Chapter 25: The First Edict of the Son of Heaven

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Zhang Guoji was also shocked by Zhu Changyuan's acting skills, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, this woman is the daughter of the minister, but it is not Empress Xian Yi'an, but the sister of Empress Xian, Zhang Yu." ”

"Yu'er is six years younger than Empress Xian."

"Good!" Zhu Changyuan looked at Zhang Guoji, smiled, and then said to the ministers: "I haven't met with the first queen much, you Aiqing take a closer look, this woman standing in front of you is Queen An?" ”

Zhu Changyuan kicked the big ball directly to the courtiers.

The courtiers all focused their eyes on Zhang Yan's body, and the more they looked at it, the more they looked at it, the more they looked like it.

"This, it seems to be a little different from the first queen, you see, this woman's eyebrows and face are slightly different from the first queen!" Someone below said uncertainly.

"yes!" Another person said: "The skin doesn't seem to be the same, and there is age, this woman seems to be really much younger." ”

"This woman has a sick face, not like Queen Zhang...

"Bold!"

As soon as the official's words were halfway through, he was severely reprimanded by Cao Huachun: "The ministers only need to point out the differences, and they must not be criticized!" ”

Zhu Changyuan nodded, raised his hand to point at Xue Guoguan, and asked, "Xue Aiqing, you see, is this woman different from the first queen?" ”

Xue Guoguan actually looked at it for a long time, and he was not sure, but Zhu Changyuan couldn't help but answer, and said: "The minister thinks that the first queen is still buried with Deling, this woman should be the sister of the first queen, although the appearance of the two is extremely similar, but there are also slight differences, but the minister is a foreign minister after all, and the specific differences cannot be explained!" ”

Zhu Changyuan smiled secretly in his heart: I put on makeup for Zhang Yan thoroughly, and even used the V sculpture that is popular in modern society to partially change the shape of the face, if you can see that Lao Tzu will obey you.

"Zhang Guoji is talking nonsense, you obviously only have one daughter, but you dare to bully the king!"

There are still many people in this world who know Zhang Guoji's family background very clearly, so that person began to stir up trouble again.

Zhang Guoji was prepared. He bowed his hand to the official and said, "Thank you Lord Liu for worrying about the affairs of the minister's family, yes, the old man used to have only one daughter." That's because Yu'er was raised in her uncle's house in Kaifeng Mansion since she was a child, and now she has returned to my family, what's so strange? ”

"Lord Liu!" Zhu Changyuan stood up towards the official, and said with an unhappy face: "Empress Yi'an is dead, and I personally saw her bones sent to Deling. How is there a mistake, this woman is Zhang Yu, not Zhang Yan! ”

The Son of Heaven has become a constitution, and his words are certain!

The courtiers did not dare to quarrel anymore.

"That's her!" Zhu Changyuan stretched out his hand and pointed at Zhang Yu, and said: "Zhang Aiqing has a good family style, and even cultivated two queens for the Ming Dynasty, thanks to Sheji!" ”

"Meet Your Majesty!" Zhang Yu kowtowed to Zhu Changyuan.

Zhu Changyuan personally walked down from the imperial steps, stretched out his hand to help Zhang Yu up, and smiled slightly, extremely warm!

Chen Yuanyuan and Yu Min also got down from their seats. Towards Zhang Yuying, he said in unison: "Meet the queen!" ”

At this point, the queen is elected.

Although the officials are suspicious and very unhappy, what does this matter to Lao Tzu?

Zhu Changyuan was so proud that he laughed!

"Read the edict and canonize the queen!"

Then, Cao Huachun took out the edict that had been prepared long ago and handed it to Zhu Changyuan, Zhu Changyuan only wrote the word "Zhang Yu" in the blank, and Cao Huachun began to read it.

And then. The queen's canonization ceremony began, and hundreds of officials congratulated her.

After almost a day's work, the ceremonial ceremony was finally completed.

Zhu Changyuan's dragon robe and jade belt, Zhang Yu pulling the phoenix crown and Xia curtain. Slowly walking on the path in the palace, all the way to Kunning Palace, but saw a few plum trees blooming at the gate of the palace.

Suddenly remembered that he had heard about the deeds of Chongzhen and Empress Zhou before, pointed to the plum tree and said to Zhang Yan: "Chongzhen promised to give Empress Zhou a plum blossom to fold and insert it in a vase every year, but he did not keep his promise. ”

"I also follow Chongzhen's example today and say to you, every year in the future. I will personally fold a plum blossom and give it to you, even if the hair is full of gray hair, and the children and grandchildren are full! ”

Zhang Yan, oh no, from now on it should be Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu raised his head, a peerless face turned to look at Zhu Changyuan, and looked at him with four eyes, the tenderness in his eyes melted, even more beautiful than this plum blossom tree!

"Smack!" With a crisp sound, Zhu Changyuan had an extra plum in his hand, waved at Zhang Yu, and said, "You want to find a bottle, I'll help you plug it in." ”

Zhang Yu snorted, took Zhu Changyuan's hand like a teenage girl and ran to the palace, found a plum bottle, inserted the plum blossom into the bottle, and then put it on the table.

