At the same time that the first batch of qualified new soldiers and soldiers of the Zhuozhou New Army Training Camp were being selected one after another, the Deling Project on the periphery of the Tianshou Mountain Imperial Mausoleum District, in Changping, 150 miles north of Zhuozhou, finally passed the acceptance of the Ministry of Rites and the Cabinet in early October. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Tianshou Mountain Mausoleum Project, since the seventh year of the Apocalypse in September, Zhu Youzhen entered the palace and ascended the throne, began to be built.

Historically, because of the shortage of funds, the shortage of precious wood and boulders, the early stage of the mausoleum repair stopped, until the first year of Chongzhen only completed the construction of the underground palace, the cemetery and ancillary buildings on the ground, until the fifth year of Chongzhen in August was all completed.

Zhu Youxiao, the bitter emperor who ascended the throne at the age of fifteen and died at the age of twenty-three, has been in the White Tiger Hall of the Forbidden City after his death, and a few days after the underground palace was completed in March of the first year of Chongzhen, that is, on March 8, Emperor Chongzhen held a funeral for him, transported the coffin to the underground palace of Deling, and then sealed the soil and buried it.

In this life, although Emperor Chongzhen was not as financially embarrassed as in history, the project of Deling was still in accordance with the inertia of history, and the construction of the underground mausoleum was not completed until March.

After the completion of the construction of the underground palace, the two of them, said that the coffin of Emperor Xizong could not be parked in the Forbidden City for a long time, and suggested that the emperor should first bury Emperor Xizong in the underground palace of Deling, and then talk about the buildings above the ground.

In fact, there was a set of rules for when and how to bury an emperor after his death, as the saying goes, the Son of Heaven was buried in seven days and in July. Therefore, the coffin of Emperor Daxing can only be parked in the White Tiger Hall for seven months at most.

Historically, Emperor Chongzhen agreed to a similar suggestion, after all, the coffin of Emperor Daxing was indeed not suitable to stay in the Forbidden City for too long.

But this time, of course, Emperor Chongzhen did not agree, and issued an order to reprimand He Ruzhong and Gao Hongtu, asking them to speed up the construction of Deling, and at the same time sent Zhang Yixian, the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, to supervise the progress of the Deling construction site.

He Ruzhong is a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, who is mainly responsible for various ritual design issues in Deling, and Gao Hongtu, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, is the main person responsible for the entire construction process of Deling, so when Emperor Chongzhen's reprimand, Gao Hongtu was very unhappy.

Especially after Emperor Chongzhen sent Zhang Yixian over to supervise the progress of the mausoleum construction in March, Gao Hongtu soon clashed with Zhang Yixian.

Gao Hongtu, who is a scholar in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli, has always flaunted himself as a saint disciple, boasting of being a clear stream, so as to be the emperor's teacher, that is, he likes to criticize and educate the emperor in books, and he has always been unapologetic to the eunuchs and ministers around the emperor.

Soon after the Emperor of the Apocalypse ascended the throne, Wei Zhongxian came to power, and he opposed Wei Zhongxian together with the Donglin Party. In the spring of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, he was reinstated by Zhu Youxiao and appointed as the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao died, and Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, and then ordered him to be responsible for the construction of Deling together with He Ruzhong, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites.

Historically, Emperor Chongzhen had no money to allocate funds, so the progress of the Deling project was slow, not to mention the stoppage, and the quality was poor, which is understandable.

But now, Emperor Chongzhen has allocated 700,000 taels of silver to Gao Hongtu and others, it stands to reason that whether it is labor or materials, it is no longer a problem, but the Deling project still did not meet Emperor Chongzhen's expectations.

No matter what the reason is, now this Emperor Chongzhen is dissatisfied with He Ruzhong and Gao Hongtu, who are in charge of the Deling project.

As far as he is concerned, as a minister above the court, he must not just talk and not practice, but only play lip service to impeach people and engage in party strife, and once he encounters practical things, he will not be able to do it well or even fail. Don't want such a minister.

Sure enough, after entering April, not long after Zhang Yixian arrived at the Deling construction site, Gao Hongtu clashed with him and wrote to the emperor and said: "The ministers have an office, a central book, and a side waiter, which is the etiquette system of the imperial court." Now, the emperor has sent a minister to supervise the mausoleum, and he is on the minister, isn't this insulting the courtiers and desecrating the national body? ! The minister is the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, and it is used to assist the secretary of the headquarters, not to assist the eunuch ministers! Please ask the emperor to dismiss Zhang Yixian quickly! ”

After receiving Gao Hongtu's dismissal, Emperor Chongzhen was already dissatisfied with the progress of the construction of Deling, so in addition to continuing to order the progress to be accelerated, he did not specifically reply to Gao Hongtu's excerpts.

However, Gao Hongtu, who couldn't wait for the emperor's reply, lost his temper and wrote again to say that he was sick and begged to go, that is, if the emperor did not issue an order to drive away Zhang Yixian, a minister, he was ready to pick a son and quit.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen, who has a good temper now, finally doesn't want to endure it anymore.

The last thing he wanted to see was this kind of stinky temper on some ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor did something that was slightly unsatisfactory, so he would retire from illness at every turn, and quit doing it.

Therefore, Gao Hongtu said that he was sick and resigned from the official to beg to go, and as soon as he arrived in the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Chongzhen quickly approved the word "quasi".

