On the sixth day of the ninth month of the twelfth year of Shunzhi, two o'clock in the hour, the square in front of the Taihe Gate.

With the rumbling of the drums at the noon gate, a group of civil and military ministers lined up to enter from the left and right gates of the Forbidden City, and lined up in front of the Taihe Gate according to their grades.

At this time, the emperor had not yet come, and the crowd that had regathered soon had some small commotion, and even the inspector of the imperial history, who was responsible for supervising the etiquette and rules of the hundred officials, did not stop it.

Yesterday was the day when the imperial gate listened to the government[1], but when the dynasty was dispersed, the emperor did not issue an edict saying that today would be in the Taihemen Chang Dynasty and the early dynasty. It wasn't until late yesterday that the yamen deacons sent cadres to go door-to-door to inform these important ministers of the court, saying that they would go to the imperial gate tomorrow to listen to the government. Although this kind of thing has happened before for the young and promising emperor, every time Chang Chaoyi is temporarily added, it will leave infinite space for reverie for all the ministers of Manchu, Meng, and Han.

At eight o'clock, I finally saw the emperor in a court dress from the palace facing south, at this time the noon gate bells and drums rang in unison, and the two compartments and Shaole [2] masterpieces, the civil and military ministers on the Taihemen Square finally returned to solemnity.

As soon as Chen Zhengke (8 o'clock in the morning) arrived, Fulin happened to ascend to the throne under the Taihe Gate, and the ministers of the interior were separated before and after, and the guards guarded behind them. After the four living officials set up the west pillar, the university scholars, bachelors, attendants, bachelors, Zheng, Shao Zhan Shi set up under the east eaves, and the imperial history and deputy servants were all under the west eaves. Then, the Luan Yiwei official praised the "whip", and in the three rings of the silent whip, the Honglu Temple praised the official "arrangement", and the princes and officials immediately bowed to the throne and bowed three times.

Although it is not a great court meeting today, it is just a regular court ceremony of listening to the government at the imperial gate, but in Beijing the so-called "six departments and nine secretaries", that is, officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers of the six Manchu and Han Dynasty books, the chief of the general political envoy and the political envoy, the chief of Dali Temple, Dali Temple, and the chief official of the Ducha Zuo Governor Imperial History, in fact, it is six departments, five temples (Dali Temple, Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, Taifu Temple, Honglu Temple), two eunuchs (Guozijian, Qintianjian), two courts (Metropolitan Procuratorate, Li Fan Yuan), one government (Zongren Mansion), a total of 16 institutions of Manchu, Mongolian and Han chiefs. Scholars, bachelors, "Han Zhan Ke Dao" (Hanlin Academy, Zhan Shifu, Six Departments to Shizhong, Yushi Dao), etc., as well as related officials, a total of 100 people, gathered in the square outside the Taihe Gate, and carried out this set of procedures meticulously, and no one exchanged hands in the whole process.

After the ceremony, everyone looked at Taihe from a distance, but they were surprised to find that there was a small golden figure standing on the left hand side of the bright yellow throne under the door, in front of the scholars and bachelors! The Liubu Jiuqing, who was closer, finally recognized that this little one was none other than Dorobelle, the second son of the emperor, and Xuan Ye, the left presidential minister of the Great Qing Firearms Battalion, who was not in the Chang Chaoyi sequence! Today is the first time he has appeared on the occasion of listening to the government at the imperial gate!

Today's Hongyi, insisting on no longer hanging splint bandages, and in accordance with the requirements of Emperor Fulin, did not wear Dorobelle's stone blue four-clawed python court dress, but a prince's costume: wearing an eaves type lavender winter crown, decorated with Zhu Wei (red rope), the top is the second layer of the golden dragon, ten east pearls, and a ruby; Wearing an end mask and a dragon coat, all of which are golden yellow, embroidered with five claws and four golden dragons on the front, one on each shoulder, and a five-colored cloud between them; One hundred and eight coral pearls [3] are worn on the chest, and the waist is wrapped around the cat's eye stone gold version of the square golden silk silk silk belt, and the feet are covered with golden square head and boots......

Although they are all small regulations, Xiao Xuanye at this time is dressed in golden yellow, standing next to the emperor in bright yellow clothes, highlighting the prestige and status of the Qing Dynasty!

The Ministry of Rites in the literary class was full of Shangshu Engde quietly looked at it for a long time, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, and whispered to Hu Shi'an, the Han Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites beside him: "Brother Chu Jing, the younger brother only served in the Ministry of Rites in May this year, and Brother Tai, you have been appointed as the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites for five years, and this insight is naturally good." I don't know today's Belle Xuanye's crown dress, but there is a hint? ”

"Lord En, the younger brother is only a shallow learner, so he doesn't dare to speak falsely!" Hu Shi'an deliberately shirked.

"Hey, brother Tai doesn't talk about me, this golden outfit, is it a 'prince' crown dress?" Engel continued to ask, and deliberately emphasized the word "prince".

