Time passed day by day, entering 1628, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military according to the ancestral system and calendar, this year was changed to the first year of Chongzhen! On the first day of the new year, every household in the capital will set off firecrackers to add joy to the festival and welcome the new year! Worship ancestors, worship gods and Buddhas, and pray for good luck and family safety in the coming year! And on this day, Chongzhen led the hundred officials to hold a cumbersome ceremony in the palace in accordance with the ancestral system, and he himself was going to collapse, as follows: the day has just dawned, the ceremony officially begins---- drum is the beginning of the drum (also known as the head drum, marking the beginning of the ceremony), by a Jiaofang Temple musician to beat the big drum on the side of Fengxianmen, first hit the drum frame, and then use the double air to continuously beat the drum heart, a heavy beat and a light beat, the rhythm from slow to fast and then from fast to slow, the drum from weak to strong, and then from strong to weak, Then another musician of the temple struck the big bell on the side of the Fengxian Gate. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Hearing the drums, the hundred officials in formal court clothes began to line up outside the noon gate;

The drum is strict (also known as the two-way drum), the method is the same as the initial strict drum, but at this time, the drum frame is beaten, changed to two sounds, indicating that the drum is strict, the second time to notify the participants in the ceremony to be solemn, and the continuous beating of the drum heart is also changed to two times, and finally the bell rings twice to end. Hearing how strict the drum was, the hundred officials entered the door from the left and right, came to the east and west of Danqi, and stood solemnly towards the north;

The drum is three strict, and the drumming, bell, and head and tail are all changed to three rings. Hearing the drum three strict, the deacon came to the Huagai Hall (now the Zhongji Hall), where the emperor had already put on a dragon crown and sat on the throne of the main hall. The deacons bowed to the emperor five times, and after kowtowing, they invited the emperor to the main hall (Fengtian Temple).

The emperor set off, and the band began to play "neutralizing music". Shang Baosi officials walked in front of the emperor with the emperor's imperial seal in their hands, and the guide officer served as the lead.

When the emperor came to the Fengtian Palace, the fan that had been placed here was opened, the bead curtain was rolled up, and the officials of the Shangbao Division placed the imperial seal on the treasure case that had been set up in advance on the east side of the throne.

At this time, the four pre-arranged whippers began to sound the whip and shouted to the praise officials: "Arrange shifts!" The hundred officials standing in the Danqi thing should immediately arrange themselves in a neat formation.

The salute officials shouted: "Bow! The band began to play the big music (shao music). The hundred officials bowed four times to the emperor sitting on the throne of the main hall to the north, and after the officials got up, the ceremonial officer shouted: "Enter the table!" ”。 Two people came to the front of the copywriter, and the officials of the preface class were guided to hold the "table" (the emperor's written speech to the whole country at the beginning of the new year, equivalent to the New Year's speech made by the current head of state) from the east gate and placed in the main hall.

The officials shouted: "Xuanbiao! ”。 At this time, the official should kneel down and prostrate on the ground and wait for the "declaration". The watch official took the watch, and the watch official came to the bead curtain in front of the emperor's throne, read the "watch" aloud, and the hundred officials knelt to listen to the "watch".

At the end of the announcement, the ministers inside and outside the hall collectively bowed down, and the mountain shouted long live.

After that, the preface officials moved the "table" to the east side of the main hall, and the officials shouted: "All the officials kneel!" On behalf of the hundred officials, the "acting speech officer" who congratulated the emperor knelt in the middle of the Dan Majesty and addressed the emperor: "Gu Guanchen is a certain official, I meet Zhengdan, Sanyang Kaitai, and everything is salty and new." His Majesty the Emperor Gongwei, Yingqian Nahu, Fengtian Yongchang. After saying this, the officers got up. At this time, the Jiaofang Division Band played the big music (Shao music) again, and the hundred officials bowed to the emperor four times before getting up.

