Kaiyuan 4119. Twenty years of Yongle. It was a year in which there was no particularly significant news in the original history.

But in this time and space, Zhu Di won a great victory in the western expedition and returned to Beijing with thousands of envoys. The Dongzhou fleet explored Dongzhou and returned to Beijing with 10,000 natives.

and the vigorous immigrants from Nanzhou, they will surely write a magnificent poem in history.

This year is the Year of the Tiger, and according to later generations, this is Zhu Zhanji's natal year.

He is 24 years old this year, and he is 25 years old.

The year of Renyin, the month of Jiyou, the day of Wuyin.

And on this day, he will ascend to the throne of the only vast empire in this world.

In order to welcome this day, Lan Yan and the Ma family finally made more than 2,000 bamboo charcoal filament light bulbs after countless failures, all of which were used in the decoration of the palace.

More than 2,000 light bulbs are not too many for the huge palace, but the appearance of electric lights has made countless people of Yingtianfu crazy.

On this night when there was no curfew, they came in droves around the palace and kowtowed to the brightly lit palace.

Don't talk about them, even Zhu Di, who thinks he is no stranger, is speechless in shock in the face of electric lights that are far better than candles and oil lamps.

This night, he didn't rest early, didn't watch his favorite drama, and didn't find two little beauties to spend the long night with him.

He has been walking through the palace that he has long known, looking at the electric lights, reflecting the entire palace as if it were day.

It was a scene he had never imagined before, and everything seemed like a miracle.

All this is the handiwork of this grandson, and many times, he himself is a little afraid of this grandson.

How much power does he have to show such a miracle in the palace!

In fact, everything is very simple, nothing more than the use of a steam engine to drive the generator, and then provide the power supply, these technologies have matured two years ago, the point is that it is too difficult to make a qualified light bulb.

The photothermal conversion rate of bamboo charcoal filament bulbs is very low, and the melting point of bamboo charcoal filaments is relatively low, and the life of the bulb is difficult to exceed 100 hours.

In the beginning, Blue Smoke used an oxygen filtration device to extract the oxygen from the bulb in order to increase the life of the bulb to more than 300 hours.

It wasn't until Blue Smoke developed a set of extraction equipment that could remove percent of the air in the bulb, and then increase the life of the bulb to about 2,000 hours.

However, because most of the processes need to be operated manually, the cost of light bulbs is still high, and mass production is not yet possible.

But for the royal family, all costs are not a problem, as long as they can show the royal style.

Zhu Di walked in the palace until midnight, and finally stood on the wall of the noon gate, looking around at the palace that lit up most of the night sky, with a relaxed smile on his face.

Zhu Zhanji fell asleep on this day, and just after the ugly hour, he was called up by a group of chamberlains and palace maids.

Bathing and changing clothes, washing his hair and tying his hair, in addition to pure cotton underwear, he was changed into a brand new bright yellow dragon robe.

Unlike in the past, today's dragon robe is embroidered with a five-clawed golden dragon, not the previous four-clawed golden dragon.

He didn't wear a crown, which needed to wait until he was on the altar of heaven and earth, and Zhu Di personally put it on him.

Zhu Dizi went to bed later, but no one would disturb him sleeping, and he slept until almost midnight before getting up.

Actually, he didn't sleep well either. Thinking that from now on, he will stay away from that throne, even if he is much more indifferent now, but he is still a little unwilling and lost.

However, it was only one point, and in his heart now, he was thinking more about the huge Nanzhou.

Take the flagship specially built for him, go to Nanzhou, and meet the land that belongs to the Ming Dynasty, so that he can have no regrets in this life.

When the sky was slightly bright, Zhu Zhanji stepped out of the palace gate. Outside the door, all his concubines and children were already waiting outside the door.

Seeing him go out, everyone knelt on the ground under the leadership of Sun Xian. "Congratulations, Your Highness."

"Congratulations to each other. Concubine Ai rewarded the harem today, hard work. ”

"The concubine is not bitter, but happy."

Let everyone be flat, and the others stay in the palace, only fourteen children who are already six years old, can go to the Temple of Heaven and Earth to watch the ceremony under the leadership of the inner attendant.

Originally, there were 14 children with six girls, and they were not allowed to participate.

It was Zhu Zhanji who tried his best to disagree with the public, saying that "all dragon species, regardless of men and women, should let them know etiquette and morality." "For this reason, they can observe the ceremony from a distance.

