Chapter 212: Funeral Day
On the fourth day of the ninth month of the twenty-third year of Chenghua, Zhu Jianshen, who had been suspended for nearly twenty days, could finally enter the earth.
Under the control of the courtiers of the Ministry of Rites, all etiquette was carried out according to the weekly etiquette, and white flags were hung in the homes of the people in the capital. Of course, these are all required by the imperial court, and if they follow the ideas of those people themselves, maybe they will hide and laugh.
Chenghua Emperor Zhu saw deeply, whether in the eyes of the people or in the eyes of the courtiers, he could not be regarded as a Ming monarch. When such an emperor died, he was succeeded by a well-known crown prince, which was not a good thing for the Ming Dynasty.
In the palace, Zhou Hongmo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, held a bright yellow holy decree and announced that the emperor Zhu Jianshen would be sent to the mausoleum. Zhu Youzhu walked towards the outside of the palace with the courtiers with a sad face, guarded by brocade guards along the way, and Zhang Ru followed Zhu Youzhang inch by the side.
Maoling is Zhu Jianshen's mausoleum, but the funeral is not a burial, just carry the coffin around the inner city, Maoling has not been repaired now, and it is just a general idea of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rites.
To really build Maoling, it was necessary to wait until Zhu Youzhu ascended the throne, and then ordered the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Household to build it together, and it was necessary to choose the right person to supervise the construction.
After the funeral ceremony is completed, Zhu Youzhu will be able to rightfully ascend the throne as the emperor, and then change the yuan, and amnesty for the world and other things have to be carried out, and things are very cumbersome.
The people can spontaneously see off the Ming Emperor, but the people who are willing to see him off can only follow at the back of the line, facing the surveillance of a bunch of brocade guards.
It may be that Zhu Jianshen was too unpopular when he was in power, and there were not many people in the capital who came to see him off, and when he walked halfway, the number of people who joined the team gradually increased.
There are also people among the civil and military officials who are reluctant to see them off, but they are officials, even if they don't want to see them off again, the number of courtesies will still arrive.
The people are different, they don't want to see them off, they don't come to see them off, an emperor dies, how many people send them spontaneously, it depends on whether you win the hearts of the people when you are in power.
At first, Zhu Youzhang's face was very ugly, but later he was relieved when he saw that people had joined the team. He glanced at Zhang Ru gratefully, and knew without thinking about it that most of these people who were reluctant to come to see him off were threatened by Jinyiwei and Dongchang.
A busy day finally passed, Zhu Youjiao, who returned to Yuqing Palace, seemed to have fallen apart, and Zhang Ru, who had also been with him for a day, had nothing to do.
Zhu Youzhu gasped and said, "Brother Tiger, you are in good health." ”
Zhang Ru said solemnly: "Your Majesty, you will succeed to the throne in a few days, it's better not to call Weichen like this, if Your Majesty really wants to be close, you can call the minister to watch Wenxuan." ”
Zhu Youzhu rolled his eyes: "Okay, okay, I can't help you, it's not early, you go back to rest early, lest your tigress say something that you shouldn't say to your aunt." ”
The reason why it is called Su Qiqi tigress is because after putting down the mustard, Zhu Youzhu once pulled Zhang Ru to drink, and after going back, Su Qiqi was full of resentment, and gossiped with Zhang Yaoyao the next day.
As a result, the simple-minded Zhang Yaoyao directly knocked Zhu Youzhu over without saying a word that night, and after a night, Zhu Youzhu almost didn't become a soft-footed shrimp the next day.
Seeing Zhu Youjiao's panting appearance, Zhang Ru unconsciously remembered the history books he had seen in his previous life, it seemed that this master of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty had only been the emperor for more than ten years before he died.
