"

After all, he was the first to raise his hand.

"Swipe!"

Members of the Shandong, Henan, Zhili, Sichuan and other delegations raised their hands one after another, and everyone couldn't hide the excitement on their faces.

The members of the Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Gansu delegations all looked at Bi Yuan, the governor of Shaanxi who led the team, and finally raised their hands in approval under the leadership of Bi Yuan.

From east to west, except for the Wuchang delegation who attended the meeting, the rest of the people, whether officials or clans, supported Prince Rui's proclaiming emperor.

No support.

The group of guards standing in the aisle with the word "internal affairs" tied to their arms looked like wolves.

In fact, this is also a formality.

At this time in Xiangyang City, children as young as three years old, and old people as high as eighty know that Emperor Qianlong farted, and the current emperor is called Weixin.

Because, the government has just distributed the "Renewal Calendar" to the residents of Xiangyang City from door to door.

It's just the almanac, no money required.

However, everyone's eyes were quickly attracted by the stage.

It's not the Emperor of Restoration sitting on the dragon chair, but the "Reforming Three Bears" sitting under his right hand.

Shangshu Fanwei of the Ministry of Industry, Yang Zhi, Minister of Internal Affairs, and Ding Qing, Director of the Internal Affairs Committee, did not raise their hands!

This made the officials on and off the stage break out in a cold sweat.

Seeing this, Asiha, the prime minister's deputy minister sitting opposite Ding Qing, subconsciously lowered his raised right hand while thinking about it.

Because he thought of a sentence that His Majesty the Emperor said in the past - "There will be progress only when there is opposition. The same rice can support all kinds of people. There is no such thing as perfection in the world."

Dong Gao hesitated for a while, but still stepped forward and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, all officials and clans unanimously support Your Majesty to be called emperor!"

Jia Liu got up.

Walked slowly to the front with heavy steps, looked around the audience, took a few breaths, and then said: "Shi Kai is ashamed of being loved by all officials, clans and people from all walks of life, but since everyone wants Shi Kai to be Emperor, although Shikai himself is very unwilling in his heart, but in order not to disappoint everyone and to make the Qing Dynasty better, Shikai has no choice but to be the emperor."

After finishing speaking, he said happily again: "After I became emperor, I have not changed my original intention and always put the well-being of the people in the world as the most important thing, so I will issue the first imperial decree today!"

"Wow hoo hoo!"

All the officials and clan members who had been sitting got up and knelt down.

Then I heard that His Majesty's first imperial decree was to abolish the kneeling ceremony in the past.

The decree is very simple, that is, before seeing the emperor, everyone had to kneel down and say a lot of blessings for well-being. It will no longer be necessary in the future, and it will be changed to just bow when seeing the emperor.

"Whether it is a flag member or a Han official, it will be ruled from now on!"

Jia Liu's first edict was undoubtedly very serious and thoughtful, because this change in formalism will be the basis for future major reforms of the government.

Of course, this decree not only reflects the significance of the reform, but also has a real effect, that is, to save pants.

As we all know, in addition to having more money, more land and more women, the officials of the Qing Dynasty had more pants.

There is no way, I kneel and kneel frequently, can I not waste my pants?

The three cabinet ministers on the stage obviously didn't know that His Majesty the Emperor would issue such an imperial decree. They were quite surprised and were at a loss for a while.

In the end, it was decided to keep silent.

After all, this was the first decree promulgated by His Majesty the Emperor in public. If they, as cabinet ministers, opposed it, they would really lose their consciousness at all.

The shouts of "Long live His Majesty the Qing Emperor!" also sounded in the air above the venue.

This call has two characteristics, one is loud, and the other is sincerity.

Obviously, everyone present was unwilling to kneel down at every turn.

The second process of the meeting was to vote on the year title of "Reformation", and then to vote on the reformation court's call to action against the thief Qianlong.

As well as the official telegrams to the provinces, the generals, and the counselors.

The result of the vote is that all passed.

Opponents are few.

After that, according to the meeting procedure, the enthronement ceremony of the Restoration Emperor should be held.

Although the scale is small and the number of participants is not large, there must be corresponding ceremonies, and even after the ceremonies, the Emperor of Restoration led hundreds of officials out of the city to sacrifice to heaven.

However, when Dong Shilang, who presided over the work of the Ministry of Rites, was about to proceed according to the procedure, the Prime Minister and Deputy Minister Asiha stood up and interrupted him, and then bowed deeply to His Majesty the Emperor, and said in a confident voice:
"Your Majesty, my minister Asiha requests to make a report on the legality of the four dynasties of Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong to the General Assembly, please approve it!"

(End of this chapter)