Chapter 253: The Rite of Honor
After the prince Liangdi was selected, the prince seemed to have reacted, and after several painstaking teachings by Concubine Rong, he felt that this matter was overdone.
He thought about it carefully, in fact, it should be possible to do it more tactfully by removing the daughter of the Shen family from the position of prince Liangdi, and I don't know why the inside story was spread, and the court officials said that the prince resolutely refused to accept the daughter of the Shen family, which was equivalent to directly cutting the face of Shen Huashan, the prince Zhan Shi.
When thinking like this, the prince felt a little embarrassed, he was quite respectful to Shen Huashan for several days, he didn't listen to what he said, and he didn't make any more trouble, during this period of time, the East Palace was very calm.
After a while, the prince saw that Shen Huashan didn't care about Shen Mi's defeat of the prince Liangdi, and the prince Liangdi was about to be admitted to the East Palace, so he was in no mood to be low in front of Shen Huashan, and between his words and deeds, he was the same as before, like before, he was a little arrogant prince.
Shen Huashan couldn't help but shake his head when he saw the prince's demeanor, feeling that this young man was a bit stupid, it seemed that he still had little experience and didn't understand anything very well. In the face of the crown prince Zhan Shi, that is, the person who wants to teach and assist himself, how can he be forward?
As long as he hasn't ascended to that position for a day, all the prince should do is win over the hearts of his subordinates and connect with his subordinates' forces, how could the prince do the opposite?
If you annoy the crown prince Zhan Shi, you just have to leave the errand, and many things in the East Palace will be passive. These methods of balancing power, no one has ever taught the crown prince? Before he became the crown prince Zhan Shi, didn't the master of the prince's office teach this?
Or does the prince not understand?
For a while, Shen Huashan was also a little introspective. felt that he was too incompetent as the crown prince Zhan Shi. Naturally, his own teaching is limited, and the prince doesn't like to listen to it very much, so let's invite someone else to teach!
So he asked Emperor Changtai for an edict: The prince will not be able to participate in political affairs. It is suggested that in addition to the officials of the Zhan Mansion, the important ministers of the court also take turns to teach the prince every hour, so that the prince can be familiar with political affairs. It also made the prince familiar with the courtiers.
Of course, this courtier had to prescribe more than three grades. It must really be helpful to the prince, and it is necessary to guide the prince to know the political affairs and guide the prince to understand things.
In this way, the responsibility of teaching and assisting the prince does not only fall on the officials of the prince Zhan Shifu, that is to say, Shen Huashan's favor is weakened invisibly.
Shen Huashan's suggestion came out. The important ministers of the court praised Shen Huashan, this is better than the joy of the crowd! Shen Huashan, the crown prince Zhan Shi, is self-defeating.
Because, according to Shen Huashan's suggestion, every important minister has the opportunity to face the prince directly. Of course, you can instill your own policy and governance theory to the prince, and naturally, you can be familiar with it in front of the future emperor, which is a good opportunity to gild.
The crown prince Zhan Shi Shen Huashan actually let the important ministers in the court have this opportunity. This is not something that can be described by two words! For a while, many important ministers were a little more grateful and close to Shen Huashan.
Even Emperor Changtai, seeing Shen Huashan's move, was also happy. This move is a move by the prince to familiarize himself with political affairs in advance. In fact, it is also a move to pave the way for the prince's future.
Although Shen Huashan's granddaughter has been defeated as the crown prince Liangdi, he still plans for the prince with all his heart. It can be seen that Shen Huashan, the crown prince, is still very conscientious.
When Shen Huashan begged for grace for his nephew and Shen Zeru, the eunuch of the country, Emperor Changtai readily agreed and allowed Shen Zeru to be the governor of Yunnan Prefecture in Xining Province.
This can be regarded as a grace given for the sake of Shen Huashan's loyalty to the prince, and for the sake of the Shen family's failure to be elected to the prince Liangdi.
In short, the monarch and the minister are suitable, and the ministers and ministers are mutually beneficial, and the court situation during this period of time is so calm that it can't be calmer anymore.
In the blink of an eye, it's October. In October, the crown prince Na Liangdi.
Na Liangdi is not a big deal for the East Palace, it can even be said to be an extremely simple matter, and the biggest role is to let the people in the East Palace adapt to the excitement of the wedding of the prince and the princess in advance.
