Chapter 174: The Big Wedding
Now His Majesty's wedding is the most important thing in the court, and in recent days, there have been many fewer various inscriptions, and the Qianqing Palace was once very clean.
Although there are a lot of miscellaneous and bad things in the court, His Majesty's wedding is the most important thing now, and everything else has to give way.
Whoever it is, whatever it is, has to make way for the most important royal event.
In fact, several things that Zhu Youxiao did basically achieved results, and he could get married with peace of mind.
The period before the wedding is the most leisurely day after Zhu Youxiao crossed over.
On the cabinet side, although the first assistant university scholar is Han Yi, he has no status now.
There are not many people Han Yi can rely on. The Donglin Party was beaten in pieces, and there was also Sun Chengzong who shared power with Han Yi, so the authority of Han Yi, the head of the cabinet, was not very heavy.
The second assistant university scholar in the cabinet is Xu Guangqi, and he is now also weak in foundation. This is also the reason why Zhu Youxiao did not promote Xu Guangqi to the first assistant, and let him develop for a period of time as the second assistant. For Xu Guangqi now, it is obscene development, don't wave.
In order to let Xu Guangqi develop well, Zhu Youxiao gave the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Rites to Shen Tingyun, in order to let Xu Guangqi and them cultivate talents well. At the same time, Yu Maoheng and Xu Guangqi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were also very close, which allowed them to master the mouthpiece again.
As for how to use this mouthpiece, Zhu Youxiao felt that he didn't have to interfere with it, Xu Guangqi was much more profitable than himself in playing this set, and it seemed to be like a talent.
As for Sun Chengzong, he now holds the military department in his hands, and there is also the support of some of the original Donglin people, and his position is quite stable. If there is anything wrong with it, Sun Chengzong can even directly take over and control the situation.
The last cabinet scholar was Huang Kezhang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, who seemed to be relatively weak, but he was the cleanest person in the cabinet, with no party affiliation and good ability. Zhu Youxiao put Huang Kezhang in the cabinet in order to play a replacement.
Each of the four cabinet scholars has its own merits and disadvantages, and each of them has their own usefulness, and this is the check and balance arranged by Zhu Youxiao.
In addition to the four cabinet scholars, among the six Shangshu, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites has been replaced by Zhu Youxiao with Shen Tingyun, the Shangshu of the Military Department has been replaced by Sun Chengzong, the Shangshu of the Household Department has been replaced by Xu Guangqi, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department is Huang Kezhang, and the Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry is Zhao Nanxing.
These people Zhu Youxiao can use it with confidence, at least for the time being, there is no problem, they are enough for themselves to stabilize the situation in the court.
The last official secretary is currently Zhou Jiamo in this position.
Zhou Jiamo is also quite interesting to say, he has not participated in this incident from beginning to end, as if everything has nothing to do with him, which makes Zhu Youxiao a little surprised.
It's not because of Zhou Jiamo's attitude towards this matter, the officials in the court and the central government have hung up too many people who are not involved, and he is not one of them. Although Zhou Jiamo is a secretary of the ministry and has a prominent status, this is not a strange thing.
What really surprised Zhu Youxiao was that Zhou Jiamo was able to hide himself.
You must know that Zhou Jiamo is in the position of the secretary of the ministry, but no one involved him in the whole thing, he just hid in the position of the secretary of the ministry, which is not something that ordinary people can do.
Zhu Youxiao also checked some of Zhou Jiamo's information and previous work.
Zhou Jiamo is a native of Tianmen, Hubei, a near-jinshi in Longqing for 5 years, the initial official position was the head of the household department, and then he went to the local prefect, and rose all the way, from the prefect to the governor, and finally did the household department secretary, the Ministry of Works, and finally promoted to the Ministry of Officials.
This is a person with more means, because when Zhou Jiamo was promoted to the secretary of the ministry, it was the last year of Wanli, when the three parties of Qi, Zhejiang and Chu were fighting for power, and the appointment and dismissal of officials were promoted and promoted, and the officials could not call the shots. But when Zhou Jiamo took office, he still chose a lot of his own people, at least to get power back.
Zhu Youxiao is not easy to judge Zhou Jiamo's identity, and I don't know if he is a Donglin party.
However, before doing these things at that time, Zhu Youxiao had already made up his mind in his heart, if Zhou Jiamo was not implicated this time, it would be fine; If he gets involved, I'll get him down.
Facts have proved that Zhou Jiamo is a smart person, and he really didn't get involved.
However, Zhu Youxiao felt that Zhou Jiamo should not stay in the position of the secretary for too long, because someone would find a way to get him down.
Several scholars in the cabinet will not let Zhou Jiamo continue to be a secretary of the ministry for too long.
Whether it is Han Yi, Xu Guangqi, or Sun Chengzong, if several people want to place their own manpower in the locality, then they need to have the final say in the Ministry of Officials.
Now Zhou Jiamo is sitting in that position, which is equivalent to half a roadblock. None of them in the cabinet will be happy, even Xu Guangqi.
