Chapter 195: Early Dynasty
The early dynasty on the ninth day of the first lunar month is the Chang dynasty, which is held at the Huangji Gate. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The early Ming Dynasty was divided into three categories, namely the Great Dynasty, the Shuowang Dynasty and the Chang Dynasty.
The Great Dynasty is held on the New Day of each year, the Winter Solstice and the Longevity Festival, the New Day is the first day of the first month, the Longevity Festival is the emperor's birthday, the Great Dynasty is held in the Huangji Palace, which belongs to the ceremonial court, and the Shuowang Dynasty is held on the first and fifteenth day of the month, which is also held in the Huangji Palace, and the hundred officials congratulate the emperor, do not discuss political affairs, and also belong to the ceremonial court.
The really useful is still the Chang Dynasty, which belongs to the court meeting to discuss political affairs.
The Chang Dynasty was held at the Huangji Gate, and all officials in the capital were to participate.
Every official in the capital, including officials who come to the capital to do business from other places, will be issued a tooth card, the prince, the marquis and the earl of the tooth card leader is the word Xun, the horse captain tooth card leader is a pro-word, the civil official tooth card leader is a word, the military attache tooth card leader is a martial character, and the head of the workshop official is a music word.
The most special tooth card is to start with the word palace, the official who holds this kind of tooth card, can enter the inner court to deliberate, in principle, the cabinet minister, the six Shangshu, the left and right imperial history of the Imperial Palace, the six squire, the deputy imperial envoy of the Imperial Palace, the six departments to the matter, other officials above the three grades of the Beijing Yamen, Hanlin Repair, Hanlin Editing and Hanlin Shu Jishi, Zhan Shifu Shao Zhan Shi, left and right concubines, left and right Yude, left and right Zhongyun, left and right Zanshan, left and right Si Zhilang and others, only have such a tooth card, a total of hundreds of people.
These people can participate in the deliberations of the inner court, that is, enter the Qianqing Palace to deliberate.
The Qianqing Palace is the place where the emperor acts as an agent and discusses political affairs in detail with the ministers of the DPRK and China.
The military ministers of the Ming Dynasty do not have a tooth card at the beginning of the palace word, unless there are special circumstances, they will be temporarily issued a tooth card at the beginning of the palace word, and enter the inner court to discuss matters, even if it is a military minister of the first grade, they are not eligible to obtain the tooth card at the beginning of the palace word, which is probably the disparity in status between the civil officials and the military ministers of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the military ministers can not participate in the discussion of national affairs.
When foreign officials leave the capital, the tooth card must be handed over to the Honglu Temple, if it is damaged or lost, it will be punished, and even removed from official positions.
The Jinyi guards in the palace only recognize the tooth card but not the person, even if you are the head of the cabinet and do not have the tooth card, you still can't enter the Forbidden City.
Those who urged officials to participate in the early dynasty on time were registered.
The note is the sign-in book, each yamen in the capital has, the title and name of the official are marked on it, in the early dynasty, the officials will wait at the Chengtianmen, and the officials who participated in the early dynasty will sign on the note according to the situation of entering and exiting, indicating that they participated in the early dynasty on time.
The early dynasty was very hard.
When the civil and military officials are mao, they have to sign in at the Chengtian Gate, pass through the end gate and the noon gate, stand on both sides of the Jinshui Bridge in the noon gate, face the Huangji Gate, wait for the whip, walk across the Jinshui Bridge, and face the emperor on the second floor of the Huangji Gate to bow two and bow six bows.
Then the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs reported the relevant matters, and the emperor immediately made a decision, and then the celebrant prepared the decree.
The emperor's care for a certain minister is to allow him to participate in the early court from time to time, unless there is a major matter, he will specially send a eunuch to notify him to participate in the morning court on a certain day.
However, after the Zhengde period, the form of the early dynasty has undergone major changes, the Chang Dynasty is generally the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs to start the matter, or simply hand over the recital, and wait until the dispersal of the dynasty, the cabinet ministers in the Wenyuan Pavilion to discuss, after having a decision, enter the Qianqing Palace to report to the emperor.
This can save the time of the early pilgrimage, especially in winter, when it is cold and sour, and the time to stand in the open air for nearly two hours is not something that ordinary people can bear, and it is even worse when it is windy and rainy.
One of the words on the head of the tooth plate in Wu Fanhui's hand is palace, which means that he can enter the inner court and participate in the proceedings.
Of course, this does not mean that Wu Fanhui can enter the inner court at any time, he does not have that kind of qualifications, only when the emperor or the cabinet thinks it is necessary, there will be officials from Honglu Temple to lead him into the inner court and participate in the deliberations.
At three o'clock, Wu Fanhui came to Chengtianmen.
He wore a very thick dress, and he scolded people in his heart all the way, such an early dynasty, isn't it tossing people, icy and snowy, and he has to go to the Huangji Gate to participate in the early dynasty, at least he has to stand outside the Huangji Gate for more than an hour, frozen like a pig and a dog, if he is not in good health, he may freeze.
When entering the noon gate, there were already officials waiting for Honglu Temple, and they led many officials to stand in their respective designated areas, waiting for the arrival of the emperor.
The whirring north blew Wu Fanhui's face cold, and he couldn't help but shrink his neck, rub his hands to cover his face, and keep stomping his feet.
In fact, the vast majority of officials do this action, and the emperor will arrive in a while, standing in place and waiting, I am afraid that he will really freeze.
