Chapter 448: Wenhua Hall ascends the throne
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Wenhua Hall was built in the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, located in the east of the Concord Gate of the Outer Dynasty, and the Wuying Hall is far away from the east and west, and the back of the main hall is Wenyuan Pavilion.
Because its Wenhua Hall is located in the east of the Forbidden City, it was once used as the prince's "place to see things", according to the five elements, the east belongs to wood, the color is green, indicating the growth of all things, so the Wenhua Hall is the same as the Qingning Palace, the palace roof is covered with green glazed tiles.
According to historical records, the Wenhua Hall was the emperor's palace at the beginning, Tianshun and Chenghua dynasties, and the prince was in charge of the Wenhua Hall before practicing Zuo.
Later, because most of the princes who succeeded to the throne were too young to participate in political affairs, it was still changed to the emperor's palace in the fifteenth year of Jiajing, and then it was the place of the court's feast, and the building was changed to a yellow glazed tile roof.
The main hall of the Wenhua Hall is an I-shaped plane, the front hall is the Wenhua Palace, the south direction, the face is five rooms wide, three rooms are deep, and the yellow glazed tile is on the top of the mountain.
Open six three-crossed six-liner flower sash doors in the bright room, and the second room and the tip are sill windows, and each open four three-cross-six ryophilic flower sash windows.
The east and west gables each open a window, the platform in front of the hall, there is a road leading to the Wenhua Gate.
Every year, in the spring and autumn months, the imperial court will hold a sutra feast in the Wenhua Palace, with scholars, scholars, scholars, capital imperial history, deputy capital imperial history, squire, Hanlin and others as scripture banquet lecturers, explaining the "scriptures" and "books".
The emperor wrote the imperial treatise afterwards, expounded the experience of studying the "Four Books and Five Classics", and after the ceremony, he gave tea and a seat.
It is worth mentioning that the marking of the Ming Dynasty palace examination was also carried out in the Wenhua Palace.
The reason why we want to focus on the Wenhua Hall is because the Wenhua Hall gave birth to a major event that affected the historical trend of the Ming Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Youxiao, the crown prince of Emperor Taichang, ascended the throne here and became the emperor, which opened the curtain of the tragic court party struggle at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and intensified the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
Since it was lunch time at this time, when the Donglin Party was panting and carrying Zhu Youxiao to the Wenhua Palace, several attendants on duty in front of the Wenhua Hall were bored and chatting.
Coming to the steps in front of the Wenhua Palace, Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou beckoned the person carrying the Taishi chair to carefully put it on the ground to let Zhu Youxiao, who was a little pale, come down, and then hugged Zhu Youxiao and went straight to the Wenhua Palace.
After entering the main hall, Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou walked towards the throne in front of the hall with one left and one right, while the rest of the people lined up in the hall according to their status in the officialdom while gasping.
Before the frightened Zhu Youxiao came back to his senses, Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou had already helped him to the throne and made him sit on the throne.
"The ministers knock on the emperor, long live the emperor, long live long live!" Afterwards, Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou both retreated to the front of the hall, stood in front of those Donglin Party officials, and led everyone to kneel down and salute Zhu Youxiao solemnly.
"Your Majesty?"
Zhu Youxiao was slightly stunned when he heard this, subconsciously glanced at the throne he was sitting on, looked startled, and stood up suddenly.
Although Zhu Youxiao is the prince, he is only a prince without being crowned, and the twenty-seven days of the Taichang Emperor's mourning period has not yet passed, if he claims to be the emperor, it is neither in accordance with the etiquette system nor filial piety.
"Your Majesty, now that the imperial power is in danger, please ask the emperor to ascend the throne to settle the world and maintain orthodoxy!" Yang Lian raised his head when he heard this, and said in a serious voice.
"Please ask the emperor to ascend the throne to calm the world and maintain orthodoxy!" When the rest of the people heard this, they echoed it and pleaded in unison.
"Now that the four seas are peaceful, where is the imperial power in danger?" Knowing that the reason why Yang Lian and the others took him out of the harem was to allow him to succeed to the throne, Zhu Youxiao's state of mind was calmed down a lot at this time, and after stabilizing his mind, he asked Yang Lian with a slight frown.
"Your Majesty, Taizu has long been customized, in order to maintain the stability of the imperial power, the harem and relatives are strictly ordered to interfere in politics, and now the Empress Dowager Li takes advantage of the emperor's youth to monopolize the government and endanger the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty.
Yang Lian had already prepared, and after hearing this, he looked at Zhu Youxiao with a serious expression, and said impassionedly, "Your Majesty, the ministers and others are loyal to the sun and the moon, and the ministers know that they have offended the emperor's majesty, so they ask the emperor to give death to set an example!" ”
Saying that, Yang Lian touched his head to the ground and asked Zhu Youxiao to punish him, he was ready to lose his head before doing this, so he can now calmly die.
"Please give the emperor death!" At this time, Zuo Guangdou and the others in the main hall also put their foreheads on the cold floor one after another, and pleaded guilty to Zhu Youxiao in unison.
As Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and the others knelt there and touched their heads to the ground to plead guilty, the hall suddenly became quiet, and the atmosphere seemed a little weird.
Outside the gate of the hall, the few attendants who had chatted before looked at the scene in the hall in a daze, no one would have thought that the people of the Donglin Party would support Zhu Youxiao to succeed here, let alone that they would come at Empress Li.
