In the dense primeval forest, a seed sprouts its first shoot, and there are countless flowers, trees, birds and animals next to it, it will encounter unimaginable dangers, but it must grow until it becomes a towering tree.

Just like me, take the first step and go one step at a time.

In the dead of night, I always wonder, is it inevitable fate, or is it free will?

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My first twenty years were as hazy as a dream.

Later, I met Dongfang Yongbai, Dongfang Tian, and Dongfang Qi.

Come to Luoyang.

Came to Chang'an.

met Dongfang Chengping, Dongfang Yongwu, Dongfang Yongde, Dongfang Yongyi, as well as 18-year-old Dongfang Mingyue and 17-year-old Dongfang Raider.

Good memories of Xi'an County.

Good memories of Chang'an County.

Try.

Medium lift.

Entry.

Became a eunuch.

Enter the palace.

Official.

Dongfang Mingyue and Zhu Hongsi got married.

I met Liu Xingchao, Li Feiyu, and Li Yongfu.

Meet Zhao Pumin, Zhao Yuyang, and Lu Ziluo.

Prime Minister Zhao Guangxin died.

Empress Zhao Yishu died.

The Forbidden Air Force bombed Hanzhong County.

Zhao Zhengbao rebelled, and Hebei was in turmoil.

The emperor died.

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The first eight months of this year are the twentieth year of the Ming Dynasty, and the last four months of this year are the first year of the Ming Dynasty.

They are a year, but they are not a year. This is not surprising, the concept of "year" is inherently artificial. The imperial court said that what is "year" is what is "year".

As long as I can remember, what I heard was Zhaotian for a few years or something, and I thought that "Zhaotian" was the meaning of "year", and I thought that the word "Zhaotian" would never change.

Later, I realized that every time an emperor is changed, the year changes.

The advantage of this is that people understand who the meaning of the world is, and people understand who they live for.

One downside to this is that people don't know how old they live. For example, if a person lives in Dingfu for one year and dies in Honghua for six years, who knows how old he lived! Some people say, don't you just know the specific history? The problem is: history can change at any time! For example, if someone usurps the throne, he can change the history of the previous emperor or even the previous dynasty after he becomes emperor, so that the history is all fake - so everyone's age is completely messed up.

Now it's the same situation. As soon as the first emperor Zhu Zhaotian died, all the history books, news, and imperial calendars in the world had to be changed, because as soon as the emperor changed, history, the present, and the future would have to change with it.

If the news and history books say how loyal the prime minister (former prime minister) is to the emperor (former emperor), then they must have been deceived by the prime minister (or they are simply the prime minister's gang), so all history must be rewritten.

Not to mention the imperial calendar, all destroyed and reprinted. Printing the previous emperor's year name on the current emperor's imperial calendar is a big crime for the nine clans! -- The people who wrote, printed, and sold books on the street all scolded the prime minister to death, and they lost so much money.

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I took a look at the latest "History of the King James Dynasty", which reads like this:

"On August 10, the twentieth year of the Ming Dynasty, Queen Zhao Yishu and the prince Zhu Hongyong and the princess Zhu Meng Aixue. On August 20, the twentieth year of the Ming Dynasty, the Zhaotian Emperor collapsed. The crown prince Zhu Honghua ascended the throne as Emperor Honghua of the Ming Dynasty. ”

I counted, sixty words, and nothing else. There was no death of the prime minister, no rebellion, and no death of the emperor's family. I thought I was going to write about the prime minister's rebellion or something, but then I thought, the court is really smart, don't write anything, you can't guess if you want to. If you write about the rebellion of the prime minister, you will wonder why the rebellion; Writing about the suicide of the emperor's family, you will wonder why the suicide was made. These are dangerous thoughts. Write nothing, as if it were a normal abdication and accession to the throne, this is the best outcome. But I think - wouldn't it be more stable to simply get rid of all the history books, or even all the books?

Maybe you'll say to me: You traitor, you're talking like this here!

Frankly, I could write about how I showed my admiration for the wise emperor, nostalgia for the peaceful years, regret for the death of the innocent queen's wife, contempt for the high-flying prime minister, and contempt for the despicable behavior of the inner court, as I showed in public, but—I really don't have such feelings—you also have to understand that this is not a good try, and no one reads what I wrote, why should I lie?! - It occurred to me that loyalty and honesty are also paradoxes......

