On the afternoon of the 19th day of the first lunar month, in order to prepare for the next day's ascension ceremony, Liu Yu, together with Han Sheng, the Imperial Guard President Qu Zhu, and several officials from the Ministry of Rites, visited the "Tao of Heaven" in the south of the city. This was also the first time that Liu Yu climbed to the altar called "Yuanqiu". He rose to the ground and rose more than ten meters, with a total of four layers of round hills piled up, and went up from the bottom to the stone staircase.

There are two altars in the Shunchao in Chang'an City, one is under the Dacien Temple in Jinchangfang. It is a "sacrificial and publicity" altar. All annual sacrificial activities are held at the Sacrifice and Victory Altar. However, if Shunchao has a major event such as the response to the times and the new emperor ascends the throne, he will worship the heaven and the ancestors at Yuanqiu Altar. The ancestral temple of Shunchao is located in the Liuying Hall on the bank of Yuanqiu Altar, and in the Liuying Hall worships the founding emperor of the Su family and the four ancestors on it.

According to the procedure of the emperor's throne ceremony, on the day of the ceremony, the emperor would bring civil and military officials to the Yuanqiu altar with court robes. The emperor burned incense and told the sky. The first prayer was to the second floor, and then the second prayer was to the third floor, and then the most solemn third prayer was held. The main activities of the sacrifice were also held on the third floor of the Yuanqiu. The emperor told the heaven to read the sacrificial text, announced the change of the emperor, etc. After the officials kowtowed, they welcomed the emperor back to the court, and the emperor would officially take effect.

There is basically an unwritten rule to hold the Yuanqiu altar sacrifice. The emperor must hold it three years after he ascended the throne, that is, after he had served the filial piety period for the first emperor for three years. Therefore, Su Yan did not enjoy the treatment of Yuanqiu altar sacrifice to the heavens even when he ascended the throne. After this time, Liu Yu launched a military coup, in order to establish the fact that Qier was the royal orthodox as soon as possible, the throne ceremony was prepared less than a month after the ascension.

The weather was not very good on the afternoon of the 19th day of the first lunar month. Liu Yu climbed to the Yuanqiu Altar and looked down. Except for a square square under the altar, the surrounding trees were lush and leaves. They were all evergreen trees, and the branches were swinging densely with snow on their branches and easily made Liu Yu feel like they were all soldiers.

"Brother Liu, the Honglu Temple has just sent someone to say that tomorrow will be clear and it should not hinder the ceremony." Han Sheng was in a bad mood when he saw Liu Yu. He thought Liu Yu was worried about the smooth holding of the throne ceremony the next day, and reminded him again, "The Ministry of Rites has already been arranged, but more personnel are still needed?"

Liu Yu shook his head lightly. This throne ceremony was nominally responsible by the former Zuo Xiang Lanhe, but after Lanhe stopped the preparatory work, Han Sheng worked hard, and the preparations these days were also very good. Colorful flags were planted under the Yuanqiu Altar. This was the decoration of the throne ceremony the next day. The red carpet was started from the afternoon of the 19th, and the people from the Ministry of Rites were responsible.

"There is no problem, let's go back to the palace first." Liu Yu said. "The weather outside is still a little cold, I hope it's warmer tomorrow."

Because the sacrificial ceremony is usually held for one or two hours, and it must be held in the open-air Yuanqiu Altar. If the sky is too cold, the civil and military officials below may be able to bear it, but the several altars are at the highest and the wind is getting strong. Qier and the female officials may not be able to support it. Liu Yu thought to himself that it is time to let Qier wear more in the robe tomorrow so as not to be frozen.

Liu Yu returned to the palace and instructed Qu Zhu about the Yuanqiu Altar on the next day's throne ceremony and the security matters along the way, and he had some idle things. He originally had a military meeting to hold, and the attendees were all heroes of this military coup, including Qi Fang, Zhang Wuzhu, Hua Ji'an, Huo Bing and other senior military generals. However, because the meeting was held at dusk, Liu Yu got some spare time in advance.

After seeing the specific environment of Yuanqiutan, he always felt something was wrong and could not tell why. So he remembered to meet the old charlatan Wu You. Usually, Liu Yu could always think of Wu You, a half-immortal, in this kind of feudal superstition involving sacrifice to the sky.

When Liu Yu arrived at Wu You's Astronomy Institute, it was still early, and he couldn't see a figure as soon as he entered the door. He walked in to Wu You's "office place". He saw Wu You sewing something with needles and threads, while the little stuttering Wu Shuo stood beside Wu You, as if he was helping.

"Uh-huh!"

Liu Yu cleared his throat, Wu You and Wu Shuo looked up at the same time, and then they realized that Liu Yu was coming. The things on Wu You's hand seemed to have been sewn and bit off the thread. Wu Shuo picked up the sewn thing like a cloth bag and happily went out.

"Stop, stutter, what are you holding in your hand?"

"Hmph!" Wu Shuo glanced at Liu Yu and said dissatisfiedly, "You can take care of it if you use it?"

"No matter how bad it is, you stuttering now has no rules for going in and out of the palace. If you take a bomb to the inner court, wouldn't it be a mess?"

Liu Yu snatched the cloth bag from Wu Shuo's hand and felt warm in his hand. Liu Yu wanted to take it apart and see what was inside. Wu Shuo said unhappily: "Don't do it, don't move!"

"Why, there is something ulterior motive inside?"

"Because...because..."

