82 Racking Your Brains (Asking for Votes)

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The killing of Su Shun is only an obstacle that must be removed before he recovers the country, and it is a condition that must be fulfilled for him to regain power.

But at the end of the day, this is against the ancestral system. And since Su Shun subdued the law, almost overnight, public opinion changed greatly, and he used to say that Su Shun was good at it, but now he was thinking about his good place, thinking that his opposition to hanging the curtain was not wrong.

In contrast, it is those who are in favor of hanging the curtain who seem to be wrong. This time, Prince Gong felt guilty and tried to make amends.

The remedy is to try to find a way to suppress Empress Dowager Cixi before she has monopolized power in view of the past events of Empress Zhang Xian Liu.

According to the tradition of the Qing Dynasty, even if you are the king of the government, you cannot hold the power equal to the monarchy like the Tang and Song dynasties, so you can only install people who you can trust in many ways.

On the one hand, it is to work together to deal with the Empress Dowager Cixi, and on the other hand, it is also a necessary means to cultivate its own power.

At this time, the Empress Dowager Cixi couldn't see through this layer. I only thought about two things, one was how to make Prince Gong agree on the regulations of the curtain as he wished? One is how to hold the great power that has been obtained tightly so as not to lose it.

For this purpose, every time she summoned, the "sixth master" was long, and the "sixth master" was short, and she couldn't stop shouting. There is another thing, Prince Gong's biological mother, who has not been honored, until she died, she reluctantly got the honorific title of "Empress Dowager Kangci".

Waiting for Kang Ci to die, the first emperor regretted it, on the one hand ordered him to quit the military plane, go back to the study to study, in order to punish, on the other hand, only on the Empress Dowager Kangci, the god does not enter the temple, so it can not be called "Xiao Jingcheng Queen" like "Xiao Quancheng Empress", indicating that the same queen, there is still a difference between the concubines.

This point happened to be used by the Empress Dowager Cixi, who persuaded the Empress Dowager Ci'an to send a special decree and order the courtiers to assemble and discuss the ceremony of the Empress Dowager Xiaojing's promotion to the Taimiao.

In order to achieve her goal, Cixi racked her brains!

For the latter purpose, the Empress Dowager Cixi felt that it was best to read some books to see how the ancestors and the virtuous monarchs and heroines of the previous dynasty handled government affairs and controlled the courtiers. It's just that although there are many history books in the palace, I can't read sentences because Cheng dΓΉ is not enough.

So I thought of an idea and sent an envoy to Hanlin in the upper study and the south study, asking them to choose a method that could be used for reference among the words and deeds of the emperors of the past dynasties and the deeds of listening to the government in the previous history.

He really found it: Sima Yue, the Kangdi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, died after only two years as emperor, and his two-year-old son Sima Dan ascended the throne as Emperor Mu of the Jin Dynasty. Because Emperor Mu was young and could not personally manage the government, the leader Situ Cai Mo and others asked the empress dowager to listen to the government, and the little emperor's mother Chu Lianzi was in charge of the dynasty as the empress dowager.

At the New Year's meeting in the first month of the first year of Yonghe (345), the Empress Dowager Chu Garlic held the little emperor to the front hall of the Taiji Palace, and the ministers of the conference were assembled. On the top of the main hall, a white gauze curtain was set up for the queen mother Chu Garlic of the Linzhao Dynasty.

Chu Garlic hung a curtain to listen to the government in the court, which not only symbolically avoided direct contact with men, but also handled the government on behalf of the little emperor.

Cixi ordered an excerpt from it, with concise annotations, and a book compiled by the cabinet scholars, which was then submitted to the king and the minister of military aircraft for review, and then written and submitted for reference.

The days have been very well coordinated, the ninth day of October, the emperor ascended to the pole, the next day is her birthday, and the curtain is now the time when the regulations are agreed, which happens to be just after the 100th day of the first emperor.

Wait until the 100 days have passed, still mend the gown with pearls, and the face is glowing, and at that time it will be congratulated by the ministers in the curtain ceremony, which is a happy event with decent scenery!

There are a total of 11 articles in the constitution, except for the various ceremonies that stipulate that the emperor must be present in person, or send the prince and the prince of the county to replace him, or wait for the adult to govern and then resume the ceremony, the most important is only three:

One is the etiquette of the empress dowager of the two palaces to summon the "internal and external ministers", in addition to the regular court meeting ceremony, there are two more common forms of communication between the emperor and the minister of the Qing Dynasty: folding and face playing.

When the subordinates played the emperor, they were divided into summoning and introduction. When the emperor wants to discuss military affairs, he summons officials such as the former minister, the minister of military aircraft, and the nine secretaries of the six ministries, and the important officials must be brought to the meeting when summoned.

These important officials are mainly led by princes and imperial ministers in turn; Introduction, commonly known as "handing over the brand", is the appointment of a civil and military official of a certain grade before taking office, to meet the emperor, the introduction of the need for advanced lists, resume folds, green head signs, one or more people to meet.

The officials summoned or introduced must be sent by the eunuch of the recital office, calling the name of the summoned person and then leading them into the house.

After standing up, he walked to the front of the emperor and knelt down again on the preset white felt mat, and the emperor answered the question. No matter how long the summons or introductions take, the officials must keep kneeling until the emperor says "kneel down" and then say that the conversation is over, then they can stand up and retreat to the door, and then turn and leave.

One is the etiquette of "the introduction of officials outside Beijing": please invite the queen mother of the two palaces, the emperor and the palace of the palace, the ministers of the king, the palace and the guards, etc., to stand in shifts as usual, and the queen mother will set up a curtain in front of the house, enter a list of members, and will indicate the edict.

The emperor set up a case, led the court officials to sign in the green head, and the ministers of the king and the emperor held it into the case, and introduced it as usual. How easy is it to use? The Empress Dowager decreed in the single and used the imperial seal to submit it to the Minister of Military Aircraft of the King of the Government for issuance, and the official stated the decree as usual.

This provision, together with another provision of "except for the appointment of the ministers, the simplification of all the messengers", the issuance of bills in advance, and the sealing of the seal, made the empress dowager of the two palaces actually the emperor and had complete power to employ people.

At the same time, like the emperor, she can summon any official inside or outside the capital to listen to government affairs reports in person, while before this, the empress dowager could only deal with the minister of Gu Ming or the minister of military aircraft, and could not summon other ministers.

In order to show that there is no difference between the empress dowager of the two palaces and the handling of court affairs by the emperors of previous dynasties, and it is the continuation of the regime, when Cixi decided to summon and introduce her subordinates, the location remained the same, and she was still in the Yangxin Palace, but with a thin curtain.

When summoned in the East Warm Pavilion, a yellow curtain was placed on the railing in front of the East Wall; When introduced in the bright room, it is separated by eight yellow gauze screens.

"Sixth Master!" She happily handed over the fold: "Do as you wish!" ”

"Yes!" Prince Gong took the fold and said: "The ministers propose, the curtain is an extraordinary move at a very high time, and there should be an edict to the world, affirming the original intention of the queen mother of the two palaces to allow the curtain to be lowered." ”