Zhu Zhanji will not mention any equality between men and women in this era, because when the productive forces have not been liberated, equality between men and women is just a dream.

Zhu Zhanji stepped out of Xingqing Palace, and outside the door, Zhang waited at the door with a group of his younger brothers and sisters. Zhu Zhanji first knelt down and kowtowed to the Zhang family three times, and Zhu Zhanji hurriedly took his concubine to the side.

Zhang came over to help Zhu Zhanji, his eyes were full of tears, but his smile was extraordinarily bright. "Today is my son's big day, I hope everything goes smoothly, and my son will soar in the world."

Zhu Zhanji wiped her tears with his sleeve, and said with a smile: "Mother concubine, rest assured, tomorrow the court will meet, and she will be promoted to the queen mother." ”

Zhang shook his head and said, "As long as Zhan Ji is smooth and smooth, I, a half-lacking person, don't care about those false names." ”

After she stood up, Zhu Zhanji's younger brothers and sisters also knelt down one by one.

Before today, they were younger brothers and sisters, but after today, they are courtiers first, and then younger brothers and sisters.

Zhu Zhanji received their great gifts, looked at Li Liang and asked, "Is the Imperial Ancestor ready?" ”

"Your Majesty has already sat on the dragon chariot, just waiting for His Highness...... No, Your Majesty is on his way. ”

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said, "Let's call Your Highness for the time being, let's go." ”

Today's palace is extremely calm, but outside the palace, starting from the imperial city and continuing to the entire Yingtianfu, there is a lot of boiling everywhere.

Yesterday's firecrackers rang off intermittently overnight, and today's air loves the smell of firecrackers.

Outside the noon gate, the brocade guard, the honor guard division, and today's honor guard are also the most neat. All of them are bright and solemn. Everyone is proud to be able to participate in today's celebration and to be able to follow His Majesty.

Today is different from the past, and on such an important occasion, if there is a little mistake, it is a sin that deserves death.

When the dragon chariot went out of the noon gate, the drum music sounded, and on both sides of the royal road from the noon gate to the Chengtian gate, the guards were one by one, and they all stared at the dragon chariot that was transparent on all sides.

On top of the dragon chariot, Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji sat side by side, their faces were calm, and they whispered something from time to time.

The sound of drums was to announce the people and officials outside the imperial city, and the two emperors came out. When Long Yuan walked out of the Chengtian Gate, a large area of thousands of ministers fell to their knees outside the Chengtian Gate. "Long live Your Majesty, long live Your Highness."

Zhu Di stood up and waved his hand to the people in the distance, and then said loudly: "Flat." ”

The ministers got up, and Zhu Di asked again: "Where is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Lu Zhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Wang Yan, the eunuch of the Ministry of Ceremonies?" ”

The three of them immediately stepped out of the ranks, bowed down and said, "The minister is here." ”

Zhu Di showed a hint of a smile and said: "Today's ceremony, I and the grandson will listen to your arrangement, let's start!" ”

Jian Yi is the commander-in-chief today, Lu Zhen is in charge of etiquette in terms of social inheritance, and Wang Yan is in charge of coordinating logistics.

Tens of thousands of people are participating in the celebration today, and it is a very troublesome thing just for so many people to eat and drink. Not to mention that so many people have to be particular about the position of each person to attend, back and forth, which is a test of the organizer's experience.

Long Yuan along the royal road outside the Chengtian Gate has been to the south, out of the Hongwu Gate, through the Zhengyang Gate, out of the Yingtian Mansion.

On both sides of the road, there were ordinary people everywhere. After they learned about the arrangement of the Zen Rang ceremony, countless people began to occupy positions here a day or two in advance.

Of course, each of them went through a security check, and it was impossible to carry muskets and gunpowder with them.

Out of Zhengyangmen, it is the southern suburb of Yingtianfu, and there are more people here, and when they saw Long Yuan coming out, they all spontaneously knelt down and kowtowed to Long Yuan.

Although the number of people is large, the soldiers and horses of the five cities, Ying Tianfu, and the major Beijing guards are almost all dispatched to maintain order, so there is no chaos.

In addition to the construction of the imperial palace and city walls, the most important building is a variety of altars.

Zhu Yuanzhang built a mound altar in the southern suburbs of Nanjing to worship the god of Haotian; In the northern suburbs, Fang Ze altar was built to worship the emperor; In the eastern suburbs and western suburbs, the Asahi Altar and the Xiyue Altar were built respectively to worship the Great Ming God and the Night Ming God.

