The Ministry of Rites directly arranged for Western missionaries to enter the palace to meet the emperor, which naturally caused some controversy among the government and the opposition, and many imperial historians and officials impeached Xu Guangqi for bewitching the emperor, abusing Westerners in the Qin Tianjian in an attempt to revise the Ming calendar, and so on. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, there are also some twists and turns, such as the impeachment of Sun Yuanhua and Mao Yuanyi, who used Western priests in the Gunpowder Bureau, the Ordnance Bureau, and the Jiangwutang.

Of course, there are also many officials who have written to attack Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao and others, as Confucian disciples, who believe in Western Jesuits.

Regarding these bullets, Zhu Daming explicitly told the cabinet to refute them. Of course, Zhu Daming's summoning of foreign missionaries in the palace soon became unnoticed, because the ceremony of changing the yuan in the first year of Chongzhen finally came.

On the New Year's Day of the first year of Chongzhen, the sun has not yet risen to the top of the Emperor's Palace, but the sky has already brightened. Although the weather is still cold, the atmosphere in the square in front of the Imperial Palace in the palace is very warm, the Han generals of the Jinyi Guard Gong Wei Division are wearing brand-new red bullfighting costumes, energetic and majestic Standing on the royal road from the Huangji Gate to the Huangji Palace twice, everyone's face is also beaming, with a kind of pride that can not be concealed.

Today's Gongwei Division is not the Yiluan Division of the past, the emperor Luan's driving, chariots and horses, honor guards and other cumbersome affairs, are respectively attributed to the Guanglu Division, Taifu Temple, Honglu Temple, and managed by the Ministry of Rites and the Department of Ceremonies. The duty of the Gong Guard Division is to protect the emperor's safety, and of course the personnel have changed a lot.

After the purge of Jinyiwei inside and outside the Beijing Division, there was a lack of officials at the level of thousands of households and hundreds of households everywhere, and as the emperor's hero to clear Wei Zhongxian's party, all the original Yiluan Division personnel who followed Wang Guoxing to participate in the White Tiger Hall incident were all reused, and other personnel who participated in the Jinyiwei purge in the later period were also promoted one by one and placed in important positions in various Jinyiwei institutions in the two capitals and thirteen provinces. At that time, there were more than 600 "human stakes" who could not see a way out, but now they are all naturally soaring.

In the case that no one is available, Gong Yonggu, Gao Shiming, Wang Guoxing, Gao Wencai and others, of course, give priority to the old man of the original Yiluan Division, and more than 400 people were assigned to serve, thus firmly controlling the Jinyi Guards all over the world, and the rest have become the middle-level officials of the Gongwei Division today.

The fact that the seniors can go out to serve is also a great incentive for the current Gongwei personnel, and they can also have a good way out in the future. In addition, the treatment of the Gong Wei Division is not what it used to be, the emperor has rewards for three days, and the monthly salary is also twice that of the other personnel of the Jinyi Guard, so what is there to be dissatisfied with. Therefore, everyone is upright and energetic, plus the personnel selected later are also selected from the Jinyi guards after the Great Purge, all of them are majestic and majestic, and their appearance is dignified, leaving a new impression on the Beijing officials, courtiers, princes and nobles who came to participate in the palace of the Yuan Dynasty.

These days, the busiest thing in the court is Xu Guangqi, a scholar of the Zhongji Hall and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, who not only has to face the various impeachments of the government and the opposition for his introduction of Western missionaries to the emperor, but also for the reform of the Huangji Palace, as well as the affairs of the emperor's sacrifice to the heaven and earth Sheji and the Taimiao.

In the early stage, Zhou Yanru was in charge of the waiter, but now the courtiers are staring at him to find faults, so he has to be careful to avoid chaos. Fortunately, these things have been prepared for a long time, and they are now well prepared. At the end of the day, the ceremony will officially begin, and now it is time to do the final check-up.

Xu Guangqi took Zhou Yanru and other officials of the Ministry of Rites, as well as the chief officials of Guanglu Temple, Honglu Temple, Taifu Temple and other officials, to take a walk inside and outside the hall, while constantly explaining something.

When everything was ready, the cabinet ministers, under the guidance of Cao Huachun, the eunuch who was in charge of the celebrant seal, went to the Qianqing Palace to ask the emperor to move to the imperial palace.

Surrounded by various ceremonial and ceremonial guards, Zhu Daming finally came to the Huangji Palace. Wait until the emperor wearing a purple gold flat crown and a bright yellow dragon robe and dress is seated, and the ministers standing inside and outside the imperial palace collectively pay homage and perform three kneels and nine bows. Then Cao Huachun read out the holy decree of the arrival of the first year of Chongzhen.

From now on, the Ming Dynasty and the land of China under its rule, even if it is a complete farewell to the name of the Apocalypse, the history of the Ming Dynasty has entered the Chongzhen period, 1628 AD, is the first year of Chongzhen.

Listening to the opening of the Chongzhen era name, Zhu Daming's heart was naturally mixed, with excitement, expectation, worry, and fear. In later generations, this era name has placed too many complex emotions, and what has been left in history is basically the imprint of natural disasters, man-made disasters, wars and humiliation.

Zhu Daming secretly resolved that he would never let this era name become a shameful memory for future generations of Chinese, as it was in history; on the contrary, he would make the period represented by this era name the most glorious period of history of the Chinese nation.

