On May 18, Emperor Zhengde ascended to Cheng'anmen ([***]) to announce to the world, and the new emperor ascended the throne.

He put the edict of Bingguo in the mouth of a golden phoenix, tied the yellow silk ribbon to the golden phoenix with his own hands, and the eunuch of the head of the ceremonial supervisor put down the golden phoenix along the battlements, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites knelt on the ground under the city tower, holding up the gold lacquer plate decorated with clouds with both hands to receive the decree, and then Pegasus sent it to the Ministry of Rites to copy and print it all over the world, and Zhengde officially became the son of the great tomorrow, which is the "Golden Phoenix Edict".

Then Emperor Zhengde returned to the Jinluan Hall surrounded by hundreds of officials, boarded the dragon chair, and accepted the congratulations of the hundred officials, at this time the envoys and He Yi of the vassal kings and the four Yi countries were still on the way.

After Zhengde took office, he immediately announced the three holy decrees of the Emperor Bingguo, and all ministries and provinces immediately carried out them vigorously.

The first holy decree was that the funeral commander-in-chief, Wang Qiong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who was thrown into prison on the first day of his post, had already prepared, "Da Tian Ming Dao Pure Sincerity Zhongzheng Shengwen Shenwu Zhiren Dade Jing Emperor" His Majesty Xiaozong was mourned and asked the whole country to live in mourning.

All the subjects were filial piety, and their hats were wrapped with white cloth. After the new emperor's enthronement ceremony, the Beijing officials were still required to wear linen and filial piety, and were not allowed to wear court boots instead of straw sandals, and removed the wings of the gauze hat and replaced them with two white cloths that drooped down to the shoulders.

The bells of large and small temples ring 30,000 times, day and night. Within three days, the officials of all walks of life and above the four grades went to the Qianqing Palace in batches to hold the spirit, each person cried 15 times, commanded by the Ministry of Rites, and all the crying personnel coordinated their actions for a time, crying all cried, and stopped all of them, and the Qianqing Palace was like playing a symphony.

The second decree was made by Emperor Zhengde and the three scholars and the six Jiuqing several bargains, and finally threatened not to be the emperor, and ordered Li Jie, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, Ni Qian, the deputy supervisor of Qintian, Dai Yi, the eunuch of the Ministry of Rites, Li Duo, the left attendant of the Ministry of Works, and Yang Ling, the general of the left sentinel army of the Shenji Battalion, to supervise the construction of Emperor Hongzhi's Tailing project.

Although he was forced by Emperor Zhengde to play a scoundrel, the cabinet scholars had to give in and put Yang Ling among the officials responsible for supervising the construction of the emperor's mausoleum, but he was deliberately ranked last in the holy decree, but Yang Ling, who had no ambitions, really couldn't bear Emperor Zhengde's hard work for him, and he didn't care at all.

For others, supervising the construction of the emperor's mausoleum is not only a glorious thing, but also very helpful for the future career promotion, but Yang Ling can't wait to be commanded, he just needs to run errands. asked him to preside over the ceremony and run around the cemetery every day, Mo said that he didn't have that ability, and he was not very happy in his heart.

Now Yang Ling is only responsible for commanding tens of thousands of officers and soldiers drawn from the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and the three major battalions to serve, as soon as the personnel are in place, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, and the Qin Tianjian began to point fingers, Yang Ling has almost become an idler, people are too lazy to see him, and he doesn't have to be there every day, but he is happy to be at ease.

In the third edict, Emperor Zhengde raised his butcher's knife and sprinkled all the qi on the unlucky ghosts. Because Emperor Xiaozong suddenly bled to death after taking medicine, the eunuch Zhang Yu who served Emperor Xiaozong to take medicine, Liu Wentai, the imperial physician Gao Tinghe, was beheaded, and Shi Qin was dismissed from Taichang Temple, and Li Zongzhou, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, and other relevant officials were demoted and released.

What baffled the ministers was that more than a dozen generals of all sizes, including Bao Qianchen, the deputy staff general of the Shenji Battalion, Liu Shiyong, the capital officer, and Bao Qianzhong, the procurement officer, were also dragged to the entrance of the vegetable market to accompany the cut. General Bao and Liu Dusi were escorted out of the prison, but Bao Duzhong was asked for from Jinyiwei, and it really took a lot of effort for the prison officer to verify his identity.

