In the capital in March, the cold wind during the Xiaoice River period is still bitter. Today's fifteenth, it is a Wangchao court meeting, and the officials in Beijing have to enter the court, and in front of Fengtianmen (renamed Huangjimen after Jiajing, that is, now Taihe Gate), "Songhu Dance", and the order is played. The officials did not dare to slack off, and they were already waiting in front of the palace gate before the time came.

In the Ming Dynasty, every early dynasty, from Zaifu to Jiupin officials, and even miscellaneous duties, they all followed the dynasty day by day, and the head of the door was under the door, and there was no difference between relatives and relatives. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty's court meeting lacked a reasonable distribution of functions, except for the ceremonial "Great Dynasty Meeting" and "Shuo, Wangchao" held in the main hall (Fengtian Palace, later renamed Huangji Palace, that is, now Taihe Palace), all other "large and small public and private matters and ordered the Gong Dynasty (i.e., Fengtianmen Early Dynasty) Chen Song", decided by the Son of Heaven himself, the early dynasty is equal to the "Japanese Dynasty", and the monarchs and ministers have to go to the court every day.

Such changes in the court began after the abolition of Zhongshu Province in the thirteenth year of Hongwu. After Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister, the political affairs were scattered in six departments, no one had a general outline, everything had to be done by asking for orders, and everything came to the court meeting like a tide, and the emperor personally sent it, which can be described as "annoying and sacrificing". Zhu Yuanzhang is most worried about the blinding of his subordinates, now that he is sitting in the court, everything is seen, and everyone is in front of the emperor, he thinks that in this way, he can achieve no "deception".

On the door, "drum three strict", that is, the third drum sounds, open the second door first, put the official military flag school into the column first, hundreds of officials go to line up in front of the door, wait for the bell to open the door and enter. The civil and military forces entered the court in two classes, the text was from the left door, and the military was from the right door. After entering, first in the south of Jinshui Bridge according to the grade order, waiting for the whip, each to cross the bridge in a second, to Feng Tianmen Danqi, the text is the left class (east class), Wu is the right class (west class), on both sides of the royal road to stand in the opposite direction.

The throne is set up in the middle of the upper corridor of Fengtianmen, which is called "Jintai". The bells and drums around His Majesty set up music, and the "Han Generals" were lined up between the doors of His Majesty, all wearing Ming iron armor; On the left and right sides of the royal road and behind the civil and military officer class, there are captains holding swords against each other. Leqi, the emperor's imperial gate, two envoys, one holding the umbrella cover, standing on the seat, one holding the "armament", miscellaneous two fans, standing in the middle of the seat. After the emperor is seated, the whip is sounded again, and the Honglu Temple "sings" into the class, and the left and right classes enter the royal road together, and then arrange the shift. At this time, civil officials "go north to west", and military attaches "go north to east", and perform one bow and three kowtows, which is for the "Taipan". The princes, horses, and uncles formed a class (Xunqi class), and they were in front of the military attache class and left slightly.

After the salute, the official of the Honglu Temple announced the gratitude to the throne and saw the number of resignations, these people had registered in the temple on the day before yesterday, and at this time they performed five bows and three kowtows under the court or outside the noon gate. If there is a sound on the side, "the big one declares the cloth, and the small one has a playbook, which is announced before the early dynasty has not played anything, so Zhang Guowei and Zhao martial arts also." Then, enter the most important part of the early dynasty - the recital. The officials of Honglu Temple sang and played, and each yamen played in a second.

As a rule, before the officials perform the matter, "they all cough in advance, and in the civil and military classes, they all agree, and the sound is like thunder, which is commonly called 'cleaning'." Then "from the end of the class to the front of the royal kneeling, after the end of the reset". The recital does not use spoken language, but reads this chapter aloud, such as Shi Yun "Lu Zhen is extremely smart, and he plays three books at the same time in each dynasty, and recites it like a stream." In addition to the introduction, the officials of the Tongzheng Department and the Honglu Temple sometimes read the recitals on behalf of them, in order to achieve the purpose of "beautiful looks", the incumbents of the yamen should be "beautiful appearances" and "big voices", so there are many people in the north.

When the performance is correct, there are those who have improper etiquette in the train, and the imperial history and the preface class will be impeached. If there is no loss of etiquette, the imperial history, the prelude class bowed and retreated, the official of the Honglu Temple sang and played, the whip was sounded, and after the holy car retreated, the hundred officials also retreated, and each returned to the yamen to do things.

Although there is no "Jieyin on the border" today, Li Sijin, the counselor of the East China Sea Governor's Office, sent an envoy to Ryukyu to canonize the Ryukyu monarch and return to Beijing to restore his life, and at the same time submitted a recital to Liaoning to restore the "Nuer Gandu Command Envoy", as well as hand over the gold transported back to the two countries from Chao Xian and Dongying to compensate for the Ming Dynasty, which is equivalent to the victory of the border side.