Xu Guangqi urgently needs to expand his strength now, even if he doesn't want to do this, his people will want to do it, so they need to arrange their own people to the place, so naturally they need to get Zhou Jiamo down.
Under such circumstances, unless Zhou Jiamo chooses one of the cabinet to take refuge, it will be difficult for him to keep himself.
Zhu Youxiao didn't intervene much in this regard, this was a normal courtier fight in the court, and it would not be good for him to interfere again.
Now Zhu Youxiao can sit firmly in Diaoyutai and watch the courtiers fight for themselves.
It is basically impossible to eliminate such a struggle, because where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there will be fights.
As long as there are people, there will be fights, everyone has their own ideas, everyone has their own things they want to do.
In the case that no one can say that they can't convince anyone, then they can only knock the other party down; If the other party lies on the ground and continues to shout, then he can only be killed.
So Zhu Youxiao is not ready to interfere, he can prepare to get married with peace of mind, and after he gets married, he can start to do some things he wants to do.
At least these people in the court are still powerful, so as not to drag themselves back, even if there will be some difficulties in some things, but the pressure from top to bottom will be much simpler.
If you don't do well, I can replace you, the emperor above is so awesome.
As long as they can suppress the cabinet scholars and the six scholars, they can press down the rest.
Pressing down one level at a time, this is the bureaucratic system. It is impossible for the emperor to reach out to the place, and his hands are not so long.
The royal wedding ceremony is really cumbersome, which makes Zhu Youxiao feel a little painful.
However, he still has to be meticulous, because this represents respect for the queen, Zhu Youxiao doesn't want to mess up his harem, so he wants to establish prestige for the queen at this time.
An emperor's inner palace has a queen with high prestige, and basically there will be no chaos.
Because no one dares to challenge the status of the empress, only when the emperor loses fairness, does not establish prestige for the empress, and turns to favor other concubines, or pamper other eunuchs, there will be chaos in the palace.
Once there is chaos in the palace, there will be a very bad situation, which is harem wrestling.
Once the harem starts wrestling, anything will happen, so Zhu Youxiao will never allow his harem to mess up.
This was the case with Zhu Youxiao's killing of Baba before.
In the original history, the struggle between Empress Zhang and Kebaba's harem was nothing more than fighting for the dominance of the harem, and the competition was who could speak in Zhu Youxiao's ear.
Everyone knows how strong the wind is in the ears of women and men, let alone the wind in the ears of the emperor.
So some people say that Empress Zhang's child was killed by Kebaba, and Zhu Youxiao is inclined to believe it at this point.
Because Empress Zhang's body has no problems, and Zhu Youxiao's body has no problems, then pregnancy is naturally possible, and the facts have proved that Zhu Youxiao did have several children.
Then why was the child killed by Kebaba?
Because once Empress Zhang gave birth to a child, her child was the crown prince, and the mother and son were expensive.
At that time, what did Ke Baba do to fight with Queen Zhang? So Kebaba didn't dare to let Queen Zhang give birth to this child.
So there are a series of messy things in the harem, mainly around the struggle for power between Kebaba and Queen Zhang.
The reason why Zhu Youxiao killed Kebaba at the beginning of the crossing was that he didn't want her to make trouble in his harem.
No matter whether the things recorded in history about Kebaba are true or false, Zhu Youxiao didn't want to take any risks, so he directly killed Kebaba.
"Emperor, the hour is almost up." Chen Hong came to Zhu Youxiao's face and said respectfully.
Zhu Youxiao glanced at the auspicious clothes on his body and nodded lightly. It's almost time, and it's time for me to go.
The wedding has already taken several steps, and this step is more critical, and I can't delay it.
The courtiers have already gone to the Taimiao Temple to worship heaven and earth before, and the three rituals of Najib, Nazheng and Confession have also been done, and today is the official wedding day.
Zhu Youxiao needs to wear a crown dress to take a seat, and civil and military officials need to wear court clothes to salute. Then the deputy envoy of the wedding is going to greet the bride, that is, Queen Zhang.
The process of greeting is also very cumbersome, whether it is the route of walking or various etiquette, there are very many things, but this Zhu Youxiao does not have to participate, he can wait in the palace.
After the bride comes back, it is the holy decree of the queen to be crowned, and then there are some canonization ceremonies.
After the canonization ceremony is over, Zhu Youxiao wants to change into a crown, the queen wants to change into a dress, and then go to the Fengxian Hall to pay homage to the emperor's family temple, and after the worship is completed, he can return to the palace.
After returning to the palace, you have to merge.
On this day, Zhu Youxiao's clothes had to be changed several times. You must know that this is not a suit in the future to change when you take it off, just a few rounds of changing clothes, you have been tossed enough.
It is not a simple drink and it is over, it is a ritual, and then it is entered into the cave room.
Do you think it's over when you're done in the cave room?
No, there is a lot later, the whole wedding will last for a total of 5 days, which can be said to be a big challenge to the emperor's mental and physical strength.
After a busy day, when night fell, Zhu Youxiao finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Finally, it's time to enter the cave room.