Although Qian Ning was very considerate to him, and did not use the fatal punishments of bowel pumping, exercise, hanging spine, knee gouging, and scrubbing, he had been tossed so much that even his cousin General Bao Shen could not recognize him.

At that time, all the criminals in the court were colorless, and only Bao Caiban was elated, and he couldn't wait to stretch his neck and wait to be knifed, which won the applause of the onlookers for a while.

Miao Kui was ordered by the first emperor to secretly investigate which king of Fan was the one who bought guns and ammunition, and this matter was very important, and Emperor Hongzhi instructed him not to tell Zhu Houzhao before he found out, so Zhengde didn't know about it at all.

When Miao Kui heard the sudden decree of Emperor Zhengde, he immediately rushed to the court and wanted to shout "keep people under the knife", but when he got there, he only saw the family members of the deceased carrying the coffin and sending it to the cemetery.

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The new emperor ascended the throne, the state affairs were heavy, and the three scholars were very busy, but they did not forget the colleague who was locked in the prison, but they begged Emperor Zhengde many times to pardon Wang Qiong's disrespectful crime, but Zhengde ignored it at all.

With the care of the adults of the six ministries and Jiuqing, Wang Laoshangshu did not suffer at all in prison, but such an old minister was locked up in prison for more than ten days, and the courtiers inevitably talked about it, they did not dare to slander the emperor, and they inevitably became angry with Yang Ling.

Yang Ling actually helped Wang Qiong say good things many times, but when Zhengde remembered that the old guy stood in front of him, he sprayed his face with spittle, and his arrogant appearance was extremely hateful, and he sincerely wanted to teach him a lesson, so even Yang Ling's plea was not allowed.

At this time, the imperial horse supervisor had just been transferred back to the palace by order, Yang Ling and Miao Kui handed over the palace ban, leaving five hundred guards in the palace temporarily, and other officers and soldiers were immediately dispatched to Tailing to supervise the construction of the imperial mausoleum. Everything was stopped, Yang Ling rushed back to the Qianqing Palace, and just walked to the front of the palace, he saw Wang Wei and Yang Fang walking out of the palace with gloomy faces.

Yang Ling hurriedly stopped and bowed his hand when he saw it, and the two of them ignored Yang Ling when they saw it, and walked away with a sneer. Yang Ling knew that these ministers who had their own views on themselves were all honest and loyal ministers, and they had made mistakes and became the ministers of annihilation in their eyes, so he could only cry out in vain, so he had to shake his head and enter the hall with a bitter smile.

The little emperor was muttering and criticizing the recitals, and the ones he had read were thrown aside, Liu Jin stood aside with a stubborn brush, he couldn't help but smile when he saw Yang Ling, and raised his hand to say hello.

These people are familiar with each other, and Yang Ling also knows that the little emperor is very easy-going, so he made a silent gesture to Liu Jin and quietly walked to Zhengde's side.

The post that Zhu had approved was hanging on the table, and Yang Ling saw a copy of the upper batch: "If you want to learn from the silver, you will learn from the silver, but why do you want to take it from the three emperors and five emperors to the present?" If there is too much inkstone paper, give it to me." The other reads: "Such a trivial matter can be handled by local officials, but if I also want to approve it, what is the use of waiting?" ”

Yang Ling took a look at this excerpt, densely written fly-headed Xiaokai, Yang Ling knew that no matter who was on the fold, there were some clichés of praise and please, almost negligible, he hurriedly glanced down, the excerpt was to the effect that there are people in the Baiyue area who take Annan rice and combine it with our rice to produce a new rice, compared with the original rice seed drought and insect resistance, the yield has also increased, please promote it.

Yang Ling took a look at this excerpt and said busily: "Your Majesty, the people take food as the sky, if there is new rice to increase the yield, even if it increases by ten catties per mu, how can the increase in acres of land in the country be hundreds of millions?" The emperor should not be taken lightly."

