Chapter 180: China is rich in emperors this year (6)
Haizhou, Huaguo Mountain, Monkey King Village
Since the establishment of the Hua League and the completion of the integration of major global travel groups, the strategic status of the small island of Huaguoshan has plummeted, completely losing the value of being built as a military garrison fortress. The intelligence collection work for the Huaihe and Huaihe regions was also handed over to more professional people.
So for more than two years, the island owner Lu Wenyuan, who was extremely bored all day long, had to put all his energy into how to decorate the Monkey King Manor, so that the manor was full of Monkey King and other monkeys. The murals, statues, and even the pillars were painted in the gold and red colors of the golden hoop.
At this time, Wang Qiu was sitting under a mural of "Sun Wukong Beats the Bone Demon Three Times", looking impatiently at the closed door opposite.
"...It's been more than two hours! Why haven't you come out yet? What exactly is Senior Sister Ma Tong planning to dress up as the Loli Queen?"
——After learning that the relevant departments were going to canonize a thirteen-year-old little lolita as emperor in Huaguo Mountain, Miss Ma Tong, who had always liked to be funny, was immediately excited and immediately volunteered to organize the entire ceremony. planning work.
The superiors felt that such a small thing seemed insignificant, so they agreed without any concern.
Wang Qiu waited outside the door for a long time, and vaguely heard the sounds of crying, struggling, clothes tearing and the collision of hard objects coming from inside. It was not until three o'clock in the morning that Ma Tong pushed the 13th year old with a smirk on his face. Xu Xin'er, the "saint aunt" of Wen Xiang's teaching who was about to proclaim herself emperor and ascended the throne, came out.
"...Qiang Qiang! Our little queen is dressed up! Look, she is really cute!"
——Wang Qiu looked closely and saw that Xu Xiner's appearance had not changed much from before, except that her face was a little red for some reason and the corners of her eyes were a little moist. And her outfit is even more... isn't this the legendary purple gold crown with phoenix wings, golden armor with chains and lotus root silk steps? Not to mention that underneath the mini chain gold armor made of plastic, there is a furry fur outfit! At first glance, it really looks like a small animal!
Of course, it is the kind that is kept in a circus by humans with whips and candies, and often needs to ride a unicycle and jump through fire hoops...
"...Hey, Senior Sister Ma Tong, with such an outfit of the Monkey King...are you really dressing her up as a trumpet Sun Wukong?"
"...Well, since we are working in Huaguo Mountain, of course we must learn from Sun Wukong!"
Ma Tong curled his lips in disapproval and said, "...What does this level of imitation show mean? I haven't even installed a tail on her yet!"
"...Install a tail...? Do you want to get a fake monkey tail and sew it on the back of her clothes?" Wang Qiu blinked and asked.
"...Why do people use such low-level methods? Of course they have to take off their pants and fix them on the body! To put it simply, they insert it into the anus..."
"...Enough! Stop!"
Wang Qiu quickly slashed her knife in an attempt to cut off her words, but still failed to stop the unscrupulous senior sister from chattering, "...Oh, a child's body is so delicate. If it can't expand slowly and patiently, I was afraid it would cause lacerations and bleeding, so I had to give up in the end..."
At the same time, Xu Xiner's face turned redder and redder, the mist in her eyes became thicker and thicker, and finally she burst into tears.
"...Wow-big sister is bullying...help..."
As a cult saint who often needs to be dressed up in various strange ways, and recite weird scriptures and dance in public in public, Xu Xiner, the "saint aunt" of the Wenxiang Sect, is very shameful in terms of the level of women's ethics in this era. It's obviously relatively low. But even so, for her, and even for most modern children, the idea of inserting a monkey tail into the buttocks is still too scary...
In short, after a while, Xu Xiner, whose tears were still wet, was pushed onto the sedan chair and carried to the venue of the enthronement ceremony in Shuiliandong with people cheering and crowding.
