The second is the place where the new emperor ascended the throne. China has always been known as the state of etiquette and righteousness, the ancients attached great importance to etiquette, and the enthronement ceremony is a major event that occurs once in more than ten years in the imperial court, and it cannot be overstated.

The place where the ceremony was held should naturally be the Taihe Hall in the Forbidden City, which represents the highest imperial power, but now that the Taihe Hall has been burned to the ground, it is natural that ceremonies can no longer be held in the Taihe Palace. This matter is actually easy to do, the Taihe Hall is to be repaired, and it is not something that can be repaired in a moment and a half, as long as the Ministry of Rites asks the new emperor to move the Taihe Palace.

It's just that the new emperor has been wronged, other emperors are enthroned in the Taihe Palace, but the new emperor is in the Baohe Palace, in case the new emperor is a small-bellied chicken intestine generation, the Ministry of Rites This fold is above, isn't it that the new dynasty has just opened, and the emperor will be hated in his heart. Therefore, the old man of the Ministry of Rites, Shangshu Ge, was unwilling to take this excerpt.

But where his duty lies, this matter must be done by him, and the wrinkles on his face have deepened a little in the past few days.

The three adults finished talking about all the difficulties, looked at Ye Yichen and said, "Lord Wang, now the situation is like this, there is really no way for a few of us, you can give me an idea!" ”

Ye Yichen shirked and said: "A few elders are serious, you are all important ministers of the court, and you have been doing old errands for many years, and you are naturally more experienced than this king in doing this thing, so this idea should be taken by you!" ”

Shen Shoufu said: "If we have a way, we won't come to trouble the prince, everyone heard what the concubine said in the Baohe Palace a few days ago, and as soon as the new emperor ascends the throne, you will be the regent, and we will all listen to your ...... when the time comes."

Ye Yichen raised his hand and interrupted their words, "The so-called not in his position and not in his government, this king is not the regent now, and if he takes care of these things now, doesn't it make people think that I, Ye Yichen, am acting on behalf of him, which violates the national program and discipline?" ”

Chen Jia was secretly happy to hear it in his heart. Look at how you old guys are stammering!

Several ministers all looked at each other, if Ye Yichen made it clear that the carriage and horses were unwilling to help, they would have no choice. This matter is actually not difficult, but it is just that they have wronged the new emperor, and they are just afraid of offending the new emperor.

The old man Ge of the Ministry of Rites is older than Mrs. Yang, and he is seventy-five years old this year, so he has long not sought progress, but is waiting to find a time to retire and go home to be honored. As soon as the new emperor came to power, he touched his bad head, so wouldn't his dream of retirement and glory be in vain?

Therefore, Old Man Ge was very anxious, and pleaded again and again, "Lord Wang, no matter what, you have to pull us along!" ”

Shen Shoufu and Master Li also pleaded one after another. Ye Yichen's heart moved, he, the regent, and Ye Minzhao, the emperor, will probably not be able to get along in the future, and they will inevitably fight for power and profit, and now these three old guys are all important ministers of the court, and it is good to sell them at this time, and when there is a dispute between themselves and Ye Minzhao in the future, they will tend to their side......

Thinking of this, Ye Yichen was embarrassed and said: "Okay! Since the three elders are so earnest, this king doesn't see it as good as this, Lord Li is the Tanhua of the Taizong Dynasty, and the writing is the best, so you will write a letter of excerpts, and write the names of those who are seated, let's give the palace an excerpt, we only give suggestions, and finally ask His Royal Highness King Lu to decide for himself, everyone can see it! ”

As soon as they heard that Ye Yichen was willing to hand them a fold together, they were naturally busy agreeing. Ye Yichen asked Chengying to bring the four treasures of the study, which was written by Master Li, the head of the household department, and several people discussed and wrote an excerpt for Ye Minzhao. said that it was a discussion, but in fact, it was led by Ye Yichen in the end, and there were two suggestions put forward on the excerpt, one of which was that the treasury was empty and the budget for the enthronement ceremony was reduced. Master Li calculated the accounts, except for the 800,000 taels of silver allocated for military expenses, the remaining treasury was full and could only allocate 400,000 taels of silver, which still used the salaries of the Beijing officials for the next month, and when the 400,000 taels of silver were used up, the salaries of the Beijing officials could not be paid next month.

