Now, after being the son of the Great Tomorrow for a year, Emperor Chongzhen's familiarity with and control of the government has basically been at ease. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Imperial Palace's court meeting has also been changed from the Tiantian Dynasty when he first ascended the throne to the Shuowang Dynasty twice a month.

The Shuowang Dynasty is a tradition with a longer history. Every month, the emperor only held a grand court meeting in Beijing on the first day of the new year and the first day of the new year, that is, on the first day and the fifteenth day of the new year.

Now, Emperor Chongzhen has also revived this ancient tradition, and the Fengwu Dynasty, which had lasted for several months, also gave up.

Regarding the criticism of the Qingliu Imperial History, the current Emperor Chongzhen still adopts an attitude of turning a deaf ear, as long as several important ministers of the Cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department do not object, it is irrelevant.

Of course, the good reputation that the emperor quickly established among the scholars because of the massacre of the eunuchs has now begun to go downhill under the criticism of batches of Qingliu gentlemen.

However, no one in the cabinet and several important ministers of the Military Aircraft Department stood up to oppose it, and as for the reason, Emperor Chongzhen certainly knew it.

People are selfish and self-interested, and the emperor's purpose in holding a grand court meeting is obvious, one of which is to use all the courtiers above the court who are qualified to participate in the court to dilute and balance the power in the hands of the cabinet ministers.

Since the Ming Dynasty, when the emperor was dissatisfied with the cabinet, he would frequently hold court meetings, and by resorting to court discussions, more people would participate in the court's decision-making, thus diluting the weight of the cabinet ministers.

Therefore, the emperor's restoration of the Shuowang Dynasty is not only famous, but also beneficial to the cabinet and the military aircraft department, why should they not do it?

After all, the ministers of the Cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department have been in Wenhua Hall and Wuying Hall and have maintained smooth contact with the emperor.

Therefore, today's Imperial Palace, in addition to some ceremonial and procedural activities that the imperial court needs to carry out in a concerted manner, is to publicly announce the promulgation of some major edicts, personnel appointments and dismissals, and court resolutions, which have become completely formalities.

However, even if the Great Dynasty Meeting has been reduced to a formality, when it is necessary to do it, it is still necessary to do it. Just like those annual conferences held in March every year in the later Red Dynasty, although they did not have much practical significance, they still had to be held when it was time to be held.

The date, procedure and ceremony for the burial of Emperor Daxing, also Emperor Xizong, were set at the Great Imperial Meeting on October 15.

At the end of October 28, that is, at more than three o'clock in the morning, Emperor Chongzhen got up to change his clothes, and then together with the Empress Zhou, Concubine Litian, Concubine Jing Yuan, and Concubine Lan Borzigit, dressed in plain clothes, accompanied by the chief celebrant and the ministers in Beijing, he first went to Zhongcui Palace, and invited Empress Yi'an of Emperor Xizong, and the group walked in the brightly lit Forbidden City, and came to the place where Emperor Daxing stopped, that is, the Renzhi Hall behind the Wuying Palace, commonly known as the White Tiger Palace.

When I arrived, under the guidance of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, who had been waiting here, I went with the cabinet ministers and the ministers of military aircraft to pay a respect, read the memorial text, and then burn it.

The content of the sacrificial text is probably to tell Emperor Xizong that he will be buried today and ask him to rest in peace.

Before the official uprising, except for the emperor himself, everyone else had to cry first.

When it was time for the handover of Yinshi and Maoshi, the emperor led a kind of concubine in the harem and Empress Yi'an to go back to their own residence to rest.

Li Guowei, the first assistant of the cabinet, Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the Ministry of Ceremonies, and Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, commanded the Jinyi Guard and the eunuchs of the inner court to transport the coffin of Emperor Xizong to the chariot outside the noon gate, and then took other Beijing officials and noble military ministers who were waiting outside the noon gate to participate in the court meeting, surrounded the coffin chariot of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and under the escort of the selected soldiers of the three major battalions of the Beijing Division, they went out of the city first and headed for Changping.

Although Jingshi is not far from the Tianshou Mountain Mausoleum in Changping, it is also more than 60 miles away. And along the way, whenever they encounter bridges or curves with large amplitudes, the funeral officials and nobles have to kneel and cry for a while, so it takes a little longer than the normal march.

The four-wheeled chariot that Emperor Xizong had never ridden during his lifetime is now his hearse, with twelve white horses in front of it, followed by noble officials in filial piety clothes and hats.

In this way, the funeral procession for the coffin of the Emperor of the Apocalypse stopped and stopped along the way, and the officials and nobles knelt and knelt under the leadership of Li Guowei, the first assistant of the cabinet, until the sun was about to set, and finally arrived outside the Deling.

Li Guowei took the funeral officials and a large group of people and horses, stopped here, and waited for the emperor to arrive while resting for a while.

Xizong's burial in Deling is a big event. Of course, the current Emperor Chongzhen is coming, firstly, he inherited the throne of Zhu Youxiao, and secondly, Zhu Youxiao's life was short and hard, which is really worthy of pity.

