Yang Ling rushed to the Dongnuan Pavilion, and the close ministers around the emperor had all changed into white clothes.

Seeing Yang Ling coming, Zhang Yong hurriedly greeted him. The board of Emperor Hongzhi's court staff hit them, but it was true, these people had been lying on their stomachs for half a month before they dared to walk on the ground, and now they really haven't seen Yang Ling.

Today, Emperor Hongzhi suddenly had a long nosebleed after taking the medicine offered by the imperial doctor, and he couldn't stop it after exhausting all methods, and the blood soaked more than ten towels, and it didn't take long for him to pass away, Zhu Houzhao lay on the corpse and cried bitterly, no one persuaded him, Liu Jin, Zhang Yong and a few other close servants were in a hurry.

In the end, the queen spoke with tears in her eyes, but the prince still didn't listen, and insisted that no one should be allowed to move the emperor's body.

At this time, seeing Yang Ling, Zhang Yongru saw the savior, and hurriedly picked up a mourning dress to greet him, Yang Ling wore it while listening to Zhang Yong said worriedly: "Lord Yang, His Royal Highness has been crying sadly for a long time, and the chamberlains are not allowed to move the emperor's body, I am in a hurry, but I can't think of decent words to comfort the prince, you go and see."

Yang Ling tied up his filial piety, handed the sword to the guards next to the palace gate, and hurriedly walked into the Dongnuan Pavilion. Zhu Houzhao knelt in front of the couch, still crying silently. Empress Zhang, Yongfu, and Yongchun are all vegetarian, like three pear blossoms with rain, standing behind him.

Yang Ling saw the queen and the two princesses, and hurriedly wanted to bow down, Queen Zhang hurriedly waved her hand, then glanced at him, turned her head to look at the prince, sighed faintly, and pulled the two princesses out of the dormitory.

Yang Ling saw that the queen and the princess had left, so he quietly walked to Zhu Houzhao's side and knelt down next to him, Zhu Houzhao was still stupidly pulling Hongzhi's already cold palm, just sobbing silently, and didn't look at the person next to him.

Yang Ling whispered a few words of consolation, Zhu Houzhao still didn't say a word, Yang Ling saw that he was in a trance, turning a blind eye to others, thinking that it would be better to stir up the general, this little prince is young, and he can't listen to any words of mourning, it is better to lift his spirits, Yang Ling thought for a while and said: "Your Highness, do you remember what the emperor in the story that the minister told you said?" One day, the sun will sink with the passing of an emperor, but it will rise with a new son of heaven. The departed king becomes the stars of heaven, and looks in heaven at his chosen heir, to see if he will fail his trust."

"Your Royal Highness, the emperor is a rare benevolent monarch and a Ming monarch throughout the ages, you are the only son of the emperor, and you are about to become the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the new sun, will you have high hopes for Your Majesty?"

Zhu Houzhao's expression moved when he heard this, he sniffed, clenched Hongzhi's hand, and said with an oath-like expression on his childish face: "I will never live up to my father's expectations, I will be like my father, a wise monarch, a promising son of heaven."

Yang Ling said: "The minister believes that every dynasty and every prince, when he ascends the throne and sits on the dragon chair, will think so, and will want to be a good emperor from the bottom of his heart, but some of them have done it, and some have become mediocre kings, even faint monarchs and dead monarchs."

Zhu Houzhao Huo Ran turned his head and glared at him angrily: "Do you doubt my words? You say I can't do it? ”

Yang Ling said calmly: "The minister believes that His Royal Highness's words come from the heart, and I believe that the prince is not a whim, but it is not enough to have this kind of ambition, Mingjun is not what he says, he does it, and the people of the whole world are looking forward to the actions of the new emperor after the funeral of a benevolent lord, if he can only cry here, can he become a Mingjun?" ”

Zhu Houzhao's face turned blue and red, red and blue, he was still young, how could he stand Yang Ling's excitement, and after a long while, he suddenly jumped up and shouted: "Come on, clean and change clothes for my father."

Yang Ling couldn't help but have an imperceptible smile on his lips.

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The internal officials and supervisors set up a mourning hall and arranged the palace, the mixed hall department cleaned the clothes for Emperor Hongzhi, and the scarf and hat bureau, the needlework bureau, and the internal weaving and dyeing bureau prepared mourning clothes for the princes and princes and officials of each hall and department.

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion guarding the palace gate wore a white shirt outside their armor, and even the fire gun in their hands was wrapped in a layer of white silk, and when everything in the palace was arranged, it was already a night fog like a veil, and the lanterns with white paper pasted were hung high everywhere in the palace forbidden, and the whole palace was a gloomy cloud.

