On the way back to the Qianqing Palace, Zuo Zhan has been thinking about how to place Xiong Xiang'er, this relationship is like God gave him, and he met a partner who fell in love with each other when he was most lonely and helpless, and he really cherished it. But tonight he has ordered Wei Jinzhong and Qi Changguo to arrest the officials involved in Huang and the palace people who fornicated with the previous dynasty, but now he has been captured by Fang Xin, I am afraid that I don't know how to arrange it. What's more important is that Xiong Tingbi is preparing for war in Liaodong, if he knows that the emperor secretly went to tryst with his precious granddaughter, will he feel chilled.

The more Zuo Zhan thought about it, the more worried he became, his brows were tightly locked, his face was gloomy, and suddenly the eighth sister of the emperor, Zhu Huiyuan, burst out from behind, making him tremble, and the sky turned sunny at the same time. It turned out that Concubine Zhuang couldn't wait for the emperor, and she always felt that it was not in line with the etiquette system, so she arranged for Zhu Huiyuan, who was the most distressed in Zuo Zhanping, to guard the Qianqing Palace, and let her be coquettish and cute, and also invite the emperor to Jingyang Palace.

At this time, Zhu Huiyuan was wearing new clothes, wearing fake flowers, a pair of big black eyes flashing up and down, and she had already tightly grabbed Zuo Zhan's arm. Zuo Zhan thought that although he thought he was an outsider, they regarded themselves as the closest people, and suddenly a warm current surged from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and after changing his clothes, he carried Zhu Huiyuan to Concubine Shen's residence.

Although the harem is simple, only Jingyang Palace is full of lights, and Zuo Zhan means that Concubine Shen is eight months pregnant, and she can't let the national funeral crash into the little sister in her belly. waited until he was seated and was busy with everyone to greet each other, and then the banquet officially began.

Zuo Zhan hugged the eighth sister Zhu Huiyuan, Concubine Zhuang hugged the fifth brother Zhu Youzhen, Concubine Yi had the fifth sister Zhu Huiyan and the sixth sister Zhu Huijing, the two sisters sat beside the concubine, plus Concubine Jing and Zhao and Wang, Zuo Zhan thought that this was all the belongings of Emperor Guangzong. Since there were only ten people, the crowd did not feel crowded at one table.

After more than four months of getting along, everyone has already figured out the emperor's temper, knowing that he has always been respectful to several ladies and sisters, and doting on several younger brothers and sisters, so he is not very afraid, plus today is Chinese New Year's Eve, the little emperor can arrange for everyone to get together to celebrate the New Year, which is enough to show his affection for the harem. During the banquet, the adults gag, the children chased and frolicked, and the laughter came and went, and the family was happy.

On the morning of the first day of the new year, Zuo Zhan accepted the worship of the ministers and palace people in the Imperial Palace according to the ancestral system, and Shangshu Ye of the Ministry of Officials said to Gao Qi:

"Holy Lord, the Zhengdan Bow Offering has been prepared, when will the decree leave?"

As mentioned above, the Ming Dynasty advocated the ritual system, and the sacrifice of the mausoleum and the temple were all ceremonial activities to promote the power of the emperor. Zuo Zhan nominally gave the courtiers eight days off, but the sacrificial activities were still carried out normally.

According to the "Records of King Sejong" during the period of Emperor Jiajing, the annual Qingming, frostfall, Zhongyuan, and east solstice are the big sacrifices, and the death day, Zhengdan, Shengdan, and Mengdong are small sacrifices. In addition to the emperor, the festival is accompanied by important relatives such as dukes, marquis, uncles, and concubines, plus the first and second leaders of the six Jiuqing, which is very important from the perspective of the lineup. The small festival is generally put in charge of the prince, and the Ministry of Rites and Taichang Temple arrange some ceremonial officials to accompany them.

