Chapter Seventy-Five: Gathering Ministers

The military aircraft department sent a will, and the emperor sent the queen mother of the two palaces to the Qianqing Palace to gather important ministers.

This "important minister" includes the Minister of Military Aircraft, the Minister of the Imperial Front, the Minister of the Guard, the Minister of the Prime Minister, the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the University Scholar, the Co-organizer of the University, the Six Manchu and Han Dynasty Scholars, the Chairman of the Advisory Committee, the Left and Right Imperial Envoys of the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, the Bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, the Zhan Shi Mansion, the Dali Temple, the Taichang Temple, the Taifu Temple, the Guanglu Temple, the Honglu Temple, the Tongzheng Envoy, the Guozi Priest Wine, and the officials of the Zongren Mansion: Zongling, Left and Right Zongzheng, Left and Right Zongren, and Fucheng.

In addition, there are three close relatives of Prince Gong, King Alcohol County, and King Zhongjun, as well as the heads of various branches of Prince Rui Renshou, Prince Zhuang Yiren, Prince Yi Zaidun, Prince Zheng Chengzhi, Prince Li Shiduo, and Prince Yu Benge.

Prince Su Huafeng was sick and bad at walking, so he took sick leave.

Lingding is brilliant, and it is all together.

Of course, there are many overlapping identities here, such as:

Guan Zhuofan is both the Minister of Military Aircraft and the Minister of the Imperial Front.

Among the ministers of military aircraft, Wen Xiang, Cao Yuying, and Guo Songtao are respectively the officials of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, and the Advisory Committee, and Wen Xiang is also the chief minister of the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen.

Bao Jun, the key minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, also "walked on the prime minister's minister of national affairs".

He was both a scholar and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy.

The alcohol king among the relatives and nobles of the close branch is not only the minister of the imperial front, but also recently sent an envoy to lead the minister of the guard.

Prince Rui Renshou, in addition to attending the meeting on behalf of the branch, is also the order of the Zongren Mansion.

Among the yamen who are here today. Zongren's Mansion is the most eye-catching one. This is because. The Zongren Mansion is in charge of the affairs of the royal family, and they usually do not participate in the affairs of the country, so they don't know what they can "discuss" when they come over? Also, most of the yamen, only the main hall officials, only the Zongren Mansion attended. The main and deputy officials arrived, and even the ministers between the officials and the subordinate officials also arrived.

Such a "gathering of important ministers" is a rare situation.

Among the courtiers who attended the meeting, Taichang Siqing, Taifu Siqing, Guanglu Siqing, Honglu Siqing, Tongzheng Envoy Sitong, and Guozi Supervisor Sacrificial Wine, were all in charge of Leng Cao Yamen, and their grades were not high. Among them, the lowest-grade Guozi Priest Wine, although it can barely be classified as "Xiao Jiuqing", but in terms of position. However, one from the fourth grade, no matter how you say it, it can't be regarded as a "heavy minister". What can they "discuss" when they are there?

There has only been one such situation, and that is the "railway meeting" held at the Prime Minister's National Affairs Office. However, after the meeting, the participants were all clear in their hearts: it was a meeting, and the "meeting" was not the point at all, the focus was on "co-signing", in fact, it was both soft and hard, forcing the big guys to sign and pledge, and express their support for the construction of the railway.

And this time?

Some people muttered in their hearts, is there something new "above", and they want to pull us over to press their fingers?

The meeting of the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces and the Imperial Qianqing Palace was the first time since the curtain was lowered.

The Qianqing Palace is the Son of Heaven, or said: the Son of Heaven is sleeping. After the former Ming Dynasty moved the capital to Beijing, 14 of the 15 emperors took the Qianqing Palace as their dormitory; This dynasty Dingding, the two emperors of Shizu and Shengzu, also took the Qianqing Palace as the dormitory. Sejong moved to the Yangxin Palace, and from the Yongzheng Dynasty, the government center of the Forbidden City was transferred to the Yangxin Palace, but theoretically, the status of the Qianqing Palace as the "Son of Heaven" has not changed.