In addition, he also built the Sheji Altar and the Taimiao Temple on the south side of the Imperial Palace, and built the Xiannong Altar on the west side of the Yuanqiu Altar.

In the tenth year of Hongwu, Nanjing caught up with an "extreme weather", and it was cloudy and rainy for many days. Zhu Yuanzhang thought that this was a separate sacrifice to the heaven symbolizing his father and the earth symbolizing his mother, so he hurriedly ordered the Fangze Altar in the northern suburbs and the Yuanqiu Altar in the southern suburbs to be enshrined, and built a new large temple for the ceremony-the Great Worship Hall.

This place, which brings together immortals from all walks of life, was named the "Temple of Heaven and Earth" by Zhu Yuanzhang.

The Temple of Heaven and Earth has four more important buildings, one is the official place of worship of the Great Worship Hall, and the other is the Divine Kitchen, the Divine Treasury, and the Slaughtering Pavilion in the northwest, which is connected with 72 corridors in the middle of the courtyard of the Great Worship Hall to transport sacrifices.

The third is the palace on the southwest side of the main hall, which is the emperor's dormitory for fasting during the sacrifice. For safety, the dormitory has two walls, each with a ditch outside it.

There is a beamless hall in the palace, which was used by the emperor to fast and receive ministers before the Qianlong Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty.

Finally, outside the walls of the Temple of Heaven and Earth, there is also a Kagura Department. Its original name is Shen Optimism, and it is a place where Taoist priests who play music during the festival usually live and practice.

The joint ritual stipulated in the Hongwu period is roughly divided into nine links, namely: welcoming the gods, laying jade silk, entering the ceremony, the first offering, the second offering, the final offering, the withdrawal of food, the sending of the gods and the hope of the fire.

To welcome the gods is to set up a feast and take the gods into the door; After the arrival of the gods, the master welcomed them with extremely precious jade and silk.

The entrance is to start serving; The first, second and final offerings are for the emperor to toast the gods, and at the same time, the emperor also accompanies the gods to have a drink at the end of this link.

The Emperor feasted on the wine and food in the blessings, after which all the offerings were removed from the offering table and moved to the burnt wood stove for the heavenly enjoyment.

All of these sessions are fueled by music played by God's optimistic Taoist priests.

Although today is a Zen ceremony, since it is a place to borrow immortals, these procedures are also the same, but the procedures are slightly different.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji ascended the altar of heaven and earth below, and the ceremony officially began.

Under the stage, there were thousands of civil and military ministers, tens of thousands of guards, and tens of thousands of envoys from all over the world who came to participate in the celebration.

At the beginning of the ceremony, Zhu Di first worshiped heaven and earth, and then read out the edict of abdication.

In addition to Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Di, there is also an important figure who is the "Chan Commander of the Order", who is served by Jian Yi, who is responsible for presenting Zhu Di's seal ribbon to the new emperor Zhu Zhanji.

After handing over the seal, Zhu Di personally put on the crown of the emperor for Zhu Zhanji. In addition, he began to "burn the heavens and the earth, the five mountains, and the four desecrations" in this way to inform the heavens of the two ancestors and grandchildren of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Zhu Zhanji is now the Son of Heaven and the emperor, he must also humbly call himself "Chen Zhanji" when offering sacrifices to the heavens, which is also the only occasion for ancient emperors to call themselves "Chen Moumou".

Then the sacrifices were burned, and at this time, Zhu Zhanji also issued an edict of succession, announcing that he officially became the "third" emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Immediately after that, the first decree was issued.

"Today, I inherit the emperor's thread, which takes the twenty-first year of Yongle as the first year of orthodoxy, discusses the inheritance of Zhengshuo, follows the color, the same emblem, the same law measurement, inherits the land, and amnesties the world; From death to death, everything that is not deserved to be forgiven, is forgiven. ”

In other words, although Zhu Zhanji succeeded to the throne, except for the year name, all the rules remained the same, and at the same time, he was amnesty to the world.

At noon, that is, at twelve o'clock at noon, the sacrificial hall and the Zen hall end, but at this time, in addition to the emperor and the civil and military officials returning to the palace, the envoys from all over the country still remain in the palace, and there will also be a banquet here to entertain the envoys.

On the way back from the Temple of Heaven and Earth, the people still did not disperse, and even more.

