August 9, 1006, Innovation Era, Weihai Research Institute of the Liberation Army.

"Good news! Good news! The new emperor has ascended the throne! The new emperor has ascended the throne! The enthronement ceremony will be broadcast live nationwide at nine o'clock..."

Early in the morning, the institute's radio rang, informing everyone to watch the live broadcast on time.

As an official organization, of course, this kind of thing cannot be ignored. Deputy Director Luo Lengguo asked the office to notify all employees yesterday.

However, Su Lei was not in the institute today because he was an imperial baron. According to etiquette, he could not miss such a major celebration, so he went to the capital to attend the ceremony a few days after returning from Yingzhou.

According to the ritual system, the feudal nobles must contribute the local specialties of their territory and "tinted gold", ceremonial wine and a sum of money to the new emperor.

This kind of offering of local specialties is symbolic, and the quantity does not need to be too large, but it must be produced in one's own fiefdom.

It has been an ancient practice for princes to offer gold wine to the emperor. "Zhao" refers to the ceremonial wine used for sacrifices. This wine is also carefully brewed with the products of their own fiefdoms. As for grain wine, fruit wine or milk wine, it doesn't matter.

"Gold" refers to the ceremonial aid gold. This requires gold, and the fineness cannot be lower than the imperial standard gold coin. The weight is calculated based on the permanent population of the fief. According to the Bacterium Act, the ceremonial aid gold is one penny (5 grams) for every 1,000 people.

One tael (50 grams), any part less than 100 people will be rounded off.

However, Daxia was already strong and prosperous, and there was no need to exploit the princes like the ancient imperial court. Therefore, the ceremonial fund was not collected every year, but once every three years. In addition, it was collected when the new emperor succeeded to the throne, the emperor died and the crown prince was appointed.

Collect once.

Su Lei's Danding Mountain Town has a permanent population of less than 15,000, so he should donate about 15 taels of mint gold this time. Originally, nobles like Su Lei who had been ennobled for less than three years were given preferential treatment without gold mint, but Su Lei

Now that he was not short of money, he thought the prince was quite a good person, so naturally he didn't save the money.

So he asked the steward to exchange 15 taels of gold, and then cast a golden statue, plus ten pieces of milk wine and fruit wine as the mint gold. The tribute souvenirs were blankets, horns, cheese, cowhide and

Sheepskins, etc., selected some of the best and prepared a cart.

Xia Jing.

When the enthronement ceremony was broadcast live across the country, Su Lei also put on a costume and stood in the square with a group of imperial nobles to watch the enthronement ceremony.

This ceremony doesn't care what Su Lei does, he just needs to stand here as a human background.

Accompanied by the melodious music, the prince, no, the new emperor, put on the twelve-chapter robe and crown, slowly walked onto the twelve-story high platform.

He walked to Emperor Xuanwu who was already waiting on the stage and knelt down, and performed three bows and nine kowtows. Then he and Emperor Xuanwu offered sacrifices to heaven, earth, and ancestors. Then they handed over the imperial seal, the Emperor's Sword, the Kowloon Token, the golden ax, etc.

Twelve items symbolizing the emperor were handed over to him.

Subsequently, Emperor Xuanwu finally announced as emperor that he would withdraw from the Qianqing Palace and move into the Anle Palace to take care of his old age. The new emperor moved out of the East Palace and moved into the Qianqing Palace, allowing all the people in the world to be loyal to the new emperor.

When the new emperor is equipped with the emperor's sword and raises the imperial seal to his subjects, it means that the throne of this generation has been successfully passed on, and a new emperor is born!

"Long live my emperor! Long live! Long live!"

All the people watching the ceremony bowed to the new emperor.

Then amid the sound of music, the Master of Ceremonies, the Minister of Etiquette, announced the end of the ceremony, and the banquet was held in the evening, where the new emperor held a banquet for all his ministers.

After leaving the square, Su Lei said to Chen Mei: "It's a pity that Xiuxue didn't come this time, otherwise we would have eaten elephants again..."

"The time for Xiu Xue to go into hibernation came so quickly. He is still less than a year old..." Chenmei also expressed surprise.

Yes, Xiu Xue entered a long sleep state before coming to Beijing, and she will probably sleep for more than ten days to several months.

This kind of long sleep is a unique growth method of true dragons. Just like a larvae turning into a pupa, true dragons will also undergo amazing changes during this long sleep period. Not only will their body grow rapidly, their internal organs will develop at an accelerated rate, but their abilities in other aspects will also improve.

A huge improvement.

But this kind of long sleep of a real dragon is not something that happens when you want it. Generally speaking, it only takes a long sleep of varying lengths every time you cross the age group.

The normal age range of true dragons is divided into: hatchling stage (0-5 years old), young dragon stage (6-15 years old), juvenile stage (16-25 years old), adolescent stage (26-50 years old), and young adulthood

(51-100 years old), adulthood (101-200 years old), prime age (201-400 years old), old age (401-600 years old), very old age (601-800 years old), ancient dragon (801-1000 years old)

), ancient dragon (1001-1200 years old), ancient dragon (over 1200 years old).

Most true dragons (referring to white dragon folk without professions) can only live to the ancient dragon stage. All dragons with a life span of more than 1,000 years have professions. The age after the ancient dragon depends on the specific species.

, the ultimate lifespan of a lower-level true dragon is generally more than 2,000 to 3,000 years, and an upper-level true dragon can reach 4,000 to 5,000 years. If you want to break through the lifespan limit, you can only advance to the "Dragon of Conferred Gods" and become a god-like existence.

Of course, this means that under normal circumstances only dragon folk will sleep according to their age groups. Dragons like Xiu Xue who have templates and golden fingers do not need to refer to this at all. These chosen dragons, as long as they grow to the age of

stage, it will automatically trigger the sleep program and enter a state of super-speed transformation.

A normal baby dragon will not go into its first long sleep until it reaches the age of five, but because Xiu Xue is a "candidate dragon god" and is well-fed and full, the transformation speed will definitely be faster than that of a normal dragon.

Su Lei said with a smile: "Haha, Xiu Xue is different from other real dragons. She is special. It is normal to grow faster..."

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Royal Palace.

"Your Majesty, these are the tributes and fine gold sent by Baron Dandingshan..." The tributes sent by Su Lei were placed in a warehouse in the palace.

"Okay, from now on, I will personally see everything Su Qing sends. Su Qing's gifts must be stored separately and not mixed with other people's gifts..." the new emperor ordered his attendants.

"Yes, Your Majesty..." The attendant quickly wrote it down. At the same time, he was sighing in his heart, who is this Baron Sule? This is simply unprecedented treatment.

Of course, there was no such procedure originally, and it was impossible for the emperor to personally inspect the tributes from various places, let alone store them separately. Su Lei was probably the first to receive such treatment in the more than 100 years since the founding of the Xia Dynasty.

The souvenirs and drinks didn't seem to have much significance, and the new emperor even tasted some. But when he saw the box containing gold, he got a hint in his heart. He went up to open the box himself, revealing a statue inside.

Little golden man.

There are no restrictions on the specifications and shapes of this kind of gold, as long as the weight and purity meet the standards. So there are various shapes, including simple gold bricks and gold bars, the more sophisticated ones are presented in the form of gold vessels, and the lazy ones even use gold coins directly.

Su Lei thought the new emperor was pretty good, so he put some thought into making him a little golden man.

The golden figure made of 15 taels of gold is not big. The figure is an abstract human shape, and it can be seen that it imitates ancient bronze figurines. Although the craftsmanship is good, it is only good.
Chapter completed!