Chapter 292. You can call me Baron Qi Beilin
Fang Zhou returned to his room and entered the gourd space.
Ya Zi Nu and Luo Xuan, under Fang Zhou’s orders, have been buried in a pile of books searching for historical anecdotes and strange stories about the Chu Kingdom.
Neither of them, belonging to the Demon Sect and the Cult, ever imagined that one day they would find themselves buried in a pile of books, reading day and night like scholarly nerds.
Fang Zhou approached them and inquired about the ceremony of the Crown Prince Regent’s accession.
He didn’t have high hopes, but unexpectedly, the two spoke fluently and convincingly.
Every emperor of Chu Kingdom has a traditional ceremony upon ascension: the showcasing of martial prowess.
The founding emperor of Chu Kingdom seized the throne through martial prowess and didn’t want her descendants to forget this valor, thus she established a rule that every future emperor must perform a ceremony displaying their own martial skill before ascending the throne.
Previous emperors adhered to this tradition seriously, including displays of swordsmanship, horsemanship, archery, and combat.
However, over time, this ceremony has been greatly simplified. By the time it reached Emperor Qiao Zhi’s generation, although the tradition was not abolished, it had become purely performative.
As Crown Prince Regent, Qiao Sen’s ceremony in the Chu Kingdom was known as the ’mini-ascension,’ and naturally, he had to adhere to this martial prowess demonstration.
It was now reduced to three steps: riding a horse to the front of Chaotian Hall, symbolizing horsemanship, then shooting a target a few steps away with a red-tipped arrow, symbolizing archery.