At this time, everyone knew that the succession to the throne had been completed, and the call of the people became congratulations to His Majesty and Emperor Taishang.

Zhu Di couldn't help but smile at this time: "Emperor Taishang, it seems to be better than His Majesty the Emperor." ”

Zhu Zhanji also smiled: "My grandson is still young, and he is a big treasure, trembling, and he can't help himself. Therefore, the emperor's grandfather was invited to use the ether to train the emperor, and his grandson obeyed. ”

Zhu Di paused for a moment and asked, "Discipline Zheng?" ”

Discipline and politics were made by Qianlong, and no one had done this before him, so Zhu Di was a little surprised for a while.

Although he didn't know the meaning of discipline, he could also know that Zhu Zhanji asked him to make decisions on some major matters.

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said, "My grandson doesn't want to be a lonely person, and I hope that Grandpa Huang can continue to supervise my grandson." ”

Zhu Di groaned and didn't say anything like one mountain and two tigers.

They are grandchildren, although there are some small contradictions because of the power struggle, but everything is under control.

Zhu Zhanji is now willing to let him continue to point fingers, which also means that Zhu Zhanji's control of power is very rational.

He wants to fight for the throne because the overall situation of the court is basically stable today, so he doesn't want Zhu Di to destroy all this.

Especially in terms of industrial development, commercial development, and immigration plans, if Zhu Di makes a leak now, it will be very troublesome to remedy it.

So he must control everything and not let Zhu Di destroy it.

However, he also didn't want to see a generation of emperors fall alone, in the original history, Zhu Di still had two years, because there were only twenty-two years in the Yongle period.

In the past two years, as long as Zhu Di is not allowed to affect his future development plans, Zhu Di still has a very rich experience in many political struggles.

Long Yuan arrived at Chengtianmen, and this time, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs entered the palace with Long Yuan.

Inside and outside the Fengtian Palace, it was cleaned up today, and September was the season of autumn and coolness, and the ministers did not feel tired, on the contrary, they were full of energy, and they lined up from the inside of the Fengtian Hall to the outside according to their identities.

This is the first time that the Fengtian Temple was opened in the afternoon, when Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji entered the hall hand in hand, and in the slogan of "His Majesty the Emperor Taishang has arrived, His Majesty the Emperor has arrived, His Majesty the Emperor has arrived, solemn drums sounded.

Zhu Zhanji has already issued an edict of succession at the Temple of Heaven and Earth, and now, he is about to issue an official edict on his accession to the throne. In addition, a number of important ministers also wrote to congratulate the new emperor on his accession to the throne.

The official of the Hanlin Academy holds the edict with the treasure in front of the emperor, the official of the Honglu Temple plays and awards, the official of the Hanlin Academy holds the edict, the official of the Ministry of Rites goes out from the left door of the noon gate, and the brocade guard first sets up the cloud cover outside the noon gate, and waits for the edict to be placed in the cloud cover. The guide went to Chengtianmen to read, and the salute was as usual.

The British public Zhang assisted the heaven and earth, the Dingguo Gong Xu Jingchang sued the temple, and the Marquis of Ningyang, Chen Mao, sued the sheji, bowed to a few feasts, that is, the emperor's throne. Will be enthroned, the central official will pass the decree of the Honglu Temple 100 officials to be exempted from the above congratulations, perform five bows and three kowtows, go to Chengtian Gate to listen to the edict, Honglu Temple proclaims, 100 officials.

These procedures were all gone through, and then Zhu Di ascended the throne, and Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne.

Following the rhythm of the drum music, the civil and military officials knelt down one after another and shouted: "Long live His Majesty the Emperor Taishang, long live His Majesty the Emperor." ”

Zhu Zhanji's enthronement edict totaled 3,600 words and was written by Xie Jin. He is very stylish, and an edict is also written like delicacies and wine, which is admirable.

First of all, he praised Zhu Di's Wen Taowu strategy, which was difficult for his predecessors to reach, which made Zhu Di feel very relieved.

Then he praised Zhu Zhanji greatly, thinking that Zhu Zhanji's reform made the world be covered.

In addition to plotting rebellion and rebellion, children and grandchildren murdering grandparents and parents, wives and concubines killing husbands, and slaves and maids killing their masters, the rest have been discovered, undiscovered, corrected, and unsettled, and the crimes are no big or small, and those who dare to accuse and pardon the past will be punished for their crimes.

