Seeing that Tang Tong couldn't think about it anymore, he knelt on the ground and begged to surrender, Liu Guoneng and Zu Dale looked at each other and smiled.

Liu Guoneng stretched out his hand to help him up, and laughed loudly: "General Tang can go right in time and serve King Tang, and he is really a handsome man." In fact, as long as you are really effective, I, King Tang, have my own means to protect your relatives and friends, as well as gold and silver goods. ”

Tang Tong was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly asked why.

Liu Guoneng told him that now that his whole army has surrendered, he will let him send two trustworthy relatives to rush back to Miyun's house as soon as possible, and then he will also contact the personnel of the Tang Army's Security Department, and take advantage of the fact that the news has not leaked yet, let them assist Tang Tong's family, and all of them will retreat north to Shanhaiguan, and take away the gold and silver goods as much as possible, as for the family house and acres, they will give up for the time being.

Liu Guoneng persuaded: "General Tang Bing, the scenery should be long-term. In the future, if you work hard under the account of the king of Tang, Hugh said that this bit of family mansion and acres is more glory and wealth, and you can easily take it as if you were looking for something. “

Tang Tong sighed: "What Mayor Liu said is very true, Tang has written it down, and next, the soldiers and horses of our army will be arranged and disposed of by Mayor Liu, and Tang has nothing to say." ”

"Good! Mr. Tang Bingguo is a rare and cheerful person. Liu Guoneng said loudly: "In the past two days, the general army of Tang and your soldiers and horses will rest in the city together, and when the ship from Shandong returns from Shandong, he will send you to Shandong, and after arriving in Shandong, it will be arranged by the king of Tang." ”

"Obey General Liu's orders!"

Two days later, a large number of ships arrived from Shandong, an artillery unit loaded with a full 80 heavy dragon bombers, as well as 3,000 gunners, 2,000 auxiliaries, 500 flying harrier light cavalry, and enough grain and grass ordnance to support more than a year.

After unloading the soldiers' food, grass and ordnance, the entire fleet immediately loaded Tang Tong and his 3,000 soldiers and horses and returned.

His soldiers and horses were all bare-handed, without any weapons, and Liu Guoneng sent another 1,000 spearmen to escort them, so that among Tang Tong's soldiers and horses, even if there were personnel who were dissatisfied, no one dared to have the slightest heart of resistance.

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On the day when Tang Tong and others had just surrendered to the Tang army at Shanhaiguan, they had landed in Fengguo Town, Shandong, and escorted the crown prince Zhu Cihong, Yongwang Zhu Cizhao, and the coffins of Emperor Chongzhen and Dingwang Zhu Cijiong, and returned to Jinan together.

When she returned to Jinan, Princess Zhu Yujiao of Changping got the news and ran away from Li Xiao's mansion crying loudly. She rushed to the gates of the city, stopped the coffin, and wept loudly.

"Father! Second brother! I can't wait to avenge you with a sword! ……”

At this time, the crown prince Zhu Cihong heard the princess crying, he covered his arm that had not yet fully recovered, and hurriedly walked out of the sedan chair. And the youngest Yongwang Zhu Cizhao also ran from the sedan chair crying and threw himself into Zhu Yujiao's arms, and the three sisters and brothers cried together.

The bitter cry of the three of them hugging each other made the soldiers who saw them off, as well as the people watching from afar, secretly sad and cried silently with them.

Seeing that the itinerary was blocked, and seeing that the onlookers were gathering more and more, Li Xiao groaned slightly, walked over in person, and persuaded softly: "Princess, prince, Yongwang, there are many people here, it is not a sad place, and this king has to put the coffins of the former emperor and the king of Ding, and stop the spirit first." ”

Hearing Li Xiao's persuasion, the three of them gradually stopped crying, and the sobs flashed to the side, allowing the whole team to move on.

