In history, many powerful ministers embarked on the road of usurpation after adding the "Nine Tin Ceremony", either calling themselves emperors or their sons as emperors, such as Wang Mang, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Sima Zhao, Yang Jian, and so on. It can be seen from this that the "Nine Tin Ceremony" has become a necessary ritual for the usurpation of power by the powerful, so why is the "Nine Tin Ceremony" associated with the usurpation of power?
First of all, let's introduce what is the Nine Tin Ceremony
refers to. Carriage and horse, clothes, Lexian, Zhuhu, Na Majesty, Tiger Ben, Axe, Bow Arrow, Straw Mane.
The black horse travels in eight carriages, and the clothes refer to the uniform of the Crown, plus a pair of matching red spoons; Lexian refers to the fixed tone calibration apparatus; Zhu Hu refers to the red lacquer gate; The Majesty refers to the specially chiseled rank when ascending the temple, so that the ascended person does not show his body, and the special passage for the guests; the tiger ben refers to the tiger army as a guard; the bow and arrow refers to the special bow and arrow of red and black; the axe and the specific weapon can kill the guilty; and the barn refers to the incense wine used in the sacrifice ceremony.
In fact, this is only the highest honor that the monarch rewards to the courtiers who have made great contributions to the society. The enjoyment of treatment other than everyday life and recreation does not involve real power. To say that Jiu Xizhi is associated with rebellion, we have to mention one person, and this person is Wang Mang.
After the death of Emperor Han, Wang Mang impeached and executed the powerful minister Dong Xian, because he himself was extremely prestigious, and later he held a variety of important positions, he was both a chancellor and a great general of the dynasty, and the title also reached the highest rank, which can be said to be the peak of power and no official. Wang Mang still wanted to be rewarded, but he could only work some honors, so he thought of the Nine Tin Gift. For his future usurpation of han paved the way.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuoba Jingshi deposed the Young Emperor and established the Han Xian Emperor, and for a while he threatened hundreds of officials, and he would also usurp power in the future, but before he could exert it, he won Wang Yun's plan and was killed by Lü Bu. But he set a precedent. Worship is not named, enter the dynasty is not inclined, and the sword is on the temple. Later generations of powerful courtiers followed suit, such as Sima Zhao, who was then the grand general of the Wei state, but he was more greedy and demanded that the emperor at that time, Cao Xian, make himself the Duke of Jin and Jiu Xi. It is clear that it wants to usurp power.
The Nine Tin Ceremony was originally an honor that had nothing to do with usurpation, but it became a means for the courtiers to test whether the courtiers obeyed themselves, so the two were combined.