"Since I entered the customs, I have not yet established a reserve. The prince's costume is also not clearly stated in the "Great Qing Huidian", but with reference to the rules of the previous dynasty, at least the rules of the 'prince'. Hu Shi'an had to answer ambiguously, but the word "prince" was highlighted.

"Oh, I see, the emperor is ......" Enged had his own judgment and was talking to himself.

"In this way, when we go back, we will know about our Ministry of Rites' Department of Ceremonies and Officials[4], and we must prepare as early as possible, so as to save us from panic and make mistakes when we perform Jiali [5] again in the future!" Engel said presumptuously.

"This ...... It's better for Lord En to wait for the hadith......" Hu Shi'an said helplessly.

"If you have something to do, you have nothing to quit!" At this moment, Wu Liangfu happened to be chanting at the bottom of the door, interrupting the discussion of the two scholars of the Ministry of Rites.

"Minister, Zongren Mansion Sect Order, Aixin Jueluo Yue Le, something to play." Yue Le, who was standing in the east wing of the palace under the door, came out of class.

"Speak." Fulin allows.

"Zongrenfu received the owner of the Manchurian Blue Flag, King Doni of Xinjun, the owner of the Manchurian White Flag, Prince Xian Fushou, the owner of the Manchurian Red Banner and Prince Xun Chang Adai, the owner of the Manchurian Red Flag and the King of Pingjun, Luo Keduo, and the owner of the Manchurian Blue Flag, and the King of Minjun, respectively, submitted the inscription, and implored the emperor to personally receive the Manchurian Five Banners flag. This is the inscription of the five flag masters, and I respectfully invite the emperor to judge it. ”

After speaking, Yue Le respectfully put the five folds in the copper plate brought by Wu Liangfu, and at the same time, he was not easy to notice and looked at Xuan Ye in front of him, and then listened to Tianyin.

Outside the Taihe Gate, the Manchurian officials who were closer to him had long been impatient and whispered. A group of Mongols and Hanchen rarely spoke.

They listened very clearly, and Yue Le said it even more clearly, each flag is preceded by an emphasis on a "Manchuria", that is to say, this time only involves the Manchurian flag, and it is not related to your Mongolian Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of the Han Army.

Especially a group of Hanchen, it is even more silent. After all, whether the Eight Banners of Manchuria change their flags or the same lord are served, in the final analysis, it is still the Manchurian people's own business. At the beginning of the establishment of the Eight Banners of the Han Army [6], Zu Zerun, Liu Zhiyuan, Wu Shoujin, Jin Li, Tong Tulai, Shi Tingzhu, Bayan, and Li Guohan were the eight people who were Gushan Ezhen. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Han ministers have also entered the eight banners of the Han army, the banner owner has been constantly rotated, but its influence in the flag has long been in vain, what is not the emperor's words, who dares to say no word to the Han flag owner? There's no need to mess around.

At this moment, Hongyi, as Aixin Jueluo Xuanye, stood under the Taihe Gate for the Nth time, but it was the first time he was wearing the prince's court clothes, standing on the "court" during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, and his mood was extremely complicated. Fortunately, in the body of this two-year-old child, there is a dream of the Chinese nation to reach the top of Shijie again in the next three hundred and sixty years, so Hongyi has to slowly calm down his mind and concentrate on careful planning......

[1] The "Chang Dynasty" system of the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties was the main form of the emperor's public handling of state affairs. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty personally went to the imperial palace Fengtianmen (now Taihemen), presided over the court meeting, listened to the reports or speeches of the cabinet and the ministers of various ministries, discussed and discussed, made decisions, issued edicts, and implemented them. Listening to the government at the imperial gate is a form of government affairs handled by the emperors who have done more in the past dynasties, and it is also called the early dynasty because it is in the early morning. In the early Qing Dynasty, after the completion and use of the Qianqing Palace in the thirteenth year of Shunzhi, the "Imperial Gate Listening to Politics" was moved to the Qianqing Gate. Prior to this, the Follow-up System was held outside the Taihe Gate. The royal gate of the Shunzhi Dynasty listens to the government, generally in accordance with the practice of the Ming Dynasty, and is held on the fifth day, the tenth day of the first month, the fifteenth, the twentieth, the twenty-fifth, and the thirtieth day of each month, but the Shunzhi Emperor will also increase or decrease according to the situation. After Kangxi's pro-government, listening to the government at the imperial gate became a routine every working day, and only the New Year's Festival, weddings and funerals were temporarily suspended.

[2] Zhonghe Shao music is the royal music used for sacrifices, court meetings, and banquets in the Ming and Qing dynasties. According to the literature, the Zhou Dynasty had a court music known as the "Great Music of the Six Dynasties", which became Yale. Yale and Yilu Lu, Wen with five tones, eight tones, jade vibranium sound, fusion of ceremony, music, song, dance as a whole, in order to express the praise and reverence of the gods. From the pre-Qin to the Song and Yuan dynasties, Yale continued to be in succession, and at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Yale was reorganized and named "Zhonghe Shaole", which was used in the Qing Dynasty. After the death of the Qing Dynasty, it was lost for nearly a hundred years.

