On the sixth day of March in the eighth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, in the early morning of the third day of Zhengde's death, the death knell inside and outside the capital rang together, in accordance with the Ming laws such as "Daming Huidian" and "Daming Collection Ceremony", the officials in Beijing and the princess and princess of Wang Sun were wearing plain mourning clothes, men with black gauze hats, black horn belts, and bast shoes, and women wore mourning clothes to jewelry, and entered the palace from Xihua Gate to cry and mourn.

Qianqing Palace is the place where the emperor's coffin is parked, thousands of people enter the palace from outside the Xihua Gate to cry and worship, and under the guidance of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, they perform four kneeling and worshipping; At the same time, under the auspices of the funeral officials sent by the capital to various places, the officials outside Beijing also wore black horn bast shoes and black yarn, and led the local officials and gentry to set up incense cases to worship.

No matter what happened to Zhengde during his lifetime, after all, he was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the master of all officials and the people, and his great mourning was a matter for the whole country, and no one could escape, nor could he escape.

When the time is right, the emperor's coffin out of the funeral funeral, the funeral procession travels more than ten miles, blowing, blowing, crying and sorrowful, the coffin of Zhengde is sent to Changping Changshou Mountain in the suburbs of Beijing, the mausoleum of Zhengde has been basically completed since the enthronement, and the coffin of Zhengde is buried here.

Although from today onwards, according to etiquette, the whole country will continue to mourn for 27 days, and marriage and entertainment are also prohibited nationwide, and the mourning clothes on the body must be worn until the day of mourning is full, but after the emperor is buried, the court institutions will begin to operate normally, and they will also be on the right track.

On the ninth day of the third month of the eighth year of Zhengde, on the sixth day after Zhengde's death, the British prince Zhang Lun and the cabinet scholar Yang Yiqing welcomed the Huaigong King Zhu Zaiku from the Raozhou Mansion into Beijing, and Zhu Zaiku entered Beijing with the Huai princess Liu and a small number of relatives in the Huai Wang's Mansion, and even the servants and maids, mothers-in-law, and old slaves added up to no more than 50 people, which shows that the Huai Wangfu has actually declined. This is not unusual, many descendants of the Zhu family, with the distance from the Taizu bloodline, the family road is gradually declining, many people have even started to live like ordinary people, and there are small officials who do business, and they are not all prosperous and wealthy families.

Song Nan led hundreds of civil and military officials out of the city to welcome the arrival of the future emperor, the future emperor Zhu Zaiku sat in the carriage, he was less than seven years old and obviously a little panicked in the face of such a big scene, and leaned on a woman with a black veil behind him from time to time. That woman is obviously Princess Huai, the mother of the future emperor.

Song Nan and the others came forward to pay homage, although Zhu Zaiku couldn't answer, Princess Huai just nodded and shook her head, as if she was extremely tired from the long journey, or she hadn't seen the world and didn't know what to say; Song Nan was not difficult for them, ordered someone to enter the palace, instructed Zhang Yong to serve well, and ordered the officials of the Ministry of Rites to assist in teaching them the etiquette in the palace and the upcoming enthronement ceremony.

Since it is still in the mourning period, the enthronement ceremony should obviously not be too noisy, and the result of Song Nan's discussion with the ministers is simple and grand, and the sooner the better, the country cannot be without a king for a day.

On March 12, Zhu Zaiku, accompanied by his mother, led Song Nan, Yang Yiqing, Zhang Lun and other civil and military officials to worship heaven and earth, ascended the throne as the emperor, and set the year name Longqing. There is a small episode in the matter of the year name, when Song Nan presided over the ministers to discuss the year name, someone proposed to 'Jiajing' as the new year name, this mention yì has been supported by many officials, even Yang Yiqing and Zhang Lun also think that this era name is good, saying: Jia is good and beautiful Jing is the meaning of peace and tranquility, and this is the year name, which means that the future is stable and auspicious.