There were many officials who participated in the early dynasty, and Wu Fanhui couldn't notice anyone else, but he still saw Chen Yutai and Wu Weiye, the editors of Hanlin, as well as Zhang Pu, a scholar of Hanlin Shuji.
There is no contact between them, the poetry meeting before the test is their first contact, and the impression of each other is not very good, Wu Fanhui later went home to go on a blind date, and he was not on duty in the Hanlin Academy, so naturally there was no contact.
Since they are colleagues, the face of each other still has to be maintained, after seeing these people, Wu Fanhui is greeting each other with fists, it is during the Spring Festival, mutual greetings should also be done.
Yesterday, Wu Fanhui went to the Hanlin Academy to order Mao and learned a news, that is, because he left the capital and returned to his hometown to go on a blind date, the responsibility of Wenyuan Pavilion fell on Chen Yutai's head, Chen Yutai is the eye of the palace test, and it is normal to enter Wenyuan Pavilion on duty.
After all, he Wu Fanhui has already been on duty in the Hanlin Academy, and he doesn't know how to arrange this matter of Wenyuan Pavilion on duty.
Wu Fanhui also secretly learned about this matter, although he said that he had not yet been engaged to the Hanlin Cultivator, but there was no need to be so anxious, he would return to his hometown to go on a blind date when he was just enshrined as the Hanlin Cultivator, and he could wait for a while.
Wu Fanhui, who crossed through, was not so simple, he knew that there was a mystery in it.
It's just that he could have gone to the Hanlin Academy on the twentieth day of the first month, why did the officials issue a special edict, asking him Wu Fanhui to participate in the early dynasty on the ninth day of the first month, Wu Fanhui has not yet figured out the reason.
At three o'clock, the crisp sound of the whip sounded.
Many civil and military ministers have long been on their feet, with Wenchen standing on the left and Wuchen standing on the right.
With the end of the whip, Wenchen walked through the two Jinshui bridges on the left according to the rank, and the Wuchen walked through the two Jinshui bridges on the right according to the rank, and the bridge in the middle was absolutely not allowed to walk, which was exclusive to the emperor.
Wu Fanhui naturally walked on the Jinshui Bridge on the far left, he was only from the sixth-grade rank, and the slightly wider bridge next to it was only able to walk on the third-grade and above officials.
Most of the civil servants were below the third grade, so the bridge on the far left was still a little crowded.
Finally, the officials of Honglu Temple began to chant loudly words such as "The emperor has arrived" and "Hundred officials kneel and bow".
The black-pressed crowd suddenly all knelt down in front of the Imperial Gate.
The emperor has appeared on the golden platform on the second floor of the Huangji Gate.
Looking down from the top, the emperor can easily see every minister clearly, but the civil and military officials below are not so easy to see the emperor.
After the two kneeling and six prostrations, the emperor's voice came clearly.
"Zhongqing is flat."
When he stood up, Wu Fanhui felt that his knees were a little cold, in the winter, no matter how thick he was, kneeling on the cold ground, the cold would penetrate the cotton pants, Wu Fanhui lowered his head at this moment, he didn't have any twists and turns, he just went to the Hanlin Academy yesterday, and there was nothing to play at all, besides, his eyes were black, he didn't know anything, and there was nothing to play.
The officials of Honglu Temple began to sing loudly again: "Something to start, nothing to retreat... ”
Zhou Yanru, the first assistant to the cabinet, who stood at the front, was the first to come out and start talking.
According to the rules, if something is played, Zhou Yanru needs to open the recital, read it again, and then wait for the emperor's will.
However, this rule has long been changed, and Zhou Yanru's recital is collected by the Zhongshu Sheren, and there is no need to read it out on the spot.
Then the cabinet deputy assistant Wen Tiren came out and also said that something was going on.
One after another, more than a dozen people stood up, and after reporting their official positions and names, they started to say something.
Among them, there are Bi Ziyan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Xiong Mingyu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and the six departments of the matter, as well as the supervision of the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Finally, no one was on the stage.
The emperor's voice sounded again.
"Qing and the others still have something to do."
No one spoke.
The officials of Honglu Temple began to sing, first the emperor drove back to the palace, and then the hundred officials retired from the court.
When walking towards the outside of the Forbidden City, Wu Fanhui's face had no expression, this is the early dynasty, what is the need, if anyone has something, the ground will not be over, where is the need for all the officials in the capital to run to the Forbidden City bitterly, kneel down to worship the emperor, and then pretend to be dumb, or play soy sauce.
At this time, it was already a moment in the morning, and Wu Fanhui needed to go to the Hanlin Academy to be on duty, and he would not go home until Shen Shi was resting in the afternoon.
The days to come will be repeated.
This made Wu Fanhui a little confused, today's morning dynasty gave him a blow to the head, it turned out that the life of the Beijing official was not easy, although this early dynasty was once every three days, and it was ten times a month, but these ten times were really difficult, every time I couldn't sleep well, spring, summer and autumn were okay to say, and winter was bitter.
When he entered the public house, Wu Fanhui's head was a little dizzy, and he still got up too early.
The Hanlin classics still came, and Wu Fanhui asked the classics to bring him the recitals and documents of January last year to him once, and in the future, he would bring them according to the month until he finished reading them.
This is the process of learning, and it is also the process of getting acquainted with the Ming Dynasty accurately.