Thinking of this, his heart tightened: "Your Highness, you still need to strengthen your exercise, and your body is important!" ”
Xu is nervous tone was too eager, Zhu Youzhu was stunned, and only said after a while: "Tiger...... Winshare was too cautious. ”
Zhang Ru sneered and said, "Eh, no, I'll go back first." ”
After saying that, he hurriedly left Yuqing Palace, looking at his departing back, Zhu Youzhu couldn't help but mutter: "It's a little abnormal." ”
On the sixth day of the ninth month of the twenty-third year of Chenghua, the enthronement ceremony was held as scheduled, and nothing happened in the past few days, so under the arrangement of the Ministry of Rites, Zhu Youzhu was finally going to be the emperor.
When the minister entered the palace, the emperor sat down, and Zhang Ru stood in the position where Liang Fang was standing, the difference was that he was a military general, not a eunuch. When Zhou Hongmo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, unfolded the bright yellow holy decree and began to read it, the entire hall became silent.
"But my ancestors are saintly and saintly, and they are the lord of Huayi, and their entrepreneurship and success, divine merit and holy virtue, and sincerity are more and more ancient. my emperor is the heir of the emperor, deep benevolence and benevolence, covering the corner of the sea, the second era is in the z, and the heart of worrying and seeking treatment is still in the night, because of the violation of the hesitation, out of the embellished clothes. Endure hearing a few words, and molest the genus of the artifact. Grieved and guilty, and was at a loss. The prince of the time, the civil and military ministers, the subordinates and the elderly soldiers and civilians, combined the words Fu Que persuaded those who entered the country again and again, and refused to get it. In accordance with the last order, on the sixth day of the first month of September, he only told heaven and earth, the temple, and the shrine, that is, the emperor's throne.
Gu Zi paid the weight, was deeply afraid of the difficulties of the shoulders, and tried to help him.
A only to restore the road of governance, Hui Sui Li Yuan, with the bottom of the Fucheng, among the Xihao, Shu Yan Emperor Ming hundreds of millions of years without borders, its next year for the first year of Hongzhi. At the beginning of the husband's reign, it is advisable to renew the code of mercy, and the rules of compliance are explained later.
Before the 6th day of the ninth month of the 23rd year of Chenghua, officials, soldiers, and civilians committed crimes such as rebellion, rebellion, murder of grandparents and parents, murder of husbands and concubines, murder of slaves and maids, murder, poison, and murder by the robber party. Whoever dares to forgive the past will be punished for his sins.
Civil and military officials, prison students, intellectuals, soldiers, and school building personnel have asked for meritorious service, transported ashes, transported charcoal, chased and punished horses, workmanship, nanometers, set up stations, fried salt, fried iron, sentinels and filled the army, and accompanied by ceremonies, and all of them were exempted from their posts. The civil officials, prisoners, and former offenders of the Zhiyin Cheng Mission, who were sent back to their hometowns for the people, and those who committed crimes of the former military positions who violated the law and harmed the army were still in the original guard and were not allowed to manage military affairs.
In recent years, the salt and grain state has used a lot of money and has been begged and bought by people with internal and external power, accumulating permanent shares and cutting off private surplus salt, and selling them with smugglers, so as to damage the national tax and seize the people's profits. When the edict arrives, each of the salt patrols shall check the salt section in the preceding paragraph according to the imperial history, and in addition to the salt section that has been sold, those who have not been paid will be returned to the official by their respective residences. In the future, all localities will not be allowed to sell salt across the border, and all sides will not be allowed to open salt and buy grain and grass from the homes of officials inside and outside the country to ask for it. Occupy the nest to receive the price, and it is not allowed to pay it. If the governor is in charge of grain and other official circumstances are violated, the governor shall be inspected according to the imperial history.
In Beijing, each battalion has divisions on all sides and in various places, and there are divisions of military guards, riding and breeding, breeding and herding, fostering, handing horses, mules, donkeys, cattle, and breeding horses, foals, and four households. Before the end of December of the 21st year of Chenghua, a loss should be stolen and buried, etc., and there is a case of suspension and waiting for the purchase of all exempted. If there are those who have been made up for the official position, they will be dismissed as usual. The person in charge of the collection dared to have traffic cheating and was punished for the crime of stolen goods.