In terms of civil affairs, those who are in arrears and have not paid taxes before December of the 19th year of Yongle, such as grain, beans, grain and grain with household registration, and have reported a number of official duties, but have not been paid, will be exempted.

However, the arrears of horse grass and charcoal in various parts of the Yongle 20-year household registration are exempted, and they will be exempted from the arrears of horse grass and charcoal in various places since December of the 20th year of Yongle.

Everywhere is in arrears of agricultural mulberry, all kinds of courses, warehouse grain, barn class, fish class, etc., and the death and loss of horses, camels, donkeys, mules, cattle and sheep and other livestock, and arrears of reed firewood, owes copper, iron, pigments, mats, hemp, bamboo, wood and other things, chasing pearls and other items, but did not pay, all kinds of stolen goods and fines are doubled, and the unfinished pieces of horses are exempted.

Soldiers and civilians everywhere have been forced by the government to sell their wives and concubines to others because they are forced by the government to accompany them and breed horses.

In the future, the dead and breeding horses will only be accompanied by Hongwu's example. Households who fled everywhere were punished for their crimes, and they were allowed to report back to their hometowns at the head of the lawsuit, and they would be exempted from business for two years, and all the taxes and grain owed by their households would be exempted.

In terms of military and political affairs, the army will be reduced, and in addition to the northern and southwestern border armies, the inland military guards will either be transferred to the elite, or to the navy, or to the local government service.

And the navy will continue to expand, catch up with big ships, and unify the four seas of the world.

After Wang Yan finished reading a paragraph, his own little eunuch held the edict and sent it directly to the Chengtian Gate and told the world to know.

And the people of the Ming Dynasty all praised it as a benevolent government.

Until dusk, after the many ceremonies, Zhu Zhanji will meet with envoys from various countries.

At this time, he stepped down from the throne and bowed to Zhu Di, who was sitting next to him, and begged him to continue to train the government.

This is a ceremony that was not planned at the beginning, and Zhu Di was invited to discipline the government, which is unprecedented.

Jian Yi and the others were shocked, but they couldn't directly oppose it, otherwise, it would offend Zhu Di to death. Although Zhu Di stepped down from the throne, he wanted to execute a few ministers, which was just a matter of one sentence.

Zhu Di said with a smile at this time: "The act of discipline and government is unprecedented. I am three out of sixty, and I am tired now. In the future, I would like to contribute to the immigration of Nanzhou and include Nanzhou in the territory of our Ming Dynasty. Therefore, I don't care about political affairs, and only contribute to the military. ”

Zhu Zhanji pleaded again and again, but Zhu Di still shouldn't, only saying that he was old and wanted to enjoy a few more years of happiness in the future.

Zhu Zhanji had no choice but to let him.

Subsequently, the envoys who returned from the Temple of Heaven and Earth entered the palace in groups of thousands and saluted together.

Regardless of whether they are reluctant or not, today they bowed down and handed over their credentials, and the Ming Dynasty became the rightful kingdom of the Celestial Empire.

And Zhu Zhanji is not stingy, every tribe and country, according to their actual situation, has a reward.

The sky was dark, the light bulbs of the palace were lit up one by one, and all the envoys looked at the lights, and many people were frightened and bowed.

In their eyes, this is a miracle.

Although Zhu Di abdicated and gave up the three major halls, the harem still lived in him, and Zhu Zhanji had no idea of letting him vacate his place.

At the end of a busy day, when Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Di came back at noon, they ate a few pieces of dim sum on the way. Now they are all exhausted.

Zhu Zhanji personally sent Zhu Di to the harem to rest, and then returned to Xingqing Palace.

At this time, the East Palace was headed by Zhang, his concubines, children, and younger brothers and sisters greeted him.

Except for the Zhang family, everyone knelt together in the open space between Xingqing Palace and the three major halls.

Zhu Zhanji asked everyone to get up, first asked Zhang and Sun Xian about today's big prize in the palace, and then announced that the younger brothers and sisters would also be rewarded with 500, and the five younger brothers who got married would not only be rewarded by half for their concubines, but also halved for those who had children.

It is equivalent to saying that these five younger brothers, each of them has a reward of at least 1,000 taels of gold, which is enough for them to recruit some more attachés.

After finishing all this, Zhu Zhanji returned to Xingqing Palace, and when he saw the brightly lit palace, he suddenly had an illusory feeling.

This is the emperor......

(There may be one more chapter in the later episodes, and I will enter a new world, a new world that has changed by the time-traveler, and I need to think about it.) ）