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Continuing with the affairs of the imperial court.

The imperial capital of Chang'an has been placed under martial law. The severity of martial law is so severe that the examinations and weddings held in the past few months are nothing compared to it.

The commanders of the imperial army of the twenty-three provinces in the world all came in the starry night, and now the city is full of soldiers.

The governors and overseers of the twenty-three provinces in the world have arrived, and even Sichuan and Tubo, who have never shown their faces, have also arrived.

The major scholars of the country have gathered in Chang'an, and now the city is full of their family emblems and family emblems.

The royal family has also arrived, and the most important of them are the royal brother Zhaoding Wang Ye and the eldest princess Zhaowan County Lord. They were all former figures, but they hadn't appeared in people's field of vision for a long time, and they also came to the imperial capital with their men and guards at this time.

Kong Youli, the royal priest and the head of Confucianism, led a large number of Confucians to sacrifice to the first emperor, because the first emperor is our patriarch.

The royal high priest and the head of the Cult of God, Ye Anyi, led a large number of worshippers to pray to the first emperor, because the first emperor was the representative of the Son of God in the earthly world.

The leader of Buddhism and the supreme martial arts Shi Jiumo led a large number of Buddhists to recite scriptures to the first emperor, because the first emperor was the reincarnation of the great fan in the world.

The Taoist leader and the Wulin League advocated that Liushun led a large number of Taoists to cast spells on the first emperor, because the first emperor was the embodiment of the Great Dao in the mortal world.

Those gangs known as the "court eagle dogs" also came, because the great court is the biggest river and lake, and the emperor is the real boss of the rivers and lakes.

And most importantly: the Holy Maiden comes from the Holy Land, and she will crown the new emperor!

Only with the approval of the Holy Land can the new emperor become the chosen one of the divine right of the king!

Although the Holy Land, the Holy Religion, and the Holy Maiden have little influence now, no one dares to break the tradition formed over the years. The emperor can depose the leaders of the four major religions - Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Shenjiao - at will, and the emperor can slaughter the followers of any "demon religion" other than the four major religions at will, but the emperor is still respectful to the holy religion. Without the recognition of the Holy Sect, the emperor did not even dare to call himself emperor.

Fortunately, the Holy Religion is only in the Tibetan Holy Land. The holy site is said to be located on the highest peak of the Tibetan Plateau, where it is more than 10,000 meters above sea level. Millions of square kilometers of Tubo Province is home to snow-capped mountains and sparsely populated. No one in the Imperial Land has ever been to the Holy Land. The only way to Tibet is through Sichuan, and the imperial land can't even pass through Sichuan, so the holy land has almost no influence in the Ming Dynasty.

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There were already enough people in Dijing, and with so many people coming suddenly, it was even more irritating. In fact, the density of Chang'an County and Xi'an County is greater than that of Chang'an City, but there are bustling tourists, there are all kinds of business, art, play, local aborigines, tourists from other places, etc., the more people, the more lively. But what about Chang'an City? Nothing, so many people just wandering around the streets, it doesn't make any sense!

Those people from other places looked at the identical buildings in the capital and said, "It's amazing, so many neat and uniform high-rise buildings!" "Well, wait until you look at the exact same buildings for the rest of your life, and see if you are disgusting.

They also said, "Look how clean the ground is!" It's wet at all times. You see the tree is trimmed to not even a single dead leaf, and you see there is not a single dust on the wall. It really deserves to be the best place! "You don't know that the hundreds of thousands of untouchables who clean the streets of Chang'an can only live underground, they come out to clean at night, and they are locked underground during the day, and they have never seen what the streets of Chang'an City are like in their lives.

Those people looked at the thousand-meter-high palace and couldn't help but be stunned, and then knelt down to worship - the miracle land of the Chosen One!

I looked down at them from the palace at a height of 1,000 meters, and the dense crowd of kneeling people was like ants.

If you just look at their appearance, who knows if they are here for tourism or for funeral!