Now it is necessary to hold two major events, the new emperor's enthronement and the funeral of the first emperor, because military spending cannot be saved, but can only be used within the limits of income. As for how to use the 400,000 taels of silver, whether it is more for the funeral of the first emperor or more for your old man's enthronement ceremony, it depends on your own meaning.

The second thing is very simple, since the Taihe Hall was burned to the ground, I will wronged you to go to the Baohe Hall to hold the enthronement ceremony.

After the excerpt was written, everyone read it, and Ye Yichen said to Chen Jia: "Gonggong Chen also take a look and give us advice!" ”

Chen Jia listened to them discussing here just now, and he didn't make a sound. Hearing Ye Yichen say this, he said with a smile: "What kind of onion is a minion, where is there room for a minion to intervene in such a national event." "Tai-Zu also had the ancestral precept that eunuchs were not allowed to interfere in politics, but they have long since existed in name only.

Ye Yichen naturally didn't take his words seriously, but since he said so, Ye Yichen smiled and didn't say anything more!

After everyone saw it, they felt that there was no problem, and the three adults asked Ye Yichen to sign it first. Ye Yichen excused himself a few times, and then he wrote his name first.

Chen Jia returned to the palace and told Concubine Hui and Ye Minzhao about this matter, and Ye Minzhao was naturally very angry. The excerpt was quickly handed in through the General Administration. Ye Minzhao read it carefully, and his teeth gritted loudly: "Chen Jia, this king asks you, how much silver was spent on the enthronement ceremony when the emperor was in the past?" ”

Chen Jia had already prepared, and before he came, he went to check the files, and replied respectfully: "The first emperor spent a total of 600,000 taels of silver on his accession to the throne!" The cost of Grandpa Tai's burial is 800,000 taels! ”

"When the first emperor ascended the throne, there were a total of 1.4 million taels for these two items alone! Now there are only 400,000 taels, and he Ye Yichen has deducted 800,000 taels of silver and refuses to spit out, tell me, what does he mean? ”

"This, the minions don't know!" Chen Jia bowed his head. In fact, he understood it in his heart, but he didn't want to say it, Ye Minzhao was already on the verge of going berserk, and he didn't want to add fuel to the fire!

Concubine Hui also understood, so she sighed.

Ye Minzhao followed his train of thought and said: "It's very simple, he wants to make this king's enthronement ceremony disgraced, let this king lose face in front of hundreds of civil and military officials and people in the world, and when he becomes the regent, he can give orders, completely erect this king, and let this king only be a puppet emperor!" ”

Concubine Hui was worried about this, she originally thought that Ye Yichen would be the regent and give him so much power, Ye Yichen would at least give their mother and son a little face, and would not make him unable to come down, who knew that he had misestimated the prince, he knew that he would definitely have a bad relationship with the new emperor anyway, so he simply tore the fig leaf and gave them no face.

Ye Minzhao said: "You go and tell Lord Li, the head of the household department, and ask him to spit out 800,000 silver immediately, without this silver, this emperor - this king is not right!" ”

Chen Jia chuckled in his heart, this person was really good-tempered, and he actually wanted to threaten Ye Yichen with a picker.

Concubine Hui couldn't help but speak at this time. "Emperor!" Her slightly reproachful voice rang out, "You're fooling around! "Aren't you emperor? The surname Ye is not dead yet, Ye Yichen is the youngest son of Tai-Zu, to a certain extent, he also has the legitimacy of succession, you pick a son, don't you just take advantage of his wishes! Wouldn't all the previous painstaking plans be in vain?

"400,000 silver, it's enough to save a little flower!"