Besides, now that there is a four-wheeled carriage for the emperor, the emperor's travel is no longer as cumbersome and complicated as in the past, and it is good to take the opportunity to go out of the palace to take a look.

After Li Guoxuan, the first assistant of the cabinet, escorted the coffin of Emperor Xizong with a large group of men and horses to leave first, Emperor Chongzhen and other key personnel set off at noon and marched in the direction of Deling. In the evening, more than a dozen carriages carrying the emperor, empress and other harem personnel arrived outside the Deling.

In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor's mausoleum had its own fixed system and rules, and Deling must of course also follow the ancestral system.

Therefore, when Emperor Chongzhen came to the vicinity of Deling, the first thing that caught his eye was a long Shinto, which was also the central axis of the entire Deling.

The Shinto is paved with blue bricks, and on both sides are pairs of stone statues of horses, elephants, camels, mythical beasts, ministers, and military generals.

Further ahead, is a stone archway, called Lingxing Gate, and then inside is the Ming Tower.

The so-called Ming Tower is a stele pavilion, in which there are mythical beasts carrying a huge stone stele.

And this stele is called the Sacred Merit Tablet, or the Divine Merit Monument, and the front reads: Daming Datian Interpretation Dao Dun Filial Piety Friendship Zhang Wen Xiangwu Jingmu Zhuang Qinqi Emperor Divine Merit Monument.

In fact, for the Emperor of the Apocalypse, whether it is the temple name Xizong or the name Emperor Yi, it is not a very good word.

Don't look at the front of a large number of good words, such as what Datian, expounding the Dao, Dunxiao, Duyou, Zhangwen, Xiangwu, Jingmu, Zhuang Qin, etc., but in the end, it is easy to make people have bad associations, and the good meaning of the front is offset.

There is nothing malicious in the word itself, as the old saying goes, "If you don't see it, you don't want to be ashamed." If you look at it this way, the nickname itself is not a bad review.

Perhaps its biggest drawback is that it is too uncommonly used, and it is rarely used as an emperor's nickname, and ordinary people do not know its meaning, and it will only cause bad associations such as absurd short-lived life like the Xi character.

However, this was determined by the cabinet and accepted by Zhu Youzhen shortly after Zhu Youzhen ascended to the pole, so the current Emperor Chongzhen has no need to make a big move to revise it.

And the back of this monument of divine merit and holy virtue is engraved with a brief life, character and meritorious deeds of Emperor Xizong of the Great Ming Dynasty.

Further on, there is an artificial river that must have been there before the emperor's mausoleum, and there is a five-hole stone bridge on it. After crossing the bridge, you will find the Qien Gate, and after the Qien Gate, you will reach the core of the entire Deling Complex.

This core is the Temple of Grace.

In some imperial tombs, the main hall in front of this mausoleum is called Longen Palace.

The main function of this hall is to stop the spirit before the burial, and to perform the sacrifice after the burial.

Since Emperor Xizong's coffin had been suspended in the White Tiger Hall of the Forbidden City for more than a year, there was naturally no need to stop for a few days or months this time.

You Shizheng, Emperor Chongzhen and the accompanying noble ministers, together to invite the spirit. Under the send-off of Emperor Chongzhen, in the cries of Empress Yi'an and other concubines and noble ministers, the coffin of Emperor Xizong was transported into the underground palace of Deling and placed.

That night, everyone stayed in the garden of Deling. The Chongzhen Emperor and his concubines kept vigil until dawn in the Qi'en Hall in front of the mausoleum, and then the ministers worshiped and wept. So these activities until sunrise.

When the sun rose, Chen Shizheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, Li Guoyi, read a memorial text outside the Qi'en Palace, burned it in the incineration furnace, and then led the funeral nobles and ministers to cry again outside the treasure roof in front of the underground palace, and began to close the door and seal the soil for the Deling underground palace.

After the sealing of the soil was completed, the time had already reached the time of Shen in the afternoon, and it was not until this time that the matter of Xizong's burial came to an end.

Next, the accompanying harem, ministers and guards shared the sacrificial food, and then continued to arrange the matter of taking turns to keep the spirit, and the emperor continued to stay in the cemetery of Deling.

It was not until the third day, at noon, that the wake ended, and all the procedures for the burial of Xizong were completed, and a group of eunuchs who had been used by Emperor Xizong during his lifetime were arranged to leave permanent guards, and other nobles, ministers and eunuchs and palace maids could return to Beijing.

Emperor Xizong's empress, Empress Yi'an, Zhang, accompanied by Empress Zhou, and several other concubines, accompanied by Li Guoyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, Zhang Yixian, the eunuch of the ceremonial superintendent, Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Zhang Weixian, the minister of military aircraft, and Gong Yonggu, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and others, successfully returned to Beijing.

Emperor Chongzhen himself, with the ministers of military aircraft Sun Chengzong and Li Banghua, the chief eunuch of the Qianqing Palace Wang Chengen, and the Lan Concubine Hai Lanzhu, who was dressed as an internal attendant, set off to Juyongguan to inspect the defense of western Beijing under the entourage of the Gongwei Division, the Palace Front Division and a group of imperial attendants and military attachés.