Before December of the 21st year of Chenghua, all over the place in arrears of taxes, grain, horses, grass, autumn grass, bundles, seeds, grains, mulberry silk, silk stalls, tax accounts, salt, rice, banknotes, and various courses, silver classes, fish classes, gold and silver for kitchen materials, fruits, and other items, and should be used to run compradors, procurement materials, medicinal materials, except for those who have been levied in the official as usual, and the number of unlevied is exempted. ”
A large list of content made people dizzy, anyway, Zhang Ru didn't listen to it much, and it wasn't until the end that he heard something useful.
Finally, there is the official reward of the important ministers, and the burial place of the mausoleum of the first emperor.
"Qin ordered the eunuch Huang Shun, the eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch Li Liang, the eunuch Zhu Yong of the Taifu Baoguo, the governor of the nine sides Zhang Ru, the left servant of the Ministry of Works, Chen Zheng, the commander of the sergeant and craftsman."
Looking at the words on the holy decree, Zhou Hongmo couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and then continued: "Qin ordered Zhang Ru, the governor of the nine borders, to be the marquis of Dingbian, eat 3,000 stones, enjoy the endowment of ten thousand households, and be hereditary.
Zhu Yong, the Duke of Baoguo, is the crown prince and the prince."
As soon as the words fell, before Zhou Hongmo finished reading, the courtiers were in an uproar.
Who is Zhang Ru? He is just a close minister of the Prince's East Palace, although he has performed well in the past two years, he can't be a marquis casually!
Zhou Hongmo also has a hard time, although he is a secretary of the Ministry of Rites, but the edict of succession was not drawn up by him alone, and this thing still has to be approved by the emperor and the cabinet.
The cabinet has no opinion on Zhang Ru, the title of Marquis of Dingbian, and the new emperor has an opinion, but the opinion of others is that if Zhang Ru is given a small marquis, he should be directly made a duke.
In the end, if Zhang Ru hadn't refused to accept his resignation, the new emperor would have changed the Dingbian Marquis on the succession edict to a certain prince.
People's feelings are there, and it is unlikely that you want to change them, plus Zhou Hongmo is an official of Liu Ji's family, Liu Ji didn't say that he has an opinion, so it is naturally impossible for him to raise objections.
After the courtiers discussed for a while, they finally became a little quieter in the dry cough of Zhou Hongmo, and Zhang Ru's face was angry, and his eyes kept wandering over the faces of those who were talking the most fiercely.
With such a killing god staring, it stands to reason that those officials should not make any big trouble, but there are those who are not afraid of death. Without waiting for Zhou Hongmo to raise his voice again and finish reading the edict, Li Man, the left of the Imperial Procuratorate, stood up: "Your Majesty think twice!" ”
Zhu Youjiao's face was displeased: "Li Man, do you know what day it is?" ”
Li Man was stunned for a moment, and then said very indignantly: "Weichen knows that today is the day when the new emperor ascends the throne, but the minister has something to say. Today, His Majesty took advantage of the enthronement ceremony to try in vain to seal the title of Zhang Ru, the governor of the nine sides, and dared to ask Your Majesty, setting this precedent, whether he will be a meritorious minister in the future, as long as he flatters the lord of the person, he can be crowned a prince? ”
This is a bit excessive, it is okay to compare Zhang Ru to a flattering courtier, but Zhu Youzhu can be compared to a faint king, which is not a glorious thing for a new emperor who has just ascended the throne as an enemy.
Liu Ji just stood up and reprimanded: "Li Man, go back, I'll talk about something after today." ”
I don't know if this person is invited to buy a straight life or really unsympathetic, so he stalked his neck and said: "If Your Majesty doesn't give an explanation to the people of the world today, the minister would rather die!" ”