Ye Minzhao looked at Concubine Hui in disbelief: "Mother, he is humiliating me!" ”

Concubine Hui said earnestly: "Emperor, you have to be like your mother, you have to learn to 'endure', I can force a smile on this enemy of Concubine Xiao for more than ten years, why can't you!" Besides, when you ascend the throne and become the emperor, you will be the one who sits on it, but he is the one who kneels on the ground. You are younger than him, you are more justified than him, you have time to slowly gather power, slowly clean him up, why bother to spoil our big things for a while? ”

Ye Minzhao's expression gradually calmed down, and he lowered his head: "Mother, it's my son's mistake!" ”

Concubine Hui patted his hand, "Concubine Hui knows that you are uncomfortable, but no matter how uncomfortable you are, you have to endure it!" Let's win the prince, win the king, sooner or later, we can beat Ye Yichen! ”

The vignette in the palace did not spread outside the palace, and after Ye Minzhao saw this recital, he quickly approved it to the cabinet and agreed to the proposal of Ye Yichen and the three important ministers. It was stated that everything was simple, and the enthronement ceremony was carried out according to the scale of 150,000 taels of silver, and the household department was asked to prepare a budget and submit it to the palace.

Filial piety is the head, Ye Minzhao is naturally not good at overpowering his dead father, Ye Yichen's excerpt is really ruthless. Cabinet Shen Shoufu was relieved to receive this batch of excerpts, even if Ye Minzhao was unhappy, there was Ye Yichen in front of him, since the top had a strategy, they just followed the instructions from above.

The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were in full swing, 150,000 silver was too little, Li Shangshu racked his brains to make a budget, and Ye Minzhao even changed the dragon robe to make do with it, which shows the embarrassment of the situation.

The ceremony of persuasion was also in full swing, Ye Yichen did not interfere this time, and finally after the civil and military officials persuaded three times, on the ninth day of the death of the first emperor, Ye Minzhao finally agreed to ascend the throne and become the fourth emperor of the Great Chu Dynasty.

Ye Minzhao's enthronement ceremony can only be described by the word "shabby". The Baohe Hall was not as large as the Taihe Palace, and the cost of the entire ceremony was saved and saved, but it was just barely supporting the shelf of the ceremony.

But when he sat on the throne representing the Ninety-Five, he couldn't help but be very excited. From now on, he will be rich all over the world and dying. He swore that he would not be like his father, since God gave him the opportunity to let him sit in this position, he would definitely not live up to it, he would make his own great career, be a majestic emperor like Emperor Qin and Han Wu, leave a name in history, and glorify Kyushu!

Seeing a group of ministers kneeling under the black pressure underground, and the one who took the lead was the imperial uncle Ye Yichen who he hated to the core, his heart was filled with boundless happiness.

He solemnly, with an infinitely majestic voice, slowly sounded in the Baohe Palace: "Zhong Aiqing - flat!" ”

At this time, in the northwest direction, Ye Minyu had already led his rebellious men and horses to the outside of Hangu Pass. After the rebellion, his soldiers fought more and more, after defeating Changxing Hou Geng Junwen, Ye Minyu's troops had been reorganized to have 40,000 horses, taking advantage of the endless fighting in the imperial court, there was no time for him to take care of the heaven-given opportunity, he took the opportunity to march all the way, leaving a part of the men and horses in Hebei very high-profile circle, the purpose is to distract the attention of the imperial court, so that the imperial court misjudged that his main force is still in Hebei!

He himself galloped with 10,000 horses and stars and came to Hangu Pass. Hangu Pass is the road of Guanzhong and the Central Plains after all, and the so-called "one husband is the pass, ten thousand people are not open" is the Hangu Pass. As long as the Hangu Pass is held, the army from the Central Plains will not be able to enter the pass, and if the gate is closed, the land can be divided into kings and become a family of its own, which is also the most important reason why Ye Minyu is determined to attack the pass.

It's just that the premise is that he can take Hangu Pass.

Hangu Pass now has 7,000 troops, and the garrison will be the deputy general Li Chengde, a brave and good general.

Ye Minyu had just arrived near Hangu Pass, and was discovered by the scouts sent by Li Chengde, who did not send troops but closed the pass and firmly held the pass. Ye Minyu was not sure whether his 30,000 soldiers and horses could capture Hangu Pass.

After only a few tentative attacks, Ye Minyu lost hundreds of elites, and the name of Hangu Pass was really not blown.