The mourning hall is located in the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, the plain curtain in the hall is white, the cigarette smoke is swirling, it is very solemn and solemn, and the tablet of Emperor Hongzhi is enshrined in the middle of the high arch. As early as when the emperor was critically ill, the Ministry of Rites had drawn up the various ceremonial procedures of the new emperor for application, and these procedures were simple to say, that is, to first make a dress, and then issue a testament, and then hold a grand ceremony, but during the period, all kinds of cumbersome and miscellaneous ceremonies were varied, so that people were dazzled to listen to them.

Yang Ling didn't know anything about this kind of funeral etiquette in the palace, but he didn't have to worry about losing his manners, although he was favored in front of the old and new emperors, but now he hasn't even touched the edge of the government, and he is not qualified to enter the palace to cry and salute, he only needs to control the guards outside the palace and maintain the palace ban.

The officials in charge of various ministries and halls stepped into the Qianqing Palace in a panic, and even many princes and lords who rarely stepped into the palace gate also appeared at this time. Yang Ling stood at the foot of the palace steps, saw the six Jiuqing and three scholars coming out of the palace, looking into the distance, the two lines of eunuchs came over with a shoulder huddle, and someone shouted: "The crown prince has arrived~!" ”

More than a dozen old ministers of the court hurriedly rushed down the steps to kneel down in robes, and Liu Jian sobbed: "Please enter the palace to make a ceremony!" ”

Zhu Houzhao didn't understand these many rules, the two leaders of the ceremonial eunuch, the eunuch Wang Yue and Zhang Shou, hugged him left and right, and whispered a few words in his ear from time to time, how to walk, how to salute, how to speak, the crown prince Zhu Houzhao was in a trance, and he lost all his usual naughty energy, so he just did it one by one like a puppet.

Yang Ling waited for them to enter the palace, then stood up, after a while, suddenly there was a cry of crying for the sky and the earth, Han Lin walked to Yang Ling's side, and sighed lightly: "The adults are crying, and the officials who are not allowed to enter the palace gate gather outside the noon gate to cry bitterly, don't make a mess at this time, the general should go and inspect it."

Han Lin relied on martial arts and his outstanding performance in martial arts has been promoted to the general manager, he is very well-behaved, although he calls Yang Ling Ling'er in private, but he will meet as a subordinate when he is on business, and he will never go over, Yang Ling persuaded him a few times, Han Lin insisted on not complying, and he was also left to his father-in-law.

Today, it is said that Emperor Hongzhi is small, hundreds of officials cry and guard spirits, Yang Ling is afraid that something will go wrong, so he transferred the most trusted Han family father and son, Yang Yiqing, and Liu Biao to lead a hundred pro-troops with guns and swords, and surrounded the Qianqing Palace, guarding it through wind and rain. After listening to his father-in-law's reminder, Yang Ling nodded and said in a low voice: "There is Lao's father-in-law here, Ling Er will go to the four cities for a walk."

In the Qianqing Palace, the Honglu Temple praise official out of the class to sing the ceremony, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, the three ministers of the orphan will help Zhu Houzhao on the yellow silk dragon chair, the hundred officials and herons walk in crane steps, kneel forward to worship the new monarch, the mountain shouts tsunami-like "long live my emperor, long live, long live" sonic boom roof tiles.

Yang Ling left the Qianqing Palace in this call to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and inspected the palace under the guidance of two guards holding lanterns, not knowing that the edict of the first emperor was read out in the main hall, and then the new emperor was asked to give a decree This old routine etiquette that follows the rules and distances and does not change will go wrong today, he has not yet reached the noon gate, and the Qianqing Palace is already like a vegetable market.

Hongzhi felt that his body was difficult to heal when he had made arrangements for the aftermath, at this time, the eunuch Wang Yue, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, presented the edict of Emperor Hongzhi with tears in his eyes, and Liu Jian, a scholar of the first auxiliary university, passed on the edict of the emperor and promulgated the edict of the new emperor to ascend the throne, and then announced that the new emperor would amnesty the world and reward the meritorious ministers.

This was originally arranged, the so-called new emperor's grace, which prince dared to start studying the issue of the next leadership group before the death of the first emperor? In the final analysis, it was the old emperor's decision in advance, and it was such a routine for the crown prince to ascend the throne from ancient times to the end.

Liu Jian only knew that the current prince was more stubborn, how could he think that this benevolent brother was the reincarnation of the patriarch of the random boxing faction, and he didn't follow the routine at all. The old minister wiped away his tears, first announced the edict of the first emperor, and set next year as the first year of Zhengde, and then led the civil and military officials to kneel three times and bow nine times to meet the new emperor.

