Chapter 113: Wait for the Moment
After realizing the truth that pretending to be forced is to show others and that his head should remain sober, Zhu Youxiao's whole person became much clearer, and then he once again devoted himself to the activities of mastering the military's heart. As for the matter of the Hakka family, Zhu Youxiao did not do anything to deal with it, but just asked people to keep an eye on her.
As for the choice she made, Zhu Youxiao didn't have any sad emotions, maybe she knew what kind of woman she was from history, but she was just a little sad.
Time passed as soon as it passed, and soon it was August 1st to hold the enthronement ceremony.
Since Wanli's death, the entire palace has been very lively, crying and mourning, funeral and funeral, and then the enthronement ceremony of the new emperor. In fact, the day after Wanli's death, Zhu Changluo accepted the worship of the ministers, and even if he succeeded to the throne, his title was changed to the emperor.
The enthronement ceremony is a kind of ceremony, announcing his official succession to the throne and announcing it to the world, which is the embodiment of the legal system, which can be said to be extremely important, and it cannot be sloppy at all.
In fact, after Wanli's body was parked, the entire imperial court began to be busy with Zhu Changluo's enthronement ceremony, with the division of supervisors, Qin Tianjian, Shang Bao Division, and Jiaofang Division, and several institutions were very busy, arranging the transportation of ceremonial supplies in the venue, calculating the selection of auspicious days for the weather, and being responsible for the rehearsal of dance and music.
And these are only the preliminary preparations for the ceremony, and the procedures in the enthronement ceremony are even more complicated, and the ministers of the DPRK and China have to rehearse it again in case there is an accident on the auspicious day.
In the midst of the hustle and bustle, it finally arrived the day chosen by Qin Tianjian, the first day of August.
The main venue of the enthronement ceremony of the Ming Dynasty was Tiananmen Square, of course, it was not called Tiananmen Square at that time, but Chengtianmen. That morning, the ministers of civil and military affairs, dressed in court clothes, waited in front of the T-shaped square in front of the Chengtian Gate. The civil officials are in the east, the military attaches are in the west, the first civil official is the first auxiliary Fang Congzhe, and the first civil official is the British public Zhang Weixian, and the two groups of people are separated from each other, solemn and solemn.
The whole enthronement ceremony is cumbersome and solemn, it takes a long time, a whole morning under the guidance of the ceremonial officer, all parts of the people and horses set off from the Chengtian Gate, then to the Huangji Gate, and finally to the Huangji Palace, the emperor sits on the throne, His Majesty Dan and the courtiers are divided, the above table is congratulated, the celebrant officially reads out the edict, confirms the identity of the emperor, so far the etiquette is completed, and a generation of dynasties has kicked off.
Of course, Zhu Changluo's time is a bit short, only a month, but no one knows about it now.
After the emperor succeeded to the throne, he issued an edict to grant amnesty to the world, and at the same time confirmed the status of Zhu Youxiao's crown prince, which is common and irrefutable. Even if someone disagrees, they can't oppose it, the crown prince ascends the throne, and the grandson is naturally promoted to the crown prince, which is the will of the first emperor, and no one can shake it.
Soon after ascending the throne, Zhu Changluo issued another decree to depose the world's mining taxes and recall the eunuchs sent abroad.
Of course, this is a bit exaggerated, and the jubilant ones are just those local tyrants and gentry, they have land power in the countryside, and there are relatives and officials in the court, and the civil mines are naturally their meals, and Wanli's collection of mining taxes is simply to dig meat on them, and now they are deposed, how can they not be happy.
The folk gentry and landlords rejoiced, and the natural flattery in the court was like a spring, whether it was the three parties of Qichu and Zhejiang, the Donglin Party, or the two parties of Xuankun, they all praised the emperor and said that the emperor was wise.
These words of praise naturally made Zhu Changluo, who had been suppressed, excited, grinning happily, and his back molars were exposed. In the excitement, Comrade Zhu Changluo, our teacher, made persistent efforts and issued several edicts in succession to pay border defense and fill official vacancies.
This time the harvest is even greater, not the tactful flattery of the people, but the direct naked patter of the civil and military officials, the border defense directly transferred two million taels of silver from the Ouchi treasury, sent it to the nine sides, and even gave five thousand taels of freight.
With such a generous salary, the entire Ming Dynasty, regardless of the size of the official position, can make a lot of money from it, and in comparison, that bit of flattery is nothing. The emperor gained fame, and the military attache received benefits, it was a match made in heaven. No one cared at all whether the two million taels of silver were issued to the soldiers, whether the border defense was strengthened.
The military generals are followed by civilian officials, and filling the official vacancy directly involves their interests, especially the Donglin Party, taking this opportunity, they made a comeback again, shouting "I Hu Hansan is back again", and quickly occupied a corner of the court and confronted the three parties.
Although Zhu Changluo of Mingguangzong reigned for only one month, but because of his several measures that greatly benefited civil officials, he actually received a good evaluation in the history books, which is simply ridiculous, a demon who takes the medicine of the tiger and wolf, and the eight women of the night will be a good emperor, I have to say, sometimes history is to play this kind of cold humor.
Zhu Youxiao did not participate in any of these farces, except for the day of August 1, when he could not be absent, he never stepped out of the Yulin Army garrison, and even the whole person disappeared from front of people, no outsiders, no guests.