In addition, the great sacrifice also has to write the blessing, the imperial tombs are also slightly different, such as long, offering, Jing, Yu, Mao, Tai, Kang these seven imperial tombs of the end of the blessing is Fu Wei still enjoying, and Yong, Zhao, Ding, Qing the end of the four imperial tombs is Fu Wei Jiansan. In history, there is also the Deling Mausoleum of the Carpenter Emperor, and the end is also Fu Wei Jiansan. As for Emperor Zhuang Lie's tomb, the underground palace was originally one of his concubines' tombs, and Li Zicheng buried them together to save money, and the later above-ground buildings were built by the Manchu Qing Dynasty to appease the Ming Dynasty relics.

Since Guangzong only has two princes, "Zuo Zhan" and Zhu Youzhen, Zuo Zhan has not yet married at this time, and he has no illegitimate children, and Zhu Youzhen has just turned ten years old, so Zhengdan's sacrifice Zuo Zhan decided to go in person. In addition to paying tribute to the souls of the Divine Sect and the Light Sect, he also had an important decision to announce, saying:

"Ye Aiqing has worked hard, I am afraid that I will not get a moment of peace on Chinese New Year's Eve."

These words are obviously igniting Ye Xianggao, most of the yellow-related officials arrested by Wei Jinzhong on Qianmen Street last night are Donglin Party members, how can Ye Xianggao, as the leader of the party, stop. But how to hide this ugliness when going out for fun on Chinese New Year's Eve. Hearing the words of the little emperor, Ye Xianggao was like a dumb eater of Coptis chinensis, and could only pretend to be confused and replied:

"This is the duty of the subordinates, and Your Majesty is also worried about internal and external."

Zuo Zhan thought that there were only two people in Xiong's Mansion last night, he and Yu Dingbian were the only two people, and secretly laughed at Ye Xianggao who was eager to win back a city, but he actually leaked his tail, which is enough to show that the Forbidden City is surrounded by the eyes of the Donglin Party, and it also confirms the invisible black hands that Zuo Zhan suspected before, and he can't help but be a little worried.

Ye Xiang, who thought he was proud, was silent for a while, and was about to forcibly justify the official's involvement in pornography, when he suddenly saw Zuo Zhan take a letter from Wang An, stood up and said:

"Ye Aiqing, do you know what is written here?"

Without waiting for Ye Xianggao to answer, Zuo Zhan continued:

"This is a roster, and the names of all the people who have been to Bada Hutong are in it, do you want to know who they are?"

This roster is like a bomb thrown into a pit (full of dung), and the ministers below are talking about it. The people who had been there were pale, bowed their heads and were silent, secretly scolding Ye Xianggao for being smart but being mistaken by being smart, which annoyed the little emperor and everyone had to walk around without eating. The people who didn't go gloated with a look on their faces, wishing that Zuo Zhan would read the names of the people out loud, and then let Wei Jinzhong grasp the prison of the Criminal Department.

In the Ming Dynasty, officials committed murder under the crime of soliciting prostitution, and according to the five criminal laws of flogging, rod, imprisonment, exile, and death, it was exile. In addition to the difference in distance, exile is also divided into several classes, some are exiled by themselves, and some follow with their families; Some can be pardoned to return to their places of origin, while others will remain there for generations.

Seeing that the effect was very ideal, Zuo Zhan replied to Ye Xianggao and said:

"Do you want Lord Ye to know if you're on the list?"

At this time, Ye Xianggao was already a defeated quail, lying on the ground and not daring to take a breath, where did he dare to answer the little emperor's question. He definitely went to those Fengyue places, but it was difficult to say if he was not on the list. If he wants to say that he has been there, that is tantamount to cutting himself off, and if he says that he has not been, if he is on the list, it is the crime of bullying the king, and he will destroy the clan.

Zuo Zhan quietly looked at the ministers below, the kind of disappointment and even despair was all written on his face, and the ministers didn't dare to say more, the hall was unusually quiet, everyone knew that this was a precursor to the storm. What disappointed Zuo Zhan was the disloyalty and filial piety of these ministers, the disloyalty to the two emperors during the state funeral, and the unfilial piety to the family when they went out to have fun on Chinese New Year's Eve. What made Zuo Zhan desperate was that these people had their own ghosts, and the war outside the customs was tense but they were still thinking about the party and fighting against each other.

