On the first day of the second year of Tianwu, it took a month and a half to arrive in Beijing.

From Mongolia in the desert and the vast sea, back to the busy Kyoto, this army that has gone through nine deaths and a lifetime really feels like a world away.

The winter in Beijing is still so cold, the north wind blows, and the cold chill makes the people in the streets and alleys change into thick cotton clothes.

It has been eight months since the Tianwu army occupied the city of Beijing, and Li Dingguo is worthy of being a person who has served as a magistrate, and after his administration, the order of life in the city has been restored to its original state.

It's just that the soldiers tossed too much at the beginning, and they had to continue to defend against the plague in case the epidemic counterattacked, and Beijing City did not return to the bustling and prosperous city before.

Zhu Cihong rested in the Forbidden City of Beijing for a few days, dealt with some recitals sent by the cabinet, and went to the Changling Tomb at the southern foot of the main peak of Tianshou Mountain to worship Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, and announced the great victory of the Ming army in Mongolia.

Changling is the head of the Ming Tombs, and it is the joint burial tomb of Zhu Di and Empress Xu of Ming Chengzu.

Tianshou Mountain is the location of the imperial mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty, except for Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yunwen (missing), Zhu Qiyu (the change of seizing the door was abolished, the imperial tomb was destroyed, and he was buried in Yuquan Mountain in the western suburbs of Beijing as a king), and other Ming emperors who ascended to heaven were buried here.

Lao Zhu never thought that his descendants would leave their ancestors in Nanjing and live in the north, this group of unfilial descendants!

Recently, Zhu Cihong received a request from an official of the Ministry of Rites to ask where to build the imperial mausoleum, Nanjing or Beijing?

According to the rules of etiquette, in the second year of the new emperor's accession to the throne, the Ministry of Rites had to prepare for the construction of the imperial tomb.

Since ancient times, people have attached great importance to feng shui, not to mention the royal family.

The fixed number in feng shui is the dragon's lair, there is immortal qi on it, there are soldiers and horses under it, the front moves the yang, the back to the yin, the four fierce beasts come to the tide, and the soil in the hall has sweet water, that is, the holy place of rest.

The royal family chose a feng shui treasure to build a mausoleum, which not only allowed the emperor to rest in peace after his death, but also blessed future generations with eternal stability and eternal generations.

On the other hand, the emperor was worried that he would die suddenly and would hang up early and have no place to bury him......

The more confident the emperor, the more miserable the encounter, such as Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen, who felt that he was young, put aside the matter of repairing the tomb, and devoted himself to cutting the domain, but the result was very embarrassing, and he disappeared out of thin air.

In the end, it was his beloved fourth uncle who set up a well-dressed mound for him.

In fact, this question from the officials of the Ministry of Rites is also a disguised question to ask Zhu Cihong, where will Daming be in the future?

If the ministers wanted to continue to use Beijing as the national capital, the officials of the Ministry of Rites would not have written to ask for the location of the mausoleum, but could just pick a good place to report.

Because it has been decided to set the capital of Nanjing, Zhu Cihong naturally chose to choose the address of the mausoleum in Shenlie Mountain, and he is most worried about the mausoleum of Emperor Chongzhen.

The mausoleum of the Emperor Taishang has been repaired, and in July of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the biological mother of Yongwang Zhu Cizhi, Tian Guifei, died and has been moved in.

Now that the Emperor Taishang is in his prime, he will basically settle in Jiangnan in the future, where will he live in a hundred years? This is a problem, it can't be transported to Beijing after ascending to heaven......

If one more is built in Nanjing, it will be two........ No emperor has built two mausoleums in all dynasties!

After worshipping Ming Chengzu, Zhu Cihong went to Changping, Liangxiang, Xincheng, Tongzhou and other places to inspect and learn about the recovery of the people's situation on the spot.

These places are all around the city of Beijing, where Zhu Cihong and the Yongwei battalion once fought, and he inspected them one by one to pay homage to the loyal martyrs and soldiers who died in battle.