After the suspension of the spirit in the Jinan official office, Li Xiao ordered that Emperor Chongzhen and Zhu Cijiong, the king of Ding, be buried in accordance with the Ming Dynasty etiquette system as much as possible under the existing conditions, so as to show the etiquette system.

According to the Ming etiquette system, after the death of Emperor Chongzhen, and before the new emperor ascended the throne, the dead Chongzhen was called the Daxing Emperor according to the system, and the new emperor was called the heir emperor. This heir emperor will not be able to wait until after the death of Emperor Daxing, and he can persuade and resign under the persuasion of his ministers, and finally choose a day to ascend the throne.

After the funeral of the Daxing Emperor, the heir emperor chose an auspicious day to ascend the throne, and then issued an edict to the throne, amnesty to the world, and then the late emperor had to honor the temple name and the like, and finally announced a new era name, indicating that the empire had entered a new stage.

And before the big burial, the first thing to do is to carry out a small burial.

The so-called small funeral, is the first by Cao Huachun, Wang Chengen and other eunuchs, with Xu Gao and other ordinary eunuchs and scattered palace people who escaped from the capital, carefully open the coffin, for the body of Chongzhen and Yongwang The body has been highly corrupted, bathing the face, bending the hair, changing the shroud, and setting up the memorial in front of the corpse, this is the end of life, this ceremony is also called the small funeral.

As it was almost early summer, the highly decomposed corpses were already unrecognizable, and the stench was so bad that it almost stunned people. But Rao is like this, the etiquette system cannot be abolished, so a group of eunuchs and palace people, forcibly endured the stench of irritation and violent nausea, and finally completed this step after more than an hour of busyness.

After the small burial, the preparations before the funeral ceremony begin.

Cao Huachun, Wang Chengen and other eunuch palace people first put the corpses of Emperor Daxing and King Ding into the very luxurious and hard sandalwood coffin that Li Xiao had already ordered to prepare.

After the coffin was sealed, a banquet was set up in front of the coffin for the decoration of wine and other memorial objects, and a silk was set up, and the inscription was established, and the book was written to the Emperor Zigong.

In the next three days, Chongzhen's immediate family, such as the crown prince Zhu Cihong, Yongwang Zhu Cizhao, the princess Zhu Yujiao, and the concubine Li Xiao and others, all needed to guard the spirit in the Zi Palace. According to the Ming etiquette system, the ceremony of keeping the soul for the emperor is very solemn, all the people who keep the soul are dressed in plain clothes, only a place to sit upright, they are not allowed to talk to each other, they can only sit in silence, and they must maintain the solemn and heavy atmosphere of the mourning hall. And twice a day in the morning and evening, there is also a performance of touching the coffin and crying the soul.

In these things, although Li Xiao is the king of Tang, he still deliberately follows these so-called etiquette systems, and fully demonstrates the etiquette and loyalty of a court horse for the military and civilians.

Three days later, the wake is completed, and the formal preparation for the burial work begins, at this time, the emperor's tomb in the north of Jinan and the royal tomb of Yongwang have been rushed day and night and simply decorated to complete, and Chongzhen and Yongwang can be buried together.

At this time, the large and small temples inside and outside Jinan have already received the order and began to ring the bell to send Dengxian. According to the ritual system, the bells of each temple must be struck 30,000 times to "benefit the underworld" for the dead emperor. At the same time, in the city of Jinan, slaughter is forbidden for thirteen days, in order to show peace and send spirits, and not to create killing karma.

At the same time, the edict written by Chen Zilong on behalf of the emperor was read by Li Zhongxiao, the presiding officer of the ceremony, and after the recitation, it was printed and distributed in large quantities to convey the message of mourning for the emperor's death and the new emperor's accession to the princes, county kings, princesses, county princesses, county lords and civil and military officials who were divided into other places. This edict is equivalent to a brief evaluation of Emperor Chongzhen's life, and it can be said to be the most important part of the funeral.

