Zhao Xirui was not worried or nervous at all, but very calmly accepted the fact that Su Yonglin would be the emperor and she would be the queen.
Although this matter is quite extraordinary.
But really, Zhao Xirui really didn't feel how difficult this matter was.
Perhaps Su Yonglin had fully confessed to her the reasons why he wanted to be emperor and what he wanted to do, and he had been vaccinated in advance, so she was not so worried.
But it was impossible not to worry at all. What Zhao Xirui was worried about was whether Su Yonglin's plan could be completed smoothly.
"Yuting, do you think your plan can really succeed?"
"I have no choice and I don't intend to have any choice."
Su Yonglin stood up and looked outside the palace: "Since I chose to embark on this path, I have no intention of leaving any way out or making any choice for myself.
I will walk this path to the end. I will not give myself any other choice other than this path. If I have other ideas, I would be really sorry for so many people who died because they believed in me. "
"I see."
Zhao Xirui walked to Su Yonglin and held Su Yonglin's hand: "No matter what you choose, I will always support you."
"Thanks."
Su Yonglin felt extremely lucky to have such a wife.
With the support from Zhao Xirui, Su Yonglin's heart became extremely calm, and he began to advance the work of becoming emperor very calmly.
The first person to bear the brunt was Kong Zheng, the future Minister of Rites. It was announced that Kong Zheng would preside over Su Yonglin's enthronement ceremony in the name of Minister of Rites, which made him inexplicably excited.
As an outsider who had not made any substantial contributions to Su Yonglin's founding of the country, he was very satisfied to be appointed by Su Yonglin to this position.
The Ministry of Rites, the chief ceremonial officer in charge of various sacrificial ceremonies in the country, frequently holds major sacrificial activities and is a very conspicuous position.
Not only that, the Ministry of Rites also holds the power to organize the imperial examinations and has the power to select talents. Power and status are very important, and cannot be encompassed by just the word "ritual".
Kong Zheng knew that he had not done anything for Su Yonglin, so he knew that he became the Minister of Rites mainly because of his family's reputation, and Su Yonglin needed his family's reputation.
He had also thought about Su Yonglin's motives and was mentally prepared that Su Yonglin would need to use his family's reputation to a certain extent to do things, but he did not expect that Su Yonglin would play such a big role.
Not long after the secret meeting, Su Yonglin found Kong Zheng alone and put forward some special requirements for his enthronement ceremony, hoping that Kong Zheng could comply with them.
The requirements are not too many, just two.
But each of these two requests made Kong Zheng feel like he was having a headache.
The first request was that Su Yonglin stated that the venue for his enthronement ceremony would not be at any historical site or palace or place of political significance, but at the Martyrs' Shrine on the bank of the Marco Polo River outside Zhongdu City. He would do so under the witness of all the heroes. Ascended to the throne as emperor.
The second requirement is that when Su Yonglin ascends the throne and proclaims himself emperor, he does not worship heaven or earth, and does not take worshiping heaven as emperor as his program, but "serves all people as emperor". He does not want to be an emperor, but only a human emperor.
After listening to Su Yonglin's request, Kong Zheng's scalp became numb and his head ached. His heart was filled with worries about the uncertainty of the future and the fear that Su Yonglin would trick him.
In fact, compared with the second request, Su Yonglin's first request seemed reasonable.
It is nothing more than enthroning and proclaiming the emperor in a different place, not in the palace, but in the Martyrs' Shrine outside the city. It is said that the emperor is nostalgic for the past and that the emperor is kind, and he can barely get past it.
But the second requirement is really a big problem.
Not to worship heaven and earth, not to be the emperor, but to worship all the people and call him the emperor, to be the human emperor.
This Human Emperor is definitely not the Human Emperor among the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Kong Zheng can be sure of this, because Su Yonglin has said that he will not be the emperor but become the Human Emperor.
But this problem is very serious, very serious. Su Yonglin is shaking some very basic things by doing this.