Subsequently, he issued a holy decree to grant amnesty to the world in the name of the new emperor: all prisoners who are not waiting to be killed and awaiting trial will be pardoned and released from prison, the edict will be ordered to remove the part of the taxes owed by farmers for more than three years, and the edict will exempt fishermen from fish oil and feather swim bladders and other things that have not been paid by fishermen for more than three years

After the announcement of the new emperor's will to forgive the holy government, the third decree of the new emperor to seal the harem and reward the ministers who supported the establishment was issued: Liu Jian, Xie Qian, and Li Dongyang were crowned as Taishi, Taifu, and Shangguozhu, and the Empress Dowager Ji was promoted to the Empress Dowager, Empress Zhang was promoted to the Empress Dowager, Taiji Wang was promoted to the Empress Dowager, Concubine Jin and Concubine Dai were concubines, and Concubine Ma Chang was also promoted to the Empress Dowager

Whenever the new emperor ascends the throne, the old ministers will have this kind of treatment, and the courtiers are also accustomed to it, anyway, although these positions are glorious, they are all fictitious positions with no power, and they will not have any impact on the current distribution of power in the imperial court, so the civil and military officials just listened attentively, and no one squeaked, and the hundred and ten people in the hall were silent.

But after being stimulated by Yang Ling, Zhu Houzhao, the Zhengde Emperor who thought about performing well, although it was only three minutes of enthusiasm, these three minutes had not passed. He listened attentively with his ears studded, and thought that since the decree was made in his name, he should listen to it carefully.

When he heard that the Marquis of Shouning and the Marquis of Jianchang each gave the emperor a thousand hectares and awarded Shuanglu, he immediately jumped down from the dragon chair and shouted angrily: "Scholar Liu and stay, the two Marquis of Shouning and Jianchang are already high enough, so there is no need to reward them again!" ”

Shouning and Jianchang knelt down and listened to Zhengde's words, their faces were blue and white for a while, fear, shame, anger, and all kinds of expressions were like opening a dye factory. This little emperor really leaves no room for things.

Scholar Liu is also stupid with a holy decree, this scholar has served several generations of emperors, and he has never heard of the new emperor who repented on the spot when he ascended the throne to withdraw the decree of others, how could he withdraw the decree? It was child's play, and it was also a great disrespect to Emperor Hongzhi. If not, the new emperor refused to resign as a scholar, so what is the emperor's face?

Li Dongyang saw that he was stunned there, and hurriedly knelt down and said: "The two marquis of Shouning and Jianchang are the uncles of the country and the emperor's closest relatives. Today is a big day, the will has been issued, and then it is quite inappropriate to withdraw it, according to the minister's opinion, the two marquis turned back to the table to ask for resignation and encouragement."

Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling had a secret hatred in their hearts, and they were embarrassed by the new emperor in public, and they had to take the initiative to ask for thanks, and the emperor fell into a good reputation of being lenient and strict with the law, this Li Dongyang is too good at sycophancy, but the situation is stronger than people, and the two brothers have no choice but to say yes.

Zhengde was the most respectful to his father Hongji, seeing that the two uncles had no sorrow next to his dying father, and were still playing with the imperial crown, the feeling that the other party had betrayed and deceived the people closest to him made him hate the two deeply, so he couldn't help but strip them of their rewards in court.

After listening to Scholar Li's arrangement, Zhengde felt that as long as the cheap was not taken away from them, he didn't care too much about anything else, so he nodded and agreed, and sat back on the dragon chair. The kneeling officials saw that the new emperor's work was so bizarre, and they all showed surprise, Emperor Zhengde didn't think there was anything wrong with this, what kind of golden mouth and jade teeth, Jun Wu joked, if he felt that it was wrong, he would change it, could it be that slapping a swollen face and being fat was called royal decency?

Scholar Liu saw that the new emperor, who had amazing deeds from time to time, sat back on the dragon chair, so he read it again with trepidation, and the civil and military officials were also in good spirits this time, and they didn't know who Emperor Zhengde was going to take the knife, but fortunately, the little emperor of Zhengde listened to the names read out, but he did not object again.

Liu Jian finished reading the holy decree, secretly raised his sleeve and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, just after he took a breath, Emperor Zhengde spoke again, he frowned, and said strangely: "Scholar Liu, did you miss someone?" ”

Liu Jian's heart chuckled, this heart was brought up again, he hurriedly unfolded the holy decree, swept it at a glance and ten lines, and turned his head to ask Wang Yue and Zhang Shou, the two celebrant eunuchs who were supervising the recitation of the holy decree next to him, and then said with relief: "Your Majesty, the minister has not omitted."

Zhengde listened strangely, remembering that his father said that Yang Ling could be his minister, and said that the favor should be given by him, why did this edict issued in his name not have Yang Ling's name?

If the poor Emperor Hongzhi really had a spirit in the sky, he would have regretted that he did not indicate the specific time when he was going to do everything when he told his son about the future. Zhengde thought for a while and said: "No, it is indeed missing a person, Yang Ling, the former waiter of the East Palace and the current staff general of the Shenji Battalion, is young and promising, and can be a pillar of the material.