“…… The first emperor was young and smart, looked up to Pixu, carried forward the past and forged ahead into the future, and ascended to the great treasure for six years, respecting the heavens and diligent people, being filial and filial, and dreaming of the night, but the first emperor entrusted him with fear, and then the flow of the poison, framing the capital, the first emperor personally led the palace people, fought to the death and martyrdom, and the martyrs of the millennium, the eternal legacy, not to mention the succession to win the people, and what a pity! ……”

“…… The crown prince is wise and benevolent and filial, and is naturally natural, and should be the emperor, and he abides by the law of his ancestors, studies and cultivates virtues, appoints the virtuous and enables, and uses his lover sparingly, without arrogance or slackness, and his only is to ......"

Then, Li Xiao began to read out some basic rules of etiquette in the edict.

“…… Weichen Li Xiao, sincere and fearful, is willing to Shenwai Wenwu and his concentric assistance to protect the cause of the Ming Sect for thousands of years. ……”

“…… The funeral is in accordance with the legacy of the first emperor, with the day changing the month, the 27th release, the sacrifice is shy, there is no ban on music to marry, but the country is big, not a day without a king, hope that the heir to the inheritance is the most important, the Ministry of Rites chooses a day, immediately ascends the throne, do not have to be violated. The prince of the clan is sent, and he cannot leave his country, and the officials of the general army and the governor of the town everywhere and the officials of the three divisions of the capital are strictly sealed and the army and the people are appeased, and they are not allowed to leave their posts without permission, and they are strictly prevented from causing chaos, and the edict is made known to the world. ……”

Next, after the official burial of Chongzhen and King Yong, the funeral was completed and the costume was completed.

"The great filial piety of the sage is about the good succession. The importance of cardinalism and the importance of the military state should not be neglected. The sun changes the month. But the old chapters. The emperor should listen to the government on the third day, Xiaoxiang on the thirteenth, Daxiang on the twenty-fifth, and release on the twenty-seventh. ”

During the Han and Tang dynasties, if the emperor died, the crown prince also had to mourn for three years. Later, some ministers thought that three years was too long, so there was a change of day and month, and the prince only held a mourning for 36 days. Later, there was a new system of listening to the government for three days and releasing on the twenty-seventh, and since the early years of the Ming Dynasty, it has been used until now.

After the emperor is buried, he must begin to give the emperor a temple name, which can be regarded as the final conclusion for each emperor's coffin.

The nickname is generally to be asked for in the southern suburbs after the burial of the emperor of Daxing, but it also needs to be agreed on in advance.

Li Xiao gave careful consideration, but still decided, as in real history, to give Chongzhen the temple number Sizong, and the honor is: Shao Tian Interpretation Dao Gangming Ke Jian Wen Fen Wu Dun Ren Mao Xiaolie Emperor.

In fact, this temple number is not good, and it is even full of sadness.

According to the law, morality is pure and one thinks, the people of the big province think about it, and think about it outside and inside. Think about it before repenting. Speculation is not thought about. Obviously, the words of Chongzhen's name, the meaning of these words, are mixed in it.

The reason why Li Xiao still plans to give Chongzhen the same temple name and nickname as in history is that in this world he has crossed over, the fortune of the Ming Dynasty and Chongzhen's own ultimate tragic fate are basically the same as history, so he believes that taking such a temple name is to respect history and inspire the new emperor.

The emperor was officially buried, and the temple number and the name of the temple were agreed, and Chongzhen's life was a foregone conclusion, and the history of the Ming Dynasty could turn a page and start a new chapter.

According to the system, the new emperor only needs to hold a mourning for 27 days before being released, but the harem concubines have to mourn for three years. The hundreds of officials observe the March funeral with the sun and the month, and the military and civilians in the world only need to observe the three-day funeral.

Next, the official enthronement of the crown prince Zhu Cihong was also handled by Li Xiaolai.

After all, the country cannot be without a king for a day, so Li Xiao decided to hold the enthronement ceremony of the new emperor outside the south gate of Jinan City ten days later.