Taichang Temple, the Ministry of Rites, and the Shaofu Supervisor are all concentrating on preparing for the prince's wedding, and they can't spare their hands to deal with such a trivial matter, because they feel that such a trivial matter does not need to be used by the Ministry of Rites at all.
In short, the process of Na Liangdi is extremely simple, and there is no such thing as banquet guests, on the auspicious day, the two princes Liangdi will be carried in from the side gate of the imperial city, and then from the side gate of the East Palace into the prince's bedroom, and then after the prince and Liangdi Dunlun in the evening, this thing will be completed.
But it was such a trivial matter, and it also went wrong, fully letting Shen Huashan know that Zhan Shifu's handling was not thorough, and also let him fully understand a young man's mistake, although this incident did not cause any impact, but it gave Shen Huashan a headache.
This fork came from the crown worn by the crown prince Na Liangdi when he was a child, just a small tiara, but it made the officials of the Zhan Mansion turn pale with fright, even Shen Huashan was of course no exception.
For more than 200 years, there has been a complete set of etiquette norms, which are embodied in the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the royal family, courtiers and the common people, especially in auspiciousness, funeral, sacrifice, mourning and other major events.
Taichang Temple and the Ministry of Rites exist specifically for the implementation and management of these rituals, and everything must be done in accordance with each ritual, otherwise, it is a violation of etiquette. The light will be condemned, and the heavy will be questioned, especially the royal etiquette, which represents the model of Dayong, and there can be no mistakes.
Although more than 200 years is a long period of time, and the etiquette is slightly adjusted and changed according to different circumstances in each generation, in general, such a set of etiquette norms is stable and strict.
For example, regarding the etiquette system of the crown prince's clothes, there are detailed and strict regulations in the "Great Yong Grand Canon": "All the crown prince's clothes: crown, hanging white beads, with the group as the tassel, the color is like its ribbon; green silk fills the ears; rhino hairpin; Xuanyi, clothes, nine chapters, one line per chapter, heavy thoughts, nine ...... each line Attendants to the emperor sacrifice and the temple, Canadian dollar clothes, and concubines are served. ……”
In short, what Dayong advocates is "If you don't learn etiquette, you can't stand!" The most basic embodiment of etiquette is to wear the right clothes and the right crown, and there were officials in the first dynasty who were questioned because of the problem of court clothes.
Although the clothes are small, the etiquette system is really large, which is the consensus of all officials in Dayong.
The aforementioned set of crown princes. The crown prince wore it at the time of the canonization ceremony, and he liked this set of crowns very much, when he wore it. I feel that my majesty is on display, and I also deeply feel that I am already the crown prince of Daeyong. is no longer the obscure little prince of the Twelve Princes.
Therefore, the crown prince has a special affection for the crown prince, especially the nine-fold crown, which he likes the most. The gentle shaking of Jiuhan can bring him infinite imagination, as if through the Jiuhan crown, he can look at the world.
I have such feelings for Jiuhan Guan. The prince naturally wanted to wear it again. On the day of Naliangdi, the prince was extremely dissatisfied with the three-beam crown prepared by the Ministry of Rites. I always feel uncomfortable trying to go back and forth.
After thinking about it, he said to He De, his personal attendant: "It's really uncomfortable for the prince to wear these three Liang crowns. Go to the storehouse and bring me the Nine Crowns. Wear that crown today. Today is a happy day. The crown is good-looking, and the prince is comfortable to wear. ”
He De respectfully took the order and went forward, took the two palace maids to rummage through the treasury of the East Palace, and prepared the Nine Crowns for the prince.
He De has been in the palace since he was a child and has been working as an errand in the cold palace. It was added to the East Palace after the Great Blood Change in the East Palace. Because he was honest and loyal, and there was no other force behind him, he was transferred to the prince's side as an internal servant.
In the palace, there is another straightforward description of being honest and loyal, and having no strength, that is, the master cannot be trusted. The servants who are not trusted by their masters will not have the opportunity to go to the palaces to see the world. There is no eyesight to know what everything means.