However, no one noticed him at the moment of this victory, and they were all immersed in the gluttonous banquet of Zhu Changluo's accession to the throne and carnivaled to their heart's content.
The capital, Ye Xianggao's secret mansion.
The lights in the living room were as bright as clusters, and several thick palace lamps were lined up, illuminating the faces of several people red, this was a secret meeting held by Ye Xianggao. After all, he should have stayed in his hometown at this time, not in the capital at this time.
There were not many attendees, that is, the few remaining leaders of the Donglin Party, and two bachelors who entered the cabinet, Han Kuang and Liu Yijing.
"Brother Jinqing hasn't returned to his hometown and waited for the holy decree to prepare to return to the court? How can you still have time to gather here? Zou Yuanbiao said with a smile.
"Haha, Brother Erzhan forgive me, this time it was really important to let you quickly come to Beijing regardless of the fatigue of the journey." Ye Xianggao explained with a smile.
"Oh, I don't know why, even Daofu was recruited by you?" Zou Yuanbiao asked strangely, but his eyes looked at a scribe on the other side who he hadn't seen for a long time, it was Li Sancai, who had been idle at home.
Ye Xianggao did not answer directly, but as the host, he chatted with the core figures of the Donglin Party, and for a while, the atmosphere in the small living room became warm, and several people suppressed the doubts in their hearts and greeted each other. It is true that they have not seen each other for a long time, and it is necessary to talk a few words and get acquainted with each other.
About a quarter of an hour later, the voice of the words in the living room gradually became quieter, and seeing this, Zhao Nanxing spoke, "Brother Jinqing, you were the first to find out, you can tell you the details." ”
"Let's take a look at this first." Ye Xianggao took out a piece of paper, which was the paper that Hakka had copied at the beginning, and the paper was given to Zou Yuanbiao by him, and then passed on in turn.
“………”
There was a silent silence, and the expressions of several people were very surprised, they looked at each other, not knowing who came up with this idea, they were simply mad.
"Brother Jinqing, who wrote this, his words are simply rebellious." Li Sancai was the first to ask.
"This is what I got from the palace, and someone copied the manuscript of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and passed it on." Ye Xianggao didn't sell it, and said it directly.
"Prince! This ......" Several people present exclaimed in surprise, this was too unexpected for them, they thought it was just the idea of a new official who wanted to make a name for himself, but they didn't expect it to be the prince's words.
"It's the crown prince, so I invited a few of them, totaling them." Ye Xianggao said with a wry smile, the matter he discussed with Zhao Nanxing was too big, and the two of them couldn't do it alone.
"That's right. Brother Jinqing's initial plan and I are to ......." Zhao Nanxing looked around and said slowly, "Find a new master for Ciqing Palace." ”
Sting! Bang dang! Bang! Ahem!
All kinds of noise suddenly sounded, except for Ye Xianggao, everyone else was shocked by this sentence, some people stood up in disbelief, some people knocked over the teacup in fright, and some people were choked all of a sudden, coughing constantly.
"Mengbai, this is too ......" Liu Yijing was the first to come back to his senses, his eyes widened, and he looked at Ye Xianggao and Zhao Nanxing, who had obviously discussed it a long time ago.
"Yes, it's too child's play to do the abolition of the establishment just because of this." Han Kuang also spoke out to persuade, looking at his expression, he was obviously unwilling.
However, the other two giants of the Donglin Party, Zou Yuanbiao and Li Sancai, did not rush to make a statement, but squinted their eyes, stroked their beards, and thought carefully, they had not performed their duties for too long, and they should be cautious in their words and deeds if they do not know it.
After Zhu Youxiao was promoted to the crown prince, Zhu Changluo handed over a message, asking him not to live in a simple military camp and move to Ciqing Palace to live. Therefore, as soon as Zhao Nanxing said it, these people understood that his implicit meaning was to do something to abolish the establishment.
"Brother Jinqing." Zhao Nanxing didn't answer directly, but looked at Ye Xianggao.
Ye Xianggao, who was sitting upright, did not hesitate, and took out a stack of white paper, each chapter of the paper had more or less words, some were thousands of words, and some were only a few sentences.
"You'll know when you're done with that." Ye Xianggao handed out the paper, which was passed out by the Hakka family over the years, the first ones were relatively neat, and there were revisions on them, which were obviously written according to the dictation of others, and the handwriting behind them was roughly the same, obviously copied by one person.
The atmosphere in the living room fell silent, and everyone looked at these remarks one after another, without Ye Xianggao saying it, they knew that these were undoubtedly the propositions of the prince of the East Palace.
"Judging from these words, the prince is worthy of being a once-in-a-century master." Li Sancai slowly let out a sigh of praise and praised, looking at his words, he faintly praised Zhu Youxiao.
"So what, the Son of Heaven should naturally be high in the Nine Heavens, ruling by the arch, the Son of Heaven only needs to set an example for the world, and these miscellaneous matters will be handed over to our minister." Zhao Nanxing spoke coldly, obviously not very satisfied with Li Sancai's words.
Li Sancai smiled and did not refute.
"Having said that, the matter of abolition is a big matter, and it needs to be considered in the long run." Liu Yijing spoke weakly, and his expression was very weak.