The royal driver had just gone south from Changping, passed through Liangxiang, and had not yet arrived in the new city, when a large group of officials and people came to meet him, and some officials actually came from Baoding Mansion, which was 300 miles away.

Ten miles away from the new city, the officials and people standing on both sides of the road to greet them, some kneeling and some not kneeling, not the kind in the film and television, the people are all kneeling down to greet the car in fear and dare not look up.

In the Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties of China, the people did not need to kneel when they saw the emperor and officials, it was all up to the people's own volition, they did not kneel normally, and those who knelt to welcome were iron fans, and they were grateful and worshiped the emperor from the bottom of their hearts, of course, including some officials who liked to pat themselves on the back.

In the "Yingluan Picture" made in the Song Dynasty, the common people were basically standing and watching in the scene of welcoming the Queen Mother Luan's return to the south.

In the Song Dynasty, Song Zhenzong personally inspected the Bianhe River, and the river workers in the picture were busy with their own work, and no one knelt down to greet them because the emperor arrived.

At the very least, it shows that when a Song painter was depicting the emperor visiting the people, he would have thought that there was no need for a close-up of a subject kneeling to greet the holy car.

Emperor Wanli went to the Temple of Heaven to worship the sky, and the common people did not kneel and worship, and most of those who burned incense and blessed them stopped and watched.

In the Han Dynasty, when the common people saw the emperor, they could bow down or make a bow, and there were no certain rules, and the government would not force the common people to do strict etiquette.

This situation was changed until the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the emperor went out on patrol, and the subjects knelt and waited and knelt to greet was already a unified "prescribed action", and the people saw the emperor, the Manchus, and the officials must kneel, otherwise it would be a great rebellion and a capital crime!

In the long scrolls "Emperor Kangxi's Tour" and "Qianlong's Southern Tour" made by court painters in the Qing Dynasty, there are pictures of kneeling to welcome the holy driver, a group of people with the old and the young, kneeling in the suburbs, greeting Kangxi, and offering food to the emperor, showing the meaning of "eating pot pulp to welcome the king's teacher".

The Kangxi Emperor in the painting is as majestic as a giant, two or three times larger than the people kneeling next to him, and taller than the Hulk after his transformation, showing the humble feeling of the grass people like ants and dust in front of the Qing Emperor.

Zhu Cihong got off the luan drive, and looked at the people around him whose postures and demeanors were quite casual and natural, and he was in a good mood.

A few years ago, when he was still the crown prince, everywhere he passed, officials and people knelt down in fear, officials were understandably afraid of being purged, and the people were afraid, which was a manifestation of the deep corruption of the imperial court.

Although the imperial power is supreme, it is manifested in the emperor's control and management of the people's land wealth throughout the country, and is the force to maintain the order of the dynasty, and does not simply make the people afraid and afraid of the imperial power.

History proves that if you go against the people, you will be defeated sooner or later!

"The prefect of the prefect of Baoding, Wang Ji, asks Your Majesty to bow to An!"

"Lu Wei, the governor of Zhuozhou, asks Your Majesty Holy Bow!"

“......”

A large group of officials hula-la-la-la, eager to show their faces in front of the new emperor.

"I'm safe!"

Zhu Cihong responded casually, pulled away the group of officials, and went straight to a lame magistrate who was only wearing a seven-grade official uniform, and said with a slight smile: "Why are you hiding behind and entering the city with me?" ”

The lame magistrate knelt down with a puff, and said with a crying voice: "Minister, Ren Guangyu, the magistrate of Xincheng, bow to my emperor!" ”

"Excuse me!" Zhu Cihong helped him up and comforted: "I have made you suffer all these years. ”

Some officials were a little puzzled, why did this second minister who voted for Dashun get such favor from the new emperor, didn't the new emperor hate this kind of second minister the most?

There are also officials who have done enough preparations, knowing that this Ren Guangyu was one of the first ministers to follow the new emperor, but they don't know why they took the initiative to surrender to the pseudo-Shun, and they don't know why the imperial court continued to use him after the restoration of Zhili?