Zhengde turned his head and saw that it was him, and couldn't help but rejoice: "You are back, I am about to find you, I want to leave your left sentry camp in the Beijing Division, the scholars are not allowed, Liu Jin came up with a good idea, circle the seven Huangzhuang near the Beijing Division, and your men and horses are stationed in the Huangzhuang, hehe, now they have nothing to say."

Yang Ling couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this, wouldn't he be even more targeted by everyone like this? Circle out of the Huangzhuang, the people in the Huangzhuang have a few more money and food than the ordinary people, the people are miserable, and this crime must be counted on their own heads.

He glanced at Liu Jin angrily, Liu Jin stood next to Zhengde with a smug face, and felt that he had done a great deed to Yang Ling, wishful thinking took Yang Ling's glance as Wei Wubo's gratitude to him.

Yang Ling didn't sigh, put aside this matter, and said on the fold first: "Your Majesty, this fold should be handed over to the three scholars for a good discussion, since this rice is insect-resistant and drought-tolerant can increase yield, and the people of the Ming Dynasty are very beneficial, it should be handed over to the local trial planting, if it really has a miraculous effect, it will be widely promoted, and the people will benefit, who will not be grateful for the emperor's kindness?" ”

He saw that Zhengde didn't care very much when he heard it, so he couldn't help but have an idea, and said: "If this rice is really easy to use, then it is the emperor's discernment and treasure, please name it after the emperor's year name, and call it 'Zhengde rice', then people will remember the emperor for thousands of years."

Saying this, Emperor Zhengde was really interested, and he said happily: "What Yang Qing said is reasonable, then that's it, the local bureaucrats and gentry try to plant, each family must not be less than two acres, once it is really good, it will be promoted", he hurriedly pulled the fold, wrote the reply on it, and immediately called the little eunuch next to the door and said: "Send it to the scholars immediately for reading."

This incident suddenly triggered Yang Ling's thoughts, I remember that Han Lin once took back a few sweet potatoes when he was in the chicken station, and the northerners thought it was rare, and it was already May, and what the effect of this rice was, I am afraid that it would not be known until the year after tomorrow.

Sweet potatoes and other things know that they must be prolific, although Liu Jin circled the Huangzhuang is a bad thing, but if I can get the emperor to promise to plant this thing in the Huangzhuang, and everyone knows its benefits, the people are actively planting, Jingshi is the foundation of the world, and the people here widely grow this kind of food, and it will be spread all over the world in a few years.

The more Yang Ling thought about it, the more excited he became, and just as he was thinking about how to speak, Liu Jin had already smiled and said, "Lord Yang, your army is stationed in the capital, so we can meet in front of Your Majesty from time to time." Hehe, Yang Fang and Wang Wei came to see the emperor with the excerpt of the Xinyang flood, and heard that the emperor wanted to circle the Huangzhuang and let you be stationed in the capital, and they slandered to stop it."

Yang Ling knew that this was Liu Jin's gesture of goodwill to himself, but when he heard that there were still people in Xinyang Dashui, he couldn't help but be shocked, how many days have this been, and the court has not dealt with it, if people are really starved to death, won't it force the people to rebel? He hurriedly asked, "Why hasn't the Xinyang disaster sent out relief food yet?" ”

Emperor Zhengde said: "Scholar Liu has ordered the allocation of money and grain to help the place, but they have to make inches, and they still want me to exempt Xinyang from money and grain for another three years. We were almost deceived by their crying and wiping tears, but thanks to Liu Jin's reminder, I didn't fall for them."

Yang Ling felt that something was wrong, and said: "Your Majesty, there are many disasters and difficulties in Henan, and most of the people have no food leftover, and this relief is just to solve their temporary food and clothing." Besides, there will be a plague after the flood, and the people cannot afford to toss even if they have some savings, but if they can reduce some money and food, so that the people can have hope and recuperate, it will be a good thing for the country and the people."

Liu Jin's face was a little unbearable, and he said: "Lord Yang is kind-hearted and pities the people, but there are many officials who damage the court and buy good places. ”

Zhengde nodded when he heard this: "Yes, yes, what Liu Jin said makes sense, I think they are exaggerating, will a flood be mournful?" They cannot be indulged".

Liu Jin said again: "The imperial court has never had a rule for checking local money and grain, and the investigation is not careful. The emperor is young, but he can't let the courtiers be blinded, and the old slave suggested that the emperor set a rule that he should send people to inspect the local money and grain income every year, so that he would not be deceived."