The storm did not come, and although Zuo Zhan was extremely angry, he still ordered Wei Jinzhong to bring in a fire dragon from the main gate, walk to the center of the main hall, and burn the roster in front of all the courtiers. Everyone didn't understand what the little emperor meant, some people were lucky, and some people were lost.

Zuo Zhan looked at the burning flower seedlings and said calmly:

"I believe in your character and virtues, but I will not tolerate those who have conclusive evidence. There will be a big battle in Liaodong soon, and I hope you will work together to protect the territory of the Ming Dynasty and the people of Li. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone sighed, and they knelt on the ground in unison, shouting long live, and they were completely obedient to this little emperor. In fact, what they should be most grateful to is Emperor Chongzhen, and Zuo Zhan did this based on history as a mirror, and had to make concessions.

At the beginning, Li Zicheng broke into Beijing, and the ministers fled for their lives, only Chongzhen and Wang Chengen sat in the Huangji Palace, and they completely became the commander of the light pole. Chongzhen left a famous quote before his death: "I have been on the throne for 17 years, and the traitor is approaching the Beijing Division, although I bow down to the bandits, and the heavens are angry, causing the rebels to go straight to the Beijing Division, but all the ministers are mistakenly I am also killed, I have no face to see the ancestors in the ground, I remove the crown, cover the face with hair, let the thief split the corpse, do not hurt the people."

When Zuo Zhan first read "History of the Ming Dynasty", in addition to admiring Chongzhen's integrity of martyrdom, he also felt that all the literati of the Manchu Dynasty could be killed. With the increase of experience, he slowly discovered that he couldn't blame all the civil servants in the court, there were many literati who were martyred after Chongzhen's death, but why did he abandon Chongzhen alone?

The root also lies in the quality of the emperor. Chongzhen's diligence is recognized by the world, but his meanness and suspicion are fatal shortcomings. He was too eager to revive the Ming Dynasty, first kill the eunuchs, then kill the Wenchen, and finally kill the generals, everyone in the world is disappointed, who doesn't want to live? He claimed to have read a lot of history books, didn't he remember how Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty went to mourn his brother Liu Xuan? Liu Xiu endured the grief and did not mourn for his brother, repeatedly reviewed his mistakes, and finally hid from the world, revived the Han family, posthumously sealed his brother, and treated the orphans well, this is the heart of the husband.

Zuo Zhan's move was intended to emulate Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, and although he had ironclad evidence, he still chose to be lenient. The Buddha said that he put down the butcher's knife and became a Buddha on the ground, and at this moment he is a Buddha in the hearts of all the courtiers. The Buddha is boundless and benevolent, he believes in comparing the mind to the heart, and he believes in karma.

Walking to the Taimiao, all the etiquette was carried out normally, and everyone swept away the decline in front of them, and they were happy and convinced like the emperors of the past dynasties and the tablets of meritorious service. At this time, Zuo Zhan really made a big move, and suddenly asked Wang An to read out a holy decree:

"Taimiao deserves to enjoy all the meritorious heroes, and its givers to the king are all the emperor's ancestors to pacify the world, and they have great merit. And the children and grandchildren may not touch an inch, and they will be reduced to gangsters. I can't bear it, so I can ask for his heirs, give an official, and worship the ancestors. Those who are talented and virtuous can enter Taixue and use it appropriately. ”

It means that the Taimiao Temple is not only for the emperors of the past dynasties, but also for those heroes who assisted the emperors to pacify the world, because their descendants have no fame and fortune, and gradually become the people of the market. I could not bear to see such a situation, and for their descendants, according to the situation, they were given an official and a half position, so that they could worship their ancestors. People who are talented and virtuous can go directly to Taixue and use it according to the situation.

Zuo Zhan's move is still to seek talents, these exploits have thrown their heads and spilled blood for the country, and their descendants should be given extra care, and these people have not yet entered the ranks and have been labeled as protégés of the Son of Heaven, so they will naturally not be too involved in the party struggle, and they will replace the reserve force of the Donglin Party in the future.