Before ascending the throne, some ceremonial ceremonies must be completed as soon as possible.

Li Xiao, the king of the Tang Dynasty, first according to the ritual system, gave Zhu Cihong a note on the persuasion ceremony, and the table wrote that he hoped that the prince would take the family and the country and the society as the most important thing in the world, and ascend the throne as soon as possible.

Such a ritual is called persuasion.

And the crown prince Zhu Cihong, after receiving the "persuasion table" from the ministers, also made an edict according to etiquette, of course, this reply does not have to be written by him himself, but has already been written by Chen Zilong, probably the content is: "...... Reading the notes of the office, seeing the Qing and other worries about the country, taking into account the grief and the matter of maintaining the unification, how can I bear to hear it, and I am not allowed. ……”

Shirk here, persuade again, so this kind of persuasion, after three persuasions and three resignations, Zhu Cihong reluctantly agreed, so far, the persuasion was finally declared successful.

This kind of persuasion, although empty and hypocritical, must be carried out meticulously in order to conform to the law. This performance, which has already specified the content of the program, everyone has to pretend to be in place.

"Qing and other words have been expressed to the third time, and they have been faithful. The heavenly position is the most important, the people have been looking forward to it for a long time, it is difficult to be honest for a long time, and the situation is bowing to the end, and they dare not be stubborn, and they reluctantly obey what they are invited. ”

According to the etiquette system of the Ming Dynasty, after Zhu Cihong persuaded him three times before agreeing, he had to be selected by Qin Tianjian to choose an auspicious day for enthronement. It's just that at this special time, it is impossible to find the officials of Qin Tianjian at all, and everything is arranged by Li Xiao.

In the end, the date of enthronement was set for April 12, and in order to hold the enthronement ceremony as soon as possible, the time must not be delayed for a long time.

Things went very smoothly, so on April 12, on the temporarily built enthronement altar outside the gate of Jinan, Zhu Ciliang sat on the temporary pure gold dragon chair and accepted the bowing of various local officials in Jinan, headed by Li Xiao.

First of all, Zhu Cihong was in front of the Chongzhen spiritual seat on the altar, and then put on a crown to tell the heavens and the earth and the ancestors.

Then, the ceremonial officials recited the praise of the enthronement, announced the official accession of the new emperor to the entire Ming Empire, and announced the name of the new emperor in public, as well as the appointment of important officials.

For Zhu Cihong, who has just recovered from his body and has been tossed for a long time during this time, the so-called enthronement ceremony is actually very boring and boring, but he has to stick to it, after all, the etiquette system stipulated in the Ming Dynasty cannot be easily violated and changed.

So, at this time, under the instructions of the ceremonial officer, his face suddenly became solemn, and suddenly his face smiled, like a puppet controlled by someone, completely helpless.

In the end, when the enthronement ceremony was about to end, the crown prince Zhu Ciliang personally announced that he would ascend to the throne and become the new monarch of the Ming Dynasty.

This era name, of course, was also drafted by Li Xiao, and its meaning is to revitalize and prosper again.

Next, Zhu Cihong announced that Li Xiao, the king of the Tang Dynasty, would be crowned the crown prince and the prince, the head of the three dukes, and appointed him as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, and the president of the world's soldiers and horses, and he would be responsible for the major task of exterminating the rogues and driving out the Tatars.

Li Xiao solemnly bowed, raised three times and bowed three times, and accepted the official appointment of the new emperor. After he received the emperor's edict of appointment, all the officials and onlookers were thunderous, and the scene was warm and happy.

Zhu Cihong, the emperor of Chongxing, personally helped Li Xiao up, and then said softly: "King Tang, my world is entrusted to you." ”

Li Xiao solemnly bowed again, and replied loudly: "Please rest assured, Minister Li Xiao, you will be dedicated and dedicated, and never live up to Your Majesty's trust!" ”