Yang Ling glanced at him in surprise, he couldn't imagine that Liu Jin, who didn't learn and didn't know how to harm people, still had this insight, the communication was developed in later generations, the system was sound, and the audit institutions audited the place every year.

However, if this good thing is carried out by the eunuchs who appoint internal officials, I am afraid that most of them will still please the emperor and fill their own pockets. Yang Ling hurriedly added: "This is a very good idea, it is very good for strengthening the control of the imperial court and the annual revenue, the emperor should set the rules of the household department, and they will send personnel to implement them every year." ”

Liu Jin got his approval, and his face was suddenly full of red light, he didn't think about getting any benefits from it at this time, he just wanted to show off his skills in front of the emperor, Yang Ling is a close minister of the Son of Heaven, a mighty uncle, and the poetry books he has read are many times stronger than him, a person who only knows a few big characters, Yang Ling can agree with his opinion, Liu Jin suddenly felt that he is not only good at waiting for people, but also has some real skills.

He was happy for a while, and immediately talked eloquently: "The slaves still think that Yang Fang and Wang Wei are doing their best for Xinyang because they are Xinyang officials, so they favor the township, and the officials in the DPRK and China are still like this, and the local officials are even more unbearable, in order to prevent nepotism and relatives from taking bribes, local officials across the country should not serve in this province, and in the same way, the imperial history of Caoyun cannot be held by Jiangnan people." ”

Yang Ling's eyebrows jumped, and he said in his heart: This Liu Jin is not a good person, so he lives the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and thinks of others so badly, are all the officials under him who are corrupt for personal gain? But on second thought, this approach does prevent selfishness to a certain extent.

Yang Ling said: "What Gonggong Liu said is very reasonable, but most of the world's talented scholars are concentrated in a few places, if all the officials of the country are not allowed to serve in this province, then many officials will not be able to arrange, it is better to stipulate that officials in rich provinces are not allowed to serve in this province in order to avoid suspicion, so that there is more room for choice." ”

After Zhengde ascended the throne, he couldn't think of any insight to issue an edict to show the ability of the new emperor, and when he heard Liu Jin's two Yang Ling agreed, and supplemented and improved, he suddenly came to the interest, he picked up the pen and wrote it down carefully, and regarded this as the first two new policies issued by the country.

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When Zhengde first became the emperor, he was still a little serious, but the writing of those memoraries was stinky and long, and the content was really boring, so he became impatient after a while, and asked Liu Jin to accompany him to tease the little monkey.

Yang Ling walked out of the Qianqing Palace alone and stood under the palace gate and stopped for a while. Now that the four guards of the Imperial Horse Prison have been transferred back to the palace, he no longer has to stay in the palace often, but when he came back, the emperor had no intention of asking him to leave, and he didn't find a chance to speak.

Thinking about it, it has been more than a month since he led the troops into the mountain and then stationed in the palace, he and the young lady can be said to be close to the end of the world, they are in Yanjing City, and they don't walk much distance, but they can't see each other, and they really miss each other very much.

I can't go back today, and I should be able to go back in two days, does that little girl miss me? I don't know if she's lost weight. Yang Ling thought of the delicate and cute little girl, and couldn't help but feel a heat in his body, and he couldn't wait to rush back immediately, and hold the delicate and knowledgeable little lady in her arms and make love at will.

He was looking at the green vine in the courtyard in a daze, a civil official walked into the palace, saw him standing in front of the palace gate stunned, so he came over, the man glanced at him, the orange-peeled old face was full of humble smiles, and bowed his hand and said: "This is the mighty Lord Boyang?" Aha, sure enough, it's Lord Yang."

Yang Ling was stunned, turned his head and saw that he was a somewhat familiar civil official, this person was afraid that he was not seventy years old, and there was a brocade chicken embroidered on the supplementary clothes, and his feelings were a second-grade master, Yang Ling hurriedly arched his hand and said: "The lower official is rude, the adult is."

The old man laughed and said, "The old man is Jiao Fang."

Yang Ling hurriedly said: "It turned out to be Lord Jiao, does Lord Jiao want to see the emperor?" ”

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