Liu Jian heard Zhengde's words, and almost fell down the steps with an upside-down onion, just a general military attache and a fellow jinshi under the age of twenty, just want to enter the first squire of the six departments? Liu Jian hurriedly knelt down and shouted, "Your Majesty, don't do it."

Xie Qian, Li Dongyang, two scholars, Han Wen of the Ministry of Households, Wang Qiong of the Ministry of Rites, and Liu Daxia, Ma Wensheng and other six Shangshu knelt down together, and Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, said urgently: "Your Majesty, the promotion of officials has been hereditary, acceptance, military merit, recommendation, Lang selection, grace and imperial examination methods since ancient times, no matter which one, General Yang Shen is afraid of lack of morality, ability, and qualifications, how can he be suddenly promoted to the position of a servant of the Ministry of Officials, please think twice." ”

Zuo Shilang Wang Wei, Zhan Shi Yang Fang and several other ministers who fought with Liu Jin a few days ago had no good impression of Yang Ling, and when they heard that he was going to enter the Ministry of Officials at a young age and sit in a position second only to Shangshu, they immediately opposed it, and the rest of the hundred officials also had their own words.

Zhengde had just become the emperor, and when he saw most of the courtiers kneeling down below, he was also a little panicked, but he couldn't get over it on his face when he took it back like this, so Emperor Zhengde had to say with an ugly face: "In this case, I will retract this will and grant Yang Ling Weiwu Bo instead."

As soon as Liu Jian heard that the emperor was not promoted to Yang Ling's official, he was promoted to a knight again, where was he willing to agree, and he knelt on the ground with a group of officials, kowtowing again and again. Wang Qiong, who had developed tear ducts, and Wang Shangshu cried again, beating his chest and only saying that the Son of Heaven gave a reward indiscriminately, and the crowd would be surging and the officials would not be convinced.

Emperor Zhengde consciously gave a step, and seeing that the hundred officials were still unforgiving, he was also angry at this time, and he jumped off the throne and said: "This emperor is me or you should be, this is not good, that is not good, this emperor is not as good as it is inappropriate."

Zhu Houzhao said that he was about to take off his dragon robe when he tore off the jade belt, so that the two big eunuchs of Lao Wang Yue and Zhang Shou hurriedly rushed up and hugged him.

Seeing this, Li Dongyang thought anxiously, Yang Ling is still young, talent and morality also need to be observed, he will not be harmful to the government as a military general, and it is nothing if he has a higher rank, but now he is in an important position in the ministry to participate in government affairs, how can his virtue convince the hundred officials?

As for the knighthood, although it was hasty, it did not violate the ancestral system, so Li Dongyang hurriedly said in a loud voice: "Yes, the minister obeys the order, and the minister thinks that he can grant Yang Shen General not the mighty and martial arts, and give the edict, does Your Majesty think that it will be made?" ”

Zhengde heard that a powerful minister agreed, and hurriedly said: "Make, make, let Li University draft the edict."

After listening to Li Dongyang's words, the ministers immediately understood what he meant, and immediately stopped raising their voices to object, only Wang Qiong sobbed and couldn't stop for a while.

It turned out that the Ming Dynasty had hereditary, military merits, favors, and relatives, and Yang Ling belonged to grace. Just now Li Dongyang shouted loudly to confer Yang Ling's immortal prestige and give a letter, that is, to tell everyone that Yang Ling did not give a hereditary knighthood, and only gave a letter of edict, not a coupon book, but just added a nice title and a few more burdens, so he could not go against the emperor for this crime, so the voice of opposition was greatly weakened.

Liu Jian's heart really couldn't stand the toss of the Emperor Zhengde, but fortunately, the ceremonies that should be held now were almost over, so Liu Jian hurriedly arranged for the civil and military officials to keep watch in the Qianqing Palace.

Seeing that the new emperor's accession to the throne had been decided, the internal official Wang Yue was busy going to Kunning Palace to invite the Queen Mother and the two princesses to come to Qianqing Palace to keep a vigil together.

At this time, Yang Ling didn't know that at this time, he had already gone to the ministry for some reason, and then he became an uncle. After he Shi Shiran inspected the palace gates, he casually had a meal with the palace soldiers to fill his stomach, and it was almost three watches at this time.

Such a large imperial city walked around for such a circle, Yang Ling's heels were in terrible pain, but he couldn't ride a horse in the palace, he finally returned to the Qianqing Palace step by step, and his legs were about to be tired.

Yang Ling rubbed the blood of a pair of feet, just picked up the boots and wanted to put them on, and suddenly someone patted him on the shoulder, these three watches in the middle of the night, although the lights were on in the palace, it was really scary, Yang Ling turned around smartly, and when he saw the person, Yang Ling was even more surprised, and couldn't help but cry out.

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