Because Yang Lian called Zhu Youxiao the emperor, he called Empress Li "Empress Dowager Li", where did these chamberlains think that they were fortunate to see the scene of the change of dynasty in the Ming Dynasty.
Looking at the Donglin Party people kneeling on the main hall, the corners of Zhu Youxiao's mouth suddenly showed a wry smile, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others snatched him out of the Qianqing Palace in order to make him ascend the throne, how could he punish these ministers who supported him?
"Rise up, all my lords!"
After sighing, Zhu Youxiao lifted the void with one hand, and said helplessly to the Donglin Party members kneeling there.
The Donglin Party has exhausted its elite this time, and many people are in important positions, how could Zhu Youxiao kill them, and how would the affairs of the DPRK and China still work?
Therefore, it is impossible for Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others to get any punishment for their plea this time, and denying their support this time is to question the legitimacy of Zhu Youxiao becoming the Ming Emperor.
"Your Majesty." Hearing this, everyone in the Donglin Party secretly breathed a sigh of relief, stood up one after another, and stood there waiting for Zhu Youxiao's instructions.
"Lord Yang, Lord Zuo, do you have any evidence that the queen mother endangers the imperial power?" After a deep groan, Zhu Youxiao slowly spoke, looked at Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou with a serious expression and asked, he wanted to know the reason why the Donglin Party did this time.
"Your Majesty, since Emperor Daxing ascended the throne, Empress Dowager Li relied on the favor of Emperor Daxing not only to run rampant in the palace, arbitrarily bullying the concubines in the palace, but also making friends with foreign ministers and plotting against him."
Zuo Guangdou heard the words and bowed his hand to Zhu Youxiao, and said solemnly, "When Emperor Daxing was critically ill, Empress Dowager Li, in order to be able to listen to the government in the future, used rhetoric to persuade Emperor Daxing to make him the queen, and when Emperor Daxing's funeral was not over, she couldn't wait to interfere in the government with a central decree and intervened in the appointment of court officials. ”
"The queen mother bullied the concubines in the palace?" Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly when he heard this, although he didn't know if Empress Li interfered in court politics, but her reputation in the palace was not bad, and he had never seen her bully others.
"Your Majesty, Empress Dowager Li is naturally a virtuous queen in front of you."
At this time, a middle-aged official standing behind Zuo Guangdou bowed to Zhu Youxiao and said in a deep voice, "There is one thing that the minister doesn't know whether to talk about or not. ”
"If you have anything to say, you can say it bluntly, this palace forgives you for your innocence!" Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly when he heard this, knowing that the middle-aged official seemed to have something unspeakable, so he looked at him quietly and said.
"Your Majesty, the minister heard rumors in the palace that the reason why Our Lady died young was because she was secretly persecuted by the favored Empress Li and died."
The middle-aged official seemed to have some scruples, and after hesitating for a while, he turned his heart sideways, and said to Zhu Youxiao in a deep voice, "Although Empress Li treats the emperor and the five princes well now, it is because she has no heirs, and once she gives birth to a prince, then the emperor and the five princes are in danger!" ”
"Your Majesty, the reason why I heard that the five princes are killed seems to be related to Queen Li." As soon as the middle-aged official's words fell, an official spoke meaningfully.
Emperor Taichang had a total of seven sons, except for Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen, the remaining five sons all died young, otherwise it would not be Emperor Chongzhen's turn to succeed him.
Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao's brows suddenly furrowed, no matter whether the words of these two Donglin Party officials were chasing the wind or not, they had already touched Zhu Youxiao's heart.
The palace seems to be calm on the surface, but in fact, it is killing step by step and there are many crises, so what the two officials said is not impossible.
Since ancient times, this kind of ambiguous language has been the most lethal because it is somewhere between truth and lie, allowing the listener to make his own judgment and therefore easily influenced by external factors.
Zhu Youxiao's psychology was obviously affected by the remarks of the two officials, and he invisibly had a kind of estrangement towards Empress Li in his heart, because he couldn't judge whether Empress Li had done those things.
"Your Majesty, as far as the ministers know, since Emperor Daxing ascended the throne, the Queen Mother's family has been powerful in the capital, bullying men and women, and the people dare to be angry and dare not speak!"
Just when Zhu Youxiao's heart rippled, another official stood up, holding a book in both hands and said, "This is the real estate, shops and fertile land that the Queen Mother's family has collected from the minister to forcibly seize recently, and the total price has exceeded one million taels, which is really shocking, and the momentum is increasing unabated!" ”
Zhu Youxiao came back to his senses when he heard this, frowned and looked at the piece in the official's hand, the look on his face was extremely complicated, he naturally knew that the official would never wronged Queen Li's family, presumably the piece must be evidence of Empress Li's family's collected property, this thing does not need to be faked, you can know it when you check it.
Seeing this, Yang Lian took the concert from the official's hand, bowed down, and came to Zhu Youxiao with both hands in front of the concerto, and asked Zhu Youxiao to take a look.
Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but secretly smile bitterly, stretched out his hand to take the piece under the gaze of everyone in the hall, and flipped through it with a serious expression after opening it.
Extraordinary, as Zhu Youxiao expected, the above items clearly listed the property obtained by Empress Li's family after Emperor Taichang ascended the throne, and the total price was really more than one million taels of silver.
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