However, this word is like a thunderbolt in Song Nan's ears, no matter how ignorant of history is, he also knows that after Zhengde, he is Jiajing, that Jiajing Emperor is an extremely strong and shrewd emperor, and at the beginning of his reign, he did something big about etiquette, for which he killed and exiled hundreds of courtiers, and then he was a monopoly on power; Although he knew that even if he used the era name Jiajing, the emperor would not be the emperor, Song Nan still felt vigilant in his heart, so when he finally decided, he insisted on disagreeing to use Jiajing as the era name.

The ministers asked Song Nan the reason, and Song Nan said: "This era name is unlucky, Jiajing Jiajing, although it seems to mean auspicious and stable in the world, but this word always sounds awkward." 'Jiajing' hmm...... Doesn't it mean that my new dynasty is clean and clean, and life is hard? ”

The ministers rolled their eyes, isn't this nothing to do? However, since Song Nan disagreed, there was nothing everyone could do, and in the end, Yang Yiqing proposed the era name Longqing in order to solve the matter as much as possible, and Song Nan nodded and agreed this time, and the small turmoil of the era name subsided.

Everyone unanimously attributed Song Nan's move to Song Nan's deliberate action, and the reason was actually very simple, the king of Zhenguo was deliberately entangled in such a trivial matter, so as to neutralize his authority among the ministers, and see if anyone was doing anything to him for such a trivial matter. But in fact, since Yang Ting, Fei Hong, Zhang Wei and dozens of officials they were implicated in were all taken and imprisoned, the court is full of people from Song Nan, Yang Yiqing, Zhang Lun and his faction, and who will disobey Song Nan's intentions, but the move of the king of Zhenguo is completely redundant.

After Emperor Longqing ascended the throne, the first early court, under the auspices of Song Nan, the cabinet of candidates for the appointment of the six departments of the outer court came to a big change, Yang Yiqing became the new first assistant of the cabinet, and the cabinet added Wang Shouren, Liu Yu, Wang Jianzhi and other three, plus Liu Ji who stayed in the cabinet, it was still five. Among the six departments, Yang Yiqing concurrently served as the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Wang Shouren served as the secretary of the Ministry of War, and the remaining four departments were all transferred except for He Jian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Under the mention of Zhang Lun and Yang Yiqing, the Jingzhong Regiment Battalion, the Shenji Battalion, the Shenshu Battalion, the Outer Second Military Camp and the soldiers and horses of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies of Gyeonggi were merged together, collectively known as the Beijing Battalion, with a total of 20 battalions of soldiers and horses, with a number of nearly 200,000, and the post of Metropolitan Governor was established; Although Song Nan tried his best to resign, he eventually became the first governor of Beijing. Zhang Lun, the former governor of the regiment and battalion, served as the deputy governor, and concurrently served as the governor of the capital of the five armies, commanding the soldiers and horses of the Beijing Foreign Guard. Jiang Bin Xu Tai was promoted to the position of the left and right of the Beijing battalion, and each of his subordinates led five battalions of soldiers and horses of the Beijing battalion, Ma Ming Peng Yangjia was the marquis of the Jin Beijing battalion and concurrently served as the governor of the original Shenshu battalion and the second outer military battalion, and the rest of the battalions except for the original marquis of the regiment and battalion were retained, and the new marquis was five and entered the Beijing battalion to command the army. Among these five people, except for Wang Yong and Hou Dabiao, they were all young generals who emerged from the Northwest War and the Counterinsurgency Operation, and Wang Yong naturally became the commander of the personal guard battalion of Song Nan, the governor of Beijing.