The music stops. The herald knelt in front of the emperor and asked the emperor for his will (the emperor's will had already been prepared, it was just a formality), and then the herald came out of the east gate of the main hall, came to His Majesty Dan, stood facing east, and shouted: "The emperor has a will!" (systematic). The celebrant shouted, "Kneel! The hundred officials knelt down again, and the official read the emperor's will aloud: "The celebration of the end of the performance is the same as the Qing." ”

The celebrant shouted, "Raise the mountain! Baiguan knelt down and raised his hands above his head and shouted "Long live"! The salute officer shouted again: "Shan Huh! The hundred officials shouted "Long live" again! The salute officer shouted again: "Again the mountain! "Hundreds of officials shouted "Long live" again! When Baiguanshan shouted "Long live", all the people present must echo in unison. That momentum can be described as shaking the earth!

After that, after a series of tedious ceremonies, the emperor can get up and return to the Huagai Palace, and the hundred officials can leave accordingly. This set of rituals takes more than two hours to toss. Both the emperor and the officials, including the staff and soldiers who participated in the ceremony, were tired enough. A lot of people stay up all night.

What made Chongzhen even more devastated was that he had to hold his family's "private sacrifice" before accepting the congratulations of the hundred officials, that is, to sacrifice his ancestors with family rituals. Generally speaking, as long as the emperor did not go on a personal expedition, went on a tour, or was seriously unwell, he had to personally go to the Fengxian Hall and Fengci Hall located in the palace to pay respects to his ancestors, and then go to the palace where his grandmother and mother (including the mother-in-law, including the biological mother, and there is no such ceremony if they are no longer alive).

After the ceremony, the hundred officials got a 5-day vacation, and Chongzhen originally wanted to invite the ministers to dinner, but everyone tossed enough, so they were exempted, and they went back to rest, Chongzhen lay on the dragon chair and didn't want to move, and said in his heart: "It's really tired!" In order to show that he followed the ancestral system, he came according to the rituals of the Taizu period, and the result was enough to toss, and he knew that he should learn from his brother, and he could be simple and simple. ”

Looking at the music on the desk, Chongzhen still smiled with relief, this Yang He is good, the work of appeasing the displaced people is in place, and the situation of the displaced people is much better than at the beginning, such as Shen Yikui, Wang Zuogui, Wang Jiayin, Red Wolf, Little Red Wolf, Lighting the Lamp, Passing the Sky, One-headed Tiger...... and so on, all surrendered, but then they were all served to a pot by Hong Chengchou on the grounds of borrowing a banquet! Wipe them all out! For this reason, Yang He also quarreled with Hong Chengchou, and finally ended in Yang He's failure, the reason is very simple, the imperial court does not have so much silver taels and grain to appease these people, this is a fact, Yang He is also powerless, and Hong Chengchou also has the right to arbitrarily Yang He has nothing to do with him! In addition, Hong Chengchou is really as said in history, bullish coaxing, integrating these surrendered rogues and the soldiers who can still fight among the officers and soldiers began to clean up the work, all the way forward, the killing of those rogues is to lose their armor and abandon their armor, and they can't form an army, for a time the murderous reputation of the Hong butcher resounded SX and his army was also called the Hong army by the rogues! As long as the Liukou heard his name, they all fled in despair, at this time, only the Eight Kings (Zhang Xianzhong), Cao Cao (Luo Rucai), Bang Collapse (Liu Guoneng), Lao Huihui (Ma Shouying) These four teams are still fleeing, in order to prevent the Liukou's team from entering other provinces, Yang He listened to Hong Chengchou's suggestion and asked the NX general to take precautions, as for SX Cao Wenzhao when he took office as the governor of Xuanda, he had arrangements for this side, so that his nephew Cao Bianjiao led his more than 1,000 old subordinates to wait at the SX border, Don't underestimate these more than 1,000 people, these more than 1,000 people are the elite of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and then Hong Chengchou also wrote to Chongzhen to say his own arrangements and worries, so after discussing with Sun Chengzong, he sent Sun Chuanting, who had just arrived, to enter the HN to coordinate the army to take precautions at the HN border, so that the scourge of the rogue was limited to SX, and Chongzhen also allocated dozens of tiger squat cannons to Hong Chengchou to support, so that the Hong army was even more powerful, and now the imperial army has basically completed the encirclement of the rogue Kou, and the encirclement can be narrowed when the time is ripe. Destroy the remaining rogues. (Note: Some book friends may ask Li Zicheng?) Because I haven't abolished the post station yet, this guy is still eating an iron rice bowl! Historically, this guy just lost his job and was cuckolded to join the rebel army! This guy won't play for the time being! ）