Originally, Gao Hongtu, who was still waiting for the emperor's decree to keep it, and then wrote a letter to ask for it, was a little stunned this time. But since the emperor had approved his resignation, he had nothing else to say, so he had to hand over the affairs he was responsible for, leave his official uniform and official seal, take his family and servants, and return to his hometown in Jiaozhou.

Historically, Gao Hongtu was a few years later, when Emperor Chongzhen completely lost trust in the courtiers, and asked Zhang Yixian to supervise the money and grain affairs of the household department and the Ministry of Industry, he had a conflict with Zhang Yixian and resigned from the government in a fit of will.

At that time, the angry Emperor Chongzhen not only approved his resignation, but also dismissed him from his official status and cut off his scholarly status, and he was not used until the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.

And this time, it was considered to save him enough face, but he just approved his resignation, let him go home to recuperate, and the crown belt was idle.

After getting rid of Gao Hongtu, the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry, according to the proposal of Li Banghua, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry and the Minister of Military Aircraft, Qian Longxi, the left attendant of the Ministry of Industry, replaced Gao Hongtu and continued to be responsible for the construction of the Deling Project.

This Qian Longxi is a Jinshi in the 35th year of Wanli, who served as the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites during the Apocalypse, and was later promoted to the left attendant of the Ministry of Engineering, and was regarded as one of the famous ministers who had the ability to execute government affairs in the late Ming Dynasty.

Historically, he entered the first cabinet of Emperor Chongzhen by drawing lots in the first year of Chongzhen, and he was the second assistant.

You read that right, he became the deputy assistant of the cabinet by drawing lots.

At that time, Emperor Chongzhen had just cleaned up Wei Zhongxian and other eunuch ministers, and many important positions in the court were vacant, and Zhu Youzhen, who was blind to the courtiers, had neither his own optimistic figures, nor did he believe in the recommendations of the ministers.

On the one hand, it can be seen that Emperor Chongzhen was indeed no one in the bag at that time, and on the other hand, it can also be seen that the party struggle in the court at that time was fierce, so that only through this seemingly fair but child's play method can the party dispute be quelled.

After Qian Longxi took office, he soon became a staunch supporter of Yuan Chonghuan in the court, and tried his best to restore Yuan Chonghuan to the emperor to take over as the governor of Liaodong.

Of course, now that Yuan Chonghuan has not gone to Liaodong to take up a post, it is impossible for that kind of thing to happen in history again.

After Qian Longxi was in charge of the Deling project, he was relatively flexible and pragmatic, and he got along well with Zhang Yixian, and the progress of the entire project was suddenly accelerated.

Although because of Gao Hongtu's picking, the progress was delayed for half a month. But because the underground palace has been repaired, and the buildings on the ground have been prepared in advance, by the end of April, the treasure roof on the underground palace has been completed.

In May, the civil works of the Qi'en Hall, which was used to worship the shrine of Xizong and the emperor's wake, and the courtiers' memorials, were also completed, and the painting and painting stage began.

By June, the wings on the left and right sides of the hall had been completed, that is, the buildings that were used to store sacrificial supplies and the temporary rest of the ministers.

In July, the gatehouse and gatehouse of the Qien Gate, as well as the river and the five-hole stone bridge that circled around the Qien Gate, were also completed.

In August, Emperor Xizong's sacred merit monument and stele pavilion cloister and other buildings were completed one after another. Since Emperor Xizong's nickname was agreed upon before, there is no need to bother at this time, and it can be engraved directly on the merit tablet.

The sacred merit tablet of Deling in later generations was destroyed by the Houjin army that broke through the border from Juyong Pass, and the merit tablet rebuilt during the Qianlong period was only engraved with the words of the god seat of Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty, and his name and the text on the back of the stele that recorded the life and merits of the emperor were all gone.

This time, of course, this will not be the case, and everything that belongs to a dead emperor will be there, even if he does not actually have many sacred merits worthy of being remembered by posterity.

By the end of September, the entire Deling Shinto, Ming Tower, Lingmen and other above-ground outbuildings were completed.

Zhang Yixian, Qian Longxi and He Ruzhong, who supervised the completion of the mausoleum at all costs, jointly signed Emperor Chongzhen, asked the cabinet to accept it, and buried Emperor Daxing as soon as possible.

In October, Li Guowei, the first assistant of the cabinet, took the eunuch who was in charge of the seal of the celebrant and the eunuch, Xu Guangqi, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, and Li Banghua, the minister of military machinery, to the construction site of the Deling Tomb of Tianshou Mountain in Changping, inspected all the projects, and at the same time improved several pavilions and pavilions on the spot according to the etiquette practice, and then returned to Beijing and quickly selected the auspicious day for Xizong's funeral, which was set on October 28.

Next, Qian Longxi led a large number of craftsmen and people who built Deling, opened roads in the mountains, built bridges in the water, and renovated the road from Deling to Jingshi on a large scale.

Although today's Emperor Chongzhen does not particularly care about the rules and precepts of the emperor's burial in the ancient tradition, it is better not to have any accidents in the burial process of Emperor Xizong.

For example, the road from Jingshi to Deling should have as few turns as possible, and at the same time, it should be as wide and flat as possible, without bumps, if the coffin has an accident during transportation, then the problem is serious.