On the sixteenth day of the first month of the second year of the Ming Dynasty, today is the first day of work in the new year, and yesterday there was news in the palace that the emperor was going to call Daqi in Fengtianmen this morning.

Daqi is also called the early dynasty, from the Ming Dynasty to Zhu Yuanzhang after the abolition of the prime minister, the most worried about being deceived, so the formulation of a large-scale early dynasty is to observe the people's feelings, to avoid being deceived. The early dynasties had very high requirements for the quality of the emperor, and the emperor had to have extremely strong political ability to ensure that he was proficient in handling political affairs in the court meeting. Zhu Yuanzhang thinks about this very well, but the more he emphasizes something, the more there is nothing, there are a total of sixteen emperors from the Ming Dynasty to Chongzhen, and only Zhu Yuanzhang and Chongzhen, the two emperors who pinch their heads and tails, can do it every morning, and other wise people such as Zhu Di can't do it every morning.

As for our Shenwu Supreme Holy Emperor Zhu Hongsan, he is even more lazy. His purpose is to enjoy, and he can put such a tight spell on himself. But when he was in Guangdong before, it was better, Zhu Hongsan was completely a grass platform team at that time, with three or two big fish and small shrimps, and the Qing army didn't know when it would come, so naturally no one restrained him from going to court.

But when he went to Nanjing to pay homage to Xiaoling, it was different, Zhu Hongsan inherited Zhu Yuanzhang's huge political legacy, and also inherited various political obligations, not to mention the others, the emperor Ming Zu Xun was enough for Zhu Hongsan. But fortunately, there are many strange emperors in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Hongsan is quite diligent, there are a few lazier than him, and the system of the early dynasty has already been changed by these lazy emperors to the first and fifteenth days of the first month of the month, and state affairs are handled by a small range of noon dynasties in the Qianqing Palace every day.

Although Zhu Hongsan was very reluctant to go to this early dynasty, the ministers of the court and the central government were eager to go to the court one by one, and in their hearts they could go to the court because of the difference between scholars and civilians.

So Qian Qianyi got up at half past two in the morning to prepare, today is a big start, Qian Qianyi put on his full set of clothes, wearing a black gauze official hat, two swallow wings trembling behind the hat, wearing a python suit given by the emperor, a four-clawed golden dragon coiled on his chest, a belt of Hetian Meiyu tied around his waist, and thick-soled official boots under his feet. It's really a person who relies on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, this set of clothes plus Lao Qian is an old handsome guy, and the eyes of the girl in the house who look at it are starry.

Liu Ru also got up early to serve the lord and put on clothes, and when he saw the old Qian handsome, Liu Ru praised: "The master is still majestic in official uniforms!" ”

Qian Qianyi snorted and asked, "Hasn't the bereaved love gotten up yet?" ”

Liu Ru shook his head and said, "The Chen family was picked up last night, and it is natural for the young couple to get up later when they first meet!" ”

"Do you want to be an official with such a slack look? What a rebel! ”

Liu Ru saw that Qian Qianyi was angry, and quickly changed the topic: "Master, the weather is cold, the two deerskin leggings made for you by the concubine are suitable!" ”

Qian Qianyi nodded and said: "This morning is in Fengtianmen, fortunately, Mrs. made a legging, Mrs. bothered!" ”

Liu Ru took a stove from Yahuan's hand and stuffed it into Qian Qianyi's hand: "Master, when the early dynasty was in Mao, there is still more than an hour now, you can hold this hand stove to warm your hands!" ”

"What am I doing with a hand stove as an official, don't take it!"

"Master, if you don't take it out in the sedan chair, it's done!"

Qian Qianyi had no choice but to hold the hand stove.

At this time, the housekeeper outside the door came in and said, "Old lady, the official sedan chair is ready!" ”

Qian Qianyi nodded and went out surrounded by his family, and just as he was about to get on the sedan chair, he saw Qian Yiai coming out to see him off in disheveled clothes, and he didn't wake up yet.