Therefore, although he is honest and loyal, he has little knowledge, and he doesn't know the meaning of the Nine Crowns and the Three Liang Crowns. This honest man naturally found the Nine Crowns according to the prince's instructions, and he didn't tell the officials of the Zhan Mansion about it, so he put it on the prince.
It happened that the prince's housekeeper Zhang Di couldn't get up from diarrhea that day, and he didn't work as an errand in the East Palace, and the rest of the chamberlains ran around for the sake of the prince Naliangdi, and they couldn't take a closer look at the prince's dress.
In this way, the circulation was lost, and the officials of the Zhan Mansion and the Ministry of Rites did not know that the prince had replaced the Sanliang Crown with the Jiuhan Crown.
When the prince changed into auspicious clothes and stepped out of the dormitory with a smile, the officials of the Zhan Mansion took a look: My mother, why is the prince wearing a nine-fold crown? This is not to marry the crown princess, but to accept the prince Liangdi, the prince should wear a three-beam crown!
Was it the dereliction of duty on the part of the Ministry of Rites or the prince's mistake? Where is the waiter in the East Palace, who is in charge of managing the ceremonial uniforms? Where did the official who oversaw the ceremonial dress of the East Palace go? How could something so obvious go wrong?
Shao Zhan, Qiu Shengnian and other officials were in a panic, and they were busy correcting the prince, and they were inevitably frightened and sweating.
But when they saw the prince reluctantly looking at the Nine Crowns, Qiu Shengnian's heart was cold, and he felt that there were a few black crows flying overhead: Could it be that no one told you that the Nine Crowns can only be worn so many times? With the emperor's sacrifices, canonizations, temples, concubines, and counting, that's all these occasions!
This matter was also quickly reported to Shen Huashan, and Qiu Shengnian described the prince's eyes as "reluctant to fall in love like a beautiful woman far away" very accurately. Such a simple and straightforward mistake can be made, to be honest, Qiu Shengnian admires the prince extremely much!
Shen Huashan felt extremely angry after hearing this, and slapped the table and shouted: "Didn't anyone tell the prince about the "Great Canon"? Isn't there anyone in the East Palace who knows the "Great Canon"? Didn't the chamberlain of the East Palace oversee this? ”
The conclusion is really nothing! No one has ever told the prince about the most basic "Dayong Grand Canon" in Dayong etiquette, and now none of the chamberlains and palace maids who are on errands in the East Palace understand "Dayong Dadian"!
As I said before, the crown prince, Shangguan Jing'an, before being canonized as the prince, grew up in the deep palace and never had contact with political affairs.
And when Concubine Rong Guifei was in the early stage, she only thought that Shangguan Jing'an was raised like an ordinary prince, where would she tell him the difference between the Nine Crowns and the Three Liang Crowns?
In the later period, Concubine Rong planned this and that for Shangguan Jing'an, and after coming and going, no one really told the prince these basic etiquette ways.
And the reason why the chamberlains and palace maids of the East Palace don't understand it is even simpler!
Emperor Changtai was angry with all the chamberlains and maids in the East Palace because of Gao Guan and Li Jin's suggestion that the prince build a bow field, so the chamberlains and palace maids in the East Palace changed blood, and the newly added people were loyal and unpowered.
Loyalty means that things are not flexible, and if there is no force involved, it is not allowed to be reused by the master and has little knowledge. Such a master and such a slave, of course, can have such an oolong thing as replacing the Sanliang crown with the Jiuhan crown!
Shen Huashan thought about this oolong matter clearly, and couldn't help crying and laughing, after the prince put on the three-beam crown, he happily waited for the prince Liangdi to come in, and the poor officials of the Zhan Mansion were quiet.
They were waiting for Shen Huashan's lecture in Zhan Shifu, looking at Shen Huashan's face as black as an ink fountain, these officials couldn't help but want to touch their foreheads, as if they were in a cold sweat.
Shen Huashan also wanted to touch his forehead, it was so dangerous, and he felt a burst of fear in his heart.
Fortunately, the previous older princes have lost their imperial hearts and have been expelled to remote fiefdoms as kings, and the princes behind are too small, otherwise it is really difficult to say whether the twelve princes can sit firmly on the throne of this prince, and this prince is too stupid!
I won't talk about the matter of Gong Hou a few days ago, but now there is such a thing as changing the crown, it's really ...... I can't really say anything!
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