Cao Huachun read out the holy decree of reforming the yuan, which was completely four or six sentences, full of flowers, and neat battles, and the ministers then knelt down and continued to shout long live. Then there was Li Guohao, a scholar of the Imperial Palace and the first assistant of the cabinet, who read out the holy decree of amnesty to the world, and the heinous crimes such as non-conspiracy and rebellion were all reduced or exempted, and some areas that suffered from floods, droughts, and locusts were also exempted from money and grain, and the emperor and the cabinet allocated silver for relief.

Of course, the convicts who were convicted because of the eunuch case were pardoned but not pardoned, and it was not within the scope of this amnesty. After the ministers shouted long live, Xu Guangqi, a scholar of the Zhongji Temple and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, stood up and read out the holy decree of the first year of Chongzhen, and the imperial court opened the holy decree of Enke, the content of the holy decree was of course approved by the emperor, and this time Enke admitted 500 Jinshi, after Xu Guangqi said it, it immediately caused a sensation, and the ministers inside and outside the Huangji Hall were shocked.

This is something that has never happened before, and of course it can be regarded as an unprecedented grace from the emperor to Lin Rusheng, a corporal in the world. These Wenchen, who have their current status through the Jinshi examination, are of course most concerned about the imperial examination, so as soon as this holy decree is read, the atmosphere inside and outside the hall is even more enthusiastic, and the voices of hundreds of officials and three shouts of long live are also obviously much higher.

The ministers who knelt down inside and outside the hall thought that this was the end. But unexpectedly, Sun Chengzong, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, a scholar of the Ministry of War, and a minister of military aircraft, took possession of it again and read out an even more shocking holy decree.

What is shocking is not to open martial arts, because martial arts have long existed, in the Ming Dynasty, all provinces had martial arts, although many of them are putting on a show, but martial arts is not going to be done once, and now the general soldier of Shanhai Town, Zhao Shujiao, is a martial artist.

The ministers were shocked that the scale of this martial arts move, the Beijing camp, the nine sides, and all the places in the world commanded the envoys, and they all had to participate, and the children of the meritorious heroes, the scholars and the local governors, all had places to recommend them to enter the martial arts hall, and they would be awarded the official after half a year. In the eyes of the courtiers, this is a great grace that has never been seen before.

At this moment, it was not only Wenchen, but the noble and military ministers who had been holding the mentality of watching the excitement also widened their eyes and pricked up their ears, and when Sun Chengzong finished reciting this holy decree, the noble and military ministers immediately shouted long live with Wenchen, and their voices were naturally much louder than before.

The performance of the ministers, Zhu Daming, who was sitting high on the throne, of course also saw all this. But the world is bustling, all for profit, and the world is bustling, all for profit. No profit can not be early, this is the most basic thing in human nature. It is far from enough to simply use Confucian morality and benevolence to require ministers to be loyal to the country, and their interests must be tightly tied to the interests of the imperial court, especially the interests of the royal family, in order to truly drive these courtiers to serve the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Daming sees this very clearly. The Ming Dynasty officials were relatively low, and if they were not given some privileges, it would be difficult to ensure the loyalty of most of them to the imperial court. After several holy decrees were read, the first ceremony of the Yuan Reform Ceremony was over.

Zhu Daming returned to the Zhongji Hall to change clothes and rest, and then under the arrangement of the Ministry of Rites officials such as Cao Huachun and Xu Guangqi, the chief of ceremonies, and under the elite escort of the Great Inner Gong Guard Division and the upper twelve guards distributed in the periphery of the palace city and the imperial city, he drove out of the Forbidden City.

This is the first time Zhu Daming has left the Forbidden City, but he has not gone far. Because the Sheji Altar and the Taimiao are between the palace city and the imperial city, not long after the noon gate, even the imperial city has not come out, and it is to the location of the Taimiao.

The city of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty was boxy, a circle and a circle, the outermost periphery was the outer city, and then the inner city, the inner city was the imperial city, and the imperial city was already the core area of Beijing City, and the Forbidden City and Beihai, Zhonghai and South China Sea were all in the imperial city. The Forbidden City is, of course, the most central part of it. The Taimiao Temple and the Sheji Altar are distributed about twice on the wide royal road between the Chengtian Gate and the Noon Gate.

When the emperor arrives at the Taimiao and Sheji altar, he also has to kneel down and worship, and after worshipping, the ceremonial official reads the prayer and then burns it in a special incinerator.

After all this set of procedures, Zhu Daming also felt exhausted, coupled with the severe cold weather, he originally wanted to go out of the inner city and go to the Temple of Heaven located on the inside of the Yongding Gate in the outer city to worship Zhu Daming, who suddenly had a sense of happiness.

Due to the dissuasion of the celebrant and the Ministry of Rites, as well as the officials in charge of etiquette such as Guanglu Temple, the emperor did not have to go to the Temple of Heaven in person for the matter of changing the yuan, but only needed to send a ceremonial official to congratulate him.

In this way, return to the palace from the Taimiao and Sheji Altar, and then take out a sum of silver, brocade and things made by the inner court, and reward them to the ministers, nobles and royal relatives and other entourage, and the busy day of the Yuan Reform Ceremony is over.

From this day on, Daming ushered in a new first year of Chongzhen, and naturally ushered in a new Chongzhen emperor.

In the months since he came to this era, Zhu Daming has always been hovering in the ambiguity and entanglement of identity, and the soul from later generations will remind him of himself more than 300 years later, but with the end of the Yuan Reform Ceremony, a new Chongzhen Emperor was born, he is Zhu Youzhen of this era, a Chongzhen Emperor with common sense of history for more than 300 years in the future.