"The minister Jin Nuer Hachi Qi played: The minister has to get His Majesty to pull out between the mountains and fields, promise to seal the territory, and is willing to be the forerunner, crusade against the ministers, and restore the slave Gandu command envoy. Now with the blessing of His Majesty, the soldiers have used their lives, fought a hundred battles, and gone through hardships, and finally arrived at Nu'er Gancheng. Although the city is destroyed, the Yongning Temple outside the city does not exist, but the two monuments of "the record of building the Yongning Temple" and the "record of the reconstruction of the Yongning Temple in the eighth year of Xuande" are still there. However, the city of Nuer Gancheng has been destroyed, it is a cold winter, dripping water into ice, all the soldiers can not stay, the main general Xiong Keluo, the deputy general Xiao Bai Tu Wei Tuo two monuments on the text to return. When the army returned, the ministers were overjoyed and eager to report the good news to the saints. Li Shenzheng, the governor of the East China Sea, entered Beijing to restore his life, that is, he composed a chapter and ordered Li to participate in politics to face the holy monarch together. Chen was overjoyed...... "Usually Chen Ju's duck throat is awkward, and everyone doesn't care about it today."

Looking at the gold reparated by the two countries outside the palace, the emperor and the cabinet were full of spirit and a sense of accomplishment. Wanli immediately asked the chamberlain to send two copies of the rubbing to the Taimiao, so that the ancestors and ancestors who were bragging and farting in another plane were also happy.

The garrisons of Nanjing also jointly reported the victory: the Jiangnan Lake bandits, disrupting the Cao Yun and deterring the Beijing division. The officers and soldiers of Nanjing used their lives, although they still went out to suppress the bandits at the time of the New Year, and finally reported the good news. Exterminate the lake bandits xx road, capture a number of bandit leaders, a number of rebels, and those who are beheaded are not counted. Yingtian, Suzhou, Changzhou, Zhenjiang, Songjiang, Ningguo, Taiping Qifu and Guangdezhou have no traces of bandits. The remaining eight prefectures and two prefectures will exterminate the remnants of bandits, which is just around the corner. The ministers petitioned Your Majesty to dispose of the captured bandits.

Wanli was even more happy: Chen Ju is good, and Wang An, who is recommended, can go into battle to kill the enemy. As soon as Wang An arrived in Nanjing, he immediately suppressed the lake bandits near Nanjing. It seems that I am also a good person!

Everyone is happy, but someone comes out to disgust everyone. Rao Shen, director of the Yunnan Department of the Criminal Department, went out to play and impeached Wang Xijue and Wu Shilai: Since Zhang Juzheng's second son, Lian Zhan, has become a common practice for the children of cabinet ministers. went to the township test, and Shuntianfu took the main examination of Huang Hongxian's "Chase Joint", thinking that one fell swoop was not enough, and he actually won the first place in the son of the minister of the private cabinet (Wang Heng, the son of Wang Xijue). If the son does not take the examination, his son-in-law (Li Hong, the son-in-law of Shen Shixing) will be admitted. Those who are profitable, not their sons and their grandchildren. On the day of the retest, there are many people who can't write articles, and they all say that they are flat and hazy to report regardless of the merits and disadvantages. Gao Gui of the Ministry of Rites suspected that there were drawbacks in this, because of the Chinese-style suspicious person, he was attacked by Wang Xijue's protégé, and he was tense and murderous, without the body of a minister. Wang Xijue was reprimanded for three years, loyal and virtuous, and cited traitors. Now he is skillful in protecting his own selfishness and deceiving the king. Wu Shilai attached the right to contempt the law. Please recall them as well.

Xu Xianqing, the right attendant of the ministry, also ran out to second the proposal, adding fuel to the fire.

This side is still theorizing, and the military department over there is also adding to the chaos. The Ministry of War reported: The relief of the victims in the former Yunnan relief area was ineffective, which led to the people's change. In Yongchang, Yunnan, outlaws from Sichuan, Chu, and Guangdong were recruited to suppress them. The armies were arrogant and aggressive for a long time, and then in the first month (it was originally March 16, but now it is advanced. In the name of extorting wages, he staged a mutiny. He set up a banner in the church, killed and plundered the inhabitants, robbed the horses, claimed a reward, and gathered a crowd to break into Yongchang City. Because the city gate is closed and cannot be entered, it is transferred to Yongchang and Dali into the provincial capital. Plundered along the way, and the people suffered were countless.

Wanli has a foot disease and can't sit on the dragon chair for a long time, so he is happy and is about to go back to the harem to rest. Now run out of two groups of people who don't have long eyes, run out of disgusting people and get in the way, Wanli is really angry!

Wanli is still very strategic: where is the imperial history on duty?! It's all a busy city, and I don't care?!

Waiting for the imperial historians to sort out the order, Wanli spoke again: At the time of the Shuntian scientific expedition, the Wang Pavilion Department was fighting in Dongying, how could it be swayed? At a time of chaos and civil turmoil, how can the scholars take the exam with peace of mind? The protégé maintains the teacher, is to respect the teacher, how can there be no minister's body? The discussion between Rao Shen and Xu Xianqing is really absurd and nonsense, and it is not in a proper manner! Go to work and return to your hometown. This Yunnan mutiny, the Mu family had no way to govern, and issued an order to reprimand and strictly order it to be suppressed and exterminated as soon as possible......

For a time, under the prestige of Wanli, all the courtiers were submissive and did not dare to disobey the slightest. Since then, Wanli has become more and more self-righteous and unable to listen to disobedient advice.

The captured lake bandits and rebels were all distributed to Liaoning, and Liaoning successfully gained a large number of people. What the emperor and courtiers didn't know was that in fact, there was a large amount of grain in the compensation of the two countries, all of which was concealed by Liaoning.