Ye Minyu was discussing with the staff in the big tent of the Chinese army, and a small colonel hurriedly ran in: "Report to the general, Lord Xiao Zongchang, the secretary of the ministry, and Lord Xiao Zongsheng, the Marquis of Jinghai, are here to join you with the Xiao clansmen!" ”

Ye Minyu stood up suddenly. He also had a source on the Jingshi side, and knew that although the Xiao family was beheaded by the whole family, because of the arrangements made in advance, all the descendants were thrown out. The Xiao family came all the way to Ye Minyu with a thousand private soldiers, but they were distracted by the suspicious soldiers he laid out, and they didn't find the right owner until now.

Ye Minyu was more worried about his mother's concubine. He didn't know that Concubine Xiao was bent on going her own way and stayed in the palace by herself. "Go check it out!" He picked it up with a few personal guards.

I happened to meet Xiao Zongchang and Xiao Zongsheng outside the tent of the Chinese army. The two of them were dusty, looking haggard, panicked like a lost dog, where is there still the demeanor of being an important minister in the past! "Uncle, grandfather! Grandfather! Ye Minyu stepped forward to salute, although he and the Xiao family were a little discordant, he was still very happy to see his relatives at this moment.

"Your Highness! Finally found you! Xiao Zongchang and Xiao Zongsheng saw Ye Minyu walking in a tiger's step, although they were in a difficult situation, they were still in good shape, and they couldn't help but burst into tears. Ye Minyu can be said to be where their life's work lies, and now although Duoyan has failed, they finally have such a situation, and they are not completely lost, so seeing him, the two old guys are a little excited!

"What about the concubine? Didn't she come with you? Ye Minyu glanced at the team, but did not find Concubine Xiao's shadow, and couldn't help but feel anxious.

Xiao Zongsheng shook his head and said, "Your mother, the concubine, refused to listen to our persuasion and stayed in the palace alone." ”

"What?" The blood on Ye Minyu's face faded! "What the hell is going on?"

Xiao Zongsheng briefly told the situation at that time, and Ye Minyu felt sad. He is the commander of the three armies, and tens of thousands of horses are all looking at him, even if he is sad, he can't show it, he forcibly suppresses his mind, "Uncle grandfather!" Grandfather! Let's talk about it first! ”

Xiao Zongchang said: "It's okay! I've got something important to tell you! ”

The group entered the big tent of the Chinese army, and as soon as Xiao Zongchangfu sat down, he said: "The emperor has died!" Now Ye Minzhao, the thief, is already on the throne! On the way here, we heard the news, the year name Hongxi! Change the yuan next year! ”

Ye Minyu already knew about the death of the orthodox emperor, and at this moment there was a black scarf on his arm. He sighed lightly and said, "My father died, but I can't kowtow to him in front of his spirit, I'm really unfilial!" ”

The corners of Xiao Zongchang's mouth twitched, he is different from Ye Minyu, Ye Minyu still has a bit of father-son affection for orthodoxy, but the Xiao family hates orthodoxy to the core. "You are a filial child, and you still think about that faint king!"

Ye Minyu didn't want to argue with Xiao Zongchang about this, so he diverted the topic and said: "Since Ye Minzhao, this kid has become the emperor, he will definitely quickly send heavy troops to encircle and suppress us, and the top priority is to take Hangu Pass down first!" ”

It's just that Hangu Pass can be broken by attacking!

Xiao Zongsheng suddenly said: "Take a day off, and tomorrow I will be responsible for persuading Li Chengde to surrender!" The old man has seen that kid wearing open crotch pants! "Xiao Zongsheng is also a lifelong veteran of military affairs, and Li Chengde of Hangu Pass happened to be promoted by Xiao Zongsheng, and Ye Minyu also knew this.

Ye Minyu said slowly: "It's too dangerous! In the past few days, our army has had a lot of contact with Li Chengde's department, and he doesn't seem to have the intention of praying for surrender! ”

"That's it! We don't have much chance to delay, when the Jingshi side eases up, this point of manpower is not enough for the Beijing army to plug the teeth, we must enter the Guanzhong as soon as possible to gain a firm foothold, whether we can persuade Li Chengde, we have to try to know! ”

The author has something to say: Ah Kui threw a mine! Momoda~

My neck hurts a little today, who pinched me (*^__^*) hehe......