In addition, the south of the Qianqing Palace, that is, the houses on both sides of the Qianqing Gate, the west side is the "South Study", the inner court is the Zhilu, the emperor's literary secretary office; The east side is the "Upper Study", where the princes and grandchildren study, including every emperor before he ascended the throne, including the present. As for the current little emperor to study in the Hongde Palace, that was later, when he just returned to Beijing from Rehe, he also studied in the "upper study" of the Qianqing Palace.

The Qianqing Palace is such a place of great symbolic significance, and the queen mother of the two palaces is not suitable for the emperor. The curtain of the two palaces, which is not available in the ancestral system, is in line with the situation, and has to be done, but it is the responsibility of the minister in charge of the country to prevent the slightest slight, and not to make the chicken Sichen become a reversal of yin and yang. Therefore, if the queen mother has any oversteps in the ceremony, she must resolutely discourage it.

After hanging the curtain for more than five years, Cixi hinted more than once that she intended to visit the Qianqing Palace. But King Gong pretended not to understand every time, or Wang Gu talked about him left and right, or simply didn't say a word, in short, he didn't answer her words at all, Cixi herself was not interested, so she had to stop.

Prior to this, the only time the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces visited the Qianqing Palace was to receive the "American delegation to China." However, it is a state ceremony, and the nature of a "conference courtier" is fundamentally different.

Moreover, the main purpose of choosing to meet with friends Toshihiko in the Qianqing Palace was to emphasize the friendship between China and the United States in the "blood alliance", and the focus was on the Americans, and the Empress Dowager was in the palace, which was not the focus of the matter, and it was not considered "overreach".

This time, it's different.

Why, as soon as King Gong retreated, the number of roads was changed immediately? This......

Some people can't help muttering in their hearts: Alas, if you talk about wind and bones, King Xuan seems to be ...... It's not as good as King Gong.

Linyu Qianqing Palace, the reason used is simple: there are too many people, and the place of the Heart Cultivation Palace is not big enough.

If it's just a ceremony, everyone will kowtow and leave, even if the team goes outside the hall, it doesn't matter much, but we are "assembling" today, and everyone has to put it in the house.

However, the "top" still made a gesture of "avoiding suspicion", without the Ming Palace, the location of the meeting was selected in the Xinuan Pavilion.

The Qianqing Palace is nine rooms wide and five rooms deep, which implicitly coincides with the meaning of "Ninety-Five Supreme". The middle three rooms are the Ming Palace, with thrones; The three rooms on the left are the East Warm Pavilion, that is, the famous "Sanxi Hall", which collects the favorite of Gaozong - the "three links" of Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi's father and son, and is therefore named; The third room on the right is the West Warm Pavilion, named "Greenhouse".

Today's "assembly" was held in the "greenhouse".

When the ministers passed through the Ming Hall and entered the "greenhouse", many people couldn't help but raise their heads, secretly glanced at the "Zhengda Guangming" plaque on the throne, and couldn't help but sigh in their hearts: In view of the rebellion of the nine kings of the Kangxi Dynasty, since the beginning of the Yongzheng Dynasty, the dynasty did not set up a prince, and the Sacred Heart tacitly determined which prince would inherit the unification, and prepared a will before his death, and collected it in the "building storage box" after this "Zhengda Guangming" chapter.

I thought about it further: Gaozong, Renzong, Xuanzong, and Wenzong all practiced Zuo according to this system, however, because Jinshang was the only son of the first emperor, and Jinshang succeeded to the system, this secret system of building a reserve has actually lost its meaning.

The emperor of the Qing Dynasty is so thin...... Alas!

Some people are still muttering in their hearts: If you don't meet in the Ming Palace, I'm afraid that it will be a last resort, and it may not be some "avoiding suspicion" - the pattern of the throne is only for one person, and there is no way to put an emperor and two queen mothers on it at the same time.

The "greenhouse" place is not small, but it is also full of kneeling, there are only four people standing, two imperial ministers on duty: the king of alcohol and the prince of Horqin, Boyan Nemo, and two noble ministers who are ordered to "summon the banquet and avoid bowing": Prince Xuan and Prince Gong.

Behind the yellow curtain, the clear and powerful voice of the Queen Mother said: "There is a will here, our sisters have already used the seal, Yiyun, you hand it over to Wen Xiang, read it for the big guy, and then, it will be transferred to the cabinet Mingfa." ”

*(To be continued.) )