Seeing his son like this, Qian Qianyi was angry: "Hmph! Look at you like this, as a Beijing official, you will also go to participate in the early dynasty after tomorrow, what kind of system is this! ”

was taught by Lao Tzu that Qian Yiai didn't dare to speak, so he only bowed his head and didn't know anything.

Qian Qianyi ignored his son and got on his eight-carrying green sedan chair to go to the court.

Qian Qianyi's family lives by the Mochou Lake outside the West Gate, and the city gate has not been opened yet, but who is Old Qian, the city gate official guarding the gate saw the lantern of the Qian Mansion from a distance and quickly opened the city gate.

There are a lot of travel rules for officials in the Ming Dynasty, and the officers in front of the official sedan chair resist two "avoidance" and "quiet" signs, shouting in front of them while walking, and the number of gongs represents the level of the official position. When the county official travels, he rings the gong seven times, which is called "playing seven gongs"; Provincial officials travel, gongs sounded nine times; Admirals and governors travel, and sound the gong eleven times; When an old man like Qian Qianyi travels, he has to play thirteen gongs.

The gong is not bad at all, and it cannot be struck randomly. Therefore, when the people heard a few gongs, they knew that it was a few officials who were traveling today. Hearing the sound of gongs, people along the way will consciously back down or kneel down to greet them. If you can't retreat and collide with the guard of honor, you will despise the imperial court, and you will be beaten at least and beheaded at worst. Even among officials, this is no exception. The official travels in a sedan chair, and when he encounters a high official on the road, he must stop and avoid the roadside, and he himself has to kneel in front of the sedan chair of the superior, and wait for the sedan chair of the senior to pass before he can re-enter the road. This is called the "sedan car avoidance system". And the emperor Zhu Hongsan of this dynasty, in order to buy the hearts of the officials, stipulated that the vassal king should avoid the sedan chair when he saw the old man.

Qian Qianyi lives outside the city, and he has to pass through most of Nanjing City, and today is a big rise, so he can naturally meet many officials. Qian Qianyi saw those officials come out of the sedan chair one by one to salute him, and his heart was full of vanity, thinking that this is life.

Qian Qianyi had gathered a lot of people here before he came to the noon gate, Qian Qianyi got off the sedan chair and came to his place, and greeted several colleagues such as Tong Yangjia and Fu Wenlong.

Qian Qianyi looked around and Ma Mingyuan didn't come, and asked Tong Yangjia, "Why hasn't Ma Ge arrived yet?" ”

Tong Yangjia snorted and said, "The family is now the first assistant, so naturally he will be the last!" ”

As soon as Tong Yangjia's voice fell, he saw that the official sedan chair of Mafu in the distance had arrived, and the tall Ma Mingyuan got out of the sedan chair, greeting his colleagues around him with a red face.

In the Ming Dynasty, the time of the previous dynasty was the time of Mao, that is, when the sky had just dawned. At this time, the noon gate was wide open, and hundreds of officials entered the court through the noon gate. There are five doors at noon, friends who have been to noon gate should know that noon gate is known as the first three and five after the noon, from the front it seems that there are only three doors, in fact, there are two left and right doors that are not easy to be found. Among them, the middle gate is the imperial road, only the emperor can enter and exit from here, and the left and right sides of the royal road are for the generals on duty, school captains and other guards to enter and exit. The civil and military officials entered through the left and right doors respectively. The name of the building on the noon gate "Wufeng" set up bells and drums, which were controlled by eunuchs. In the early days, it was stipulated that the third drum was beaten upstairs. Open the second gate, and the official and military flag schools will enter the column first. After the bell is ringed, the civil and military officials lined up enter through the left and right doors.