The above situation Chongzhen is naturally happy, but this war costs money, the army goes out for a day of silver is non-stop expenses, the old Guo of the household department has reported to Chongzhen, the taxes collected by the imperial court deduct the necessary expenses, and the border army has been unable to cope with the military expenses after paying military salaries and officials, and naturally it is only by Chongzhen's internal money that the money is paid, this more than a month of war and the development of new firearms and the new army's live-ammunition training, so that the silver in the internal money flows out like flowing water, and now half of it has gone! Of course, it costs money to fight a war, and it also costs money for disaster relief, although most of the Liukou were wiped out, Yang He still wrote to ask Emperor Chongzhen to transfer food to settle the people, and Yang He collected a poem in the local area for the true situation of SX, and wrote it together on the song, and the poem was written like this:

"Over the years, locusts have been suffering frequently, and the seedlings have not been chewed and eaten for many years.

The price of rice has risen several times, and Li Min is struggling to make a living.

The grass roots and leaves are full of power, and the children are crying to each other.

The kettle is dusty and smoky, and it is difficult to find a meal of porridge for several days.

The government levied grain and the tiger was poor, and the wealthy family demanded debts like wolves.

The poor remnants are still breathing, and the soul is buried in the spring first.

Skeletons are piled up everywhere, and the karma is difficult to pass the hunger level.

Can you not teach the number of people to cry, and the tears will become a little bloodstain?

I advise the rich to give relief together, and Taicang has no grace.

Dry bones are re-taught to regenerate, so that a good thought of heaven and earth can be felt.

Heaven and earth are selfless and bless good people, and good people are virtuous and blessed.

Helping the poor and saving the poor has great merits, and the virtue is rich and prosperous. ”

The person who wrote this poem is a talent, this poem not only writes the true situation of SX, the last few sentences are obviously to let some rich people donate money to help the people, and they also earn public morality, they are people who are self-sympathetic to the people, this Yang He used this poem to show me, the meaning is the same, after understanding. It turned out that this poem was written by a person named Li Yan, and people who know history know that Li Zicheng can achieve something, and this Li Yan has made a great effort, so Chongzhen gave Yang He a will: to avoid the punishment of Li Yan's family because of the implication of the eunuchs, and to summon him to the imperial court. On the other hand, the imperial court will raise grain and grass into Shaanxi as soon as possible, so that he can rest assured! (Let Li Yan appear in advance, isn't it a waste to give such a talent to Li Chuangzi?) ）

On the other hand, a news from Liaodong also made Chongzhen fall into contemplation, because the weather is cold, Mongolia and Houjin's harvest this year is also very bad, it can be said that there is basically no harvest, the Mongolians are fine, mainly grazing, but such weather plants do not grow well, so animal husbandry is also in crisis, so the Mongolian side asked Yuan Keli, the governor of Jiliao, to open the mutual market and sell them grain, but Yuan Keli was worried that if he sold grain to the Mongols, they would indirectly sell it to Houjin, and if he sold it, he would be suspected of indirectly supporting the enemy, so he didn't dare to assert himself, and hurriedly wrote a report to Chongzhen, looking at this recital, Chongzhen sighed, or like history, they had a famine, but the time was also advanced, if it wasn't for Yuan Keli to be in charge now, would this Yuan Chonghuan be like history to resist the decree and sell the grain to Houjin? Chongzhen couldn't help but think blindly. After a pause, without much thought, he put down the recital, and called the existing three cabinets and two household stewards to discuss the matter. I wanted to go to court 5 days later, but the situation was urgent, so I had to do it. Say goodbye to the old and welcome the new! Let's hope this year goes well!