——The so-called Water Curtain Cave was originally just an ordinary natural waterfall, but after it was discovered by the extremely bored island owner Lu Wenyuan, he ordered people to dig a cave behind the waterfall and put some stone tables and chairs there. The wild land in front of the waterfall was leveled, a square was paved, and a stone tablet with the words "Shuilian Cave" was erected. Now, after some renovations, it has become the venue for Xu Xiner's coronation celebration.
Although the ancients already had a very complete set of procedures for how to worship heaven and proclaim themselves emperor, modern people generally disdain these red tapes. Therefore, according to Senior Sister Ma Tong’s plan, the prelude to this emperor-proclaiming ceremony was a bunch of "two-kick" firecrackers roaring into the air, followed by hundreds of firecrackers blasting at the same time. The crackling noise was deafening for a while. Scalp numbness. And the choking smell of gunpowder smoke makes people cough repeatedly. Next came the lively and noisy lion dance and dragon dance, as well as the cheerful waist drum and gong, which was pretty much as noisy as it gets.
For such a lively scene, which was like a wild dog running wild, the Wenxiang church members who were from grassroots backgrounds and did not have much traditional cultural literacy were very happy to see it, but the time-travelers who came to watch the ceremony shook their heads one by one. ：
"...It's so noisy...It's just like a country temple fair. How can it be royal at all? My head is about to explode..."
"... It is originally a Caotai group within a Caotai group. It is enough to be able to hold a rural temple fair! Do you also want to listen to a few great scholars reciting some inscriptions on Parallel Four and Liliu? Back then, I held a meeting in the school and listened to the principal's speech. Haven’t heard enough of the hypnotic magic sounds? ”
"...That's true, but...being proclaimed emperor on Sun Wukong's Huaguo Mountain...haha, just thinking about this scene makes me feel curious!"
"... Hehe, that's right, this time I really turned into a joke invited by the monkey... Oh, no, it's the emperor..."
As for the few old Confucian scholars who came from Haizhou City to watch the excitement, they were so angry that they almost fell down when they saw such an ingenious and alternative way of proclaiming the emperor. They all raised their heads to the sky and cried out sadly, "The way of heaven has been lost, and I am crowned by the monkeys..." ——I have to admit that the above-mentioned idioms are really suitable for the situation.
However, the curses of the Confucian scholars are of no use. The enthronement ceremony of Wenxiang Sect's "Holy Aunt" Xu Xin'er still followed the scheduled steps, accompanied by a noisy and joyful atmosphere, and continued to be held enthusiastically in front of the Water Curtain Cave in Huaguoshan - first of all, Wang Qiu, as the representative of the Chinese League, read loudly He received the official document canonizing Xu Xiner as the female emperor, and this was the first time that a republican government could canonize a foreign emperor.
Then, the little empress Xu Xin'er was tremblingly helped onto the dragon chair, accepted the three bows and nine kowtows from the leaders of the Wenxiang Sect in Haizhou, and announced that the "Great Holy Kingdom" would be officially established from now on, with its temporary capital at Huaguo Mountain in Haizhou, and The "Mahayana Kingdom" established by the Wenxiang Church in Hebei Province is a rival...
At this point, another fresh and hot strange country was suddenly born on the land of China in this time and space.
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After Queen Xu Xiner ascended the throne and the "Great Holy Kingdom" was established, the next step, as usual, was to establish a court and grant awards to ministers.
But the problem is that compared with any of the separatist forces that had proclaimed themselves emperor at that time, the Haizhou "Great Holy Kingdom" was too weak - it only had less than two counties in total, and even the lowest level ones were included. Well, a full attack means four to five thousand soldiers and horses, which is only equivalent to a medium-sized daimyo in Japan. With just such a few people, and a bunch of Dukes, Grand Masters, and Prime Ministers, making up three provinces and six departments, it feels like it is too exaggerated.