Wu Shuo looked anxious, his face turned red. The more anxious he was, the more he couldn't speak clearly. She had to look at Wu You with help. Wu You ate the food and said leisurely, "Xiao Ya wants to say, if you dismantle it, this thing will not be hot."

"Oh." Liu Yu nodded, feeling interesting in his heart. He had thought before that he would not let Qier freeze tomorrow. Now it seems that there is ready-made warm-up equipment.

"Baby warm? It's quite interesting. I'll give it to you. I'll give it to Qier as soon as possible, but if it starts hot now, it should be cold tomorrow, right?"

"Use... use you to control it, bad bad guys!"

Wu Shuo said, and quickly went out with a warm bag.

Wu You said on the other side: "It's okay, I'll just make a sample for your Majesty first. Oh, it's for you to see. If it's appropriate, make one or two tonight, it's no trouble."

Liu Yu looked at some chemical-like powder on the table and knew it should be something like ripe lime. He felt that Wu You was treating Qier as the experiencer of his invention of the test piece, and he felt that it was not good, but it was rare that this grandparents and grandchildren also thought about Qier, and it was not appropriate to blame him.

"What's the matter? You kid usually have nothing to do and don't come to see you. I'm afraid you've encountered something bad again, right?"

Wu You seemed to be able to see through what Liu Yu thought. Liu Yu was really as Wu You said that he would not enter the Three Treasures Hall without any trouble. This time he came, mainly because he always felt that the next day's throne ceremony would not go too smoothly.

"It's the matter of the throne ceremony, and I can't tell why. I always feel that something is going to happen."

Wu You used a scoop of water to scoop out some water and washed his hands, and smiled and said, "You guy, you're quite alert. You came this time just to ask the old man, how did you feel this uneasy mentality?"

"I know if you ask, it's useless."

Wu You said dissatisfiedly: "I know you are here for nothing? You guy, don't you appreciate it if you ask someone for help? Just tell you that, the old man counts on his fingers and will never go well tomorrow's throne ceremony."

Liu Yu went down seriously and asked, "Why?"

"As for why, the old man can't grasp the secret of heaven. But to count it, even if the new emperor ascends the throne and sues the sky, it shouldn't be tomorrow." Wu You calculated again, "It's at least a few months later, and it may be a year, but it's not sure."

Liu Yu laughed silently, Wu You pretended to be a fool. His words will not go well tomorrow's throne ceremony, so the throne ceremony should not be held? The court obviously would not change the original intention of holding the throne ceremony because of Wu You's words. In Chang'an City, such a ceremony is urgently needed to calm people's hearts and let the people and people in the court know who is the current lord of the world.

"Can you tell me more specific?" Liu Yu sometimes had to admire Wu You. Many of the things he predicted were actually realized in the end. Since he gave a message to remind him, he always asked clearly.

"The secrets of heaven cannot be revealed, not disclosed! The old man can only remind you: be careful of sailing for a thousand years. Sometimes the result of being too hasty will go against your wishes, and you kid will have to go through this hurdle."

Liu Yu heard Wu You use "Kan" to describe tomorrow's ceremony of worship for the heavens, and he was a little bit doubtful and more vigilant. In fact, what Wu You said was almost in line with what he was worried about. Liu Yu's concern was because Chang'an City has been too calm recently, which makes people feel surprising. Logically speaking, the change of the emperor was completed in the situation of a military coup. The throne that Liu Yu promoted to the throne was not the monarch that everyone expected. Even if the ministers in the court were timid and afraid of things, wouldn't they launch any resistance?

Even with just a little resistance, the students of Tai Academy sat quietly at the gate of the palace, which easily solved Liu Yu's feeling that everything was settled.

The more in such a situation, the more likely it is to indicate that a big storm is brewing.

"Be careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years." Wu You's words were also a wake-up call to Liu Yu.

"Old Wu, thank you, I'm leaving now!" Liu Yu said that, he had arrived at the door.

Wu You said disdainfully: "It's still very impolite to say something and leave."

Liu Yucai didn't care about Wu You's whispering these polite and impolite questions. He led the guards out of the palace gate and got on his horse and rushed straight to the temporary yamen in Chang'an City.

Since Liu Yu cannot predict some things now, be careful and do everything in preparation, and any difficulties and dangers can be solved easily. After Liu Yu and Hua Ji'an, Qi Fang and others held a not-to-long meeting, they immediately returned to the palace. At the main entrance, they met Cai Yingnu, the captain of the female guard who entered the palace from the vanguard General's mansion to change shifts with Lu Chu'er.

"General."

Because there was no way to ride a horse in the palace, Liu Yu dismounted at the palace gate, and Cai Yingnu took the initiative to welcome him.

"Is there anything wrong?" Liu Yu held the horse rein and handed the horse rein to the guards on the side.

"General, today someone went to the vanguard general's mansion and said that someone was inconvenient to meet him, so he asked his subordinates to pass on this letter. After checking it, this letter was just a general letter and nothing was wrong."

Liu Yu couldn't think of who was so mysterious, but since someone gave it to him, it would be okay to see it. When Liu Yu opened it, there were only a few beautiful fonts with a bit of heroic spirit on it. When Liu Yu saw it, he immediately thought that this was Liu Liniang's handwriting.

"I wish you good luck and the weather will change."

Liu Yu's hand holding the letter paper couldn't help but shake. Even if Liu Liniang didn't come to see him, she still gave him a lot of information. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m. Read.)
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