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Emperor Zhaotian of the Ming Dynasty was in the Qiming Palace on August 20 of the 20th year of the Ming Dynasty, and the crown prince Zhu Honghua ascended the throne on the same day, which was the Emperor of the Ming Honghua, so the day was also the August 20 of the first year of the Ming Honghua.

The next few days are the sacrifice ceremony of the first emperor, and the next few days are the enthronement ceremony of the new emperor. There are many other rules, some of which have been implemented, such as amnesty for the world, adding officials to knighthood, etc., and some are rarely implemented, such as the re-ranking of hundreds of officials in the world, and even martyrdom, etc. Any measures depend on the mood of the new emperor, anyway, the world is his.

On August 22 of the first year of the Ming Dynasty Honghua - in fact, it was the third day of the new emperor's succession to the throne, and it was less than thirty-six hours after the succession - the crown prince, no, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty Honghua sat on the dragon chair in the Mingde Hall on the second floor of the palace, and that was his first court meeting.

There are hundreds of officials standing below, much more than the court meeting of the first emperor, not only the imperial officials and Beijing officials are there, but also the local officials who came to the funeral, and the provincial governor and the overseer are almost there.

Next to the emperor stood Li Yongfu, the head of the inner court and the commander of the forbidden army.

Next to Li Yongfu is the eunuch who was close to the emperor when he was the crown prince in the past - oh, wrong, now called the imperial eunuch.

The new emperor's first words were: "Get up, all of them." ”

Then he looked at the ministers, and there was no expression, as if he was thinking about something.

The head of the criminal department stepped forward and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, Zhao Guangxin conspired to die against him, harming the queen's ......"

The Emperor said, "I know! Everything is Zhao Guangxin's fault! It was he who separated the royal family, it was he who rebelled, it was he who killed the queen, and it was he who angered his father to death. ”

He glanced at the ministers and said, "Anyway, he is also dead, let's talk about this later, let's talk about it later, let's talk about my father's funeral first." ”

With a smile on his face, the emperor said to the person on his left, "The prime minister said what to do about this funeral?" ”

Of course, the new emperor refers to the "new prime minister". The deputy prime minister of the old prime minister Zhao Guangxin was the father-in-law of the crown prince and the father of the crown princess, Li Guozhong, the head of the Li family in Longxi; On the day of Zhao Guangxin's death, he became the new prime minister. - Hey, is there only one way to become the emperor's father-in-law when he becomes a prime minister?

Li Guozhong looks square, and the word "country" is written on his face.

He said: "The Ministry of Rites has calculated the auspicious day and decided to hold the great funeral ceremony of the first emperor on August 28 and the enthronement ceremony on September 1. I don't know if Your Majesty will play or not? ”

Emperor Zhu Honghua said: "Yes." My father worked hard for the country for a long time, and finally became ill. I couldn't bear it in my heart, and decided to send his concubines down to accompany him. ”

The ministers were in an uproar.

One minister said: "The funeral system does not take a long time, and the emperor has always had the virtue of a good life......

The emperor said, "That's why I sent his concubine to accompany him......"

Another minister said: "I have not had to be martyred for more than 300 years......

A man in his thirties flashed out next to him, wearing gold-rimmed glasses as thick as a telescope, and said: "The emperor has a heart, and the concubines are also willing, and besides, the law also allows it, the best of all three, why can't it?!" ”

The emperor nodded: "Yuguang said it well, hurry up and do it!" ”

This person is Kim Woo-kwang, the crown prince's imperial classmate - and the most notorious classmate. Jin Yuguang is a member of the Jin clan in Liaoxi - but not a descendant. The Liaoxi Jin family is also the twelfth family of Tianzi.

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Another minister stepped forward: "The minister thinks that Zhao Guangxin's rebellion is a little strange......"

The emperor said, "The death of a man is great! These things will be discussed after the enthronement ceremony......"

Others said: "The death of the first emperor is also ......"

The emperor waved his hand: "Retreat!" ”

At this time, Sun Haomiao, the minister of the military department, stepped forward: "Your Majesty, there is also the matter of the rebels of Zhao Zhengbao in Hebei!" Your Majesty—wait—"

But the emperor simply ignored him.

So Emperor Zhu Honghua's first court meeting ended like this.