Song Nan immediately proposed that stepping down from the position of the commander of the Jinyi Guard, this hat is already too small, and it is not suitable to wear this hat all the time, the candidate is actually obvious, and there is no one else suitable except Wan Zhi. After Hou Dabiao's departure, the position of Jinyi Wei Beizhen Fusi Zhenfu was proposed by Wan Zhi on the spot, and Huang Hui and Zheng Da, the deputy envoys of Beizhen Fusi, were both suitable candidates, and finally Song Nan finalized Huang Hui to take over as Beizhen Fusi Zhenfu, and Zheng Da was transferred to the general office and promoted to Jinyi Wei Commander Tongzhi.

This big change in position, to put it bluntly, is a big division of the fruits of victory, there are all that should be there, and there are also things that should not be, and everyone up and down is very satisfied with this result. Although some officials and some marquis raised objections to such a sudden reform of the Beijing camp, their voices are too small at this time; Looking at the little emperor who was less than seven years old sitting on the emperor's throne, they knew that Yiqiē's struggle was in vain. And what they didn't know was that Song Nan had already agreed with Zhang Lun and Yang Yiqing that some of the Hou Ye in Beijing would be cleaned out one after another, and some of the corpses in the outer court would eventually be swept away.

In fact, this child who is less than seven years old does not understand what these ministers say at all, and every time the ministers play, he looks helplessly at the black veil queen mother who is sitting beside him, and her queen mother also nods in agreement. So the little emperor said in a milky voice: quasi-play! This mechanical process seems to have been rehearsed beforehand. Song Nan looked at Zhang Yong, who was standing on the side, Zhang Yong's sideways eyes floated over with a smug and meaningful look, and Song Nan also gave him a commative look.

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April 18th, is the day when Song Nan was edicted to marry Princess Kangning into the door, when the first minister of the dynasty married the princess, it is naturally a matter of national celebration, although this wedding is simply a joke in the eyes of many people, Song Nan opened the world to marry two wives into the door, it is simply an insult to the Ming etiquette. But this wedding was dressed in the cloak of the emperor's license, and no one could tell anything.

Many people secretly speculate about the attitude of the British government towards this, and some people hope that the British public Zhang Lun and Song Nan will fall out because of this matter, and even part ways to fight from then on, so it is possible to fish in troubled waters. On the day of the wedding, the British public Zhang Lun did not show up, which made everyone involved in the wedding murmur secretly, it seems that this turmoil will happen sooner or later.

However, what happened next surprised them, when Princess Kangning married and entered the door, she took the initiative to pour tea and salute Zhang Pei, the eldest lady of the Zhenguo County Palace, calling her sister, obviously a concubine.

According to the later memories of those present, Zhang Peicheng did have a straight face, but when the princess poured tea and saluted her sister, Zhang Peicheng had a smile on her face, and soon after, half an hour before the wedding banquet, the British princess Zhang Lun finally arrived and brought a generous gift to congratulate.

Someone saw with their own eyes that it was Zhang Lun who Zhang Peicheng sent someone to invite, and he must have informed Zhang Lun of all the salutes, so this dramatic scene happened.

The wives and concubines of the county prince have a huge disparity in status, some are relatives of the emperor, some are from a small family in the market, and there is a woman who is said to be an oiran lady in Nanjing Lingyun Pavilion, what kind of power allows such a group of people to live in peace with harmony, what kind of ability can make everyone from the princess to the Oiran revolve around a person, this is really a mystery.

Moreover, it is said that when the daughter of Lord Yang Yiqing, the first assistant of the dynasty, also wants to join this big family, people would rather speculate that Yang Yiqing gave his daughter to Song Nan for the sake of his official position, rather than believe that Yang Yiqing's daughter was willing to marry Song Nan, and Yang Yiqing willingly let his daughter marry Song Nan as a concubine, after all, this is a too humiliating thing.

This qiē has become the most attractive talking point in the alleys and alleys of the Ming Dynasty, and there are even such and such jokes flowing out of the teahouse and wine shop, and there are boring scholars who have spent a lot of energy behind closed doors to compile the so-called "The Art of the King of Zhenguo County" The secret book is sold in secret, and it is said that he has made a lot of money, which can also be called a strange talk in the world.