After the civil and military officials enter the noon gate, they should first stand in line according to the grade in the south of the Jinshui Bridge, wait for the whip to sound, cross the bridge in order, and come to the front of the Dan Majesty of Fengtianmen, at this time, the civil officials are on the left, the military attaches are on the right, and the two teams stand opposite each other, standing on both sides of the royal road. Wait for the emperor to arrive. Today, because the Fengtian Hall has not been repaired, the emperor's seat can only be located in the middle of the Fengtian porch, which is called the Golden Platform. Wait for the music to start, the emperor sits at the royal gate, and then sound the whip at this time, Honglu Temple sings "into the class" left and right two classes into the royal road, and performs a bow and three kowtow etiquette. After that, it was time for the recital.

Zhu Hongsan knew that he was going to get up today, so he slept very early last night, and now he is in good spirits, and now that the spring is cold, he can't be sleepy if he wants to. Zhu Hongsan is standing next to the crown prince Zhu Hai, and this kind of big rise as the prince of the country naturally has to stand by the emperor's side.

Zhu Hongsan came to the throne and looked at the hundreds of civil and military officials under the steps. The Great Qi stipulates that as long as all officials above the seventh rank in Beijing are required to participate, in the past, there were nearly 2,000 people at the most in Beijing, which was really huge. However, now that Zhu Hongsan has just occupied Nanjing, there are not so many officials under his command, so there are only more than 300 people present today.

In fact, this kind of large-scale early dynasty is just a formality, and this kind of meeting of hundreds or thousands of people can discuss what national policy can be discussed. The main policies have been discussed by the emperor and the cabinet a few days ago, and today they are just going through the motions.

But it's precisely because it's a form that you have to pretend. Zhu Hongsan said "scream"! On behalf of the beginning of the court meeting, there are naturally small eunuchs with loud voices below to convey the emperor's meaning. And if the minister wants to have an opinion, he must first cough, and then go out of class to say it, and the little eunuch will pass it on to the emperor one by one.

Zhu Hongsan also hated this kind of slow work efficiency, but there was no way, these were all determined by Zhu Yuanzhang, and if he didn't abide by it, he would be unfilial.

Zhu Hongsan couldn't wait for this form to be done in one step, but at this time, someone came out to play the book.

It was Tong Yangjia, the deputy assistant of the cabinet, who stood up.

Tong Yangjia came out of the class and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, since you are preparing for peace talks with the Manchus, the minister is in charge of the military, and the minister will promote one person to serve as the main envoy of the peace talks!" ”

Tong Yangjia is a well-known main battle faction, and it is really a shame to stand up for the peace talks today.

Ma Mingyuan didn't expect Tong Yangjia to stand up first, he was going to protect his own people, and this kind of credit could be taken away by Tong Yangjia.

Ma Mingyuan was also not polite, and said out of class: "Your Majesty, the minister will raise Jiang Wenyun of the Ministry of Rites to serve as the chief envoy of the peace talks!" ”

Jiang Wenyun is an official of the Ministry of Rites, plus he is a ten-year jinshi of Chongzhen, and he is the same year as Ma Mingyuan, so it is reasonable to promote him. And Ma Mingyuan had already discussed with the emperor, and had already decided that this Jiang Wenyun would be the servant of the Ministry of Rites and the chief envoy of the peace talks, so he would have thought of jumping out of Tong Yangjia to disrupt his plan.

Zhu Hongsan thought about it, so it was better to listen to what Tong Yangjia said.

"Mr. Tong, who are you protecting?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister will raise the political envoy Tong Tuchang of Fujian!"

When Ma Mingyuan heard that Tong Yangjia was raising his nephew, he was so angry that he sneered: "Lord Tong, you are really virtuous and don't avoid relatives!" Why don't you just recommend yourself to sponsor yourself? ”

Tong Yangjia said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Yuan Fu, it is true that Tong Tuchang is the nephew of the minister, but he has made miraculous achievements in Fujian to rebel against Li Chengdong, and I believe that he will be able to successfully complete the task assigned by His Majesty the Emperor!" ”