[3] A string of beads worn on a Qing dynasty court dress. The shape is like a rosary, counting one hundred and eight, and every 27 pieces penetrate a large bead, and the large beads are four altogether, called the dividing beads. Hanging on the chest is called "Buddha's head", there is a drooping "back cloud" on the back, on both sides of the pearl, there are three strings of small beads, two on the left and one on the right, 10 grains each, called "Ji Twist". The beads are made of eastern pearls (pearls), coral, jadeite, amber, beeswax, etc., and are decorated with bright yellow, golden yellow and stone blue, and are hung from the neck on the chest. There are three strings of small beads attached to both sides of the pearl: one string on one side and two strings on the other side, which is called "commemoration"; There is a difference between men and women, two strings on the left and one on the right for men, two on the right and one on the left for women. Imperial officials, all civil officials of the fifth rank, military attache of the fourth rank or above, military aircraft department, guards, Ministry of Rites, Guozijian, Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, Honglu Temple and other subordinate officials, as well as five rank officials and women above, can be suspended. According to the size and status of the official product, there are differences in beads and tapestry. Its Middle East beads and bright yellow silk can only be used by the emperor, the queen and the queen mother, and the prince can choose the material of the pearl at will in addition to the east pearl and bright yellow silk. Refer to "Qing Literature General Examination, Wang Li XVII and XVIII", "Qing Huidian, Rite Department IV, Ritual System and Qing Officials Division".

[4] The Department of Ritual Clearance, signed by the official. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, it belonged to the Ministry of Rites. He is in charge of the ceremonies of the imperial court, the gifts of the Qing clan, tributes, schools and other things. The Department of Ritual and Qing Officials was an institution under the Ministry of Rites in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Palm ceremony, military ceremony, school, imperial examination and other affairs. When announcing the unification, due to the avoidance of Pu Yi, it was changed to the Department of Officials. Its official position is Langzhong

3 people (2 people, 1 Han), 4 people (3 people, 1 Han), 2 directors (1 person each of Manchu and Han), several people, 15 people. The division is divided into the Advice Section, the Royal Mansion Section, the Seal Information Section, the School Section and the Fire Room and other units, which are divided into the affairs of the Division.

[5] Jiali, one of the five rites of "auspicious ceremony, fierce ceremony, military ceremony, guest ceremony, and Jiali" in ancient times. That is, the country has a festive significance and part of the ceremonial activities used to get close to interpersonal relations and connect feelings. Such as the monarch ascending the throne, the crown prince, the prince worshipping the princes, the festival to receive the court, the son of heaven to accept the concubine, the prince to take the concubine, the princess to the wedding, the crown ceremony, the feast, the village drinking, etc. Sometimes it also refers specifically to weddings. However, this article is not referring specifically to weddings.

[6] The name of the military organization of the Qing Dynasty. Together with the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Mongolia, they constitute the whole of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. Its system and flag color are the same as those of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Mongolia (see Eight Banners System). When the Qing Taizu ** Hachi, the Han people who surrendered were organized into sixteen assistant leaders, which were subordinate to the Eight Banners of Manchuria. In the fourth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1631), Huang Taiji balanced the military shili of Zhubeile, the lord of the Eight Banners, and set aside the Han people to set aside an army with the name "Wuzhen Chaoha" ("Wuzhen", the meaning of "heavy" in Chinese, "Chaoha", the meaning of "soldier" or "army" in Chinese), and Tong Yangxing was Angbang Zhangjing (general manager). Ten years is divided into two flags, Shi Tingzhu is the left wing of the flag of Gushan Ezhen (Dutong), Ma Guangyuan is the right wing of the flag of Gushan Ezhen. Twelve years are divided into four banners, Shi Tingzhu, Ma Guangyuan, Wang Shixuan, Bayan for the solid mountain Ezhen. In the fifteenth year, it was added to the Eight Banners, with Zu Zerun, Liu Zhiyuan, Wu Shoujin, Jin Li, Tong Tulai, Shi Tingzhu, Bayan, and Li Guohan as the Gushan Ezhen, with a total of 129 leaders and 24,500 people. After entering the customs, due to the drastic changes in the situation, the newly surrendered and reorganized Han officers and soldiers were successively recruited, and the number of soldiers was 270 and 20,000. The establishment has more than doubled, but the number of troops is less than when it was first established. There are many officers and few soldiers, which reflects the policy of encircling the Han and demoting officials. After the middle of the Kangxi Dynasty, in order to strengthen its control, the vacancies of the staff above the staff level were supplemented with the eight banners of Manchuria and the eight banners of Mongolia.