In addition to the plum blossom she had just put down, there was also a row of thirteen bottles of dried branches on the table, which were left there and no one cleaned them, bringing a sigh to the cheerful Kunning Palace.

When Zhang Yu saw those cadres, he seemed to remember something and said to Zhu Changyuan: "I can't avoid sleeping all night, I hope you can find Brother Hong'er, he doesn't know how much he has suffered outside now." ”

"Don't worry, I'm already looking!" Zhu Changyuan took Zhang Yu's hand and smiled slightly.

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After the enthronement ceremony, Zhu Changyuan successively received congratulatory telegrams from Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others, and at the same time, they also told the imperial court by the way that they had set off according to the emperor's wishes, went abroad, and began an expedition.

Then, the cabinet cooperated with the Ministry of Rites to canonize Princess Lana of Gulun as Concubine Zhuang and his sister-in-law Bian Yujing as Princess Jinling in accordance with Zhu Changyuan's meaning.

These things are just some slightly troublesome etiquette, in the final analysis, it is not a big deal, and the cabinet and hundreds of officials will not object to Zhu Changyuan, and they will not pay too much attention.

What really caught the attention of the cabinet and hundreds of officials was Zhu Changyuan's first edict of the Son of Heaven, but it was a pity that he waited left and right, and he waited for more than ten days and did not wait.

The reason why the first edict is important is that for a new rank of emperor, the first edict can generally reflect the routine of his rule, and it is a programmatic document.

After studying the emperor's first edict, the ministers will have a clear understanding of the emperor's goal and can get close to themselves.

So, the cabinet and the hundred officials are waiting.

After waiting for ten days, Zhu Changyuan finally issued the first edict after the Lantern Festival.

According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, the edict of the Son of Heaven was not directly released to the outside world after it was drafted, but had to be studied and even approved by the cabinet, and then formed into a formal official document after a little polishing.

Sometimes, if the emperor's edict seriously violates the law or some system set by the ancestors, it is likely to be rejected by the cabinet.

After Zhu Changyuan's first edict arrived in the cabinet, everyone in the cabinet rushed to Cao Huachun in a hurry.

"Gong Cao, Your Majesty has an edict?"

Zhang Sizhi was the first to run in front of Cao Huachun and asked.

Cao Huachun nodded and said with a smile: "Elders, Your Majesty has an edict, you can take a look at it first!" He handed the bright yellow edict in his hand to Zhang Sizhi.

Zhang Sizhi put the edict on the table, and Wei Zaode, Xue Guoguan, Wang Daozhi, Chen Yan and others ran over to watch it one by one, all with this heart to understand the holy will, but unfortunately, when they saw the content of the edict, they all thought that they had read it wrong.

"Cao Gong, this... Wei Zaode looked at Cao Huachun with a puzzled expression.

Cao Huachun smiled and said: "Don't be confused, that's right, this is the edict written by His Majesty himself, His Majesty told the lower officials, if the ministers think that Your Majesty's edict is wrong, you can put it forward, and our family will report it on your behalf!" As he spoke, he also arched his hand in the direction of the Qianqing Palace where Zhu Changyuan was located.

Wei Zaode shook his head and handed the edict to the others, who shook their heads as well.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I will not wait any longer, Your Majesty's will, if you have no opinion, it will be officially announced to the world, and if you have any objections, you must raise them within two days."

"The Ministers obey the Holy Decree!" Xue Guoguan led the ministers to bow down and thank him, and then said: "Huitou will confirm with Tang Ruowang!" ”

Zhu Changyuan's first edict had no substantive content, but he did something unexpected, the meaning of the edict probably said: change the calendar!

It turns out that the lunar calendar is expressed by the chronology of the heavenly and earthly branches, and Zhu Changyuan feels that the reader will have a headache for half a day when he sees these chronological methods, not to mention the common people at the lower levels, so in line with the principle of benefiting the people, he announced that the Ming Dynasty will abolish the old cadre-branch chronology from the first year of Taizheng and implement a new method, from the first to the thirtieth day of the new year, with a method that is easier for the common people to understand.

This is the first meaning expressed in Zhu Changyuan's edict.

Second, because the current Ming calendar no longer meets the requirements of the times, Zhu Changyuan revised the calendar, pushed forward according to the solar calendar of modern society, and always pushed the current era, and stipulated the basic principles of the solar calendar.

As a new type of calendar, the solar calendar is used at the same time as the old calendar, and the official documents are based on the solar calendar.

The so-called solar calendar is the solar calendar in modern society, and it also refers to the Western calendar!

Zhu Changyuan's first edict, at first glance, only wanted to change the old calendar and the way of chronology, did not reveal any program of governance, nor did it show the courtiers the path he would take in the future of leading the Ming Empire.

This is only a superficial thing, and the average person can't see the deeper level.

At a deeper level, Zhu Changyuan told them in this way: I want to reform, drastic reform, reforming the calendar is just the beginning, I also want to reform the governance of officials, management methods, and even the political system.

In this way, the emperor's first official edict on governance was adopted by the cabinet and began to be distributed throughout the country. Of course, the main function of the old calendar is to know agricultural production, and Zhu Changyuan's new calendar naturally has these functions, so the 24 solar terms are also incorporated into the calendar by the way to guide people in agricultural production. (To be continued.) )