Moreover, as the queen, Xu Xiner has been living in Huaguoshan for a long time. Except for a few maids and servants, there are no soldiers around her. As for the territory of Haizhou, it is divided up among the six incense masters and protectors. Each of them has a group of subordinates, each occupying the stronghold and occupying the mountain as king. Their strength is equal. If officials were appointed according to the system of the Ming Dynasty, these six leaders would have to break their heads just to compete for a higher position.
Faced with this problem, Miss Ma Tong flipped through "Journey to the West", and suddenly an idea flashed, and her imagination opened up - "...Since the court system is too complicated and unsuitable for this small power in Haizhou, we are not fooling around. Guoshan? It can be divided according to the Monkey King’s routine!”
So, with cold sweat breaking out on their foreheads, the Hua League created a bunch of strange tokens according to the description in "Journey to the West", and then awarded the six leaders of the Wenxiang Sect in Haizhou the title of Great Sage Pingtian (the title of Bull Demon King). ), the Great Sage of Overturning the Sea, the Great Sage of Huntian, the Great Sage of Moving Mountains, the Great Sage of Ventilation, and the Great Sage of Expelling Gods Names are equal to each other, regardless of status (in "Journey to the West", after Sun Wukong won the Ruyi Golden Cudgel from the East China Sea, he gathered in the mountains and forests of Huaguo Mountain and became a prince, and made friends with the demon kings from all directions. Became the 'Seven Great Sages' with six demons and formed an alliance against heaven). As for Queen Xu Xiner, who is resident in Huaguo Mountain, she naturally concurrently holds and inherits the title of "Monkey King" Monkey King "Monkey King".
In order to highlight the "Journey to the West" features of Haizhou's "Great Holy Kingdom", the empress Xu Xiner did not use a jade seal, but was issued a mini golden hoop the size of a rolling pin, with a monkey head engraved on one end. When it was time to use the seal, Just dip the golden cudgel into the ink pad and tap it onto the paper.
The reaction of Monkey King Xu Xin'er was - "...Wow - I have really turned into a female monkey! I won't be able to get married -"
Of course, Queen Loli's cry was completely ignored by everyone as before.
Next, after drinking a few jars of rice wine and eating a seafood hotpot, the freshly baked "Great Sages" carried the Cow Demon King's banana fan, Zhu Bajie's nail rake and other various things prepared by the travelers. The imaginative "token" drunkenly walked down the Huaguo Mountain and returned to their home. The old camp, and then rewarded their subordinates respectively, and sealed a lot of cave masters, mountain masters, altar masters and village masters according to the system of "Journey to the West"... In this way, another group of Wenxiang Sect became a force in the world in the late Ming Dynasty. , the "Great Holy Kingdom" located in Haizhou, thus entered the bizarre historical stage.
However, in the eyes of the gentry and literati of the Ming Dynasty, this strange "Great Holy Kingdom", which was supported by vulgar overseas thieves and established according to the content of "Journey to the West", was full of demons and ghosts, so it was universal. It was derogatorily called the "Great Demon Country". There were even nefarious scholars who wrote derogatory epithets, giving each of the leaders of the "Great Holy Kingdom" the derogatory titles of monster, devil, witch, and witch. Especially after the news about the establishment of the "Great Holy Kingdom" spread to the inland provinces through countless hands, a lot of stories about the "Haizhou Demon Kingdom" were evolved through rumors and rumors, combined with traditional folk stories of gods and monsters. "Horror legends - for example, the demon head of the Demon Kingdom made flags and drums from human skin, and made flags and drums from human bones. To make magic weapons, they practice various evil methods all day long in order to live forever. To do this, they need to kill a large number of people and absorb their souls to sacrifice to the evil gods. In order to stay young forever, the demon girls bathe in the blood of boys and girls every day, etc... ...In short, Haizhou is almost described as the lion and camel country where demons rule in "Journey to the West". Even the Haizhou Wenxiang Cult’s long-term practice of helping travelers recruit immigrants in order to make profits and gain support has become clear evidence of the demon leaders in the “Demon Kingdom” arresting people for blood sacrifice, and even attracted many attempts to “subjugate the demons” The magic stick that can "eliminate demons"...