For example, the traditional political concepts of Confucianism and the rationality of rulers' rule based on this.
Dong Zhongshu, a Han Confucian, developed the idea of the unity of heaven and man into a complete body, thereby adding the buff of [divine right of kings] to emperors who were not born into traditional blood aristocrats, thus stabilizing their dominance.
This is important.
In the pre-Qin era, the political model of Chinese society was aristocratic politics. The natural aristocrats monopolized all political power, and their rule was in order. Their rule was logical and logical, and no one doubted it or broke it.
It was not until the rise of the class of gentry who were not of noble origin that their emergence began to break the blood circulation model of aristocratic politics, and the Chinese political model began to shift from aristocratic politics to gentry politics.
And this transfer also brought about an unexpected result, that is, the civilianization of the supreme ruler.
After the failure of Qin II's rule, Liu Bang, a humble aristocrat of the Wei Kingdom, successfully stood out from the crowd of nobles and became the final winner, becoming the first emperor in history who was not so aristocratic and not so noble.
Although the concept of the Son of Heaven had already existed at that time, the concept of the Son of Heaven at that time was shaken with the great changes of the Warring States Period. Ancient gods such as the Yellow Emperor were no longer recognized as gods, but only as human emperors.
Therefore, for the rulers of that period, even if they could find a blood relationship with the Yellow Emperor and his family's descendants, it was of little significance. It was very difficult to prove that he had the blood of the gods. It was very difficult to rule the world as the emperor.
Fortunately, Liu Bang was awesome enough to conquer the world, used powerful force to prove that he was the true ruler, and also used the oath of slaying on a white horse to add a line of defense for himself and his descendants.
But this line of defense for rule was still artificial after all. No matter how awesome Liu Bang was, he would eventually die. Later emperors of the Han Dynasty were also constantly worried and troubled about the rationality of their rule.
It was not until the thought of heaven and man sensing the unity of heaven and man came together, and Dong Zhongshu carried this idea forward, that the concept of the emperor returned to the mainstream public opinion again.
From then on, the emperor's rule on behalf of heaven is the greatest legitimacy. Anyone who dares to question the emperor is going against heaven. Even if he is not physically destroyed, he will die socially.
Emperors no longer need to find blood relationships with the ancient gods to justify their rule. As long as they admit that they are the sons of Heaven and Heaven is their father, that is enough to rule the ignorant people.
Because the ignorant people were really deceived into believing that the emperor was the emperor and governed on behalf of heaven.
No matter how infighting or changes within the ruling group, they will never give up their fundamental claim to govern on behalf of heaven.
But now, Su Yonglin wants to change this situation, give up the title of Emperor, and become the Human Emperor again.
This... isn't this giving up the strongest legitimacy of the emperor's rule?
Isn't this a naked claim that he ascended the throne as emperor by force?
What is the difference between this and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms?
After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the unprecedented chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms almost destroyed the sanctity of imperial power that the predecessors had painstakingly maintained. After that, the Song people spent more than a hundred years to reshape the sanctity of imperial power, and when it came to Su Yonglin, he... …Actually want to reverse the course of history?
Kong Zheng didn't understand at all.
You, Su Yonglin, have become emperor, don't you think about your descendants?
Yes, you are awesome, you are invincible, you dominate the world, you can use your powerful force to proclaim yourself emperor, and no one dares to oppose you, but you are bound to die. If you die, why should your son be the emperor?
You feel comfortable being the Human Emperor, and everyone in the world listens to you, but why should they listen to your son?
Why should we listen to your son?
Your son also conquered the world?
Without this layer of deterrence, why should he hold the highest power? Why should we govern?
If not the Emperor, how could you, the Human Emperor, be able to rise up and take charge of the family for your son at the critical moment?
Don’t you, Su Yonglin, understand these things at all?
Even if they do not consider Su Yonglin, but consider the interests of these vested interests themselves, they must cooperate with the "Emperor", the biggest political scam and political pua in ancient China.
Because what vested interests need most is not just profits, but also [stability].
